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from the creation. But the spirit that is sent to Israel, which is mentioned in the 8th verse, is as a fool in the eye of the unbelieving world, and is as the snare of a fowler; which confirms the text, a spring shut up, a fountain sealed, and Israel as a garden enclosed. And in Solomon's Song, the 8th chapter and the 8th verse, it is said:"We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts." And an unbelieving world cannot discern her breasts, for in their eye there is no milk: but the eyes of Israel are always fed.

It is written in the 1st Epistle of Paul to the Thessalonians, 5th chapter, 4th and 5th verses.---" But ye biethren are not in darkness that that day should overtake you as a thief; ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness." Though the spirit of truth is come, and is a light, to lead into all truth, and though this light is offered unto all, yet it is evident from the 2nd verse of this chapter, that the light is as though it was sealed up from those that reject it, so that it appears but as darkness to them; and it is as a fountain sealed from them, as said in the text. And they are the foolish virgins, who have neglected to prepare oil, which our Saviour speaks of in the Gospel according to Matthew, 25th chapter; but those who receive the spirit, the light is opened to them, and is as the light of the sun, for the spirit of truth is the sun of righteousness, which is promised shall arise with healing in his wings: they are the wise virgins who have the oil, and it shews them things to come: so the day of the Lord cannot come as a thief upon them, because he has revealed it unto them. And John in the Revelation, 22nd chapter, 6th ver, testifies of this saying." The Lord God of the holy prophets esent his angel to shew unto his servants the things

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which must shortly be done." And the Prophet Amos, 3rd chapter, 7th ver.---"Surely the Lord God will do nothing but he revealeth his secret unto his servants, the prophets." And David, Psalm 25th 14th verse." The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him and he will shew them his co-s venant. And Genesis 18th chapter, 17th verse. Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do?" So the children of the light are as a garden enclosed from the unbelieving world: they know them not, no more than they knew. the body of Christ when he arose from the sepul-. chre. And the spirit hath shewn that the fulness of times is come, which is the times spoken of by the Prophet Daniel, 12th chapter 7th verse. And Jesus in Luke, the 21st chapter and 24th verse. And Romans, 11th chapter, 15th and 16th verses.. And the words of the Apostle Paul, in his Epistle to the Ephesians, 1st chapter 10th verse.--" That in the dispensation of the fulness of times, he might ga ther together, in one, all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him." The time and times are six thousand years; and: are also spoken of by the Prophet Hosea, 6th, chapter 2nd verse.---" After two days will he revive us in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.' And is also spoken of by Jesus in the Gospel according to Matthew the 13th chapter and the 33rd verse :.--" The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened." And in the Gospel according to Luke, 13th chapter 32 ver.--" Behold, I do cures to-day and to-morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected." These things they uttered, that they might be parables, till the fulness of times, being two thousand years to each day, which makes six thousand years.

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And during the seventh thousand years, flesh, bone, and blood, shall serve the children of the life that dwelleth in light, according to the words of the Prophet Isaiah, 61st chapter 5th ver.--And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen, and your vine-dressers." And when the day of the Lord shall come, they will, as it is said in the 2nd chapter, 19th verse.---"Go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth,"

Afterward they will come out of their hiding places, and fall down before the redeemed, and shall take hold of them, as the woman spoken of in Matthew, the 9th chapter and the 20th verse, who touched the hem of the garment of Jesus, and was healed; and they will fulfil the words in Isaiah, 4th chapter 1st ver. ---" We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach:" which means death: and according to the words of the Prophet Joel, 3rd chapter, 21st verse; their blood will be cleansed.

It is written by John, Revelation 5th chapter, 9th and 10th verses." Thou hast redeemed us to God out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; and hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth." (a)

In this passage is shewn what Israel is to be redeemed from, and what they are to be redeemed to; to be redeemed from the earth to God, that is, to be changed from the state into which man fell, by disobeying in the beginning, back to God; for the Son of God came in the likeness of flesh and

(a) Which signifies the earthly bodies, which is the blood being made flesh, the Spirit being the life of their bodies.

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blood, and was put to death, as it was appointed at the fall, for the seed of the first Adam to die the first death; he then arose from the sepulchre with the same body, being redeemed from the blood, which is the earth, to be a glorious body in the image of his heavenly Father, which is the lat ter Adam; so the Apostle Paul says, in his Epistle to the Romans, 8th chapter IIth verse." If the spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies, by his spirit that dwelleth in you.

That spirit will not dwell in blood; but Isaiah prophesies, 44th chapter, 3rd verse." I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring: but when the fulness of times shall come for this redemption to take place, that spirit which will not dwell in blood, will be put within them. It is also shewn, the digni ty unto which Israel shall be raised when they are redeemed from the earth unto God, they will be kings and priests, and reign on the earth. So it is said by the Prophet Daniel, 7th chapter 27th verse. The kingdom, and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the Saints of the most High." And the words of Jesus, in the Gospel according to Matthew, 25th chapter, 34th verse.-- Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world." And as it is said by John, in Revelation, the 11th chapter 15th verse." The kingdoms of this world will become the kingdoms of our Lord and his Christ." But these scriptures are, as mentioned in the text, a fountain sealed, to all but those who seek for the eyes of their understanding to be opened, by having the fulness of his Spirit poured upon them.

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Here is another passage, which, like the others, is as a fountain sealed to the unbelieving world, but is an open vision to Israel, Isaiah, 52nd chap. I ver. 'Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion: put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city; for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.

The words, Zion and Jerusalem, mean the true Israel of God; and their strength and their beautiful garments, are immortality. And the Apostle Paul says in his 2nd Epistle to the Corinthians, 5th chap. and 4th ver." For we that are in this tabernacle do groan being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.

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The meaning of this is that the Apostles did not desire to put off their mortal bodies, but clothed with immortality upon their mortal bodies; also, he says in the Epistle to the Phillipians, 3rd chapter 21st verse.

We look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body." And John says, in his 1st Epistle, 3rd chap. 2nd ver.---" We know when he shall appear, we shall be like him."

The likeness of this glorious body is shewn in the Gospel according to Mark 9th chap. 1, 2, & 3rd verses. "And he said unto them, Verily, I say unto you,that there be some of them that stand here, which shall not taste of death till they have seen the kingdom of God come with power. And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, James, and John, and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by themselves: and he was transfigured before them. And his raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow; so as no fuller on earth can white them.'

And John declares in Revelation, 1st chapter, 12th-15th verses.---"That he saw one like unto

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