lower heavens are drawn and vanished like smoke, never more to be, time being past. Again, it is written, he that hath seen 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 die 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 man kind, 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 cleanse 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 satisfy the cry of the guilt of sin in men's spirits, all men would have perished 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 righteousness, until the precious blood of a God, by the Holy Spirit of faith, was sprinkled in their consciences, that by the pure

life of spiritual love to God and man, they might break the serpent's 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 cleanse 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 entered 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 his nature or kind. God the father being a spiritual man from all eternity, in time begot and brought forth himself a man-child in mortality, of all, pure righteousness, therefore he was called the express image of the Father, because he was indeed the very Father; and that made him say, he 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 possess 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 spirit 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 possessed together from all eternity; and so they now enjoy it again, in one transcendent glorious person, both God and man, to all eternity.

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This proves the truth of these sayings, Glorify 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; cording to that saying of God to Moses, when he bid Moses tell Pharoh 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 glory; and where it is said, Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed

by the word of God, so that things that are (visible or) seen, were not made of things that do appear; and of that saying, I am Alpha and Omega, I am the First and the Last; and behold I create all things new; and of that saying, I am he that was dead and am alive, and behold I live for evermore. This was the Man Jesus, that sat upon the throne of the Father, with many other scriptures too tedious to relate, that prove clearly, to all that are appointed to eternal glory, that the Lord Jesus Christ, that died without the gates of Jerusalem, is the only God, and everlasting Father, and alone Creator of all things that were made, both in heaven and in earth. Therefore I declare from the Holy Spirit of the Lord Jesus that sent us, that whosoever prays in his spirit or tongue unto any other God or spirit, but unto my God, the Man Jesus, that sent me, he prays unto a Devil of his own imagination, instead of a God; for that Man Jesus then to come, was David's only God and Saviour: therefore he said, The Lord said unto my Lord, sit thou on my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool. And this Jesus was all the true Prophets' God in the time of the law, and this Jesus was the Holy Apostles' God, and all the Christians' God, in the time of the Apostles' commission, or dispensation, or administration, that lasted about three hundred years; and this glorious Man Jesus is my God alone, and the God of all spiritual Christians in this last age, until he comes in his glory.

CHAP. VIII.

Of the creating of Man, and the Nature of holy Angels in their Creation.

AGAIN, but some say, if Jesus Christ be the only God and eternal Father, who was that Father that he spake so much of when he was in mortality, where he said, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? and, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit, and such like: to this I answer, by revelation from the Holy Spirit, that Eliah, spoken of in the law, that was taken up bodily by a whirlwind into heaven, where the likeness of a chariot and horses of fire appeared to Elisha at his departure: I say from the Lord, that the body or person of that Eliah was taken up and glorified in the heavens by the Creator, for that very purpose, that he might represent the person of God the Father for that time or season, whilst God the Father went that] journey in flesh, as aforesaid; again it is written, he shall give his angels charge over thee; those angels were Moses and Eliah; who being both glorified, they did both represent the person of the Father, in the heavens above the stars, as they did represent the person of the Son and of the Father, when they were in earth beneath the stars. When Moses was upon this earth he represented the person of God the Son, that lamb Jesus, that was then to come in flesh; in these things, first Moses was called the meekest man upon the face of the earth. Again, he was a great type of Christ in this, in offering up himself to be blotted out of the book of life for the salvation of Israel; as the Lord Jesus became