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this World, through the Abfence of the Lord Jefus, will go out like the Snuff of a Candle; and all the Glory of this whole World, from the Firmament of Heaven to the Earth, will be burnt up, and vanish like Smoke, and come to nothing; the Seas and Rivers, or Springs, fhall be dried up, as if they had never been, and the Earth that we now tread upon fhall be like unto the fiery burning Sands, fuitable for thofe hellish Firebrands, who, at this Time, in the Days of their Mortality, defpifed to yield Obedience to the fpiritual Perfon of the Lord Jefus Chrift, and scoff at all Purity in his angelical Saints.

You are my beloved Kinsman in the Spirit, if you are made one with what I have written; for as fure as the Lord liveth, and as certain as you are a Man of Flefh, Blood, and Bone, what I have written is as true as Truth itself, and will fuddenly come to pafs. Oh! bleffed are all thofe which long for the fecond and laft appearing of Almighty God, who alone, by his own precious Blood fhedding, hath redeemed elect Mankind from the Wrath of eternal Death, before-mentioned in this Epiftle.

Your Kinfman, in the only eternal pure Being, and glorious
Fountain of all Streams, in elect Men and Angels, the
Lord Jefus Chrift, infinitely tranfcending all Heavens,
Angels, or Men,

John Reeve,

The Son of Walter Reeve, déceafed, commiffionated
Meffenger of the Lord Jefus Chrift, by Voice of Words

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What was from Eternity.

An Epiftle concerning the only true God, of bis glorious Throne, and the pure Creation, from that which is false.

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Y fpiritual Friends, and beloved Brethren, in Things of Eternity, being infpir'd in fome fmall Measure with the Original of all divine Delight, it being my principal Work, defigned from the Moft High, what I receive from the Lord Jefus Chrift, who is the eternal Being, that I freely declare unto you.

Now I know you, that are fpiritual indeed cannot poffibly defpife the Letter called the Book of the Scriptures, or visible Records of invifible Eternities; why, because you know that without Words it is impoffible to demonftrate Things to one another; therefore I fhall nominate the Letter before I speak the Mind of the Spirit.

This Epiftle is to you, which are made capable to comprehend all Opinions or high Notions that are or fhall appear to be, because your Spirits are made virtually one with Eternity itfelfs but not effentially one, for then there would be no Diftinction between the Former and the formed; for this I would have you to understand, that the Creature, Sun in the Firmament, is a diftinct Body or Circumference, about the Bignefs of a fquare Chamber, whatfoever lying Sophifters, by their Imaginations, tell you to the contrary; from the Lord I know it to be Truth.

Now you know that the Body or Effence of the Sun always hath its Abode where it is fixed, ever running its Course round the Firmament called Heaven, where it remains in its Effence till Time is no more; alfo you know that virtually it giveth

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forth its Light, Heat, and Strength, into natural Things, that, feem to be abfolutely dead; which natural Vertue occafioneth Life and Joy in the effential Body of the Sun, to all fenfible or rational living Creatures. So likewife it is with the invifible Son of God, the eternal Creator; for he is a diftinct glorious Being, by Vertue of his Word, fixed, as it were, (in refpect of his bodily or personal Prefence) in the invisible heavenly Glory, where elect Angels remain until Time be fwal, lowed up in Eternity." And virtually, motionally, or fpiritually, from his glorious Body, fhineth all glorious Light and heavenly Life, into the Spirits of elect Men and Angels, ever retaining his effential infinite Glory in himself to himself, that the uncreated Being of Beings may remain in his distinct decreed Form or Center to Eternity; that uncreated Glory may glory. in its own eternal Glory, and the created Glory may glory not in itself, or any Light or Life within itself, but in the Glory of its Creator, who is the Fountain of all Light, Life, and Glory, visible and invifible. IC

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That which is to be treated upon in this Epiftle is, What there was from Eternity: Whether there is any other World, or created Being, or Place, befides this: Allo, What the true Creation of God is, from the lying Imaginations, which is the Devil in Man.

