unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood."

"For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ."-This is all that is required of the Gentiles for the salvation of the soul. It is also the only foundation for the life of the body, for the whole house of Israel. But, a man may build with various materials upon this foundation. He may build with gold, silver, or precious stones; or he may build with wood, hay, or stubble ;-the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.-If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer .oss but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.—If a man build upon this foundation with wood, hay, or stubbleit cannot be proof against fire,—it is consequently burned up in the grave and that man must suffer the loss of his body, -yet his soul will be saved and raised in the first resurrection. The house of Israel build upon the same foundation but with different material, namely: a material which will resist the fire and pass through the furnace as Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego did; upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was a hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire passed on them ;-these walked in the midst of the fire, having no hurt.-Wherefore the difference between the Gentiles of all the various denominations in Christendom and the house of Israel is ;-that the former are content with the salvation of the soul and the loss of the body, content with the Gospel only,-content to remain at first principles of repentance from dead works, of faith, baptisms, laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead and eternal judgment. And it is very strange that the various denominations cannot agree together, seeing that the great majority of the Gentiles hold these truths as their articles of faith. Why should they be divided among themselves, when they are all building with one material ?-We certainly fail to see why they should not be united together, when they all seek the common salvation of the soul and are all content to lose the body. They all prepare for death, not for life. They seek

death in order to obtain the salvation of the soul in the first resurrection. They make a covenant with death.-But the house of Israel seek the immortality of the mortal body, which includes the salvation of the soul;-they seek to pass with Enoch-the priest, and Elijah-the Levite, and Jesus the Samaritan on the other side of the grave.-They seek to be seated on their own beast and obtain the two-pence of law and Gospel combined. They are not content with one breast, one eye, one ear-but go on to perfection in the female immortal Spirit Jerusalem above, who with Zion will take their abode in that temple of precious stones.-The Gentiles seek only the building of the incorruptible bride, whereas the house of Israel seek to become bones of the immortal bride.—They seek to stand with Jesus against the evil of which the first Adam took, and seek to have their former covenant with death disannulled, and their agreement with hell made void.-Having once agreed with the Gentiles that their bodies should perish, being as them once satisfied with the salvation of the soul.But who now seek for the root and seed of all evil to be totally removed, and ride triumphantly over sin, death, hell and the grave. For the sole benefit of the outcasts of Israel and the dispersed of Judah now scattered among the Gentiles, we purpose therefore in this discourse to point you to Jesus-in-Christ -to Christ-in-Jesus and to the-man-Christ.-We purpose to consider the humanity of Jesus in the language of our text: "a body hast thou prepared me; "-in His birth,-His life, as the good olive plant, the vine,-in His ministry on earth and finally as the great atoning sacrifice.-Albeit the whole of this subject has been very clearly expressed by one of the malefactors crucified by the side of Jesus. He repented, acknowledged to his evil-sought the conversion of his comrade in crime on the other side of Jesus. He proclaimed before an unbelieving world the spotless humanity of Jesus saying, "This man hath done nothing amiss," he proclaimed-the Godhead, the Lordship of Jesus, saying: "Lord, remember me," -he proclaimed to the world that Jesus was not then going to take His Kingdom, but said: "Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy Kingdom."

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In the creation, God made man to preserve his own seed, as He made the woman to preserve her seed, which was the body of Jesus. At the age of twelve He put the woman's seed in power over the Scriptures, and at the river Jordan the two immortal Spirits male and female descended upon Him, and He dwelt in the Godhead three years on earth, each year being a dispensation. This was shewn to Abram our father in vision, in answer to his enquiry: "Lord God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it"? (inherit what?—the land, the body). And He said unto him :-take me an heifer of three years old, and a she-goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtle dove, and a young pigeon. And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not. And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away. And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him."-The birds were not divided, but the heifer, she-goat and the ram, each of three years old; typical of the three dispensations were divided. "And Jesus, when He was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and lo, the heavens were opened unto Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon Him: and lo a voice from heaven, saying: This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." The turtle dove and young pigeon being figurative of the two immortal Spirits male and female, yet one, being undivided as Adam was before the rib was removed from his side. Then the Godhead withdrew to see what the seed of man would do to the seed of the woman; -here the kingdom was divided, and their birthrights were divided. So now, God is restoring back to man the seed of the woman to man, to preserve his own seed till they be twelve years of age, then if the parents put on immortality, the children will be in immortality. So God has made the father and mother the instruments in His hand of preserving their seed. Jesus says of the seed that was sown by the wayside, that the fowls came and devoured them up.-Man has to keep his eye single unto God, for he is the husbandman that brings

