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and last record of the Spirit in the resurrection, rise spiritual bodies, and shall be caught up with clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: this is the true interpretation of Jacob's vision.

Further, I say, it is clear by Scripture, that spiritual bodies doth descend from heaven in clouds, and ascend to hea ven in clouds, as may be seen, Mat. xvii. 3. And behold, there appeared unto them Moses, and Elias talking with him: this Moses and Elias came down from heaven in a cloud, upon ཐམས་ that high mountain, as may be seen from ver. 5. While he yet spake, behold a bright cloud overshadowed them, and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him. It is clear, that this! bright cloud brought Moses and Elias from heaven upon that mountain; and they ascended up to heaven again in that bright cloud, so in Acts i. 9. While they beheld, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight, and carried him up to heaven, as may be seen ver. 10. So that spiritual bodies may ascend up to heaven in clouds, as cha riots, even as natural bodies are carried up and down in chariots here upon this earth...) ahoj si agy bol pods brok And this is to be minded by the reader, that there never went any souls or spirits to heaven in a cloud, without bodies; for if the spirit ascended in a cloud, the body as cended in a cloud also; they came both together, and goi both together, and are never separated the one from thei other. Furthermore, God hath made several sorts of clouds, some bright and white clouds, and some; black, clouds, and clouds of fire; and all these several sorts of clouds are God's chariots, for spiritual bodies to ride in, or to descend or ascend, as may be seen, 2 Kings ii. 11. concerning Elijah and Elisha: And it came to pass, as they still went on and t talked, that behold there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder. Here the reader mayo see, that God hath in heaven chariots of fire and horses of fire; and he hath commanded the strong whirlwind to do his work, to bear up the fiery horses and fiery cha-) riots, with the body and soul of Elijah in it, to heaven;it these things will seem to anti-christian spirited Quakers, who hath no faith in the Scriptures, but as idle tales;

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yet it is the real truth and power of God to those that have faith to believe the Scriptures, and doth understand the power of God, to them it will be peace and satisfaction of mind, for these things are possible with God; and it is possible for the seed of faith to believe, but it is impossible for the seed of the serpent, such as Penn the Quaker is, to comprehend or understand by his reason, God's form, nature, nor handy works, not here on earth, much less his handy works in heaven.v mol roses

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In the next place, I shall give the reader to understand in a measure, how far a man may make graven images, and how far not, and why God was so angry with the people of Israel for making graven images, and punishing them for it. We read in the second commandment Moses gave to Israel, the words are these: Thou shalt have no other Gods but me, or before me; thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth thou shalt not bow down to them, nor serve them, for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, &c.

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Observe, reader, and mind, first, that there is things in heaven above, as God himself, and angels, and all other creatures, in a glorious celestial state; likewise, there is things here on earth, as man; beasts, and other creatures; and there is things in the waters under the earth, as fish and fowl; Now observe, we find in Scripture that it was lawful to make graven images of things in heaven above, as angels and cherubims, as Solomon did, yet God did not blame him for it, but rather commended him; likewise we see that cunning workmen doth paint and carve out images here upon earth; the images and pictures of kings and other great men, and all sorts of beasts upon the earth they are carved and painted out by skilful workmen ; also the skilful workman with his tools and implements, doth carve and paint out all kind of fish and fowl that are in the waters under the earth, yet God doth not blame men for it, nor charge them with doing that which is unlawful.

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CHAP. XV.

So that a man may make the image of God in heaven above, in wood or stone as well as they do make the image of angels, and the image and picture of Christ, and yet be blameless; but here lieth the unlawfulness of making graven images, in setting this graven image apart for his God, to worship it; so that a man worships a God of his own making, which can neither speak, hear, see, walk, nor stir from the place he is set, except he that made this God take it, and remove it to yonder place; for here lieth the wicked blindness of man's understanding, he being made a living man himself by a living God in heaven, he ought to worship this living God that made man in his own image and likeness, a living man to worship a living God; but because man cannot see that living God that made him, therefore he will go and make himself a dead God of wood and stone, and gild it over with gold, and set it in such a place that he may see his God he hath made, and worship it. Now this worshipping of graven images that hath not life in them, is that which God condemns and will punish. As for example: when Christ was upon earth, a living man, it was lawful to fall down and worship him, as several did that saw him: but if you should draw out his image and likeness in wood, stone, gold or silver, and bow down and worship this image, though it may be very like him, yet you worship an idol; as for example, we see the picture and image of the king in many signs, and the picture and image is very like him; but if any man shall bow down and worship this image or picture of the king, as he doth to the king's person that is alive, it is a great idolatry.

