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A58337 An epistle of the prophet Reeve Written in the year, 1656. Reeve, John, 1608-1658.; Muggleton, Lodowick, 1609-1698. 1670 (1670) Wing R677; ESTC R223718 6,053 9

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An EPISTLE of the Prophet REEVE Written in the Year 1656. BLESSED are all those that shall read or hear this Epistle with a meek Soul and are kept from judging Things that seem strange at first Appearance but by sober searching of the Scriptures compare Spiritual Things with Spiritual as those noble born did in the Apostles Time being made patient to wait the Lord's Leisure who reveals his Secrets to such only who with a pure Conscience hearken to his Spirit He that believeth maketh not Hast IN the 6th Chapter of St. John 36th Verse are these Words The Words that I speak unto you are Spirit and Life and in the 10th 17th and 18th Verse it is thus written I lay down my Life that I may take it again No Man taketh it from me but I lay it down of my self I have Power to lay it down and Power to take it again Therefore that you may increase in your most Holy Faith unto your Eternal Glory which are appointed to believe in that distinct glorified Body of the Lord Jesus Christ the only God and everlasting Father from the Holy Spirit I shall shew you wherein that Power did consist of Christ dying and living again THIS his Power was secretly hid in the Truth of his Word speaking Why because the Nature of Christ's Soul within his blessed Body was only one Voice of spiritual Faith and Truth Therefore you may understand whatever he spoke in that Word speaking was all Power to effect the Thing spoken of The Words that I speak unto you are Spirit and Life that is as if Christ should have said My Words tend not to Joy in Carnal Things that perish but in the rejoycing in Spiritual Things which are eternal or as if the Lord should have said My Word is all Spiritual Light and Love Meekness Patience with all Variety of immortal Glorious Joys beyond the Comprehension of the Spirit of Men and Angels AGAIN Christ's Words are said to be Spirit and Life because all Spirits in the Creation were made by his Word speaking only Furthermore because his Word only is the Original Cause of all Light Life and Glory in Heaven and Earth and in Men and Angels I have Power saith Christ to lay down my Life and Power to take it again I declare from the Holy Spirit none in Heaven and Earth could ever truly speak those Words but that Man Christ only AGAIN it is as if Christ should have said I only have all Power within my Soul by a Word speaking to die and live again MOREOVER Christ Jesus being Lord of Life and Death did believe without any Motion of doubting in him that whatsoever he spake should come to pass and that gave a Being to the Thing spoken of and that made him to say in the 24th of St. Matthew ver 25. Heaven and Earth shall pass away but my Word shall not pass away So that Christ being the only God of all Truth you may understand that it was his Faith in that living Truth or Vertue of his Word speaking which gave him Power to lay down that Divine Soul or Spiritual Godhead Life in the Hell of the Grave and to quicken his Spiritual Life again from Death to reign in immortal Glory to Eternity in that very Body of Flesh wherein he suffered Death For I declare from the Holy Spirit from that everliving Vertue continually flowing from the former Suffering of God on this Earth in the Body of Christ the Tongue of Men nor Angels can never express the Variety of new glorious Joys the Eternal Spirit of God the Father hath in that glorious Garment of Flesh he hath clothed himself withal AGAIN that Divine Faith of Christ in that living Truth and Virtue of his Word speaking gave him Power over Life and Death that by his precious Blood shedding he might purchase from himself the Lordship of the Dead and Quick AGAIN if God had not been able to have made his Soul to die in his Body and by the living Vertue of that Almighty Word of Truth spoken through his Holy Mouth to quicken a new and glorious Life again O then would it be impossible for him at the last Day by the Power of his Word to quicken and make alive all the Souls and Bodies of Mankind that are dead asleep and buried in the Grave YOU may understand that living Vertue of his Divine Word of Truth spoken before he died was that God which raised the everliving God from Death to Life again THEREFORE because the Lord your God liveth ye which are to live eternally with him with astonishing Wonder and Admiration behold your God that was absolutely dead and alive at one and the same Time THEREFORE Christ spoke those Words to his Apostles of the Power of Faith Mat. xxi 21. and Jesus answered and said unto them Verily I say unto you if ye have Faith and doubt not ye shall not only do what I have done to the Figg-tree but also if you say to this Mountain take thy self away and cast thy self into the Sea it shall be done and in Mat. 19. and 26. But with God all things are possible and in Gen. 14. Is any thing hard to the Lord. WOE WOE WOE therefore to all that are left under the Power of Carnal Reason that they may ever War against that incomprehensible Power of Spiritual Faith and Truth essentially reigning in the glorious Body of the only wise God your alone Redeemer which long for his Appearance which by the Almighty Power of his Word speaking of that Substance of Earth and Water created both Worlds and all living Forms that in them are into