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 uâ—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 â—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 Haâ—ing eyes full of adultery and that cannot cease from sin beguiling unstable souls an heart they have exercised with covetous pâ—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 liâ—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 â—…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 â—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
new life of a glorious encrease both spiritual and natural so that death in its place is as useful for the Creators raising of glory to himself as life is in its place this proves the truth of these Scriptures He poured out his soul unto death again The soul that sins shall die again He câ—yed with a loud voyce and gave up the ghost again In the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt die the death again His soul was made an offering for sin again He was put to death in thy flesh and quicked in the spirit I know I have written enough to satisfie in the proof of this truth all spiritual Christians XIV AGain it is written and those that sleep in Jesus shall rise first that is those that fell asleep in the believing of the visible coming of the glorious person of the Lord Jesus in the clouds of Heaven in power and great glory their bodies shall be raised first out of the sleep of death because they were united by faith unto the person of their Lord Jesus who was the first that ever rose from the dead by his own power who raised life in death or out of death therefore he was called the first fruits of the resurrection or of life from death again you that see by faith mâ—y understand that not the same bodieâ— that died or fell asleep shall appear any more at all then the body of wheat doth as beforesaid which Paul fitly compareth together in their resurrection where it is written but God giveth it a body as it pleaseth him and to every seed his â—wn body that is as beforesaid that grain or body of wheat that died quickened a new life out of death and brought forth in a glorious manner in due season many bodies of the same form of that that dyed and yet that body that died appeared no more so likewise it shall be with all that died in the faith of Jesus not the same bodies or persons they lived in and died in shall appear again any more but that spirit of faith mixt with pure love and all other spiritual vertues that were in their former bodies by the which they died unto the power of sin and lived unto the power of righteousnesse that divine seed of faith sowed in the former body died with the first body immediately quickned a new life out of death by the decree of the Lord Jesus for you know there is no time now unto God nor unto them that are dead and so brought forth a spiritual body in its â—orm like unto that in the dust yea of a body of pure righteousness the same nature of that holy spiritual faith that raised it out of death yea a glorious body brighter then the Sun in its strength and as swift as thought yea bodies of such a bright burning glory that no persecuting Canaanites can behold and live because our spirits and bodies according to our faith and shall be made like unto the glorious body of God the man Jesus the which no man in mortality with his natural eye can behold and live then shall all the Elect in the twinkling of an eye both those that slept in the dust and those that are alive at that time whose bodies also shall be changed like unto those that slept then I say they shall all ascend together as one body to meet their Head the Lord Jesus in the Aire and with their King they shall enter into his Kingdom of eternal glory where that new Heaven and new Earth are beforesaid there with holy Angels to behold the glorious face of the only wise God and everlasting Father the Lord Jesus Christ with new glorious songs and praises unto their Redeemers that was dead as it is written to redeem us by his precious blood from eternal death and now behold be liveth for evermore therefore we eternally live with him XV. AGain I declare by revelation from the Holy Spirit that when the Elect are thus glorified they are absolutely of the very same glorious nature both in spirit and body as God is as God and they were both of one nature in mortality sin only excepted wherefore as the spirit of faith and love infinitely in the glorious person of God overfloweth as a fountain continually with revelation of new Heavenly wisedom from whence flows new joys and glory to himself and the holy Angels so shall every Believer according to his degree in glory be as a Well springing up unto everlasting life of revelation of new wisedom from whence flows new joys and glory within his own person like unto his God only they shall naturally returne the glory and praise unto their fountain the Lord Jesus for this their exaltation upon the glorious Throne of his own likenesse for it is the righteous actings and sufferings that was in the innocent body of the Lord Jesus when the was in mortality that by his infinite wisedom is made naturally that glorious fire to kindle new Revelation of Heavenly wisdom with in his body for the increase of his glory to all eternity as beforesaid so likewise all those righteous actings and sufferings for truth sake that were acted and suffered in our former bodies by the appointment of our God shall be conveyed into our new spritual bodies that are like unto our God and shall be that glorious fire naturally to kindle revelation of new wisedom from whence flows glorious new songs and