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A58338	Joyful news from heaven, or, The last intelligence from our glorified Jesus above the stars wherein is infallibly recorded how the soul dieth in the body : also is discovered I. What is that which sleeps in the dust, II. The nature of its rest, III. The manner of its waking, IV. The mystery of the dispute between Christ and the woman of Samaria, as touching the true point of worship, clearly opened : wherein you have drawn up a divine charge against the teachers of the Baptists, with all other teachers publick and private, for counterfeiting the commission of the man Jesus, being therein convicted of spiritual high treason against Christ the great commissioner of heaven and earth : with a true relation of the kingdom of darkness, prepared for the cursed seed of Cain, world without end / written by John Reeve and Lodowick Muggleton ...	Reeve, John, 1608-1658.; Muggleton, Lodowick, 1609-1698.	1658 (1658)	Wing R679; ESTC R32277	41,136	58

pleasure of the Creator for if the body or person of the man Adam had been spiritual in his creation as his spirit was then there would have been no difference between the person of the Creator and the person of the creature Thus the man Adam was made like unto God a pure natural person of all righteousnesse in mortality like unto the spiritual person person of God which is all righteousnesse in glory Again it is written the first Adam of the Earth earthly the second Adam the Lord from Heaven heavenly Thus you that see by that single Eye of Faith you may know that God became flesh or a man as well as Adam who was called the Image of God because God was a spiritual man from Eternity as abundantly beforesaid Now you must understand the reason why Jesus the only God was called the second Adam was this because the body or person of the Lord Jesus was a pure natural body of all righteousnesse in mortality just like unto the body or person of the first Adam before his fall only Christ the second Adam had the spirit of Faith in him above measure and the first Adam had the spirit of Faith in him by measure as beforesaid again the second Adam differed from the first Adam in this he being made a man of sorrows but the first Adam knew no sorrows before his fall and why did he become a man of sorrows it was to redeem the Elect seed of the Spirit of Faith overcome in his image the first Adam by the Reprobate Angel-Serpent as beforesaid Again as for the natures or spirits of the holy Angels in their Creation they were pure Reason quite contrary to the nature or spirit of Faith in God their Creator only in their bodies or persons they were spiritual or swift of motion like unto the spiritual person of God their Creator but if the nature or spirit of the holy Angels had been of of the spirit of pure Faith as they were of pure Reason then there would have been no difference between the person of God their Creator and the persons of the holy Angels in their Creation who are but creatures as well as men wherefore not the holy Angels for they are not of the nature of God as it is written he took not upon him the nature of Angels but the seed of Abraham but Elias as beforesaid by the secret wisdom and counsel and love of God unto man above Angels was exalted upon the throne of glory for a moment to represent the person of God the Father and he was made the protector of my God when God became a child and it was Elias by vertue of his Commission as a faithful spiritual Steward upon the throne of glory that filled the Lord Jesus with those great Revelations of his former glory that he possest in the Heavens when he was the immortal Father and it was Elias that spake those words from heaven saying this is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased hear him again when Christ was transfigured upon the Mount that his garment glittered with the glory of his transfiguration it was the visible glorious appearance of the persons of Moses and Elias talking with him that were the instrumental Commissioners of that visible glory of the Lord Jesus unto his Disciples who said Master it is good for us to be here for that glory was so great that they would have been building of Tabernacles for a continuance in it Again I declare from the Lord that Elias by vertue of his Commission did fill Elect men and Angels also with Revelation to keep them in obedience until the Lord Jesus was upon the Throne of his glory again so that when the Lord Jesus who was an absolute creature cryed in his agony unto his Father when he prayed unto his Father that that Cup might passe from him if it were possible it being a dreadful Cup for his innocent flesh and blood to drink he being as sensible of pain in his body as we are in our bodies and when he cryed out saying my God my God why hast thou forsaken me and Father into thy hands I commend my spirit I say again from the Lord that Elias by Commission from this man Jesus was that Father that he thus cryed unto in his mortality Elias being then in glory and the chief ground of all those actions and sufferings and cryings out of the Lord Jesus in the condition of a creature unto a Father or a Creator was to fulfil the Scriptures foretold by his Prophets in the time of the Law therefore he said Heaven and Earth shall pass away but my word shall not pass away again but you may say unto me did God the third day rise from the dead by his own power or by the power of his Deputy Elias to which I answer he by his own decree and spiritual compact with Elias and by that spirit of Faith in his