Life or Motion, dieth within the Body of Man, and turneth to Duft Even as Fire goeth out and turneth to Ashes in an Oven that is clofed, for Want of aerial Motion, even fo Man's mortal fiery Spirit goeth out like the Snuff of a Candle within his Body, because he is fhut up by the Most High from all aery or fiery Motion, until the vifible appearing of the mighty God and our Saviour, in all his Glory, with his mighty Angels, to judge both the Quick and the Dead: Then, and not till then, fhall every Seed and Spirit of Mankind, that was fowed in the Heart of the Earth by the almighty Word, or powerful Decree of God, bring forth its own Body in Glory, or in Shame, and fhall remain fo to all Eternity.

Again, By Infpiration from the Holy Spirit of the Lord Jefus Chrift I declare, that no Spirit hath any fenfible Being diftinct from its Body; no, nor never had, nor poflibly can have, neither of the Creator himself, nor Men, nor Angels, nor any other created living Form.

Wherefore the Creator is no fuch vaft bodilefs Spirit as you have described him to be; no, nor never was; but as from all Eternity he was an immortal Subftance or Body, diftinct from elementary Earth and Water, fo likewife he is now become a glorified Body of Flesh and Bone, in the Likeness of a Man, and is effentially diftinct from Men and Angels to all Eternity; and the Compass or Subftance of his glorious Perfon is no bigger than a Man is, and the Effence of it is but in one Place at once. Only take Notice of this, that his little Eyes are fo tranfcendently bright and glorious, that at one Look or View they pierce through Heaven and Earth, Angels and Men, and at once, or one Word fpeaking, through his heavenly Mouth, it entereth (if it be his Pleasure) into all the Spirits of Men or Angels, or into one Man's or Angel's Spirit only; fo that all Things in Heaven or Earth, or under the Earth, continue acting his Pleasure, by the almighty Power of his Word that he hath spoken, or fhall speak, notwithstanding the effential Being of his bright burning glorious Perfon is diftinct from them all, as one Man's Perfon is diftinct from another. This is the only very true God and eternal Life to believe, or eternal Death not to believe, or rather to defpife it.

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And now, in the last Place, I fhall write a little of Eternity itfelf; that which is effentially every where is not infinite, but finite, or rather no living Thing at all,

Wherefore that God or Creator that is fo effentially vaft, that all Places and Things become as it were a God, that can be no God nor Creator, nor Being of Beings at all, but mere fenfelefs Earth or Water, Stocks or Stones.

But, as aforefaid, he is an ever-living true God, Creator, or vaft fpiritual Subftance, which is but of fmall Circumference, and whofe glorious Effence or perfonal Subftance is refident but in one Place only at once; and yet, by the Power of a Word Speaking, through his heavenly Mouth, all Variety of fpiritual or natural Wisdom floweth into the Spirits of Men or Angels, like Rivers of living Waters, and naturally returns back again all Honour and Glory unto the uncreated Fountain of all eternal Excellencies.

Thus defiring the Lord, the Moft High, to reveal the true Understanding of himself unto you, and all his Chofen ones, I remain yours, in the eternal Spirit of Love itfelf, and Witnefs unto the only very true God, the Man Jefus, aforefaid,

A Pilgrim and Stranger unto the blind vain-glorious Age of Confufion in Religion, or notional Opinion.

John Reeve,

An EPISTLE to a K IN SMA N.

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Infman, unknown in the Flesh, but well known in the Spirit, by the divine Seed or Voice of Love speaking in me, and the Holy Spirit of the glorified Body or Perfon of the Lord Jefus, and everlasting Father, prefent I these Lines unto your spiritual Understanding.

Loving Friend in Jesus Christ, you long profeffing a Defire of knowing the very true God, that you might, by his Power in you, render all Glory to his eternal Majesty, which is not hid from me: Likewife it is made known unto me, (you being of an inquiring Spirit after Truth) that there hath come to the View of your Understanding almost all feeming fpiritual Appearances fince the Delufions thereof; and that that one, eternal, true, and only wife God, the Lord Jefus Chrift, my Creator, and alone Redeemer, within whofe bleffed Body effentially abides all immortal Crowns of eternal Glory, would reveal himself unto you, and to all thofe meek and patient Souls that are fo united to the Love of fuch spiritual Things which are eternal, that they are made to trample upon all the perishable Vanity of Honour among Men, as Dung, and Snares of eternal Death, appointed for all Men and Women, which with their Tongues feem to love the Lord Jefus, and his innocent People, above all others, but in their Hearts and Souls this World, and the Glory thereof, is their only Heaven. You may know that there thofe glittering Pharifees, which take upon them, by the Letter of the Scriptures, to judge the Inspirations of God in his Chofen ones, because they are contrary to his quaint Formalities.

