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ELIJAH THE Prophet; . . • .JESUS TEMPTED OF THE DEVIL, A ttElD^SMEl^, • - . - THE NATURE OF A SACRIFICE, - THE NEVV CREATION, -./^ . ... FOREKNOWLEDGE OF GOD ^ ^ . DID GOD KNOW THAT ADAM WOULD SIN ? - ,* 090*8 ELECT, > . . . . . IsfFALLABlLITY. , - ? - - ... HOW CHRISTS FLESH IS EAT - - - . . . PRAYERS FOR THE DEAD, -, . - ... WHO HAS POWER TO FORGlVfi SINS? - - , . . BAPTIS3M. . . V THE TRANSFIfttJRATlbN.Of JESUS, - . THE FJfeST RESURRECTION, - . - . . ^OW KIEN ARE POSSESSED OF DEVILS, - . . T^hB SECOND RKSURRECTJCN, **. . . . THE SUM OP THE HOLY BIBLE; . - - . . Qw^fetUi to Mitotlttmemt Pmu q% Pctae 60. A^I^U$SlOi* OF?RREipifH ANV WHO DIFFER FRblJ THE .■-^•-.■■-/ 'V^:- ■'■ONtiiiUO, CANADA.. .'■ . t 8 9 19 zz X2 Xt 13 »4 Ifi tS 20 as 27 as 30 31 3* 3« 38 37 39 40 41 43 44 45 45 43 I:. ■>,- ->"■■' V', THE CREATOR AND CREATED. " He that built all things is God."— Gen. i. ; Heb. iii. iv. " He commanded and they were created." — Psalm cxlviii. 5, 6. " By the word of the Lord was the heavens made, and all the host of them by the breath of His mouth." — Psalm xxxiii. 6, 7. Some think that God was alone from eternity to the time that He made this earth. " In the beginning," that is, the beginning of the creation of this world, " God commanded and they were made." A command implies subjects to obey, such He had. "The chariots of God are twenty thousand thousands of angels." His angels are said to be innumerable. — Deut. xxxiii. 2 ; Hab. xii. 22. " Through fuith the worlds were framed by the word of God." — Hab. xi. 3. > Yes, God's sons and angels had faith that anything that God commanded could be done, and done it was with '• a shout of joy." Hear what God said to Job about the creation of this world, in a question : " Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened, or who laid the corner stone thereof, when the morning stars sang together, and the sons of God shouted for joy." — Job xxxviii. 1-7. (Morn- ing stars are the angels of God.) Some think that everything had a beginning by a gradual, progressive development by the active forces bringing different kinds of matter in contact, and thereby giving forms, and then insect life, and then progressing into giants in body and intellect,, all from dead, inert matter, by a slow action by what power they know not ; and yet they pretend to be scientists. It is well known that there is no new life originated since the creation ; all life is from seed of that which God made. " The life is in the blood." — Levit. xvii. II. " And we are all of one blood." — Acts xvii. 26. v We are a continuation of our father Adam, bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh, and have part of the life that God gave him : therefore, " Love the Lord thy God for lie is thy life" — Deut. XXX. 20. Out of nothing nothing can arise. If there ever had been a time wlien there was no God there never would have been any (Jod or man, for nothing ever made itself, nor can the inferior make its superior life. Therefore, science proves that (iod could not come into existence, nor any life by material. True science proves that God is, and that He had no beginning of life. And the sun, moon and stars, and all the machines of God, prove that He liveth, or ihey would not be all travelling on time. We know that the sun and moon are not living creatures pos- sessed of knowledge and force to move on time for about six thousand years without any repairs, or wearout, or any varia- tion of time. They arc a daily miracle, a daily reproof to the unbeliever in God and in tiie Bible, in which they are so perfectly -described. But there are not many who deny a First Cause — a Creative Being — but they reject the Bible. They that reject the Bible are of the Prophets of Baal, who are looking amongst the lower animals to see which of them is most likely to have been their first father. (Darwinites.) w al c\ hi 1, THE EARTH'S FOUNDATION. God's word is that the " earth is founded upon the seas and •established on the floods." — Psalm xxiv. i, 2. This is true ; for it sits in watery atmosphere which is driven by wind, so that its motion and force are not only like the sea, but are in reality seas and floods of water. If you have been long in the world some of its floods have fallen on you. Job was a philosopher ; he said that " God hanged the earth on nothing." That is true, it floats in atmosphere: And Job knew that the north was an empty place. (Job xxvi. 7.) THE EARTH'S FORMATION. God's first command at the Creation was: "Let there be Light." Light and fire are synonymous, as light is made by fire. The sun is called both light and fire ; but the first fire was not the sun, but a fire to prepare the material to build the earth with, and the body of animals into which God put life, after they were made, by His host of angels who are mighty in His might, and they are said to be innumerable. (Psalm Ixviii. 17 ; Heb. xil 23.) lifcr- )d there er made lerefore, nor any that He of God, 3n time, res pos- 30ut six y^ varia- f to the )erfectly [I!reative le Bible le lower sn their :as and driven ;ea, but [long in earth ^d Job /Ns we find the things which God made so shall we speak of them. First, we f-nd from the surface to the greatest depths that the material of the earth is in layers^ and the evidence is clear that the material of wliich it was huilt was in a soft, smelted state, having the api)earance of being in that state by heat, and that each layer must have had a space of time to cool or harden before the next layer was laid, or the material would not be in layers. The layers refute iho theory of those who suppose that the earth was all on fire and is cooling down. If the earth was at any time all on fire, as they su[)pose, the fire would not have left us any coal, or cil, or lime stone, for everything that would bum would have been reduced to ashes ; and all that would not burn would be some pure, heavy metal that would settle down where it never would be found by man ; and there would be nothing but ashes for many miles deep. " The fool hath said in his heart there is no God." — Psalm xiv. i. I have said that the earth showeth that it was built in layers ; hear God's own words to Job : " He laid the corner stone thereof, and his sons shouted for joy." Such a host of skilled workers. With all the machinery of heaven to work with, it would not be much for God's innumerable host, with the knowledge and power of God in them, to make a world in six common days, by pouring down the material out of millions of furnaces. Some furnaces for gold ; others for copper, iron, lead, &c. Then the beautiful variegated marble and granite, which could not be made by drift, as supposed by pretended philosophers. It is truly said that God made all that was made. But we read that He did so and so, but He had it done by the hands of angels, to whom He gave wisdom and power. Therefore, it is evident to me that God gave His sons the privilege to make and form the bodies of animals as they chose ; and it is said that some of them excel others. There are some things more beautiful than others, but all useful in their place and for a purpose. But when man was made, God put out his own hand, and said : " Let us make man in our image, after our likeness." — Gen. i. 26. LE BE THE SUN. The sun is one continual explosion of gas by fire round the earth in a day and a night, on its circuit in the starry heavens. " The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament sheweth his handiwork ; in them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber rejoiceth \ as a strong man to run a race, his going forth is from the end of heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it ; and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof." — Psalm xix. " God prepared a tabernacle for the sun, out of which it goeth forth." A tabernacle is a house or a place that is covered over. Every man of knowledge knows that the sun's rays is gas on fire, for b/ concentrating its rays by a glass it will set fire. Kurn- ing does not annihilate anything ; it only separates the parts, which reunite again. The question is, how does the gas that is sent down from the sun's chamber by fire exploding it out of the said chamber, get back to the chamber again ai'ter its force is spent. Inflammable gas is lighter than the atmosphere ; it is always ascending, ex< cept when it is vnder the power of fire or confined. We have seen it lift a ballcon. therefore we know that it ascends when free. If the fire fluid of the sun did not return to supply fuel for the sun, it could not contir ue to give heat and light. And if it was always falling on the earth and remaining, the earth would be so charged with it that it would take fire and burn up. And if the gas which is always r*icending was not sent back by some force, it never would return, and the earth would perish for want of it. The sun is God's motive power by which he propels other bodies ; but many are drawn after the sun by the vacuum that is made behind it, into which the ascending gas rushes, by which all surrounding bodies that are floating in atmosphere or in space are drawn after it. This was proved at the time that Joshua prayed fo: the sun to stand still ; and when it stood still, the moon stood still also, which was not asked for nor wanted. But the sun being the motive power, all they that followed it stood still. ** The sun and moon stood still in their habitation." — Habk. iii. 1 1. I I " The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose." — Eccl. i.-v. " And this shall be the sign unto thee from the Lord : behold I will bring again the shadow of the degrees backwards. So the sun returned ten Jegrees by which degrees it had gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz." — ii. Kings, 20-10. It is not said by what means the Lord caused the sun to stand still or to go backwards ten degrees ; but when it is said to be done by God, whose mighty power we see every day in His works. All His works are travelling on time except man, who was left firee for as long as God chose to leave him on the earth. But if God told us how He done all that He did, we would not have time to read them all ; but He has given us a great deal in a ! ^e end of 5 nothing 1 it goeth red over. is gas on ;. liurn- he parts, fron^ the iber, get ammable Jing, ex- We have hen free. el for the if it was lid be so : back by Derish for 5 other that is >y which I in space Joshua le moon the sun |od still. :. iii.ii. Isteth to lehold I So the )wn in stand to be Iworks. ps left lid not il in a condensed form, by which we can see that He works by means. " And the Lord caused the sea to po back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided."- Exo. xiv., 21. That which God done with an east wind in turning back the sea, He could do by a west wind in forcing the gas in its chamber back to the fire of the sun ; and we know that less wind would force the gas back than the water backward r i it did. I And as to the ten degrees going backwards, that would be done by a strong west wind, in answer to the prayer of Isaiah. — ii. Kings, 20-11. " He scattercth His bright cloud, and it is turned around about by His counsel, that they may do whatsoever He commandeth them." — Job xxxvii., 12. The sun is one continual explosion of gas out of its chamber day and night, and it leaves a vacuum behind it which the ascend- ing gas is continually filling up, and is kept by the chamber from ascending any higher than tlie chamber to the sun, arrives on its circuit round the earth exi)loding it. Their first error was in believing that the sun was a heavy body, and its distance so great from the earth that it would be impos- sible for it to go round the earth in a day and a night ; therefore they imagined that the earth rolled round before the sun, causing day and night, and round the sun in a year, in an oblong circuit. For this theory they cannot give any proof. All imagination. But as all (lod's machinery travels on time, men have taken notice of the time and place of the planets passing each other, and eclipsing each other ; but all this is only a matter of figures, and is no more than to tell how much the interest and the compound interest will be on three hundred and sixty-five dollars in ten years. If the clock-maker puts the works so as to move the face of the clock, and makes the hands fast, time would be shown the same as it is by the hands moving. It is so with the sun and the earth. The earth is the great dial on which the sun shows us correct time by passing round it on time ; we have only to mark the places all round the earth when the sun passes, then we can fore- tell when it will pass to-morrow, or in ten years, or a hundred years, by computation of time. It is evident that the fire of sun on its downward passage sets the ascending gas on fire in a straight line, thereby adding to the light and heat of the sun as the fire is supplied and increased by the ascending gas in a straight line. This only takes place above the water clouds, which are placed over us to screen us from being burned by the sun, and also to water the earth. The raiise of the cold increasing upwards towards the sun, is that there is nothing in the atinusi^hcrc to receive and retain and reflect the sun's heat to ; it comes to tiie earth, which receives and reflects it. Jiut the heat of the sun increases all the way from above the water clouds to its chamber. High mountains catch the snowt louds, and being kept (;overed from the sun's heat, they have no heat to rctlect, and also being exposed to the north wind they are cold ; but the lowlands are sheltered by the mountains and warmed by the sun. " Fire and hail, snow and vapours, stormy wind fulfilling his word." — Psalm cxlviii., 8. The Bible contains more knowledge than all other books to- gether, and all the nations are indebted to it for knowledge that they never could have found out. 'i'herefore 1 have wrote this book against jjretended philosophers, who are leading many astray by false science. i i THE EARTH'S MOTIONS AND THE 'IIDES. The earth sits in atmosphere, and would not move only for the sun which moves round it, causing the water to arise off the earth as it pass round, removing the water from the sunny side, and the ialling of the dew on the dark side, this removing the earth's ballast, it keeps tipping over from the sunny side which is the lightest side at the time that the sun is shining on it. Its motion is like a boy's^spinning top, when its force is nearly spent it warbles from side to side as the sun passes round, remov- ing its watery ballast ; this is the motion that cause the tides. The sun's reflected heat from the moon when it follows the sun, the full moon reflects more heat than a new or old moon, therefore the tide is higher at the time of the full moon than at other times. And in the spring months the tide is higher than in the summer ; the cause is that there is more water on the earths's surface and more is raised off the sunny side causing the earth to tip more, making the tide higher in spring than in sum mer. " The earth is not to be removed for ever." Psalm ci\ . Mark the difference that there is between moving and removi ig. Re move is to leave one place and go to another i)lace ; but there can be motion and moving in one place Avithout leaving its placj, like a ship at anchor, which rolls in one place. Men who are not willing to believe the Bible statements about the earth not moving out of its place, they should be prepared he sun, is eta in and eives and iibove the )t govered ilso bein^ lands arc Ifilling his books to- edge that .vrote this any astray to give some evidence of the cause of the wonderful motions that they siipiKjj-e the earth to have. First, a forward ; 2nd, a rotation ; and 3rd, in an oblong curve roi.nd the sun in a ycir at the sui)])Osed distance of 95,000,000 r.'iles, and almost at lightning sjiecd. VVIien (lod sent l'r the op- lagnetic ;r to the together sticking ; fire is low one m holds :h round )r night, low and :he win- to it. from it fills up I ; unto again. " o is the moves spheric THE EARTH'S SHAPE. Our modern philosophers laugh at the ancient belief that the earth is flat except mountains, hills and valleys, and deep seas. The ancients speak of the greatness of the earth, but used no means to prove the shape of the earth ; they spoke of it as they saw it, and seeing is proof. But we can only see a small part of the earth at one time, just round us ; the watery vapour prevents us or we might see a very great distance, as I will show, though I may be laughed at with a hah hah, and the saying that all the learned men of the world differ with me. A man that knows what he says can bear to be laughed at, and enjoy a laugh, knowing that he has proof to bring forward that will turn the laugh in another direction on the men that have no proof only some mens' opinions ; we know that hearsay will not be accepted by a good iudge in court. " God said to Job hast thou perceived the breadth of the •earth?" — Job. xxxviii, i8. Breadth or width is not used in speaking of round bodies, but of flat things. I cannot prove exactly the shape of the earth, but I can prove that the earth cannot be the shape that our moderns suppose it to be. The earth may be rounding somewhat, but the water is not. There is positive proof that water will not remain in a round heap or body, nor was it ever known to run up an incline, from the lovver to the higher place, unless there was force applied ; there- fore that which we see and feel is ])0^itive proof that water will become level if let, but the sun's heat will not let it remain in one place. It rises in vapour, a part of which returns in rain, and a part is carried to t\Q Poles which are condensers. " The treasures •of snow and hail."