(The Revelation) 20 - CHAP. XIV.

THE grand Query after all that hath been revealed, concerning the Reign of Christ in his Saints, is this, Where this Government shall be pitched? It is an ancient Scripture-Prophecy, that Judah shall reign with God, for he is faithful with the Saints. The Scepter shall not depart till Shiloh come, who is the King and Law-giver, that is, was, and is to come. And to whom will he come first of all, but to those pure Virgin-Spirits, who travel to bring forth Christ Spiritually, as the product of an invisible Almightiness, which will appear to be that Man-Child which is to rule the Nations with the Rod of God’s Power, in this World, and to do far greater Wonders with it than Moses ever did with his. For the Eternal Magia shall bring forth all her Plants of renown. The highest Wisdom shall be brought into Manifestation, and replenish the Earth a-new, that God may walk in the midst of it, and no longer be unknown to its Inhabitants, who are refined from their Dross, and thereby got a free and open entrance into the Jerusalem from above. The partition Wall must be broken down, that Christ above and Christ beneath may joyn together for mutual Joy and Fruition. But here it may be Objected, How can this be as long as the Body is yet Terrestrial; for an Earthly Body cannot ascend to the Lord’s Glory? I Answer; That therefore a new Body is prepared, even a Heavenly, such an one as Christ had, who could change his Form how and when he pleased: So he appeared to Moses and Elias in his transfigured bright Body, and then came down again in a terrestrial Body in the sight of Mortals; which Power shall be renewed again in those who shall personate Christ upon the Earth, they shall ascend and descend at pleasure, and transmute themselves readily, which state will much excel all Visions of the Glorified Person of Christ; for without this Coelestial Body we cannot hold out in that Sublime and Seraphick Communion with Christ, which shall be in this Kingdom of the Saints: Wherefore there is such a Body prepared, which shall be able to pass into the invisible Orb, where the King of Glory dwells: It is given me to see this approaching day in the Spirit. And if the Representation thereof be so glorious, what will the thing itself, when actually accomplished? This report which the Holy Ghost doth give of it, doth powerfully constrain the Soul to put in its whole stock of Faith for it.