Sheffield, 12th of 12th month, 1841.

It is written, "The woman shall be saved in child-. bearing." 1 Tim. ii. 15. This is Jerusalem which is above: she shall be preserved and her children.

"Man having only one spirit was lower than the angels, but when he has the other Spirit he is higher than the angels. How? Because the angels have only a spiritual body, and a man a natural body; and they that have only one spirit are given to minister to them that have two. Man's body is as an estate, and it may be three or four generations before it comes into his possession; and he may die, and his children may die, but his seed shall possess it. Adam mortgaged it, and Jesus came to redeem it to him that would have it redeemed; and if you sell your estate how can your children inherit it? The keeping of the law of the covenant of the estate keeps the estate for his children.

66 The few names that are in the church of Sardis, (Rev. iii. 4,) is those that die in full faith, and have kept their estate for their children, and fulfils that passage, "Yet in my flesh shall I see God." Job xix. 26. Their children with a natural body will possess the kingdom.

"The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord." Prov. xx. 27. Adam knew not of the evil till he had eaten; he was as a man holding a candle, and the wind blew it out-it is the other Spirit that lighteth the candle. There was then a flaming sword placed to keep the way of the tree of life, lest his other candle should be lighted till the time.'

It was said unto me, " I will make thee as a smith, and take care that thou be not suffocated with the dust that falls between the hammer and the anvil; for I will make thee as an engraver to engrave upon their hearts. Some are harder than o and some will not receive it. If I know how t good gifts to my children I keep their estate being sold. "All the rivers run into the sea."

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.

It matters not who comes to those who have the Spirit, however learned they are they will be able to answer them, fulfilling the words of the Apostle, "Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you." 1 Peter iii. 15.

Sheffield, 12th of 12th month, 1841.

IT is written, "The woman shall be saved in child-. bearing." 1 Tim. ii. 15. This is Jerusalem which is above: she shall be preserved and her children.

"Man having only one spirit was lower than the angels, but when he has the other Spirit he is higher than the angels. How? Because the angels have only a spiritual body, and a man a natural body; and they that have only one spirit are given to minister to them that have two. Man's body is as an estate, and it may be three or four generations before it comes into his possession; and he may die, and his children may die, but his seed shall possess it. Adam mortgaged it, and Jesus came to redeem it to him that would have it redeemed; and if sell your estate how can your children inherit it? The keeping of the law of the covenant of the estate keeps the estate for his children.

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"The few names that are in the church of Sardis, (Rev. iii. 4,) is those that die in full faith, and have kept their estate for their children, and fulfils that passage, "Yet in my flesh shall I see God.” Job xix. 26. Their children with a natural body will possess the kingdom.

"The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord." Prov. xx. 27. Adam knew not of the evil till he had eaten; he was as a man holding a candle, and the wind blew it out-it is the other Spirit that lighteth the candle. There was then a flaming sword placed to keep the way of the tree of life, lest his other candle should be lighted till the time."

It was said unto me, "I will make thee as a smith, and take care that thou be not suffocated with the dust that falls between the hammer and the anvil; for I will make thee as an engraver to engrave it upon their hearts. Some are harder than others, and some will not receive it. If I know how to give good gifts to my children I keep their estates from being sold. "All the rivers run into the sea." Eccles.

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 willlng 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.)