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ture, even stones of that earth above the stars, only to signify that God had written the law in the stony heart of man, who received this law written in his heart from the seed of the serpent that was thrown down from heaven, even that serpent that beguiled Eve; likewise, God, being a spiritual body, but of the stature of a middle-statured man, he could come down from heaven in a cloud upon the mount; and when Moses went up unto the mount of God, then did God descend from heaven in a cloud upon the mount, and covered the mount with the cloud, and the glory of the Lord abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. That is, the brightness of God's person did shine upon the mount, which no natural eye could look upon him, only the cloud covered his bright glory; so that Moses might speak with him face to face, though he could not see his face; yet God called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud, and at the sight of the glory of the Lord it was like devouring fire in the top of the mount, in the eyes of the children of Israel; yet notwithstanding Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and was in the mount forty days and forty nights; likewise when Moses entered into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended, and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and the Lord talked with Moses. Observe the tabernacle was always below the mount, and when God had any thing to reveal to Moses when he was in the tabernacle, God always descended in this cloudy pillar, and it always stood at the door of the tabernacle, and out of this cloudy pillar stood at the door of the tabernacle, did God speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaketh to his friend.

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By these Scripture words, a man may clearly see that God is a spiritual body, in form like a man, and did always ap pear so to the righteous; and we see that God being of no bigger stature than a man, being spiritual, he can subscribe his person into what particular place he pleases, and speak with what particular person he pleases to speak unto; and he being of a like spiritual fiery body, that the very clouds shall bear him up, and the clouds shall descend from heaven with him in it, at his command; and at his command the clouds shall ascend, and carry him up to heaven again; even

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as a king's chariot doth carry him here on earth, up hill and down hill; such a God as this do I own and believe in, and do deny such a God as Penn the Quaker worshippeth, who is a Spirit without any body or form at all; that can neither hear, nor see, nor speak, nor be subscribed to no particular place, but is at all places at one and the same time; and nevertheless, from being in all places at one and the same time, such a kind of God as this will do a particular man but little good in time of trouble; neither will this God deliver Penn himself, nor save him from that sentence and judgment that a mortal man hath given him in the day of account.

8. See Exod. xxxiv. 34. But when Moses went in before the Lord to speak with him, he took the vail off, until he came out. Verse 35, And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face shone; and Moses put the vail upon his face again, until he went in to speak with him. So Num. xii. 4. And the Lord spake suddenly unto Moses, and unto Aaron, and unto Miriam, and they three came out. Verse 5. And the Lord came down in the pillar of the cloud, in the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam, and they both came forth. Verse 6. And he said, Hear now my words, if there be any prophet among you, I the Lord will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream. Verse 7. My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house. Verse 8. With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches, and the similitude of the Lord shall he behold.

Here the reader may see clearly that God is in the form of man; for Moses was a man, and that Moses, when he went to speak with God, he took the vail off his face until he had done speaking with God; and when Moses came from talking with God he put the vail over his face again, because the children of Israel should not look upon the face of Moses; because the skin of his face did shine, nor speak unto him, except the vail was upon his face; likewise, we see that the Lord spake suddenly unto Moses, and unto Aaron, and unto Miriam, and that God said unto them, Hear now my words, if there be a prophet among you, I the Lord will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a

dream my servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house; with him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the Lord shall he behold.

Observe, Moses was a man, and he spake to God mouth to mouth; so that God had a mouth as well as Moses. Secondly, That God's talking with Moses mouth to mouth made his face to shine so bright, that the people could not look upon Moses' face. Thirdly, That the Lord descended and came down from heaven in the pillar of the cloud, and stood in the door of the tabernacle, and that God called out of the pillar of the cloud-unto Aaron and Miriam. Fourthly, That God doth make himself known to some by vision and dream. Fifthly, That God spake familiar words unto Moses as a man speaks to his friend. Sixthly, That Moses did see and behold the similitude of the Lord; that is, Moses did see and behold that God was in the form of man, according to his own revelation in Genesis. God made man in his own image and likeness. These Scriptures are full to prove, that God is a spiritual person, in form like a man, and that he is subscribed to one particular place at a time, where he pleases; and that his person was contained only in the pillar of the cloud when he descended from heaven upon the mount to talk with Moses; and there was no God in heaven for that season, but his power only, until he did ascend to heaven in the pillar of the cloud again. Thus God was, and is when he pleases, contained and subscribed to a particular place, even in the pillar of a cloud upon the mount of Sinai, and God was no where else in his person at that time but there. This God was Moses' and the true prophets' God, and this is Reeve and Muggleton's God.

