any such passion as to be capable of grief of heart: why? Because a spirit without a body hath no heart, to be sensible of wrath and anger, with that which it hath made, because of its disobedience, nor pleased with those creatures which do obey his will: why? Because a spirit without a body hath no heart nor will to be pleased or offended, nor capable to walk or talk with man; neither can a spirit without a body be capable to repent, these things belong only to such a God that hath a body of his own; and the true God being a spiritual body in form like man, he seeing the wickedness of man was so great, more great than he thought it would be, when he suffered the serpent to beguile Eve, in that the seed of the serpent, men and women, should act such things as were unnatural, as the people in the old world did; and now God, by experience, saw that the wickedness of man was so great beyond what he expected, that it repented him that he had made man upon the earth, and he was grieved to the heart. By this the reader may observe, that God did not know all things past, present, and to come; neither is that infinite that doth; for if God should know all things. past, present, and to come, then there is nothing more for God to know; therefore his knowledge must be finite, but the nature of infiniteness is to increase in new knowledge, new joys, and new glories eternally; so that when God saw the wickedness of man was so great, beyond what he expected, as aforesaid, it repented him that he had made man upon the earth, and it grieved him to the heart so that now God is resolved in himself with a new resolution, to destroy the thing which he had made, by drowning the world by water. So that God hath a prerogative power in himself to increase in knowledge and understanding, and when any new knowledge doth arise in God, he knoweth how to dispose of it for his own glory, both in the preservation and exaltation of what creatures he pleases, and in the abasement and destruction of others of his creatures. And this is the nature of infiniteness; and of a prerogative power, which is above all law; and this infiniteness and prerogative power is guove a in the body of God, even he that created man in his own image and likeness.

So that Enoch being an holy man, in that he believed in God, and in that he was a righteous man, and did nothing contrary to the law written in his heart, God loved his holy faith, being his own nature, and his obedience to the legal law written in his heart; so that God walked with Enoch, and revealed his secrets unto him, and shewed unto him that God was in the form of man from eternity; and Enoch walked with God, in that he did believe God was in a glorious form like man from eternity, and in that he did obey God's law written in his heart; so that his righteousness did exceed all men that were upon the earth at that time;. so that God revealed unto him glorious things, in that he gave him to know that God was in the form of a man, a spiritual body; and gave him the spirit of prophecy, that this spiritual body should be transmuted into a pure natural body, so that God should be upon this earth, and eat and drink with man as a man. This, and many other wonderful things did Enoch prophecy of concerning God, in the books of Enoch, which Noah, Abraham, Lot, Isaac, and Jacob, and the twelve sons of Jacob did read, as may be seen in the testimony of the twelve sons of Jacob, and in the Scriptures, that maketh mention of Enoch, and how he was translated.

Observe his body was translated and immortalized as well as his soul, and his body went to heaven as well as his soul; for this I say, there never was any soul or spirit that went to heaven without a body since the world began, nor never will to the world's end. For if the soul goeth to heaven, the body goeth to heaven also; for God will not endure to have spirits in heaven without bodies, because his spirit cannot be without a body himself, nor no other creature he hath made in heaven nor in earth; so that what spirits soever goeth to heaven without bodies, God will surely cast them out of heaven for ever. So that it may be clear to the reader, that hath faith to understand the Scriptures, that Enoch did know and believe God to be in the form of man's bodily shape, a spiritual body, and that this spiritual body would transmute itself into a pure natural body, which was Christ, and that this Christ should be the very God that should eat and drink

with man as man, and that the seed of the serpent should put him to death now, if the man Christ Jesus his body and soul was the Lord of life, as the Scriptare saith, then certainly he was God when he was upon earth, and his soul suffered death, as the Scriptures are full to prove but I shall speak more fully to this hereafter. Likewise it may be clear to the reader that no soul nor spirit can go to heaven without its body, and that Enoch's body was translated with his soul, and so went both to heaven, being but one personal substance, neither can they be separated one from the other. This is a standing truth, but few understand and believe it.

