aforefaid? How then thinks thou it poffible, that the finful Souls of Men are immortal already, and cannot die. 18. It is written, The Soul that fins fhall die; also it is written, In the Day thou eatest thereof, thou shalt die the Death. I confefs that the Souls of Adam and Eve were not capable of any Kind of Death, until they were both defiled with the finful Nature of the Angelical Serpent: 19. But as foon as ever they had eaten of that curfed ferpentine Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, their Soul and Bodies were free from all their former pure Life: 20. In the Room thereof were fubject to all Kind of impure Death whatsoever, and did not know but that they were both cut off from the divine Prefence of the eternal Spirit. 21. Until the God of Glory himself graciously promised them to become Flefh, Blood, and Bone, of the Virgin Seed, to redeem their finful Souls and Bodies again out of all Kind of Death, into an unchangeable immortal Glory, at his personal appearing with his mighty Angels. 22. Again, the Lord hath faid in divers Places of Scripture, that the Souls of Men fhall be cut off from the Land of the Living, and that the Soul that fins fhall die, and that the pure Soul of Chrift himself was poured forth unto Death, and that the Soul of Christ Jhould not be left in Grave, nor that bis blessed Body should see Corruption; and the Lord hath faid, That Adam and Eve were but Duft, and to Duft they should return again. And yet thou, contrary to all prophetical or apoftolical Scripture, and against all fober Senfe or Reafon in its right Mind, ignorantly or impudently affirmeft, that the finful Soul of Man is already immortal, and cannot die, or be put to Death. 23. Again, from this thy nonfenfical Imagination, dost thou not call all the Scriptures all Lie, and the eternal Majefty from whence they proceeded a Liar to his Face? And doft thou not all call fober Senfe and Reason a meer Lie alfo? 24. I know it is a common Thing for Men to fay they have in them a good Spirit, and a bad Spirit; 'tis confeft that every Man in his fallen Spirit hath remaining a little Light or Motion of the Spirit of God in him, 25. Yet 25. Yet take notice of this, though he hath a twofold Motion in him to juftify all the righteous Proceedings of the Creator in his Conscience at the last Day, yet he hath but one Spirit or Soul in him. 26. Indeed the Apoftle faith, The Spirit lufteth against the Flesh, and the Flefb lufteth against the Spirit, and these two are contrary: That which the Apoftle calls the Spirit in this Place of Scripture was a divine Light of Life, received into the dark Understanding, by vertue of a Word fpeaking from the eternal Spirit of a glorified Chrift, but not the Effence of the Holy Spirit. 27. And that which he calls the Flefh, was Man's own Spirit, which confifts of nothing but confufed lying Imagination, or curfed carnal Reafoning against that heavenly Light aforefaid. 28. Again, you that are fpiritual do know, that all Men that do expect a Glory to come in the invifible Heavens, do confefs that the Spirit of the divine Majefty is infinite, unchangeable, immortal, and eternal. 28. If the Creator's Perfon is of an incomprehenfible Brightnefs, which none can gainfay but angelical Carnallites, how then thinkeft thou it poffible for Men or Angels to be capable of the in-dwelling Effence of the eternal Spirit. 29 Though every Man as aforefaid, have little or much of the ípiritual Motions of God abiding in his Soul, yet take fpecial Notice of this, when he infpireth any Light into finful Spirits, that very Lightitself being diftinct from the infinite Spirit, and effentially one with Mortality, is made capable, not only to live, but also to die together, that it through Death might be capable by the Decree of that Spirit from whence it was produced, to quicken and revive that Mortality again intothe glorious Likeness of the eternal Majefty itfelf, from whence it came. СНАР. CHA P. XXVI. 1. Of the Nature and Place of the Reprobates Torment. 2. The last Witnesses great Confidence concerning the End of the World. 3. Without a Tongue no Speech can be made by God, Angels or Men. 4. God is vifibly feen by Spiritual Bodies, as Kings are by their Subjects. 1. "TA AKE Notice of this alfo, that in what Soul foever this in-fhining Light hath appeared, though he be preferved from defpifing a perfonal God, if before he taste of Death, he doth not attain to understand this glorified Jefus to be the only wife very true God, upon the Sight of fo clear a Discovery as this is, then this will be his Portion : All the Light at his Death fhall vanish and come to nothing, and in the Day of the Lord's Account, by vertue of his Decree, that Luciferian Serpentine Spirit which abhorred the fimple plain Truth, because it discovereth its carnal Deceits, fhall quicken and bring forth a Body of Flesh and Bone of a defcending Nature; yea, fpiritually as dark as Pitch, and naturally as heavy as Lead, a Body of thick Darkness, or Blackness of Darkness, according to Holy Writ. 2. Again, it will be a Body whofe invifible Spirit shall be a Fire of fuch a dark envious Nature, that it fhall burn more intoJerably fierce than any Fire in this World whatsoever, through which the Flesh and Bone fhall be tormented, as if it were nothing else but a Carcafe or Pillar of unfavory burning Brimstone. 