praises unto our Redeemer the fountain of all our glory for everlasting world without end as abundantly beforesaid then shall these Scriptures be fulfilled to him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne even as I also overcame and am set down with my Father in his throne Again and he that overcometh and keepeth my words unto the end to him will I give power over the Nations and be shall rule them with a Rod of iron as the vessels of a Potter shall they be broken to shivers even as I received of my Father and I will give him the morning star Again him that overcometh will I make a Pillar in the Temple of my God and he shall go no more out and I will write upon him the name of my God and the name of the City of my God which is new Jerusalem which cometh down out of Heaven from my God and I will write upon him my new name Again he that overcometh shall inherit all things and I will be his God and he shall be my son Again henceforth I will not drink of this fruit of the Vine until that day I drink it new with you in my fathers Kingdom Again and from Jesus Christ who is the faithful witnesse and the first begotten of the dead and the Prince of the Kings of the Earth Unto him that hath loved us as washed us from our sins in his own blood and hath made us Kings and Priests unto God and his Father to him be glory and dominion for
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
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
Eternity in the presence of his eternal spiritual person I declare from the Lord Jesus that God the Creator hath made that creation in the heavens above as visible to be seen as this creation is seen in this earth beneath Again I declare from the holy Spirit that the glorious person of the onely wise God and eternal Father the Lord Jesus is as visibly seen of the creatures where his person is resident as a man is visibly seen of the creatures in this earth beneath where his person resides as for this creation in the heavens above it is to set forth the glory of his immortal person that all the creatures in his presence visibly beholding the glorious person of their Creator both holy Angels and other creatures according to their wisdom or understanding might give him the glory of their eternal happinesse of this their creation and on the contrary if the Creator were not visibly seen by the eyes of his creatures then no creatures could possibly know him to return any praise or glory unto him at all for the happiness of their condition Therefore it is a cursed lying imagination for any man to think that the glorious person of God is not as visibly seen of his creatures in the heavens above as the person of man who is the image of God is visibly seen of the creatures in this earth beneath Again you must not think after a fleshly manner that the creatures above the starrs are male and female for natural generation as they are in this creation beneath the starrs for a woman had never been made but for generation that the immortal God might have a womans womb in this world to cloath himself with flesh and that the Reprobate Angel which is the Devil might have the womb of a woman to cloath himself with flesh also to bring forth Gods glorious design between the seed of the Woman and the seed of the Serpent wherefore I declare from the holy Spirit that the holy Angels and all other Creatures that are in the presence of God in the Creation beyond the stars are all spiritual male creatures never encreasing in their numbers not being fleshly desiring generation but their spirits or natures instead of fleshly pleasures in generation are full of spiritual and heavenly joyes of a more transcendent glorious content within themselves and visible glorious contents in their beholding of the glorious face of God and the faces of one another and the glory of that place they enjoy the which exceeding glory shineth forth through that heavenly Kingdom from the bright burning glorious person of God the Creator the Lord Jesus Christ who alone hath all the glory of his Creation in the Heavens above wherein dwelleth nothing but righteousnesse in Glory Again I declare from the Lord Jesus that no man can understand or know any thing of these things that are invisible unto our natural eyes but by the Spirit of Revelation therefore it is written that faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen again it is written through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear so that in the Letter of the Scripture it is clear to you that see by the eye of Faith that God hath made or framed two Worlds or two Creations which is all one for you know to frame a thing or to make a thing is all one Again unto you it is clear there are spiritual visible things in that world above or beyond the stars as well as here are natural visible things in this world beneath the stars because you may understand that this world and the things that are visible therein were made or created out of that world which is invisible to us who are in mortality but visible to those who are above in glory so that now you that are appointed to enter with spiritual bodies into that glorious Creation or world beyond the stars may understand a little clearer of your inheritance in that Kingdome made without hands or City eternal in the Heavens where you shall visibly see with your eyes the face of God Men Angels and all Creatures in that creation above the stars as you see the face of man and all other creatures in this creation beneath the stars with glorious new Songs of spiritual and heavenly praises unto a glorious God to all eternity