In the xith of Hebrews, Verfe 3, it is thus written: Through Faith we understand that the Worlds were ordained by the Word of God, fo that Things which are seen are not made of Things which did appear. And in the 13th, 14th, 15th, and 16th Verfes of the fame Chapter, are thefe Words: And they confeed that they were Strangers and Pilgrims on the Earth; for they that fay fuch Things declare plainly that they feek a Coun try; and if they had been mindful of the Country from whence they came out, they bad Leifure to have returned; but now they defire a better, that is, an beavenly one; wherefore God is not afhamed to be called their God, for he hath prepared for them a City. Compare thefe Sayings with the xivth of John, ist, 2d, and 3d Verses, and there you may fee, that have the fingle Eye of the heavenly Glory within you, who this God is that hath prepared that heavenly City, Place, or Kingdom of eternal Glory, chiefly for you which own no other God nor Father, nor eternal Spirit, nor Creator, nor Being of Beings, but the

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Lord Jefus Chrift alone; that Man of all immortal Crowns, of eternal Glory, infinitely tranfcending all Heavens, Angels, and Men, who, in the Days of his creaturely Condition, faid unto his Chofen ones, Let not your Hearts be troubled; ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's Houfe are many Manfions; if it were not so I would have told you. I go to prepare a Place for you; I will come again, and receive you to myself; that where I am, there ye may be alfo. And in the last Chapter of the Prophet Ifaiab, the first Verfe, Thus faith the Lord, the Heaven is my Throne, and the Earth is my Foot-ftool. And in the first of the Acts, and the 11th Verfe, it is thus written: Ye Men of Galilee, why and ye gazing into Heaven this Jefus which is taken up from you into Heaven, hall come as ye je bave feen him go into Heaven. And in the 23d Chapter of St. Matthew, Verfe 22, He that fweareth by Heaven fweareth by the Throne of God, and him that fitteth thereon. I might mention many other Records in Scripture to this Purpose, but I have spoken too many already, to thofe dark Lights which difown any God, or Scripture, or Glory to come, or Immor tality, after the diffolving of this Mortality; but Glory of an Immortality of Eternity, which is in them already, and yet after Death they are utterly ignorant whether they fhall have any Being at all, mortal or immortal, but blindly fuppofe an eternal swallowing up into an unknown glorious Being, or else an eternal ceafing to be.

I know unto you that have received the fpiritual Oil of divine Faith, in the Truth of holy Writ, which is quoted from the visible Record of Scriptures, is fufficient to prove that there is another created World, or refidential Place of Glory, befides this, where the glorious Perfons of God, elect Men, and Angels, fhall folace themfelves together, to all Eternity.

Again, You may understand the Throne of God's Refidence in Immortality is no Ways like this Foot-ftool of his Majefty; for we know that this Global World is enclosed all with a Firmament, as with a brazen Wall. And why think you is it fo? Truly and chiefly to keep within its own Kingdom the dark Imagination of angelical Serpents, that they may only pry into the Secrets of all Things within this Orb. But as for the new Heaven and new Earth, above the Stars, it is a Place

a Place of Glory, fuitable to a God of Glory: I mean in refpect of its Height, Length, Breadth, or Compafs, it is of an infinite unmeasurable Vaftnefs. For it must needs be fo; Why? Because in the Place of the eternal Being's Glory, there is no Sun, Moon, nor Stars, nor Firmament: And where there is no Firmament, there is no Bounds; for you acknowledge theCreator to be boundless, and fo is the Kingdom of Glory, where the Refidence of his immortal Perfon is eternal. In the 21st of the Revelations, at the 23d Verfe, it is thus written, And their City bath no Need of the Light of the Sun, neither of the Moon, to shine in it, for the Glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the Light of it. And in the laft Chapter, and the 5th Verfe, And there shall be no Light there, and they need no Can dle, neither the Light of the Sun; for the Lord giveth them Light, and they hall reign for evermore. And this by the Way.

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There is not any Thing can reign eternally, but that which is a diftinct Glory in itfelf; and there is no Glory, or Excellency whatfoever, whether mortal or immortal, can poffibly have any fenfible Being, without a diftinct Form, to poffels its Glory in.

Moreover, The Refidence of Glory, of neceffity must be a Throne of infinite Circumference: Why? Becaufe if it were inclosed as this World is, then, inftead of fpiritual Liberty, it would be a Place of Bondage, like unto this. Because the glorious Perfon of God, elect Men, and Angels, which of Mo-> tion are fwifter than Thought, would be prevented from af cending, or defcending in it, for Variety of fpiritual Glories, according to their divine Natures. For you know, that if our Bodies, within this lower World, were as fwift of Motion as our Thoughts, our Spirits would then be in more Bondage than now they are, for want of Room to pass to and fro, according to their fpiritual Motions because if the World were ten thousand Millions of Miles in Height, Length, Breadth, or Compafs, and no more, you know that a fpiritual Body would afcend as fwift as Thought, as if it were but one Mile, or Furlong only. So that now you cannot be ignorant, but that a' glorified Body muft have a Kingdom, and Throne of Glorys

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