the glory of the Father again Elias then as a glorified creature did return all praise and glory unto the Lord Jesus his Creator so that now it is the Lord Jesus alone by his holy Spirit that revealeth all spiritual and heavenly wisdom to elect men and Angels Elias having now with exceeding joy surrendred up his spiritual and glorious stewardship of representing the person of God the Father unto the right owner and sole Heir of Heaven and Earth and all therein is the Lord Jesus Christ the eternal Father God alone blessed to all eternity I know I have spoken enough to the spiritual Christian of this Truth IX AGain I declare by Revelation from the Holy Spirit that about this fourteen hundred years there hath not been one true Prophet nor Minister sent with a Commission from the Lord Jesus to declare or write or preach the everlasting Gospel of truth and peace unto his Elect Wherefore I declare by vertue of my Commission received by voyce of words from the Lord Jesus that all the Ministry in this world whether Prophetical or Ministerial with all the worship taught by them whether invisible or visible to the people it is all a lye and an abomination unto the Lord both the Ministry and their worship are as acceptable unto my God the man Jesus that sent me as the cutting off of a dogs neck Now unto you that discern truth from the Lord I shall give you light into this truth first I declare that all the true Commissionated Prophets of the Lord in the time of the Law from Moses unto John the Baptist with all the true commissionated Apostles and Ministers of the Lord Iesus in the Gospel they had every one of them in their Commission a power given them to set life and death before men or to declare blessing or cursing unto men which is all one according to their administrations received from the Lord. Again I declare from the Holy Spirit that the Lord Iesus did purpose within himself to send his Messengers three times to the world but three times to this bloody unbelieving world and no more for a witnesse or testimony unto them and to make known unto his Elect that he alone is the only God and everlasting Father wherefore you shall find it written there are three bear record in Heaven the Father the Word and the Spirit and these three are one again it is written there are three bear witnesse in Earth the Water the Blood and the Spirit and these three agree in one Again I declare from the Holy Spirit that those three in earth are the Lords three dispensations given to his Prophets or Messengers beforesaid the Water was the Commissions of Moses and the Prophetâ— under the Law the Blood was the Commission of the Apostles and those Ministers of the Gospel chosen by appointment from the Lord the Spirit which is the third and last Witnesse by Commission from the Lord are those two Witnesses spoken of in the Revelation prophesied of by John the beloved Disciple of Iesus that were to come in the last age whose Message or Ministery or Prophesie is all invisible and spiritual cutting off or condemning all fleshly formal worshipping of an invisible spiritual personal God taken up by vain-glorious men from the Letter of the Scripture which were the Prophets and Apostles Commissions because they want a Commission from the Lord. Again I declare from the Holy Spirit the Lord spake by voyce of word unto his three Commissioners that he hath sent unto the VVorld yea I know God the Father spake unto Moses as a man speaks unto his friend as it is written and I know that God spake unto the Apostles in the person of the Son as it is written because I know the Lord Iesus spake unto me in the person of the Holy Ghost or Spirit as beforesaid only the two former Witnesses saw the person of God in part visibly but I saw the glory of his person invisibly or within me because I am the Messenger of the Holy invisible Spirit Again Concerning those three bearing Record in Heaven beforesaid the meaning of those words are this God from Heaven in a three-fold name or title bear witnesse by Signes and VVonders unto his three Commissioners according to their several administrations given unto them unto Moses and the Prophets this personal God bare witnesse in the name or title of the Father unto the holy Apostles God bare witnesse in the name or title of the Son and unto us his third last Messengers God beareth witnesse in the name or title of the holy-Holy-Spirit because our Commission is all spiritual we have to do only with the invisible spirits of men concerning the eternal estates of men and womens persons in the great and notable eternal Day of the Lords account therefore instead of natural signes upon the bodies or persons of men and women as in the two former Commssions of the Prophets and the Apostles the Lord Iesus beareth witnesse that he hath sent us by spiritual Signs or Wonders upon the spirits of those that are sealed up through our mouthes unto eternal life and unto eternal death as many do bear witnesse whose eyes are opened at this day in England in this great City of London Again This is a true testimony unto you that have faith in the Lord Iesus that he hath sent us by his Holy Spirit because there is none upon this earth that beareth witnesse unto that man Jesus that was crucified at Jerusalem to be the only God and everlasting Father but we only as Moses the Prophets and the Apostles bare witnesse in their times unto this Jesus to be the only God and alone eternal Father but on the contrary there is