— Job. xxxviii. 22. Our modern philosophers pretend to prove the earth round by seeing the sails of a ship before the hull. But that does not prove tlie earth round. Scientific men know that the atmosphere is much more dense at the water or earth than it is 40 or 50 teet up from the water. Suppose a ship to be six miles off, and all the vapour in six miles be condensed, the lower ten feet will make solid water, through which the hull cannot be seen, and the color of the hull pre- vents it from being seen as far off as the white sails. If you fill a vessel with cold water the vapour in the atmos- phere will condense on the vessel, then think of how much vapour there is in six miles. Men up in balloons at a certain height cannot see large houses below them where there is nothing but atmosphere to prevent -them, and we can see them when they cannot see us, as the ( ! 10 1 1 . ll'! lull i;i i ,1 111 i t vapour around us is more dense than round them. Sailing lound the world is sailing east or west through seas and straits till the ship arrives where it sailed from. Just as a man that had a house on the side of a hill and went out of the west door and went round the hill till he came to the east door. There is no straight line east or west, for as the ship moves west the North Pole is on the right hand side of the ship, causing the Needle to keep <^urning towards it — so that the ship when sailing west is making a circle round the North Pole. It matters not what the latitude is if the ship obey the Needle, it is making a circle, be it going east or west. A ship may sail north or south in a straight line to the Ice Mountains which forbid them from crossing either Poles. We have thousands of living seamen who can prove that the water is running from both Poles towards the Ecjuator at about three miles an hour, and water never deceived man by running up an incline ; therefore if the earth be the shape represented, the water from the South Pole would have to run more than straight up, it would h.-'ve to turn out round the supposed bulge of the earth before it got to the Equator. Infidels refuse to believe Cod's miracles, but they can believe that iceburgs, like little mountains, are carried up from the South Pole round the bulge of the earth on the water, and ships also. The Ancients had three direct proofs for their belief : First, they saw water running east, north, south and west, but always- downwards ; 2nd, they felt it ; and 3rd, they heard it falling down. But some of our would-be philosophers think that water falls upwards • do not believe it until they prove it. THE MOON A DIAMOND. The moon is one of the nearest planets to the earth, and yet it is strange that so little is known about it by the most learned astronomers, that their discussions about it arc precisely opposite to each other. Sir John Herschel says that the s n heats the moon to about 280 degrees above that of boiling water. I think he is about right so far ; but Captain John Ericsson of the American Associa- tion for the Advancement of Science, says that he believes the moon to be an iceberg 300 degrees below the freezing point of water. Herschel's theory is called the furnace theory, and Erics- son, the iceberg theory. Each party claim that they are right. They have the use of the greatest telescopes, and when they dif- fer so much about the nearest planet, we have reason to doubt their theories about the sun that is so much farther off. The moon cannot be ice, or earth, or water, and be a reflector, for water or ice would have vapour arising from it by the heat of the sun. .,.^,. ■.•;,;.•.. w- ^^^ ,.t.,.. . ......,,...,.».-. I 11 If those that believe the moon to be ice, or earth, would put a piece of ice or earth behind their lamps, they will see how much it reflects. The moon must be a diamond of some kind, as it is the best reflectory, and the only thing that could stand so much heat as the moon has to bear, on account of not having any vapour around it to shade it from the sun's heat ; for we know that this earth would be burned up if there were no vapour around it, and seamen cannot see it at a great distance because of vapours. The spots on the moon may be caused by an uneven surface ; or a low place would not reflect so much light. But we have new moons. I would say that everything that is spoken of in the bible is literally true, therefore we have a new moon every month ; but some say, how is it ? The moon being a diamond, and diamonds consist of charcoal or carbon, and resist the action of ordinary fire, but when under great heat are changed into carbonic acid gas. The new moon, or that part that appears first, is the first part to disappear ; therefore it is evident that the moon becomes charred to a cinder, and restored again by an infusion into it of the same gas that was driven out by the continual heat of the sun. For so many days, then, the restoring of it to its hard and re- flective nai^ure every month, we have a new moon. O the wisdom and power of God ! who renews and reproduces and continues His original creation by renewing it. Men sow seeds and they know that those seeds will die ; but at the time they die, th^ life that was in them takes a new nature and are reproduced. Then why should men doubt in God's promise that men will be renewed after the death of the old body. God will give a new body to them that obey Him, and the devil will give bodies to them that obey him ; for there " v/ill be a resurrection of the just and the unjust," just as sure as we have a new moon. THE EARTH'S CENTRE. We are told that the centre of the earth is all on fire except a crust, which is compared to the skin of an onion in proportion to the size of the earth, which they say is 8,000 miles in diameter. Supposing the crust to be 500 miles thick, then there would be 7,000 miles on fire ; and if their statements be true, that supposed fire has been burning nearly 6,000 years without air or any sup- ply of fuel. This is one of the infidel's supposed miracles that they would have us believe, that fire will burn continually without air or a supply of fuel, for they ray it is all on fire. We know that there are local fires in the earth ; but their openings are only for a short time. I think they were first caused by lightning penetrating into caves where there were coal or oil, that burned to the expansion of gas or water, or both, burst up through the A 12 earth ; then it would stop to make more, like a common steam boiler that had a safety valve that opened by so much pressure and shut again. This is the working of volcanic fires. It is evident that as the earth floats in the atmosphere, that it is hollow and filled with gas like a balloon. This is on the scientific principles, on which God made all things to work by means or appliances of fire and fuel which move the material world at the will of God. But Gcd gives men leave to move their earthly house at their own will, until he pleases to call them to give an account of their stewardship. Then it is heaven or kell. ADAM AND EVE. And God said : Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. Male and female created He them and blessed them, and gave them dominion over all living things on the earth and seas. " Man was made to be the Temple of God. An habitation of God through the Spirit which God breathed into him. — G?n. i. 26, Eph. ii., 21-22. God's Spirit is man's day star. When Adam sinned it left him ; it could not stay with the disobedient. " The wages of sin is death," Adam had a spiritual death, the spiritual day star left him in spiritual darkness. In Adam all die. That is, we are born as he was after the good spirit left him. " By one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous." — Rom. v. 19. Jesus Christ is the righteous man who came from heaven to save all men if they will. Obey the heavenly call to repent and believe and receive and obey the Holy Spirit of God. " Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty," yes liberty from the devil and evil passions and of judgments for sins. THE SERPENT THAT BEGUILED EVE. Serpent is applied as a name for evil-doers who use crafty, subtile means to deceive and destroy. " Now the serpent was more subtile than any beast of the field." That does not say that the serpent was a beast of the field, but that he whom God called a serpent was more subtile than any beast of the field. It is not said that the serpent is the most subtile beast of the field, but more subtile than any beast of the i )n steam pressure that ft is icientific neans or id at the r earthly give an after our ind gave as. tation of ?n. i. 26, L, 21-22. eft him ; ;ath, the after the ny were je made to save 1 believe le Spirit and evil i crafty, 13 Daniel saw in a vision four beasts, but he was told that they were four kings whom God saw that they had made beasts of themselves by beastly acts. Jesus said, "Go tell that fox, Herod." Jesus called King Herod a fox, and he was a fox in his acts. Adam gave names to beasts according to their nature. This has been done by the Bible writers from the beginning. Jesus signifies a saviour. He has a great many names, and all of them signify good doings and sayings. The devil has many names ; all of them signifying bad acts and bad sayings. His first name he got by imitating a serpent before Eve, or using the art of ventriloquism when there was a common serpent in Eve's presence. For none but a fallen angel could know the effect that eating the forbidden fruit would have on Adam and Eve ; therefore it must have been the devil, who had fallen by disobedience. It would not be a curse upon the grass serpent to go on its belly, for it was made to go on its belly. Nor does the serpent of the field eat dust. But the devil does eat dust, and goes on his belly in the persons of his subjects. " Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth * ■'" '^\'' — Gen. xlix. 17. Dust signifies low worthless things, and not the good bread of heaven which the devil did eat before he " fell by leaving his first estate." (II Pet. ii. 4; Jude i. 6.) When the devil was in heaven he walked erect, but in his fallen estate he, in his spirit in the p arsons of evil-doers, creeps on his belly. Their belly is his, not by just right, but by their voluntary free will to be co-workers with him. " For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women * * *." — II. Tim. iii. 6. The devil in Rev. xii. 9, is called the "old serpent," who was a liar from the beginning. John the Baptist said to some of them that came to his bap- tism : " O generation of vipers ^ who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come." — Matt. iii. 7. e field." eld, but ban any le most t of the MELCHISEDEC. " Melchisedec, priest of the most high God, brought bread and wine to Abram, and blessed him." — Gen. xiv. 18, 19. Heb. vii. 1-3. Melchisedec is said to be " King of righteousr 14 ness and King of Salem, which is, King of peace ; li'ithoiii father^ nnlhciit inofhcr^ without descent-, having neither hei^nnning of days, nor end of Hfi a Priest continually but made like unto the Son of (Jod of abideth Anr.L answers the description given of Melchisedec, and no other man but him. Let us see what is written of Abel : 'And the Lord had respect viifo Abel and to his c/ferins^.^^ — (/en. iv. 4. Righteous Abel was the first man renewed by grace and si^irit- ually born from above. "The liOrd had respect nnto Abel, whereby he became the first Priest to the most high God." ■ This is shown in Heb. xi. 4. In the .said chapter, Paul sums up what had been done by them that had faith in God : he begins with Abel, as he was the first renewed by grace. V^hen Cain slew Abel, Abel, being righteous, had the right to the inheritance which his father Adam forfeited by disobedience ; therefore Abel was the first heir to Eden, which was a peaceful place, where it is evident that Abel was King and Priest to the Most High God. It is not said that Melchisedec had no father or mother; that would be impossible. But that he was without father, without mother. This can be shown. " Without " signifies outside, not within, not inside. When Abel was in Eden or Paradise, the same place, they were not with him in the spirit and service of God; in that sense he " was without father, without mother.'^ It is said that he had no beginning of days : that was in Eden ; he did not begin his days or spiritual lift in Eden, and he will have no end of life or days, therefore, he is a Preist forever to God. (Heb. vii. 3.) But, as Abel had no children, he is only an assistant Priest to Jesus, who is the Father of all men living or that have lived on the earth since Noah's flood, as I will show in its place. NOAH'S FLOOD. (( And the fonntains of the great deep were broken up, and the rain came from above till the waters were above the highest mountains." (Gen. vii. 1-24.) SCIENTIFIC PROOF. I St. Evidence is by sea-shells being found on mountains which prove that the fountains of the deep were broken up, so that the bed of the sea was raised to mountain heights, and the waters flowed over the earth, and the shells remained. I'hus the beds of the seas were changed by that movement of the water and 15 the I the rain from above, and all excejit Noa.j and his family were drou'ncd. An oartlujuaki.' under each sea Avould lais'- them. Then the earth would be so soft that it woultl not hold tlie trees from rising and flontin!,% and when floating they would .Ljct fastened by the branches, and lloat till the waters would be returning; into the openings in the earlii, and the timber would be drawn in with the water, and the earth closing over, and then with the pressure of the earth, and the action of the gas that is in the earth, the wood would become coal and the oil may have been from animals and vegetables v/hic!i would also be drawn under the earth by the descending waters ; and where there was jjetrifying water, they would be made into stone, as we fmd them in some places. 2nd. Proof of the Flood is in the layers of washed sand found on high hills, far from any sea, or lake, or river. 3rd. Additional proof of the Flood is in the round stones that are also found far from water, by which they were at one time jubbed againt;t each other until they were rounded and smoothed. 4th. Proof of the Flood is also to be found in the petrified remains of animals and plants ihat were brought under the earth. Some suppose that coal is from decomposed vegetation, which accumulated on the earth by a great growth. liut that could not be, for the second crop needs all the former crop, as fast as it is decomposed it is taken into the growing crop— so when the last crop is full grown, there is none of the former left. Put all the crop of the drowned .vorld, which was buried by the Flood washing the earth over it, has been changed into that state in which we find it. But suppose that vegetable matter would accumulate on the earth. It being lighter than the earth, it would not go down where we find the coal, and if it was turned down by an earthquake, it would not be in layers, it would be mixed with the earth. . . God has not said that He made things out of nothing, there- fore, it is not wise to add or take from his words in the Bible. It is evident that material always existed in solids or fluids, as He pleased to have it for His use and man's. God has only to command, and his mighty innumerable host of sons and angels can make a new world out of an old one, or out of the material that is floating in the atmosphere. ,{<] so " Bless the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, thou art very great ; thou art clothed with honour and majesty. Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment : who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain : Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters : who maketh the clouds his chariot : who walketh upon the Avings of the wind : who maketh his angels spirits ; his minis- ters a flaming fire : who laid the foundations of the earthy that it s/uuld not be removed for ever." — Psalm civ. 1-5. 