that Order they appear now to be whether for a Time or for Eternity which also twice changed the Condition of his glorious Form by that Almighty Power of the Spirit of Faith and Truth speaking thro' his Heavenly Mouth MOREOVER his Divine Godhead dyed in the Flesh and quickned in the Spirit not only to redeem his Elect lost Sheep of the House of Israel from the bitter Cup of Eternal Death but also to prove his infinite Power and Wisdom of Truth speaking and for the disproving of all lying Reprobates which always either in Heart or Tongue speak against that glorious Power of their Creator YOU know that it is a common Thing for them to say that it is Blasphemy for any Man to say that God could possibly die with many such like cursed Speeches against incomprehensible Power And why do Atheistical Hypocrites say that God could not die because of their lying Imagination they cannot comprehend by wh●● Means God should possible live again if he were dead THUS they measure that incomprehensible Power of Divin● Faith or Heavenly Truth by the narrow Compass of their blin● Reason and Bottomless Pit of lying Imagination which understands nothing of that Spiritual Power of true Faith AND because they are not able to comprehend the Spiritua● Ways of the Lord Jesus Christ they hate both him
and his Elect and call him a Liar to his Face both in his Person and in his Word and in his Prophet and in his People MOREOVER because they see no Power in themselves neithe● to live nor to slie presumptuously they take upon them to judg● the God of all Power over Life and Death by their no Power at all AGAIN if that God that said I have Power to lay down my Life and Power to take it again did not die and was buried both Soul and Body in the Grave and after the decreed Time of three Days and three Nights by a quickning Spirit revive a new and glorious Life again in Despite of Death's Power then Angelical Reprobate the following Scriptures were Words of Truth spoken from the Spiritual Mouth of the everlasting God that sent me to declare this Secret who did die but cannot possibly lie for lying is of a Mortal Man like unto thy self In the Words of Isa 55. and the last Verse Because he poured out his Soul unto Death In Psal 16. ver 11. For thou wilt not leave my Soul in Hell neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see Corruption In Acts ii 27 31. Because thou wilt not leave my Soul in the Grave neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see Corruption he knowing that he before spoke of the Resurrection of Christ that his Soul should not be left in the Grave neither should his Flesh see Corruption Rom. xiv 9 For Christ therefore died and rose again and revived that he might be Lord both of the Dead and Quick In Rev. i. 17 18. Saying unto me Fear not I am the first and the last I am he that liveth and was dead and behold I am alive for evermore Amen and have the Keys of Hell and Death And Rev. ii 8. These Things saith the first and the last which was dead and is alive IF this Truth be not sufficiently cleared by the Letter of the Scriptures concerning Christ's Soul and Body being both dead and buried in the Grave and living again by his own Power I would it were This I am certain of that they that deny this Truth are not only naturally blind but wilfully also do shut their Eyes and stop their Fars and call the Scriptures Lies because of the Cross of Christ without which there is no Crown of Glory AGAIN if the everlasting God for a Moment could not have died and left himself void of all Light or Life Spiritual or Natural as the Condition of all Mankind is which are dead asleep in the Dust of the Earth then he could not possibly have experimentally known the State of the Dead whether Elect or Reprobate Moreover neither could he possibly in his Creatureship Condition be capable of entring into the Immortal Glory of his Creator-ship again but by his entring into Death that he might live again and upon his glorious Head instead of a Crown of Throns wear a double Crown of eternal Glory AGAIN that he might also show unto his Elect Men and Angels his Almighty Power and unsearchable Wisdom by quickning an Immortal transcendent glorious Life out of Death it self THUS the Lord of Life and Death by suffering all Conditions in his innocent Soul and Body did purchase at a dear Rate from himself a Prerogative Power of being Lord and King over all Conditions whatsoever and from hence he experimentally knows what Immortal Crowns of Glory are most suitable for all suffering Conditions his blessed ones undergo And by Virtue of his unspeakable Sufferings at the Hands of Jewish Canaanitish Devils he knoweth what Measure of eternal Death in utter Darkness is most meet for the Souls and Bodies of all the Sons and Daughters proceeding from the Bowels of cursed bloody Cain that Reprobate Angelical Old wise Serpent Devil and Father of all the Damned which thro' the Decree of God was cast out of Heaven into this World that he might bring forth his Generation of proud envious scoffing persecuting wise Serpent Devils not only to war against the Lord of Life and the Truth of Holy Scriptures but also against his Holy Spirit of Divine Faith or Truth in all the Elect lost Sons and Daughters proceeding from the Loins of Adam so that their Eternal perishing by the secret Decree of God being hid from them by his Wisdom they might justly be damned in themselves from the everlasting Remembrance not only of all their Actions of vain-glorious Hypocrisy but