I declare again from the Lord, that the vifible Worship that now is in the World, fet up by Magiftrates and Minifters, whether publick or private, it is fo far from being by Commiffion from the Lord, that it is the chief Occafion of all Wars, and many other fecret Wickedneffes, committed under Heaven.

Thus all that are not quite blind, through the long Custom of the falfe Prophets or Priefts, fet up or countenanced by the Magiftrate, may clearly fee that none of them are by Commiffion from the Lord, but falfe Shepherds, that went before they were fent; therefore but few of them will efcape the Vengeance of eternal Fire in the Day of the Lord.

Again I declare from the Lord Jefus Chrift, God alone, bleffed for ever, that the Worship that now is, and shall be to the End of the World, (Note) it is to hearken what the Holy Spirit faith unto the Soul, and to yield unto it, and in fo doing thou fhalt never want Peace. Thou shalt hear a Voice behind thee, faying, This is the Way, walk in it; hearken unto that Voice, and yield Obedience unto it, and thou shalt fee eternal Life abiding in thee. This is the Voice of God from Heaven, called the Spirit of Faith, or Revelation, filling the Soul with pure fpiritual Love, Patience, Meeknefs, and all other Vertues of the Holy Spirit; which Holy Spirit is the only Minister or Teacher of all the Elect, unto Life Eternal, even to the End of the World. They that are led by this Spirit, they are kept from the committing of Sin; I do not fay they have no Temptations or Motions of Sin from their own. Spirits, but I fay the Spirit of Faith purifies their Hearts, giving them Power against thofe Motions or Temptations of the Flesh; and fo their Bodies and Spirits being kept pure, are fit Temples for the In-dwelling of the Holy Spirit. For all that are born of God know the Voice of his Spirit, and have this Power over Sin, as I have declared; for the Spirit of Jefus is one and the fame in all his Elect, only in a greater Measure of understanding the Word of God in the Scriptures to fome than to others, efpecially to the Commiflioners, who are fent to declare his Mind unto the Elect; as it is written of Peter, When thou art converted strengthen the Brethren. Thus God's Commiffioners have a greater Measure of his Spirit than private Chriftians,

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Chriftians, because they are made publick, and appointed to greater Sufferings than thofe that are private Believers. Again it is written, My Sheep hear my Voice, and they follow me; that is, the new-born Elect know the Voice of God's Spirit, and fo are made obedient to his Voice, and a Stranger they will not follow. The Stranger is the Voice of Reason, which is the Voice of the Devil, that would draw the Soul from the Voice of Faith, which is the Voice of the Spirit of God, in all the Sheep of Chrift.

Again, This bleffed Spirit gives Power unto the Elect to fhew Mercy unto their greateft Enemies, yea, and to forgive them, although they fhould kill them; and gives a Man Power to leave all Vengeance unto God, unto whom only it doth belong.

Again I declare from the Lord, all that are of this Faith are of one Spirit, and have Power given them to love one another as their own Soul; yea, they have all of them Power given them to lay down their Lives for this their Faith, because it is the Faith of the holy Prophets and Apostles, the true Faith of Jefus, the Power of God unto Salvation; this is that Faith that keeps the Soul fpotlefs, from lying unto his Neighbour, and from all other Unrighteoufness whatfoever; the which no other Churches nor Opinions in the World do, but will lie unto one another for Gain, but this Church of Chrift.

Once again from the Lord I declare, that this Church of Chrift only being the elect, they only have the Spirit of Revelation of the Mind of God, always increafing in the Spirit of the Scriptures, and are God's only Lights in this World, and thofe that are appointed of God as his Judges over all their Enemies, both great and fmall, in the World, that defpife the Spirit of Revelation. (Note,) Again I declare from the Lord, that none can understand what God is, nor what the Devil is, nor what is after Death, nor whether ever their Bodies appear any more, nor no invifible Thing, but by the Spirit of Revelation; which is the Voice of God, leading his own elect Sheep and Lambs into all fpiritual Pastures; whilst unbelieving Lions, (Note) that defpife this Spirit, are hunger-bit, yea, and fent empty away of all fpiritual Confolations.

Again I declare from the Lord, that all that have this Spirit of Revelation, or Faith in the Man Jefus, they know that there

there is no other God but the Man Jefus, that in his Perfoa only the eternal Father always lived, and that there was never any other God, or eternal Spirit, or Father, but this Jefus only, that Man of Glory, whofe Goings out have been from everlasting; and that all the Names or Titles in the Letter of the Scriptures, of Father, or Jehovah, or Melchizedech, or Jam, or Eternal God, or Eternal Father, or Wonderful Coanfeller, or Prince of Peace, or Alpha and Omega; yea, and all other Names or Titles fpoken of in the Law and Gofpel, by the Prophets and the Apostles, and the two Witneffes in the Revelation, they are all attributed unto this Jefus, the eternal God, and Man of Glory, who is a diftinct God, in the Perfon of a Man, from all Creatures in Heaven, and on Earth, from all Eternity, to all Eternity. Therefore they that have this Spirit of Faith, they cannot take the Sword of Steel to lay their Brother, because they know that Man is the Image of God; neither can they go to Law with their Neighbour, whatever Lofs may come thereby; neither can they take upon them any Place of Honour from the Lords of this World, because their Kingdom is no more of this World than it was to the Lord Jefus, who came on Purpofe to fhew unto his Elect himself of his fpiritual Kingdom of Glory. And when they had tafted a little of this fpiritual Kingdom, from that Moment, instead of yielding to the Cuftoms of Nations, to make them honourable, they were made willing to deny themfelves, and to fuffer Reproach with the Lord Jefus Chrift, because they know there is no Way to the Crown of Glory with their God, but to drink the fame Cup of Perfecution and Afflictions as their Lord did before them. The Servant is not greater than his Lord. And this only is the Way of all the Elect, until the coming of our Lord Jefus Chrift, the Man of Glory, God alone, bleffed for

