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A Divine Looking-Glass
''A Divine Looking-Glass'' was written and first published in 1656 by John Reeve, an English prophet. A second edition, revised by Lodowicke Muggleton, was published in 1661 and from this a fifth edition (with more modern scriptural quotations) was published in 1846.〔John Reeve and Lodowick Muggleton "A Divine Looking-Glass" Clerkenwell:Catchpool & Trent (1846)〕 It claims to be a work of holy writ and is seen to be so in Muggletonianism. Specifically, it is part of the 'Third and Last Testament of Our Lord Jesus Christ'. The first two testaments are the Mosaic law and the gospels of Christ's apostles.〔Roughly, the Muggletonian canon comprises the Old and New Testaments less those books attributed to Solomon, plus Ethiopic Enoch Book of Enoch and the Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs. Reeve used a King James Bible of 1608 which preceded the Authorised version〕 In the scriptural style, Reeve's book is divided into chapter and verse.
"I, John Reeve, am the last commissionated prophet that ever shall declare divine secrets" (46.3). He received his commission from God "to the hearing of the ear as a man speaks to his friend" (23.22) in February 1651. There were no visions or ecstasies. This commission identifies Reeve and his cousin, Lodowicke Muggleton, as the Two Witnesses referred to in the Book of Revelation at chapter 11 verse 3. The context means that both men saw themselves as given ''a power'' from God to expound scripture, God now decreeing the world to be ready to learn more of the divine secrets as the end of time draws near. This contrasts with a more usual prophetic tendency of the 1650s to identify the prophet ''as messenger'', with the 'angel with a book' in chapter 10 of Revelation.〔Norman Cohn "The Pursuit of the Millennium" London:Granada Publishing, 3rd edition 1970 p. 316 - 330 (earlier editions do not have this section) cites Abiezer Coppe (1619-72) "A fiery flying roll" (1649) and also Laurence Clarkson who subsequently converted to Muggletonianism.〕
==Background==
The doctrine in ''A Divine Looking-Glass'' is not systematic. Nor is it the working out of a single guiding principle through all areas of life. Instead, Reeve seeks to tackle what he regards as the burning issues of the day, at a time when individuals felt great anxiety as to their personal salvation〔T. L. Underwood "The Acts of the Witnesses" New York:Oxford University Press 1999 p. 35 sets out Lodowicke Muggleton's own spiritual struggles〕 and many conflicting scriptural interpretations jostled for attention. In chapter 1 verse 4 he identifies four questions by which his book will seek to satisfy the curious. 1) Whether any creature was formed on purpose for eternal suffering? 2) Could any blame be attached to such a creature? 3) Would it not have been as advantageous to have formed all creatures for eternal happiness? 4) Whence came sin into man or angel?
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