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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

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

he said that he was Judge both of quick and dead again he said that the Lord Jesus was a weak and an imperfect Saviour and afraid of death but he said that he had no fear of death in him at all but this Cain hath proved himself an old lyar since his great blasphemy against the Lord Jesus again this John Robins did declare that he was to gather the Jews in all Nation● and to lead them into their own Land unto Jerusalem with many more such like things declared by him A for his lying spiritual signes and wonders they were these and such like unto some that were deceived by him he did present the form of his person riding upon the wings of the Wind like unto a flame of fire also he did present unto some in their beds a great light like unto a flame of fire over all the Room that they have been compell'd to hide their faces in their beds fearing they should be burn'd but when they hid their faces in their bed the light did appear more brighter then before also he would present unto them half Moons and Stars and sometimes thick darknesse darker then any natural darknesse whatsoever also he did present his head only in the day time without a body to a Gentlewoman that I know in her Chamber also presenting unto her to deceive her the forms of strance beasts as namely Dragons and such like Again I declare from the Lord that this John Robins did present the form of his face looking me in the face in my bed the most part of a night insomuch that I cryed in my spirit unto the Lord and the Lord by his Spirit revealed this great Antichrist unto me to my exceeding joy and his everlasting praise Much more might be spoken of his deceits in this kind but now I shall declare the manner of his being worshipped as a God by those deceived by him they prayd unto him and they fell flat on their faces and worshipped him calling him their Lord and their God also he gave commandment to some of them that they should not make mention of any other God but him on●y also he gave authority unto some of his Disciples both unto men and women to change their wives and their husbands telling them that they were not united to their own bone This cursed Cain changed his own wife first for an example and called her name Eve telling his Disciples that she should bring forth his Son Jesus and it should be caught up into Heaven many of his Disciples following of his cursed example to their utter ruine in this life and that to come a so he commanded his Disciples to abstain from meats and drinks promising them that they should in a short time be fed with Manna from Heaven until many a poor soul was almost starved under his dyet yea and some were absolutely starved to death whose bodies could not bear his diet for those that believed on him indeed they brought in their whole estates unto him so that then he had full power over their souls and bodies and estates and he did plague their spirits and bodies at his pleasure in a most dreadful manner if they were not obedient to his commands of the which I my self was an eye-witnesse I could speak more of this Prince of Devils in this last age but I know I have written enough for a spiritual Chri●●●an to discern something of this great Deceiver in what I have written when his wickednesse was at the full the Lord Jesus sent me as beforesaid unto this John Robins to declare his wickednesse unto him and immediately to pronounce him cursed in soul and body from the presence of the Lord Jesus to all eternity unto the which I with my fellow witnesse were made obedient then about two months after this sentence of the Lord Jesus this John Robins wrote a Recantation of all his seeming great matters declared by him and sent the writing to General Cromwell and so obtained his liberty when he was out of prison he gave all his disciples about London the slip and with what silver stead of building of Cities he went into his own Country and repurchased his Land but it was re-bought with the innocent blood of many poor innocent souls in the highest nature that ever any man gained such a sum of silver as he did III. A Gain I declare from the Lord Jesus that all those that bear the name of Christians and yet make use of the sword of steel to slay men who are the image of God they are utterly ignorant of the true God and man Jesus and enemies to his Gospel that commands men to love their enemies therefore their fleshly reasoning causeth them to forsake the Gospel of suffering the Grosse of Christ and they apply themselves to the Law of Moses to prove it lawful to kill the Gospel of Jesus instead of yielding obedience unto it Unto you that are chosen to work righteousnesse I declare by revelation from the Holy Spirit that no spiritual Christian hath any thing to do to meddle with any Scripture from the Law given by the hand of Moses to prove it lawful to warre with the sword of steel because it was lawful for the Nation of the Jews only by commission from the Lord to warre against all the Heathen Gentiles that rose up against the Jews because they worshipped the God of Israel who