hardly a Minister in the world that confesseth an invisible God but they preach unto the people either a God of two Persons or a God of three Persons that is a Monster instead of one true personal God or else they teach the People to worship an infinite Spirit that is every where without a Body or Person but he is fain to borrow his creatures bodies to live in that is a God of words only without any form or substance or an infinite nothing that never can be comprehended nor apprehended in the least by any formed creature a cursed lying imaginary God from mans own unclean blind reason which occasioneth all kind of blood and cruelty to be committed in this wicked world between man and man for if men understood indeed that there is but one only wise God and that this God is a distinct body or person then would men understand that all those that are led by the voyce of the Holy Spirit of God the man Jesus to work righteousnesse in their bodies they lived in they only shall appear with bodies of all righteousnesse like unto their God the man Jesus visibly to behold face to face the glorious body of the God of all Righteousnesse for
voyce and go where ever I send thee to deliver my message thy body shall be thy hell and thy spirit shall be the devill that shall torment thee to eternity then for a moment I saw this hell within me which caused me to answer the Lord these words saying Lord I will go wherever thou sendest me only be with me These were the Lords words spoken unto me the first morning and my answer unto my God I being as perfectly awaked when he spake unto me the Lord is my witnesse a I was at the writing hereof Again the next morning the Lord spake unto me saying Go thou unto Lodowick Muggleton and with him go unto Thomas Turner and he shall bring you to one John Tane and do thou deliver my message when thou comest there and if Lodowick Muggleton deny to go with thee then do thou from me pronounce him cursed to eternity These words the â—ord spake unto me the second morning and no more The third and last morning the Lord spake unto me these words saying Goe thou unto Lodowick Muggleton and take such a woman along with thee and then go thou unto one John Robins a Prisoner in new Bridewell and do thou deliver my message to him when thou comest there These were the Lords words the third and last morning and all the words in the Commission of the Lord spoken unto me only this message of the Lod extends in general to the whole world because the elect Jewes and Gentiles are mixt in marriages through all parts of this Earth for whose sakes only we are sent But as for those natural unbeleeving Jewes that deny that God is come in flesh those Jews shall never come to the faith of Jesus we are not sent unto these The holy Spirit beareth witnesse in my spirit of the truth of that which I shall write unto you that the first words that the Lord spake into me the words speaking came into my spirit and body with such an exceeding bright burning glory of God like Majesty that I did not well know whether I was a mortal man or an immortal God so glorious are the words of the immortal God that the tongues of Men nor Angels can never expresse it my body also was changed at that time for a season in a most dreadful manner to behold of the which there be many can bear witness at this time Again for your information that are spirituall the Lord opened the understanding of my fellow witnesse and made him obedient with me in the messages of the Lord as Aaronâ— understanding was opened to make him obedient with Moses in the messages of the Lord at that time and the Lord hath given him as glorious testimonies by Revelation from his holy spirit many a time of the full assurance of this Commission to be from the Lord as ever the Lord gave to Aaron to assure him that Moses Commission was from the Lord onely Moses Commission he being the Lords first Commissioner unto men was manifested by natural signes visibâ—y upon the bodies of men and women and on the contrary we being the Lords last Commissioners our Commission is manifested by spiritual signes upon the invisible spirits of men and women because our message is all spiritual concerning men and womens eternal weal or woe in the life to come II. A Gaine That you that are elected unto eternall Glory may understand some thing of John Robins aforesaid I declare from the holy Spirit that this John Robins was that last great Antichrist or man of sin or son of perdition spoken of by Paul the Apostle in the Thessalouians who as it is written opposeth and exalteth himselfe above all that is called God so that he as God sitteth in the Temple of God shewing himselfe that he is God This is he that was to appeare in this last Age a little before the personall visible coming of the Lord Jesus in the Clouds with his ten thousands of Saints in power and great glory to separate between the persons of the true Christians whose weapons are spiritual Faith that worke by love and patience with all other such like heavenly vertues from the persons of all lying Hypocrites who call themselves Christians but they are indeed far worse then Heathens by killing their Neighbours with the sword of steele therefore their damnation will be far greater then the Heathens in the day of the Lords vengeance Againe it would be too tedious to write unot you wherein this John Robins did appear to be the man of sin as before-said so that the Pope is not the man of sin as men blindly