A divine looking-glass, or, The third and last testament of Our Lord Jesus Christ whose personal residence is seated on his throne of eternal glory in another world : being the commission of the spirit, agreeing with, and explaining of the two former commissions of the law and Gospel, differing only in point of worship : set forth for the tryal of all sorts of supposed spiritual lights in the world, until the ever-lasting true Jesus, the onely high and mighty God, pesonally appear in the air with his saints and angels / by John Reeve and Lodowick Muggleton ...

CHAP. XLVI.

1 The last commissionated Prophet come into the World. 2 No calling of the natural Jews to the profession of the true Jesus. 3 Two sorts of Jews. 4 Some remark∣able signs of the approaching of the day of Judgement.

IF there be such a dreadful day of Christs personal appearing in his glory with his mighty Angels, some men may say unto me, may it not be a long season, are there not many prophecies yet to be fulfilled, before his coming, as the calling of the Jews, and the sign of the Son of Man in Heaven, and such like?

2 From an unerring spirit, to this I answer, As John the Baptist was the last Prophet under the Law, and the forerunner of the sud∣den appearing of Christ Jesus the Lord in a body of flesh;

3 So likewise I positively affirm against all gain-sayers under hea∣ven, that I John Reeve, am the last commissionated Prophet that ever shall declare divine secrets, according to the foundation of truth, until the Lord Jesus Christ appear on his Throne of glory, visibly to be seen by all his elect face to face.

4 But of the contrary, in that day of our God and King of glori∣ous Crowns appearing, none of those cursed men and women, which blasphemously said, that God hath no person at all, shall ever be able to behold his face, and live; but according to Holy Writ, they shall cry to the Mountains, Hills, or Rocks, to hide them from the wrath of his bright burning body, or face, that sits upon the Throne.

5 Concerning a general visible calling of the Jews in all Nati∣ons, to the acknowledgement of Christ being come in the flesh, I say from the eternal spirit that sent me, that there will never be any such thing in the world; indeed the Ministerial Artists have of a long season imagined an outward call of the Jews, to their vain glorious seeming holiness, but the most Wise and Holy God intends no such thing.

6 Wherefore to confound their carnal wisdom, his glorious pur∣pose is to call home to himself those Jews and Gentiles, elected to everlasting life by the invisible teaching of his most Holy Spirit.

7 You that are sober may come to understand that there is two sort of Jews, there is a Mosaical Jew, and an Apostolical Jew.

8 Moreover you may know, that those men called Independents, Annabaptists, Presbyterians, are the literal Apostolical Jews.

9 And those men that observe Saturday for their Sabbath, are those Mosaical legal Jews, which utterly deny that Christ is yet come in the flesh, but ignorantly expect his appearing in a fleshly glorious manner, to raign over them in the Throne of David his Father.

10 Moreover these Sabbattical Saturday Jews, John Tanee like, do imagine when their fleshly Christ appears to raign over them, that he will gather them out of all nations wherein they are scattered, and conduct them into the inheritance of their fathers, that promised Land of Canaan; and there they make account with their imaginary King to live in a temporal glorious condition for a long season; and as they have been servants and slaves to all Nations wherein they were scattered, so likewise as a reward of their servitude, they fully expect that all Nations shall bow down to them, and bring in their

riches and glory unto them, as their vassals for ever.

11 You that are spiritual, may know, that these unbelieving Mosaical Jews, which expect a carnal Christ to raign over them, were those Jews which at the death of Christ said, his blood be upon us and our children; and truly you know his blood was upon them, and their children to some purpose, in the destruction of Hierusalem, and unto this day, yea, and so it will be to the end of the world.

For the Lord Jesus will never spiritually gather the seed of those Jews, which rated a bloody Barabas above the Lord of life himself.

13 Moreover those Jews which were afraid of having any hand in the death of Christ, were the fathers of those spiritual Jews in all Nations, that are mixed in marriages with the Gentiles, whose merciful innocent spirits are delivered from all tyranny over mens consciences.

14 Furthermore, those Independent, Annabaptist, Presbyterian men, which hold it lawful, just and good, to persecute men in their per∣sons and estates upon a spiritual account, I say from the eternal spirit, that they are for the most part the off-spring of those bloody-minded Jews that crucified the Lord of Glory upon the account of blasphemy, as beforesaid.

15 O blessed are all unpersecuting merciful minded men and women onely!

16 All innocent, merciful Independent, Annabaptist, Presbyterian men, or women, that are preserved from a persecuting minde of di∣vine things which seem difficult, from the eternal spirit I declare, those are part of Gods spiritual wheat, which are mixed with the chaffy Jews and Gentiles, which are the off-spring of cursed Cain, whom the Lord shall burn with unquenchable fire, when he cometh in his Glory with his Angels, to receive his spiritual wheat into his heavenly barn, as aforesaid.

17 Thus you that are spiritually enlightned from on high, may clearly see, that the calling of the elect Jews in all nations unto the knowledge of the divine Majesty, and his heavenly truths, was not meant an outward calling of them from a Mosaical legallity, unto an Apostolical literallity, as many men have vainly imagined, but it was an inward calling of them by the motions of the eternal spirit, to the right understanding of the one personal Majesty on the Throne of Glory, and his heavenly truths.