19 At the 6th and 7th verses he describes Noah's Flood on the earth. " Thou cover edst it with the deep as with a garment ; the waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled ; at the voice of thy thunder they pasted away.'"' — Psalm civ. 6, 7 (Psalm xxiv. i, 2, cxxxvi., and Job xxxviii.) " Whatsoever the Lord pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places." — Psalm cxxxv. 6. ;M) If GOD'S GOVERNMENT. God has a perfect Government, of which He is Head. *' And his Son Jesus Christ is the Head of every man. And King of kings and Lord of lords." "And him whom the armies of heaven follow." (Rev. xix. 14 ; Psalm ii. 1-6. I Cor. xi. 3.) God's rainietering angels are in all worlds, seeing, and tele- graphing, and recording — they are God's book-keepers. " And the Lord said, I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me ; and if not, I will know." — Gen. xviii. 20, 21. Angels are swift messengers to save or destroy life. Dan. ix. 21. *' Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, obey his voice." — Exodus xxiiL 20, 21. *' He shall give his angels charge over thee." — Psalm xci. 11. And the angel of his presence saved them : — Isaiah Ixiii. 9. Ezekiel beard the Lord command an angel that had a writer's ink-horn by his side, to go through Jerusalem " and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and cry for the abominations that be done in the midst thereof. And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite " and slay all that have not the mark on them. Ezekiel. ix. 4-11. *' And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man ; and he saw : and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha who said : Fear not : for they that be with us are more than they that be with them.'* ^t^ n. ELings, vi. 16. d on the he waters \e voice of XXiV. I, 2y :n, and in 6. id. Etn. And ^hom the ii. 1-6. Jor. xi. 3.) and tele- rs. whether which is 20, 21. D. ix. 21. ae in the n xci. 1 1. xiii. 9. It had a '* and set y for the d to the [)ngh the on them. D. ix.4-11. ; and he chariots ley that j8, vi. 16, i i 17 " The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fe«r hira, and delivereth thena." — Psalm xxxiv. 7. " The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, * * *." — Psalm xxxiv. 15. Angels' eyes are the Lord's eyes, for lie made them. They are not His own personnl eyes, but they are Ilis; they see for Hira ; and the angels know the mind of the Lord by having a measure of His Holy Spirit. When Gv/d sees that it is necessary to punish evil-doers, His angels have only to pour out a vial of poison in the atmosphere, and men die by it. (Rev. xv. 6, 7.) Other angels have the everlasting Gospel to preach to them that will hear and be- lieve it. I was taught to believe that God was everywhere present in His own person. But I see that God is everywhere present in His angels. God said to Moses that the " Angel of his pre- sence would go with him." " God is a Spirit." — John iv. 24. And " A spirit hath not flesh and bones." From these sayings some suppose that God has no real body ; but every spirit has its own body (L Cor. XV. 40) ; and God, who is the Father of Good Spirits, has His glorious and glorified Body, out oi which He breathed the breath of life into our father Adam. And His words to Moses are : '' I will cover thee with my hand. And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts : but my face shall not be seen." — Exodus xxxiii. 22, 23. The Breath or Spirit of God is that by which man becomes a living soul. If man disobeys it, it leaves him, then he is a dead soul, but still retains his animal life. When man has grieved the Holy Spirit, he should pray as David did : " O God, renew a right spirit within me." — Psalm li. 10. Jesus said to his disciples, " as my Father hath sent me even so send I you. And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost." — John XX. 21, 22. God made a wonderful manifestation of His love in the gift of the Holy Ghost on the Day of Pentecost. It is evident that the mighty, rushing wind was made by God's ministering angels coming to breathe the Holy Spirit on the disciples. And they were filled with the Holy Ghost, and f 18 iiiif ill 80 spake })y it that all licard the Goppcl in their own tongucgi. ■ Ac;t>< ii. 1-3. •' For by one S])irit arc we all l)a|)tizc ' '' . i ■ ' " " And the Lord'spake unto Piloses, paying, SdiVctify untp me all the first-born, whatsoever openeth the wbml) among the children of Israel, both of man apd of beast ; it is mine," — ' ' J . ,^ Expdus xiii. 1, 2., " It is written in the law. of the Lord, Every^ raa]e,, that openeth the womb sliall be called^holy to the Lord ; to oflfex sacrifice according to that which is said in, the law of tjie Lord, '.,,, . .;. .;] Luke ii. 23, 24. The prieF^ihood was chapgp.d to Aarop*^ and his, sons j , Ibut no, new law inakea void the gilts or grants or covenants made be- foie ihenewlaw; therefore God's covenant with Enqch stMvds good torday, ifj^noch has remained faithful .and is living in the body and in t)>.e spirit and ppwev of (/od, with whom lie walk- ed three. hundred years. "Although his hamp has been changed, and his body renewed, and then crucified and slain, " yet it saw no , corruption, l^r God raised it up, from, the dea|d the third day." — Acts ii., 24. Jesus* showed' them his Ipiody afteif'his resurrection from the dead. '" ■' ,' '' - ■ :/' .: .'"• "-", ■ Who, then, so fitly qualified as our father Enoch to be our High Priest ? "Enoch begat Methuslah, and Methuslah begat X^nelsh, and Lamech begat Noah, and of him and his three sons Vaq the whole earth overspread." Cain's all perished by Noah'a flood. Gen. ix., 19. i 10 tongues. M ii. 1-3. hodi/'' — L Ixxly — V oi that n -born of )ukl b^o a child |:e'4 th right untp rr.e long the mine,? — xiii. 1, 2., aje, , that to offer he Lord* li. 23, 24, no but made be- h stands n(^ in thq Jie walk- changed " yet it deajd the from the to be our fr , I' Qel;b,'and ? Vaq t^e h'a flood. 3. ix., 19. 4 ,' ''For we r.ro members of ITis body, of Ills AubIi, of Ills boheri."— Eph. v., 20. J. " Enoc'li pleased (H)d, ;ind was trai'.slated into Paradise, th^t he mivy L'ive repentance to the nalioi..i." — Keel, xliv., 10. , ' • - • " No man Av.is born upon earlli like Enoch, for he also Wfts taken up from the eaith." — Eccl. xlix., 10. , ' It,' • .. j':Nrocii. ' '< ■ .... '* lie pleased (lod, and was trannlated. Ho was taken away lest wickedness should alter his understandiuLj. or deceit bo- guile his soul. I>ut the people see this artd Understand iiot^ nor lay up such things iri their hearts, lor they shall see the end of the wise man and shall not understand what God hath dcslf/ncd for him, and why the Lord hath set him in 8 me, thon ii. 6-7. !cy when native of 1 worlds, the ways natives all them I no man cnew his had a school of ProphetH ; this shows that lie was the head of the Church of God on llie earth. Elijah challenged four liundred and fifty of the prophets of Biial to appear before all Israel and the Kiug ; this was a bold challenge, fur if Elijah was defeated his life was wliat the King and the prophetH ot Baal wanted. lUil it is said that by faith in God in a good cause one shall chase a tliousand — many a thousand this Holy man of God chased for Israel. It was him that said to Joshua "I am the captain of the Lord's Hosts." Joshua v. 13-14. Elijah slew all the prophets ot Baal, and at another time called fire from heaven and by it slow a hundred men in fifties. And when he had executed his work at that time he was taken up to heaven to be kept in safety for to be sent again. " Behold I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord." Malch. iv. 6. So far we have had the history of what is supposed to be two men when in truth, there was but one man whose name was changed ; I will give you the best authority that can be given lor this, that Enoch and Elijah is only one person. When God promoted men He changed their name to signify their new office, so that they and those over whom God had appointed them might remember their office, and their duty to God and each other. Enoch signifies, dedicated consecrated to the holy office of Priest and prophet, and after " walking three hundred years with God — and God took him." Gen. v. 22.— Jude xiv. 15. " By faith Enoch was translated that he shall not see death." Heb. xi. 5. "The Lord hath sworn and will not repent. Thou art a Priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek." Psalm ex. 4. — Heb. vii. 1 1. But Paul affirms of Jesus that this man continueth ever ; hath an unchangeable priesthood, who is consecrated for ever- more. Hab. vii. 24. When the holy man Jesus was baptized with the Holy Ghost there was added to Jesus name .Jesus Christ ; Jesus signifies his human nature, and Christ signifies " the Divine Spirit that he received without measure, other men receive a measure of the Holy Spirit." " Paul says that it was the Holy Ghost that made Jesus Lord over men." Cor. xii. 3. "How God annointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost Hits lli 22 and with power, who went about doing good and healing all that was oppressed of the devil, for God was with him." " And we are witnesses of all thipgs which he did both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem, jvliom they slew ati4. hanged on a tree." . , . / •• • "Him God raised up the third day and showed him openly^ and that hh he which is oedained of God to. be the judge.,9* the quick and dead." Acts x. 38 to 43. '..''"' The quick are they that are quickened by the Holy Spirit, and the dead are they who have iiot received the HolySpirl^' both stand before the j^def^ of all the earth as long as they live on this earth, then at death is the ciid of the world, with' them that die. , , The reapers are angels, they carry the redeemed ,to heayen, an(? the bad the d^Vil claims as his. Matt. xiii. 38-39. Harvest signifies gathering anything of worth into a safe place. , . , * ■.'■■■'' 1 ■ '*' ^ ^^ '11 " Jesus' body is an exception to qll men for it saw no-ccr-, ruption." But it is said of David that he \vas not ascended, that is not in his earthly body. " But David said thou God, will redeem my soul from the power of the grave, for he. shall receive me." The grave gets the old body only. Psalm xliv. 15^^ Kow by the words of Jesus, " No nian had ascended up to heaven (that is in their first body), but He that came down from !ieaven, even the Son of Man." — .John iii., 13. The words of Jesus prove that Enoch, Elijah and Jesus were only one man, who appeared at different times to the Father. For He says : " No man hath ascended but He that came down," (that was Himself.) Jesus said, " II ye will receive it, this is Elias." Elias is the New Testament name for Elijah, " which was to restore all things." — Malachi iv., 5. Matt, xi., 11, do. xvii., 11-12. John the Baptist said, "I am not Elias." — John i., 19-20. " ^ erily, verily, I say unto you, before Abraham was I am." . ,^ John viii., 58. **I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world agfiin. I leave the world and go to,, the Father." . , ' .. John xvi., 28-29. , , .'* And as Esaias said before, except thie Lord of,^aboath had leit us a, seed, we had been as Sodon;ia, and been made Uke,unto (j^pmorrha." — Rom. ix., 29. * .. ■• » Kow that good old Enoch is that seed, is a truth ; but now did he become a child the second time, is the question of ques- tions which i will show. ' . 23 bealing all im." V„ id both in r slew and ■ , 't » ■ I -.• m openly. 3 judge., 9( )ly Spirit, 3ly Spirit,' g as they M'ld, with' o heaven, ). to a safe w no, cor-, ascended, thoii God, r he, shall I xliv. I5i,r led up to me down esus were e Father, tiat came ias is the jstore all 2. John IS I am." viii., 58. he world ^i., 28-29. oath had like, unto but how I of ques- And E think that there is no man harder to make believe in marvellous things th?^. I am. I must have proof for all that I will advocate to be truth. I can believe all that God says he has doiio. It is no matter liow wonderful it may be, I can be- lieve, huvinfy seen the wonderful works of God, which are per- fectly described in the Bible. 1 know by them that God can ^o anything that had ought to bo done. 'God encouraged Adam and Eve by a promise that her seed sliouhX l.)rnis(; the serpent's head. Some think that (iod is very slack -in i'ulfilling His promises. He would be if He did not give, Eve the promised seed for l-,000 years, but let the devil have it all his own way. No, no. God is not slack ; He is a f)resent help in time of need. When EvD bear Seth t^he said, God hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel; and to Seth a son Enos ; and to Enos, C;iinan; and to Cainiin, Mahahdeel ; and to him Jared the Father of Enoch, the seventh from Adam. And Ad.im lived u'v.ii hundred and thirty years, and died. But not before his successor the second Adam was appointed heir of the world in the })erson of Enoch, whom the first Adam saw for about 400 yeiirs before he died. Eve may also have seen the promis- ed seed walking wlih God. — (Gen. v., 22.) Xo man could have written the second Psalm except the second Adam. " I will declare the decree : the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son ; this day have I begotten thee." — Psalm ii. 7. Enoch was God's first bescotten of our fathers of the third branch of the fit st Adam's family by Seth ; this is the branch off which the Messiah was to come. Abel was righteous, but had no descent to be a priest over ; yet he was a priest to God. J>ut we who believe " are built upon tlie foundiition of the apostles and prophets ; Jesus Christ himself beinsc the chief corner cfo?ie ; in whom all the buildins: fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord ; in whom ye also are l)uilded toirether for an habitation of God through the Spirit,"— Eph. ii., 20-21-22. It is evident that God saw that it was better to bring Enoch into the world as a child, and have him grow up a man among men, and show them that the law which thev said was too hard to keep, could be kept with pleasure by them that obeyed the Holy Spirit of God. " Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacri- fice and offering thou wouldst not, but a body hast thou pre- pared me " — " Piiepared" — Heb. x., 5. God sent an angel to prepare Mary's mind, so that she might not be alarmed by finding that she would bear a son without knowing a man. When God made Adam a helpmate. He put Adam in a deep sleep, then took one of his ribs and made a full-sized woman. 24 Now it is evident to me that God put the Virgin Mary in a deep bleep, and good old father Enoch also in a deep sleep, and as He extended the rib to a woman, He by His mighty power reduced Enoch to the size of a child, placing him in the Virgin. As it is said, " A body hast thou peepaked me," ** So I come as it is written of me." And the Angel said to Zacharias that John the Baptist should go before Him (Jesus) in the spirit and power of Eiias, to prepare the people for the coming of their Lord ; for such is Jesus, Lord over all the world under God. (Luke i., IV.) We know that every herald or forerunner of a King, goes in the spirit and power of his master. Enoch, Elijah, Elias, Jesus, all one and only one person, for Jesus, said that " No man hath ascended up to heaven but He that came down from heaven, even the Son of Man." — John iii., 13. "What and it ye Shall see the Son of Kan ascend up where He was before." — John vi., 62-63. We know that Jesus called himself the Son of Man, and when Jesus e^aid anything that referred to himself, He called himself the Son of Man. Others justly called Him the Son of God, for He was the Son of God ; but He was first the Son of Man before He became the Temple of God. See the proof ot it. God says to His annointed, " Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever, the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre. Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness, therefore God, thy God^ hath annointed thee with oil of gladness above thy fellows." — (Psalm xlv., 6. Heb. i., 8-9.) It follows, then, that there was a time when our High Priest was exalted above his fellows. Now I think more of one who has been exalted by God than one who was born a prince or a king. " Blessed is he who shall not be offended in me." — Matt, xi., 6. I am afraid that men who are not obeying the Holy Spirit will oppose the truth, and do all thjy can to hinder others from believing the words ot Jesus, which are very plain. Jesus said : *' The Spiritof the Lord is upon me, because He hath atinointed me to preach the gospel to the poor and deliv- erance to the captives." Yes, He was sent to tell men that it they would receive and obey the Holy Spirit they would be freed from all the passions that make slaves of men. (Luke iv., 18.) Jesus deceived no man by His sayings, as He was continually giving His Father, God, the glory for all that God done by Him. Just hear Him, when the seventy whom He sent out to do good, when they returned to tell Him of how the devils were subject to them in His name ; did He take any praise to him- self? No, no. He rejoiced in spirit, and said: I thank thee I ^ 25 [ary in a ep sleep, mighty m in the ED me," Baptist of Elias, r 8uch is 17.) , goes in 8, Jesus, ^o man wn from p where an, and ^e called B Son of B Son of proof of of thy B8S, and nointed xlv., 6. I Priest ne who ce or a att. xi., Spirit s from use He deliv- that it uld be (Luke nually )ne by out to s were him- thee O Father, Lord oi heaven and earth. (Luke x., 17 to 21.) " But if I with the finger of God cast out devils. * * * n Luke xi., 20. Jesus being God's Prime Minister, and Chief Ambassador from God to men, it was not His place to speak of Himself, nor did He. He said : the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me. (John xiv., 24. Deut. xviii., 18-19.) God said to the Jews out of His Temple, w^hich was Jesus Christ, " Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." — (John ii., 19.) If you tmn to Acts ii., 22 — " Ye men of Israel, hcjir these words : Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you." * ^'^ Whom God hath raised up from the dead. The Holy Spirit spake at another time out of its temple, and eaid : *' I am the resurrection and the life." — John ii., 2u. Hear Jesus when He says : "The words that I spake unto you are Spirit, are Life." That is, they were spoken by the life-giving Spirit of God the Father. (John vi., 63.) God's Spirit speaks out of Jesus, and said, *' Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst." — Matt, xviii., 20. " Now the Lord is that Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. — (2 Cor., iii., 17.) Jesus said that it was the Spirit that quickeneth ; the flesh profiteth nothing." (John vi., 63.) JESUS TEMPTED OF THE DEVIL. " And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man." — Luke ii., 52. " At twelve years old He astonished the doctors of the law by His wisdom in asking and answering questions." But He remained subject to His mother and supposed father, too. He was baptised with the Holy Ghost, then the Spirit of God moved and led Him into the wilderness, where He was tempted of the devil. A wilderness is a wild, uncultivated place, and such was the Jewish nation at that time. But there was a promise made that it, or at least a part of it, under the " Messiah should bud and blossom as the rose, and rejoice and be glad," under Mes- siah's reign, and tor this God sent Jesus into that barren nation 'that it might bring forth fruit. (Isa. xxxv., 1.) But as soon as God's annointed appeared, the old serpent the devil also appeared, not in his own person, but in that of bift subjects ; men who are always watching to see something that they think can be made profitable in the things of this world ; 26 like Simeon the sorcerer, who offered money for the gift of the Holy Ghost, that he might make money by it. When tliose worldly wise men saw Jcsiis heal the sicTc ancl feed five thousand people, and many other good acts, they w6re determined to make Him a King; but lie departed into a mountain by himself. — John vi., 15. 'Then did Jesus suffer greater temptatioh than any man ever did, and more than any man can describe! It is said tli^t ** ignorance is bliss;" if Jesus had not the knowledge of w^l^ai they would do to him and them that wcirtld serve him, then he could not have suffered so great A temptation as he did; Bu^ kiiowing that God had given Hirii power to heaV the sick, and the bread of Heaven to feed all that followed Ilim. ' He also saw that He was the rightful Iloir to this world* and that God had given it to him. But it ift evident' that he was not a doomed man that must die, before Ile^'gave* His corjsent when He said " not My will but Tliiiie, O Father, be done." ' •• .-. - ' . : ^ > - . Jesus had no temptation as to choosing to serve the devil, but it was in that he saw that bad men would ] at him t»o a cruel and shameful death, and many of them that believed oirhim' for many years alter his death. Then his great temptation was in retraining and abstaining from using the power that God had given liim, whereby he could have subdued the whole world, and made his friends lords under hira. To have power over enemies and not uso it when he is in the act of causing us great bodily pain is more than any man ever did except Jesus Christ, and his words were* Father forgive them. Jesus saw that if he let the people make him a king that they would make him the high priest also, there is where the devil took his mind to the pinnacle of the temple. Pinnacle signifies power given to rule over the church and state. Jesus saw that conquering the world would not make it any better as long as the human heart remained unrenewed by the Holy Spirit of God. * ' ' " Therefore, by theGi'aCe of God, he choose to' taste death for every mm" 'even his fenemies. Hob. ii. 9.' ' ' - ' ' ,' And tor His faithfulness God has exalted hira to His right hand above every name and made him heiad over all thirigs to the church which is Hi« body. His offspring tor whoirt' he is now our High Priest, to m'ake intercessibtt for us to the only wise God and Great- Fathei" who made heaven and earth. They do not know much about God who think {hat Bte' •would discharge a holy man like Euocii tvithout a cause from' the otfice of the priesthood over \\U offspring, and let the devil have it all his own way f^i* about '4,^00 years, No ! rto ! Gpd never broke Ilia covenant with ^ good nlan. ' .^ A J 0*7 [;ift of the 3 sic'Tc an^ lots, they irted into man ever said tli^t E3 of w.l^ai 1, then he lid: Bu^ sick, and lis world, It That he gave" Hie ''a til er' be the devil, him i<) a ed oirhim imptation ^wer that he whole ve power lusinsj us pt Jesus ," By one man's disobedience many were made sinnera,-80; by the obedience of one, shall many bo. made ris^hteous." ... Rora. V. 19. ing that here the Pinnacle ce it any d by the te death lis right hi rigs to oiii' he is the only th. ^hat He' use from.' he devil lo! G'^a A REDEEMER. •fi A Redeemor is one who sets free, gets back oi* gives back that which w.is in bondage to others. /,.Tho first Adam was made free, but lost it by disobeying the Holy Spirit, — whea, it left him he was not free, ho was the servant of sin. " Of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he broAf(/hi into bond- age. 2 Peter, ii. 19. We are all born with ainful/natures ,by our first father Adam all in bondage, then we want a liedeemer) ' the Holy Scriptures declare that " N'o man can redeem himseljf or (five to God a ransom nor the, price of the redemption of his sold." Psalm, xlix. 7-8. In I) ouay, xlviii. 8-9. God never granted pirdon to any man for a 27ricc or a gift, or for sutFering; if he did, th6ii we would be buying our pardon in part or in whole, it is not so ? Isa, Iv. 1-2. Pardon is the free gift of God without money or price or works of any kirtd. Eph ii. 8-9. Free pardon of God would' do us no good unless wo got the redeemer^ we woul^ sin thi^ next minute after being pardoned. If the " Holy Spirit whieh is the 'Son of Gocl did not take up his abode with 2is,'^ pardon would be of no use, pardon does not make lis' citizens. David says, *' Jiiot out all mine iniquities, he dobs not stop fi'sking merely f(^r pard6n. No, no ; lie wanted a %'ew creaf lon^ 'a new heart, " Create! in me a clean heart God, and' 'tcneid aright spirit within me." Psalm, Ii. 9-10, at the 16Lh anil l7th verse? you wiM find that God never desired any sacrifice as a condition on )vhich he would pardon, except' tlie sacrificing of our loiU to. Ms wilL The sacrifice of J^esii's 'Christ ^as not to m.ake 'God willitig to pardon, it was to bring us t'6'Go(l from the' devil. We want a redeemor and there is no redeemer only the SON. OF GOD. The Son of God is called by tiiany names {\ir signifying the same, a Teacher, a Comforter, a Savior, a Redeemer. No tnan is or can be redeemed by anything that can bc'done for hii/ri^ it must be done in him by the Holy Spirit. ^'JVbio if any rtidn have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his " llom. viii* 9: If we have not the spirit we are not redeemed, — " \ly and for the Holy Spirit was man created." Col. i. 16. It is the lainful owner of soul and body. If the lawful heir is not on his throne the enemy will be there, we have our choice who shall reign, God or the devil. Redeemed by tub Blood of the Lamb. The Lamb is the Spirit of God, how can the Spirit redeem us by its blood when blood makes no part of it, it has no blood i i I i ii.), I 28 in it, it is pure spirit and yet we are redeemed by its blood, the blood of the lamb. The blood of Jesus was 710 part of the lambj but it was the lamb's, it belonged to the lamby and by the grace of God, Jesus consented to let it b3 shed to bring us to God, to redeem us from the devil, not from God as some would have it. The blood of all the Martyrs is the lamb's blood, it is the owner of soul and body ; he said what ye do unto 07ie of •these ye do unto me, that is, they are mine, the shedding of iheir blood is the shedding of my blood, the blood is mine^ it belongs to me the Holy Spirit. I made it — it is mine. Col. i. 16. All souls are mine saith God, but many are in bondage, and will ever be in it if they do not consent to obey the Holy Spirit , it and it only makes free. " Wherf, Uic ISpirit of the LordiSj there is liberty ," and no place else. 2 Cor. iii. 17. NATURE OF SACRIFICE. A sacrifice is the solemn act of consecrating something to the service of another. Our father Enoch offered to God a SACRIFICE OF SERVICE which is the only sacrifce ever de- manded, and God never excepted any other as a condition on which he would pardon and renew friendship with any man. At the set time when God's first begotten came into the world ^^ Again.^^ John, xvi. 28. He said, Lo I come to do THY WILL O God. Psalm I 6-8 ; Heb. x. 5-7. The sacrifice that is acceptable to God is to obey, and sac- rifice our will to His will^ and our comforts to save others by giving them a knowledge ol God as it is impossible to be saved without knowledge. His sacrifice was to save men from their sins, not in them, '•'-from their errors.^' Heb. ix. 7. Jesus the annointed of God came into the world to redeem it hy destroying the works of the devil, — the law of God was not the works of the devil. The works of the devil was de- ceiving men. The work ot God's annointed was to undeceive to prove the devil a liar ; the devil had got the heathen world and almost all the Jewish Church to belie ^ that there was no resurrection of the dead, no rewards or punishments after death. Matt. xxii. 23 ; Acts, xxiii. 8. The heathen world, the Saducees, the High Priest, and they ?that were with him, almost all the rich and the learned. The low and the baser men are always ready to do the bidding of the rich. The second Psalm is the best description of the state of the world at that time. " The kings of the earth set •themselves, and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against his annointed. What a sacrifice it was to leave heaven to carry the truth into the devil's camp, knowing that nothing but his death and resurrection could save the TTorld frem that great error, that error was that men did not _^.^..- 29 live again. Jesus Christ's death and resurrection settled that for ever. He suffered himself to be put to death in the most public place, and by wicked hauda ; they satisfied themselves that he was dead^ there could be no deception. By his death and resurrection " He hrought life and imuoetality to- light, He came to destroy the works of the devil, the works of the devil was to deceive, Christ's work is to undeceive^ to make manifest the truth. John, i. 14. He came to be the light of the world, to give knowledge and a good understanding of our wants, and God's willingness to supply all our wants. He- redeemed the world from the devil's lies, and showed that men do live again. His whole life and death on the cross was one sacrifice to bring us to Ood, to reconcile us to God. Eph. \u 16, and not as some falsely say, that Jesus' death was to buy ug from the wrath of God, and to make him willing to pardon. A GREAT ERROR. It is a great error to say that God was not willing to pardon sinners, or that He could not be justified in doing it until he would have a human sachtfice, and that the most innocent man that ever lived. No^ no^ God never demanded or excepted any sacrifice only that of Service. See Isa. i. 11. To what pur- pose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me saith the Lord wha hath required this at your hand. Cease to no evil. Learn to da well.'''' It was a sacrifice of servicies that Jesus Christ ofiteredy. he is oxxv forerunner^ he opened the way, he by the power ot the Holy Spirit has kept it open, the devil would have kept the world in ignorance, only for the Holy Spirit the Son of God and the Son of man uniting to save all who would believe and obey Reasonable evidences ; was given in the " miracles and signsy and wonders which God did by and with his anointed^^ to con- vince any man. Acts, ii. 22. SHALL A MA>T LIVE AGAIN. The miracles, signs and wonders that God had done by hi& annointed convinced men that there was an Almighty God above all other powers ; but there were so many who opposed the truth of the resurrection, that had not they seen it they would not have believed it. The Holy Ghost said destroy THIS TEMPLE, and in three days I will raise it again. John, ii. 19-21. Jesus^ body zvas its tetnple. God gave his well beloved son to suffer death on the cross to show men that the devil waa a liar. ** IVhat could have been done more to my vineyard that I have not done." Isa. v. 3-4. If ye do not believe the record that God .30 gave the world by his son. When he senthira \x\\,o the worl4, he did not send his son into the world to vta/^exus believe ; ,he came to give lis reason to believe. JJis death frcca no man from the law — his death was not to appease God; No, 7io, it was to convince men of a great and a damning falsehood. He came to redeem men from the devil's lies, and to offer a free pardon to all that believe and obey. He suffered to " Bring life and immor- tality to liqhty 2 Tim. i. lo. He done it, and then was taken up to heaven where he ever liveth to make intereession for us. Rom. viii. 34. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Com- forter, and he shall abide with you for ever. John 7. 16-17. The Comforter is the Holy Spirit. " It is the Spirit that quieken- eth.^' Where the Spirit of the Lord is there is Liberty. 2 Cor. iii. 17. There is no liberty only where the Spirit of the Lord is. // and it only makes free; the man that has not the Holy Spirit is not free. '^I'he first work of the Spirit is to reprove the world of sin, and of Righteousness, and of judgment to come ; all that hear its reproof and repent, and, believe, and obey, it will guide them into all- truth." John xvi,. 10-15. ,. If the death oi Jesus ftdly satisfied diruiiu justice, we would not have to ask pardon of the JFathcjr ; nor did it hal^^ ^satisfy.- It was not intended to satisfy „pr appease, or,mak,€| him willing. 1^ was to make men see the necessity, of obtaining pardon,/and to show them the works of the devil.; the ,v?orks of the devil ar^ never destroyed in a man until the. man sees thpn. If.^he man, aftey the Holy Spirit has showed him that he is.a sinner, and- pffers to pardon, and to renew in him a right spirit, until this is done,' th^ man is not redeemed ; he is in bondage to the devil. Jesus sai(^ ye are of the devil yoiir fajthen ,If Jesus would have died one hundred times on the efossi it would not save a inan against his will ; the will of man was given him a gift by God. If nian wiUs to be saved, God will save him ; if he does not will to Ipe saved •; he cannot be saved; " when I would, ye would not.'^ Mat. xxiii. . THE NEW CREATION. " Create ifime.a clean hearty. O God, qnd renew a right spirit within me.^\ JPsalm li. 10. This is. a prayer, for every uncon- verted man. ., , ' . . When the Holy Spirit creciJes in npan a clean hearty, then he has no desire to do evil ; l;ie loves the law of God. . // is a holy rule of life to him. It is impossible to. keep the law until we receive a new 7iature, a view \creation. Esph. iv. 24. " This new .nature, and the gift of the Holy Spirit is offered to every one wlio will of(QX Zf sacrifice 0/ fervice,- ,obedienc,er—\K\s, is what Paul call's J' « living sacrifice,, wholly and acceptable i:ito God wJ^ich is your r,^g^- sonable servicej'^ Rom. xii. i. ■** 31 he worl4, lieve; ,he tfian fram X WJIB to s came to 'don to all d iimnor- ,vas taken on for us. I. viii. 34. ther Com- 7. 