imagine for want of the spirit of the Scriptures but on the contrary I declare from the spirit of the Lord Jesus that all men that call themselves Christians and yet make use of the sword of steel in any case whatsoever the Pope and those men are both Christians alike therefore to be an Antichrist or a man of sin to oppose God as before said I declare from the holy Spirit that is when a man doth exalt himself in the place or person of God and doth set up a worship seemingly far more pure then the simple plain worship of God and to manage his design he doth shew many great lying signs and wonders as this John Riobns did to the amazement of many deceived by him It was a spiritual opposing of Jesus which is the only God by shewing of seeming spiritual lying signes and wonders as this John Robins did yea he shewed such signs as the Popes could never shew nor never shall shew wherefore that you that are the elect may no longer remain in the dark concerning the last great spiritual Antichrist I declare from the Lord Jesus that this Jo. Robins did attribute to himself the titles of the only God first he called himself Adam Melchizedeek again he call'd himselfe the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ Also he held forth a Trinity of Persons as namely Adam Abel and Cain Again he call'd himself the first Adam saying after he had been five thousand six hundred and odd years in the dust he was risen from the dead to deliver his people then he said that Abel was his Son Jesus the second person of his Trinity then he called Cain the Holy Ghost and this was his third Person of his Trinity This Cain that was the seed of the Serpent or son of the Devil this was his Holy Ghost I could write very much of his Trinity concerning his Wife Eve so called by him and of a Jesus he said should be born of her of his begetting and of a Disciple of his that he called Cain to make up his counterfeit Trinity but that it would hinder things of more value again he declared that he knew all Angels their names and their natures also he said he had a power over all voyces also he said that he knew what the spirits of men spake that were in the dust againe
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 repâ—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. Mâ—llis a Brown Baker near the lower end of Bow-lane Printed for the Authorâ— 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 starâ— 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 becâ—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 deaâ—h XIV How the bodies and spirits of the world of the elest believers shall be like unto the glorious body of God their â—edeemâ—r in his glory to eternity XV. Of some difference between the glory of Men and â—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 Nationâ— 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 onâ—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 Chriâ—â—â—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 outwaâ—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 hiâ— 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 iâ— 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-lâ—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
everlasting world without end Thus it is clear to the understanding of all those that are appointed to know the true God the man Jesus unto life Eternal that there is no true Ministry in the World because they teach not the true God unto the people therefore as it is written they are blind leaders of the blind therefore they must needs both fall into the Ditch Oh! it is an eternal Ditch These are those Merchants of the Letter of the Scripture that make the blind Nations their prey these are those ravening Wolves that come in sheeps cloathing these are those dumb dogs in spiritual things that bark aâ— true Prophecy and heavenly revelation that a man dâ—clares by Commission from the Lord Jesus these are those that the Apostle Paul complained on in his time that bewitched the people to turn from the spiritual Gospel to the legal form who began by the Apostle in the spirit but were deluded by false Hypocrites to be made perfect in the flesh these were of those Hypocrites that were in Christs time who under pretence of long prayers devour Widows houses these are those hypocrites that are always teaching of God what he should do for his own glory when indeed it is their own glory in lusting after things that perish they desire when they thus pray or preach or prate these are those bloody hypocrites and workers of iniquity that the Lord Jesus will never own because he never sent them X. AGain I declare by revelation from the Holy Spirit that there is no Magistrate in this world that bears the name of Christian that hath any Authority or Commission from the Lord Jesus to set up any visible form of Worship whatsoever to compel the spirits or consciences of men to how down to his image that he had set up for his own glory because ever since the Lord Jesus ascended into his glory he alone is the Teacher of all his Elect by his Holy Spirit it is truth in the time of the Law before God became flesh there were many Magistrates and Priests commissionated from the Lord to set up and to declare the true Worship of God unto all Israel and it was death by the command of the Lord if the people despised to yield obedience unto it because it was the Lords Worship and noâ— mans worship set up from his own lying imagination that would