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 ...

X. AGain, I declare by revelation from the Holy Spi∣rit, 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 o∣bedience 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 Wor∣ship 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 spiri∣tual Christians under the name or title of Blasphemers, Se∣ducers, Heresie, Deceivers of the people, and such like; be∣cause the spiritual Christian cannot bow down unto that carnal Antichristian formal worship, set up by those carnal Magistrates, and their carnal Ministers beforesaid, who be∣ing 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-Mini∣sters, 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 To∣phet 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 Vi∣pers; 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, Whore∣mongers, and Sorcerers, or Astrologers, and Idolaters, and all ly∣ars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death. Again, the bloody per∣secutors 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 shed∣ding of the blood of his Believers, because they yield obedi∣ence 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 crea∣tion 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.