innocent body the which Faith died in his pure body and quickned immediately and brought forth at the appointed time that natural innocent body out of the grave a pure spiritual body which naturally at the time appointed ascended into glory for it was impossible for God by death to be held in the grave because his person being pure his pure spirit and death could not remain together because there was no sympathy or agreement or union between them yea they were so contrary it was impossible for them to be together except one of them were absolutely extinguished wherefore death being too weak the Lord Jesus who is the only God of all created life brake through death and hell and the grave and through all the sins of his Elect by the shedding of his most precious blood and so entred into his eternal glory that all those that have Faith in his glorious person may be delivered at the appointed time from sin hell death and the grave and enter into eternal glory with him when he comes in the clouds of Heaven Again the reason why mens bodies in death or after death do rot or stink in the grave and come to dust is because there was sin in their bodies whilst they lived the which sin and death had a sympathy and as it were a sweet communion together whereby death had full power as Lord and King to keep the spirits and bodies in the dust until the time appointed of the Lord of life but on the contrary if men had no sin in their natures or bodies they might life and die and naturally rise again by their own power in their own time as the Lord of life did whose body was too pure to see corruption Thus unto you that have Faith in the Lord Jesus it is not strange that Elias should represent the person of God the Father until the Lord Jesus ascended into the right hand of all power and glory of his Father Elias again then when Jesus was set down in the Throne of

the Revelation of the everlasting Gospel of that Son within her which was of a more transcendent glory than that of the Law and that Crown of twelve Stars upon her head that was the twelve Apostles that sprang from her head Jesus to preach the everlasting Gospel of Truth and Peace unto his Elect thus that saying that every seed shall have his own body is a little more clear unto you that have faith in a personal God then it was before you may understand that God the Father was a spiritual man from eternity and that in time his righteous spiritual body brought forth a righteous natural body that the Father to shew forth his infinite love and humility and to bring forth a new transcendent glory to himself might become a son yea and a servant unto his creatures in the very condition of a creature for a season that he might exalt his elect creatures into the same condition of the Creator in his glory in the highest Heavens to all eternity when the curtains of this lower Heavens are drawn and vanisht like smoak never more to be time being past Again it is written he that hath seēn me hath seen the Father and the Father liveth in me and I live in him and I and the Father are one the only meaning or mind of the Lord Jesus in those words is this his Spirit living within his body that was the Father and his visible body that was the Son both God and man in one person and so but one personal God the man Christ Jesus he perfectly knowing himself to be the only God he said unto the Jews except ye eat my flesh and drink my blood you have no life in you again he said except ye believe that I am he ye shall dye in your sins his very mind in those words was this except they did believe that that very person of his of flesh blood and bone that spake unto them was the only God and eternal Father and alone Saviour of all that were to be saved and that there was no salvation to mankind but thus spiritually eating of his flesh and drinking of his blood except they did thus own his person to be their Lord and only Saviour they must all die in their sins and perish to all eternity because there is nothing but the precious blood of a God can possibly clense the spirit of man from the power of sin therefore if the very Godhead had not died that is if the very soul of Christ which is the eternal Father had not died in the body or with the body to quiet or satisfie the cry of the guilt of sin in mens spirits all men would have perisht to eternity because the spirit of unclean reason the Devil in man whose nature is all sin did reign in the very bodies of the Elect as their Lord and King and they were free from the power of righteousnesse until the precious blood of a God by the Holy Spirit of Faith was sprinkled in their consciences that by the pure life or spiritual love to God and man they might break the Serpents head of sin of reigning any longer in them but on the contrary they that have no faith given them in the precious blood of God to clense their spirits from the power of that Devil sin in them their sins will be their Lord and King and they must perish together eternally as beforesaid Again by this time it is very clear to you that have the faith of Jesus that the Serpent Angel beforesaid was a spiritual body or person in the form of a man before he entred into the womb of Eve by that seed or son of his called Cain Thus every seed or spirit by the decree of God brings forth his own body according to its nature or kind God the Father being a spiritual man from all eternity in time begot and brought forth himself a manchild in mortality of all pure righteousnesse therefore he was called the expresse Image of the Father because he was indeed the very Father