16-17. !/ quicken- 2 Cor. iii. ; Ivord is. ^ Spirit is world of ; all that ,vill guide ^e would itisfy.- It I* \\ was . to show ir^ never lan, after gffers to one,' th? 5SUS sai<^ died on,e aiiist his uao wiljte e saved J ,t. xxiii. /it spirit uncon- n he has holy rule ; receive nature, who will :alls',"« biir r^(^- i ** For I spake not unto your fathers nor commanded them In the day that 1 l)rouglit them out of the land of Kgyi)t, concern- ing biirnt offerings or sacrifice; but this thing commanded I them, OHI'lY MY VOICE. Jer. vli. 22-23. i Sam. xv. 22-23." " l''or thou dcsirest not sacrifice else would I give it ; thou dclightest not in burnt offering. The sacrifices of Cod are a broken s[)irit ; a broken and a contrite heart thou will not de- spise. Psalm, )i. 16-17. Mosea, vi. 6. Cod has declared by his lioly prophets that he will take no price, no sacrifice as a can- dition on which he would grant pardon, only the SAc^iFicfe b*' OUR WILL TO HIS WILL. Tlie death of Jesus Christ frefed no man from the law, it was a sacrifice to bring us a 'knowledge how to be savea — it was to reconcile us to Cod. Rom. V;' lo. His deatii was to "slay the. enmity." JCph. ii. 16. Whose enmity was to be slain ? It Was man's, it was to "reconcile men to God's holy law. " God was in his artnointed reconciling the world to himself, not imputing their trespasses to them." 2 -CbTi v. 19. Not imputing their trespasses to them, that" 'is, not re(iuiring any thing as a price only that of service frorhth. I lem. But to prevent o them. BIN? all things TiQw them ng. It is ill to offer L man will d that sin the Holy i^hen God would ye than all )ughts are t proceed are seen. : ; so that before the would l*i us/' He so many, ras to be, ell. The )raying to , that the : xiii. 32. vhich the er, — that ■ doing is is, for he ers. To lying too de. He here was ivas only 33 (lod makes choice of them whom he foreknows. (Jod tried Abraham's faith, and then said, Now I know ; as much as to say that he was not sure what a free agent would do. (ien. xxii. 12. God says " Because Abraham obeyed my voice." (jcu. xxv, 5, Paul says, "That God hath chosen us before the foundation of the world." Kph. i. 4. Who is meant by us? Undoubtedly all who (jbey as iVbraham did. '" He that believes and is bap- tised shall be saved; and he that believes not shall be damned." Mark xvi. 16. He that is baptised with the Holy (Ihost — that's what saves men. Now our salvation is conditional, and depends on our will — for (iod's will is that all should be saved — unless Calvin knew (iod's will better than Moses, Job, David, Solomon, Isaiah, Jcrcmiali, I'^zekiel, Zechariah, Christ, Luke, Taul, Peter, and John. 1 will show you what God's will is, according to those men, and how Calvinism accuses God of lying to men, when he says he wills, or elects that all "should be saved, i Tim. ii. 3-8. Gen. iv. 7, " If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door." Calvinism says, not so ; Cain could not be accepted, for God decreed that Cain should be lost or cursed. | Where did God say so ? 1 2 Chron. vii. 21-22. "Why hath the Lord done thus unto this land, and unto this house? And it shall be answered, be- cause they forsook the Lord Ciod of their fathers." Calvinism says, they could not help doing what they did do, for God had decreed it. According to Calvinism, (iod is the cause of all sin, and the devil his faithful servant. This is what the devil wants men to believe. Job xxxiv. II. " For the word of a man, shall he [God] ren- der unto him, and cause every man to find according t(j his ways.'' Calvinism says, not so ; God will render Christ's works to the elect, and Adam's works unto them whom he has decreed to be lost. Psalm Ixii. 12. "Also unto thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy j for thou rejiderest unto every man according to his work." Calvinism says, God will not do what he has said he would do. He will give Christ's work to some, not their own. Proverbs xxiv. 12. "And shall he not render to every man according to his vvorks." Calvinism says, not so ; not every man — only those whom he has decreed shall be lost, he will render their work unto them. Isaiah xxv. 6. "And in this mountain shall the Lord of hosts 'F. ! I I! ' 4 94 make unto all people a feast of fat things.'' [God says it is for all people.] Calvinism says, it is not for all people, only the .ect. Jeremiah xvii. lo. "I, the Lord, search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according lo his ways, and accord- ing to the fruit of his doings." See xxxii. 19. Calvinism says, not so ; Clod will give Christ's righteousness to some, and not the fruit of their own doings. F^zekiel vii. 27. " I will do unto them after their way, and according to their deserts will 1 judge them." Calvinism says, not so ; He will do unto them according to his eternal purpose, whether to bless or curse them. Ezekiel xviii., xix-xxxii. 24. " But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth inic^uity he shall die." Calvinism says, not so ; the righteous, or elect will never be lost. P^zekiel xviii. 25. "Ye say the way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Isreal ; is not my way equal ? Are not your ways unequal?" See Ezekiel xxxiii. 11-20. Here we find that Calvin was not the first who accused God of not rewarding men equal. Zech. i. 6. " According to our ways and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us." iii. 7. Calvinism says, not so ; God has done and will do according to his eternal purposes, without regard to their ways. St. Matthew xi. 28. *' Come unto me all ye that labor and Are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." Calvinism says : Not all, only the elect. "And then he shall reward every man according to his works." — Matt. xvi. 27. Calvinism says, not so ; He will reward men according to the election. Acts vii. 51. "Ye stiff-necked, and uncircumcized in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost : as your fathers did, so do ye," Calvinism says : Men cannot resist the Holy Ghost. Rom. V. 18. " By the righteousness of one the free gift came men. upon [All men, glory •] men. Calvinism says, not so ; only the elect. Well, glory to God, t f ..% y^s it Is for , I try the id accord- Dusncss to r way, and cording to us tiirneth ^ he shall never be not equal. Are not used God g to our iccording abor and works." ng to the in heart hers did, ift came to God, • .'J 5 all men are tlio elect ot Clod. See Ezekiel xxxiii. 1 1 ; i 'I'iin. ii. 3. 4» 6. Rom. ii. 6. " Who will render to every man according to his deeds." See nth verso. Calvinism says, not so. He will render Christ's deeds to the elect ; to others, their own deeds. Rom. xi. 28. " As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sake ; but, as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes." [Hero we fmd the elect to lie ^niemies of Christ : He came unto his own, and his own receiv^-d him not His own must have been the elect, or he would not have come to them. I Rom. xiii. 2. ** Whosoever therefore resistcth the power, resisteth the ordinance of (lod, and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. [It is for resisting the grace of Cod, that men are condemned ; men are not recjuired to be righteous without tlie grace of God, but by it, that Cod may have the Glory.] Rom. xiv. 15, "Destroy him not with thy meat for whom Christ died." Paul believed that a brother might be lost or destroyed, for whom Christ died. Calvinism says, not so. The elect will never be lost or de- stroyed. [He must be one of the elect who is a brother.] 1 Cor. viii. 11. ** And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?" Calvinism says, not so. They for whom Christ died shall never perish. 2 Peter i. 10. " Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure." (If God made it sure they \vould not have to do it. See iii. 9. Rev. xxii. 12. "And behold I come quickly ; every man according as his works shall be." to give Isaiah v. 3, 4. " And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard, 4th. What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done." (Here, we find, God has done all he could do to save men without being a slave-holder ; that is, to save men against their will. This is the only thing man has ; that is, a free will, and it is the gift of God ; by it he may choose whom he will serve ; but has no power in him ; that is, of himself to do right- eous works, such as to merit heaven ; but has power to will or wish himself out of the service of the devil, and in the service of God. For such power man is accountable to God, who gave 36 F ! 1 M I ■I >| him the gift of free will. As it is said, " God is more willing to give than men are to recei\ e." Yea, God " is not willing that any should perish." i Tim. ii. 2, 4 ; 2 Pet. iii. 9. God's decrees are, 1st. That all things shall work together for the good of all, who will love him. — i Cor. ii. 9. 2ndly. He has decreed that all who shall continue to sin, knowing it to be sin, shall be fiitted for destruction. This is done by taking his Holy Spirit from striving with them. When God's Spirit is taken away, we are fitted for destruction, as :. ship is when her helm is taken away. (All the rest of his decrees are to accomplish, or carry out his design, in blessing them who are willing to obey the truth, and walk honestly before him according to knowledge. God does not inflict willingly, but of necesoity, as you may find in Lam. iii. 33. "Oh how shall I give you up," (saith the Lord.) God hardened Pharoah's heart, and tells why — that HE might show his power. Showing his power that Pharoah and his people might turn from idols — which have no power— to the LivingPowER and be saved. They that believed were saved. Exodus ix. 16-20. Rev. vii. 9. It was God's mercy in removing the plagues that hardened Pharoah's heart ; he thought that they were done by magic art at fiirst INFALLIBILITY. Infallibility is one of God's highest attributes. It is an imposition for a man, or a church, to claim it. It never was given to men. God will keep us as long as we keep his com- mandments, and no longer. The Jewish church was not preserved infallible. What does the Gentile church expect ? Is it that God is a respecter of persons? The Jews would accuse God of partiality towards the Gentile church, if he preserved it and did not preserve their church infallible. Now, I will show where those who claim infallibility are mis- taken. ' It is all in the wOrd This. St. Matthew xvi. 18. "And 1 say also unto thee. That thou art Peter ; and upon This rock I will build my church ; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. He said This rock, signifies foundation. Was Peter the foundation, the first stone, no Enoch was the first. Genesis v. 24. The word This, is, singular, and could not include Peter. When he said, "This rock," he meant himself, as he did when he said " Destroy This temple, and in three days I will raise it up." St. John ii. 19. They all thought he meant the great temple they were forty-six years in building. Not so. When he said This, he meant him- self. St. John ii. 10-21. But they remembered that he said This, not that, temple. . s 87 willing to [ling that jether for , He has to be sin, his Holy cen away, I is taken carry out he truth, you may saith the [E might is people IgPoWER X. 16-20. ev. vii. 9. lardened [ic art at It is an iver was his com- hat does )ecter of ards the ve their are mis- lat thou and the IS rock, t stone, Fhis, is, "This 3y This 1 ii. 19. forty-six ant him- he said When Christ said, " Upon this rock I will build my church,'* it was so. When he said This, he did not mean that, Peter " Who is a rock, save our Gjd ?" Psalm xviii. 31-32. (How much of a rock was Peter, whju he dissein'i)led ? See Gal. ii. 1 1- 14. Peter, in sjixie places, is called Cephas.) How much of a rock was Po|je Martin the Second, when at the head of a council (A. L)., 1095), of four thousand Ecclesias- tics, and thirty thousand Seculars, in that great council, they agreed to send over seven hundred thousand men, in a crusade against the Turks to kill them, instead of obeying the Saviour, who said, " Go ye and teach all nations !" St. Matt, xxviii. 19. Those men whom they sent to kill unbelievers ; but, the unbe- lievers killed them. They had a famine and plagues, and few of them returned. If neither the Pope nor council were infallible, then who are ? Paul says, Christ is the Rock, yea, and the spiritual Rock. I Cor. X. 3-4. If Peter is a rock, th;M-e are two rocks. Job xv. 15, " Behold, among his saints, none is unchangeable." If there were any infallible, they would be unchangeable ; but there are none but God himself. It is putting ourselves in God's stead, when we assume it. " Charity never fiileth." Faith, hope, and charity— of these three, charity is the greatest. Hew much charity did the Catholic church have, when she set up the Inquisition, to put all to death who would not believe as she did ? See Rom. xii. 19. " Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves; but rather give place unto wrath : for it is written, Vengeance is mine ; I will repay saith the Lord." The Catholic' c!iurch would not wait for the Lord to repay heretics ; they took vengeance of them whom they called heretics, until the Lord stopped them, and let upon them a host of infidels, to punish the church for her uncharitable doings. [1792.] Peter had the keys of heaven. Keys of heaven mean the Gospel of Christ, which is given to all faithful ministers of Christ. - There is nothing will open heaven to us, or the way to it, but the Gospel of Christ. The B'ble is more infallible than Popes, or Creeds, or Archbishops. St. Mark xili. 31. HOW CHRIST'S FLESH IS EAT. " Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you." John vi. 43. " Jesus said I am that bread of life," " And I will give my flesh for the life of the world." It was the spirit said I am the bread of life. Eating signifies more than putting food in the stomach. Can flesh be eat any other way than by putting it into the mouth and 38 yi stomach. God will answer this question. See what God says about eating flesh in Michcas or Micah iii. 3. ''Who have eaten the flesh of my people." How eat they the flesh of God's people ? They eat it when they fed themselves with the earnings of others taken by xVaud or force. But we eat the flesh of Jesus a free gift ; that is, we eat it in the blessings that he obtained for us by the suffering of his flesh. We feed on the Gospel truths brought to us by his death. "Shall not all they know that work iniquity, who devour my people as they eat bread." That was eating other men's earnings ; things that their flesh was wasted in obtaining. Psalm xiii. 4. In the Protestant it is xiv. 4. " Whilst the wicked draw near against me to eat my flesh." Psalm xxvi. 2. In Protestant xxvii. 2. " David would not drink the water brought him by three valiant men, but said is not this the blood of the men that went for it at the jeopardy of their lives." 2 Sam. xxiii. 16-17. God says, " They shall rat the sins of my people." Osee or Hosea iv. 8 ; do. x. 13. Scripture tells us plainly that eating is receiving benefits by the labour and sufferings of others. Jesus said, " It is the spirit that quickeneth ; the flesh profiteth nothing." — John vi. 63. That is, if we eat his flesh in the literal meaning, it would profit us nothing. If we eat it literally, we would be cannibals — man eaters. We who believe, feed on the gospel truths. The gospel truths is the bread that cai.ie down from heaven." — John vi. 54. Jesus said to the robber or thief, " This day thou shall be with me in Paradise." He, the robber, must have eaten Christ's flesh before he went. How did he eat it? He eat it the way the Israelites eat it. See i Cor. x. i, 2, 4. " And they drank of the spiritual Rock that followed them : and the Rock was Christ." They e:it and dranl: of the Rock — Christ. See notes on Douay Bible, - jj^ : Cor. x. 3, 4. They say the Israelites eat only in figure. Here they condemn themselves, in saying that the Israelites eat it only figuratively. It was as absolutely said, that the Israelites eat it, as it is said that we have to eat it, to obtain life everlasting. All who receive pardon of their sins for Christ's sake, eat his flesh, and drink his blood, in the gift of the Holy Spirit. St. Matt. xxvi. 26. " Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat, THIS is my body." He said, this is my body, after he had given the bread away. If he had said, that is my body, they might have thought he had given them his body. This does not mean that. This is singular. See what Christ meant, when he said, " Destroy THIS temple, and in three days I will roise it up." — St. John ii» 19-21. " But he spake of the temple of his body." When he said I H S temple, he did not mean that ONE; when he said THIS is my body, he did not mean that bread was it, which he ■•A .