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9. THAT made man in his own image and likeness, in respect of his body as well as his soul, this was the God that the righteous fathers of old did serve and believe in, as I have shewed before; neither is there titles of honour attributed

but to a person; and though we do know and believe the everlasting God, who made man in his own image and likeness, to be a spiritual body or person; yet this spiritual body is clearer than chrystal, brighter than the sun, swifter than thought when he pleases, yet a body. This Penn's imagination cannot comprehend; this is that God of Jeshuran that rideth upon the heavens, and in his excellency on the sky, and sitteth upon the circle of the earth, he being a spid ritual body, he rideth upon the wings of the wind, in that he hath made the clouds for the pavement of his feet, and he hath commanded the winds to drive the clouds which way he pleases, even as a king doth his chariot upon earth. He maketh the clouds to descend from 1 heaven to earth with his person in it, when he pleases, and he commandeth the cloud to ascend from earth to heaven again when he pleases: And when he pleases he rideth in a cloud about the circle of the firmament of heaven, and overlooketh the circle of the earth, yet his bulk and bigness but the dimension of a middle-statured

and brightness, man, yet his body being of that clearness, d'swiftness, the the clouds can carry a spiritual body with ease, and can ascend and descend, as we read that God did ascend and descend in the pillar of the cloud when he spake to Moses and Aaron in Mount Sinai; likewise we read that God set a ladder on the earth, which the top reached up to heaven: this ladder was for the angels, being spiritual bodies, to descend and ascend; and this ladder was made of the clouds; and the steps of the ladder that reached from earth to heaven were but three steps, to signify the three commissions, or three records upon earth, to wit, the water, blood, and spirit, answerable to those three records in heaven, of Father, Word, and Spirit: and as this ladder had but three steps from heaven to earth, to signify that God would descend from heaven but three times to speak unto men to the hearing of the ear, to give them commission here on earth, that they might all three agree in one to bear record to those three in heaven, of Father, Word, and Spirit, to be but one personal God, in the form and likeness of man's bodily shape. bold 998 It clus 10 covered suit le bas tirige out to 202zontiw

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So that God hath made the clouds as a ladder, with three steps, for the angels and himself to descend and ascend when he pleased; and whereas it is said, that Jacob saw in his vision the angels come down the ladder first, it was to signify that the dispensation of angels should be acted first upon this earth by Moses and the prophets; and whereas it is said, that God was upon the top of the ladder that reached to heaven; and after the angels were passed by, then God, that sat at the top of the ladder, he came down and wrestled with Jacob, to signify, that he would descend from heaven into the womb of a virgin, and become very man; and would suffer death, and shed his most precious blood, for the redemption of the seed of Abraham and Isaac his fathers; and that his apostles should bear witness that he shed his most precious blood; and for this record of theirs, their bloods should be shed also, which came to pass: and this was the record of blood here upon earth, answerable to the record of the word in heaven; and this was the second step and dispensation from heaven acted upon this earth by Christ and his apostles and the third and lowest step of this ladder is the dispensation or commission of the Spirit now in this last age, when God spake unto John Reeve, and gave Lodowick Muggleton to be his mouth. This commission of the Spirit hath borne witness here on earth to that one God in heaven, called Father, Word, and Spirit, to be in the form of man's bodily shape and likeness; and that he made man in his own image and likeness, without any mental reservation ; and this record of the Spirit, it hath been in being upon this earth above twenty years, and as those that were spiritualized in the other two commissions, as Moses, Elijah, and Christ, that ascended up to heaven in a cloud, to signify that all the true seed in their commissions in the resurrection shall ascend up to heaven in clouds also; and so shall we, the witnesses of the Spirit, and all true believers of this third