4. See Gen. vi. 8. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord; and Noah was a just man, and perfect in his generation, and Noah walked with God. So Gen. viii. 20. And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord, and took of every clean beast, and every clean fowl, and offered burnt-offerings on the altar. And verse 21. And the Lord smelled a sweet savour, and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake."

Here the reader may see that Noah was a just and perfect man in his generation, insomuch that he found grace in the eyes of the Lord, in that he walked with God. So that God revealed himself to him, because he had faith to believe God, and he acted the righteousness of the law written in his heart towards man. For this is to be minded, that God always chose such men, and revealed himself unto them that were righteous in their generation; and if Reeve and Muggleton had not been innocent and free from the breach of the law written in our hearts, and righteous in our generation in these last times, when so much wickedness hath been acted by the professors of godliness in these times, God would never have chosen us, nor have revealed himself unto us, as he hath, though despised by the seed of the serpent, such as Penn the Quaker, and others.

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BUT the serpent said as much by the Lord himself when on earth, as they do by us; but let that pass. Here the reader may see that Noah did believe and know that God was in form like a man, because he found grace in his eyes for Noah knew that a spirit without a body had not leyes not heart to shew favour: but that God, that was in the image and likeness of himself, who had his eyes in his head to see that Noah was righteous before him, God's heart did love him, and shewed favour unto him, and gave him revelation, knowledge, and understanding of himself, and of his form and nature, and to be a preacher of righteousness.So that by faith towards God, and righteousness towards man, he walked with God as Enoch did, but was not translated as Enoch was, but died, and is in the earth at this day; so that he shall not go to heaven until all the rest of the saved of the Lord go to heaven, but his flesh doth rest in hope, as David saith, until the resurrection. mong of

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Likewise we see that Noah was in such a high esteem with God, that when he offered up sacrifices to him, he was so well pleased with it, that the Lord said he smelled a sweet savour; insomuch that the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake. Here we see God hath a nose to smell, and a heart to promise; so that except a man were stone-blind, he could not deny God to be in the form and likeness of man; for a spirit without a body hath no nose to smell, nor heart to promise, but is without form, and void of all sense; it can neither hear, see, nor smell, nor taste, nor handle, nor speak, nor walk; but is an eternal stillness, as I have heard several of the Ranters say and Penn's God and his faith is the same as the Ranters is: this I know to be true.

5. See Gen. xiv. 18. And Melchizedek, king of Salem, brought forth bread and wine, and he was the priest of the most high God. And 19th ver. And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abraham of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth,

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Mind, reader, this Melchizedek, king of Salem, that brought forth bread and wine to Abraham, it was God himself that did appear unto Abraham in the form of a man, and blessed. him now to take off the doubts that do arise in all men's hearts, because the words are so dubious set down by Moses without any interpretation, it seemeth strange that God himself should be a priest, and bring forth bread and wine to Abraham. The case was thus: in those times when Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and their sons were upon the earth, before Moses was born, and called to write the Scripture, there was amongst the righteous fathers, the books of Enoch and his prophecies, and he speaking in his books of a priesthood of the high God, and prophecying of another priesthood of Aaron; and the righteous fathers of old knowing that it would be a long time after their deaths, before the priesthood of Aaron would take place, they, according to the writings of Enoch, did set up priests unto God after that time that Melchizedek had blessed Abraham with the titles of Melchize dek, the priest of the most high God; and they did offer up sacrifices by this priest as unto Melchizedek; and they called the priest Melchizedek, the priest of the most high God and they paid tithes to this priest as unto Melchizedek, the priest of the most high God, as they did afterwards to the priesthood of Aaron; a hint of this may be read in the testimony of the twelve patriarchs at their deaths; for Abraham was going after the slaughter of kings to give the tenth of the spoil unto that Melchizedek the priest; as no doubt but he had done several times before, as in the 20th verse, and gave him tithes of all; but this Melchizedek, king of Salem, who brought bread and wine, as the priest of the most high God, who blessed Abraham, was God himself, only to signify unto Abraham, and those of the faith of Abraham, that in the fulness of time he would take upon him the seed of Abraham in the womb of a virgin, and so become very man, to offer up himself unto sin and death, and to rise again the third day, and so become an high priest after the order of Melchizedek. He that can understand this mystery, let him understand.