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third glory, which is the life of the other world, of which the glory of the sun is set a figure, which is immortality.

So the light that man has at present is compared to the light of a star, it being a smaller light than the light of the moon, the moon being compared to the angels, or as those that will put on incorruption, which are less in power than those that put on immortality, they being as the sun.

And it was said by Baalam, in Numbers, 24th chapter, and part of 17th verse.---" There shall come a star out Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel."

This shews the first and second coming of the Messiah, which were to be at two different periods; his first coming was as the glory of a star shining in a dark place; but after he came out of the river Jordan, he became as the glory of the moon, to guide men to seek for the preserving of the soul; a light to lighten the Gentiles; until the times of the Gentiles should be fulfilled; and after his body rose from the sepulchre, his light was as the light of the sun.

So it is written by Isaiah, 11th chapter, and 10th verse.---"In that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people, to it shall the Gentiles seek, and his rest shall be glorious."

But at his second coming he will have the Sceptre that shall rise out of Israel, which is as the glory of the sun, mentioned in the text; sò it is said further by Isaiah, in the 11th verse of the same chapter, And it shall come to pass in that day that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time, to recover the remnant of his people." For he will then be the glory of Israel.

And the Lord said to Rebecca, Genesis 25th chapter, 23rd verse.---"Two nations are in thy

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The two nations are typical of two worlds, the
younger the new world, should be as gods, as the
glory of the sun, as spoken of in the text, by the
Spirit enlightening them, that they will stand in
no need of the light of the sun in the firmament,
nor the light of the moon, for the Lord God Om-
nipotent will enlighten them.

And the elder is the old world, which was in the womb with the new world, but will be seperated from the new world; and will not see an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days. For blood is the life of the old world, and the Spirit is the life of the new one.

And Joel prophesies, in the 3rd chapter, and 21st verse, that the Lord will cleanse their blood that he has not cleansed: which will be by taking the power of Satan from them, that they may live a thousand years, which is the half time.

And the lights in the firmament being for days
and for years: See Hosea, 6th chapter and 2nd
verse.---“In the third day he will raise us up, and
we shall live in his sight.

And the words of Jesus in Luke, 13th chap.
and 32nd verse.---"Behold, I cast out devils, and I
do
cures, to-day and to-morrow, and the third day
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And in Matthew, 13th chapter, and 33rd verse. "The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened."

The three measures are as the three days; and the three days are three generations: one before the flood, one the law, and one the Gospel.

And the six days mentioned in the creation,

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wherein he created man in the sixth day, he compares unto six thousand years; wherein the man and the woman will be complete in the image of God: which will fulfil the words in Genesis, 1st chapter, and 26th and 31st verses.---"Let us make man in our image. And the evening and the morning was the first day."

FOURTH SERMON.

It is written in Paul's Epistle to the Hebrews, 2nd chapter, and 5th verse.---" For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak."

This text may be divided into two parts: the first part is the world to come, and the second, that it is not put in subjection to the angels; for it is evident that the old world has been put in subjection to the angels, but the new world will not be put in subjection to them; but the angels to it.

And there were angels which fell, and angels which fell not; so there was rebellion in heaven between the two parties; Jude, the 6th verse; and there was a striving with man on this planet whether of these angels he would be subject to, seeing God had put them under these angels.

The world to come are the people who will inherit this planet during the thousand years, that Satan is chained in the bottomless pit; according to Revelation, 20th chapter. And the kingdom of God which is to come, is the new life that will be put within them.

The kingdom of God which is to come, which is spoken of by Jesus in Luke, 11th chapter, and 2nd verse.---"Thy kingdom come: thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth."

And God is now preparing this new world, which

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Jesus was the pattern of---for he first came in flesh,
blood, and bone, which is the old world, and did
the work which the first Adam was commanded to
do, by the fulness of the Spirit of God resting on

him.

And then that Spirit which is the Kingdom of God, dwelt within the temple, and changed it, so that blood was no more the life of it, so he became the second Adam, the head of the new world. And according to Acts, 1st chapter and 3rd verse, was seen forty days upon this planet.

And the likeness of this grorious body was shewn unto John in vision, in Revelation, Ist chapter, 14th and 15th verses.---" His head and his hair were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire, and his feet like unto fine brass."

And he commanded man to ask that his joys might be full---that when the fulness of the times of the old world drew near, that those that asked for the fulness of the Spirit of God always to rest on them, that Spirit would do the work in them that it did in him. And it is said in 1st Peter, 5th chapter, and 4th verse.---" And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away."

And John shews when this change will take place, which will be when Christ appears--see 1st John, 3rd chapter, and 2nd verse.---" Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when shall appear we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

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But if the kingdom of God was to come and dwell within the body of man, which is the old world, before the fulness of time, that man had done the work that Jesus did, for the body to be changed---it would destroy that body---because it is

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said in 1st Corinthians, 15th chapter, and 50th verse.---“ Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God.

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And Jesus says in Mark, 2nd chapter, and 22nd verse." No man putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the bottles; but new wine must be put into new bottles."

So it is said in Revelation, 21st chapter, and 3rd verse.---" I heard a great voice out of heaven, saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.".

So the world to come is the new earth spoken of by Isaiah, in the 65th chapter, which is the body of man made anew; and the kingdom of God which is to come, is the new heaven which is to be put within that new earth, and is to be the life of it.

For the body of man, in its present state, is the old earth, and blood is the life of it; and the vanities and sinful amusements are the old heavens, which are within the old earth, spoken of by Isaiah, 34th chapter. and 4th verse, which shall be "rolled together as a scroll."

So the new heaven and the new earth which is to be made, are the body and mind of man being made anew: so it is said in the 104th Psalm, 30th verse.---“ Thou send est forth thy Spirit; they are created, and thou renewest the face of the earth."

And the state of the kingdom of God which is to be put within the world, which is to come, for them to inherit, which is to be revealed when the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled, which is within the six thousand years, was prepared from

*Note, The interpretation. The old bottle being the resemblance of the old body, the blood of it being made flesh will make it a new body, then it will hold the new wine, which is the Spirit, and it will be the life of that temple, it being a bone of the house of Israel.

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