be a God but he is a devil for his creating of a Worship to deceive the people without a Commission from the Lord and by taking the prerogative power and glory of God to himself who will not give his glory to another as it is written therefore in the Revelation the Dragon there spoken of is the imagination of the Beast and the Beast is the body of the Magistrate wherein that Dragon imagination liveth and the false prophet there spoken of is the Magistrates Priest and the Image of the Beast is that false worship set up by the imagination of the Magistrate and the serpent-counsel of his false prophet or Priest to deceive themselves and the people with them therefore it is written And all that dwell upon the Earth shall worship him whose names are not written in the Book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the World that is all Reprobates both rich and poor shall bow down unto that false idolatrous worship set up by Heathen Magistrates and their Heathen false prophets the National Priests who call themselves Christian Magistrates and Christian Ministers and are blindly called so by the people also and yet both of these Devils together persecute with the sword of steel all spiritual Christians under the name or title of Blasphemers Seducers Heresie Deceivers of the people and such like because the spiritual Christian cannot bow down unto that carnal Antichristian formal worship set up by those carnal Magistrates and their carnal Ministers beforesaid who being both lovers of the glory of this world loving to be honoured as gods for that cursed heathenish idol-worship from their own invention set up to deceive themselves and those appointed to damnation with them wherefore the Dragon Magistrate and the false Prophet his Serpent-Ministers that committed spiritual fornication together and all those of their own spirits shall every one of them in the day of the Lords vengeance burn in their spirits and bodies together as a lake of fire those spirits and bodies that they shall appear with in the Resurrection shall be that lake of spiritual fire and brimstone that by the decree of the Lord Jesus shall burn together to all eternity this is that giving her own blood to drink who eat up the innocent as bread and thought they did God good service in shedding of the blood of the Lambs of Jesus as their forefathers did then will these Scriptures be fulfilled And those mine enemies that would not that I should reign over them bring them and slay them before me And Go ye cursed into everlasting fire And the Carcasses of the Rebels shall be cast out where the worm never dies and the fire never goes out And Tophet is ordained of old for the King That Tophet is the body of man and that King is the spirit of unclean reason in man for behold the day cometh that shall burn as an Oven and all the proud yea and all that do wickedly shall be stubble and the day that cometh shall burn them up saith the Lord of Hostes and ye shall tread down the wicked for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this saith the Lord of Hosts Fill yee up the measure â—f your Fathers ye Serpents ye generation of Vipers how can ye escape the damnation of Hell for he shall have Judgment without mercy that hath shewed no mercy but the fearful and unbelieving and the abominable and Murtherers Whoremongers and Sorcerers or Astrologers and Idolaters and all lyars shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone which is the second death Again the bloody persecutors beforesaid instead of feeding and cloathing the hungry Saint quite contrary they do not only take away the food and rayment of the Lord Jesus in his Elect innocent Lambs but they crucifie the Lord of life afresh in the shedding of the blood of his Believers because they yield obedience to the spiritual Law of faith and love or command of the Lord Jesus either by Prophecying or writing or speaking the Truth by command from the man Jesus who is the only spiritual Magistrate and Minister unto all that are appointed unto eternal glory with him in that glorious Creation of that new Heaven and new Earth above the stars when this creation beneath the stars is utterly destroyed and fitted only for persecuting Dragon-Serpent-Devils to lament howl and weep to all eternity upon this earth where the Saints by them were put to grief for a moment XI BUt some may say unto me do you not
ever and ever Amen XVI AGain from the holy Spirit I shall shew you the difference between elect men and Angels in glory the Angels natures or spirits being pure Reason they must always be supplyed by Revelation from the spirit of faith in the person of God to keep their spirits in pure obedience unto their Creator but on the contrary the Believers Spirits being of the very same divine nature of God they are but one voice or spirit speaking all pure obedience within themselves unto their Redeemer to whom alone be all Glory and praise from my Spirit with his Elect men and Angels to all eternity FINIS A Letter presented unto Alderman Fouke Lord Mayor of London from the two Witnesses and Prisoners of Jesus Christ in New gate as an eternal witness unto him with a Declaration unto the Recorder Steel and the Lord Chief Justice Rowles with the whole Bench and Jury and in general unto all Civil Magistrates and Juries in the World Iohn Reeve and Lodowick Muggleton the two last Spiritual Witnesses and true Prophets and only Ministers of the everlasting gospel by Commission