who is the debtor, to pay the debt of the debtors, (Luke vii. 41, 42,) which they unworthily committed one against another, and bring the accuser and accused face to face." Brandy Carr, 22nd of 10th month, 1837. QUESTION." And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him." Gen. ii. 20. Answer. Adam was immortal when he gave names to all cattle; his spirit, with the spirit of the female, dwelling within his temple, and they dwelt in the Spirit of God; yet not divided to make an help meet for him. Question." And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof." Gen. ii. 21. Answer. The Lord withdrew his Spirit from Adam, in which he dwelt, then he slept, and God formed the woman out of the ground, and made her a living soul with a heart of blood, and he took a rib out of Adam, and closed up the flesh instead thereof, which rib was the spirit of the woman; and he placed it before the woman, and it attracted her blood, causing it to circulate and give motion to her body. So the spirit of woman is of man, and man is of God, they being made complete in his perfect image, and it was the sixth day; but when the serpent had beguiled the woman, to cause the man to touch the evil of the tree, then they lost the piece, (Luke xv. 8,) and the evil drove him out of the garden, so that he was no more immortal, but mortal, the son of Satan. * Question. What is the piece that the woman lost? * Each day being figurative of a thousand years. Answer. It is the Spirit of God which they lost, and which is called the Comforter, or the branch of Christ. Question. What is the immortal life of the body? Answer. The spirit of man dwelling within his temple or body. Question. What is the mortal life of the body? Answer. The spirit of man abiding at the outside of his body, which is called the garden or field. Question. What is it that causeth the body to die? Answer. The spirit called man that attracted the blood to be the life of it, returning to God who gave it. Question. Where does the soul go to? Answer. It sleeps in the chambers of the grave, (2 Esdras iv. 41,) either in happiness or misery, till the first or final resurrection, till it please God to liberate the spirit, and raise it incorruptible. Question. What is mortal man abiding in the vine? Answer. The Jews being grafted with the Gentiles into the natural olive, that they might seek for the salvation of their souls, though their bodies died, that they should bear incorruptible fruit till the fulness of times, that the natural olive should be grafted into the wild olive,* that it should no more bear fruit of the wild olive, which is the death of the body, but of the natural olive,† which is the life of the body. It then seeketh for the vinet to be grafted into it, it is then born of God. When the vine is grafted into the natural olive, which is the law, it will no more bear fruit of the olive, but of the vine, though it is written in the law, Keep my law, and ye shall live. (Lev. xviii. 5.) So they were both grafted in, that they might obtain mercy for the redemption of their souls, till the time that the words of Ezekiel should be fulfilled, "He took also of the seed of the *The branch of man. The seed of woman in her purity. land, and planted it in a fruitful field; he placed it by great waters, and set it as a willow tree. And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs." Ezek. xvii. 5, 6. So it is the natural olive of the covenant, which the vine is to be grafted into, that it bear fruit of the vine of the law of the immortality of their natural bodies, fulfilling the words of Jesus, "The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment." Luke xii. 23. And the parable of Jesus, "I am the vine, ye are the branches." John XV. 5. So the vine was put into the olive, being placed as the willow tree, which became a vine through the graft of the vine being grafted into it; so it bare no more fruit of the olive tree, which is the resemblance of the mortal life, but of the vine, which is set the resemblance of the immortal life. But before this could be obtained there was one dispensation to pass, for the wild olive to be grafted into the natural olive, that they might obtain the redemption of their souls at the first resurrection. Now the Spirit, which is Shiloh, must go from the east to the west, and from the north to the south, to gather the firstborn of the families of the natural olive, which are hid among the nations, they being the heirs of the covenant, and graft them into their own olive stock, the law of the covenant. For within seventy years that I set my hand a second time to gather them, I will make a full end of them; their iniquity shall be sought for by the nations, but it shall not be found, for this is the covenant unto them:-Every man that gives me his whole heart, I will take away his sin, and his iniquity shall not be found with that man that gives me not his heart; for every man which holds not back his heart from me, I will give him the utmost parts of the earth for his inheritance, and he shall dwell in my Spirit till he has fulfilled all my righteous acts, then he shall obtain the immortal life of his natural body, because he is of me. Question. What is the state of those who seek only for the common salvation? Answer. They have not the knowledge of the life of the natural immortal body, but expect that their bodies will die, and their souls be raised incorruptible at the first resurrection. Question.-What is the incorruptible body? Answer. It is not that body which is laid down; but God causes the spirit which ministered to that body in its mortal life, to raise the soul an incorruptible body, dwelling in that body, making it spiritual as the angels. Question.-What is the difference between those that die under the common salvation, and those that die under the great salvation of the immortality of their natural bodies? Answer. The latter have sought for the piece: but the sixth day was not come for them to find it, but she lost not the faith of the piece, neither would she let the world persuade her out of it; she not finding it, the body dies, but the faith is still alive with the spirit; and the soul still crieth under the altar to be avenged on the enemy (Rev. vi. 10,) of the piece that was lost: and the spirit returning to the soul at the first resurrection, raises it from its sleep, an incorruptible body, dwelling within it, made equal with the seraphims. "How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation." Heb. ii. 3. Question. What is the state of just men made perfect? Answer. They seeking to keep the commands of God, God openeth the door of their tabernacles, which are their bodies, and causeth their spirits, which attracted their blood, to be the mortal life of their bodies, to enter in and swallow up their mortal lives, and make them immortal. These are just men made perfect before God, being part of the different mansions in the heavens and in the earth. Brandy Carr, 4th of 11th month, 1837. INQUIRIES from Charles Robertson, and answers thereto. Question. "Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun." Eccles. iv. 7. Answer. Which was the branch of Jesus, when he returned he saw vanity put under the sun. Question. "There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail." Eccles. iv. 8. Answer. This is Satan or Lucifer, who is called by various names, but he is one alone, though he overcame the spirits of men before they came to attract the blood to be the mortal life of the temples, which temples, if found in obedience, were formed for them to dwell in; but Satan has deprived them, and yet is not satisfied, because he wanted to dwell with them in their temples, and be above the angels, that he might be immortal like unto God; but man was driven out of the temple, and God cursed it, and said, Cursed is the ground for thy sake; thou wast taken out of the dust, and to dust shalt thou return. (Gen. iii. 19.) So that Satan was still alone a spirit, and no temple found for him to dwell in. And though he holds the souls of the disobedient, God at the final resurrection will liberate their spirits, and raise their souls with incorruptible bodies for them to dwell in, which bodies cannot die, being immortal, put in subjection to the spirits which kept their first estate. Question.-"Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour." Eccles. iv. 9. Answer.--It is Michael, the Archangel, dwelling in the seed of the woman sending forth his branch, the life of his bride, which is hid with Christ in God, S |