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<HEAD>A GENERAL EPISTLE, FROM THE HOLY SPIRIT, Unto all Prophets, Mini&s;ters, or Speakers in the world: wherefore if any man in the world &s;hall be left to de&s;pi&s;e this writing, from the greate&s;t to the lea&s;t, by calling of it Bla&s;phemy, a Divell, Delu&s;ion, or a Lie; in &s;o doing, they have committed that unpar|donable &s;in again&s;t the Holy Spirit that &s;ent us; where|fore from the pre&s;ence of the Lord Je&s;us, Elect men, and Angels, we pronounce them cur&s;ed, and damned, &s;oule and body to all eternitie.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub"><HI>John Reeve,</HI> and <HI>Lodowick Muggleton,</HI> the two la&s;t &s;pirituall Witne&s;&s;es, and alone true Prophets of the Holy Spirit, by Commi&s;&s;ion from the true God, that ever &s;hall write or &s;peake unto unbelieving Magi&s;trates, Mini&s;ters, and Peo|ple, untill the only Lord of life and glory, the Man Je&s;us, per&s;onally appeareth in the aire, with his mighty Angels, to bear witne&s;s to this te&s;timony: even &s;o come Lord Je&s;us.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><HI>From great Trinity Lane, at a Chandlers Shop, again&s;t one Mr.</HI> Millis, <HI>a Brown Baker, neare Bow lane end,</HI> London, <DATE>1653. <HI>in the &s;econd year of our Commi&s;&s;ion,</HI></DATE> <HI>by Voice from Heaven.</HI></DATELINE></OPENER>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>BY vertue of my Commi&s;&s;ion received by voyce of words from the Holy Spirit of the only wi&s;e God, and everla&s;ting Father, the Man Je&s;us in glory, pre&s;ent I this Epi&s;tle as an eternall witne&s;s between us. Friend in the account of many you have ap|peared as a true Mini&s;ter or Preacher of the everla&s;ting Go|&s;pel
<PB N="2" REF="2">or God the Man Je&s;us, and you have lived in glory for a &s;ea&s;on, through your Mini&s;try, taken up by your naturall wit from the Letter of the Scripture, which were other mens words, received by voice and in&s;piration from the Lord, you having no Commi&s;&s;ion nor revelation from the glorious mouth of the Lord Je&s;us to Preach unto his Elect; wherefore becau&s;e my God the Man Je&s;us &s;ent you not, you Preach unto the People out of the bottomle&s;&s;e pit of your owne lying immagination, which is the Divell, a God of words onely, without &s;ub&s;tantiall forme, a bodile&s;&s;e God, which you call an eternall Spirit, which you imagine was in Heaven when the Lord Je&s;us was per&s;onally on this Earth, unto whom you &s;uppo&s;e the Man Je&s;us prayed unto; but I declare by Revelation from the Holy Spirit, that you are utterly ignorant of that Father that the Lord Je&s;us cried unto, in the body of his fle&s;h.</P>
<P>For it is hid from the wi&s;e and prudent men of this world, that the eternall Creator of all &s;pirituall forms, came down from the throne of his glory per&s;onally in a &s;pirituall form, or likene&s;&s;e of a Man, and with his &s;pirituall body or form per&s;onally entred into the body or womb of the Virgin Wife <HI>Mary,</HI> and in her womb uncreated him&s;elfe, from his eter|nall immortall glory, and in the &s;ame moment created or conceived him&s;elfe of the &s;eed of the Virgin in pure morta|lity, and in his appointed time became a childe, a &s;on, yea, a perfect creature: thus the immortall eternall Creator, for a &s;ea&s;on, became an ab&s;olute mortall man (or creature) &s;in only excepted.</P>
<P>Againe, I declare from the Holy Spirit, that in that Hea|ven and earth above or beyond the Stars, where the per&s;ons of the holy Angels are re&s;ident, the per&s;onal pre&s;ence of God was wholly ab&s;ent from them, for that &s;ea&s;on, the &s;econd man, the Lord from Heaven was re&s;ident on Earth.</P>
