which Euphrates is set a figure of; and the kings of the east, that were heirs of immortality, their way being prepared, they ask for the life of their natural bodies. And the spirits that attracted them came out from attracting them, and their attraction entered no more, for where Satan's power is, it maketh men of all those names.

James Corry, of Ballykeel, Loughaghery, desires the meaning of the following.

"Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the Spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth. For the Lord, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the Lord of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously." Mal. ii. 14-16.

Answer. Man is treacherous against the Spirit of God, the Comforter, which Christ said he would send, which will lead him into all truth, and shew him all things; the spirit of the mortal life of man is treacherous against the spirit of the immortal life, which is of God, who seeks him to become the spouse of God, and God judges between them, and yet it is his companion till his mortal life be swallowed up in immortality, these two spirits then dwelling in one temple, making him the bride of the living God.

George Spalding, of Edinburgh, inquires what is the position of the garden, and what is signified by the east; also the rivers rising out of the garden. (Gen. ii. 8-10.)

Answer. The garden is the body of man, and the four rivers are the four fountains in man which will be dried up, for the spirit of man and the Spirit of God to enter in, the river Euphrates, being set figu

rative of one of them. These four rivers were first typical of four thousand years, before the woman's seed came, that he should then send forth a river which should overflow them rivers, and dry up the way of the river Euphrates, (Rev. xvi. 12,) that the children of Israel might pass through in keeping the law and gospel; that there should four chariots appear, also two great mountains, and these four chariots should come from between them two mountains, (Zech. vi. 1,) these four heads compassing the face of all mankind; but the river which overflowed the four banks, caused the four chariots to come from under the law and gospel, it being the river of the immortal life of their natural bodies.

Wakefield, 28th of 6th month, 1839.

MARGARET BISHOP inquires, if the body of Moses, about which Michael contended with Satan, as mentioned in Jude 9, is the same with Joshua, as mentioned in Zech. iii. 1--7?

Answer. The body of Moses, for which Satan contended, is not Joshua, as spoken of by Zechariah. But Joshua being then high priest, the Lord transfigured this before Zechariah to be figurative of the house of Israel, who were all clothed with filthy garments; that in one day, which is the last of the six thousand years, he would cause their iniquity to pass and clothe them with a change of raiment, by giving them his Spirit to dwell in. Then Satan comes in all those whose bodies are appointed for death, and contends against those whose bodies are appointed for life, as he contended for the body of Moses, when Michael, the life of Jesus, rebuked him. So now Satan is come in like manner to fight for his kingdom, and that is the old heavens, and Israel will be unto the Lord as brands plucked from Satan, having fair mitres upon all their heads, being clothed with his Spirit, till their mortal bodies be swallowed up in immortality.

Question.-"For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him: But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance. We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company. Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them. As for me, I will call upon God; and the Lord shall save me. Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud and he shall hear my voice. voice. He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me: for there were many with me. God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God. He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him he hath broken his covenant. The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords." Ps. lv. 12-21.

Answer. Judas Iscariot was a man like unto Jesus-a friend of Jesus, and walked with him to the house of God, took sweet counsel with him, and had full confidence, though his covetousness caused him to take the money of Jesus' enemies, yet he thought he would escape, that they would not have power to take him, not knowing that Christ had withdrawn himself from him, so that then he and Jesus had become equal in power: a man his equal, his guide, and his companion. Jesus then being as another man, but having no sin with him, had to suffer death for sinners; his blood, which was the mortal life of his body, through the Spirit was sown in the earth, that a seed might be found for the resurrection of the dead. But he cried morning, noon, and evening, and the Lord saved his body, so that nothing perished but the blood; so that all that believed in his blood had their souls preserved at the

first resurrection, for a house for their spirits to dwell in, and he that believed not at the final resurrection, they being the two debtors who had nothing to pay with, (Luke vii. 41-43,) so that his blood was shed for the sins of the old world, the old Adam's race. Judas put forth his hand against Jesus who was at peace with him, he broke the covenant in delivering the money back again, but it was too late; so he deceived Jesus' enemies as well as himself; they were all brought down into the grave, for when he saw that Christ was withdrawn from Jesus, he went and repented; covetousness being one of the greatest crimes, for all others will attach to it.

Wakefield, 28th of 6th month, 1839.

QUESTION.-Joseph Shaw what is the benefit of a

soul?

No answer.

This is the benefit. If the body die, the soul being raised in the resurrection is a house for the spirit to dwell in; but if the body return not to dust, it is a house for the soul and spirit; so it is a greater benefit to have the body also, than to have the soul without the body; and it is also a benefit to have a soul, for if no soul, no spiritual body, but remains a spirit. The Spirit is come down into the garden of those whom it clothes, to see the beds of lilies, which is the keeping of the laws. Jesus says, "I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven," Luke x. 18, which is the old heaven of man, the things wherein they delight, the evil falls from them.

Wakefield, 30th of 6th month, 1839.

JOSEPH SHAW inquires what profit it could be to a man to receive a soul, as his spirit dwelt within his body, Adam being immortal?

Answer. Adam being made immortal, each having but one temple, I said, "Let us make man in

our image, and after our likeness." Gen. i. 26. The man and woman being_one: I am three, and yet one; consisting of the Father of all, the Son, and the Holy Spirit; these three are equal with me in power, and all united as one, I calling them the two vines with me. And the body of man whom I created out of the ground, made I him a temple, and yet lower than the angels, they having no souls, that they should take a mortal life to receive souls, their spirits being immortal, and put them therein, and called it a garden, a place where Satan could not approach, neither could his angels, but prove my work.

"And to prove Satan and man, whether iniquity was in him or my works, I formed another body out of the body of the man; and I formed evil and good, that the evil should die and the good should stand; that whosoever was a partaker of the evil, that body should perish, and the things that were therein should go down into the pit, and that the good only should remain. So I brought the body with the evil unto the spirit of the woman, that spirit being taken out of Adam, that they might be made higher than the evil. Satan came also to the woman, and by attracting her in her unclean state, tempted her to take of the evil, that her body might die. In this manner was iniquity found in Satan, Lucifer, son of the morning; according to what was shown to Isaiah, (Isa. xiv. 12,) he came unto the garden of the woman, and persuaded her to entice her husband to eat. Here life and good, and death and evil, (Deut. xxx. 15,) were set before Adam and his posterity. Yet I spared not the good to give a ransom for the evil. In this manner was the soul ordained for man, that if Satan should overcome him, by him taking a mortal life, his soul should be at the resurrection for an incorruptible house for his spirit to dwell in, so man will be made equal with the angels, who fell not like unto Satan, agreeable to the Scriptures, "He put no trust in his servants; and his angels he