■?5 II''' 39 God says lave eaten of God's e earnings li of Jesus )tained for jpel truths evour my earnings ; i\ xiii. 4. draw near Protestant by three that went n- Osee or eating is s. I profiteth the Hteral erally, we ed on the .lae down r or thief, e robber, lid he eat r. X. I, 2, sd them : Rock— rhey say ;mselves, It was as that we ? pardon is blood, it, and t, THIS iven the ht have ;an that. Destroy John ii. Vhen he he said ^hich he had given away. He gave them the chalice, and they all drank of it. — vSt. Mark xi. 23. They all say he gave them the bread and the chalice, and told them to eat and drink, before he said, this is my body. 24th verse. He said, " This is my blcod of the New Testament, M'hich shall be shed for many." If it was to be shed, how could they eat it before it was shed ? Douay Bible. — St. Mark xiv. 24. I Cor. xi. 20. " For he that eatedi and drinketli unworthily, eateth and drinkelh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body." Discerning the body of Christ. Now, if the bread and wine are changed into the body and blood of Christ, we cannot help discerning it, unless we are blind and cannot see. But, because it is eat in a spiritual manner, there are many who do not dis- cern the body of Christ. Christ gave himself for the life of the world. When we re- ceive that hfe, we receive his flesh. — St. John vi. 51, 61-63. ^^^ eat the fruit of his earnings. He died to bring us the bread of life : tlie truth is the bread of life, brought to us by the sacrifice of his body. PRAYERS FOR THE DEAD. We are not commanded in the scriptures to pray for the dead. It is not so much as mentioned by Christ, or the Prophets, or Apostles. 2 Maccabees xii. 43-46. Here you will find that one Judas Maccabees, who was at war with the heathen, when there was a great many of the Tews slain, gathered a great sum of money to have sacrifice offered for the dead. Who ever heaid of such things, since or before, by the Jews ? Christ came to fulfil what the Prophets foretold Christ, or the Apostles, never mentioned this Judas or the books of Macca- bees ; the writer did not pretend to be a prophet. See 2 Macca- bees i. 12-15. They say Antiochus was killed in a temple. See ch. ix. 28. They say he died in the mountains ; this is enough against the writer of the books, when he contradicts himself God has told us all things necessary for us to know, and he never told us to pray for the dead. See Psalm xlviii. 8, 9. Pro- testant xlix. 7, 8. No brother can redeem, nor shall man re- deem. He shall not give to God his ransom, nor the price of the redemption of his soul." [This is by David, who was owned to be a prophet, and a man of God. Whom shall we believe, David or Judas Maccabees ? David says, Man cannot give to God a ransom for his soul, or his brother's soul.] Christ said, " If ye do not believe in me, ye shall die in your 40 iM sins, and where I am ye cannot come." [How can we believe for them that are dead ? Prayers for the dead was a canning inven- tion of men ; there is no time when men wih be so liberal, as when their friends die.] St. Luke xiii. 3-5. " But, unless you do penance, you shall all likewise perish." [Now, if any man go to heaven without doing penance for himself he will make Christ a liar. This will not do; let all men be liars, but God true. See Deut. x. 17. Penance and repentance is but one thing, if rightly understood ; they both mean a work. It is a work repent and give ourselves to God ; this is what he wants. See notes in Douay Bible, Dan. ix. 27. They say Christ, by his sacrifice on the cross, abolished all the sacrifices of the law. See Heb. x. 8, 11, 12, 18. After all this, the Catholics offer sacrifices for sins. "And the Lord passed by before Moses and proclaimed the Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and trutli. Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin. And that will ey no means clear the guilty." Exodus xxxiv. 6, 7. " By no means ;" that is, by nothing that we can do or have done for us. God's gifts are free to all that are willing to obey his Holy Spirit. WHO HAS THE POWER TO FORGIVE SINS? St. John XX. 22, 24. " He breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost. Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them.^' When Christ said, " Receive ye the Holy Ghost " — he said, Whose sins you, the Holy Ghost, not you, the Apostles. If he had given them power, he would have said, I give you, my dis- ciples, power to forgive sins. " Receive ye the Holy Ghost. Whose sins you," the last mentioned, the Holy Ghost, " forgive, they are forgiven." ^ St. Matthew xvi. 19. Peter had the keys of heaven. Keys signify knowledge — to get in. See Luke xi. 52. Peter got knowledge of the way to heaven. What he would loose on earth, would be loosed in heaven. Loose signifies to put off. See Josh. v. 16. Peter, at that time, was not wholly sanctified to God ; but when he would loose, or put off, the old man, (See Eph. iv. 22, 24,) then the sins that he had committed would be loosed, or put off the record in heaven. What he would bind on earth would be bound in heaven; that is if he would bind himself to God, on earth, that binding would remain good in heaven. See St. Luke x. 20. In James v. 14, 16. "Is any sick ? let him call in the priest. [Let him. Not that he must % # 41 relieve for ing inven- .1, as when you shall 111 without This will ;ut. X. 17. derstood ; ourselves lible, Dan. abolished 8. After aimed the bring, and thousands, will BY NO o or have \g to obey [NS? saith unto ill forgive, —he said, ^s. If he Li, my dis- ly Ghost. '* forgive, n. Keys Peter got loose on • put off. sanctified nan, (See kvould be •uld bind jld bind good in "Is any he must ■ % "u i have him ;] that he may pray for him — not a word about having the priest forgive his sins. God says, " Come unto me." Isa. Iv. 3, 7 ; James i. 6. What would have become of the Jews if they had obeyed their pri'ists ? Acts v. 17, 20. They that be- lieved the scriptures were saved, and they who trusted in the priests were lost. BAPTISM. After all the controversies about baptism, what have they brought forth? i. They have caused some to trust wholly on water baptism and morality for salvation. Others couple the baptism of the Holy Ghost and water baptism together, as both necessary to our salvation and purification. Who is it that do this ? They are those who will not admit a man to their communion, who has received the baptism of the Holy Ghost, until he is immersed. They might as well say we are not fit for heaven until we are immersed by them in water. Who immersed the thief on the cross ? Who baptised all Paul's converts ? for he was not sent to bap- tise. "Christ sent me not to baptise." i Cor. i. 17. John's baptism was a baptism unto rept •itance Christ is the baptism of the Holy Ghost. The one is our days, is not John's, for his was unto repentance' It is not (St. Mark i. 8) Christ's, for his is the one that changes the heart and washes away our sins. St. Matt. iii. 1 2 ; Isa. iv. 4. " When the I>ord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Ziou, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof, by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning." Yes, there is fire in Christ's baptism : that is, the fire of love. What did Paul mean, when he said there was but " one baptism .?" See Eph. iv, 5. He meant that there is but one needful to salvation. St. Matt, xxviii. 19. "Cxo ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost." HOW IT WAS DONE. " And were all baptized to Moses in the cloud, and in the sea." They were not dipped in the cloud, but the cloud descended upon them. They were not plunged in the sea ; it only sprinkled them. " God said, then will I sprinkle you with clean water." Ezek. xxxvi. 25. But I cannot find any place where God said that he would dip or plunge men in water. Philip and the Eunuch went intO; and came up out of the water. Coming out of water does not mean coming from under the water ; coming 42 I out of water does not imply being under it. A man says to his boy, come up out of that water, when it is only a foot deep. I do believe water baptism was used hy the apostles, but not always. By some it was used before they received the Holy Ghost, and by some after the baptism of the Holy (Ihost. I. Those who v»^ished to be Christ's, underwent a water bai^tism, to show that they wished to receive a spiritual baptism, and be Christ's when he should (Acts xi. 19-20) come. 2. '1 hose who received the Holy (}host, and desired to be called Christians, but who were heathens before. I like to see children baptised and would like to see persons of mature age baptised by sprinkling or immersion if they do it to answer their own conscience, and not by dictation. Circumcision was required by some, and granted to them, to satisfy their weak consciences, i Cor. viii. 8. " Rut neither if we eat are we the better ; neither if we eat not are we the worse." It is the same with baptism and circumcision ; that is, water ba]3tism doth not save us. See St. Mark xvi. 16. "He that believeth, and is baptised, shall be saved." Is it he that is bap- tised ^' ith water? The answer is, no. Water does not save us; it is the Baptism of the Holy Ghost that saves all who are saved. I do not despise water baptism, nor do I want to have it done aw^ay with, but only to remove the error of those who think they cannot be saved unless they are bajitised with water, and those who are admitted into the Church, when infants, by water bap- tism, who never look for the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Be it known unto such, that God has not promise ' to save any by a water baptism, nor has he commanded us to oe baptised in or with water by our ministers. St. John iii. 5. Jesus said, " Except a man be born of water, and of the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God." Man must be born of water, and of the Spirit ; that is, man has to come the natural way of all men. First Epistle of John V. 6. " Jesus Christ came by water and blood ;" he came by water and blood ; that is, he was born of a woman, as other men are ; he came ferth out of water and blood, as other men do — that is, had a natural birth into the world, i John v. 6. 2. Man must be born of the Spirit of God ; then he is com- plete and fit for heaven. See Col. ii. 10, 20-23. Baptists say that they follow Christ's example. He was bap- tised in water ; yes, and he was circumcised, too ; all this was under the law, and its ordinances. This is what Christ came to fulfil. The ordinances were done away by him. See Col. iii. 1 4. If done away, why are we commanded by men to keep them ? God has not commanded us to keep the ordinances which were delivered to the Jews. 43 ays to his ieep. >, but not the Holy St. a water I baptism, 2. '1 hose !^hristians, )ersons of y do it to > them, to neither if le worse." is, water •'He that lat is bap- save us ; ire saved. ^e it done hink they and those vater bap- st. Be it any by a ised in or of water, that is, ^^pistle of he came , as other ther men I V. 6. : is com- was bap- this was ; came to )1. iii. 14. jp them ? ich were Phih'p baptised the eunuch, but was not sent to do it ; it was the eunuch's request to be baptised. Philip did not say to him that he ought to be baptised, but said, '* thou mayest." Actxxii. 16. "Arise and be ba[)tised, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord. He did not say with water , Ho, it is the baptism of the Holy Ghost that saves. THE TRANSFIGURATION" OF JESUS. Tninsfiguration implies a change of the external n])ponrance. Wlien JesuH was transfigured his face did shine as the sun, so great the light, that the three discipU^s fell on their face. But vhen their sight was restored, they were astonished at seeing Moses and EUas, who appeared in glory, or as translated ia pther places in majesty. But ijlory and majesty is synony- mous. The Douay Bible s.ays, Elias appeared in mtjesty, and the Protestant, in glory, Glory signifies bright and shining. Now we have it that the three disciples first saw Jesus' face sbining as the sun, and when they recovered their sight they 8f vv Moses and Elias, who appeared in glory ; that is, that Elias appeared shining in glory or majesty, which proves that he that appeared in majesty was the greatest person present — the truth is, that Jesus was transfigured into the appearance of Elias. Bat Peter said, let us make three tabernacles. But Mark and Luke tell us that he did not know what he said. — Mark xi. 6 ; Luke ix. 29-33. And Jesus charged them not to tell the vision. But lie in- tevpreted it to them on their way down irom the mountain. — Matt. xvii. 1-12. It is evident that God did not wish to let it be known who Jesus, the second Adam, was in person, his individuality as a ipaan at that time. I do not profess to be wise above that which is v/ritten. But (Tod has appointed times for revealing things. Jesus said, when John the Baptist was not present, and a J ear after John was put in prison : " This is Elias." If esus meant that John was Elias, he would have said he is or Was Elias; for the word this, signifies something present — apraething in the pcssession of the speaker, as may be seen by 'phe word of God. spoken out of his earthly Temple, Jesus, '%hen he sat in front of Solomon's Temple : " Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up." — John ii. 19, - They at first thought that he meant Solomon's Temple, but irhen they retnembered that he said this Temple, that it was Jk^s body. And when Jesus' or rather God's Spirit, speaking ^t of its temple, which was Jesus' body, said: Destroy this ifraple and in three days I will raise it up again. "And him "Ibsus hath God raised up." — Acts ii. 22, 52. 44 Tf tlie first Adam had not sinned lie would never have died- An.l as Vw. ce-ond Adam di;«* ; IV'Uii liejivdi lhnt that is not ho. God will uive to evi'iy man that oi)eys him, alieavenly body in whieh the Holy Si»iriL will abide with him loreverin heaven. Amen. iSo be it Ml SUM OF THE HOLY BH'.Ll-:. " In the beginning God created all that was made, and it was very good. I'hus the heavens and the earth were made, and all the hosts of them. All were finished.— Gen. i. 31 ; ii. i. All wasjj very good ; there was no devil — no suffering — no hell, created by God ; no darkness. All was good when God fin- ished. It was disobedience that nr • the devil ; the devil is self made, so far as siii and wickei ; he ke[)t not his first estate. " Lo, this only have I found that God hath made man upright, But they have sought out many inventions." — Lcc. vii. 29 ; xii. I3» 14- When God's Holy Spirit left Adam, it left him in darkness ; that is the way that God created darkness. Where (iod is there is no darkness ; where God is not, there is darkness. It is God's Holy Spirit that is called the everlasting Son of God ; it was it that made man for its own use. — See Job xxxiii. 