"When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and thy father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly."

So it is evident that at the fulness of times Israel will return unto him, and he will make a new covenant with them, which is in Jeremiah, 31st chap. 31st ver.---" Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and the house of Judah."

2nd Corinthians 1st chap. 22nd ver.---"Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts."

This also proves the text: those that seek to the law and the service of God will obtain the promises.

John, 3rd chap. 33rd ver.---" He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true." For the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of prophecy.

Revelation 7th chap. 3rd ver.---" Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads."

This passage establishes and shews who are Israelites, and to whom pertaineth adoption, and the glory, and the covenant, and the giving of the law, which is wrote in the text.

Revelation, 5th chap. 9th ver.---" And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation.

This shews who are Israelites, and to whom pertaineth adoption, which is wrote in the text.

Ezekiel 37th chap. 22nd ver." And I will make them one nation in the land, upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither

will fulfil the law and the gospel, and the Spirit will give them the tree of life for their inheritance, which is wrote in Genesis, 3rd chapter, 22nd and 23rd verse:---" And now lest he put forth his hand, and stake also of the tree of life, and eat and live for ever, therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden."

It is evident from the Scriptures, that the tree of life was to be preserved, until the time and times spoken of by Daniel, 12th chapter, and 7th verse: that it might then be given unto those that are prepared for the life of the Bride which is with the bridegroom, John 3rd chapter, and 29thverse :---"He that hath the Bride is the bridegroom,"

Hebrews, 4th chapter, 7th---9th verses :---" Again, he limited a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time as it is said, to day, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts. For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterwards have spoken of another day. There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God."

This proves the time and times; so at the fulness of times, the day of rest will have come in; but the Lord said, it should come in within the full time, Mark 13th chapter, and 20th verse:---" Except the Lord had shortened these days, no flesh should be saved."

And it is said further, in Hosea, 9th chapter, and 7th verse--"The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it, the prophet is a fool, the Spiritual man is mad."

So it appears evident by the Scriptures, a part will be blinded, fall, be snared, and taken: of which the fig tree which was dried up, is a resemblance, Mark, 11th chapter, and 20th verse.

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ELEVENTH SERMON.

It is written in Isaiah, 8th chapter, 20th verse: ---"To the law and testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them"

It is evident that the testimony of Jesus vaunted not against the law, but established the law, that he that broke the covenant of the testimony, the law should condemn them. And it is written in Romans, 2nd chapter. 13th verse:---"For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified."

And it is written in Romans, 2nd chapter, 25th verse:---"For circumcision verily profiteth if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision."

It is evident that circumcision could avail nothing, without the work of the testimony of the covenant, but the command is to he that keepeth the law, and abides in the covenant of Jesus, must be circumcised, both in heart and flesh before he can gain eternal life of Spirit soul and body, 1st Thessalonians, 5th chapter, and 23rd verse.

For the Spirit declares in Genesis, 17th chapter, and 14th verse:" And the uncircumcised manchild, whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised,

that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant."

And in the days of Moses, when the children of Israel were in the wilderness, circumcison ceased from amongst them for forty years; for all that came out of the land of Egypt, that was twenty years old and upwards, died in the wilderness, excepting Joshua, and Caleb, Joshua, 5th chapter, and 7th verse.

The Lord commanded him to make sharp knives, and circumcise again the children Israel, a second time. And none could enter the promised land, that were uncircumcised, which was the type and the shadow of immortality; and though circumcised, not observing the law, they could not enter, it being the seal of the covenant.

Paul seeing all things darkly through a glass, recommends them in 1st Corinthians, 7th chapter, and 18th verse; that if any man be called in uncircumcision, let him not be circumcised; for he saw it would avail nothing till the fulness of times, that Israel should return, and in other parts he testifies of circumcision, Romans, 3rd chapter, 1st and 2nd verse :---" What advantage then hath the Jew, or what profit is there of circumcision? Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God."

The question is. What is the oracle of God? the Evangelist John 1st c. 14th v. declares, that the oracle of God was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we are witnesses of it. So it is evident that the oracle of God, is the temple of the Most High, and is as the magnet, whom it toucheth, it quickeneth to do the will of God.

Paul also writes in Galatians, 17th verse: that he had the Jesus in his body. Man must here boasts of circumcision.

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If it was a command to Moses, to give unto the children of Israel, to circumcise every male on the eighth day, how much more abundant will it be at the fulness of times, when the fulness of the Spirit rests on man, and not by measure. And it is written in Matthew, 12th chapter, and 25th verse:"Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation."

So if the Spirit vaunt against itself, the kingdom of God cannot stand.

The Hebrews had two thousand years under the law, offering bodies of animals for their sins, lest the second death should have power over them; and he gave them a token that he accepted them Leviticus, 9th chapter, and 24th verse:---" And there came a fire out from before the Lord, and consumed upon the altar, the burnt-offerings and the fat.

And the blood was sprinkled on the tabernacle, and on all the vessels of the ministry, Hebrews, 9th chapter, and 12th verse, typical of Jesus sealing the two covenants with his blood.

The Gentiles have two thousand years under the Gospel, offering bread and wine, in remembrance of him that shed the blood of the woman's seed for the atonement of their souls, of the first Adam's sin, which he cast on God, saying, Genesis, 3rd chapter, 12th-15th verses:-"The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat; and the woman said, The Serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. And God said unto the Serpent, Because thou hast done this, I will put enemity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed, it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel."

Here God promised the woman that he would overshadow her with his seed: and she should bring forth of her own seed, and the fulness of his Spirit

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