and that made him say be thought it no robbery to be equal with God and that was the cause that made him say that all power was given unto him both in heaven and in earth because he knew perfectly that there was no other God but himself to possesse all power and this made the Prophet Isaiah to attribute the chief titles of the everlasting Father unto the Son that was to be made of a Woman or of a Virgin because the Prophet knew very well that the Father and the Son was but one unseparable person in immortal glory from all eternity and so he knew they were to become in time one unseparable Person of all purity in mortality and I with him know from the same spirits that revealed it to the Prophet long before God became flesh that that pure mortality both spirit and body that died together they did both immediately quicken together a new life in death or out of death and they unseparably both Father and Son in one person did ascend together into that immortal glory that they possesse together from all Eternity and so they now enjoy it again in one transcendent glorious person both God and man to all Eternity This proves the truth of these sayings Glorifie me with the same glory I had with thee before the world was and of that saying My glory I will not give to another and of that saying Before Abraham was I am according to that saying of God to Moses when he bade Moses tell Pharaoh that I am sent him and of that saying He thought it no robbery to be equal with God and of that saying I am the living bread which came down from heaven if any man eat of this bread he shall live for ever and of that saying This is the bread which cometh down from heaven that a man may eat thereof and not die and of that saying For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven and giveth life unto the world and of that saying I am that bread of life Again Not that any man hath seen the Father save he which is of God he hath seen the Father and of that saying What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before and of that full saying that proves Jesus to be the Father He was in the world and the world was made by him and the world knew him not and of that saying In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God the same was in the beginning with God all things were made by him and without him was not any thing made that was made Whosoever is not stark blind by this Scripture must needs understand that there is no Creator nor Father but the man Jesus only the Lord of life and glorie and where it is said through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the

the glory of the Father again Elias then as a glorified creature did return all praise and glory unto the Lord Jesus his Creator so that now it is the Lord Jesus alone by his holy Spirit that revealeth all spiritual and heavenly wisdom to elect men and Angels Elias having now with exceeding joy surrendred up his spiritual and glorious stewardship of representing the person of God the Father unto the right owner and sole Heir of Heaven and Earth and all therein is the Lord Jesus Christ the eternal Father God alone blessed to all eternity I know I have spoken enough to the spiritual Christian of this Truth IX AGain I declare by Revelation from the Holy Spirit that about this fourteen hundred years there hath not been one true Prophet nor Minister sent with a Commission from the Lord Jesus to declare or write or preach the everlasting Gospel of truth and peace unto his Elect Wherefore I declare by vertue of my Commission received by voyce of words from the Lord Jesus that all the Ministry in this world whether Prophetical or Ministerial with all the worship taught by them whether invisible or visible to the people it is all a lye and an abomination unto the Lord both the Ministry and their worship are as acceptable unto my God the man Jesus that sent me as the cutting off of a dogs neck Now unto you that discern truth from the Lord I shall give you light into this truth first I declare that all the true Commissionated Prophets of the Lord in the time of the Law from Moses unto John the Baptist with all the true commissionated Apostles and Ministers of the Lord Iesus in the Gospel they had every one of them in their Commission a power given them to set life and death before men or to declare blessing or cursing unto men which is all one according to their administrations received from the Lord. Again I declare from the Holy Spirit that the Lord Iesus did purpose within himself to send his Messengers three times to the world but three times to this bloody unbelieving world and no more for a witnesse or testimony unto them and to make known unto his Elect that he alone is the only God and everlasting Father wherefore you shall find it written there are three bear record in Heaven the Father the Word and the Spirit and these three are one again it is written there are three bear witnesse in Earth the Water the Blood and the Spirit and these three agree in one Again I declare from the Holy Spirit that those three in earth are the Lords three dispensations given to his Prophets or Messengers beforesaid the Water was the Commissions of Moses and the Prophet● under the Law the Blood was the Commission of the Apostles and those Ministers of the Gospel chosen by appointment from the Lord the Spirit which is the third and last Witnesse by Commission from the Lord are those two Witnesses spoken of in the Revelation prophesied of by John the beloved Disciple of Iesus that were to come in the last age whose Message or Ministery or