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

Joyful News from Heaven OR THE LAST INTELLIGENCE FROM OUR Glorified JESUS above the Stars Wherein is infallibly recorded How that 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 maner 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 Description of the Kingdom of Glory prepared onely for the Seed of Adam that blessed Seed of Faith and 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 the last Commissionated Witnesses and Prophets of that onely High Immortal Glorious God Christ Jesus London Printed by T. J. for Francis Cosinet at the Sign of the Anchor Mariner in Tower-street at Mincing-lane end 1658. A Transcendent Spiritual Treatise Upon several heavenly Doctrines from the holy spirit of the man Jesus the only true God sent unto all his elect as a token of his eternal love unto them by the hand of his own Prophet beimg his last Messenger and Witness and forerunner of the visible appearing of the distinct personal God in power and great glory in the clouds of Heaven with his ten thousands of personal Saints to separate between the elect world and the reprobate world to all Eternity Containing those several Heads set down in the next Page following John Reeve and Lodowick Muggleton the two last Witnesses and true Prophets of the man Jesus the only Lord of Life and Glory sent by his holy Spirit to seal the foreheads of the Elect and the foreheads of the rep●obate with the eternal Seals of Life and Death and suddenly after we have delivered this dreadful Massage this God the man Jesus will visibly appear to bear witness whether he sent us or not ye that are the blessed shall patiently wait for the truth of this thing If any of the Elect desire to speak with us concerning any thing written in this Treatise they may hear of us in Great Trinity Lane at the Chandlers Shop against one Mr. M●llis a Brown Baker near the lower end of Bow-lane Printed for the Author● and are to be sold by them at the place above-named I. Of my Commission received by voyce of words from the spirit of the man Jesus in glory II. Of the last great deceiving Antichrist and man of sin that ever shall be III. Of the unlawfulness for a spirituall Christian to warre with a sword of steel IV. Of the creation beyond the stars or of the other side of the visible created heavens were sun moon and star● and shall all vanish like smoak together to eternity V. Of the creating of that reprobate Angel Serpent that beguiled Eve and became a man VI. Of the eternal Creator cloathing himself with flesh and so bec●me a pure man VII and VIII Of the creating of man and the nature of holy Angels in their creation IX Of Elijah the Prophet ascending bodily in heaven to represent the person of God the Father X. Of all Prophets or Priests or Ministers in this world being false not knowing the true God therefore not sent by the God of all truth the man Jesus XI Of all heathen Magistrates and their heathen Prophets false worship or image XII Of the mortality of the soule and how and when it became mortal XIII With what bodies the elect and the reprobate shall appear after dea●h XIV How the bodies and spirits of the world of the elest believers shall be like unto the glorious body of God their ●edeem●r in his glory to eternity XV. Of some difference between the glory of Men and ●ngels in glory in the heaven above AN Epistle from the holy Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ the eternal Father written by the Lords two last witnesses and prophets that ever shall declare the mind of God the man Jesus that was crucified without the gates of Jerusalem the Lord Jesus by us his poor despised messengers hath sent this Writing unto the Christian world so called Wherefore we declare by vertue of our Commission given unto us by voice of words from the holy Spirit of the Lord Jesus from the throne of his glory to make known his prerogative will and pleasure both to the elect world and reprobate world a little before his glorious coming to separate between the two worlds that whosoever despiseth this Writing whether he be a King or a Beggar by calling it blasphemy or heresie or delusion or a lye or speaking evil of it in any kind whatsoever in so doing they have committed that unpardonable sin against the holy Ghost or spirit that sent us Wherefore in obedience to our Commission from the Lord Jesus Christ whom they have despised and not us we pronounce them cursed both soule and body from the presence of the Lord Jesus elect men and Angels to all eternity John Reeve and Lodowick Muggleton the Lords two last true Witnesses and Prophets spoken of in the eleventh of the Revelation a little before the coming of him that sent us who is the Judge of both quick and dead FEbruary the 3.4 and 5. 1651. three mornings together much about an houre the Lord Jesus the only wise God whose glorious person is refident above or beyond the stars I declare from the spirit of truth that this Jesus from the throne of his glory by voice of words spake unto me John Reeve saying I have given thee understanding of my mind in the Scriptures above all men in the world The next words the Lord spake unto me were these saying Look into thy own body there thou shalt see the Kingdom of Heaven and the Kingdom of Hell the Lord spake these words unto me twice together Again the Lord spake unto me these words saying I have chosen thee my last messenger for a great work unto this bloudy unbeleeving world And I have given thee Lodowick Muggleton to be thy mouth at that very moment the holy spirit brought inot my mind that Scripture of Aaron given unto Moses Again the Lord spake unto me these words saying I have put the two-edged sword of my spirit into thy mouth that whoever I pronounce blessed through thy mouth is blessed to eternity and whoever I pronounce cursed through thy mouth is cursed to eternity When I heard these words my spirit desired the Lord that I might not be his dreadfull messenger For indeed I thought upon the delivering of so sad an unexpected message unto men I should immediately have been torn to pieces Again the Lord spake unto me these words saying If thou dost not obey my

