EIGHTH SERMON.

It is written in the 104th Psalm, and 30th verse:--“Thou sendest forth thy Spirit, they are created, and thou renewest the face of the earth.”

This text may be divided into three parts.
First. What Spirit?

Second. When will it be sent forth?

Third. What is meant by being created, and renewing the face of the earth?

First. Question. What Spirit? for God has sent his Spirit in all ages, and it has overshadowed man: it rested on Moses, so that the waters were divided.

Answer. The Spirit here spoken of, is the fulness: and they that receive it, are born of God, and they sin not, and they value not their lives unto death, but suffer martyrdom, and are called the saints of the most High. But if the time be not fully come, for mortal to put on immortality, it translates them as it did Enoch and Elijah, and such like till the first resurrection: but if the fulness of the times of the Gentiles be come, it changeth the blood into flesh, and bringeth him to be begotten of God, and he keepeth himself and the wicked one toucheth him not, 1st John, 5th chap. 18th verse, of which Jesus was the pattern.

And in John, 14th chapter, and 26th verse: Jesus promised he would send the Spirit in his name. And in the 16th chapter, 8, and 9th verses; he would reprove the world of sin, because they believed not on him, that is, he would reprove them for departing from the fulfilment of his promises, which he delivered unto his servants the Prophets, and Apostles, which is spoken of in Jude 3rd verse: And he would bring all things to their remember

ance.

And those who believe his Spirit, and ask for it always to rest on them, will obey all the laws and commands which it gives; and when the time comes for them to be created afresh, his Spirit will dwell within them, and change their vile bodies, which became vile by the transgression of the first Eve, as it is said in Philippians, 3rd chapter, and 21st verse, to the likeness of his glorious body; 1st Corinthians, 15th chapter, 51, and 52nd verses, "In a moment in the twinkling of an eye." And their bodies will never go to the grave, nor the first death reign over them, which was pronounced upon the first Adam.

And those who receive the Spirit to be created anew, as said in the text, must fulfil the law. So Paul says in Romans, 8th chapter, and 4th verse :--"That the Righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit.

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And in the 13th chapter, and 10th verse:--'Love is the fulfilling of the law."

And Jesus says in Matthew, 22nd chapter, and 37---40th verses---"Thou shalt love the Lord thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the Prophets.'

And in John, 14th chapter, and 23rd verse:--"If a man love me, he will keep my words."

And in Rev. 22nd chapter, and 14th verse:--"Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have a right to the tree of life."

And those who ask for the fulness of the Spirit, it will rest on them, and by it they will fulfil the righteousness of the law, they will love the Lord,

and do what he commands them. Thus they will walk according to the Spirit, and not according to the flesh, which meaneth the law of sin, which is in the flesh.

And when they have fulfilled the law, the Spirit will create them anew, and make them like unto God.

And this is the reward which is promised to those that walk after the Spirit, and fulfil the righteousness of the law, the value of which none can conceive till they enjoy it.

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Paul says in 1st Corinthians, 2nd chapter, 9, and 10th verses;---"It is written, eye hath not seen nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man; the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit, for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea the deep things of God."

Paul does not mean that God at that time gave them to conceive the glories he had laid up for them, though he says, God hath revealed them to us by his Spirit: so he had revealed his glories to them in words, and given them to conceive in part, but not fully, for then he could not have said, as in 1st Corrinthians, 13th chapter, 9, 10, and 12th verses:---“ We know in part, and we prophesy in part.

10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

12 For now we see through a glass darkly: but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as I also am known.

But it is when the Spirit is sent forth to dwell in man, to create him anew, as said in the text, that he will give them to know the reward that he has laid up for them, by sowing his seed a second time in man, as he sowed it in the woman, Luke,

1st chapter, and 35th verse: when he overshadowed her; 1st John, 3rd chapter, 9th verse:--"Whosoever is born of God, doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God."

But then they will be begotten of God, and will know all things. But at present they are only reckoned servants.

And Jesus says in John, 15th chapter, and 15th verse:--- The servant knoweth not what his Lord doeth."

And while man abides with the life of the blood, in Satan's Kingdom, without the fulness of the Spirit, he is as the unprofitable servant, but if the Spirit always abides on him, till he puts on immortality, of which the body of Jesus was the pattern, he will be no more a servant, but become as the son, and will be called the Lord's free-man, of the city of the new Jerusalem, the Bride, the Lamb's wife, and Christ the bridegroom.

And the Kings of the earth, and their free-men are set a figure of this: a man has to gain his freedom, before he can be called the King's freeman of the city, the city is set a figure of the body of man, and man is commanded to watch it during the night, which is the old world, of which Satan is the king lest the enemy should enter into it; and the fulness of the Spirit is the watchman of the city, but the bond-man cannot inherit with them.

Second. Question. When will the Spirit be sent forth?

Answer. The time when the Spirit will be sent forth, is within the times spoken of by Daniel, 12th chapter, and 7th verse: and by Jesus in Luke, 21st chapter and 24th verse:--"Jerusalem

shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled." Which will be within the six thousand years, through the time being shortened. Mark, 13th chapter, and 20th

verse.

And the six thousand years is divided into three watches, three hundred and thirty-three years and four months in each watch, which proves that man is now in the third watch, and it is written in Luke, 12th chapter, and 38th verse:---"And if he shall come in the 2nd watch, or come in the 3rd watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants,"

And Matthew, 25th chapter, part of 7th verse: And the wise trimmed their lamps, and went forth to meet him.

Part of 10th verse:-" And they that were ready, went in with him to the marriage, and the door was shut."*

And he has made known how man fell from his image, and from whence the evil came; and how man will be created anew, and evil cease. This he has pointed out from his recorded word, and then will the words of Jesus be fulfilled, in John, 4th chapter, and 24th verse:---"God is a Spirit, and they that worship him, must worship him in Spirit and in truth."

But before man worship God in Spirit and in truth, with that worship that is due to him, the fulness of the Spirit must abide on him, as it abode on the body of Jesus, and he will be created anew, by the Spirit, as said in the text, and not by the blood; for God will place his Spirit within man, and it will turn his blood into flesh, and will make the flesh and the bone immortal, like himself.

Then those that escape of the Mount of Esau, God will cleanse their blood which he had not

* Mortal entered into immortality, signifying blood made flesh.