Prophesie is all invisible and spiritual cutting off or condemning all fleshly formal worshipping of an invisible spiritual personal God taken up by vain-glorious men from the Letter of the Scripture which were the Prophets and Apostles Commissions because they want a Commission from the Lord. Again I declare from the Holy Spirit the Lord spake by voyce of word unto his three Commissioners that he hath sent unto the VVorld yea I know God the Father spake unto Moses as a man speaks unto his friend as it is written and I know that God spake unto the Apostles in the person of the Son as it is written because I know the Lord Iesus spake unto me in the person of the Holy Ghost or Spirit as beforesaid only the two former Witnesses saw the person of God in part visibly but I saw the glory of his person invisibly or within me because I am the Messenger of the Holy invisible Spirit Again Concerning those three bearing Record in Heaven beforesaid the meaning of those words are this God from Heaven in a three-fold name or title bear witnesse by Signes and VVonders unto his three Commissioners according to their several administrations given unto them unto Moses and the Prophets this personal God bare witnesse in the name or title of the Father unto the holy Apostles God bare witnesse in the name or title of the Son and unto us his third last Messengers God beareth witnesse in the name or title of the Holy-Spirit because our Commission is all spiritual we have to do only with the invisible spirits of men concerning the eternal estates of men and womens persons in the great and notable eternal Day of the Lords account therefore instead of natural signes upon the bodies or persons of men and women as in the two former Commssions of the Prophets and the Apostles the Lord Iesus beareth witnesse that he hath sent us by spiritual Signs or Wonders upon the spirits of those that are sealed up through our mouthes unto eternal life and unto eternal death as many do bear witnesse whose eyes are opened at this day in England in this great City of London Again This is a true testimony unto you that have faith in the Lord Iesus that he hath sent us by his Holy Spirit because there is none upon this earth that beareth witnesse unto that man Jesus that was crucified at Jerusalem to be the only God and everlasting Father but we only as Moses the Prophets and the Apostles bare witnesse in their times unto this Jesus to be the only God and alone eternal Father but on the contrary there is hardly a Minister in the world that confesseth an invisible God but they preach unto the people either a God of two Persons or a God of three Persons that is a Monster instead of one true personal God or else they teach the People to worship an infinite Spirit that is every where without a Body or Person but he is fain to borrow his creatures bodies to live in that is a God of words only without any form or substance or an infinite nothing that never can be comprehended nor apprehended in the least by any formed creature a cursed lying imaginary God from mans own unclean blind reason which occasioneth all kind of blood and cruelty to be committed in this wicked world between man and man for if men understood indeed that there is but one only wise God and that this God is a distinct body or person then would men understand that all those that are led by the voyce of the Holy Spirit of God the man Jesus to work righteousnesse in their bodies they lived in they only shall appear with bodies of all righteousnesse like unto their God the man Jesus visibly to behold face to face the glorious body of the God of all Righteousnesse for

everlasting world without end Thus it is clear to the understanding of all those that are appointed to know the true God the man Jesus unto life Eternal that there is no true Ministry in the World because they teach not the true God unto the people therefore as it is written they are blind leaders of the blind therefore they must needs both fall into the Ditch Oh! it is an eternal Ditch These are those Merchants of the Letter of the Scripture that make the blind Nations their prey these are those ravening Wolves that come in sheeps cloathing these are those dumb dogs in spiritual things that bark a● true Prophecy and heavenly revelation that a man d●clares by Commission from the Lord Jesus these are those that the Apostle Paul complained on in his time that bewitched the people to turn from the spiritual Gospel to the legal form who began by the Apostle in the spirit but were deluded by false Hypocrites to be made perfect in the flesh these were of those Hypocrites that were in Christs time who under pretence of long prayers devour Widows houses these are those hypocrites that are always teaching of God what he should do for his own glory when indeed it is their own glory in lusting after things that perish they desire when they thus pray or preach or prate these are those bloody hypocrites and workers of iniquity that the Lord Jesus will never own because he never sent them X. AGain I declare by revelation from the Holy Spirit that there is no Magistrate in this world that bears the name of Christian that hath any Authority or Commission from the Lord Jesus to set up any visible form of Worship whatsoever to compel the spirits or consciences of men to how down to his image that he had set up for his own glory because ever since the Lord Jesus ascended into his glory he alone is the Teacher of all his Elect by his Holy Spirit it is truth in the time of the Law before God became flesh there were many