This proves the truth of these Scriptures where it is written My kingdom is not of this world and of this saying Lord remember me when thou comest into thy Kingdom and of that saying In my Fathers House or Kingdom are many mansions and of that saying For thine is the Kingdom the power and the glory for ever and of that saying The Kingdoms of this world are become the Kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ this world was the Heavens above and of that saying neverthelesse we look for a new Heaven and a new Earth wherein dwelleth righteousnesse and of that saying He hath made us Kings and Priests unto God and we shall reign with him upon the Earth This is that glorious new Heaven and new Earth in the presence of God above or beyond the stars but blind carnal hypocrites imagine that Gods reigning with his Elect ones will be upon this bloody Earth because they have no spiritual Eyes to see or know that new Heaven or new Earth above or beyond the stars where nothing but pure righteousness reigneth in glory for everlasting or world without end Amen 5. AGain concerning that Serpent before-said so called of the Lord for his subtilty I declare by Revelation from the holy Spirit that God created his spiritual person more glorious then the persons of all the holy Angels that are in the presence of God in Heaven because this mighty Angel by the wisdom and secret Counsel of God was to be as a God to bring forth his seed or generaration of wise and prudent subtile Serpent men and women to oppose the Creator and his innocent seed or generation of simple plain-hearted men and women that are of the spirit of faith and pure love with all other heavenly vertues for the nature or Spirit of God is faith and love and all other divine vertues infinitely living in his glorious Person the which faith is all power of righteous actings naturally flowing from his pure spirit as from a pure overflowing fountain of living waters but on the contrary the nature or spirit of this God-like Angel and all the rest of the holy Angels in their Creation were pure reason from whence naturally flows no good at all but what comes into them continually by Revelation from that pure spirit of Faith in the person of God their Creator and this is that spiritual Manna that keeps the holy Angels natures or spirits pure in the presence of God for it is the nature of that pure reason
the Revelation of the everlasting Gospel of that Son within her which was of a more transcendent glory than that of the Law and that Crown of twelve Stars upon her head that was the twelve Apostles that sprang from her head Jesus to preach the everlasting Gospel of Truth and Peace unto his Elect thus that saying that every seed shall have his own body is a little more clear unto you that have faith in a personal God then it was before you may understand that God the Father was a spiritual man from eternity and that in time his righteous spiritual body brought forth a righteous natural body that the Father to shew forth his infinite love and humility and to bring forth a new transcendent glory to himself might become a son yea and a servant unto his creatures in the very condition of a creature for a season that he might exalt his elect creatures into the same condition of the Creator in his glory in the highest Heavens to all eternity when the curtains of this lower Heavens are drawn and vanisht like smoak never more to be time being past Again it is written he that hath seēn me hath seen the Father and the Father liveth in me and I live in him and I and the Father are one the only meaning or mind of the Lord Jesus in those words is this his Spirit living within his body that was the Father and his visible body that was the Son both God and man in one person and so but one personal God the man Christ Jesus he perfectly knowing himself to be the only God he said unto the Jews except ye eat my flesh and drink my blood you have no life in you again he said except ye believe that I am he ye shall dye in your sins his very mind in those words was this except they did believe that that very person of his of flesh blood and bone that spake unto them was the only God and eternal Father and alone Saviour of all that were to be saved and that there was no salvation to mankind but thus spiritually eating of his flesh and drinking of his blood except they did thus own his person to be their Lord and only Saviour they must all die in their sins and perish to all eternity because there is nothing but the precious blood of a God can possibly clense the spirit of man from the power of sin therefore if the very Godhead had not died that is if the very soul of Christ which is the eternal Father had not died in the body or with the body to quiet or satisfie the cry of the guilt of sin in mens spirits all men would have perisht to eternity because the spirit of unclean reason the Devil in man whose nature is all sin did reign in the very bodies of the Elect as their Lord and King and they were free from the power of righteousnesse until the precious blood of a God by the Holy Spirit of Faith was sprinkled in their consciences that by the pure life or spiritual love to God and man they might break the Serpents head of sin of reigning any longer in them but on the contrary they that have no faith given them in the precious blood of God to clense their spirits from the power of that Devil sin in them their sins will be their Lord and King and they must perish together eternally as beforesaid Again by this time it is very clear to you that have the faith of Jesus that the Serpent Angel beforesaid was