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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

them that if you speak of the Creator you shall never hear them speak evil of his most glorious person nor endure to hear any one blaspheme his holy Name but on the contrary in the very depth of their despairings they will speak honorably of the Holy One of Israel and justifie him in all his proceedings towards them or any other of his creatures 6 The truth is this is that repentance or godly sorrow in them proceeding from the Holy Spirit and that most acceptable spiritual sacrifice that can be offered up unto him if the wounded spirit did but know it 7 An elect vessel under fear of the wrath to come hath this property in it also that it is both ready and willing if it be perswaded that the Lord will speak peace through the mouth of any man or woman unto its poor soul even to walk unto the ends of the earth to hear the voice of the Lord in that creature 8 Another true testimony in a chosen vessel is this notwithstanding his present hopelesness of mercy in reference to his former rebellions yet his soul through the secret love of God by his own light in him is not onely fearful of further temptation unto evil but it doth also abhor all kinde of iniquity whatsoever upon the account of its contrariety against the Divine Majesty and is full of longing after perfection whether it be through life or death 9 Again another infallible testimony of an experimental wounded spirit is this if out of bitterness of spirit they open their sorrows unto their supposed or real friends they will oftentimes say these or such like words O wretched creature that I am sure never any one rebelled against such light as I have done I have been so ravisht sometimes with the presence of the divine Glory shining into my poor soul that I thought I had been unmsveable for ever and yet in a little season through remembrance of former iniquities committed against so glorious a Ma●esty or ●ew temptations against so gracious a Father I am so full of burning horror of confused darkness as if never any true light of life had appeared in me 10 Again through a strong desire of knowing of the secret purpose of the Creator towards them they will say O that I never had been born or that I had been a toad or any other created being but a man or that that God which gave me a being would finish my intollerable sorrows through my everlasting dissolution Or if I must perish O that I were in it that I might know what I must trust unto for I think I should finde more ease then now I do or if it be thy pleasure neither to let me know it nor know it not O give me strength to bear it and leave me under the hottest wrath that thy fury can administer unto me 11 These and such like bitter lamentations are the elect beloved of the most high God subject unto which are left under a despairing condition upon what account soever A man may bear any natural sufferings whatsoever because he knoweth they will have an end but a wounded spirit who can bear not knowing any end thereof 12 It is thou O Lord Jesus Christ which wounds the souls of thy redeemed ones through thy spiritual absence and it is thou alone must heal them with thy glorious presence 13 It is not in the power of men or angels if they could weep rivers of blood or could submit for a season to bear the same wrath in their own spirits that can move thee in the least to release that wounded soul whom thou lovest as thine own self until the fixed time thereof which is onely known to thy self that thou alone mayst have the glory of all thy love tryals 14 O empty vain men who ever you are which measure the unsearchable wisdom of the Holy One of Israel by your own lying imaginations and by your blinde reason think to perswade the unchangeable God with goodly words to walk out of his own way 15 And because your vain spirits are upon any occasion subject to change you think the unchangeable God is like unto your selves and may change also and so either for silver or honor or both you combine together as one man to publick or private meetings to cheat one another with flattering speeches and call it the pure worship of God being ready to condemn all that come not to it as ungodly men orhereticks though in their dealings be ween man and man they are seven times more righteous than your selves and in obedience unto the Lord Jesus Christ are subject to all civil Authority for conscience sake by suffering under them leaving all vengeance unto the Lord who hath said Vengeance is mine and I will repay it CHAP. XIV 1 A moderate Discourse concerning Civil Wars in a Kingdom 2 The peoples subjection to the Laws 3 Wherein several Objections are answered 4 Many things of very great consequence seasonably declared IN the next place give me leave to take notice of this that I do not account those men truly rational which say there is no God but Nature onely 2 Or which say that God is onely an incomprehensible formless Spirit 3 Neither do I account them spiritual or rational which confess an infinite being of beings and yet deny the creature to be a creature and the Creator to be the Creator my meaning is this which make no difference between the glorious Creator and the poor empty creature but affirm the divine Majesty of glorious purities to have his abode in all impure spirits 4 Though God is the life of all sensible or insensible living beings by vertue of Creation yet I positively affirm against men or angels that neither heaven earth angels nor men are capable of the In-dwelling Essence of his holy Spirit but his own person onely 5 Again I do not account those men truly spirit● 〈◊〉 or rational as yet which pretend to know themselves to be personal living beings and yet deny the personal God of all infinite glories 6 Moreover though men speak like Oracles and seemingly appear to be innocent as Doves yet if they say there is no God but within this world onely or if they confess a God upon the Throne of his Glory in another world if they say he is three persons in coequal Godhead glory or in degree one above another or their Spirits are in one personal Majesty or any such like confusion concerning the one personal being of our Lord Jesus Christ 7 From his unerring spirit I declare that none of these are the men that I account spiritual or rational grounded men what ever good thoughts they have of themselves or one of another wherefore if there be any sober rational man in the world come let us reason together 8 What though thou and this present Civil Powers to your own thinking and full resolution of equal good to the three Nations did engage together against