3. In that very Place where it doth appear upon this Earth, it fhall either ftand, fit, kneel, or lie along, neither feeing its own dreadful Perfon, nor no Man's elfe. 4. And the main Ground of all his unfpeakable Sorrow will arise from hence, because its Spirit is bar'd close Prisoner in its own Body, from all Kind of former Thoughts, or motioning forth upon any fpiritual Comforts whatfoever, through the the total abfenting in-fhining Prefence of the Lord Jefus Chrift, the everlasting Father. Again, 5. All thy former Pride, Envy, Covetoufnefs, Lying, Luft and Hypocrify, which thou with Delight didft act towards thy innocent Brother's Ruin, fhall then be acted against thine own felf; it will be the Eternity of thy Condition that will increase thy Sorrows and Shame: O it will be in vain then to wifh thou hadst never been born, or any Thing else. 6. Whoever thou art that fhalt out of thy atheistical Soul laugh these Words to Scorn, and fay, thefe are but meer Fancies of my own Brain; know this from the Lord of Glory, when this whole World, and all the Beauty and natural Glory thereof; as namely, the Firmament, Sun, Moon, and Stars, are become nothing but burning Duft, or dry Sand, and an utter Chaos of everlasting confufed Darkness; then thou fhalt remember thy defpifing Things thou knewest not. 7. Is not this answerable to Chrift's own Words, where he faith, If that Light in thee be Darkness, bow great will that Darkness be? Again, The Son of Man fhall fend forth his Angels, and they gather out of his Kingdom all Things that offend, and them that do Iniquity, and shall caft them into a Furnace of Fire, there fhall be weeping and gnashing of Teeth, Matt. 13. Take Notice of this Record of Scripture, and you fhall find that he faid, Thefe Things should be done at the End of the Word. Again, and when the Son of Man cometh in bis Glory, and all the holy Angels with him, then fhall be fit on the Throne of his Glory, and before bim shall be gathered all Na-' tions, and be fball feparate them one from onother, as a Shepherd Separateth the Sheep from the Goats: And be fhall fet the Sheep on his right Hand, and the Goats on his left; then shall the King Say to them on his right Hand, Come ye blessed of my Father, take the Inheritance of the Kingdom prepared for you from the Foundation of the World. Then shall be fay to them on the left Hand, Depart from me ye curfed into everlasting Fire, which is prepared for the Devil and his Angels. Mat. 25. 8. Here ye may fee that the Lord Jefus doth not fpeak of curfing or burning up of Sin in all Men, and eternal Salvation unto all Mens Perfons, but maketh as clear a Diftinction as there there is between Sheep and Goats, of an eternal Separation of two distinct Generations. 9. The one perfonal Nation to enter into that most blessed Eftate or Kingdom of the right Hand of eternal ravishing Glory, with Chrift and his holy Angels, and the other perfonal Generation to be caft out into the left Hand of the fiery burning Kingdom of everlafting utter Darkness, with that Devil Cain and his curfed Generation, being thereunto appointed from the Foundation of the World. Again, 10. Whatever Men fhall imagine or think to the contrary, this was the very Mind of Chrift in thofe Words of his, concerning bleffing elect Ifraelites to Eternity, and curfing Canaanitish Reprobates for everlafting. 11. Who fhall dare open his Mouth in that Day to fay, why haft thou made me thus? As fure as the Lord liveth, and as certain as thou art a living Soul and Body, this very Thing will come to pass in a fhort Season, though Men or Angels fhould gainsay it. 12. The Lord Jefus Chrift neither can, nor will be found a Liar in this nor any Thing elfe, for all the curfed Whimsies of Men in this Age, or any other Age, though the Perfons of ten hundred thoufand Times ten Millions of Men and Women fhould fuffer the Vengeance of eternal fiery Death in utter Darkness. O poor vain Defpifer of a perfonal God, what accurfed Condition art thou in, and knowest it not? 13. In the next Place I fhall speak again concerning the Creator's being an infinite perfonal Majefty, unto which the vifible Forms of Men and Angels bear Record, as unto an incomprehenfible Glory, from whence all their comprehenfible Things had their Beings. 14. Was there not an uncreated eternal Majefty alone, when no Creatures, whether Men or Angels, appeared in a fenfible living Being? Again, 15. Seeing there was from Eternity a diftinct Glory, is it not of Neceffity that this everliving Being should be a glorious Something. 16. Is it not both lawful and expedient alfo for a Man, according to Sobriety, to declare unto his fpiritual and natural Brethren, what this glorious God was, and is, that Man being fent forth by the eternal Spirit for that very End or Purpose? 17. Doth |