The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment. Could ye not watch one hour? Whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery. And whosoever shall marry her that is divorced, committeth adultery. Luke, 12c23v Matt. 26c40v 5c32 v And whosoever shall compel thee to 41 ver. go a mile, go with him twain. And of him that would take away thy goods, ask them not again. 3 ch He that hath two coats, let him impart Luke to him that hath none; and he that hath meat let him do likewise. Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them. But let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth. When ye fast, be not of a sad countenance. But anoint thine head, and wash thy face; that thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy father which is in secret; and thy father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly What things soever ye desire when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any; that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses. 11 v. Matt. 6 ch. 1 & 3 v 16---18 ver. Mark, 11Ch. 24, 25. ver. Moses gave unto you circumcision, John, (not because it is of Moses, but of the7c22 v fathers.) DIVERS WORDS UTTERED BY THE APOS TLES. I will put my laws in their mind, and write them in their hearts. Heb. 8 c 10 v Not the hearers of the law are just Rom. before God, but the doers of the law2c 13v shall be justified. But whoso looketh into the perfect law He that hath my commandments, and 1 FIRST SERMON. James, 1 ch. [25 v. John, 14 Ch. 21 ver. 2 John 10, 11 v It is written in the Song of Solomon, 4th chap. 12th ver.---"A garden enclosed, is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed." This text shews to Israel that God has some hidden things in store, and these he has kept secret from man until now; which agrees with the words of Daniel, 12th chap. 9th ver.---" The words are closed up, and sealed till the time of the end." which is until the fulness of times. (a) Luke, 21st chap. 24th ver. and Romans, 11th chap. 15th, 16th verses; which are Israel, which the Spirit is now gathering. Therefore, that which has hitherto been concealed is now revealing. The tree of life has been as as a garden enclosed, a fountain sealed from man, ever since man disobeyed the word of God; then, as it is wrote in Gen. 3rd chap. 24th ver. "God placed cherubims, and (a) Which is now come. flaming sword, which turned every way, to keep the way of it," till the fulness of times had come in: but the fulness of times being at hand the tree of life is offered to man again; which will further appear from Revelation, 3rd chap. 8 ver.--"I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it; for thou hast a little strength, and has kept my word, and hast not denied my name. The door is now opened into the garden that was enclosed, which was not to be opened till the fulness of times, and the spring that was shut up, and the fountain that was sealed is broken open, and the tree of life is made bare to him that will seek; and it is said in Revelation, 22nd chap. 17 ver.-- 66 Whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely." And it is said in the 14th ver. of the same chapter." Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life." And it is said in the 2nd chapter, and the 7th verse,To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God." And in the 22nd chapter, and the 2nd and 3rd verses,---"The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. And there shall be no more curse. The leaves of the tree are the words now revealed. Revelation, the 19th chapter and the 10th verse:---" The testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy." And the curse is the first death, which was pronounced upon the body of man in the beginning, which was for disobedience, and was to remain till the sixth day; and the obeying of the commands in the sixth thousand years removes that death from mortal, as it is written in the 1st Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians, the 15th chapter and the 53rd ver :-'This mortal must put on immortality," And God will give strength unto man to take of this tree, 66 C by causing the fulness of his spirit always to rest upon them that ask; and no one in heaven, nor on earth, will be able to overcome. them, nor shut the door which is opened unto them, because the fulness of times is come, the six days of God being nearly up, which are six thousand years: and by the mouths of various prophets, in the scriptures, has he shewn, that within the sixth day he would finish the tabernacle of man, and that they should become as Gods knowing good and evil, and the evil should serve the good, signifying that the old world shall serve the new one, their blood being cleansed, by Satan being bound from flesh and blood, which is the old world. It is written in Matthew, 8th chapter 11th and part of the 12th verses." And I say unto you, that many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven; but the children of the kingdom shall be cast out." The kingdom of heaven mentioned in this passage, is the spring and fountain which is mentioned in the text; and as it is said the fountain is sealed, so has the meaning of this passage been sealed, and is a parable to the unbelieving world: so it is said of our Saviour, in the Gospel according to Mark, 4th chapter, 34th verse. Without a parable spake he not unto them." Therefore do they preach that they have the kingdom of heaven within them, and that they are already born again; now if the meaning of the scriptures had not been sealed from them, according as it is said in the text, they would never have said the kingdom was within them, seeing they are but flesh and blood; because it said by the Apostle Paul, in the 1st Epistle to the Corinthians, 15 chapter 50th verse. ---“Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God:" and it is said by John, 1st Epistle, 5th 1 chapter, 18th verse." Whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not." But though they say they are born again, and they are the children of the kingdom, yet if they do not the work of the law and the gospel, which Jesus did and was the pattern of, and obey not the commandments of God, which he has now sent by the spirit of truth, to lead into all truth, they will still be cast out. And they will fulfil that passage in Matthew, the 25th chapter, and the 11th and 12th verses: "Lord, Lord, open to us; but he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not. But those that seek for the fulness of his Spirit always to rest on them, the doors of the kingdom are thrown open unto them, and no man can shut them, and they will sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and will be called free men of the city of New Jerusalem, a new world made out of the old one, by the blood being made flesh, and quickened by the Spirit, it then being the life of the body. But those who do not the work of Jesus, will fulfil that prophecy of Isaiah, 24th chapter, 23rd verse." The moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the Lord of Hosts shall reign in Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients, gloriously." The life of the fall is in the blood, and the blood is the life of the flesh, and is as the light of a star, shining in a dark place; and the Spirit of God overshadowing man, brings his light as the light of the moon, to guide him through the night, to seek for the preserving of the soul, till the fulness of times. And it will be confounded: and the spirit, which is as the light of the sun, they say they have it within them, and that they are born again, but, alas, at that day the spirit will not know |