Magistrates and Priests commissionated from the Lord to set up and to declare the true Worship of God unto all Israel and it was death by the command of the Lord if the people despised to yield obedience unto it because it was the Lords Worship and no● mans worship set up from his own lying imagination that would be a God but he is a devil for his creating of a Worship to deceive the people without a Commission from the Lord and by taking the prerogative power and glory of God to himself who will not give his glory to another as it is written therefore in the Revelation the Dragon there spoken of is the imagination of the Beast and the Beast is the body of the Magistrate wherein that Dragon imagination liveth and the false prophet there spoken of is the Magistrates Priest and the Image of the Beast is that false worship set up by the imagination of the Magistrate and the serpent-counsel of his false prophet or Priest to deceive themselves and the people with them therefore it is written And all that dwell upon the Earth shall worship him whose names are not written in the Book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the World that is all Reprobates both rich and poor shall bow down unto that false idolatrous worship set up by Heathen Magistrates and their Heathen false prophets the National Priests who call themselves Christian Magistrates and Christian Ministers and are blindly called so by the people also and yet both of these Devils together persecute with the sword of steel all spiritual Christians under the name or title of Blasphemers Seducers Heresie Deceivers of the people and such like because the spiritual Christian cannot bow down unto that carnal Antichristian formal worship set up by those carnal Magistrates and their carnal Ministers beforesaid who being both lovers of the glory of this world loving to be honoured as gods for that cursed heathenish idol-worship from their own invention set up to deceive themselves and those appointed to damnation with them wherefore the Dragon Magistrate and the false Prophet his Serpent-Ministers that committed spiritual fornication together and all those of their own spirits shall every one of them in the day of the Lords vengeance burn in their spirits and bodies together as a lake of fire those spirits and bodies that they shall appear with in the Resurrection shall be that lake of spiritual fire and brimstone that by the decree of the Lord Jesus shall burn together to all eternity this is that giving her own blood to drink who eat up the innocent as bread and thought they did God good service in shedding of the blood of the Lambs of Jesus as their forefathers did then will these Scriptures be fulfilled And those mine enemies that would not that I should reign over them bring them and slay them before me And Go ye cursed into everlasting fire And the Carcasses of the Rebels shall be cast out where the worm never dies and the fire never goes out And Tophet is ordained of old for the King That Tophet is the body of man and that King is the spirit of unclean reason in man for behold the day cometh that shall burn as an Oven and all the proud yea and all that do wickedly shall be stubble and the day that cometh shall burn them up saith the Lord of Hostes and ye shall tread down the wicked for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this saith the Lord of Hosts Fill yee up the measure ●f your Fathers ye Serpents ye generation of Vipers how can ye escape the damnation of Hell for he shall have Judgment without mercy that hath shewed no mercy but the fearful and unbelieving and the abominable and Murtherers Whoremongers and Sorcerers or Astrologers and Idolaters and all lyars shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone which is the second death Again the bloody persecutors beforesaid instead of feeding and cloathing the hungry Saint quite contrary they do not only take away the food and rayment of the Lord Jesus in his Elect innocent Lambs but they crucifie the Lord of life afresh in the shedding of the blood of his Believers because they yield obedience to the spiritual Law of faith and love or command of the Lord Jesus either by Prophecying or writing or speaking the Truth by command from the man Jesus who is the only spiritual Magistrate and Minister unto all that are appointed unto eternal glory with him in that glorious Creation of that new Heaven and new Earth above the stars when this creation beneath the stars is utterly destroyed and fitted only for persecuting Dragon-Serpent-Devils to lament howl and weep to all eternity upon this earth where the Saints by them were put to grief for a moment XI BUt some may say unto me do you not

allow of the civil Magistrate to govern the rude people To this I answer The Magistrate is very needful in every inhabited Land for the government of the People in all civil things to do equal justice between man and man if such a Magistrate could be found it would be a rare thing Again I declare from the Holy Spirit although the Magistrate be but a heathen Ruler as he is wherefore Christ said of this Magistrate unto his Apostles the Kings or Princes of the Gentiles exercise Lordship over them and they that exercise Authority upon them are called Benefactors but ye shall not be so but he that is greatest among you let him be as the younger yet I say from the Lord the Magistrate beareth not the Sword in vain but he is a type of the true spiritual Magistrate that can do nothing but equal Justice between the just and the unjust the Lord Jesus Christ Wherefore all