Wakefield, 13th of 2nd month, 1842.

Ir is evident that Paul was speaking of two sets of people in the following passage, "To him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted to him for righteousness;" Rom. iv. 5; viz., to an incorruptible body at the first resurrection; in the image of the angels, neither marrying nor giving in marriage. (Matt. xxii. 30.) But to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace but of debt, viz., to the immortality of his natural body, in the image of God, married to the Lord, the bride, the Lamb's wife, the same as the Words of Jesus, "He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die." John xi. 25, 26.

Some think because it is said, faith is counted to him for righteousness to him that worketh not, that they who believe, but work not, are equal with the Jew who keeps the law, but if it were so, the Jew might say, What profit is there in keeping the law? But here is shewn the difference of the rewards to him that worketh and him that only believeth and worketh not.

And this Gospel, even this which is spoken this morning, will be published on every island that standeth out of the water, whether I go there or not; and this is the voice of the turtle-dove which will be heard in every land. (Songs ii. 12.)

Paul says, "Ye are come to an innumerable company of angels." Heb. xii. 22. But he does not say "Ye are angels," he says, "Ye are come,' because he was in the day, though not in the hour. "And to the spirits of just men made perfect." Heb. xii.

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But he that engages to keep the law and keeps it not, is like a man who was sent by his master to plough a day, and he went but did nothing, and when his master asked him the reason, he said, "I had no

plough;" or like the man whom Jesus spoke of who said, "I go, sir: and went not." Matt. xxi. 30. He had no tools to work with, because he asked not. And he that only believes, but works not, despises that body which he has of God, though he knows it

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Wakefield, 27th of 2nd month, 1842.

ELIZABETH HAGUE, of Sheffield, said she had found a part in the woman's writings that she could say was now fulfilled, that "The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father.” Ezek. xviii. 20. Does not a child which is begotten in the uncleanness bear the iniquity of its father?

Wakefield, 3rd of 3rd month, 1842.

MARY CAMPBELL, of Ashton, inquires about the following passages.

"There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother. There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness. There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up. There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw-teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men." Prov. xxx. 11-14.

Answer. The first is the last: Eve said she had gotten a man from the Lord.1 (Gen. iv. 1.) These did not bless their father or mother, fulfilling Jesus' words, "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do." John viii. 44.

Now those that are begotten of God, and conceived of Jerusalem above, will curse the evil which they

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1 Jesus, who cursed the fig-tree, and said to Nathanael, thou wast under the fig tree I saw thee." John i. 48. It being the figure of the mother of those of the four generations, and he condemned sin in the flesh.

were begotten of their father, and curse the evil of their mother, which conceived them of the four generations. And the other three generations are the three woes, (Rev. viii. 13,) which is pronounced upon Satan, who soweth the seed by man.

Wakefield, 4th of 3rd month, 1842.

IT is written, "The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son." Ezek. xviii. 20.

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Now is the time that this will be fulfilled. who is cleansed has no more to contend with the evil of Adam, or of his own parents. This is that glorious liberty which the children of God are to be brought into. (Rom. viii. 21.)

And this will be to the house of Israel whether I be cleansed or not. And many will be cleansed and not know it, and this will be the sign: they will be tempted and not be able to put the temptation into execution. "Two parts shall be cut off and die;" Zech. xiii. 8; but the third part will be set on their own beast, they will have the other Spirit, (John xiv. 16,) they will have two spirits, and Satan will serve them. What way will he serve them? By not having power to cause them to put their temptations into execution. And we are in the day, hour, and quarter of the hour; and the Lord will cause these words to go into every island, as he has caused the Scriptures to go, though I should die this night.

It is written, "An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord; even to their tenth generation." Deut. xxiii. 3. This does not mean that they shall never enter to inherit the kingdom; but if the seed of Israel married with one of those nations, it should be ten generations before that seed should be brought back again from that which it was mingled among, because "Not the least grain can fall to the earth." Amos ix. 9.

All God's work is set before him, and none can turn to the right or left without his notice, yet man is placed as a free agent to see whether he will follow God or Satan. "The least grain shall not fall upon the earth;" but am I one? If thou obey the law, thou art. How am I to obey it? By seeking to the Spirit. It is said, "Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray ;" Ps. lv. 17; but it is never out of his mind-these are Israel. And they will not be gathered by a prophet-but God has an instrument, as a plough or spade, to turn the clods. And though the nations will rail, yet shall they fear and tremble at the same time, lest the things at which they rail prove true.

It is written," Unto Shiloh shall the gathering of the people be." Gen. xlix. 10.

It is the Spirit; when it rested on Jesus at Jordan it was Shiloh, but he then scattered the people. If he send the female Spirit, that is Shiloh, she being of him, and she gathers them into her womb, and there they are sheltered till mortal shall put on immortality. As the man and the woman are one, so are the male and the female Spirit. When the evil is taken from the heart, Satan's head is bruised, and every man that seeks, it will now be taken from him, and though Satan come against him, there is no temptation.

Sanctuary, Ashton, 6th of 3rd month, 1842.

Is it not written-When ye are brought before magistrates and rulers, meditate not what ye shall say, for it shall be given you in that hour what ye ought to speak? (Luke xxi. 14, 15.)

I have heard a sermon to-day; the preacher compared every thing very well, but like a man who numbers the joints of an engine, so that none is misplaced, he took his text out of the Sanctuary bible, but it was not sufficient to preach by, so he took out his own bible, wherein he had his leaves turned down. I have heard of a man who had his bible borrowed

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before he began to preach, and he was fast because he had a strange bible. Now if this man who preached here to-day had had his bible taken from him he might have had more of the Spirit.

In the pulpit let the Bible be in the inner man, not have the leaves turned down. The Lord has not commanded us to preach after the manner of men, not to go back to the dead. Let the dead bury their dead. (Matt. viii. 22.) A man when he goes into the pulpit should seek God for the Spirit, and let his own spirit lie still. All ye have to preach is, we are in the last hour, fulfilling the passage, "Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world." Rev. iii. 10.

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To understand redemption, go to Adam; he gave him a body without evil-instead of receiving a soul with a good heart, he received an evil heart. ceive redemption he must be brought back to where he fell from. Jesus came to bring him back; he gained the victory for all men. And ye must hold out this that Jesus said, "The works that I do shall he do also." John xiv. 12. This generation shall not pass away till man has done the works that he did. The law was only put out of the way till man had the other Spirit.

I entreat you, for the redemption of your bodies, for the gaining of the Spirit of God, never have a Bible but for the text, then shut it and look to the Spirit.

Question.-Aaron Woollacott, when all is planned and laid out, has the preacher any need of the Spirit of God?

Answer. No.

John continued-He trusts to his learning, not to the Spirit. When Jesus came, he did not go to the learned, he chose poor fishermen. I charge you in the name of God, turn no more to the dead to prove the resurrection, any more than to shew the two offices of Jesus, the first a spiritual body for the dead, the second a natural body for the living.