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the grave, and through all the sins of his elect, by the shedding of his most precious blood, and so entered into eternal glory, that all those that have faith in his glorious person may be delivered at the appointed time, from sin, death, and the grave, and enter into eternal glory with him, when he comes in the clouds of heaven.

Again, the reason why men's 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 live 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. T

Thus unto you that have faith 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 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, surrendered 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.

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Of Eliah the Prophet ascending bodily in Heaven, to represent the Person of God the Father:

AGAIN, I declare, by revelation from the Holy Spirit, that above these fourteen hundred years there has 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 virtue of my commission, received by voice of words from the Lord Jesus) that all the ministry in this world, whether prophetical or ministerial, with all the wor ship taught by them, whether invisible or visible to the people, it is all a lie, 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 dog's 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 Jesus, 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, accord

ing to their administrations received from the Lord: Again, I declare from the Holy Spirit, that the Lord Jesus did purpose within himself to send his messengers three times to the world, and but three times to this bloody unbelieving world, and no more, for a witness 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 that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Spirit, and these three are one. Again, it is written, There are three bear witness 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 Lord's three dispensations given to his prophets or messengers beforesaid; the water was the commission of Moses and the prophets 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 witness, by commission from the Lord, are those two witnesses spoken of in the Revelation, prophesied of by John, the beloved disciple of Jesus, that were to come in the last age, whose message, or ministry, or prophesy, 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 voice of word, unto his three commissioners that he hath sent unto the world; 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

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unto the apostles in the person of the Son, as it is written; because I know the Lord Jesus 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 visible, but I saw the glory of his person invisible, 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 is this: God from heaven, in a threefold name or title, bare witness by signs and wonders, unto his three commissioners, according to their several administrations given unto them, unto Moses and the Prophets; this personal God bare witness, in the name or title of the Father; unto the holy apostles, God bare witness, in the name or title of the Son; and unto us, his third last messengers, God beareth witness, in the name or title of the Holy Spirit, because our commission is all spiritual, we having to do only with the invisible spirits of men, concerning the eternal estates of men and women persons, in the great and notable eternal day of the Lord's account; therefore, instead of natural signs upon the bodies or persons of men and women, as in the two former commissions of the prophets and the apostles; the Lord Jesus beareth witness that he hath sent us, by spiritual signs or wonders, upon the spirits of those that are sealed up, through our mouths, unto eternal life, and unto eternal death, as many do bear witness, 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 Jesus, that he hath sent us by his Holy Spirit, because there is none upon this earth that beareth witness unto that man Jesus that was crucified at Jerusalem, to be the only God and everlasting

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Father, but we only; as Moses, the prophets, and the apostles bare witness 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 worshipan 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 man's 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, as a man is a distinct body or person, then would men understand, that all those that are led by the voice of the Holy Spirit of God, the man Jesus, to work righteousness in their bodies they lived in, they only shall appear with bodies of all righteousness, like unto their God the man Jesus, visibly to behold face to face, the glorious body of the God of all righteousness 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.

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