Doctrine or Declaration to them, and a Curfe upon all fuch as refufe to believe or rather defpife it: For God doth not come now into this World himfelf to treat with his People, But giveth Power to a mortal Man to be a Prophet, an Apostle, Minifter, or Ambaffador of God, the King of Heaven; as the the Kings of this Earth do to their Minifters. And thefe commiffionated of God, ftand in God's Stead, and reprefent the Perfon of God the King of Heaven, as an earthly King's Minifter doth represent his Perfon and Power, and fuch Men are true Minifters of Jefus Chrift, and happy are thofe Men that are made obedient to them, and miferable are all fuch as defpife their Declaration.

A falfe Minifter is fuch a one as may be diftinguished by the Contraries of the foregoing Difcourfe, that hath no Commiffion from Jefus Chrift by Voice of Words, fpoken from Heaven to the hearing of the outward Ears, but counterfiteth a Commiffion from the Letter of the Scriptures, but have none of the Spirit that declared them, nor no Authority from God. Some of them juftify themselves by the Authority of the national Power, and if this will ferve their Turn at the laft Day, it is well with them. Others think the Letter, which was other Mens Words, that had their Commiffion from Heaven, to be as good a Commiffion as that of the national Power; And if this will bare them out, it is well with them alfo; others think themfelves as good Minifters as thofe before mentioned from the Light within them, thefe are the People called Quakers; but this Light I know to be only the Law written in their Hearts, which no Man can keep, therefore ferves only for Condemnation. So that when all thofe Minifters comes to plead in their Hearts and say, Lord we have preached in thy Name, prayed in thy Name, caft out Devils, and done wonderous Things; their Answer will be, Go ye Workers of Iniquity, I know you not, I fent you not. Thus you may fee God will not own them, because he did not fend them; there are fome of the Ministers have got away of whining and toning in their preaching, as if their Words had not the fame Meaning, without toning as with it. Again, they fhall repeat one Word or fhort Sentence, three, four, or fix Times together. Thus

Thus they go on, till they have filled their Noddles, topful, and when they have tired themselves and their Congregations, then they depart, and in half an Hour or an Hour's Time, their Sculls are as empty as before they came together, and if they talk together as they go Home, they fhall admire their Teacher, he is a precious Man, a great Gift in Prayer, a found Preacher. These are fuch as by their canting Language climb into the Hearer's Affections, empty their Pockets, and fill their Heads and Hearts with Nonfenfe. It was my Chance to hear a Clergyman fay, if he had a Horfe or any other Goods to expose to Sale, and if this Horse was all over Faults he was not obliged to discover any Fault at all, except it was demanded of him to discover them, to which I agree; by the Laws of the Land, he may conceal them; but by the Law of Mofes, which is the Law of God, by which the Law of the Land is made, I can find no Juftification for Man to deceive his Neighbour by Concealment; but because Men can find no pofitive Words to forbid this Deceit, therefore Men juftify themselves in it; yet the Law is good, and doth not allow any Man to be deceived by his Neighbour, and he that lives by over-witting or any wordly Deceit, will be found to deceive himself; if Man was not corrupt in his Nature by Sin or Evil, which is of the Devil, he would abhor fuch Deceit in himself, and not encourage it in others. There is a new Law given, which is to do as ye would be done unto; and I believe no Man is willing to be deceived or wronged in any Kind; and if this Man had inftructed Men in the Chriftian Law, I should have approved of it much better. This Law of Chrift faith, love your Enemies, do good to them that hate you, and evilly intreat you; and fuch Men that feek to pervert the Law of Chrift, or Christian Law, are rather to be esteemed Minifters of Deceit, than true Chriftian Minifters: Men are apt enough to take this Liberty to deceive their Brethren, although it disturb their Confciences; therefore they need not be encouraged in it.

He that perufes this Writing, and confiders it in his own Mind, may fee that God doth give Power unto Man, to judge, and give Sentence upon Men, of Salvation or Con

demnation,

demnation, according to their Obedience or Difobedience to God and a true Prophet. Likewise he may fee, that the Evil that arifes out of a Man's Soul, is the Devil, and no Spirit without hath Power to tempt him to any Evil. Again, he may fee, that he that takes upon him to be a Minifter of Jefus Chrift, and hath not a Commiffion from Heaven, as Paul had from God's own Mouth, I fay, he commits fpiritual High Treafon against God, and will be punished with everlasting Death for fo doing, if he continues in it.