men ought to yield obedience to the civil Laws of the Magistrate either by executing of his Lawes or patiently by bearing the curse of the Law upon their own persons leaving all vengeance unto God or else they rebel against God and they are in danger of an eternal curse because the government of this world and the glory thereof belongs only unto the wise and prudent heathen Magistrates in this Earth who are the very sons of Cain that old Serpent-Dragon-Devil that slew his righteous Brother Abel that he and his Seed that are of his own spirit might be the Lords and Rulers of this world for ever because Cain thought and his dark Angels thinks that there is no world at all but this only they have purchased the Lordship of this perishing world at a dear rate for it was the price of the innocent blood of righteous Abel it is their only heaven Therefore let us that have received faith to believe in the glorious person of the Lord Jesus by his power patiently suffer the cursed spirit of Cain in his heathen Magistrates to shed all our innocent blood if our God will have it so that they may fill up the measure of their fathers sins from the blood of righteous Abel and the holy Prophets to the precious blood of the Lord Iesus and the holy Apostles that our blood that are the two last Witnesses and Prophets of the Lord Iesus may make the last persecutors of Christians compleat Devils with their Father Cain who was the first bloody persecutor of the first suffering Christian therefore it is written that Christ was a Lamb slain from the beginning of the world he being slain in believing Abel I say from the Lord by the power of his Holy Spirit patiently let us yield up our lives with our God unto those perishing gods beforesaid because we that suffer with him are appointed to enter into an eternal Kingdom of glory in another world hid from the wise and prudent Rulers of this vanishing world therefore it is written which of the Rul●rs have believed in him again as it is written Why do the heathen then so furiously rage together the Kings of the earth stand up and the Rulers take Counsel together against the Lord and against his anointed or against his Christ Again as it is written by Paul howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect yet not the wisdom of this world nor of the Princes of this world that come to nought Again it is written which none of the Princes of this world knew for had they known it they would not have crucified the Lord of glory Again that world that we are to reign in after we have suffered it was purchased also by blood but it was the price of the precious unvaluable undefiled blood of our God the man Jesus who by his Holy Spirit that sent us only maketh us willing to taste a little of his Cup that he so deeply drank of the servant is not greater then the Master because we are to sit down with him upon his eternal Throne of glory to behold his face in the presence of all his holy Angels then these Scriptures will be fulfilled Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousnesse sake for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven Again Blessed are ye when men shall revile you and persecute you and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely for my sake rejoyce and be exceeding glad for great is your reward in Heaven for so persecuted they the Prophet● which were before you Again Then shall the righteous shine forth as the Sun in the Kingdom of their Father Again For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his Angels and then he shall reward every man according to his works Again Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world Again then shall he say unto them on the left hand Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels XII AGain I declare by Revelation from the Holy Spirit that since the fall of our first Parents that the spirit and body of man are both mortal and that by the Decree of the Creator the soul and body of man are both procreated or begot together and they are both of one nature and so both but one Creature for it is the invisible spirit that liveth in the seed and nature of man that by the Decree of God creates or begets that form of flesh in the person of a man or woman according to their kind and thus it is with this whole Creation every seed or spirit naturally by the wisdom of the Creator brings forth their own bodies or kind whether Man Beast Fish or Fowl and all things else that grows naturally brings forth in their season according to their natures because the Creator by his secret Counsel and Wisdom decreed within his glorious Person before any thing was created or formed by him that all things or Creatures that should be created or formed by his infinite Wisdom should bring forth their own bodies or kind only and no other for ever therefore when men and beasts seeds are unnaturally mixt together contrary to their kind the Lord discovers them both to their destruction and his glory Wherefore I declare from the Lord Jesus and it is a cursed Imagination in any man to think when men die their spirits may go into other forms and bodies contrary to their own natures or kind as many a cursed lying Atheist prates that denyes the Resurrection of mens bodies through the love of some dark fleshly lust they live in They are in spiritual darknesse understanding nothing of the power of God and so erring not knowing the Scriptures as it is written nor the power of God therefore it is a common thing for these blind Atheists in their discourse to say when men die their spirits may or do go