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 THE 
 
 ARTICLES 
 
 OF 
 
 TRUE FAITH, 
 
 DEPENDING UPON THE 
 
 COMMISSION OF THE SPIRIT. 
 
 DBAWN UP INTO 
 
 FORTY-EIGHT HEADS, 
 
 BY 
 
 JOHN SADDIXGTON, 
 
 AN ANCIENT BELIEVER, 
 FOR THE 
 
 BENEFIT OF OTHER BELIEVERS, 
 That noro are, or hereafter shall come to believe ; 
 
 AND TO CONFOUND AND DISPROVE ALL DESPISERS, 
 THAT SAT, 
 
 " WE KNOW NOT WHAT WE BELIEVE." 
 
 ANNO M.DC.LXXV. 
 
 PRINTED 1830. 
 
 REPRINTED SEPTEMBER, 1880, 
 FOE 
 
 ISAAC FROST, SON of ISAAC FROST, St. John's Square, Clerkemcell 
 
 AND 
 MRS. HUNTLEY, DAUGHTER of JOSEPH FROST, 
 
 H. DONGRAY, Printer, Walthamstow.
 
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 HERE, I HAVE WRITTEN THE 
 
 ARTICLES OF MY FAITH, 
 
 WHICH I WILL WITNESS TO BE TBUE, 
 WITH THE 
 
 DEATH OF MY SOUL, 
 
 IF IT BE EEQUffiED OF ME ; 
 
 Therefore let not the words of any Canaanitish Devil, pro- 
 phane Esau, scoffing Ishmael, or railing Babshakeh, be 
 credited, when they vilify and belie 
 
 f \ 
 
 THE BELIEVERS OF THE 
 
 WITNESSES OF THE SPIRIT, 
 
 IN SAYING, 
 
 'THAI THEY DO OWN NEITHER GOD NOR DEVIL; 
 
 Or when they cast any other scandalous reproaches con- 
 trary to Truth upon us that truly know GOD. 
 
 JOHN SADDINGTON.
 
 Annex 
 
 THB 
 
 ARTICLES 
 
 OP 
 
 TRUE FAITH 
 
 AETICLE I. 
 
 I do firmly believe that there is a GOD, full of all 
 spiritual glory, above or beyond the stars. 
 
 II. 
 
 I do believe that GOD is a GOD of substance, and that 
 that most glorious, most wise, and almighty GOD, that is 
 so often spoken of hi Holy Scripture, was a spiritual 
 glorious body, in form like a man, from all eternity. 
 
 in. 
 
 I do believe that the most wise GOD did create the holy 
 angels of that dust above the stars with glorious spiritual 
 bodies, in form like Himself. 
 
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 6 THE ARTICLES OF 
 
 IV. 
 
 I do believe that GOD did withhold the spiritual food of 
 inspiration from one of those glorious angels which He 
 had created; and then, for want of that spiritual food, 
 which kept his nature in obedience to his Creator, he im- 
 mediately began to imagine within himself high and lofty 
 thoughts against GOD his Creator. 
 
 V. 
 
 I do believe that that angel did think himself more fit 
 to rule over Ins fellow-creatures than GOD his Creator, for 
 which pride and presumption that angel became accursed 
 in himself, and for his rebellion did GOD afterwards fling 
 him down into this world, and called him a devil, a ser- 
 pent, &c. 
 
 VI. 
 
 I do believe that earth and water were from eternity, 
 but without form until such time as the most wise GOD did 
 create them into formable bodies. 
 
 VII. 
 
 I do believe that GOD created the man Adam of the dust 
 of this earth and breathed into him the breath of life, 
 which became a living soul in Adam, and then was 
 Adam in the form of GOD, his Creator, though not so 
 glorious. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 I do believe that Adam was created so pure [that death 
 could not have seized on him had he continued in his 
 created purity.
 
 TRUE FAITH. 7 
 
 IX. 
 
 I do believe that as soon as Adam had sinned then did 
 death enter into this world and arrest Adam, with such a 
 great action of debt that neither soul nor body could escape 
 out of his hand; for as both had sinned so both were 
 carried to the prison of the grave. 
 