was contrary to the Heathen Idol-gods and this war of the Jews was lawful until God the Father became flesh to reconcile both Jew and Gentile into that one faith in the body of his flesh and no longer Therefore since God became flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone sinne only excepted I declare from the Lord Jesus that they that are Christians indeed they are not under the Law of Moses that is a Sword of steel but they are under Grace or the Gospel of Jesus that is the sword of the Holy Spirit that makes all true Christians to understand that in this work their portions is to suffer all kind of wrong from all men and to return mercy and forgivenesse unto all men yea and to forgive those that would kill them because they know all vengeance is the Lords and he will repay it therefore they dare not rob God of his glory Again when the Lord Jesus gave that new Law of love unto all his elect believers where he saith it was said of old an Eye for an Eye and a Tooth for a Tooth but I say unto you love your enemies blesse them that curse you do good to them that hate you These be those Christians indeed that may be called perfect as their heavenly Father was perfect the Lord Jesus who did all good and suffered all wrong yea and laid down his life for that whole world of his Elect when they were all become his enemies Again I declare from the Lord Jesus that they that are new born by the Holy

in the holy Angels continually to desire the knowledge of that spirit of wisdom in the Creator that made them and the overflowings of that new wisdom in the spirit of the Creator by the decree of God it is that spiritual food that keeps the holy Angels pure in their glory or else not one of them could stand upright in the presence of God not one moment but they would all become serpent-Devils and fall down into this earth as that great Angel did presently after the Lord withheld the revelation of his glorious wisdom from him then this Angel for want of his spiritual food of revelation that kept his spirit in obedience to his Creator presently his spirit began proudly to imagine and think high and lofty thoughts concerning his own person and great wisdom of spirit within him wherefore secretly he was lifted up in his spirit to disdain the persons and wisdom of all the holy Angels in comparison of the glory both of his person and wisdom pride being begun in him Lucipher-like he soared higher in his pride for he thought both his person and wisdom to be as glorious if not more glorious then the person and wisdom of the Creator wherefore he being very proud of his own wisdom he imagined that if he had been the Creator he would by a word speaking have created Angels and all other creatures without Earth or Water as God made all things of for his proud spirit thought he could by a word speaking have created all creatures of nothing at all therefore he counted his wisdom rather greater and of a more higher nature to have formed all things for a greater glory to himself if he had been the Creator then the Creators wisdom in the things or Creatures formed by him so imagining his wisdom above the Creators he thought himself more fit to reign over the holy Angels and all other creatures then the Creator he being wise in his own conceit became an absolute Fool for out of nothing comes nothing and out of nothing comes no form or nothing can be formed for to create or make a living form or creature out of senslesse matter or substance of Earth or Water by a word speaking of what nature or form the Creator pleaseth whether contrary to his own nature and form of his own nature and form this is the power and wisdom of my Creator the Lord Jesus for he by his infinite glorious wisdom by a word speaking did create all living creatures in the two Creations or Worlds of unsensible Earth and Water that was without his person from all eternity in his presence with him because his eternal glorious person you know must have a place of residence therefore reason it self cannot deny the eternity of Earth and Waters and the person of the Creator let it imagine never so much nor never so long again as beforesaid when the time of this proud and lofty Angels glory was by the decree of the Creator expired in the Heavens above to the exceeding joy of all the holy Angels unto whom the Lord revealed his exceeding pride the Lord then cast down this Angelical wise Serpent into the Earth therefore it is written wo be to the Inhabiters of the Earth for the Devil is come down amongst you this Angel that was cast into the Earth is that Devil beforesaid and his nature or spirit of pride and envy and all other wickednesse being changed his names or titles are changed according to the uncleannesse of his nature and now instead of the name of an Angel of light he is called an Angel of darknesse as in Jude yea he is called a Serpent a Dragon a Devil Satan or an unclean spirit or that wicked one suitable to his cursed nature but the Lord changed not the form or person of this Reprobate lost Angel at all but his names or titles only as beforesaid according to his nature Again I declare by Revelation from the Holy Spirit that that Serpent spoken of in the Scripture that