unmerciful Cruelties THIS will be that gnawing Worm of Conscience which never dieth and that fiery Curse of the Law of the Wrath of God in Mens Souls that never goeth out AND so much concerning that everlasting Word of Truth that was spoken by the glorious Mouth of the everlasting God that Man Christ Jesus upon the Throne of all Immortal Crowns of Glory and Majesty far above all Heavens Angels and Men. Yours which love the Lord Jesus more than this perishing World JOHN REEVE An Occasional Discourse from the First and Second Verse of the Second Chapter of the Divine Looking-Glass concerning the Prophet Reeve that Darkness Death and Hell lay secretly hid in the Spiritual Earth eternally with God By the Prophet Muggleton Septem 28. Anno Dom. 1668. THE Heaven of Glory that is now God's Throne with the Substance of Earth and Water was eternally uncreated in the Presence of God who was alone by himself before any created Being appear'd in his Sight Then his glorious Wisdom mov'd him by a Word speaking to that Spiritual Earth above this Global World to create an innumerable Company of glorious Spiritual Angels whose Form and Image was the same as God's only differing in their Natures the Angels Nature being pure Reason and God's Nature Divine Faith And there was no impure Thing in his Sight only he created one Angel more glorious than the rest After this the glorious Wisdom of God moved him to create this Mortal Visible World of Earth and Water which were Eternal Substances but dark dead and senseless And of this visible Mortal Earth the Glorious Wise God created Adam and Eve in his own Image and breathed into them the Breath of Life That Breath of the ever-living God made their Souls Spiritual and Immortal and would have so continu'd But now behold what the Wisdom of God mov'd him to He first tries what his Creature that Holy Angel would do or what would become of him if he did withdraw his Revelation from him and leave him to himself Not that God had eternally decreed this but as his glorious Wisdom moved him to this or that For if God knew what was past present and to come there was an End of his Wisdom and so would not be infinite but this makes him infinite that his Wisdom is eternally increasing Now when God did withhold his Revelation from this glorious Angel his pure Reason in Creation became impure and aspir'd to be above the Creator which when God saw and knew those vilifying Thoughts that continually sprang in him he cast him down from Heaven like Lightning From that very Moment Good and Evil was visible in this Creation which was the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil which stood before Adam and Eve Here Sin enter'd into the World Therefore the glorious God having found by the Trial of his first Creature how it became with him his Wisdom saw it good to leave Man of his own Nature to himself Only he first gave Man a Law that if he hearkened to the Subtilty of that Reprobate fallen Spiritual glorious Angel by eating or believing in him he should die the Death that is that immortal Soul he were created in while he stood in Obedience to God could not fall But he should by Disobedience become Mortal Now the Subtilty of this glorious Angel was too powerful for Eve Adam was not in the least concern'd in Eve's Temptation but being overcome by the Serpent Angel he having Power presently enters her Womb For the Nature of Spiritual Bodies can transmute it self into as small a Place as it pleaseth And this Angel pollutes her makes her defil'd fills her pure innocent Soul with Lustful Thoughts and Desires towards her Husband There this Immortal Reprobate Angel lays down his Immortality in becoming Seed and had or could Eve have liv'd without the Embraces of her Husband she would in her appointed Time brought forth Cain the Offspring and only begotten Son of that Reprobate Angel the Father of all the Devils in the World But she could not forbear but tempt poor innocent Adam who is overcome by hearkening to Eve's Words and so becomes polluted too then at that very Time Death enter'd into the World and not before Now as concerning Hell God comes and says I will put Enmity between the two Seeds the Seed of the Woman and the Seed of the Serpent There was in Cain Part of the Woman's Seed which was God's Nature as well as the Serpent's Likewise in Abel there was two Seeds But here lies the Difference in Cain the Seed of his Father the Reprobate Angel was predominate and Lord over that Spark of the Seed of the Woman whereas in Abel whom Adam begot tho' both Seeds were in him yet the Seed of Faith being God's Divine Nature was predominate and did so captivate the Seed of Reason in him that his Sacrifice was acceptable before God when Cain's was refus'd which made him slay his Brother Abel Now mark the Seed of Reason which is the Seed of the Serpent or the Reprobate Angel or the Devil should bruise the Heel of the Seed of the Woman or the Seed of Faith But the Seed of the Woman shall break the Serpent's Head Now when the glorious God did fulfil his Promise and saw it most fit to transmute his glorious Immortality into a Mortal Human Condition of Flesh Blood and Bone by entring into the Virgin 's Womb who in Time shedding his most precious Blood hath overcome Sin Death and Hell which Hell as yet hath no Being Altho' the Heaven of Glory which will be the Reward of the Elect Seed be in Being and ever was Yet the Place of Torment will appear but in Time when God will call all to Judgment BY LODOWICK MUGGLETON FINIS