_A Copy of a Letter wrote by the Prophet_ JOHN REEVE _to Mrs._ Alice
Webb, _containing her Blessing and the Six Principles, on_ August 15.
1656.
_Loving Friend_,
Desiring your Eternal Happiness in that Place of Glory above the Stars,
I am moved from the Spirit of the Lord to write these Lines unto your
Serious Consideration.
This I know assured as God knows himself, that Jesus Christ from his
Throne of Glory, spake to me by Voice of Words three Mornings together,
which Speaking of his hath opened my dark Understanding to declare such
Spiritual Light to the Chosen of God, as never was so clearly manifested
before, especially in these Six Foundations.
_First_, What the Person of the true God is, and his Divine Nature.
_Secondly_, What the Persons of the holy Angels are, and their Nature.
_Thirdly_, What the Persons of the Devils are and their Natures, and
what the Person of the Devil was before he became a Devil, and begot
Millions of dark Angels or Devils, it being all one.
_Fourthly_, In what Condition the Man _Adam_ was created in, and by what
Means he lost his first estate and the Effects of it.
_Fifthly_, What Heaven and Glory is, and the eternal Residence of it.
_Sixthly_, What Hell and eternal Death is, and the Place where it shall
be to Eternity.
This I know certainly, That before the Lord sent me to declare his
Pleasure unto his People, no Man upon this Earth did clearly understand
any one of these Six Fundamental Truths, which to understand is Life
Eternal, and to be ignorant of them is Death Eternal. Now the Lord hath
sent his two Messengers to declare them, I mean, to all those that may
be informed in these Spiritual Things, and do reject us (that are the
Lord's Messengers of these Things of Salvation) through the Love of
carnal Things, they must all perish to Eternity.
Again, We know from the Lord by that infallible Spirit that he hath
given us, of divers Persons that shall be eternally blessed with us: and
all that we pronounce Cursed to Eternity are eternally Cursed, as sure
as Jesus Christ the Lord of Life is Blessed, because it is his Curse and
not ours.
Again, If the Lord Jesus do not bear Witness unto our Testimony, and
make it evident that he hath sent us in a few Months, then you may
conclude, that there never was any true Prophets nor Christ, nor
Apostles, nor Scripture spoken from the Mouth of God to Men. But there
is nothing but the Wisdom of Men and Nature their God. But this we know,
that those that are joyned with us, are Partakers of those Truths, and
shall be blessed for evermore, and shall in the mean time patiently wait
for the fulfilling of our Prophecy, and shall have Power over their
Thoughts, Words, and Deeds, purifying their Hearts by Faith in the
Person of God even as he is pure, trampling all the Riches and Honour of
this World, under the Feet of their Souls as Dung, because they have
tasted of that Glory to come, that no Tongue of Men or Angels can
express, and this makes them not only love one another in carnal Things,
but for the Truth's sake they are ready if (need require) to forsake all
Relations, and Life itself for one another; and is that Power of that
one only Faith and Truth, declared from the Spirit of God, the Man Jesus
by us, which none enjoys but those of this Faith.
Much more might I write, but speaking Face to Face, (if it may be) is
far more profitable: _Farewell_.
JOHN REEVE, _the true Prophet, of the only true Personal God, the Lord
Jesus Christ upon the Throne of immortal Glory in the highest Heavens_.
_An Epistle of_ JOHN REEVE _to a Friend, written in_ May 1657.
_Shewing_,
That Elect Angels are distinct from him who visibly beheld him Face to
Face, and what that Reprobate Serpent-Angel was in his Creation, which
by the secret Council and unsearchable Wisdom of God, fell from his
created Glory like Lightning from the invisible Heaven above, to this
visible Earth beneath; and through his super-seeming God like Counsel,
he overcame innocent _Eve_; and she yielding unto him, he wholly entred
into her Womb and naturally changed himself into her Seed, and so became
the first-born Son of the Devil, and afterwards a cursed _Cain_, and the
Father of all those _Cananitish_ Reprobate Angels, spoken of in the
visible Records of the Scriptures; _Not as_ Cain, _who was of that
wicked one, and slew his Brother_, the 1st of _John_, the 3d Chapter,
and 18th Verse. _And the Tares are the Children of the wicked one_,
_Math._ 13th Chapter, and the 18th Verse. Also in what Condition _Adam_
was created in, and how he come to fall from his created Estate, and
what that sin was that _Eve_ and he were guilty of, and how Sin came
first in their pure created Natures.