 I do believe that when GOD said to Adam, " Encrease 
 and multiply," and when He said " Let every seed bring 
 forth its own body," then did the wise "Creator give power 
 to all seed, both in man and beast, in herbs and trees, to 
 bring forth their own bodies, without any more additional 
 help from Him. 
 
 XI. 
 
 I do believe that GOD created the sun, moon, and stars, 
 and placed them in the firmament of heaven, for signs and 
 for seasons, and appointed every one of them his office ; 
 and as GOD commanded them at first, so still do they 
 supply this world with all manner of weather, as heat, 
 cold, rain, snow, &c., without troubling the Creator in the 
 least. 
 
 XII. 
 
 I do believe that the souls of all men since Adam were 
 generated and came forth of the loins of their father, with 
 their bodies, therefore are as mortal as their bodies, and 
 must die with them, and lie in the earth with their bodies 
 until the resurrection day. 
 
 XIII. 
 
 I do believe that the Tree of Life and the Tree of 
 Knowledge of good and evil, which Moses spake and wrote 
 of were no wooden trees growing out of the grouncj.
 
 8 THE ABTICLES OP 
 
 XIV. 
 
 I do believe that the Tree of Life, which Moses -wrote of, 
 was the same GOD that created the world. 
 
 XV. 
 
 I do believe that the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil 
 was that serpent angel which GOD cast out of heaven down 
 to this earth for his rebellion. 
 
 XVI. 
 
 I do believe that that outcast angel was the serpent 
 which tempted Eve, and that he was at that same time a 
 spiritual body in the form of Adam. 
 
 XVII. 
 
 I do believe that that outcast angel or serpent-tree of 
 knowledge of good and evil did enter into the womb of Eve, 
 and dissolve his spiritual body into seed, which seed died 
 and quickened again in the womb of Eve. 
 
 XVIII. 
 
 I do believe that Eve brought forth her first born the 
 son of the devil, and very devil himself. 
 
 XIX. 
 
 I do believe that there is no other devil but man and 
 woman ; since the first devil, that serpent angel devil, be- 
 came seed in the womb of Eve, and clothed himself with 
 flesh and bone. 
 
 XX. 
 
 I do believe that Cain was not the son of Adam, though 
 he was the son of Eve.
 
 TRUE FAITH. 9 
 
 XXI. 
 
 I do believe that the seed of the woman and the seed of 
 the serpent are two distinct generations of men and women 
 in this world. 
 
 XXII. 
 
 I do believe that the seed of the woman is the generation 
 of faithful people, which proceed from the loins of blessed 
 Seth, who was the son of Adam, who was the son of God. 
 
 xxm. 
 
 I do believe the seed of the serpent is the generation of 
 unbelievers or reprobate men and women, which proceed 
 from the loins of cursed Cain, the son of the devil, and the 
 first lying and murdering devil that ever was. 
 
 xxiv. 
 
 I do believe that those men and women that blaspheme 
 against GOD and despise his messengers are those angels 
 which are said to be cast out of heaven with the devil their 
 father. 
 
 XXV. 
 
 I do believe that that difference and opposition which 
 ariseth between believers and unbelievers concerning their 
 faith in GOD is that enmity which GOD said He would put 
 between the serpent and the woman and between his seed 
 and her seed. 
 
 XXVI. 
 
 I do believe that Moses, David, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and 
 several others were true prophets, and penmen of holy 
 writ,
 
 10 THE ARTICLES OP 
 
 XXVII. 
 
 I do believe that GOD took up Moses and Elias bodily 
 into heaven and there glorified them, to represent his 
 glorious person while he went that sore journey in the 
 flesh. 
 
 XXVIH. 
 
 I do believe that GOD gave Moses and Elias full power 
 to govern heaven and earth for that time He was in this 
 world. 
 
 XXIX. 
 
 I do believe that Moses and Elias were those two angels 
 that were to watch over Christ when He was in mortality, 
 lest at any time He should dash His foot against a stone. 
 
 XXX. 
 