18 Again, concerning the sign of the Son of Man in heaven, in the 24. of Matthew and the 30. it is thus written, And then shall appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven, and then shall all the kin∣dred of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of Man come in the Clouds of heaven with power and great glory; this sign of the Son of Man was that substance, or very Son of Man himself, and the glory of his personal appearing in the Clouds of Heaven with his glittering Angels, caused such a fiery brightness, not onely in the visible Hea∣vens above, but the whole earth beneath also appeareth like a flame of fire, or burning lightning, insomuch that all the kindreds of the earth, which never expected that dreadful day, because their persons were not transmuted into the divine likeness of the Son of Man.

19 Therefore their unbelieving earthly spirits did quake and tremble, lament and howl like dogs, for very fear of the foresaid sign of the Son of Man should rend them to pieces, and burn them and their inward God, or Christ, to powder; I mean all those which gloried of a God or Christ within them onely, and cursedly despised this personal God on his glorious Throne without them.

20 Thus you in whose persons the King of Glory raigneth by the heavenly incomes of his eternal brightness, may in some measure see what is meant by the sign of the Son of Man in Heaven, when he appeareth in his glory with his holy Angels.

21 As the immortalized spirits and bodies are filled with asto∣nishing ravishments with the very sight of the Son of Man in his glorious Throne aforesaid;

22 So likewise the carnal spirits and bodies of all Hypocrites, which gloried in a Christ, ordinances, and salvation without them, and despised the invisible breathings of his Holy Spirit in his inno∣cent people, as delusion, blasphemy, and such like, shall be full of unspeakable burning, pain and shame, through their inability of bearing the fiery brightness of the Son of Man, that most high and mighty God, with his elect men and Angels, as abundantly before∣said.

23 Moreover, you know it is said, As it was in the days of Noah, and in the days of Lot, so it shall be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed.

24 Furthermore, you know the Scripture saith, They were eating and drinking and marrying of wives, and planting, and building, unto the day that Noah entred into the Ark; but in the day that Lot went

out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone, and destroyed them all.

25 Again, you know the whole old world, and Sodomites, a little before their final dissolution, were not onely possessed with all va∣riety of natural comforts, but they were also given up to all maner of unnatural filthiness, and so continued to the day of their total de∣struction.

26 Moreover, you know it is recorded of the men of Sodom, that they were haters of God, and turned the truth of God unto a lie, and worshipped and served the creature, forsaking the Creator, which is bles∣sed for evermore, Amen.

27 Furthermore, While the meat of the unsatiable Jews were in their mouths, you know there was a plague brake out among them. These final dissolutions you know were not onely invisible, but vi∣sible also.

28 Moreover, if the personal appearing of Christ in his Glory shall be like unto that of Noah and Lot, and the final dissolution of the old world, and that of Sodom and Gomorrah when it was in the midst of the height of all their fleshly filthiness, and exceeding ful∣ness of bread, which included all good things, and in their more then ordinary planting, building, putting the evil day far from them; is it not thus in these out days also, was there ever more glorying in all maner of Sodomitical, unnatural filthiness, then now there is?

29 Did men ever deifie carnal creatures as now they do?

Moreover, was there ever such a babling about a God, or Christ, in mens consciences onely as now there is? notwithstanding many of those cursed Serpents villifie the very name of a personal God in a Throne of Glory above the Stars, more then the greatest theeving, whoring, murderer, in the land?

31 Furthermore, was there ever such talk of pure love without envy upon a spiritual account, as in these our days, and in stead of mercy towards one another, since the world began, under pretence of conscience, and an art of lamb-like words, do not men like roar∣ing Lyons lie lurking in every quarter, seeking whom they may de∣vour?

32 Again, notwithstanding such varieties of breaking forth in de∣claring the sudden appearing of the Lord of Hosts, to recompence vengeance upon all sorts of bloody-minded covetous men whatsoe∣ver, can any man living ever remember such purchasing, such build∣••ng, such planting, and plenty of all natural comforts, as now there is?

33 Moreover, was there in any mans memory such changes in Government, and marvelous transactions in them, as in these our days?

34 Furthermore, was there ever such variety of witchcraft, voi∣ces, visions, signs, and wonders acted as in these our days, from a pretended spiritual God, Christ, or power within men onely?

35 Besides all this, hath not the God of Glory by poor and con∣temptable means discovered the Serpentine subtilties of the honor∣able artificial Priests and Astrologian Sorcerers in this age and land, more then ever he did since the Apostles times, and hath there not been many signs in the heavens, and in the earth, and in the crea∣tures, in a marvelous maner, since our civil dissentions, with many bloody massacres at home and abroad, and doth these things presage nothing, or did they come to pass by chance, or fortune onely?

36 O ye Hypocritical minded sign-mongers, and cursed despisers of the Son of God, who is the Lord your maker, remember what effect those wonderful signs in Egypt took upon Pharaoh, his Coun∣sellors, and people! and what effect Eliah the Prophets signs took upon Ahab, Jezebel, and her four hundred Idolatrous Priests, be∣sides your forefathers that murdered the Lord of Glory, his Prophets, Apostles, and innocent people, for the truths sake onely, though they had the gift of tongues and miracles, by calling all their mira∣cles, languages, or spiritual truths delusions, to deceive the people against the very light of their own consciences, through a secret fear of losing their gain and glory among men that perish.