Again, what that heavenly Glory is and where it is, that God's Elect
Wheat, which are the Seed of _Adam_, and not of _Cain_ shall possess
when time shall be no more, and what that shameful Eternal Death is, and
where it is reserved for the Seed of _Cain_ and not of _Adam_, who are
either a Spirit given up to Persecution of Mens Consciences, or else
they are left in Darkness to condemn the Things of Eternity, because
they cannot comprehend them for want of a true distinguishing Spirit,
which is a Gift of the Holy Ghost, unto him which is immediately sent by
the Lord of Glory, that he may be distinguished by the new born of God,
from all those counterfeit or deceived Preachers or Speakers in the
World, who are apt and ready to judge Men in Darkness, if they soberly
ask them needful Questions concerning things of Eternity; the
understanding of those glorious Excellencies, which is the Saints
Inheritance, being utterly hid from them, because they went before they
were sent.
_Friend and Brother in the Eternal Truth_,
By this infallible Demonstration, you may know a Man that hath not a
Commission from the true God, to preach and speak unto the People.
If a searching Speaker or Writer, deliver any thing unto those People
that joyn with him, then for fear of his Weakness or Ignorance being
discovered, he will counsel the Hearers to stick close to the Ordinances
in the Word of God, or to hearken to them, or to that in their
Consciences, and to beware of false Christ's and false Prophets, and
such like borrowing Scripture Languages, to prevent the People of ever
hearing the Glorious and Dreadful Things of Eternity from the
ever-living God, revealed both by Voice of Words without, and
Inspiration within, unto his two last despised true Messengers.
Thus it is clear, they have not the true Spirit of _Paul_ in them, who
gave the true Saints Liberty to try all Things or Opinions of Men, (for
that was his Meaning) but to _hold fast to that which was good_.
Again, that Speaker or Preacher to People, whether publick or private,
that declares against all Appearances that are contrary to his Way,
discovers himself to a discerning Spirit, not to be of the Lord, unless
he can demonstrate a Spiritual Commission received by Voice from Heaven,
from the Mouth of the Lord Jesus Christ, so that no Man can disprove
him, though few from a true Understanding received him.
Again, he that preaches or teaches only of a God or Christ in Mens
Consciences, doth he not question the Scripture Records concerning the
Resurrection and Ascension of the glorious Body of the Lord Jesus
Christ, who through Faith in his invaluable Blood-shedding, the
Consciences of the Elect being sprinkled, are purified from the Power of
all Unrighteousness of Flesh and Spirit, and so doth he not question the
Resurrection of Mankind after Death.
Again if after Death there be no bodily Resurrection for the Spirit to
possess an immortal God-like Glory, or to suffer an eternal Devil-like
Shame, according to their Deeds done in their Bodies; is it not one of
the vainest Babblings under Heaven, for Men to talk of a God or Christ,
or of Righteousness, or Purity, or Mercy, or pure Love without Envy, or
of any Spiritual Excellency whatsoever, unless it be for Gain or Glory
amongst Men.
The eternal Spirit and alone everlasting Father, which essentially
reigneth in the glorified Body of our Lord Jesus Christ his eternal Son,
and spiritually, or motionally, or virtually liveth or reigneth in elect
Men and Angels, bear Record between me and you for Everlasting, or World
without end, whether this Witnessing be not sent unto you, and all the
Elect that shall view it principally for the re-establishing of your
tender Spirit, upon that spiritual Rock of all Ages, the Lord Jesus
Christ God and Man, in one distinct Person Glorified and everlastingly
Honoured, with all Variety of Spiritual new Songs and Praises, from his
Redeemed or Elect Men or Angels, when all Time or Times is swallowed up
into Eternity or Eternities.