4; Col. i. 15. When the first Adam sinned, it sought a second, by whom it would save all that would obey its voice ; to them it imparts a portion of itself, to be their day star. Abel was the first redeemed by it from a fallen nature ; he became the first priest to the Most High God. Enoch, the seventh from Adam, was the first of his branch of Adam's family by Seth. Enoch is the Spiritual Head of that branch. God made him the second Adam — the heir of the world. I have given direct Scripture proof, and will give one more — tliat one will be found in the last chapter of John's Gospel, and last verse; he says : "If all that Jesus done were written, he supposed the world itself would not contain the books." — John xxi. 25. Just think of what he must have done, to have filled the world with books, if it had been all written. Now, the sum of the whole is this : God is a Spirit, who has no limit to his power or wisdom. It is not the will of God that 49 any suffer ; the suffering of the wicked is by one inflicting evil on the other. Now, they that serve Clod, sulfer by the doings of the wicked ; but their suffering will end at their departure Irom this world. An immediate heaven, with all its happiness is theirs, and hell, with all its woes, is the portion that the wicked have, for him whom they serve claims them for his own. God saw, when Adam fell, that it was necessary to appoint some faithful man, to whom he would give more than a common portion or measure of his Holy Spirit, by which he would be able to bear testimony to the truth, before men, and prove the devil a liar. This holy man had access to both worlds. The contest between him and the devil was long, and a great deal of suffering on the part of this holy man, and of them that were with him. All holy men were with him; all the unholy, with the devil at their head, against him. Why all this suffering of the good? Why did God permit it ? The answer is, he was not willing that any should be lost. All good men that have a part of his Spirit, have the same feeling. God's Spirit moves them to preach the gospel of truth, and suffer loss, that they may save some from the devil, and from hell. " By one man's disobedience, many were made sinners ; so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous." — Rom. v. 19. Enoch is the obedient man. 15. it a irst ;ure the all bid he een Captain of Israel's, host and guide Of all who seek the land above, The Lord will not repent, thou art a priest For ever after the order of Melchisedec. All that God kept secret of the second Adam was, who he was in person — his individuality as a man — and this was kept for a good purpose. (I am not wise above that which is written.) But God's time has come when the mystery of the Holy One, the appointed heir of the world should be revealed. — Matt. xi. 27 ; II. Thess. i. 7. As to my intention — I have no other end in view than the glory of God, and the salvation of men. I do not want to be the originator of a new sect or a new creed. There are many good things to be found in the creeds now in use, but they are mixed with errors. I am not sent to give the world a new creed ; that was the work of the Lord Jesus Christ ; he has done it. The scripture was given by inspiration. We have no authority to demand any man to believe more or less than is in the Holy Bible— it, and all of it — from Genesis the first to the last of Revelations, by St. John. I never acknowl- edged any other creed, and by the help of God I am able to give 50 a reason why I believe it. I liave no authority, nor did (lod ever give any man or men antliority to make a creed for others. I'he Church lias the right to receive or expel members, and has the rigiit to have rule.-, of discipline, that no member may act dis- orderly. Our work is to persuade men to be reconciled to (lod, to seek ]>ardon and the Comforter which is promised to the be- liever. It, and it only, is to be the Christians' teacher in doc- trine. For your life's sake de])end upon no other. "It has promised to lead us into all trutii." — See John xxiv. 26. It in- spired the prophets, l^y it you. can understand the scriptures. It is the key; without it you will never get into heaven. God offers it to you on condition that you obey it. If you do not obey the Holy Spirit, the spirit of the devil will come in and use you most cruelly, here and hereafter, to all eternity. So said Jesus Christ, he is my authority. Matt, xviii. 8. Now that ell the churches have more in their creeds than ought to be, let this keep them from pride or fault-findmg with others. It may be that those who have least error, are most to blame for having any under their circumstances. I have no knowledge only that which I received. God is the giver of every good and perfect gift ; to Him be all the glory through Jesus Christ. THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN. Jesus said, " Watch therefore for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of Man cometh " — Matt. xxv. 13. " This same Jesus which is taken up shall come in like man- ner." — Acts i. II. Jesus came in like manner and spake with Paul, who was called Saul, and said, " I am Jesus whom thou persecutest." — Acts ix. 5. Jesus said to the disciples, " Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel till the Son of Man be come." — Matt. x. 23. The question is, in what manner did Jesus come ? The answer is, He came many times, and will continue to come, as kings come, to execute their laws. But not always in their own person, but send their subjects. All power over angels and men is given to Jesus. The "armies of heaven follow Him."— Rev. xix. 10-17. " Jesus is to come in the clouds of heaver " The clouds of heaven are the children of the kingdom. Paul calls " believers a cloud of witnesses." , Jude calls false teachers " Clcids without water that are car- ried with a tempest, to whom the miLi of darkness is reserved for ever." — II. Peter ii. 17. The above description of clouds without water will apply to those who are looking for Jesus to come in the clouds of the 51 firmament. See what the dictionary says about clouds : Any kind of body whose contents are not all discerned by our sight. The Spirit of the Master cannot be seen in the children except by acts. THE KINGDOM OF GOD. ''And when the Pharisees demanded when the kingdom of God should come. Jesus answered them and said, the kingdom of God Cometh not v/ith observation. Neither shall they say, Lo here ! or lo there ! for,, behold, the kingdom of God is within you, or among you." — Luke xvii. 20, 21. " For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteous- ness and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost." — Rom. xiv. 17 The kingdom of God begins on the earth by the renewing of the Holy Ghocc; by which men are " Translated out of the king- dom of darkness into the kingdom of God's dear Son." — Colo. i. 12, 13. Jesus said, " Seek ye the kingdom of God." — Luke xii. 31. " Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand."— Matt. iii. 2. At hand, that is present, so that they might enter into it. Jesus said, " I will pray the Father, and he shall give you an- other comforter that will abide with you for ever. Even the spirit of truth." — John xiv. 16, 26. Which is to teach us and bring to our remembrance all good things. The promise is that the Holy Ghost will abide with the obedi- ent for ever ; that is, in time and eternity. THE EARTH AND THE WORKS THEREIN SHALL BE BURNED. It's the earth that we live in, and not the earth that we live on that shall be burned. II. Peter iii. 10. "Sin is a consuming fire." — ^Job xxxi. 12. " The breath of the wicked shall devour them as fire." — ^Job xxxiii. II. " Therefore hath the curse devoured * " the inhabitants are burned, and few men are left." — Isa. xxiv. 6. " When the day of the Lord comes, the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with a fer- vent heat. II. Peter iii. 10. The day of the Lord's judgment has often come upon individ- uals and upon nations. Sometimes in noisey battles, where the elements of which men's bodies are composed are melted, and their elements shall pass away. We know that the atmosphere 52 cannot be melted or pasr 9wa>, luit men's bodies do. Men's bodies are melted and disr . /ed by fiery passions, and in earth- quakes, and burning levers, which have dissolved many earthly bodies. " The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved ; he uttered his voice, the earth melted." — Psalm xlvi. 6. "Come near, ye nations to hear; and harken, ye people ; let the earth hear, and all things that come forth of it. For the indignation of the Lord is upon all nations, and upon their armies. He hath delivered them to the slaughter." — Isa. xxxiv. I, 2. " God's word is that the mountains shall be melted with their blood." — Isa. xxxiv. 3. Kings and rulers are called mountains, as they are above the people ; it ^s to them God speaks and warns them. God removes sinners, to save them that would do right, only for bad example. The Lord is not willing that any should per- ish, but all good governments protect their good subjects. " And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, I pray you judge betwixt me and my vineyard. What could have been done more to my vineyard than I have not done ?" Isa. V. 3, 4. If any has to be turned out or kept out, it is their own wilful act that will cause it. THE MYSTERY OP BABYLON.— Rev. xvii. 5. Babylon signifies confusion made by mixing the doctrines of men with the doctrines of God. That confused state is called Babylon. They are in a confused state, when asked to show the place in the Scriptures where God commanded them to believe what they do believe, and to do what they do. I will mention some of those things that they require us to believe ; things that were not so much as mentioned by the prophets or apostles. T. They say that God died for to save men ; that is impossible for God to die. i Tim. i. 17. 2. That God had a mother, that is impossible. Psalm cxlv. 13. That there is a purgatory, out of which souls can be redeemed, God will, by no means, clear the guilty, except by a free pardon, when they repent of their evil ways, and believe the message of his Son Jesus Christ. 3. Calling a man most Holy Father ; this is forbidden. See Matt, xxiii. " Jesus said call no man your father upon the earth for one is your father which is in heaven." 4. Praying to angels is forbidden. \^ 5. That mass or sacrifices offered by priests' will save — no, no, 63 nothing, but a living sacrifice of service will God accept. Rom. xii. i. 6. Others say, that he who lies to the Holy Ghost and is im- pure in heart, the blasphemers and murderers, and all bad men shall go to heaven, without " repentance towards God, and faith towards car Lord Jesus Christ." [The most unreasonable of all] 7. Others say, Christ died only for a part of mankind, and that he will save them with or against their will. Ail who teach these doctrines, which God has not taught, doctrines that are not in the Old or new Testament ; they teach the doctrines of men, which are not found in the Scriptures ; all who teach them are in a confused stale, and that confused state God calls Babylon, for Babylon means confusion and mixture. (Their creeds are mixed with error.) 2 Thes. ii. 4-8. Babylon — " and in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of ALL that were slain upon earth." Rev. xviii. 24. Some think that Rome is meant by the description in Rev. xviii. 5. But as the Jews killed many of the prophets and saints and Protestants have killed some ; this killing is not confined to killing the body only ; but by false doctrines leading men from the right way or compelling them to give up doing right by pro- mises of some worldly thing, by which many are the converts made to some churches by the hope of some worldly gain. God lias people in Babylon, and calls them to come out of her. See Rev. xviii. 4. Yes, men in their simplicity, when com- manded, believe things that God never taught ; yea they have believed the church to which they belong ; yet they are God's people, because they have done according to the knowledge they have. Yet God says they are in Babylon, and calls them to come out of her. Men can come out of Babylon by coming out from the doc- trines of men, believing nothing but the word of God, taking it for the man of our counsel, taking the whole Bible as their creed ; that is not in the Bible reject. Babylon cannot mean one church, or people, unless all the prophets and saints were slain in that one church. Rev. xviii. 24. They were not all slain by one church. Then it must have had an existence among all people who killed the prophets and saints. One church may make a part of Babylon, and indeed all churches that have mixed the doctrines of God are a part of great Babylon. False doctrines kill men's souls. See Ezek. xiii. 19. NAMES AND TITLES OF JESUS. " Shiloh, which signifies a peace maker.*' — Gen. xlix. 10. 64 "The Anointed of God to be the King of kings."— Psahnii; xlv. I, 8. " The Angel of God's Presence "~Isa. Ixix. 8, 9. ''Captain of God's Hosts." — Joshua v. 14. "The Ancient of Days." — Dan. vii. 22. " The Branch of Righteousness."— Zech. iii. 3. There was three branches from Adam. Cain's all perished at Noah's flood : Abel had no oftspring ; therefore Enoch is the seventh from Adam by Seth. And Enoch, Elijah, and Jesus is one, and only one person. The Righteous man. The second Adam. "Only Begotten of the Father." — John i. 14 There was a time when Enoch was the only Spiritual Son that God had on this earth, he was then the only begotten spiritually. ELe is " the Foundation Stone of the spiritual house." — Eph. ii. 20. " He shall be called the Everlasting Father."— Isa. ix. 6 That is, Enoch is our father according to the fl.,sh ; and also our spirit- ual father, through whom God has saved all that obeyed him. And as Jesus is alive for evermore, he v;ill b? everlastingly our father at God's " right hand in heaven."' "The Root of David." — Rev, v. 5; xxii. 16. Which shows that Jesus was the forefather of David. And the son of David by Mary of the house of David. "Beginning of the new creation of God." — Gen. v. 24; Rev. iii. 14. That is, the new creation by renewing man by the Holy Spirit. And God began with our father Enoch. " Bright and Morning Star." — Rev. xxii. 16. "Cornerstone." — Eph. 20. " Faithful Witness."— Rev. i. 5. " Messenger of the Lord's hosts." — Mai. ii. 7. " High Priest." — Heb. iii. i; vii. i. " Second Adam." — I. Cor. xv. 45, 47. "The Son of Man."— Matt. iii. 20. " Mediator."— L Tim. ii. 5 " Listen, O bless unto me ; and hearken, ye people, from afar ; The Lord hath called me from the womb : from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. " And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword ; in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me^ and made me a polished shaft ; in his quiver hath he hid me ; _ " And said unto me. Thou art my servant, Israel, in whom I will be glorified." Isa. xlix. 1-2-3. Behold my servant, whom I have chosen ; my beloved, in 65 whom my soul is well pleased : / ivill put my spirit ipon him. Matt. xii. 1 8. The ^Messiah is called the word of God, because he spcuketh the word of Ciod, and docth the works of God. St. j'olm iil 34. This vz where jews and Christians stumbL. The Jews said Jesus blasphemed wiien he was sijeaking the words of (iod, or God speaking through him. Christians think he must be God, because he spake the words of God. Jesus said he spake not his own words, but the words of him that sent liim. See when Christ said, '• Destroy this temjjle, and in three days I will raise it up." St. John ii. 19. It was the Holy Ghost, which is the Spirit of God, that was in him ; it was it which spake and said, " Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." Jesus' body was the temple of the Holy Ghost. After they had ])ut him to death, the Holy Ghost did as it said it would do. See the 21st verse. It raised its tem})le, that is, his body. GOD'S SPHirrUAL GIFTS. " Tiiou givest thy good spirit to instruct them." — Neli. ix. 20. '■' Thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness," — I'sahu cxliii. 10. Moses said, '• I am not able to bear all this people alone, be- cause it is too heavy for me. And the I>ord said unto Moses, gather unto me seventy of tiie elders ; and I wid come down and talk with thee ; antl I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it on theiU, and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee." And when the spirit rested on them they prophesied. And Moses s aid, •' would God that all the Lord's people were prophets, and tluit the Lord would put his spirit upon them." — Numb. xi. 14 to 30. A Prophet is a man whose spirit is under the guidance of God's spirit. It niay be to foretell future events or to explain and interpret what other prophets have said, l]ut if we would seek and obey the Holy Spirit tliere would be no need for interpret'-^ vs, for the Holy Spirit would teach us all tliat It is neces- sary to know. John xiv. 26. " Renew a right spirit within me." — Psalm li. 10. " Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created."— Psalm civ. 30. That is the new creation, the restoring of the spirit. Col. ni. 10 ; II. Cor. iv. 16 ; Psalm li. 10. " Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wildernes? become a fruitful field." — Isa." xxxii. 15. " Vet many years didst thou forbear ^liem, and testifiest against them by thy spirit in thy prophets, )'et would they not give ear \ therefore givest thou them unto the hands of the people of the land." — Neh. ix. 30. What God did to one people he will do to r 'hers in like man- ner, who refuse to obey his Holy Spirit. *'xVs your fathers re- 56 sisted the Holy Spirit, so do ye." — Acts vii. 51. There is no excuse for resisting the Holy Ghost, for *' It is given free, without money or price, to any who will obey it. Isa. Iv. I, 2. *• But there is a spirit in man, and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding." — xxxii. 3. " Whither shall a man go from thy spirit ; there is no hiding from it." — Psalm cxxxix. 