will be born of God, born of the immortal Spirit-not before. -It must always be borne in mind that the blood of Jesus was shed to destroy him that had the power of death, that man might become immortal as he was before the transgression. So Christ by abolishing death (at the fulness of the Gentiles) hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. He bestows this only to those who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality. For this corruptible must put on either incorruptibility, or this mortal must put on immortality. To obtain this immortality he must dwell in light-must dwell in Jerusalem abovewhich man cannot even approach unto-until born of the two immortal Spirits. So man is firstly the son of Satan, through the graft of Satan,-secondly, the son of man, by being grafted into the blood of Jesus-and thirdly, Son of God or Israel by Christ being grafted into him—and becomes immortal I in you and you in me"-one in Christ-one in body and Spirit—the immortal Bride of Christ. The Virgin Mary was overshadowed in the Spirit, without the spirit of man. Had the Jews therefore a right to sentence Him to death, because He called Himself the Son of God?-she had never known any man, but overshadowed by the immortal Spirit of God.—Though under the law it was not allowed to be called the Son of God, for they believed not that she was overshadowed. He was the Son of the living God, though He was called the son of man, because of His mother's body. When mortal shall have put on immortality, this will be the way they will bring forth as Jerusalem above, which is the woman being overshadowed by Zion above, will bring forth seed in the image of the living God. Light bursts after light; all light is borrowed, one from another, yet a borrowed light is good; but the time has now come when a man shall no longer borrow, but shall know for himself and receive his light from the great source of light even the immortal Spirit light and life.

Jesus came with immortality for Israel, but was offered a sacrifice, both for the Jews and heathen nations, though the Jews had offered sacrifice of the animal before.-God gave

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His laws to Moses and He sent His Son to fulfil them, to prove to man that He has not laid upon him that which was impossible. Jesus came to be a minister to the living, not to the dead, to shew a light to the living that they might walk in His footsteps. Jesus came and made a covenant for the life of the body; for the scripture says: your agreement with hell shall not stand, and your covenant with death shall be disannulled. And though His blood was shed as a seed for the dead, yet He, the same Jesus is now living, and He must be grafted into us, and those into whom Christ is grafted shall sit with Him on His throne; but He never said to the dead: sit with me on my throne. He was made a reproach, and suffered reproof, though He had no sin, that He might take away your reproach; and if ye take His reproof, ye shall be made in His image; and the kingdom, and the dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom, shall be given to the people of the saints.-Jesus came to His own, but His own received Him not. He then turned to the Gentiles, being rejected of the Jews, but who are the Gentiles that He turned to ?-The seed of Israel hid among the Gentiles, and Jesus said: “Blessed is the barren womb, that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck, for if they do these things in the green tree what shall they do in the dry?"-The men were condemning the green tree, which was Jesus, the first begotten of the house of Israel. Now the time has come that both man and woman will condemn the dry tree, which is the man of sin; and the woman Jerusalem above, will come down to the woman belowwho will in them strive with man as the wife of Pontius Pilate, striving with the unjust Judge to save her husband, Jesus and now that her husband is slain, she casts in all that she hath to be revenged on that evil which caused His death. Jesus was despised-the rejected of men: "and we hid as it were our faces from Him." All His seed are the destitute, both to Jew and Gentile, and the three churches cast them out, for more are the children of the destitute than the children of the married wives. The children of the desolate are wanderers until they put on immortality.

"Behold I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my

mother conceive me" for which God took His own fruit and gave His firstborn for the transgression, the fruit of His body for the sin of the soul. He gave this for your sin and transgression. This is the fruit now handed to you to work by and bring forth spiritual food; He gave that fruit for you, that you might be grafted into the woman's seed, Jesus: for Christ was grafted into death, that He might taste it for every transgressor, that all might be justified in Him who had been grafted into Him, at the first resurrection. But He has risen again for the justification of Israel, that they may have Him grafted into them and bear fruit upwards and not downwards. He has risen up from His thicket to destroy. But will He destroy those into whom He is grafted, who are trusting in Him under the shelter of His wings?-Jesus was brought to the outside of the city before He suffered-before He could be put to death. Satan cannot touch those that abide in the city, who cry out day and night.-Under the Jewish dispensation men were always stoned without the City;-the City is a figure of the Spirit. Let us try to keep within the City, that we may dwell in the holy hill, and abide in the tabernacle; for the command is to keep within the City, in the immortal Spirit. Solomon's servant went beyond the command, he went from out the City, and so was put to death.Taking it for granted that we have been without the gate ;that we have gone forth unto Him without the camp, bearing His reproach-when first we came to Jesus heavy laden and burthened with sin and we found rest in Him.-The disciples had no continuing city, but sought one to come, which City has come down to Israel, wherefore let us abide in it.