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

into a Horse or into a Root or into a Flower with many more such like cursed expressions they being more ignorant if it be possible of the Lord Jesus through the love of fleshly pleasures then the brute beasts therefore they reason against their own reason and say this Creation or VVorld had never any beginning nor never shall have any ending two cursed lyes Again They call perishing nature God or Creator saying God is all things and all things is God Thus these blaspheming Devils liken the incorruptible Spirit of God the man Jesus not only u●to the unclean spirit and cursed imagination living in the body of corr pt man but unto the spirits of unclean beast and creeping things as those Atheists in the time of Paul These are those who received the truth to prate of it only but not in the love of it having pleasure in unrighteousnesse therefore given up to strong delusions to believe a lie that they might all the damned then these Scriptures will be fulfilled He made all things for his own glory and the wicked for the day of wrath Again He shall come in flaming fire to render vengeance upon them that know not God and obey not the Gospel of Jesus ●hrist Again But these as natural brute beasts made to be taken and destroyed speak evil of the things they understand not and shall utterly perish in their own corruption Again Ha●ing eyes full of adultery and that cannot cease from sin beguiling unstable souls an heart they have exercised with covetous p●actises cursed children which have forsaken the right way and are gone astray following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor who loved the wages of unrighteousnesse Again Raging waves of the sea foaming out their own shame wandring stars to whom is reserved the blacknesse of darknesse for ever Again And also Enoch the seventh from Adam prophesied of these saying behold the Lord cometh with ten Thousands of his Saints to execute judgment upon all and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodlily committed and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him XIII AGain Unto you that see by the Eye of Faith from the Lord I shall shew you that general Error amongst men concerning the spirit of man in death some say the spirit dyeth not at all but immediately goeth into Heaven or into Hell and the body goes to the dust only others say the spirit dyeth not but goeth into another form either of man or some other creature as beforesaid others say or think all mens spirits go into a Hell or Purgatory when they die for a season others blasphemously say that the spirit of man is God and that the body only dies and turn to dust these say also God is an infinite Spirit and all spirits came from his Spirit and so return into his spirit again others say the spirit and body or think it turns to dust for ever indeed almost all men are in darknesse because they walk by thinking only about things of eternity but about things that perish they think them hardly ever sure enough unto them wherefore unto you whose bodies are the Temples of the Holy Ghost from the Lord Jesus I shall declare unto you the truth of this secret you may know that the spirit is nothing at all without a body and a body is nothing at all without a spirit neither of them can live or have a being without the other you may know it is the spirit only in the body of man that li●es and speaks and walks and works and eats and drinks and dies for the spirit is a natural fire of Reason which is that life of light heat or motion that as a ●…re kindleth life and strength through all the flesh or body of man only the principal part of the understanding of this natural fire of the spirit of Reason liveth in the head of man because that is the glory of the man so that the spirit or soul is the man although it cannot possibly be without the form or body wherefore when man dies and turns to his dust it is that natural spirit of the fire of Reason that was the life or spirit of the body that dyeth or is quenched and goeth out within the body as fire goeth out in an Oven that is closed so doth the spirit of man die within his body from all sensible life heart or motion until the visible coming of the Lord of life in the Clouds of Heaven at the last day therefore it is written Dust thou art and unto dust thou shalt return when the Lord spake those words he did not speak to the flesh or outward form or body of the man but he spake to the inward spirit or soul that understands the words of a spirit again it is written in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt dye the death that is if thou through disobedience to my command dost forfeit the image of thy Creation then thou shalt see mortality or death within thy own body both spiritual and natural and the fear of eternal death also Thus it is clear to you that believe in the Lord Jesus that the spirit of man dies and turns to dust within the body because nothing can possibly die but it must first live so likewise nothing can possibly quicken or live again but that which is absolutely dead or dust or asleep void of all motion heat life light or sense being utterly annihilated to its self and all other creatures only being alive in the memory of God that God alone the man Jesus might have all the Glory in the new creating of Mankind at the last out of dust as he had in creating of man at the first out of dust according to that saying in the Revelation Behold I create all things new in answer to that Creation in Genesis Thus it is with the grain or body of Wheat except it dies it never comes to perfection but abides alone in the dust for ever But on the contrary if the spirit of life which is in the body of Wheat doth absolutely die within its body then by the decree of God it quickens out of death unto a new life immediately and brings ●orth a glorious Resurrection in due season of many bodies in the same form like unto that which died of the very same nature Thus it is by the decree of the Lord Jesus with the natural spirits of all the Elect first they are dead in sins and Trespasses before they are capable by the spirit or truth to live in righteousness so likewise the spirits of men and women must be absolutely dead when they fall asleep in the dust or else they were never capable to rise again neither in glory nor in shame so that by the decree of God all life both spiritual and natural must first enter into death that through death or in death they may quicken a