7, " Jesus was led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil." — Matt. iv. i. Jesus said, "The spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor. — Luke iv. 18. " Except a man be born of the spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the spirit is spirit." — John iii. 5, 6. " I give you to understand that no man speaking by the spirit of God, calleth Jesus accursed. And that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost. " Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same spirit; and there are difference of administration, but the same Lord ; and there are diversities of operation, but it is the same God which worketh all in all. " But the manifestation of the spirit is given to every man to profit withal. " For to one is given by the spirit the word of wisdom ; to an- other the word of knowledge, by the same spirit ; to another the working of miracles ; to another prophecy ; to another discern- ing of spirits ; to another divers kinds of tongues ; to another the interpretation of tongues. " But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, divid- ing to every man severally as he will. " For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body ; so also is Christ. " For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free ; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. " Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular." &c., &c. — I. Cor. xii. i to 30. "Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit." -Luke iv. 14. " A Spirit hath not flesh and bones as I have." Luke xxiv. 34. " God gave not the Spirit by measure to Jesus." John iii. 34. God, is a Spirit ; Spirit signifies life, and God is the fountain of life. His breath giveth life. Gen. ii. 7. If God gather to him his Spirit and breath, all flesh shall perish together. John xxxiv. 14. But God does not gather His Spirit from any that obey it, but t 57 renews them day by day. 2 Cor. iv. 16. Col. iii. 10. " Shall quicken your mortal body by His Spirit." Rome xi. 8. " The Spirit itself beareth witness with our Spirit that we are the children of God." Rom. viii. 16-17. **But God has revealed them unto us by his Spirit, for the Spirit searcheth all things, even the deep things of God." I Cor. ii. 10. ** Now we have received not the Spirit of the world ; But the Spirit which is of God." i Cor. ii. 12. " But he that is joined to the Lord, is one Spirit." That is there is a union of Spirit." i Cor. vi. 14. " Who also hath made us able Ministers of the New Testament, not of the letter ; but of the Spirit, for the letter killeth ; but the Spirit giveth life." 2 Cor. 3-6. GOD'S ANGELS. Angel signifies messenger. " And the angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven and said, Abraham, Abraham, and he said here am I. And the angel said, lay not thine hand upon the lad." Gen. xxii. 1 1-12. " And the angel of the Lord found her." Gen. xvi. 7, \ "And there came two angels to Sodom to save Lot and his family." Gen. xviv. i to 19. " And he dreamed and behold a ladder set upon the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. And behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. And the Lord stood above it and said : I am the Lord God of Abraham Thy Father, and the God of Isaac." Gen. xxviii. 12-13. The word of God to Jacob proves that Abraham and Isaac was not sleeping in the dust, but with God, for God says : I am their God." God is not a God of the dead, but of the living, for all His children live unto Him. John xvi. 19. " And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him." Gen. xxxii. i. At the 24 verse Jacob wrestled with a man of God, who blessed Jacob. "The angel which Redeemed me from all evil. Bless the lads." Gen. xlviii. 16. " And the angel of God went before the camp of Israel." Exod. riv. 19. *f Behold I send an angel before thee to keep thee in the way and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared." Exod. xxiii. 20. " And I will send an angel before thee ; and I will drive out the Canaanites." Exod. xxxiii. 2. " And when we cried unto the Lord, he heard our voice and sent an angel and brought us out of Egypt." Num. xx. 16. 58 "And the ass saw the angel of the Lord standing in the way; and Balaam said unto the angel, 1 have sinned." Num. xxii. 23 to 35. " And the angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal and said I will never break my covenant with you." Judges ii. i. It is very evident that the angel here and other places spoken of was the Second Adam to whom God had given the whole earth, to have dominion over it. " Daniel sav,- in a vision many forms of Government before tbe ancient of days did .sit in judgment upon them, and then set up His own kingdom, y,\h'u:h shall have no end." Uan. vii. i to 28. " And the angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon to encourage him." Judges vi. 12. Judges xiii. 6. "A man of God came unto me and his coun- tenance Avas like the countenance of an angel." " And the angel stretched out his hand on Jerusalem to de- stroy it." 2 Sam. xxiv. 16. " And the angel of the Lord came and touched Elijah, and said, Arise, and eat." — L Kings xix. 7 to 21. In the above may be seen wha: God was doing with Elijah. See L Kings first am', second chapters. " The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels ; the Lord is among tliem, ars in Sinai, in the holy place. " Thou has ascended on high, thou hast led ca])tivity captive ; thou hast received gifts for men ; yea, for the rebellious also, [that is pardon] that the Lord God might dwell among them." — Psalm Ixviii. 17, 18. God and his mighty host of angels, and of the ascending on high of God's holy one, or holy Man, by whom he governs this world. Jesus said that he was before Abraham. " In all their afrliction he was afilicted, and the angel of his presence saved them; in his love and pity he reedeemed them ; and bare them, and carried them all the days of old." — Isaiah Ixiii. 8. Yes, God's holy one had great care for his children ; in their affliction he was afflicted. " ]\Iy God hath sent his angel and hath shut the lions' mouths, that they have not hurt me." — Uan. vi. 22. " And behold a man upon a red horse, and he showed Zacha- riah of the things that was to be done to the cities of Judah at that time." — Zech. i. 8 to 21. " And behold an angel talked with me." — Zech. ii. 3. " And the angel of the Lord protested unto Joshua that if he would walk in my way," &c. See Zech. iii. i to 10. And see Zech. iv. 14. " The two anointed ones," Enoch and Moses. " The angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, say- ing, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary 59 thy wife j for that which is conceived in her is ot the Moly Ghost." — Matt. i. 20. "The wise men from the cast came to Jeriisp.lem, saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews ? for \vc have seen his star in the east." — Matt. ii. 2. Jesus was born a king. " And the angel said unto them, Fear not ; for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all i)eople. I'or unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord." — (that is the anointed.) — Luke ii. zo, 11. " Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels come and minister unto him, Jesus." — Matt. iv. 1 2. Jesus said, "The field is the world ; the good seed are the children of the kingdom. But the tares are cliildren of the wicked one ; the enemy that sowed tliem is the devil. " The reapers are the angels. As therefore tlic tares are gath- ered and burned in the fire ; so is the end of this world. ** The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity." — Matt. xiii. 37 to 43. " Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones, for I say unto you, that in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven." — Matt. xiii. 10. " And it came to i)ass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the ongels into Abraham's bosom. — Luke xvi. 22. The angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dreum, saying, Joseijh, thou son of David. ^' And when He bringeth in the first begotten into the world, He saith, and let all the angels of God worship him." Heb. i. 6. Worship signifies to honor and obey God's representative man, to whom God give his spirit, " luifhonf measured John iii. 24-35, " But unto the Son he saith. Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever : a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom. Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated inicjuity ; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fc/lozcjs" (Fellows is equals ; But Jesus is now king of kings.) Heb. i. 8-9. THE BOOK OF REVELATIONS. This Book showeth that Jesus is the High Priest of heaven and earth. " The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him (Jesus) to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass , and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his ser- vant John : Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ and of all that he saw." Rev. i. 1-2. The book shows by the words of the angel that showed John. the past and present, and the future events, that the angel was no other than Jesus himself, for when the angel had showed John the things that was to come to pass, John fell down to worship him, and the angel saith to him. See thou do it not : for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the ])rophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book : worship God." Rev. xxii. 8, 9, God said to Moses " I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth ; and he shall speak imto them all that I shall command him." Dent, xviii. 18. "Jesus said the words which ye hear is not mine. But the Father which sent me." John xiv. 24. " Then said Jesus unto them, be not afraid, go tell my brethren, that they go unto Galilee aud there snail they see me." Matt, xxviii. 10. " Jesus saith unto her touch me not for I am not yet ascended to my Father ; but go to my brethren and say unto them I ascend unto my Father, and your Father, and to my God and your God." John XX. 17. " I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things. (Angel signifies messenger.) John ims Jesus messenger to the churches, for he that was spaking to John said I am the root and offspring of David, and the bright and morning star." Rev. xxii. 16. " He which testifieth these things saith. Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so come, Lord Jesus." Amen. Rev. xxii. 21. CONTENTS. THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN 50 THE KINGDOM OF GOD 51 THE EARTH AND THE WORKS THEREIN SHALL BE BURNED - - 51 THE MYSTERY OF BABYLON.— Rev. 17—5 -...,.. 5a NAMES AND TITLES OF JESUS 53 GOD'S SPIRITUAL GIFTS. 55 GOD'S ANGELS 5^ THE BOOK OF REVELATIONS 55 Published, July, 1875, By SAMUEL HALL, City of Hamilton, Ont., Canada. 5o 5t 51 5« 53 55 57 59 m '•tli A REnARHA.Bl.E HOCIJIIIENT. The Doiibm of the Day All Settled. (From the Chicago Tribune.) Mr. Samuel Hall, of the City of Hamilton, Ontario, Can., is the latest f,'ladiator who haa bounded into the arena to do battle in the condici; between ileligion and Science. He has published his opinions in a tractate of sixty pages, and announces that he will hold public discassion with any one who may dif- fer from him. His essay is entitled "Science and Theology," and he triumphantly confutes the pretensions of the former. He relies en- tirely upon the Bible for his facts, as being an infallible) authority, and from them he constructs various scientific theories which, however logically dependent they may be upon the premises assumed, differ somewhat from those generally received. He does not think much of the nebular hypothesis of the formation of the earth. He says : We find from the surface to the greatest depths that the material of the earth is in layers, and the evidence is clear that Jthe material of which it was built was in a soft, smelted «tate .having the appearance of being in that state by heat, and that each layer must have had a space of time to cool or harden before the next layer was laid, or the material would not be in layers. These layers refute the theory of those who suppose that the earth was all on lire and is cooling down. If the earth v/as at any time all on lire, the fire would have left us no coal, or oil, or limestone, for everything that would burn would have been reduced to ashes ; and all that would not burn would be some pure, heavy metal that would settle down where it never would be found by man ; and there would be nothing but ashes for many miles deep. Hear God's own words to Job : " Who laid the corner stone thereof, and his sons shouted for joy." Such a host of skilled workers, with all the machinery of heaven to work with, it would not be much for God's innumerable host, with the knowledge and power of God in them, to make a world in six common days, by pour- ing down the material out of millions of fur- naces. Some furnaces for gold ; others for copper, iron, lead, etc. Then the beautiful, variegated marble and granite, which could not be maile by drift, as supposed by pre- tended philosophers. Mr. Hall thinks the modern notion of the roundness of the earth is an infidel belief. He says : God said to Job : " Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth ?" Breadth or width is not used in speaking of round bodies, but of flat things. I cannot prove exactly the shape of the earth, but I can prove that the earth cannot be the shape that our moderns suppose it to be. The earth may be round- ing somewhat, but the water is not. The latter conclusion he deduces from the undeniable fact that you cannot make water stay in a lound heap or body. The oomtni illustration of a ship at sea is valueless. T reason why the hull sinks from sight is tli the water vapor in the air seen in bulk opaque and hides the hull. " Sailing rouij the world is sailing east or west throiiJ seas and straits till the ship arrives where sailed from. Just as u man that bUd a hou on the side of a hill and went out of the we door and went round the hill till he came to the east door." The motions of the ear occasion Mr. Hall no difficulty. " The ear sits in atmosphere, and would not move on for the sun, which moves round it, causii the water to arise off the earth as it pass "^ round, removing the water from thi sum side, and causing the dew to fall on the dar side, thus removing the earth's ballast keeps tipping over from the sunny sid which is the lightest side at the time th the sun is shining on it. It wabbles fm side to side as the sun passes around. Tii causes the tides." Mr. Hall does not believe the absu theories about the centre of the earth bei in an igneous condition, because a fire can| burn without air or a supply of fuel. Thti are local fires caused by the lightning pern trating cavities, setting fire to coal-oil, or i flammable gases causing volcanic eruption The earth is really hollow, and filled with g as a balloon. Otherwise it could not float the air on nothing as it does. The theo about the attraction of the earth was gotte: up by the infidels, who believed that othe wise the motion of the earth in going roun would throw all loose articles off, and thi mountains would act as fans to keep thI snow and rain from falling on the earth. Bv if it was true that the earth was roun^: and held things to it by attraction, whe on the underside, the masts of ships ani church-steeples would be pointing down int( the empty space below. Such foolish no tions, he thinks, were gotten up by "mei who did not like the Bible because it reprovet their acts, and they wished to show that thi Bible writers were ignorant of true science.' By means of Bible texts and modes of rea soning of which the above furnishes a sam jjle, the writer proves that the moon is a: enormous diamond, and that the sun is one! continual explosion of gas by fire. The greater portion of the book is given tip to the establishment of purely theological proposi tions. His object in going into scientific matters he gives as follows : "The Bible contains more knowledge than all other books together, and all the nations are indebted to it for kndwledge that they never could have found out. Therefore, I have wrote this book against pretended phil osophers who are leading many astray by false science. [The above has been gratuitously copied into the Boston Transcript, Hartford Courant, St. Louis Globe, Richmond Dispatch, and Hamilton ^imes.] le The comtn( Uuelesa. T sight is til en in bulk { Sailing roiu vest throiij rives where b hhd a hoii it of the We 11 he came of the ear " The ear ot move OQ ad it, causii as it pas8( m th-i sum I on the dar 's ballast ; sunny sid the time thi wabbles frm •ound. Tiii the absui 3 earth bein ) a fire can 'uel. Thtii titning pen( )al-oil, or ir ic eruption lUed with ga i not float The theor h was gotte I that othei going roun off, and th to keep th le earth. Bn was roun.! iction, whei •f ships an< ig down intc foolish no ip by "mei se it reprovec how that the rue science.' nodes of rea ishes a sam- moon is an le sun is one 7 fire. The ^en up to the oal proposi- to scientific )wledge than the nations e that they Therefore, I •tended phil- »y astray by tiiitously ipt, Hartford nd Ditpatchf