But for a man to make this supplication and petition to a live king, is no idolatry, but allowable of God, therefore the Jews were condemned by the prophet Isaiah, and by the prophet Elijah, for bowing their knees to Baal; why?

because the image of Baal had no life in him, neither could he see, hear, smell, taste, speak, nor stir from the place where they set him: this was horrible idolatry, for which God's anger was kindled against them; but to bow the knee to a king that is alive, or any other man in authority, and to do obeisance to them, is no idolatry, but commended and commanded of God, for the inferior person to do reverence to to the superior person; and it was a practice of the fathers of old to bow themselves to them that were above them, as Abraham, the father of the faithful, when he saw three angels in the forms of men, he bowed himself toward the ground; and the two angels that came to Lot, when he saw them, he rose up to meet them, and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground; likewise Jacob, when he met his brother Esau, bowed himself before him with his face toward the ground; likewise Joseph's brethren, faceb when they came to Egypt to buy corn, they bowed down themselves unto Joseph with their faces to the earth several times, in obeisance to Joseph. o iyi qidlarow lokum bon Besides, it was always the custom of the righteous, as well as the wicked, to bow themselves, and to show obeisance and reverence to great men in power that is alive, and it is justifiable in the justifiable in the sight of God and man; but if any man shall offer up sacrifice, or make any prayer or petition, or bow themselves, and yield obedience and reverence to the bgolden image, or any other picture or image that hath no life in it, that can neither hear, see, nor speak, as the priests of Baal did to the image Baal; and as the Israelites did to worship the golden calf; and as the heathen all the world over did worship images, as David saith, the heathen worship images that see not, they hear not, neither can they speak through the throat; so that it is not unlawful for workmen to make the image and likeness of man, which is the image of God, nor to make the image and likeness of Christ, nor the image of the king or any other man; or the image and likeness of all kind of beasts, fowls, and fishes, as is commonly in signs, to distinguish one from the other, commonly in signs, to dist as some hath the image of a king, some the image of a lion, Judy food of 2990

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and others the image of a lamb, therefore called, "The Sign of the Holy Lamb.'

These images are all lawful for workmen to make; but for a man to worship this image he hath made, though it be the image of the king himself, nay, though it be the image of God, the King of heaven, whose image may be made, as the image of Christ is made, the only wise God in the state of mortality, as he was upon the earth; and now he is in glory, he retaineth the same image, form, and likeness, as he did when he was upon earth; so that the skilful workman may make the image and likeness of God as he doth another man, yet no man ought to worship this image and likeness of God, though set up by authority; and whoever doth worship this image made by man, they do worship an idol, and are liable to those plagues God hath threatened to those that worship idols; and this was the great sin the children of Israel committed, which was the cause of God's anger, which caused him to remove them out of that land which he gave them; so that a man may worship the living God, who is in the form and likeness of man, but not his image, that hath no life, which is made by man. Secondly, a man may bow himself with his face to the ground to an angel, as Abraham and Lot did, but not to the image of an angel. Thirdly, a man may bow his face to the ground to a king, as Joseph's brethren did to him, but not to the image of the king. This is the true meaning and mind of God in that second commandment, Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing in heaven above, nor in the earth beneath, nor in the waters under the earth: thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them. And to conclude this point, we see that God doth not forbid the making of graven images and likenesses of things in heaven above, nor in the earth beneath, nor in the waters under the earth; but he doth forbid all men not to worship nor bow down themselves, nor serve those images and likenesses of things in heaven above, nay, though it be the image and likeness of God himself; so that no image whatsoever is made by man, man ought not to worship it; and whoever doth bow him

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