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flaming sword, which turned every way, to keep the way of it," till the fulness of times had come in: but the fulness of times being at hand the tree of life is offered to man again; which will further appear from Revelation, 3rd chap. 8 ver.--I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it; for thou hast a little strength, and has kept my word, and hast not denied my name.

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The door is now opened into the garden that was enclosed, which was not to be opened till the fulness of times, and the spring that was shut up, and the fountain that was sealed is broken open, and the tree of life is made bare to him that will seek; and it is said in Revelation, 22nd chap. 17 ver.--"Whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely." And it is said in the 14th ver. of the same chapter." Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life." And it is said in the 2nd chapter, and the 7th verse,--." To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God." And in the 22nd chapter, and the 2nd and 3rd verses,---" The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. And there shall be no more curse. The leaves of the tree are the words now revealed. Revelation, the 19th chapter and the 10th verse :---" The testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy." And the curse is the first death, which was pronounced upon the body of man in the beginning, which was for disobedience, and was to remain till the sixth day; and the obeying of the commands in the sixth thousand years removes that death from mortal, as it is written in the 1st Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians, the 15th chapter and the 53rd ver:--'This mortal must put on immortality," And God will give strength unto man to take of this tree,

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by causing the fulness of his spirit always to rest upon them that ask; and no one in heaven, nor on earth, will be able to overcome them, nor shut the door which is opened unto them, because the fulness of times is come, the six days of God being nearly up, which are six thousand years and by the mouths of various prophets, in the scriptures, has he shewn, that within the sixth day he would finish the tabernacle of man, and that they should become as Gods knowing good and evil, and the evil should serve the good, signifying that the old world shall serve the new one, their blood being cleansed, by Satan being bound from flesh and blood, which is the old world.

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It is written in Matthew, 8th chapter 11th and part of the 12th verses." And I say unto you, that many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven; but the children of the kingdom shall be cast out.'

The kingdom of heaven mentioned in this passage, is the spring and fountain which is mentioned in the text; and as it is said the fountain is sealed, so has the meaning of this passage been sealed, and is a parable to the unbelieving world : so it is said of our Saviour, in the Gospel according to Mark, 4th chapter, 34th verse. Without a parable spake he not unto them." Therefore do they preach that they have the kingdom of heaven within them, and that they are already born again; now if the meaning of the scriptures had not been sealed from them, according as it is said in the text, they would never have said the kingdom was within them, seeing they are but flesh and blood because it said by the Apostle Paul, in the 1st Epistle to the Corinthians, 15 chapter 50th verse. ..." Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God:" and it is said by John, 1st Epistle, 5th

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chapter, 18th verse." Whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not." But though they say they are born again, and they are the children of the kingdom, yet if they do not the work of the law and the gospel, which Jesus did and was the pattern of, and obey not the commandments of God, which he has now sent by the spirit of truth, to lead into all truth, they will still be cast out. And they will fulfil that passage in Matthew, the 25th chapter, and the 11th and 12th verses: "Lord, Lord, open to us; but he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not. But those that seek for the fulness of his Spirit always to rest on them, the doors of the kingdom are thrown open unto them, and no man can shut them, and they will sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and will be called free men of the city of New Jerusalem, a new world made out of the old one, by the blood being made flesh, and quickened by the Spirit, it then being the life of the body.

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But those who do not the work of Jesus, will fulfil that prophecy of Isaiah, 24th chapter, 23rd verse." The moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the Lord of Hosts shall reign in Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients, gloriously."

The life of the fall is in the blood, and the blood is the life of the flesh, and is as the light of a star, shining in a dark place; and the Spirit of God overshadowing man, brings his light as the light of the moon, to guide him through the night, to seek for the preserving of the soul, till the fulness of times. And it will be confounded: and the spirit, which is as the light of the sun, they say they have it within them, and that they are born again but, alas, at that day the spirit will not know

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them, for the kingdom of immortality will be shut from them, and they will be ashamed.

It is written in the Epistle of Paul to the Romans, 8th chapter, 30th ver.---" Moreover whom he did predestinate, them also he called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified." This has also been a parable, a garden enclosed, as said in the text, but now opened.

And it is written by the Prophet Isaiah, 46th 10th ver.---`` Declaring the end from the beginning; and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure." He declared in the sixth day that he would make man in his own image, and within the sixth thousand years he will fulfil it; he prepared his kingdom for Israel before the foundation of the world, and within the sixth thousand years they will inherit it.

And Jesus said in Matthew, the 25th chapter and the 34th verse :---" Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world." He knew in the beginning, before man disobeyed his commands, who would obey his commands at the ending, when the time was come for him to create man afresh, and give his kingdom unto them: therefore, with him they were already called, and justified, and glorified; and now the time is in travail to bring them forth by a new and a heavenly birth; so the bones of the House of Israel, travailed in the womb of Adam's race in the seed of Seth, and the promise of this seed he has kept renewing from time to time by the mouths of seven different witnesses, in the nature of whose seed Jesus came, first unto Enoch, who lived in the first day of the first dispensation, which is the first thousand years from the creation; and unto Noah, who lived in the second day, of the

first dispensation, which is the second thousand years from the creation; and unto Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David, and Solomon, who lived in the first day of the second dispensation, which is the third thousand years from the creation; and in the second day of the second dispensation, which is the fourth thousand years from the creation, the woman's seed, Jesus, came, and made a will and testimony of his inheritance, a ground-work which no man can take from the House of Israel, even the law and the gospel being joined one, and whosoever believes in it, and builds on the same groundwork, their bones will become the bones of the last Eve; and the life of the last Adam will quicken them bones and flesh, and she will become a living virgin before the Lord of the whole earth, and the bride of the living God: this will and testimony of the law was sealed by the blood of animals, of the promise of this groundwork, in the second and third dispensations; and when he came he sealed it in the first day of the third dispensation, which is the fifth thousand years from the creation, with the blood of his mother who bare him, and confirmed it by the twelve witnesses, and the writing of this inheritance was also sealed with their blood, that it should be sure to those that asked for the fulness of his spirit always to rest on them, to do the work for them. This is the fountain, which has been sealed, mentioned in the text, and the river of the water of life, which was shewn to John, Revelation, 22nd chapter 1st ver.---" Proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb" which is the visitation of the spirit of truth to the twelve tribes of Israel: and now is fulfilled the words of Hosea, 9th chapter, 7th ver.--"The days of visitation are come; Israel shall know it." Which is in the second day of the third dispensation, which is in the sixth thousand years

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