"These are the first fruits of her body, which have the light of the day and the night.”

Wakefield, 26th of 6th month, 1842.

IT is written, "I will fear no evil, thy rod and thy staff comfort me." Ps. xxiii. 4. Which are the law and gospel. He that hath both these, fears no death. Does the law fear death? Does the gospel fear death?

It is written, "I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled?" Luke xii. 49. When?

Answer.

years.

In the last hour of the sixth thousand

If Shiloh shewed not his power at his first coming, and send his bride that Israel may be conceived in her, giving all to the woman, how much more should man?

Any whom death takes, never come to the light of the day. Then is it not worth living for? Are not those who have the light of the night called to come to the light of the day?

Wakefield, 1st of 7th month, 1842.

WILLIAM TILLOTSON, whether is he that is begotten, or he that is born of God superior?

Answer. He that is born.

John continued-He that is begotten of God will be born of him-he cannot die in the womb if he is begotten of God. They that fall from the visitation it is a proof they were not begotten of him. But it is whether their spirits only, or their spirits and bodies are begotten. If the Spirit only is begotten, the body will die; yet he whose Spirit is begotten

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And the spirit will receive an incorruptible body at the first resurrection.

will keep the faith, and die in it; but he whose body and spirit are both begotten, his body will not die.

Jesus said unto the woman, "It is not meet to take the children's bread, and cast it to dogs." Matt. xv. 26. That is, it was not meet to give the bread of immortality to them that were to die.

When the woman asked that her two sons might sit the one at his right hand, and the other at his left in his kingdom, he told them they should drink the cup that he drank, and be baptized with the baptism that he was baptised with; but who should sit at his right hand and at his left, in his kingdom was not his to give, but should be given to whomsoever it was prepared. (Matt. xx. 20-23.) Meaning it was not his to give at that time.

Wakefield, 8th of 7th month, 1842.

PROFESSORS of religion say, What matters it if they lose their present house, they will get another. But whether is it better to have another house or seek for the first house to be cleansed?

Satan persuades them it will be a better house, as he tried to persuade Jesus. If Jesus had fallen down and worshipped Satan, though he had repented, he would have been like the professor, who says, I have nought but trouble, this body is part decayed. Jesus knew if he did so, he would be like the kingdoms, he would have become Satan's kingdom, but Jesus refused. So there is a command for every one to refuse the destruction of the body, though they be ever so infirm, or on a bed of affliction.

Let no man despise his body which God has given. God made man to be immortal, (Wis. Sol. ii. 23,) to dwell in a natural body, but not him who despises it. If Satan had prevailed on Jesus there would have been none found for the living.

Wakefield, 29th of 7th month, 1842.

QUESTION.-John Batty, what is the proof that man is not God?

Answer. Because he has not the Spirit of God. John Wroe continued-This is the proof: evil is with him. God placed evil in the body of the woman to prove man, that he was not God, and that man might know it, yet the Lord saith unto him, Return unto me; though thou hast played the harlot, and thy land, which is thy body, is greatly defiled, yet if thou wilt return unto me thou shalt be saved. (Jer. iv. 1.)

God placed the flaming sword that evil might not put on immortality, therefore he fixed man's time at a hundred and twenty years. (Gen. vi. 3.)

There is no happiness in this mortal life, neither is there any happiness after death till the spirit and soul is united, though they hear the singing of angels when dying, the righteous and wicked both go to one place; but there is a thousand years between their rising. And though they rise at the first resurrection they receive not a natural body.

The natural body is God's house which he has made for himself, and not for them that despise it. They that despise it after taking the covenant, it will be taken from them, for till he has taken the covenant, he gives not his body to God.

They that die, see not perfectly until the spirit and soul be united, and then their house is not like God's house, but only as the angels.

Question.-John Batty, what is it that causes iron to run?

Answer. The heat, but not without a blast.

John Wroe continued-God placed evil to prove Evil is the fire-death is the

man was not God.

blast, and when man dies he knows he is not God. And when the blast of God touches the evil, the man puts on immortality. So it stands both ways.

To buy land ye have to apply to the crowned head

of the nation, or the deputy; so to buy the land of your bodies ye have to apply to the crowned head, which is God. But this ye may buy without money, but the payment is delivering up that which is not your own. Now, as the Almighty receives Israel, who has played the harlot, how much more should a man receive back his wife? A house built with silver and gold is like a sand bank, but the house of God, which is now building, will remain eternally. And the house of Israel are now upon the planet; one here and one there, on the different islands, though they have not heard the voice of the Lord, or a prophet. But a child of a year old shall know the interpretation of the Scriptures, then what the old gray-headed man?

Wakefield, 26th of 8th month, 1842.

THOSE that did not rebel in heaven will seek with their whole hearts for their bodies to be cleansed from the abominations done in them. If he had let them go and gather out the tares, they would have destroyed the wheat, but now they can gather them out without destroying the wheat.

If he had permitted it then, nearly two thousand years ago, how would these spirits have got bodies who never die? They are they whom he foreknew. Because if the tares had been gathered out then, the world would have been destroyed, because they would have had no bodies.

If this body put on immortality, the spirit was before Abraham's. Now then, is there any charge against these but for their bodies to be purified?

That which took place at Ashton is not yet done with, though many of them that had a hand in it are dead. It is but a short moment before it will be tried in both houses of parliament, and them that are left alive will be hauled up at a minute's notice.

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Has tithe no allusion to money? A hundred and forty-four thousand pounds will not gather them; but it means giving the heart to God continually, what ever they are doing; and I say every one whom he foreknew will do this, whether they are selling or buying.

Wakefield, 16th of 9th month, 1842.

ONE passage says, "Knock, and it shall be opened unto you." Matt. vii. 7. Another, "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me." Rev. iii. 20. One says, "Blessed are those servants, whom the Lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them." Luke xii. 37. Others say, "His servants shall serve him." Rev. xxii. 3.

Question. John Batty, I want to know what state it is in which God will serve man?

Answer. When man is immortal.

John said, Thou wert never under a greater mistake. When God opened his Spirit, and Jesus went in, whether did he serve God, or God served him? No answer.

It is when man enters into, and dwells in the Spirit of God, that God serves him. But man must be willing for God to serve him and reign over him, and not be like the children of Israel, who wolud not have him to reign over them, but choosed an earthly king. And it is when the Spirit enters into them that they will serve God.

Leeds, 13th of 11th month, 1842.

THE Spirit of the Lord fell upon me, which caused me to utter the following words.

"He will raise up a poor and afflicted people, and they shall trust in the Lord, and they shall be as