from the holy Spirit of the true God the Lord Jesus Christ God and man in one Person blessed to all Eternity BY vertue of our Commission received by voyce of words from the glorious mouth of the onely true God upon the Throne of Glory the Lord Iesus Christ we shall make manifest unto men what the foundation is of the power of the Civil Magistrate and that he ought not to meddle with spiritual things which God hath reserved himself not allowing any man to touch them upon pain of eternal death but those onely by him anointed for that purpose First we declare that the Scriptures were given by Inspiration of the Holy Spirit therefore except the Magstrates were inspired with the same Spirit as those that speak the Scriptures they ought not to judge any man by them but ought rather to yield obedience themselves unto Holy Writ or they must perish to eternity Again we declare from the Holy Spirit that since God became flesh no Civil Magistrate hath any Authority from above to bee the Judge of any mans faith because it is a spiritual invisible gift from God that gives a man assurance of everlasting life but the Magistrates Authority is to judge the Civil Lawes of the Land which is grounded onely upon Reason but the things of Eternity are from God who is from Eternity to Eternity therefore Faith is the Evidence of things hoped for and reason is judge of things that are visible As for you that are skilful in the Law of Reason as soon as you hear an Action to be a breach of the Law you understand presently what punishment belongs to the Fact therefore the Apostle saith the Magistrate is the Minister of God for good to them that do well and a terrour to the evil doer Again wee declare from the Lord that no Magistrate by his power from the Law of Reason ought to usurp the Law of Faith into his Authority because the Law of Reason is utterâ—â— ignorant of the Law of Faith the one being carnal and the other being spiritual therefore what Magistrate soever takes upon him to be the judge of us who are the Messengers of Faith in the true God they are enemies to the Lord Jesus Christ and shall surely perish to eternity Again from the Lord Jesus wee forewarn you that are Magistrates before it is too late that you tread not in the Lord Mayors steps presumptuously to take upon you to judge this Commission of the two edged sword of God put into our mouths which if you are left so to do it will cut you in sunder from the presence of our God to all eternity for our God is a consuming fire who did pronounce us cursed to eternity had we not obeyed his voyce therefore we perfectly know who ever is left great or small to speak evil of this Commission which God hath put unto us by calling it blasphemy delusion a devil or lie in so doing they have sinned against the Holy Ghost and must perish soul and body from the presence of our God Elect men and Angels to all eternity for God hath chosen us two onely and hath put the two edged sword of his Spirit into our mouths as beforesaid that whom we are made to pronounce blessed are blessed to eternity and whom we are made to pronounce cursed are cursed to eternity and this power no mortal can take out of our hands neither will out God any more give such power unto men whilst this World endures Therefore you that are Judges of this Earth be wise and learned and meddle with those things which you know in this World onely and call not your God to account at your bar for who ever arraigneth a Prophet at his Judgement Seat it is all one as arraigning his God for a Prophet commeth in the name and power of his God therefore he that despiseth the Prophet despiseth him that sent him Again we declare from the Lord Jesus if any Magistrate pretends to be a Preacher of the Gospel he having no Commission from our God so to do if he preach any more after we forbid him then we have full power to pronounce the sentence of eternal death upon him and it is so unrevocable Again we declare from the Lord Jesus that the cause why so many Magistrates and Ministers must suffer the vengeance of eternal death is because with one consent they fight against the true Messengers of God with the temporal Law invested upon them by men Again woe would have been unto U◠〈◊〉 wee had come in our own name but wee know that God sent us as sure as he sent Moses the Prophets and the Apostles and that great Authority as to be Judges of blasphemy against the Holy Ghost wee onely are invested withal Wherefore you Magistrates that are not yet under this sentence of eternal death from the Lord Jesus our counsel is if you desire blessedness in the life to come that you would not meddle to be the Judges of spiritual things knowing you have no Commission from the Lord remember the counsel of Caiphas the High Priest if it be possible and prevent the Lord Mayors eternal curse SIR THe 15. of September 1653. you may remember by vertue of your Warrant wee were brought before you not being guilty of the breach of any civil Law the man Jesus our onely God elect men and Angels will beare us witness too but we being accused of words only in relation to a Commission received from our God by voice from Heaven it was your pleasure to commit us unto Newgate as the only offenders in this world notwithstanding I gave you a full account of the Lord Jesus speaking unto me by voice of words three morning together commanding me to deliver this his wonderful and strange message unto Magistrates Ministers and people concerning his blessing or
