misunderstood, we do not stand apart on the principle: "Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than-thou;"-by no means,-but simply because we are "Israelites" and not "Gentiles."-Because they are of the pure olive, and not of the wild graft. For, said Paul: "I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the Apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office: For I am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.—God hath not cast away" His people" which He foreknew.-For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?— If the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them, the riches of the Gentiles; how much more "their" fulness ?-For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest He also spare not thee. Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, "if thou continue in His goodness: otherwise thou also shall be cut off; how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?"-The house of Israel came from, and are children of the stock of Abraham and of the stock of Israel, and were never Gentiles. When we speak of Israelites, we speak of the members of the house of Israel, and them only. We do not understand "a spiritual Israel” “a moral law" and many other such like expressions, all these expressions are the inventions of an apostate Christendom and prove the degeneracy of the age. But, there is the "former," and the latter house of Israel, and the Gentiles were grafted in about the centre, as a parenthesis in a sentence. The house of Israel always worshipped the only true and living God, and were never carried away to worship dumb idols, but: "ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led "—but by the grace of God, "blindness in part is happened to Israel" -and "ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God"-to provoke Israel to jealousy.-Again, be it understood that the house of Israel are not Jews, who refuse the Gospel, neither are they Gentiles who refuse the law.

But they do walk through the two-leaved gates of law and Gospel.-The Latter house of Israel, follow "no man," "no woman," but they do follow Christ-the immortal Spirit, whithersoever He leadeth.-To the house of Israel, the Man-Christ "only" is the way, the truth, and the "Life."

These "Extracts from the Flying Roll "-are sent forth among the Gentile churches, to rescue the outcasts of Israel and the dispersed of Judah, held captive by the Gentiles. -We are fully aware that the Gentile descendants of the heathen nations, will never receive the deep mysteries of the Kingdom of God,-they "will not" come to Jesus that they might have" LIFE." The mysteries of the Kingdom of God are too rich, free from blood, and as a sequence, they cannot rest on a Gentile's stomach, for by force of habit, his tastes savour of blood and all manner of unclean things, from which God commanded them to abstain, in vain;—with which things the house of Israel can have nothing to do; hence their slaughter-houses have been left far behind in the wilderness, and they obey the Divine injunction which bids them: "Come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing;' and I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty." Their eyes have been opened to see that fearful slaughterhouse in Christendom which is called: "Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots, and abominations of the earth." We have heard the cry of lamentation and bitter weepings in the land, and we have heard Rachel calling us : "Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.”—And not only we, but "all" the children of Israel, of the stock of Abraham, will break asunder their shackles, gyves, and chains of error, priestcraft and superstition, in which they have been fettered by the Gentiles, as Samson brake the green withs, and the new ropes.

If harsh, and rather strong language has been used to depict and cast into bold relief the errors of Christendom,

necessity and honesty demanded it, but not with a view to railing,-why should we strike the blind?neither was it spoken with a boasting spirit, "for what have we that we have not received?"-The only object is, to open the eyes of fettered Israel, that they may see it in its true light.-Jesus always had a look of compassion, a kind word at all times for the common people the multitude, but to those who made a great display, who strained at gnats and swallowed camelswho made an outward profession of religion, washing the outside of the cup, whitewashing their sepulchres containing dead men's bones He said: "Woe, unto you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men, ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. Ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers, therefore ye shall receive greater damnation. Ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him two-fold more the child of hell than yourselves." If these words were spoken in those days,-how much more are they applicable to this present apostate Christendom, which is a stench in God's nostrils, and loathsome to every true follower of the meek and lowly Jesus ?-In the first dispensation, the maid "only sleepeth" and Jesus raised her gently by the hand. In the second dispensation the young man was in the bier and on the road to the grave,—and Jesus touched the bier and said: "Young man, I say unto thee, arise."-But O look at the third and last dispensation, the question has to be asked by Jesus: "Where have ye laid him?" Behold the cave of the third and the last watch-behold the apostacy of the latter days "a stone lay upon it "-Jesus said "take ye away the stone" and here Jesus must raise His voice for the last time Lazarus, come forth"-but "by this time he stinketh for he hath been dead four days,"" and he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with grave-clothes."— Woe! woe! woe! unto this apostate Christendom, what is it coming to ?-if the mighty works had been done in

Tyre and Sidon, in Sodom and Gomorrah, which have been done in this last dispensation, they would have repented in sackcloth and ashes. The two former generations shall rise in Judgment against this dispensation.

I would strongly urge all who read these "Extracts," not to select a part here and there, but to read them in the order laid down:-commencing at Sermon 1—Part I. through to the end of Sermon 12-Part VII. By doing so, all who read, will be enabled in a great measure to see and understand the great marriage feast, to take place in this third and last watch of the "third day." The "six" waterpots of stone of "three" firkins apiece. They will see them filled with water, -the water converted into wine,—and drink the good wine of the kingdom, reserved for the last.-I would also request all to note carefully what is written in the “Flying Roll" concerning the earthquakes, famines, bloodshed, sorrows, troublous times, and the vials of God's wrath, about to fall upon all the nations and kingdoms of the world.—“The Spirit speaketh expressly that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils ;-having their conscience seared with a hot iron. Men shall be lovers of their ownselves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, without natural affection, despisers of those that are good,-lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God, having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof,-ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth, but their folly shall be manifest to all. Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse,— deceiving and being deceived. The latter end with them is worse than the beginning, for the seven spirits more wicked than himself shall enter in, and dwell there, and the last state of that man is worse than the first."-From such turn away. The worst feature of all is, that all this wickedness is practised under the cloke of Christianity, Bible in hand;using religion as a liberty for a cloke of maliciousness.— "They have crept in unawares, who before of old were ordained to this condemnation,-ungodly men, turning the grace of God into lasciviousness; "-hence, we behold this

great "mystery"-"an apostate Christendom "-" a great pot of wild gourds.".

We sound the trumpet, and call upon all the spirits of the just, the seed of Israel of the stock of Abraham, to flee for their lives to the city Jerusalem above,-the mother of the free-flee to Christ and worship Him only, in spirit and in truth, He is the God of the living.-Let not the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer and all kinds of sects and denominations, charm or entice you to worship the golden image which Nebuchadnezzar hath set up in Christendom. Flee at once to the city,-the two-leaved gates are wide open.— Flee from the vials of God's wrath, which are about to be poured out in this third and last watch.

In conclusion,-as I commenced this introduction by speaking of the author of these "Extracts from the Flying Roll," I shall also close with him. I would ask all who read to note the great simplicity of language used by him in describing the deep and glorious mysteries of the kingdom of God. The language throughout, savours of the Scriptures.We do not find him careering upon the wings of Rhetoric,but he unveils the deep mysteries of God. He brings to light the treasures of darkness of the ages past, which prophets and kings desired to see. He never parades the stale and mildewed metaphors of your mere rhetoricians,―nor the hackneyed properties of theatrical orations,—he speaks as a common fisherman in language plain, clear and distinct, that the simplest child, the poorest man, and the most unlearned can hear, see, and understand. JOSEPH HEAD.

"N.B."-For the guidance of the outcasts of Israel and the dispersed of Judah,--who seek to come up out of Egypt, and join their "Brethren" and "their tribes." Information will be sent to any one addressing themselves, either by letter or personally to the following head officers of the New and Latter house of Israel, namely :

JOSEPH HEAD,

JOHN ROGERS, Sen.

GEORGE MOORE,
JOSHUA ROGERS.

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