tempted the Virgin Wife Eve he was a spiritual body in the form of his person like unto a man yea I say from the Lord that this Angel-Serpent was more amiable or glorious in the form of his person to the outward appearance of Eves eyes then the Person of the man Adam was wherefore by the prerogative power and secret wisdom and Counsel of God to bring forth his glorious design it was the outward comlinesse of the Serpents person and his seeming wise and glorious God-like counsel by the decree of God became a snare to deceive and overcome the innocent Virgin VVife Eve as many a poor innocent Virgin in these dayes are deceived and overcome by the outwa●d comlinesse of mens persons through their Serpent-counsels and cursed temptations wherefore it is written the woman was deceived and not the man Again I declare by Revelation from the holy Spirit that when this Angel-Serpent by hi● seeming wise God-like Counsel had overcome innocent Eve as before-said the very person of this spiritual Serpent Reprobate Angel entred into the body or womb of innocent l ve and there he dyed or was changed from his spirituality and immediately he quickned in her pure undefiled seed or nature all serpentine lust of all natural uncleannesse wherefore she being now naked from her former pure created Virginity presently she i● full of natural lust after her innocent Husband that had no desire to a woman at all therefore it is written and she gave also unto her husband with her and he did eat then were they both naked from that pure spiritual life of their virgin creation of God-l●ke content within their own spirits and in the room thereof they are both full of all natural lusts whatsoever they being both defiled with the spirit of the Serpent-Angel of unclean reason and wicked imagination and this was that cursed effect of their becoming as Gods knowing both good an evil until they were both born again by the spirit of Faith to the full assurance of a more glorious Inheritance then that which was lost through the eternal love of God to his lost Image Again I declare from the Lord Jesus that that Cain that was the first born of Eve he was the very seed or spirit of that reprobate Serpent angel in the body of Eve and the first born child or son of the Devil and so he became and none but he alone that Belzebub the Prince of Devils and the only father of all those Angels of darknesse spoken of in the Epistle of Jude that are kept or reserved in chains of darknesse of unbelief unto the Judgment of the Great Day Therefore where it is written of the warfare between Michael and his Angels and the Dragon and his Angels that Michael is the Spirit of the Lord Jesus in his Angelical believers whose spiritual weapons are faith and love and patience and such like unto the death because they see a crown of Life in

the Revelation of the everlasting Gospel of that Son within her which was of a more transcendent glory than that of the Law and that Crown of twelve Stars upon her head that was the twelve Apostles that sprang from her head Jesus to preach the everlasting Gospel of Truth and Peace unto his Elect thus that saying that every seed shall have his own body is a little more clear unto you that have faith in a personal God then it was before you may understand that God the Father was a spiritual man from eternity and that in time his righteous spiritual body brought forth a righteous natural body that the Father to shew forth his infinite love and humility and to bring forth a new transcendent glory to himself might become a son yea and a servant unto his creatures in the very condition of a creature for a season that he might exalt his elect creatures into the same condition of the Creator in his glory in the highest Heavens to all eternity when the curtains of this lower Heavens are drawn and vanisht like smoak never more to be time being past Again it is written he that hath seēn me hath seen the Father and the Father liveth in me and I live in him and I and the Father are one the only meaning or mind of the Lord Jesus in those words is this his Spirit living within his body that was the Father and his visible body that was the Son both God and man in one person and so but one personal God the man Christ Jesus he perfectly knowing himself to be the only God he said unto the Jews except ye eat my flesh and drink my blood you have no life in you again he said except ye believe that I am he ye shall dye in your sins his very mind in those words was this except they did believe that that very person of his of flesh blood and bone that spake unto them was the only God and eternal Father and alone Saviour of all that were to be saved and that there was no salvation to mankind but thus spiritually eating of his flesh and drinking of his blood except they did thus own his person to be their Lord and only Saviour they must all die in their sins and perish to all eternity because there is nothing but the precious blood of a God can possibly clense the spirit of man from the power of sin therefore if the very Godhead had not died that is if the very soul of Christ which is the eternal Father had not died in the body or with the body to quiet or satisfie the cry of the guilt