cursing them to eternity according to their obedience or disobedience unto this dreadful message of the Lord and Sir you may remember that I told you that 〈◊〉 desired the Lord Iesus that I might not be his messenger of such sharp tiding unto men and but for this my desire the Lord Iesus by voyce of words did say that my body should be my hell and my spirit should be the Devil that should torment to eternity if I did not obey his command in declaring his pleasure unto men and who was I poor mortal clay that I should withstand the great and glorious Potter of Heaven and Earth the Lord Iesus Christ my God alone blessed to all eternity Again Sir You may remember you did aske us divers questions concerning our God and our answer unto some of your questions were judged as blasphemy but we told you that you had no Commission from our God to be the judge of spiritual things that are eternal in the world to come but you by Commission from men are the judge of temporal things onely in this perishing world and we onely are the judges of spiritual things that are eternal in the world to come by a Commission from the Throne of Glory from the glorious mouth of our Lord Iesus Christ Sir if there were any sparke of heavenly light shining in your understanding from the Holy Spirit of Christ Iesus then you should know in due time that what I have been made to write in this paper is as true as God is Truth but now it is too late your time is past because my God hath no delight in your person therefore he hath left you as he did King Saul to commit that unpardonable sinne against the Holy Ghost or Spirit that sent us First by your denying the Lord Jesus to be the only God Secondly you may remember like a cursed Blasphemer against the Lord Jesus Christ God and Man in one person blessed to eternity you denyed that ever the eternal God became flesh man or creature or that God is in the person of a man at this time in Heaven or Glory Again Sir you may remember when you were questioned by us what your God was your answer was that he is an infinite Spirit but you could not describe him to be in any essential form or person Truly I doe not marvel at your ignorance because you are the seed of the Serpent Reprobate Angel that was cast out of Heaven reserved in Chaines of darkness or unbeliefe that you may worship a God of words onely instead of the true personal God untill the Judgement of the great Day my God the Man Iesus in glory hath given you your portion already the penny of this world your soules chiefe delight make your life that is put a moment as pleasant as possible you can seeing it is all the Heaven you are like to enjoy as sure as there is a God Again Sir this I know by revelation from the Holy Spirit that in the world to come you shall never see the glorious face of our God the Man Iesus because before many Witnesses you said that God hath no face at all Sir once more unto your own person because you have blasphemed against the glorious person of our onely wise God the Man Iesus and against the Sacred Scriptures that renders all glory from elect men and Angles to him alone both in Heaven and in Earth and against the Holy Spirit that sent us and for your unjust committing of us unto your prison of Hell to satisfie the malice of cursed accusers of your spirit that you might prevent if it were possible the very purpose of God Wherefore in obedience unto our Commission received from the Holy Spirit from the presence of our only wise God and everlasting Father the Man Iesus elect men and Angels we pronounce you cursed and dammed soul and body to eternity this is a seale unto you from the Lord Iesus and a warning unto all persecuting spirits until the great and notable Day of the eternal vengeance of my God then shall your own body by your prison of Hell and your Angelical proud and envious spirit shall be the Divel that shall burn within your body more intolerable then any natural fire in this World and your body shall burn more fiery then any natural brimstone your spirit and body being barr'd close prisoners together in utter darkness never seeing the face of God men or Angels nor your own face or person for everlasting as aforesaid FINIS
Spirit they are so farre from killing or consenting to the killing of any man offensively or defensively in their own behalfe or in the behalfe of any other man that they are afraid of their own evill thoughts and much more of evil words or deeds against God or men because they know nothing but pure righteousnesse pure love without envy and pure innocency shall raign in eternall glory with the only eternal Father the Lord Jesus And on the contrary they know all man-slayers under what pretence soâ—ver and all Govertous Idolaters Drunkards Swearers Lyers Sorcerers Whoremongers and all those that vindicate unrighteousnesse through the love of silver in opposing of that pure Law of love that commands all Christians not to do as they are done unto that is the hypocrits righteousnesse But on the contrary to do unto all men as you would they should do unto you this is the righteousnesse of pure faith which is the righteousnesse of God which makes men to fulfil all righteousnesse for want of this those unrighteous persons beforesaid must all perish to eternity Again I declare from the Lord Jesus that all those that hate to yield obedience to this pure peaceable Law of love proceeding from the pure spirit of the Lord Jesus I say in the great and notable