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Show ; a eee oa Jeicntow, that in the body he shall shew himself unto they it that expedient is resalem, from whence we came; for it that should be among them ; for it behoveth the Great Creator the hand, of all the sons she hath brought up. These two sons are come unto thee ; who shall be sorry for thee? thy desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword: And he suffereth himself to become subject unto man, in the flesh, and die for all men, that all men might become subject unto earth, to rise no more. holy city: for hence- O to a Devil, to be shut out 5 from the pres ence of our God, and to remain with the father of lies, in mis~ TE DS UP ery, like unto himself; yea, to that being who beguiled our CHAPTER Vi = UkIX, t first parents; VEX . light, and who transformeth himself nigh unto an angel of stirreth up the children of men unto secret com- And now, my . beloved brethren, I have read these things that ye binations of murder, and darkness. | hath spoken unto the Jews, by the mouth of his holy prophets, O how great the goodness of our God, who prepareth 2 way for our escape from the grasp of this awful monster; might know concerning the covenants of the Lord: that he hath covenanted with all the House of Israel ; that he even from the beginning down, from generation die ; nevertheless, Yea, and I know that ye = RNR 2 ae ad + r™ Ei our spirits must have become like unto him, and we become Devils, Angels all manner of secret works of yea, that monster, death and hell, which I call the death of the body, and also the death of the spirit. And because of the way of deliverance of our God, the Holy One of Israel, this death, of which I have spoken, which is the temporal, shall deliver up its dead ; which death is the grave. __ And this death of which J have spoken, which is the spiritual death, shall de- _.,,lver up its dead; which spiritual death is hell; wherefore, >ideath and hell must deliver up its dead, /and hell must déliver. _ up its captive spirits, and the grave must deliver up its cap__~ tive bodies; and the bodies and the spirits of men will be re» 8stored, one to the other: andit is by the power of the reswr_ réction of the Holy One of Israel: a ey Bt er: S he ts Cake & e ae £ RE Peter te i» 3 Xe, eR Lee Wet StS oo BER * Ge : 3 rot . + AS } x 3 : qd . . y ote Rent 2 7< ~ ahh : we » Fe ¢ : - ee hold, if the flesh should rise no more, our spirits must become _—_—_—_—_—_———— es, to generation, until time cometh that they shall be restored to the true ~. Churehthe “and fold of God ; When they shall be gathered home _to the lands of their inheritance, and shall be established in all their lands of promise. Behold, my beloved brethren, I speak unto you these things that ye may rejoice, and lift up your heads forever, because of the blessings which:the Lord God shall bestow upon your children. For I know that thou hast searched much, pany of you, to know of things to come ; wherefore I know that ye know that ts ge - te ae . | For be- | his mercy and grace! ¥ at ak 4 ae to its mothez . | subject to that Angel which fell from before the presence of the Eternal God, and became the Devil, to rise no more. And down, O Jerusalem : loose thyself from the bands of thy neck: 0 captive daughter of Zion. ae our flesh must waste away and ‘ if so, this . And ak 1 - the wisdom of God! ; to crumble — to rot and a flesh must have laid down 6 ae: needs have remained to an endless duration. er Wherefore, the first judgment which came upon man, must forth there shall ne more come into thee, the uncircumcised and the unclean. Shake thyself from the dust; arise, sit mi our bodies, we. shall see-God. ll must - to the hand of them that afflict thee ; which I said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over. Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion: put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the it Lord; wherefore needs be an infinite atonement; save it should be an infinite atonement, this. corruption could not put on incorruption. io Pont. cut thine hand the cup of trembling, the dregs of the cup of my fury ; thou shalt no more drink it again. But I will put it in- man became fallensthey were of the presence the off from 2 of transgression ; and because ae and thy God Behold, I have taken out of een pleadeth the cause of his people, ee now this, thou afflicted, and drunken. and sso Lae ears Therefore hear mot with wine: thus saith thy Lord, The Lord a buke of thy God. 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