of sin in mens spirits all men would have perisht to eternity because the spirit of unclean reason the Devil in man whose nature is all sin did reign in the very bodies of the Elect as their Lord and King and they were free from the power of righteousnesse until the precious blood of a God by the Holy Spirit of Faith was sprinkled in their consciences that by the pure life or spiritual love to God and man they might break the Serpents head of sin of reigning any longer in them but on the contrary they that have no faith given them in the precious blood of God to clense their spirits from the power of that Devil sin in them their sins will be their Lord and King and they must perish together eternally as beforesaid Again by this time it is very clear to you that have the faith of Jesus that the Serpent Angel beforesaid was a spiritual body or person in the form of a man before he entred into the womb of Eve by that seed or son of his called Cain Thus every seed or spirit by the decree of God brings forth his own body according to its nature or kind God the Father being a spiritual man from all eternity in time begot and brought forth himself a manchild in mortality of all pure righteousnesse therefore he was called the expresse Image of the Father because he was indeed the very Father and that made him say be thought it no robbery to be equal with God and that was the cause that made him say that all power was given unto him both in heaven and in earth because he knew perfectly that there was no other God but himself to possesse all power and this made the Prophet Isaiah to attribute the chief titles of the everlasting Father unto the Son that was to be made of a Woman or of a Virgin because the Prophet knew very well that the Father and the Son was but one unseparable person in immortal glory from all eternity and so he knew they were to become in time one unseparable Person of all purity in mortality and I with him know from the same spirits that revealed it to the Prophet long before God became flesh that that pure mortality both spirit and body that died together they did both immediately quicken together a new life in death or out of death and they unseparably both Father and Son in one person did ascend together into that immortal glory that they possesse together from all Eternity and so they now enjoy it again in one transcendent glorious person both God and man to all Eternity This proves the truth of these sayings Glorifie me with the same glory I had with thee before the world was and of that saying My glory I will not give to another and of that saying Before Abraham was I am according to that saying of God to Moses when he bade Moses tell Pharaoh that I am sent him and of that saying He thought it no robbery to be equal with God and of that saying I am the living bread which came down from heaven if any man eat of this bread he shall live for ever and of that saying This is the bread which cometh down from heaven that a man may eat thereof and not die and of that saying For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven and giveth life unto the world and of that saying I am that bread of life Again Not that any man hath seen the Father save he which is of God he hath seen the Father and of that saying What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before and of that full saying that proves Jesus to be the Father He was in the world and the world was made by him and the world knew him not and of that saying In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God the same was in the beginning with God all things were made by him and without him was not any thing made that was made Whosoever is not stark blind by this Scripture must needs understand that there is no Creator nor Father but the man Jesus only the Lord of life and glorie and where it is said through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the

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

allow of the civil Magistrate to govern the rude people To this I answer The Magistrate is very needful in every inhabited Land for the government of the People in all civil things to do equal justice between man and man if such a Magistrate could be found it would be a rare thing Again I declare from the Holy Spirit although the Magistrate be but a heathen Ruler as he is wherefore Christ said of this Magistrate unto his Apostles the Kings or Princes of the Gentiles exercise Lordship over them and they that exercise Authority upon them are called Benefactors but ye shall not be so but he that is greatest among you let him be as the younger yet I say from the Lord the Magistrate beareth not the Sword in vain but he is a type of the true spiritual Magistrate that can do nothing but equal Justice between the just and the unjust the Lord Jesus Christ Wherefore all men ought to yield obedience to the civil Laws of the Magistrate either by executing of his Lawes or patiently by bearing the curse of the Law upon their own persons leaving all vengeance unto God or else they rebel against God and they are in danger of an eternal curse because the government of this world and the glory thereof belongs only unto the wise and prudent