Jesus was the lamb slain from the foundation of the world, which remains until the final resurrection, for this takes in also the seed of the murderer; for does not God say: "Shall there be evil in a city and the Lord hath not done it " ?—He placed the evil, and gave His own blood in His Son for the transgression, and His body for the living. And Jesus said: he that believeth on me, the works that I do, shall he do also, and greater works than these shall he do, because I go unto my Father." When Jesus said "Because I live, ye shall

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live also "it must always be remembered that He was then immortal. He was then walking in the day, and not in the night. He was then the watchman of the day. But when Christ descended and rested upon the body of Jesus, He was the watchman of the night, for He said: "Seal the law among my disciples."-The life of the body was then sealed from them. He came then to bear at first incorruptible fruit,— but now says: "I am He that liveth, and was dead; and behold, I am alive for evermore, and have the keys of hell and of death." Did He not then say: "Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish."-Did He not then have to give the fruit of His body for those who had to repent by reason of the transgression? Did not Jesus go and be baptized of John for those who shall have part in the first resurrection, He then being of the incorruptible God? The life of the body was then sealed from them. Jesus star should arise in them;-which is to branch of Christ would be grafted to them a second time,— as the first graft is only for the salvation of the soul to both Jew and Gentile. That one immortal Spirit suffered Jesus to be slain for them; how can they serve Him? He says: "I am sought of them, that asked not for me: I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name."But to Israel He says: 'If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you."-When that immortal Spirit rested upon Jesus, did He not ask and become the watchman of the day ?-The daystar arose in Him the first; He was the first named after that; but when He died He was the watchman of the night, for the incorruptible, or the salvation of the soul.-Why do those who have believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, through sanctification of the Spirit unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ, who are begotten again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled reserved in heaven for them, who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time;-in one word: why do

the Gentiles who have obtained the salvation of the soul continue like the priests of Baal of old to cry out from morning till night, and weary themselves in praying to God with vain repetitions. Do they doubt God's word? They ask for no more than the salvation of the soul-though immortality be offered to them, will they not reject it ?-why should they find fault with the children of Abraham who do seek the life of the body?— when they do not desire it themselves. By so doing they show the two seeds.-But to us the reason is obvious, for Jesus said: "hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name."-Man has asked for nothing, until he has asked for immortality. This the Gentiles despise, being satisfied with the salvation of the soul only, for which some are quite willing to suffer the loss of the body-and have made a covenant with death and the grave. Wherefore having obtained the salvation of the soul through the atonement, what need is there to continue crying out from morning till night and weary themselves in long prayers. Their request has been granted when they first looked to Jesus on the cross with the eye of faith. The type was first laid in the wilderness, when God commanded Moses to make a fiery serpent, and to set it upon a pole. And it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.-Have not all been bitten by the serpent, before that day and since, to this very day? has not the blood of man been inoculated with the seed of Satan through the bite of the serpent from Adam to this hour? Wherefore if you seek the salvation of your soul-look!! look upon the serpent! look! upon Jesus on the cross,the atoning sacrifice for that bite, and your soul will live in the resurrection, but your body must go to the grave, from the effects of that bite,-as all the bodies of those in the wilderness did. But if you seek the immortality of your body which includes the salvation of the soul,-if you seek to have the thorn in the flesh removed from your body which entered therein through the bite of the serpent, you have to look! and place the yoke of Jesus upon your neck and be yoked with Him, and with Him draw the cross of sorrows, and with Him fulfil both law and gospel, and with Him receive the Kingdom of heaven