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<P>Againe, it is hid from your eies, that there is no &s;pirit without a body or forme, hath any living, being, nor never had, neither of God the Creator from eternitie, nor Angels, or man created in time. Againe, it is hid from your eies, that from eternitie the Creator was a &s;pirituall body or per|&s;on in the forme of a man, having all parts in immortalitie, as man hath in mortalitie, who was created in his &s;pirit within like unto God, and in his forme without, like unto God al&s;o; onely his fle&s;hly forme was naturall and earthly, and Gods forme was &s;pirituall and heavenly. Againe, be|cau&s;e you preach without a Commi&s;&s;ion, you under&s;tand not that the eternall &s;pirituall forme both Father and Son was a &s;pirituall God and man, in one per&s;on or forme from all eternitie; and &s;o it being impo&s;&s;ible to divide them, un|&s;eperably the immortall God, Father and Son, did as before|&s;aid, lay down their eternall immortall glory in the Virgins womb together, and did tran&s;mute their &s;pirituall glory both together into pure mortalitie, of fle&s;h, bloud, and bone, and in that body of fle&s;h they did rai&s;e unto them&s;elves new tran&s;cendant glory from elect men and Angels, in revealing unto them the wonderfull &s;pirituall my&s;tery of the whole Godhead, cloathing it &s;elfe with fle&s;h, in the per&s;on of a man; therefore it is written, <HI>for in him dwelleth all the fulne&s;&s;e of the Godhead bodily:</HI> Againe, <HI>from his fulne&s;&s;e wee all receive Grace for Grace.</HI> Againe, <HI>he that hath &s;eene me, hath &s;eene the Fa|ther, and the Father and I are one.</HI> Againe, <HI>he thought it no rob|bery to be equall with God.</HI> Againe, <HI>he is called the Creator of the Worlds.</HI> Againe it is written, <HI>hereby perceive we the love of God, becau&s;e be laid downe his life for us.</HI> Againe, <HI>I am he that liveth and was dead, and behold I am alive for evermore, amen.</HI> And <HI>I have the keyes of Hell and of Death.</HI> Againe, <HI>the&s;e things &s;aith the fir&s;t and the la&s;t, which was dead and is alive.</HI> Againe, <HI>to the onely Wi&s;e God our Saviour, be Glory and Maje&s;ty, Dominion and
<PB N="4" REF="3">Power, now and ever, Amen.</HI> Thus it is cleare unto all that are in&s;tructed by revelation from the Holy Spirit, that there is no Creator, nor God, nor never was, but the man Je&s;us, that died without the Gate, and ro&s;e againe out of death by his owne power, and in that body of fle&s;h and bone hee a&s;|cended far above all Heavens, Angels, and men: Therefore it is written, <HI>When he a&s;cended on high, he gave Gifts unto men.</HI></P>
<P>Againe, becau&s;e you have no Commi&s;&s;ion to preach, you under&s;tand not, that before the eternall Creator became a pure mortall Creature, hee glorified the body of his Crea|ture, the Prophet <HI>Eliah</HI> in that Heaven and Earth without the Globe, and gave him a Commi&s;&s;ion to repre&s;ent the glo|rious per&s;on of God the Creator, while&s;t God the Father went that fore Journey in fle&s;h to redeem his elect ones by faith in his bloud. Thus the Creature by the un&s;earchable wi&s;dome of the Creator, by Commi&s;&s;ion from the Creator, for a &s;ea&s;on was repre&s;entatively in the very glory of the Creator, and the Lord Je&s;us the onely Creator was in the lowe&s;t aba&s;ement of a Creature, to &s;hew forth his infi|nite Prerogative, Power, Wi&s;dome, and Glory, Love, and Humility unto his Elect, that they only may under&s;tand by in&s;piration from the Holy Spirit, that the immortall Creator became an ab&s;olute Creature, as we are, except &s;in as before&s;aid, that we that are his elect Creatures, believing in the body or per&s;on of God, the Lord Je&s;us our Creator, may in the re&s;urrection po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e glorious bodies of the &s;ame divine nature of our God and Father, and alone Creator, the man Je&s;us to all eternitie; &s;o that it is not &s;o &s;trange as true, that it was the Prophet <HI>Eliah</HI> that my God, the man Je&s;us in mortalitie cried unto in all his extremities, and <HI>Eliah</HI> as a faithfull &s;pirituall Steward, with <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> from the throne of glory did mini&s;ter con&s;olation unto his Lord and Saviour in mortalitie, as an immortall God and Father in glory,