heathen Magistrates in this Earth who are the very sons of Cain that old Serpent-Dragon-Devil that slew his righteous Brother Abel that he and his Seed that are of his own spirit might be the Lords and Rulers of this world for ever because Cain thought and his dark Angels thinks that there is no world at all but this only they have purchased the Lordship of this perishing world at a dear rate for it was the price of the innocent blood of righteous Abel it is their only heaven Therefore let us that have received faith to believe in the glorious person of the Lord Jesus by his power patiently suffer the cursed spirit of Cain in his heathen Magistrates to shed all our innocent blood if our God will have it so that they may fill up the measure of their fathers sins from the blood of righteous Abel and the holy Prophets to the precious blood of the Lord Iesus and the holy Apostles that our blood that are the two last Witnesses and Prophets of the Lord Iesus may make the last persecutors of Christians compleat Devils with their Father Cain who was the first bloody persecutor of the first suffering Christian therefore it is written that Christ was a Lamb slain from the beginning of the world he being slain in believing Abel I say from the Lord by the power of his Holy Spirit patiently let us yield up our lives with our God unto those perishing gods beforesaid because we that suffer with him are appointed to enter into an eternal Kingdom of glory in another world hid from the wise and prudent Rulers of this vanishing world therefore it is written which of the Rul●rs have believed in him again as it is written Why do the heathen then so furiously rage together the Kings of the earth stand up and the Rulers take Counsel together against the Lord and against his anointed or against his Christ Again as it is written by Paul howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect yet not the wisdom of this world nor of the Princes of this world that come to nought Again it is written which none of the Princes of this world knew for had they known it they would not have crucified the Lord of glory Again that world that we are to reign in after we have suffered it was purchased also by blood but it was the price of the precious unvaluable undefiled blood of our God the man Jesus who by his Holy Spirit that sent us only maketh us willing to taste a little of his Cup that he so deeply drank of the servant is not greater then the Master because we are to sit down with him upon his eternal Throne of glory to behold his face in the presence of all his holy Angels then these Scriptures will be fulfilled Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousnesse sake for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven Again Blessed are ye when men shall revile you and persecute you and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely for my sake rejoyce and be exceeding glad for great is your reward in Heaven for so persecuted they the Prophet● which were before you Again Then shall the righteous shine forth as the Sun in the Kingdom of their Father Again For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his Angels and then he shall reward every man according to his works Again Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world Again then shall he say unto them on the left hand Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels XII AGain I declare by Revelation from the Holy Spirit that since the fall of our first Parents that the spirit and body of man are both mortal and that by the Decree of the Creator the soul and body of man are both procreated or begot together and they are both of one nature and so both but one Creature for it is the invisible spirit that liveth in the seed and nature of man that by the Decree of God creates or begets that form of flesh in the person of a man or woman according to their kind and thus it is with this whole Creation every seed or spirit naturally by the wisdom of the Creator brings forth their own bodies or kind whether Man Beast Fish or Fowl and all things else that grows naturally brings forth in their season according to their natures because the Creator by his secret Counsel and Wisdom decreed within his glorious Person before any thing was created or formed by him that all things or Creatures that should be created or formed by his infinite Wisdom should bring forth their own bodies or kind only and no other for ever therefore when men and beasts seeds are unnaturally mixt together contrary to their kind the Lord discovers them both to their destruction and his glory Wherefore I declare from the Lord Jesus and it is a cursed Imagination in any man to think when men die their spirits may go into other forms and bodies contrary to their own natures or kind as many a cursed lying Atheist prates that denyes the Resurrection of mens bodies through the love of some dark fleshly lust they live in They are in spiritual darknesse understanding nothing of the power of God and so erring not knowing the Scriptures as it is written nor the power of God therefore it is a common thing for these blind Atheists in their discourse to say when men die their spirits may or do go