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Paradise was withdrawn from Jesus for three days, in which he suffered for the whole world; and he went down into hell, the sepulchre, and pleaded with Satan, and those who died the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 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.

"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.

i. 7. It is the veins running through the body, and emptying themselves into the heart. This is the interpretation of the parable. And when the blood is cleansed it is as the sea of glass." (Rev. iv. 6; xv. 2.) Written from John Wroe's mouth by John Thomson.

Wakefield, 31st of 12th month, 1841.

It is written, "We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for? If she be a wall we will build upon her a palace of silver." Songs viii. 8, 9.

"The breasts are the law and gospel. The Hebrew does not believe that the gospel has any breast, and the Gentile does not believe that the law has any, yet Israel will build on her. And the day wherein she shall be spoken for is the sixth day; and it is the Lord that hath spoken for her from heaven; and that which is to be done for her is to rely on her.

"What shall I liken man to in this state? Wheat which is given to trucks; and it is purged by mercury, which is poison, yet it purifies, otherwise it will bring forth death. He that is begotten of God is sown in the new immortal earth, and neither men nor devils can root him out. Some of the seed sown by the husbandman brought forth thirtyfold, (Matt. xiii. 8,) this is for incorruption; but when it is purified it will bring forth immortality. But it must be purified before it be sown in the immortal earth ; and they that are not, although they lead a righteous life, if they expect to put on immortality, they will be as catching at a shadow.

"But Jesus' body had no need of it, being purified by the machine of the woman before it was conceived of the woman. And the Spirit is the ground in which man who is purified must be sown-sown in the womb of the Spirit. Jesus was begotten and

conceived of God, and laid in the womb three years, working miracles.

"It is written, "When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and finding none." Luke xi. 24. It is the unclean spirit that walketh through dry places, not the man. They do not return unto the man. When Jesus had cast the legion out of the man, they besought him to let them go into the swine, and he permitted them, which destroying the swine, the people were afraid lest the farmers should be without cattle. (Matt. viii. 28-34.)

"And it is said further, "Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven spirits more wicked than himself; and the last state of that man is worse than the first." Luke xi. 26. But will it be so with Israel? No: their house is swept and garnished, ready for the other Spirit."

DIVINE COMMUNICATIONS,

1842.

Wakefield, 7th of 1st month, 1842.

"I HAVE set before thee an open door, Oh Israel! (Rev. iii. 8.) They that are not of Israel inquire, When "There shall be time no longer." Rev. x. 6. It being the last time, not the half time wherein the aliens are to reign, and walk in his ways and laws. This the angel did not mention: it is the last day and last hour; the Gentiles are taken with their own belief-one time before Noah, another under the law, and another under the gospel. We need not plead about the sixth thousand years; time is no longer, but an open door is set, yet there are to be trials. Two parts are to be cut off and die, but the third part is to be brought through the fire, that they be refined."

Wakefield, 18th of 1st month, 1842.

THE words of the Lord came unto me this morning, 66 Hear, Oh Israel! When I formed the earth at first I called it man, and I gave to it a spirit, it being one of the host of heaven, that it might be the mortal life of the earth.

"And I said unto him that I would give him a helpmate, and I made a helpmate out of the earth, and I called it woman; it having a soul I gave it a spirit to be its mortal life, and I said, that she should be an helpmate for the body of man, whom I had created, that she might be the mother of all souls.