Again, There is another Generation deceived, called Ranters, which are looked upon as the Elect of God, that are spiritually weak, as the only inward Lights in this Land.

There are thofe that glory of a Union with a God or Christ within them, calling themfelves Eternity, or everlasting Love, and one pure Being with the Creator; and when they are fifted, they call themselves the very Creator, utterly denying the Lord Jefus Chrift and the Scriptures, and the Refurrection of Man

kind after Death, either to Glory or Shame. These are those (or the Generality of them) which act all Uncleannefs, and curfedly call it the Appearances of God in them. There are many of the tender-fpirited Elect of God among them, which are of their lying Opinion, but are kept from their abominable Practices because of the Lord's eternal Love towards them; who, in due Time, will call them back again.

There are many other feeming strange Appearances, both in City and Country, which pretend to be called or fent forth by the Power of God coming upon them at certain Seafons, deceiving their own Souls, many being deceived also.

Friend, the Lord of Glory hath been pleafed to make choice of me, the weakest of ten thousand, for the Discovery. of all Appearances or Opinions in the World, that are not by Inspiration from the Holy Spirit of the Lord Jefus Chrift; for there is not any feeming fpiritual Appearance in this Land of any Account that hath not, by the Hand of the Lord, been weighed by the Gift of the Holy Ghoft or Spirit in me; and by this I find them too light in the fpiritual Balance of the living God, in that they know no God at all but what is. within them, nor that neither.

Loving Kinfman, I am not afhamed to tell you, that the Lord Jefus Chrift counted me worthy, for his Name's-fake, in. the City of London, to have fuch a Trial with the chief Magiftrates thereof as never was in this Land, nor I am fure. never shall upon any Account again. Seven Months was I, and one more with me upon the fame Account, close Prifoners, chiefly for our declaring Jefus Chrift in Glory to be. the only wife God and Man, in one diftinct Person, and the Creator of all Things, and the alone everlasting Father.

And now being utterly released from Bonds, I was moved to see my own native Country, and not only that, but also to fee your City of Bristol, because in it are fome that have received the everlafting Gofpel, I mean the Man Jefus, in Glory, to be the very true God, and none befides him; for which spiritual Power in them, in Love to that glorious God, from that eternal Love of his Glory, they are made willing not only to act all Righteoufnefs to all Men, but to fuffer all Kind of Wrong alfo, returning Good for Evil, in full Expectation of

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the fudden visible appearing of the Lord of Life and Glory' in the Air, with all his mighty elect Angels, to judge both the Dead and the Quick; I mean to make an eternal Separation between the Perfons of the Elect and the Perfons of the Reprobate. For this I would have you to understand, (if it be his good Pleasure, who is both Father, Son, and Spirit, in one diftinct glorious Perfon) that except Mofes Enoch, and Elias, whofe Perfons were tranflated into the highest Heavens in Glory, all Mankind, Elect and Reprobate, both Souls and Bodies, are dead afleep in the Duft of the Earth, until Chrift cometh in his Glory.

Then fhall the Elect, by the Decree or Voice of Jefus Chrift the Archangel, first appear out of the Graves, and, in the` twinkling of an Eye, with all the Elect that are then living, as one Man, with a glorious Shout, fhall, with diftinct immortal Bodies, like unto their God, afcend to meet the Lord in the Air, and with him and his mighty Angels, as fwift as Thought, enter into that infinite vaft new Heaven and new Earth above the Stars, whofe actual Sin was never committed against him, there vifibly beholding his glorious Perfon Face to Face; and the Perfons of elect Men and Angels naturally finging new Songs and glorious Praises, in Eternity to Eternity, unto their bleffed Redeemer.

Then immediately alfo fhall the Reprobates appear out of the Duft, with Bodies of a defcending Nature, according to their former earthly Mindednefs. My Meaning is this, their Bödies! fpiritually be as dark as Pitch, naturally as heavy as Lead; and their own Spirits fhall be the Devil, and their own Bodies fhall be their Prison of Hell; which, through the Abfence of the Voice, or Motions of the Spirit of God in them as formerly, and the Prefence of all their former Glory, and filthy Thoughts, Imaginations, Actions, and their Defires, their Spirits fhall burn with an envious living Death and dying Life, beyond all natural Fire wharfoever; and their Flefh fhall burn above all natural Brimftore, never feeing one another's dreadful Faces, nor ftirring their Bodies from the Place they appear in to all Eternity. And the Reason of this their utter Darknefs, both within and without alfo, will be this, because the Sun, Moon, and Stars, with all their natural Lights within