restored to him, and he tried to hide himself. Then God said, Be thou over the evil. But now the commandment is, Be thou over sin, death, hell and the grave; and this world shall serve that world which shall be made.

Wakefield, 22nd of 10th month, 1841.

IT is written, "Your life is hid with Christ in God." Col. iii. 3. Joseph Shaw, how did Eve hide men's lives?

No answer.

She was in paradise, and it was withdrawn. So that they only heard the voice in the cool of the day. (Gen. iii. 8.) She hid it in three measures of meal, (Matt. xiii. 33,) which are compared to three dispensations. Then how could the Jews obtain it? It cannot be got back by disobedience, but will it not be got by obedience.

There is a sect who are buying land with a view to take the kingdom by force; but the Lord hath shewn me that it will never be regained that way, for Israel will seek no land but that of their own bodies.

Now will be seen whether Adam or Paul was nearer: Adam cast all the blame on the woman, she gave to me and I did eat. (Gen. iii. 12.) But Paul said, it is not I but the evil that dwelleth in me. (Rom. vii. 20.) Though it is mixed, as salt and sweet water, but it shall be separated.

He that is grafted into the body of Jesus is grafted into his death, to die as he did, and to receive a spiritual body as he did; but if Christ be grafted into him, he is begotten and conceived of her, and will be born of her and not die; for as the graft is put in between the bark and the tree, so is Christ grafted into them; they being in the Spirit till they be born of it.

Wakefield, 24th of 10th month, 1841.

GOD set his whole works before man in paradise,

after which he drew back paradise, and man then had but one spirit. Then he set before Adam good and life, death and evil; (Deut. xxx. 15;) and he was made subject to the fall, that it might prove whether iniquity was in Satan. But that no man should remain in evil in his mortal life, for above a thousand years.

And Paul says the man was not in the transgression, but the woman. (1 Tim. ii. 14.) Paradise being withdrawn she was brought to a body, and in it was good and evil. Satan flattered her that by taking of the evil she would bring forth children in the image of God. She having a desire to have children, presented herself to the man. Then they only heard the voice in paradise, as a man now hears in vision. (Gen. iii. 8.) The difference between the soul and spirit was not shewn till the law came. The Lord's voice pleaded with them, and the man knew he had got an evil heart, and said, It was the woman that had given him it, (Gen. iii. 12,) not remembering God had said, there was four things in her, and he might take which he would. He blamed God because he had given him the woman without the other Spirit. But man is to be brought back into the Spirit, Jesus was at Jordan. Jesus entered without evil, and none can enter with evil, but must be circumcised in flesh and heart.

Wakefield, 31st of 10th month, 1841.

GOD promised to give man the other Comforter that he should never die. (John xvi. 7.) No man hath more than one spirit to be the mortal life of his natural body. The other Spirit, which he said should come, is the immortal life of the natural body.

All have not gifts alike, there are nine different ones, and yet all from the selfsame Spirit, but the tenth is hid. (Luke xv. 8; Matt. v. 3-11; 1 Cor. xii. 4-11; Gal. v. 22, 23.) It is the life which is hid with Christ in God. (Col. iii. 3.)

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Then why should one person envy another, saying, If I had such a man's case I could do better? Satan can only attract according to the degree of evil that is in the person whom he attracts; but if they are awake to his temptations, and look to the other Spirit, it is ready to assist them, though it dwelleth not with them; but men are not willing to wait with patience.

Wakefield, 19th of 12th month, 1841.

JACOB gained the blessing by hearkening unto the voice of the woman, and she prevailed on him in Esau's absence, he being gone a hunting to make savoury meat to get back the birthright which he had before sold, but before he returned it was confirmed to Jacob. (Gen. xxv. 29-34; xxvii.)

Esau, although he had sold the birthright, sought the blessing, but this Rebecca would not permit; so she put Esau's clothing on Jacob, to gain that which he had before bought: Esau said Jacob had deceived him, but could he deceive him in taking the birthright when he had bought it and paid for it? Esau cried, O my Father hast thou but one blessing. So Isaac turned to temporal things, and said by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; but it shall come to pass in process of time that thou shalt break thy brother's yoke from off thy neck, which was fulfilled when Jesus gave up the Jews and called in the Gentiles. That was the shadow, but the substance is the abolishing of the slave trade, selling men's hodies, which are the Lord's.

The seed of the earthly body proceeds from the soul; and the blood is the flower of it. So Adam had to take a mortal life before he could receive a soul; so that if Satan robbed him of the body, he might have another house which was spiritual; but the woman gave him a soul with a foreskin on his heart, and no man can enter into paradise until that

foreskin is taken away: and although it is possible for a man to have the foreskin of his flesh taken away, and the foreskin still remain on his heart, it is impossible for him that hath the foreskin of his heart taken away, to remain with the foreskin of his flesh untaken away. But though Paul saw the time was come for this to be, yet the hour was not come. Now, we are in the hour when the foreskin of the heart will be taken away, which is the purging away of the old leaven. According to the words, "One day is as a thousand years." 2 Peter iii. 8. We are in the eleventh hour, but according to the two thousand years one day, we are in the twelfth hour: but according to the one thousand it will come in the eleventh hour, but according to the two thousand it will be in the twelfth, but the hour being shortened brings it equal with the eleventh hour in the one thousand.

Rebecca, in disinheriting Esau, plucked out her right eye, and cast it from her, that the whole body might not perish; others have to cut off their right hand, the right eye and hand being the fruits of their bodies and members of the church who offend, the one temporal and the other spiritual. Jesus said unto the woman of Samaria, "If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith unto thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water." John iv. 10. But the hour not being come, and she asking without knowing the gift of God, did not receive it.

Sheffield, 29th of 9th month, 1841.

THE alderman opens the gate to the mayor, but who opens when the king comes? The mayor himself. This is to shew that when the Lord comes and knocks at the city gates, which are your bodies, no one can open but yourselves. (Rev. iii. 20.)

And there is a two-leaved gate to every man's body which is the law and gospel, which he must throw open, that the Lord may enter in. (Isaiah xlv. 1.)

Wakefield, 10th of 12th month, 1841.

THE house of Israel has more to contend with than Eve had. The first Adam had not that protection that the latter Adam had. The first Adam knew nothing of the evil till he had eaten of it. Satan said, "Ye shall not surely die;" Gen. iii. 4; there it is where the charge was. Adam, Eve, and Satan were all driven out, then the hosts of heaven became at war. The angels had a charge over Jesus, but when he entered into the other Spirit he had no need for the angels to minister to him; neither will Israel when they get the other Spirit. But before that our hearts must be cleansed.

When Israel is in the Spirit the world will gather against them, but they cannot get them to violate the law no more than they got Jesus to do it.

Paradise was withdrawn from Jesus for three days, in which he suffered for the whole world; and he went down into hell, the sepulchre, and pleaded with Satan, and those who died the death of the wicked. The Spirit is working in all religious sects and setting division among them, that Israel may be sifted out from among them. Therefore this is the time that the word of Jesus will be fulfilled; "Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth?" Luke xii. 51.

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