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out of their possessions, being wild olives and they shall trouble thee no more." "Hearken O my people, that have in your hearts to do the things that are right; and give ear, O my nation! for a law shall proceed from me which shall rest upon you for a light unto my people; so that it shall be said in other nations: "Where is there a people like unto this people called Israel I will lay weight to the plummet, and I will breathe upon my people, and water them with the dew of heaven and give thee sure bread and sure water for them, and my new covenant which I have made with them, I will have always before mine eyes and will command the hosts of heaven to draw forth their swords; I will give a command, and they shall serve my sons and daughters. I will give them a new law within their heart, and My Spirit shall rest upon Israel both by day and by night, and they shall say: "It is My Spirit that rests upon them, that will fulfil the law and the Gospel" so that the natural man will cease boasting, and the spiritual man perform My work."-Man of himself cannot keep the laws of God-neither did Jesus of Himself keep the law, though He was free from sin, for He said: "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He seeth the Father do "and again: "I can of mine own self do nothing."-Man by nature and unaided by the Spirit cannot keep God's holy law being unbelieving and doubtful, for unbelief is the destruction of their spirit; but if they have the immortal Spirit it keeps them in the patience of the Scriptures, and brings them to be of Him, if not his blood is required at his hands, the body perishes. God requires the blood of corruptible flesh, and it goes to the grave-the old earth, having no confidence-no faith. Unbelief nailed and bound Jesus to the cross; they took the life of the body from Him and despise the life of the body for themselves.-Yea, they desired a thief and a murderer-Barrabas to be delivered to them, rather than the Son of God.-O house of Israel be not deceived-no offering is acceptable to God without a broken and a contrite heart, and by a broken heart we mean: a heart entirely broken and severed from Satan and all works of darkness, no matter what

light, shape or form they may assume.-A heart partly in the world and partly with God is a lukewarmness which He will spue out of His mouth. How can a man give his heart entirely to God unless he be entirely broken off from all evil? -No-he must overcome all evil and enter into covenant with God and be enlisted into His ranks-then may he expect to be sealed from on high.-Is not the morning star the first light?-then seek it and you shall find it;-seek the new covenant, which is the keeping of the law and Gospel and thou shalt find immortality.-The law and the Gospel "combined," are the only keys that can open the two-leaved gates of the kingdom of immortality; but the Gentiles. will climb up some other way, they will climb over the wall of repentance for the soul, and if they have not repented they are kept back till the final day of judgment and are as a thief and a robber to their own body. There are two staffs Beauty and Bands-the one is the Gospel-the other, the law :- Gentile and Jew.-Beauty is the Gospel and when it came, Bands was cast aside and lost their sceptre to rule; but when the two sticks are re-united, or made ONE, they are LIFE.-The Jew holds to his own, which is the sacrifice of the animal-and the Gentile holds to his which is the sacrifice of bread and wine. But thus saith the Lord: I will gather Israel out from them both.-Israel must return as the prodigal,—when the prodigal returned he was willing to be made as one of the hired servants; and when the shoes were put upon his feet, he could go through the gates.-Then both Beauty and Bands will not be able to look upon him, nor see him, for he will be transparent. Then if there be one alone by himself and he be in that Spirit-there is three and it dwells in him, and works in him, and declares the wonders of God.

In conclusion, give ear O Israel, hear ye my Beloved :Where the law is kept there is no fear. Perfect love is without fear. But if I love God, and keep not the law, it is a jealous fear, and Satan lays every lawbreaker down, and if man is taken up, it is the law of Christ that must take him up. One cannot deliver another, the word shall deliver them, and if I believe in Christ I

must prove it. When thou takest the covenant of Israel-the nail is removed, and the covenant will bring thee to be a free man of the city.

The Gentiles would remind us that if we sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous-and He is the propitiation for our sins. We do most heartily rejoice in the knowledge of this glorious truth. We know that He is the great centre, the key stone of the whole fabric -the foundation stone of all truth-the great corner stone of the incorruptible and immortal edifice and unless we build upon Him all our labour is valueless-yet we would also remind our Gentile friends that we have left first principles of dead works and we are going on to perfection and to Light and Life—and when the new Covenant is fully established in us and the laws of God written in our hearts-we shall not need to come daily for forgiveness, but through the great power of the Comforter and not in our own strength we shall live in hope, that all the root-branch and seed of all evil will be entirely removed from our bodies-our blood cleansed --then we trust that the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob shall be our God and we, the children of Israel His people.

END OF PART V.

EXTRACTS FROM THE "FLYING ROLL."

COMPILED INTO A SERIES OF SERMONS FOR THE

"GENTILE CHURCHES."

SERMON II. PART VI.

"Thus saith the Lord; a voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping; Rachel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not."-JERM. xxxi. 15.

"Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children. For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck."-LUKE Xxiii. 28, 29.

SINCE the day that the Lord God Almighty "put enmity between the serpent and the woman, and between the seed of Satan and her seed, and said unto the woman: I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children,"-up to this present time; a voice has been heard on this planet, a cry of lamentation, and bitter weeping. Eve weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted for her children, because they are not.-Death, the wages of sin, has fallen upon "all" her children, save one in each dispensation, as a testimony and a witness of the redemption of the body, to come.-The whole creation has groaned and travailed in pain together till now.-The weeping and lamentations of the daughters of Eve will continue unto the end;—until the judgments of God descend upon this planet, and they begin to say to the mountains, fall on us, and to the hills, cover us." The day of the Lord, or day of vengeance will come upon them as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up."-In the midst of the lamentations and bitter weeping,- in the midst of this Chaotic tumult, and above the sounds of moans, groans and deep bass

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