that seed to perfection.-Though Jesus was of the pure seed of the woman, without the mixture of the evil seed which was placed in the city,-yet He was made lower than the angels as it is written: "We see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that He by the grace of God should taste death for every man.”—The body of Jesus was prepared of the seed of Abraham according to the flesh, that He might be a waymark for the children of Abraham. He was the light of the world and the darkness was subject to Him and the darkness said: Art thou come hither to torment us before the time?" The evil spirits of darkness knew that there was a set time when they would be driven out of the house (the body) of Israel, and that man would possess the Spirit of God, and so inherit the land or body as promised to Abraham.-Jesus was the light of the world when He dwelt three years in the Spirit, and He promised to send the other Comforter, who would abide with man for ever.-This Comforter is Christ and Jerusalem above, who will bring man back from his fallen state. These two Spirits of the heavens being united with the mortal spirits of the man and woman, two above and two below, form the four spirits of the heavens and the earth as shewn to Zechariah :

"These are the four spirits of the heavens, which go forth from standing before the Lord of all the earth."-The body of Jesus was not prepared after the nature of angels, or spirits, but of the seed of Abraham, that through suffering, He might be seated at the right hand of power. The good and evil was placed before Adam and Eve; as it was placed before them, so it is in like manner placed before every man and woman and remains the same to this hour.-Jesus was in the loins of Adam, and on the fourth day He came forth; and what will be done at the end of the world, was declared to Adam and Eve, in the beginning.-The seed of the woman, (not the first, but the seed of the latter woman), is given to take away that which was handed by the first;-this world is the first woman's seed. When evil was permitted to come into paradise, the man and the woman were in the vine, and evil was placed there then God commanded them that they

should not eat of the vine, from the kernel even to the husk. Then Satan was permitted to come there, and he persuaded the woman to take of it;-then paradise withdrew, and they were stripped of the vine and became the wild olive; but before that they were the good olive.-Adam and Eve wished for the inheritance to be divided, which was their living;-80 He divided their inheritance to corruptible and an incorruptible life, either at the first or final resurrection, being then as the angels of God.-The first Adam and Eve is earthly,—the latter Adam is the Lord from heaven.-Jesus did not bruise Satan's head on the cross, but Satan did bruise His heel ;albeit Satan's head shall be bruised through the atonement, that is to say: the seed of the second woman will bruise Satan's head. For those who become the vine tree, are in the Spirit. The vine tree is the father of the body of Jesus.Though Adam had no father, and Jesus had no earthly father, still His mother conceived Him, and He was in the loins of Adam.-Adam was the father of the natural body, and when the blood is cleansed, they will be as Jesus was at twelve years of age, and when they have the two Spirits, they have the anointing, or unction by which they are made the temple of God. When mortal becomes immortal they have the four Spirits. All things receive life from these four Spirits, being the tree of life on each side of the river. "Upon one stone shall be seven eyes: behold I will engrave the graving thereof." Being the portion of the Spirit given in the seven thousand years. Joshua did not get it, but Jesus got it. Thus saith the Lord: "The Spirit that was on the woman's seed will clothe His branches, and will not depart from them; it shall not depart from thy seed, nor from thy seed's seed."-The watchman of the night is the watchman of the day also, and as Jesus bore the image of the incorruptible, so did He bear the image of the immortal;—for the law of the covenant of the immortal life must be kept in the mortal life.—Jesus was and is the brightness of God's glory, and the express image of His person. The seed of the body of Jesus came from Moses till the year four thousand and one, but the Spirit came from God. There are two seeds :-the bondwoman's seed and the