day of the Lord by his decree or by a word speaking from his mouth they shall every one of them rise out of the dust together not with the same bodies they died or fell asleep in because there was somewhat of God in those bodies whilest they lived which perisheth with them indeath but the bodies which they shall have shall be in forme of their former bodies but they shall be fiery bodies of spiritual darknesse yea bodies of all unrighteousnesse having all the inwicked deeds of their former bodies conveyed into these bodiers as fewell to kindle the fire of new sorrows In these bodies of Hell and utter darknesse and their spirits in their bodies shall be all fiery Devils so their bodies shall be their Kingdome of Hell and their proud spirits that had pleasure in unrighteousnesse shall be the Devils that shall be barr'd in close prisoners within their bodies from all motioning or thinking of any former comforts either spiritual or naturall to give them any ease at all because all time is past then as beforesaid shall their spirits and bodies burn together like a flame of fire that is all as dark as pitch they never stirring from the place of their resurrection nor never seeing one anothers faceâ—… more much lesse shall they see the face of God just men or Angels to all eternity and the place of their eternall torment shall be upon this earth where they acted all their bloodshed and all other unrighteousness Then shall the Sun Moon and Stars and all other natural lights in this lower creation or world vanish or go out like the snuff of a candle giving no more light to eternity then shall this fruitful pleasant earth be like unto dry burning sand the seas and all rivers or springs of water being dryed up for evermore as if they never had any being this whole creation being turned into a chaos of confusion without forme and void of all light or sap either natural or spiritual to all eternity as beforesaid Again I declare by Revelation from the Holy spirit what was from Eternity before any creature was formed that had any sensible life either in heaven above or in this eâ—â—th beneath there were these two uncreated substances of earth and water with the uncreated spiritual person of God the Creator in whose glorious prefence these senseless substances of earth and water were eternally resident that the creator might create or forme by his infinite wisedome out of those dead substances all variety of sensible living creatures in his own time for the setting forth of his visible glory to eternity Again I declare by Revelation from the holy spirit that the earth and the water were both dark substances having no light or sensible life at all in them but the person of the creator was infinitely full of all glorious lights and sensible life to himself both within and without Thus it is clear there was death from eternity only it was not in a sensible forme as well as there was sensible life light and glory in forme from eternity Again eternall life or God was a substantial forme from eternity but eternall death or darknesse of earth and water was substance without forme void of all spirit or life so that life or spirit only is all substantiall forme and death or darknesse only is all substance without forme so that life and death from ecernity are not bare words as blind hypocrites imagine but the invisible creator of all life or spirits was a God of a glorious substance a spirituall body in the form or likenesse of a man from all eternity Again I declare from the Lord Jesus that the glorious sensible life or light in the person of the Creator could not possibly be known by Men or Angels but by his creating or forming of some creatures to live sensibly in death and darknesse shame and misery and by his creating other creatures in opposition sensibly to live in life and light joy and glory Again the infinite glorious prerogative power of the Creator could not possibly be known to any of his creatures to make a distinction between the glory of eternal life and the misery of eternal death but by his forming of creatures of the same lump to be vessels of honour and vessels of dishonour to eternity but of the contrary if the Creator without distinction had formed his creatures to be all eternally glorious like himself then the glory of his prerogative power of infinite love or mercy and infinite justice or wrath and all his infinite new wisdom increasing or flowing in his glorious person as a fountain of living waters must in a manner have been shut prisoner in his own person and the creatures must have been all as Gods instead of creatures and so the Creator would have had no glory in his Creation at all of the prerogative power of his Godhead Wherefore I declare by vertue of my Commission from the only wise God and everlasting Father the man Jesus in glory that all those that are made to yield obedience in love to the prerogative power of God are his Elect ones appointed for blessednesse to all Eternity but on the contrary all those that are offended at the prerogative power of the Creator and love to dispute against it are all Reprobates and appointed to be cursed to all Eternity IV. AGain for your Information I declare from the holy spirit that the Creation above or beyond the starre of the holy Angels who are spiritual bodies in their persons formed like men and all other creatures that God hath made in the heavens above of that substance of earth and water aforesaid that was from all