a spiritual body or person in the form of a man before he entred into the womb of Eve by that seed or son of his called Cain Thus every seed or spirit by the decree of God brings forth his own body according to its nature or kind God the Father being a spiritual man from all eternity in time begot and brought forth himself a manchild in mortality of all pure righteousnesse therefore he was called the expresse Image of the Father because he was indeed the very Father and that made him say be thought it no robbery to be equal with God and that was the cause that made him say that all power was given unto him both in heaven and in earth because he knew perfectly that there was no other God but himself to possesse all power and this made the Prophet Isaiah to attribute the chief titles of the everlasting Father unto the Son that was to be made of a Woman or of a Virgin because the Prophet knew very well that the Father and the Son was but one unseparable person in immortal glory from all eternity and so he knew they were to become in time one unseparable Person of all purity in mortality and I with him know from the same spirits that revealed it to the Prophet long before God became flesh that that pure mortality both spirit and body that died together they did both immediately quicken together a new life in death or out of death and they unseparably both Father and Son in one person did ascend together into that immortal glory that they possesse together from all Eternity and so they now enjoy it again in one transcendent glorious person both God and man to all Eternity This proves the truth of these sayings Glorifie me with the same glory I had with thee before the world was and of that saying My glory I will not give to another and of that saying Before Abraham was I am according to that saying of God to Moses when he bade Moses tell Pharaoh that I am sent him and of that saying He thought it no robbery to be equal with God and of that saying I am the living bread which came down from heaven if any man eat of this bread he shall live for ever and of that saying This is the bread which cometh down from heaven that a man may eat thereof and not die and of that saying For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven and giveth life unto the world and of that saying I am that bread of life Again Not that any man hath seen the Father save he which is of God he hath seen the Father and of that saying What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before and of that full saying that proves Jesus to be the Father He was in the world and the world was made by him and the world knew him not and of that saying In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God the same was in the beginning with God all things were made by him and without him was not any thing made that was made Whosoever is not stark blind by this Scripture must needs understand that there is no Creator nor Father but the man Jesus only the Lord of life and glorie and where it is said through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the
word of God so that the things that are visible or seen were not made of things that do appear and of that saying I am Alpha and Omega I am the first and the last and behold I create all things new and of that saying I am he that was dead and an alive and behold I live for evermore This was the man Jesus that sate upon the Throne of the Father with many other Scriptures too tedious to relate that prove clearly to all that are appointed to eternal glorie that the Lord Jesus Christ that died without the gates of Jerusalem is the only God and everlasting Father and alone Creator of all things that were made both in heaven and in earth Therefore I declare from the Holie Spirit of the Lord Jesus that sent us that whosoever prayes in his spirit or tongue unto any other God or Spirit but unto my God the man Jesus that sent me he prayes unto a Devil of his own imagination instead of a God for that man Jesus then to come was Davids only God and Saviour therefore he said The Lord said unto my Lord sit thou on my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool And this Jesus was all the true Prophets God in the time of the Law and this Jesus was the holy Apostles God and all the Christians God in the time of the Apostles Commission or Dispensation or Administration that lasted about three hundred years and this glorious man Jesus is my God alone and the God of all spiritual Christians in this last age until he comes in his glorie VIII AGain but some may say if Jesus Christ be the only God and eternal Father who was that Father that he spake so much of when he was in mortalitie where he said My God my God why hast thou forsaken me and Father into thy hands I commend my spirit and such like To this I answer by Revelation from the Holy Spirit that Eliah spoken of in the Law that was taken up bodily by a VVhirlwind into Heaven where the likenesse of a Chariot and Horses of fire appeared to Elisha at his departure I say from the Lord that the body or person of that Eliah was taken up and glorified in the Heavens by the Creator for that very purpose that he might represent the person of God the Father for that time or season whilst God the Father went that journey in flesh as aforesaid Again it is written he shall give his Angels charge over thee those Angels were Moses and Eliah who being both glorified they did both represent the Person of the Father in the Heavens above the Stars as they did represent the Person of the Son and of the Father when they were in earth beneath the Stars when Moses was upon