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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

raign-mongers confess that Christ was God and man in one person and that that most blessed body of his is now glorified in the highest heavens 20 Do you not also pretend to believe that the divine person of this God-man glorified is infinite immortal unchangeable and eternal 21 Moreover if there be any such divine light or heavenly faith in your persons I would fain know whether you think it possibly that this mortal world or men can bear the presence of a divine Majesty whose body is become a consuming fire of immortal everlasting burnings without its being immediately consumed to ashes or transmuted into his own glorious likeness 22 O that all the elect did but know how suddenly this personal God will appear in his glory to consume this whole world 23 Again if you look in the 11. Chapter of the Hebrews you may finde it thus written All these died in faith and received not the promises but saw them afar off and believed them and received them thankfully and confessed that they were strangers and pelgrims on the earth for they that saw such things declare plainly that they seek a country and if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out they had leisure to have returned but now they desire a better that is an heavenly wherefore God is not ashamed of them to be called their God for he hath prepared for them a city here you may see that Abraham himself was so far from expecting a personal raign of Christ on this earth though he believed that his seed should enjoy the promises of God both temporal and spiritual in their appointed seasons 24 Therefore he onely minded a personal ascending into the heavenly City of eternal glory prepared for him and his elect seed at the resurrection of the just 25 So that Abraham looked upon the promises of God that they were to enjoy in this world onely as types or shadows of that heavenly City or Kingdom with its ravishing excellencies as aforesaid 26 Moreover if that glorious God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob had intended a personal raign on this earth a thousand years with his Saints after his glorification in the highest heavens can any sober man be so weak as to think he would have hid it from Abraham whom he was pleased to call the father of the faithful and friend of God You know what is written shall I hide this thing from Abraham 27 Furthermore if the Lord in life or death had revealed any such thing unto Abraham the thing being of so great concernment can you possibly think that he would have hid it from his generation to come you may be sure if there had been any such thing to be accomplished he would have declared it to after ages 28 Seeing neither Abraham nor any of the Patriarks or Prophets knew of Christs personal raign on this earth with his Saints but spake as to the contrary altogether what sufficient ground hath any man in this world to expect such a thing 29 But how can it be otherwise when men takes upon them to interpret the mysteries of the Scriptures without an immediate Commission from the eternal spirit 30 Again the Scripture saith That the day of Christs appearing shall be like unto that of Noah and Lot now you know in the day that Noah entred into the Ark the flood came and by degrees destroyed them all 31 Also in that day Lot departed out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all 32 If the whole world was drowned with water immediately after Noah entred into the Ark and Sodom and Gomorrah was consumed by fire suddenly after Lot departed out of the City and the day of Christs coming shall be in like maner without controversie in stead of his personal raign on this earth with his Saints at his next appearing immediately after all his blessed Noahs and Lots are ascended into the Ark of his immortal glory this firmamental created heaven and the lights thereof shall be all on fire 33 And shall descend upon the face of the whole earth and burn all the fruits and glory thereof unto ashes but it shall not be so favorable as to consume the bloody minded men therein 34 If the Lord of Glory had purposed to come personally to raign a thousand years amongst his Saints before the general day of judgement is any man so weak as to think he would have hid it from his chosen Apostles whom he had promised to set upon twelve thrones to judge the twelve Tribes of Israel when he appeared again in his glory 35 Is there any one place in Holy Writ that expresly speaketh of Christs personal raign in this world 36 If there be no express record for any such thing as I am sure there is not doth not those men that hold forth such an opinion as this imitate little children or fools that re●oyce in Rattles or Counters in stead of gold or precious stones 37 Thou that art confident of Christs personal raign on this earth suppose such a thing should come to pass in thy days and thou shouldst be one of those Saints what condition dost thou think thy body shall be in 38 Dost thou think it shall live upon carnal things or shall it be immortalized and live upon spiritual things onely 39 Or if thou thinkest thy soul shall be in a divine condition and thy body shall feed upon natural things as now it doth and shall be in perfect health and free from diseases 40 I say if thou hast imagined such an estate as this is I would fain know of thee what condition thou thinkest that Christ will appear in 41 Dost thou think that he will descend from the throne of his Glory upon this earth amongst the sons of men again to eat and drink of carnal things with them as formerly 42 Or dost thou think that he will appear amongst them in a glorious condition to make them more happy in things that perish then now they are 43 If Christ should personally raign with his Saints what union or communion could they enjoy with him more then now they do unless he was in a capacity of eating and drinking with them or else they were delivered from feeding upon natural things themselves through their transmutation into his own glorious likeness 44 It is written in the 26. Chapter by St. Matth. I say unto you that I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine until that day when I shall drink it new with you in my Fathers kingdom 45 Here you that are spiritual may see that Christ was so far from encouraging his Apostles to expect his coming to taste of the fruit of the natural vine in a personal raign with his Saints that he layeth it down as a positive rule that he would drink no more of the natural vine in this earth until he drank it in a new and spiritual way with them in his Fathers

