and none but he alone, that Belzebub, the prince of devils, and the only father of all those angels of darkness, spoken of in the epistle of Jude, that are kept or reserved, in chains of darkness, of unbelief, unto the judgment of the great day.

Therefore, where it is written of the warfare between Michael and his angels, and the dragon and his angels, that Michael is the spirit of the Lord Jesus, in his angelical believers, whose spiritual weapons are faith and love, and patience, and such like, unto the death, because they see a crown of life, in yielding obedience to the cross of Christ, the dragon, that is, the spirit of cursed Cain, in his persecuting believers, whose carnal weapons are swords and guns, and all kind of murdering weapons whatsoever, flowing from ignorance, cursed covetousness, and vain-glorious envy, selling their eternal birthright for a mess of pottage, because the Lord Jesus hath no delight in their persons; again it is written, and the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil and Satan, he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him; that Cain beforesaid was that serpentdragon angel, and his angels are that fleshly seed of his, or offspring, or generation of serpent-wise prudent men and women, that mind earthly things. These are those serpent reprobate angels, that go upon the bellies of their spirits, and lick up the dust of the earth all the days of their lives; that is, their spirits lick up the gold and the silver, and put it into a bag, for their generations; and this is the food of their souls, and such like, all their days. This is that spirit of unclean reason and wicked imagination, that was in Cain, and now is in all his angels, who are the lords of this world, whose spirits wholly thirst after things that perish, and they are never in their

proper centre, but when the thoughts of their spirits are feeding upon riches, or honours, or friends, or fleshly delights, or long life, and such like. This was the food of that sperpent Cain that slew his brother Abel, because he was more righteous than he; and this is the food, and no other, of all those serpent angelical men and women, both great and small, that are the very sons and daughters of cursed Cain, hating all spiritual righteousnesses, in all spiritual Abels, as he did; therefore, as beforesaid, cursed together with that serpent reprobate devil, their father Cain, from the presence of the Lord, just men and angels, to all eternity.

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Of the eternal Creator clothing himself with Flesh, and so became a pure Man.

AGAIN, for your information, in whose persons the Lord by his Holy Spirit delights to dwell, I declare by revelation from the Holy Spirit of the Lord Jesus, a little of that wonderful unspeakable mystery of God the Father, clothing himself, or manifesting himself in flesh, it is written, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost. Again, it is written, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost and the word became flesh; and behold a Virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emanuel, which being interpreted, is God with us. Again it is written, for unto us a child is born, unto usa son is given, and the government shall be on his shoulders, and his name shall be called Wonder

ful, Counsellor, the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace; of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end. From these scriptures, it is very clear in the bare letter, unto you that see God by the eye of faith, that that holy child Jesus, that was суе born of the Virgin-Wife Mary, he is the only God, and alone eternal father, unto you that have faith in a personal God, or a God of one distinct person, and no more, unto you alone, for whom is prepared a crown of immortal glory, I declare by revelation from the Holy Spirit of the Lord Jesus, that the Holy Ghost beforesaid was the glorious person of that one only wise God, and everlasting Father, and Creator of all things, that entered into the Virgin's womb, and died, or changed his immortality or spirituality, in the body or womb of the Virgin; and immediately quickened or conceived himself of the very nature or seed of the Virgin; a pure natural child or son, in whom, as it is written, the fullness of the godhead lived bodily; so, that as the serpent-angel beforesaid entered into the womb of the Virgin-Wife Eve, and defiled her pure nature, or seed throughout, and died in her womb from his spirituality, and quickened in mortality, and brought forth himself the first-born child or son of the devil, and so he became the father of an innumerable company of serpent reprobate devils, of men and women; so in opposition of that reprobate angel, and prince of devils beforesaid, the glorious person of the eternal God entered into the womb of the Virgin-Wife Mary, and died in her womb from his immortality, and purified her nature or seed throughout, that was unclean before, and quickened himself in pure mortality, and brought forth himself the firstborn son of God, and the only eternal Father of an

innumerable company of elect sons and daughters, purchased by his own precious blood: thus immortality died and quickened in mortality, and this pure mortality died and quickened in immortality and glory again, in that very same flesh or person that died, and now reigneth in glory in the highest heavens, and the lowest hearts, God alone, blessed to all eternity. Thus eternity became time, and time is become eternity again; for there is nothing but an eternal, immortal God, that is the Creator of all life, that can by his own power live and die, and live again: but, on the contrary, no creature hath any power at all, neither to live, nor to die, but by the decree of the Creator alone, the Lord Jesus Christ. Thus you that see by that single eye of faith, may understand in some measure the difference between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent; for ever since the angel-serpent, by his wise cursed counsel, took possession of the garden of God, the bodies of our first parents; I declare from the Holy Spirit, that there is no devil at all without the body of man or woman, but what dwells within the bodies of men and women; so that that devil, so frequently spoken of in the letter of the Scripture, that tempts men and women to all unrighteousness, it is man's spirit of unclean reason, and cursed imagination, that unsatiably lusteth after things that perish, until the Holy Spirit of faith enters into the man, and purifies his unclean spirit, and reveals unto his dark understanding spiritual and glorious durable things, and that makes a man trample this perishing world, and all its vain-glory, under the feet of his spirit, as dung, as it is, in comparison of the glory that is to come, in that world above the stars, that remains to all eternity.

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

AGAIN, it is written, a woman shall compass a man; that woman was the Virgin Mary, and that man was God the Father. Again, it is written, a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: this woman was the Virgin Mary beforesaid, and the sun that she was clothed withal, was the only begotten Son of God, the Eternal Father, in the Virgin's womb; and the moon under her feet, that was the worship of the law of Moses; for she being clothed with the sun, she was filled with the revelation of the everlasting gospel of that Son within her, which was of a more transcendent glory, than that of the law; and that crown of twelve stars upon her head, that was the twelve apostles, that sprang from her head Jesus, to preach the everlasting gospel of truth and peace unto his elect; thus that saying, that every seed shall have his own body, is a little more clear unto you that have faith in a personal God, than it was before; you may understand that God the Father was a spiritual man from eternity, and that in time his righteous spiritual body brought forth a righteous natural body; that the Father, to shew forth his infinite love and humility, and to bring forth a new transcendent glory to himself might become a son, yea, and a servant unto his creatures, in the very condition of a creature for a season, that he might exalt his elect creatures into the same condition of the Creator, in his glory in the highest heavens to all eternity, when the curtains of this