 I do believe that the most glorious and wise Creator left 
 His throne of glory for a time and come down into this 
 world, and entered into the virgin's womb and there died, 
 or laid down his immortality by dissolving into seed, and 
 immediately quickened again into pure mortality. 
 
 XXXI. 
 
 I do believe that that child Jesus, which was born of the 
 Virgin-wife, Mary, was both the Son of GOD, the everlast- 
 ing Father, and Creator of all things that were created. 
 
 XXXII. 
 
 I do believe that the flesh of Christ was the flesh of GOD, 
 and that the blood of Christ was the blood of GOD,
 
 TBDE FAITH. 11 
 
 XXXIII. 
 
 I do believe that Christ laid down His God-head life for 
 a moment, when the vail of the temple was rent in 
 twain, and that the graves gave up their dead at His 
 resurrection. 
 
 XXXIV. 
 
 I do believe that no other blood but the blood of the 
 eternal GOD could wash away the sins of the elect. 
 
 XXXV. 
 
 I do believe that Christ's death was so effectual that all 
 those for whom He died will be raised again to eternal life 
 and glory. 
 
 XXXVI. 
 
 I do believe that Christ was a quickening spirit, and that 
 He did quicken out of death to life by His own power. 
 
 XXXVII. 
 
 I do believe that that ever blessed Soul or Spirit, which 
 in holy writ is called the Godhead, did quicken in that 
 body of flesh and bone of Christ, which was laid in the 
 sepulchre, and raised it again from death to everlasting 
 life. 
 
 XXXVHI. 
 
 I do believe that blessed body of flesh and bone of Christ 
 neither did nor could see corruption, or be left in the grave, 
 because it was a pure mortal body, without sin, spot or 
 blemish, before His death.
 
 12 THE ABTICLES OF 
 
 XXXIX. 
 
 I do believe that Christ was visibly seen by the apostles 
 and by private believers after His resurrection. 
 
 XL. 
 
 I do believe that Christ did and was visibly scon to 
 ascend into heaven with that same body in which He 
 suffered death and arose again. 
 
 XLI. 
 
 I do believe that the apostles' doctrine and declaration 
 of Christ is true. 
 
 XLIL 
 
 I do believe that that Spiritual Godhead, or Godhead 
 Spirit, which was before anything was created, and which 
 created all this that were created, is now in heaven, clothed 
 with that blessed body of Christ Jesus glorified. 
 
 XLIII. 
 
 I do believe that GOD will raise the souls and bodies of 
 all men out of their graves, some to an ever-living glorious 
 live, and other some to an ever-dying painful death which 
 will never end. 
 
 XLIV. 
 
 I do believe that GOD spake to JOHN REEVE to the hear- 
 ing of the ear, and that GOD chose JOHN REBATE to be his 
 last messenger to this unbelieving world, and that GOD 
 gave him LODOWICKE MU&OLETON to be his mouth to de- 
 clare the mind of GOD to us in this, our age.
 
 TRUE FAITH. 13 
 
 XLV. 
 
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 I do believe, the doctrine and declaration of JOHN REEVE 
 and LODOWICKE MUGGLETON, to be as true as the doctrine 
 declared by Moses, the Prophets, and Apostles of old. 
 
 XLVI. 
 
 I do believe there will be no salvation at the day of the 
 Lord, for those that were in the time of Moses and the 
 other prophets, who did not lay hold on God's promises 
 made unto them by his prophets, when they prophesied, 
 that God would send a Son, a Saviour, or become a child 
 himself to redeem his people. 
 
 XLvn. 
 
 I do believe, there will be no salvation for those that 
 were in Christ's time who heard of him, but could not 
 
 believe him to be the Son of God, and Saviour of the world. 
 
 XLVHI. 
 
 I do believe, there will be no salvation for those that are 
 in these our days, who have heard of the witnesses of the 
 Spirit, and have seen or heard their declaration ; and yet 
 cannot believe that Jesus Christ is the 'only wise God ; 
 Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, in one single person glorified ; 
 and that it is life eternal, truly to know him so to be.
 
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