A Divine Looking-Glass

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A Divine Looking-Glass is a significant work by Lodowick Muggleton, published in 1656. Muggleton, an English Puritan, along with his cousin John Reeve, claimed to be prophetic witnesses mentioned in the Book of Revelation.1

The book expounds on their unique theological beliefs, which included:
* The rejection of the traditional doctrine of the Trinity, asserting that God has a physical human body.12
* The belief that God left Elijah as his vice regent on Earth while he descended to die on the cross.1
* The assertion that disbelief in them as prophets constituted an unforgivable sin.1

Muggletonianism faced considerable opposition, and Muggleton himself was imprisoned for blasphemy and convicted in 1677.1

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Lodowick Muggleton
…further expounded their beliefs in A Divine Looking-Glass (1656), maintaining that the traditional distinction between the three Persons of the Triune God is purely nominal, that God has a real human body, and that he left the Old Testament Hebrew prophet Elijah, who had ascended to heaven, as his vice…
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…further expounded their beliefs in A Divine Looking-Glass (1656), maintaining that the traditional distinction between the three Persons of the Triune God is purely nominal, that God has a real human body, and that he left the Old Testament Hebrew prophet Elijah, who had ascended to heaven, as his vice…
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