<PB N="5" REF="3">untill the Creator of all life pa&s;&s;ed through hell by intolera|ble &s;ufferings for his Elect, the whole Godhead being dead and buried for a moment, and by his own power in his de|creed time, in that body of fle&s;h wherein his &s;oule died, in death or out of death hee quickened a new glorious life, wherein naturally as fire, hee a&s;cended per&s;onally into that place of glory from whence he came, and now it is he alone &s;itteth on the right hand in the mid&s;t of the throne of the Fa|thers immortall Maje&s;tie, wi&s;dome, power, and glory again; &s;o that the man Je&s;us being upon the throne, it is hee alone by his holy Spirit reveales unto elect men and Angels in mea&s;ure that unutterable wonderfull my&s;tery of the eternal Maje&s;ty cloathing him&s;elfe with a garment of fle&s;h to all e|ternitie. Wherefore I declare by revelation from the Holy Spirit, that whoever in his &s;pirit or tongue offers up prayers or prai&s;es unto any eternall Spirit, or God, or Father, but unto that man Je&s;us that was put to death in the fle&s;h, and quickened in the &s;pirit, hee prayes unto his owne lying im|magination, which is the Divel, in&s;tead of the true God the man Je&s;us.</P>
<P>Againe, unto us that are the Lords &s;piritual Emba&s;&s;adors is the infallible &s;pirit given, whereby wee are inabled to di&s;|cerne betweene the Elect and the Reprobate, and to &s;eale them up unto eternall life, and eternal death; and it is really &s;o, as &s;ure as there is a Creator. Againe, the Holy Spirit that &s;ent us enables us to an&s;wer all needfull &s;pirituall que&s;tions of the deep things of God for the Con&s;olation of the elect, and the condemnation of the Reprobate: but of the contrary, becau&s;e you have no Commi&s;&s;ion to Preach, you wanting the infallible &s;pirit, you know not whether any &s;hall be &s;aved or damned, becau&s;e you have no a&s;&s;urance of your owne &s;alvation, neither do you know when men com|mit that unpardonable &s;in again&s;t the Holy Spirit; therefore
<PB N="6" REF="4">all men may repent fir&s;t or la&s;t, and finde mercy for ought you know; but the Lord hath given us to know our owne &s;alvation, and of the &s;alvation of &s;ome of his cho&s;en ones, his holy name be eternally prai&s;ed. Againe, wee know by that infallible &s;pirit of the Lord Je&s;us within us, when men fall under that unpardonable &s;in again&s;t the Holy Spirit; yea, we know of hundreds that are under that unpardonable &s;in at this time, who mu&s;t all peri&s;h to eternity. Againe, you under&s;tand not that God hath a mouth to &s;peake unto men as a man hath, and that he &s;peakes to all his Commi&s;&s;iona|ted Prophets and Apo&s;tles, as a man &s;peaks unto his friend. Thus the Lord &s;pake unto <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> and the holy Prophets in the time of the Law, who were the Holy Spirits fir&s;t Wit|ne&s;&s;es unto men, that the man Je&s;us then to come in fle&s;h was the only God. Againe, the man Je&s;us &s;pake unto his Apo&s;tles mouth to mouth, who were the Holy Spirits &s;econd Witne&s;&s;es unto the man Je&s;us, then come in the fle&s;h, to be the onely God. Againe, the third and la&s;t Witne&s;&s;es of the Holy Spirit unto the man Je&s;us to bee the onely God, are tho&s;e two in the Revelation, &s;poken of by <HI>John</HI> the beloved Di&s;ciple, that were to appeare in this la&s;t age, and are up|on the Stage of this world at this time in this great City of <HI>London,</HI> where the Elect &s;hall &s;ee the great wonders of the Lord: but they are hid from reprobate hypocriticall Phari|&s;aicall unmercifull men and women, that they may de&s;pi&s;e the Holy Spirit of the Lord Je&s;us, in us his la&s;t Witne&s;&s;es, that they may fill up the mea&s;ure of their forefathers &s;innes, that de&s;pi&s;ed the Holy Spirit in the Lords two former Wit|ne&s;&s;es, that in the re&s;urrection at the great day of the Lords Account, they may bee cur&s;ed, &s;uffering together in their &s;pirits and bodies through the ab&s;ence of that Holy Spirit rejected by them, the vengeance of eternall death, that &s;hal burn as a flame of fiery darkene&s;&s;e to all eternity.</P>