this earth he represented the Person of God the Son that Lamb Jesus that was then to come in flesh in these things first Moses was called the Meekest man upon the face of the earth Again he was a great Type of Christ in this in offering up himself to be blotted out of the Book of Life for the salvation of Israel as the Lord Jesus became a Curse for his elect Israel likewise Moses was a great sufferer at the hands of Israel with much patience as the Lord Jesus suffered with all patience at the hands of his own People or Nation Again Moses was made an Angel of the Covenant of the Law unto all Israel as the Lord Jesus was made or became an Angel of the Covenant of Grace or the Gospel unto all the elect Israel so that whosoever despised the Law of Moses was to dye a natural death without mercy as a Tye of the eternal death of all those that despise the Grace or Gospel of Jesus and in this he was a great Type of the Lord Jesus when he said God should raise up a Prophet unto you like unto me him shall you hear much more might be spoken of Moses representing of the Person of God the son but I suppose it is sufficient for any moderate man Again when Elias was in this World he did represent the Person of God the Father in these things first in a God-like manner by commanding fire to come down from Heaven to destroy his enemies and it was so again by his commanding like unto a God all the Priests of Baal that were the National false Priests to be put to death for drawing the hearts of Israel from worshipping of the true God and that was a Type of the eternal perishing of all the National Priests of Baal in the World at this time who are Ministers of the letter only but call themselves Ministers of the Spirit and yet the Lord Jesus sent them not These are those croaking Frogs that keep the people in darknesse unto whom the people give their silver for nought Again Elias by his asking of Elisha in a God-like manner what he should do for him before he was taken up from him with his granting of Elisha a double portion of his Spirit if Elisha saw his departure from him Again Eliah spake in the Authority of the Father when he told King Ahab to his face that it was he and his Fathers house that were the troublers of Israel by their departing from the living God with more such like actings of his after a God-like manner shewing clearly his representing the person of God the Father when he was upon this earth which was but a Type of his representing the person of God the Father in the Heavens afterwards but some may say it seems very strange the Lord having so many glorious Angels in his presence that he should passe them by and take up a mortal man or a sinperson of God the Father as beforesaid To this I answer from the Holy Spirit all the Counsels of my God the man Jesus are quite contrary to mans unclean reason yea and contrary to the pure reason of the holy Angels also that God alone may have all the glory of the revelation of his unsearchable Counsels of wisdom from his Elect men and Angels Again I declare by Revelation from the Holy Spirit that the man Adam in his Creation was of the very nature of spirit of Faith with all divine vertues of pure love patience meeknesse and such like spiritual vertues in his spirit or person which were the very same divine vertues that lived in the spirit or person of God his Creator only in the person of God every spiritual vertue in him was infinite above all measure but in the person of the man Adam although they were the very same heavenly vertues yet in him they were in measure thus man in his Spirit was created like unto the Creator of the very same Divine Nature only they differed in this for the body or person of God was all spiritual or heavenly not subject to mortality but the body or person of the man Adam was natural or earthly subject to mortality at the
pleasure of the Creator for if the body or person of the man Adam had been spiritual in his creation as his spirit was then there would have been no difference between the person of the Creator and the person of the creature Thus the man Adam was made like unto God a pure natural person of all righteousnesse in mortality like unto the spiritual person person of God which is all righteousnesse in glory Again it is written the first Adam of the Earth earthly the second Adam the Lord from Heaven heavenly Thus you that see by that single Eye of Faith you may know that God became flesh or a man as well as Adam who was called the Image of God because God was a spiritual man from Eternity as abundantly beforesaid Now you must understand the reason why Jesus the only God was called the second Adam was this because the body or person of the Lord Jesus was a pure natural body of all righteousnesse in mortality just like unto the body or person of the first Adam before his fall only Christ the second Adam had the spirit of Faith in him above measure and the first Adam had the spirit of Faith in him by measure as beforesaid again the second Adam differed from the first Adam in this he being made a man of sorrows but the first Adam knew no sorrows before his fall and why did he become a man of sorrows it was to redeem the Elect seed of the Spirit of Faith overcome in his image the first Adam by the Reprobate Angel-Serpent as beforesaid Again as for the natures or spirits of the holy Angels in their Creation they were pure Reason quite contrary to the nature or spirit of Faith in God their Creator only in their bodies or persons they were spiritual or swift of motion like unto the spiritual person of God their Creator but if the nature or spirit of