the former Powers as enemies to the common good and did purpose by Gods assistance to establish such a Government for the peoples good that the like could not be parallel'd in the world what ever you intended by Covenants or Engagements I would fain know whether you are any more then creatures And if you grant me that rational truth then in the next place I would know whether any man hath sufficient power in himself to continue one minute in his resolution though never so solemnly engaged 9 Again if it should be replyed thus reasoning All Covenants made in the presence of God or between man and man are of none effect no that doth not follow for the Moral or Civil Law is very good in it self and was added for transgressors but whosoever hath the true love of God in him that man hath no need of mans law to be his rule but he is a law unto himself and lives above all laws of mortal men and yet is obedient to all laws 10 Again I declare from the God of all truth that no rational wise man unless God himself by infallible grounds had declared it to him dares enter into Covenants or Vows to make a people more happier then they are by a sword of steel 11 I confess that Civil Laws are just and good in themselves and according to equity all men are alike liable to the Law but this I would fain know from any sober man in this world if he were guilty of the Law in what kinde soever whether he would not rather live then be put to death 12 Or if he were troubled with guilt of innocent blood and breach of oath with faithful friends would he not say in his spirit being in a place of power What advantage will my life be unto the dead wronged by me for want of power from above to have prevented it 13 Or what profit would my blood be unto the living friends of him that is dead my life cannot possibly yield any true peace to the living any more then the dead therefore O let me live that I may do what good I can seeing what is past cannot possibly be recall'd 14 Again if Magistrates act any unjust things in their places is any man sure that another Power should act better Do not men that seem to be very sober just and wise oftentimes secretly act most unjustly of all when exalted into high places 15 But some may say unto me If we had had that we fought for we should have taken such a course that no unjust Magistrate should have continued long in his place without being called to an account 16 To this I answer Truly my friend the heart of man is so desperately wicked and places of Authority so full of fleshly snares that men are apt to act unjustly if they die for it at the years end 17 Is there not a Law of death without mercy against murther and was there almost ever murthers committed more then now where then is the power in the Law to prevent it 18 Is there not a Law of death also against those which are taken in Adultery or such like uncleannesses and is there not more Adultery or such like committed then in former Ages when there was no Law of putting men to death where then is the power of the Law to prevent natural or unnatural lusts 19 Is there not a Law of death against Robbing on the high-way breaking up of houses and such like and was there in many ages such house-breaking and high-way robbing as now there is even by many men of very good estates where then is the power of the Law to make an unjust man to do that which is right unto his neighbor 20 Again as beforesaid the heart of man by nature is exceeding full of pride envy lust and such like wickedness that they are apt to commit it so much the more if men speak against it or make laws to prevent it If men think this strange or question the truth of it if they know their own heart and that God that preserves men from these evils they would then know this to be as true as God is truth 21 If it be so some men may say What need there then be any Law at all 22 For a just man there is no need of any Law as aforesaid but for a godless the moral Law of Moses and the Civil Law of Magistrates are very useful in several respects for where there is no Law as the Scripture saith there is no Transgression but devils cloathed with flesh blood and bone do want a whip and is there any so fit to scourge them withal as their own Laws wherefore the Laws of God and man are useful to convince and condemn the wicked but not to convert them 23 Again you know the Civil Law is also useful to defend an upright man from the violence of a wicked man it being instituted for that very end that as beforesaid he may be justly condemned in his own conscience by his own law for acting cruelty upon him that was always ready to do him good 24 Though I thus write in the true defence of the Civil Law with the obedience due unto it sure I am that a merciful man in stead of taking advantage of the law for the imprisoning or the cutting off the most wickedest of men if it be possible he will rather overcome him by love O that all the chosen of God knew but the power of Love Patience Mercy or Forgiveness to men that are averse unto all good 25 If you which are offended with the Civil Magistrate did but anderstand what equal good soever was intended by your combinations together or if your intended good of rest and peace had been attained unto through your establishing false Laws in a golden ballance by load-stone Magistrates of your own choosing in stead of such a glorious happiness as you have imagined as beforesaid through the desperate wickedness of the men of this age is it not more probable the quite contrary would have ensued 26 I pray you what were the acts of the Sodomites when they became all Magistrates through an equal general ease from a mighty fulness of bread and such like if you have any spiritual faith in you to believe the Record read the first chapter to the Romans and there you may see the effects of this your natural wisdom of general happiness to the Creation or Nations 27 Again because of the endlesness of mans reasoning against that innocent peace of Conscience and joy in the Holy Spirit full of glory belonging unto all those that are made obedient to this heavenly Rule therefore I shall write a little further concerning this needful point 28 If this Golden Rule be general and without obedience to it no man can enjoy true peace some men may say unto me Are the Magistrates excluded from obedience to it because they are Law-makers 29 From the Holy Spirit of