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Again it is written, There are three that bear Record in Heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Spirit, and these three are one. (Note further,) There are three that bear Witness on Earth, Water, Blood, and Spirit, and these three agree in one. Now these three Witneffes on Earth, Water, Blood, and Spirit, are the three Commiffions or Difpenfations of the Lord aforesaid, which the Spirit of God hath written unto you

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that are his Elect, for your Information and eternal Consolation. The Water, that is Mofes's Commiffion; the Blood, that is the Commiffion of Jefus; the Spirit, that is the Commiffion of the two Witneffes, fpoken of in the xith Chapter of the Revelations; whofe Commiffion, or Meffage from the Lord, is all fpiritual.

Again, As for the three that bear Record in Heaven, the Mind of God in that Saying is this; that God, in the Name of Father, Word, and Spirit, did in, or from Heaven, his Throne of Glory three Times bear Witnefs unto those Com miffions on Earth aforefaid, by Signs and Wonders, that these three only were the Lord's Commiffioners. According unto their feveral Difpenfations did the Lord witnefs from Heaven, in the Hearts of his Elect only, that they were indeed the Prophets of the Lord. As for the Reprobate, because the Lord reveals it not to him inwardly by his bleffed Spirit, therefore he always tempts his God, Devil-like as he is, for an outward vifible Sign, to make him believe an invifible God. But the elect Believer is kept from tempting his God, being always made to wait for an invifible Sign or Teftimony from the Spirit of God, whether the Commiffioner or Prophet be from the Lord or no. He that believes makes not Hafte, he is made to wait; he only knows, that by entertaining of fome Strangers has received Angels; unto him only it is revealed what that Bleffing is, unto thofe that are made to receive a Prophet, or Difciple of the Lord, in the Name of a Prophet or Difciple of the Lord Jefus Chrift. Unto him alone it is revealed, that he, with the Prophets, fhall inherit together a Crown of Glory in thofe Perfons they now enjoy, being made like unto their God the Man Jefus, at his vifible appearing in the Clouds in his everlafting Kingdom of Glory.

Again, Unto him only it is revealed what that Curfe is that fhall be upon the Souls and Bodies of all the Defpifers of the Meffage of the Prophets of the Lord, to all Eternity.

Again I declare from the Lord, that it is revealed unto us only, that have received this Faith of Jefus, what Things fhall be after Death; we only are capable to know, that God, the Man Jefus, was in the Perfon of a Man before he became Flesh and Bone, from all Eternity. (Note,) Unto us it is

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known, that there never was any Spirit without a Body or Perfon, because the Body or Perfon is the Form of the invifible Spirit, that can never be seen or known, but through a vifible Body or Perfon, which is the Houfe or Tabernacle of every invisible Spirit, in Heaven and on Earth; fo that a Spirit is an invifible Substance, yet nothing at all without its Form of Body or Perfon; neither is the Body or Perfon any Thing at all without the invifible Spirit, which is the God, Spirit, or Life of the created or uncreated formable Body or Perfon. As the Soul and Body of Man is both one Perfon,. and that one is nothing without the other, being, both of one Nature, begot together, and fo live together, neither of them living one without the other; and fo dying or falling asleep together (being both one Creature) until the Refurrection of their Death of Sleep from their Duft; and fo being raised, as they lived together before Death, being both one Creature, so shall they now after Death remain together in Glory or in Shame, to all Eternity.

So I declare from the Lord, that the eternal fpiritual God the Father, (Note) always liveth in a fpiritual Form of Body or Perfon; the which Body, or fpiritual Perfon, was the eternal Son of the eternal Father; the which eternal Son is the holy City, or Tabernacle of Glory, wherein the Father, which is the eternal Spirit, hath his glorious Delight, from Eternity to Eternity.

Again I declare from the Lord Jefus, that this fpiritual Perfon, or Body of God, that was from all Eternity, did convert itself into a natural Body of Flesh, Blood, and Bone, and fo became fubject unto Death; and when it became a natural Body, the Father, which is the Spirit Eternal, and Godhead of the Body, which was the eternal Son, lived: only in that Perfon. For in him lived the Fullness of the Godbead bodily; that is, in his Body lived the eternal Spirit, God the Father, bodily becaufe this natural Body was the eternal Son of God, which formerly was the eternal fpiritual Body of God, (Note) the eternal Spirit from all Eternity; therefore it is written, the Word became Flesh, God became Flesh, and dwelt amongst us. The Word was, the eternal fpiritual Body, or Perfon, or Son of God, the eternal Father or Spirit, which, by its own Power,