kingdom 46 Where then is thy imaginary personal raign of Christ on this earth with his Saints a thousand years CHAP. XLI 1 The vanity of believing in a God that hath no form 2 And of them who say the Creator is an incomprehensible Spirit 3 Or that there is no God but nature onely 4 Or who say that Gods Spirit and their spirits are but one spirit ANother sort of deceived men there are that through strong delusions from their natural comprehensions have imagined a mighty spiritual appearance in themselves from a bodiless God or Christ that never was 2 This sort of men are those which from a cursed conceit do not onely despise a glorious God in the person of a man but they also talk of great signs and wonders which they expect shall come to pass by inward voices or visions from their imaginary bodiless God as beforesaid 3 Moreover being bewitcht to the purpose though they pretend a great spiritual light in them they can make a hard shift to fool themselves from the literal records as to think that the Holy One of Israel had commissionated another high Priest or King of the Jews besides himself 4 Though this counterfeit high Priest or King of seven Nations I mean John Tanee pretends a natural glorious deliverance suddenly unto the Jews in many Nations 5 Truly those that understand nothing above a Paradissical temporal glory are not to be blamed in the least for their bountifulness towards his perishing tenents in reference to his Hierusalems conceits 6 John Tanee thou maist remember about three years and six moneths past I told thee of thy deceived condition concerning thy carnal Jerusalem journey with John Robins also by an immediate voice from on high 7 Furthermore if thy high priesthood kingship and Jerusalem temporal glory do not vanish like smoak as John Robins did even when thou thinkest thy self most sure in the thing then the Lord God sent not me to thee 8 Again when thou art ashamed and confounded in thy self from all thy lying voices or visions declared unto Saints and Serpents in the name of the great Jehovah then thou shalt know with sorrow and shame enough that it was the Lord that sent me unto thee to declare thy fleshly error 9 I do not say thou canst help it it is through the permissive power of the Lord for some secret end onely known to himself that thou or any man else should break forth into such strange appearance of darkness yet seeming glorious lights when thou art found too light in the ballance of divine truth 10 It is not thy natural or all gorical whimses that can blinde the elect nor pacifie the judge of life and death within thee and without thee 11 Again there is a third sort of deceived persons which with great confidence have declared that Christ should spiritually raign over the Nations in King Charles Seed and of this sort one Arice Evans in Black-Friers was lookt upon as a great Prophet by many of the Royal party 12 Moreover from this their foolish conceit they had many pritty whimses and dark sentences to blinde mens apprehensions like unto John Tanee and John Robbins Which took much upon the spirits both of the subtile and simple also for a season 13 Furthermore their understandings being utterly dark concerning the spiritual or personal appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ in his glory 14 It is usual for them concerning Charles the second as to joyn Christ and him in one calling him the white Pearl that should make the nations in a sweet harmony of divine unity through his glorious ruling over them also they said that he should not attain to the throne of his Father by any carnal weapons but he should be brought into this land and set upon the Throne by an immediate power of the eternal Spirit of God himself 15 Again this carnal Cavalier Prophet pretended the knowledge of certain Scriptures by voices or visions in reference to the raign of Charles the second and John Tanee-like sought to confirm it by natural observations 16 And truly I do not blame the people that were deceived by them because they wanted a true distinction in themselves betweeen those things which are divine and humane 17 Moreover when all pretended high Priests Prophets or Apostles in this land are clearly discovered by an unerring light of life eternal I make no question of the subtilty of their Serpentine spirits to blinde their own eyes and those that were deceived by them 18 I know they can say If they be deceived the Lord hath deceived them or they can say We had a mysterious language given us by Jehovah to confound all literal or notional appearances in this confused age and men understood us in a carnal sence only 19 Or if they have often fixed a time concerning things that should come to pass and nothing comes of it they can also say As the Prophet Jonas understood not the Lords time and minde concerning the destruction of the Ninevites 20 So likewise this thing in the way of our fleshly expectation was hid from our eyes but the mighty Jehovah in his season will bring it to pass in a spiritual maner beyond the comprehension of men or Angels 21 Moreover if none of these excuses will blinde their eyes which expected wonderful things from them then because they are not able to bear the shame of being found lyers in the name of the Lord they will say all men are lyars or there is not a true Prophet upon the face of the earth 22 Or else they will say There is but onely one pure being invisibly ruling in the whole Creation and this spiritual power manifesteth it self in various maners of seeming contradictions for the confounding of all mens understandings that would finde out its secrets but in the end when it hath fooled men to the purpose it will appear in a glorious harmony to the content of all 23 Furthermore for the blinding of their own eyes and those of their own spirits that they may both fall together in a deep ditch of eternal destruction they will or may say If there be a Creator he is an incomprehensible spirit and all our spirits proceeded out of his spirit and when our bodies dies our spirits returns into his spirit again 24 From this cursed error they may or will say That God can as soon destroy himself as any soul that he hath made with an eternal condemnation 25 Moreover if this grand fleshly deceit prove also but a broken Cistern then as aforesaid they may or will say there is no God but nature onely your most wise men in nature know this to be truth but they are compelled to nominate a God to the people to keep the rude multitude in obedience to their governours and government 26 Knowing if they should confess a Creator besides nature all their pretended divine voices or visions would appear but meer fleshly lies 27 Therefore for