the holy Angels had been of of the spirit of pure Faith as they were of pure Reason then there would have been no difference between the person of God their Creator and the persons of the holy Angels in their Creation who are but creatures as well as men wherefore not the holy Angels for they are not of the nature of God as it is written he took not upon him the nature of Angels but the seed of Abraham but Elias as beforesaid by the secret wisdom and counsel and love of God unto man above Angels was exalted upon the throne of glory for a moment to represent the person of God the Father and he was made the protector of my God when God became a child and it was Elias by vertue of his Commission as a faithful spiritual Steward upon the throne of glory that filled the Lord Jesus with those great Revelations of his former glory that he possest in the Heavens when he was the immortal Father and it was Elias that spake those words from heaven saying this is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased hear him again when Christ was transfigured upon the Mount that his garment glittered with the glory of his transfiguration it was the visible glorious appearance of the persons of Moses and Elias talking with him that were the instrumental Commissioners of that visible glory of the Lord Jesus unto his Disciples who said Master it is good for us to be here for that glory was so great that they would have been building of Tabernacles for a continuance in it Again I declare from the Lord that Elias by vertue of his Commission did fill Elect men and Angels also with Revelation to keep them in obedience until the Lord Jesus was upon the Throne of his glory again so that when the Lord Jesus who was an absolute creature cryed in his agony unto his Father when he prayed unto his Father that that Cup might passe from him if it were possible it being a dreadful Cup for his innocent flesh and blood to drink he being as sensible of pain in his body as we are in our bodies and when he cryed out saying my God my God why hast thou forsaken me and Father into thy hands I commend my spirit I say again from the Lord that Elias by Commission from this man Jesus was that Father that he thus cryed unto in his mortality Elias being then in glory and the chief ground of all those actions and sufferings and cryings out of the Lord Jesus in the condition of a creature unto a Father or a Creator was to fulfil the Scriptures foretold by his Prophets in the time of the Law therefore he said Heaven and Earth shall pass away but my word shall not pass away again but you may say unto me did God the third day rise from the dead by his own power or by the power of his Deputy Elias to which I answer he by his own decree and spiritual compact with Elias and by that spirit of Faith in his innocent body the which Faith died in his pure body and quickned immediately and brought forth at the appointed time that natural innocent body out of the grave a pure spiritual body which naturally at the time appointed ascended into glory for it was impossible for God by death to be held in the grave because his person being pure his pure spirit and death could not remain together because there was no sympathy or agreement or union between them yea they were so contrary it was impossible for them to be together except one of them were absolutely extinguished wherefore death being too weak the Lord Jesus who is the only God of all created life brake through death and hell and the grave and through all the sins of his Elect by the shedding of his most precious blood and so entred into his eternal glory that all those that have Faith in his glorious person may be delivered at the appointed time from sin hell death and the grave and enter into eternal glory with him when he comes in the clouds of Heaven Again the reason why mens bodies in death or after death do rot or stink in the grave and come to dust is because there was sin in their bodies whilst they lived the which sin and death had a sympathy and as it were a sweet communion together whereby death had full power as Lord and King to keep the spirits and bodies in the dust until the time appointed of the Lord of life but on the contrary if men had no sin in their natures or bodies they might life and die and naturally rise again by their own power in their own time as the Lord of life did whose body was too pure to see corruption Thus unto you that have Faith in the Lord Jesus it is not strange that Elias should represent the person of God the Father until the Lord Jesus ascended into the right hand of all power and glory of his Father Elias again then when Jesus was set down in the Throne of
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-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
