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An epistle of the prophet Reeve Written in the year, 1656.
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Reeve, John, 1608-1658.; Muggleton, Lodowick, 1609-1698.
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Wing R677; ESTC R223718
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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 whâ—â— Means God should possible live again if he were dead THUS they measure that incomprehensible Power of Divinâ— Faith or Heavenly Truth by the narrow Compass of their blinâ— 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 Spirituaâ— Ways of the Lord Jesus Christ they hate both him