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We thank Thee O God, holy,-just and true, that we have been permitted, unworthy though we be,-to reach and see the 1,335 days of Daniel, this third and last watch of the eleventh hour, of the last dispensation.-We praise Thy holy name that the day has come of which Thou spakest on earth to the daughters of Jerusalem.-We glorify Thy name that Thou hast anointed our eyes with the eye-salve of the land. -We magnify Thee O God, that we can, even now, in the mortal flesh,-realize the marvellous beauty of Thy words: "Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck."

We see her, the Bride, white and ruddy,

The chiefest among ten thousand;

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She is the "ONLY ONE that bringeth "TO BIRTH !!!
The choice one of the immortal earth.

She is the Beloved of the Bridegroom,
Who feedeth among the lilies.

Mercy and truth have met together,

Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

The immortal Spirit rested three years upon Jesus, before it showed its full powers. It delivered up His body, and afterwards took it again. So it is with the "SECOND CHILD " who shall rule all nations with a rod of iron.-It first comes and rests upon them as a child, afterwards with full power to reign, as it did in Jesus. For a child when put to walk, does not receive its strength all at once. Observe Solomon says: "I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in His stead." Then the second child is for those, who are seeking to live, not for those who are seeking to die, and it will rest on them three years, before it shows its full power.-In the days of the disciples when they were all gathered together, they were operated upon by cloven tongues, it was but the operation; and when the second child comes and rests on "the sealed" or 144,000,-the words spoken to Isaiah, will then be fulfilled: "Lo, this is our God." And the 144,000 will be as saviours. Then will also be fulfilled the words of the Lord spoken to Obadiah: "And saviours shall come up on

Mount Zion, and judge the mount of Esau."-God is but one, but He separates Himself, as He did at the descent of the cloven tongues. We say spiritually: that all those, that remain in their mortal lives, shall see them have this full power, not in part, for He gave the twelve disciples the full power of its operation only in part, and they believed in part, which was for the saving of the soul, for then it was: "Seal the law among my disciples." They were determined to know nothing but Jesus, and Him crucified. But now He comes a second time, without sin, and gives not the Spirit by measure, but its full power.-It is but a short time before the second child will stand up instead of Jesus,-the woman's seed-whether ye are prepared or not, but will He stand up in the Jew or the Gentile? No-but in the Israel of God; and the two Spirits shall dwell in them one day, that day being a thousand years, having no beginning of days or end of life, and they will be in His own image.

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The first woman handed forth the evil-but the latter woman subdues the evil, then she frees the child, and her body being the city, she then is the free-woman of the citythe city being a figure of the body. There shall be those that are infants, one hundred years old, and one hundred and fifty years old, and they shall enter into the Spirit.

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Thus saith the Lord :-"The woman handed the evil, and she must take it away, for there is no other means under the heavens, nor earth, nor the seas.-Can you get a tree that has lost its sap, to put forth a blossom of increase? It has no goodness, but when the sap has gone down to the root, and comes up again, then and then only-it is purified."—

In justice to the weaker disciples of Jesus, who are earnestly seeking for truth, we must remind them, that: though it is written: "The woman handed the evil, and she must take it away"-this must not be confounded with the words of the Evangelist John, where it is written: Behold, the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.” The sin of the world is not yet taken away,-evil still reigns on the earth and death through evil for God: "calleth those hings which be not as though they were." The Lamb of

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God will take away the sin of the world at the appointed time, but the woman cleanses the house, the bodyremoves the tares from the blood-sweeps the house for the piece and cleanses the blood through the power of Jeru salem above. The taking away of the sin of the world-is unto all even to the rebellious also. Christ is the propitiation for the sins of the whole world-the Advocate with the Father, and if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.-The one, is to both Jew and Gentile, who though being cleansed from all unrighteousness do- not seek the life of the body. Cleansed "but not all." They have made a covenant with death and seek the grave, in hope of the heavenly inheritance, reserved for them, through the resurrection. The other, is only to the house of Israel who seek "Life," and to obtain the life of the body, they must receive the cleansing of Zion here in the mortal life. Their blood must be washed away, for "flesh and blood' cannot enter the kingdom." We did not think it necessary to mention the "house of Irsael" at each sentence;-but for fear that we may not be distinctly understood, we say: "The woman handed the evil, (to man-to the world) but she must take it away or remove it from every child of Israel-for she cannot remove it from those who seek her not, for its removal.— Israel will cry out, morn, noon and night to Jerusalem above —with lamentation and bitter weepings: "Mother, make me free," "cleanse me from the root, branch and seed of evil."-They seek to be born of the Spirit,-of the female immortal Spirit, their Mother Jerusalem above who bears no evil-who gives no suck to the evil. They seek to enter the womb of her of whom Jesus said: "Blessed are the barren (from evil) and the womb that never bare (evil) and the paps which never gave suck (to the evil). Daughters of Jerusalem weep not for me (she is my mother, my spouse, my bride), but weep for yourselves and for your children, until ye enter with your seed into the womb of the female immortal Spirit and be born again.-O Rachel! thou mother of the free-Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears for thy

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children shall come again from the land of the enemy. Thy children shall come again to their own border.-Come! Mother come! we wait to receive thee. We are waiting for that blessed hour when all Israel shall meet, meet again around thy throne-beneath thine immortal wing. Descend now O Thou immortal Spirit upon the seed of Rebecca the mortal woman and make her an instrument in Thy hand to purify her brothers and sisters.

As this sweet flow'r of virgin white,

Surrounded by the prickly thorn,
So is this fair one in God's sight,
Among the daughters earthly born.
Then O thou well-belov'd, arise;

O'er Israel's seed thy sceptre away;
Thyself unvail before their eyes—

Thy beaut'ous form to them display.
Now the Branch that long was promis'd,
Which grew out of Jesus' roots;
Now the rod, the staff, and comfort,
Which produces living fruits.

As Jesus by the woman came,

To suffer death for human sin;
The second child then comes the same,
To bring their full redemption in.

END OF PART VI.

EXTRACTS FROM THE FLYING ROLL."

COMPILED INTO A SERIES OF SERMONS FOR THE

"GENTILE CHURCHES."

SERMON II. PART VII.

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"O thou Man of God, there is death in the pot.' 2 KINGS iv. 40. "Ye will not come to me, that ye might have 'life'." JOHN v. 40. "God is not the God of the dead, but of the 'living'." MATT. xxii. 32.

GOD spake in the beginning that which shall be fulfilled in the end. Since the foundation of the world, God has always spoken to man, in parables, types and antitypes in His holy Word.—" All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction and for instruction in righteousness."-Not only has God spoken to man by His angel, or Spirit-and through the holy Scriptures ;but He has also spoken to man, through nature: by similitudes, likenesses, resemblances, comparisons, varieties and synonyms,—whether animate or inanimate-with a voice unmistakably clear and distinct, to all who have eyes to see with, and ears to hear with.-All that has been spoken, every lesson taught to man since the beginning,-point with unerring certainty by the finger-post and through the telescope-of time, to one certain period:-the end.-As ages, generations, and dispensations have rolled on,-leaving the hoary mountains of Ararat and the barren plains of Shinar, in the far distant back-ground,-light has shone brighter and brighter as man drew nearer to the end.-To all those who possess spiritual discernment, the light shines brightly. Others, see and know in part, looking through a glass darkly; while to others, the light that is in them, is darkness,-but Oh! "how great is that darkness."-Though the prophets of old could in their day look though their dim telescopes into futurity, and see the far distant light of these latter days,-though they spake in parabolic language of events which would transpire,—yet

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