allow of the civil Magistrate to govern the rude people To this I answer The Magistrate is very needful in every inhabited Land for the government of the People in all civil things to do equal justice between man and man if such a Magistrate could be found it would be a rare thing Again I declare from the Holy Spirit although the Magistrate be but a heathen Ruler as he is wherefore Christ said of this Magistrate unto his Apostles the Kings or Princes of the Gentiles exercise Lordship over them and they that exercise Authority upon them are called Benefactors but ye shall not be so but he that is greatest among you let him be as the younger yet I say from the Lord the Magistrate beareth not the Sword in vain but he is a type of the true spiritual Magistrate that can do nothing but equal Justice between the just and the unjust the Lord Jesus Christ Wherefore all men ought to yield obedience to the civil Laws of the Magistrate either by executing of his Lawes or patiently by bearing the curse of the Law upon their own persons leaving all vengeance unto God or else they rebel against God and they are in danger of an eternal curse because the government of this world and the glory thereof belongs only unto the wise and prudent heathen Magistrates in this Earth who are the very sons of Cain that old Serpent-Dragon-Devil that slew his righteous Brother Abel that he and his Seed that are of his own spirit might be the Lords and Rulers of this world for ever because Cain thought and his dark Angels thinks that there is no world at all but this only they have purchased the Lordship of this perishing world at a dear rate for it was the price of the innocent blood of righteous Abel it is their only heaven Therefore let us that have received faith to believe in the glorious person of the Lord Jesus by his power patiently suffer the cursed spirit of Cain in his heathen Magistrates to shed all our innocent blood if our God will have it so that they may fill up the measure of their fathers sins from the blood of righteous Abel and the holy Prophets to the precious blood of the Lord Iesus and the holy Apostles that our blood that are the two last Witnesses and Prophets of the Lord Iesus may make the last persecutors of Christians compleat Devils with their Father Cain who was the first bloody persecutor of the first suffering Christian therefore it is written that Christ was a Lamb slain from the beginning of the world he being slain in believing Abel I say from the Lord by the power of his Holy Spirit patiently let us yield up our lives with our God unto those perishing gods beforesaid because we that suffer with him are appointed to enter into an eternal Kingdom of glory in another world hid from the wise and prudent Rulers of this vanishing world therefore it is written which of the Rulâ—rs have believed in him again as it is written Why do the heathen then so furiously rage together the Kings of the earth stand up and the Rulers take Counsel together against the Lord and against his anointed or against his Christ Again as it is written by Paul howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect yet not the wisdom of this world nor of the Princes of this world that come to nought Again it is written which none of the Princes of this world knew for had they known it they would not have crucified the Lord of glory Again that world that we are to reign in after we have suffered it was purchased also by blood but it was the price of the precious unvaluable undefiled blood of our God the man Jesus who by his Holy Spirit that sent us only maketh us willing to taste a little of his Cup that he so deeply drank of the servant is not greater then the Master because we are to sit down with him upon his eternal Throne of glory to behold his face in the presence of all his holy Angels then these Scriptures will be fulfilled Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousnesse sake for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven Again Blessed are ye when men shall revile you and persecute you and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely for my sake rejoyce and be exceeding glad for great is your reward in Heaven for so persecuted they the Prophetâ— which were before you Again Then shall the righteous shine forth as the Sun in the Kingdom of their Father Again For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his Angels and then he shall reward every man according to his works Again Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world Again then shall he say unto them on the left hand Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels XII AGain I declare by Revelation from the Holy Spirit that since the fall of our first Parents that the spirit and body of man are both mortal and that by the Decree of the Creator the soul and body of man are both procreated or begot together and they are both of one nature and so both but one Creature for it is the invisible spirit that liveth in the seed and nature of man that by the Decree of God creates or begets that form of flesh in the person of a man or woman according to their kind and thus it is with this whole Creation every seed or spirit naturally by the wisdom of the Creator brings forth their own bodies or kind whether Man Beast Fish or Fowl and all things else that grows naturally brings forth in their season according to their natures because the Creator by his secret Counsel and Wisdom decreed within his glorious Person before any thing was created or formed by him that all things or Creatures that should be created or formed by his infinite Wisdom should bring forth their own bodies or kind only and no other for ever therefore when men and beasts seeds are unnaturally mixt together contrary to their kind the Lord discovers them both to their destruction and his glory Wherefore I declare from the Lord Jesus and it is a cursed Imagination in any man to think when men die their spirits may go into other forms and bodies contrary to their own natures or kind as many a cursed lying Atheist prates that denyes the Resurrection of mens bodies through the love of some dark fleshly lust they live in They are in spiritual darknesse understanding nothing of the power of God and so erring not knowing the Scriptures as it is written nor the power of God therefore it is a common thing for these blind Atheists in their discourse to say when men die their spirits may or do go