LODOWICK MUGGLETON."

An PPISTLE of JOHN REEVE to his loving Friend Chriftopher Hill.

Brother Hill, in the Eternal Truth,

MY

Y Love to you and the Reft of our Friends. This is a fpiritual Love Letter that I am moved to write unto you, wherefore by Virtue of my Commiffion I pronounce thee Tho. Martin, William Young, and Eliz. Wyles, the Bleffed of the Lord to Eternity; the Remembrance of this the Lord's Bleffing, will do you no harm when I am in my Grave; in the mean Season, our good God cause you to love one another more than your temporal Enjoyments, and that will become a Heaven upon Earth in your innocent Souls; Faith fetcheth fpiritual Comfort, the Fountain to each particular Soul; but Love fulfilleth all Righteousness both to God and Man. Oh! the tranfcendent Excellency of the Love of Chrift in his new-born People, it is not to exprefs'd by the Tongues of Men or Angels.

JOHN REEVE..

A Copy

A Copy of a LETTER wrote by the Prophet JOHN REEVE to Mrs. Alice Webb, containing ber Bleffing, and the Six Principles, on August 15, 1656.

Loving Friend,

ESIRING your Eternal Happiness in that Place of Glory above the Stars, I am moved from the Spirit of the Lord to write thefe Lines unto your ferious Confideration. This I know as fure as God knows himself, that Jefus Chrift from his Throne of Glory fpake to me by Voice of Words three Mornings together, which Speaking of his hath opened my dark Understanding to declare fuch fpiritual Light to the Chofen of God, as never was fo clearly manifested before, especially in these fix Foundations,

First, What the Person of the true God is, and his Divine Nature.

Secondly, What the Persons of the holy Angels are, and their Nature.

Thirdly, What the Perfons of the Devils are and their Natures, and what the Perfon of the Devil was before he became a Devil, and begot Millions of dark Angels or Devils, it being all one.

Fourthly, In what Condition the Man Adam was created in, and by what Means he loft his firft Eftate and the Effects of it.

Fifthly, What Heaven and Glory is, and the eternal Refidence of it.

Sixthly. What Hell and eternal Death is, and the Place where it fhall be to Eternity.

This I know certainly, That before the Lord fent me to declare his Pleafure unto his People, no Man upon this Earth did clearly understand any one of these fix fundamental Truths, which to understand is Life eternal, and to be ignorant of them is Death eternal. Now the Lord hath fent his two Meffengers to declare them, I mean, to all thofe that may be informed in thefe fpiritual Things, and do reject us (that are the Lord's Meffengers of thefe Things of Salvation) through the Love of carnal Things, they muft all perish to Eternity.

Again we know from the Lord by that infallible Spirit that he hath given us, of divers Perfons that fhall be eternally bleffed with us and all that we pronounce Curfed to Eternity are eternally Curfed, as fure as Jefus Chrift the Lord of Life is Bleffed, because it is his Curfe and not ours.

Again, if the Lord Jefus do not bear Witnefs unto our Teftimony, and make it evident that he hath fent us in a few Months, than you may conclude, that there never was any true Prophets nor Chrift, nor Apoftles, nor Scripture fpoken from the Mouth of God to Men. But there is nothing but the Wisdom of Men and Nature their God. But this we know, that thofe that are joined with us, are Partakers of thofe Truths, and fhall be bleffed for evermore, and fhall in the mean Time patiently wait for the fulfilling of our Prophecy, and fhall have Power over their Thoughts, Words, and Deeds, purifying their Hearts by Faith in the Perfon of God even as he is pure, trampling all the Riches and Honour of this World, under the Feet of their Souls as Dung, because they have tafted of that Glory to come, that no Tongue of Men or Angels can exprefs, and this makes them not only love one another in carnal Things, but for the Truth's fake they are ready if (need require) to forfake all Relations, and Life itself for one another and is that Power of that one only Faith and Truth, declared from the Spirit of God, the Man Jefus by us, which none enjoys but thofe of this Faith.

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