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<P>Again, I declare from the Holy Spirit of the Lord Je&s;us, that my God the man Je&s;us from his Throne of glory, &s;pake to me <HI>John Reeve,</HI> his third and la&s;t Witne&s;s, 3 mornings together, voice to voice, or mouth to mouth, by the which I know, that God the man Je&s;us &s;pake unto his two former Witne&s;&s;es, according to the Scriptures, but you cannot po&s;&s;ibly know it, as I doe, but thinke you know it; becau&s;e my God never &s;poke unto you as his Me&s;&s;enger or Mini&s;ter, nor never will: therefore you cannot under&s;tand that the eternall God the man Je&s;us, hath all parts as a man hath, onely all the Mem|bers of the body of God are glorious, but mans members are in &s;hame, being defiled with a &s;pirit of unclean rea&s;on, and wicked immagination: Therefore you cannot po&s;&s;ibly preach or declare the true &s;pirituall wor&s;hip of my God the man Je&s;us, becau&s;e you went before you were &s;ent. You know what is written: <HI>Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God preached; and how can he preach, except he be &s;ent?</HI></P>
<P>Againe, you being ignorant of the body of God, you can|not endure the Cro&s;&s;e of Chri&s;t, in &s;uffering &s;hame for his Names &s;ake: But we that are his true Me&s;&s;engers, through continuall &s;ufferings for his Names &s;ake, are filled by his ble&s;&s;ed Spirit, with full a&s;&s;urance of a Crowne of immortal glory at his appearing, who after hee had &s;uffered all his dayes in mortality, at the appointed time, he entred into his eternall immortall glory; nay, quite contrary to the true Me&s;&s;engers of Chri&s;t: Your Mini&s;tery rather brings you in &s;ilver, and honour from the men of this world, whereby your heart is made fat, and your under&s;tanding is darkened through pride from mens good opinions in darkne&s;&s;e like your &s;elfe; and &s;o you run on, offering up a lying &s;acrifice unto an unknowne God, and that gives great content to a
<PB N="8" REF="5">proud, covetous, vaine glorious people of your owne &s;pirit, becau&s;e you know not the Lord Je&s;us, who requires mercy and not &s;acrifice, who cau&s;eth the &s;un to &s;hine upon the ju&s;t, and the unju&s;t.</P>
<P>But how can you that are ignorant of my God the man Je&s;us, and the glory of that life to come, prepared for the mercifull, and are ignorant of that eternall death re&s;erved for all Hypocrites that blinds their eyes with Sacrifice, be|cau&s;e they hate m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y? how can you that &s;eek honour of one another, believe in the man Je&s;us to be the only God, to yield obedience unto the voice of his Holy &s;pirit of love and mercy unto all men, which is the onely &s;weet &s;melling &s;acrifice required by the Lord Je&s;us from all his Elect?</P>
<P>Againe, how can you di&s;till upon mens &s;pirits the glori|ous things of eternitie, without the &s;pirit of Prophe&s;ie, which is a &s;pirit of revelation, or in&s;piration given onely to the true Emba&s;&s;adors of the Lord Je&s;us?</P>
<P>Sir, once more to your own perticular per&s;on, if after the receipt of this Epi&s;tle &s;ent unto you from the Lord of glory, to forewarne you before it was too late; you &s;hall either write, prophe&s;ie, preach or teach unto Magi&s;trates or people, publick, or private, then in obedience unto our Commi&s;&s;ion, becau&s;e you have di&s;obeyed the me&s;&s;age of the Holy Spirit, from the pre&s;ence of the only wi&s;e God the man Je&s;us, elect men and Angels, wee pronounce you cur&s;ed and damned both &s;oule and body unto all eternitie.</P>
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