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the 104th Psalm, 30th verse:---"Thou sendest forth thy Spirit, they are created; and thou renewest the face of the earth."

Nothing can be justly compared to the brightness of the Spirit of the Lord; and in this light, blood cannot dwell. But as the light of the sun in the firmament, puts out the power of all other lights, and giveth colour to all the herbs and flowers, and the grass of the field; so will this Spirit shine in man, and cause all other lights to be subject to it, and change the blood into flesh, and take the bones of the whole house of Israel for a tabernacle, and a habitation, and a tent to dwell in, which will be the Bride; and the Bride and the Bridegroom will cause the saints to judge the Mount of Esau for them, during the thousand years; which is the fig-tree, being pruned, dressed, and dunged, by the power of Satan, on whom the woman cast the blame, being removed for a thousand years, that if they bear fruit well, the tree shall not be cut down, then will God free the woman's seed.

Then will the final resurrection take place, and the prisoner and the author will stand before God, and be judged; and the author will deliver up, and their corruptible bodies put on incorruption.

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It is written by Jeremiah, 18th chapter, 3rd and 4th verses :---" Then I went down to the potter's house; and behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.

4. And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again, another vessel, as it seemed good to potter to make it.'

The vessel which was marred, is the earthen bodies of men, which were marred by Satan, in the beginning, by causing the first Eve to sin; Genesis 3rd chapter, 10th verse; and at the end of the second time which is the end of the second day, which

is the end of four thousand years, the Son of God came in the seed of the woman, and his body was marred, for the salvation of the souls of men, that he might heal the wound of their souls; yet his body saw not corruption, but was made again a heavenly body, and the wound of his heel was healed, as spoken in the text. So will it be at the fulness of the third time,---those whose bodies have been marred, who have died in full faith of all his promises, will receive new bodies, which will be incorruptible, as the angels; neither can they die any more, see Luke, 20th chapter, 36th verse :--and thus God will heal the stroke of their wound, as said in the text, and give unto them their reward.

But those who have the fulness of his Spirit always on them, and have done the work that Jesus did, their bodies will be made again, without death, like unto his own glorious body, as the potter made his vessel again; and thus he will bind up their breach, and heal the stroke of their wound, according to the text.

And this was shewn to Ezekiel, 37th chapter, 7th 8th and 10th verses :---"So I prophesied, as I was commanded: and as I prophesied there was a noise, and behold, a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.

8. And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.

10. So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood upon their feet, their feet, an exceeding great

army."

Here it is shewn in part how the breach of the Lord's people will be bound up, and the stroke of their wound healed, as said in the text, which will be by the fulness of the Spirit, and not by

measure.

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It is written by Paul in Romans, 9th chapter, 21st verse---"Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?"

For as God created man at first, saying, "Let us make man," and it was done, and men became vessels of dishonour; so he is now, at the last, sending forth his Spirit, in prophecy, which is the Testimony, to command them to ask for the fulness of his Spirit, always to rest on them, and to make them vessels of honour.

And the call is unto all; so it is said in Revelation, 22nd chapter, 17th verse:---"The Spirit and the bride say, Come, and let him that heareth say, Come; and let him that is athirst Come; and whosoever will let him take of the water of life freely."

And it is said in Proverbs, 1st chapter, 23rd verse:---"Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my Spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you."

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And those who thus obey, his Spirit will unite them together, as one virgin, and make them the true Israel, the Lamb's wife; as the bones in the vision came together, bone to his bone, and flesh and sinews came upon them, so will the bones of the bodies of the whole house of Israel come together, and form one body. And his Spirit he will put within them, and it will breathe within them the breath of eternal life, which will make their vile bodies like unto his glorious body, and call them his Bride; and thus he will heal the stroke of their wound according to the text; and they will become vessels of honour in life eternal.

And then will be fulfilled the words of Haggai, 2nd chapter, 9th verse:---"The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the Lord of host."

For the first house, which is the earthen body of man, of which blood is the life, which has had the Spirit by measure, is compared to the light of the moon, whose light has not been clear, and has been a vessel of dishonour; but the latter house is the new body, which is to be made out of the same lump of the old one, which is to become as the sun.

And when the bones of the house of Israel are gathered by the commands of God, given by his Spirit of Prophecy; and have done his work, by the fulness of that Spirit resting on them, which is promised in the scriptures, to be united bone to bone, as joint-heirs with Christ, as the Bride, the Lamb's wife; then will the Bridegroom come, as it is said in Matthew, 25th chapter, 6th and 7th verses :---" And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold the Bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.

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7. Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps."

And the oil, which is said they took in their vessels, is the light from the visitation of the Spirit of the Bridegroom, which is the sun of righteousness; so it is said by Paul in 1st Thessalonians, 5th chapter, 4th and 5th verses :---" Ye brethren are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

5. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day."

Though it is said the day and the hour knoweth no man; yet, it is evident that the Spirit which restethi on Israel, will shew them the time that they shall go out to meet the Bridegroom.

And then will the words which are spoken of in the text be fulfilled; the light of the moon be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven-fold, as the light of seven days; and then

will the Lord bind up the breach of his people, and heal the stroke of their wounds.

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SIXTH SERMON.

It is written in Revelation, 21st chapter, 7th verse." He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.

To understand the text, man must go back to his creation. In Genesis, 1st chapter, 27th and 28th verses, it is said, "God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth." Here is shewn what was given man to inherit, when he was created, which was the earth and all things therein.

And in the 2nd chapter, 8th 16, and 17th verses, it is said, "The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely

eat:

17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die."

By man eating of that which he was commanded not to eat, which Satan prevailed on the woman to hand to him, the veil fell between God and man, and Satan wrought in it; so that the first Adam

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