bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.' And they will live a thousand years in blood without death: and serve those which are redeemed from the earth, which are the bride and bridegroom of the new world. "And strangers shall strangers shall stand and feed your flocks: and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen, and your vinedressers." "And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks, neither shall they learn war any more. 66 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea." "Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of of man, and with the seed of beast." (a) Isaiah, 61c. 5v. 2 Ch. 4 ver. 11 Ch. 9 ver. Jer. 31 c 27 ver, And "every knee shall bow, every Isaiah. tongue shall swear. And the words 45c 23. of Paul be fulfilled, "We shall judge 1 Cor. angels." (b) 12th ARTICLE. After the seventh Day. The final resurrection. And death and hell will deliver up 6c. (a) Which is death being removed from them; man and beast being the servants of Israel. (b) The angels will also serve the rede emed. And when the thousand years are expired, the fig-tree and her branches, those that dwell in blood, being not redeemed, will be tempted by Satan; for Jesus was tempted forty days, which stood a figure. And the branches of the aliens, or tenants to the redeemed, whom Satan will gather together, the number of whom are as the sand on the sea-shore, will encompass the camp of the saints, and the beloved city; and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured Gog and Magog, Revelation, 20th chapter. Magog is a figure of the body of man, in the fallen state; and Gog the evil that dwells within him. Magog being a city, and Gog the Prince of that city. the dead which are in them: and they will be judged according to their works. (a) Rev. 20 ch, (a) Matthew, 5th chapter, 25th and 26th verses: "Agree with thine adversary quickly, whilst thou art in the way with him, lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison. Verily I say unto thee, thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the utmost farthing." Ques. Who is the adversary? Ans. God. Ques. Who is the judge? Ans. The word of God, wherein is contained the Law and Gospel that he should obey, John, 12th chap. and 48th ver.---"The word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day." Ques, Who is the officer? Ans. Satan, the Devil. Ques. What is the last day? Ans. The final resurrection, because the wicked, over whom the second death hath power, rise not at the first resurrection, but stops in until the final resurrection, till it be proved who is the author. Romans, 6th chapter, 25th verse: "The wages of sin is death." Luke, 7th chapter, 41st and 42nd verses: "And Jesus uttered a parable, saying, There was a certain creditor which had two debtors; the one owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty. And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both.” All men whose bodies die, and see corruption, are debtors, the one the righteous dying the death of the body only; and the other the second death will have power over them till the final resurrection, which makes two debtors: the righteous receiving the forgiveness of their debts of their souls before their bodies die, of which the fifty pence is typical: and are preserved under the altar, till the first resurrection, which is within the sixth thousand years, then their corruptible bodies will put on incorrupiton and they will be as the angels. And the wicked who are confined in hell, till the final resurrection, which is at the expiration of the seventh thousand years, when the prisoner and the author will be brought face to face; then they will receive forgiveness of their debts, of which the five hundred pence is typical, and their corruptible bodies will put on incorruption, and they will return to their former estate, which is lower than the angels, which the first Adam was in, before he was driven out of the garden, that he was inoculated by the fruit of the woman. Then will it be proved what the blood at the cross was shed for, that the utmost farthing might be paid for the debtors who had nothing to pay with. For as the transgression came by the woman, handing forth her blood, which was the evil fruit; that they became debtors: so it is by the blood of the woman's seed being shed on the cross for a sacrifice for sin, that they will be forgiven their debts. The first debtor fifty pence, which is the lesser debt, because he believed before his body died; and the second five hundred pence, which is the greater debt, because he believed not before his body died, so his soul is holden in prison by the officer, till the final resurrection. And as it was by the woman giving way to the serpent that the transgression came, so it by believing that the woman's seed, Jesus was lifted up on the cross, and shed his blood for their transgression, as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, that these two debtors are forgiven; Numbers, 21st chapter, 6--.9 verse. "And the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people, and much people of Israel died. 7. Therefore the people came to Moses, and 4 Ch. And Paul says, "We trust in the liv-, 1 Tim. ing God who is the saviour of all men, especially of those that believe." For he says, "All sins shall be given unto the sons of men. 10 ver. Mark, 3 Ch. And "The gift of God is eternal life." 28 ver. And "As in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive." "Then cometh the end, when he(b) shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father." 66 And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever. I Cor. 15 Ch. 22 ver. 24 ver. Rev. 5 Ch. 13 ver. Exod. 31 Ch. THE LAWS WHICH WERE WRITTEN ON fore me. any Thou shalt not make unto thee likeness of any thing in heaven, or in earth, or in the water. 18 ver. 20 Ch. verses. said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord, and against thee; pray unto the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us, And Moses prayed for the people. 8. And the Lord said unto Moses, make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole; and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live. 9. And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole; and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass he lived. (a) Satan. Thou shalt not take the name of the 7 ver. Lord thy God in vain. Remember the sabbath day to keep it holy. Honour thy father and thy mother. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false witness. DIVERS LAWS IN THE 5 BOOKS OF MOSES. Thou shalt not lie. When thou shalt vow a vow unto the Lord thy God, he will surely require it of thee: Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards. Thou shalt not round the corners of thy head, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. When thou reapest the harvest, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, nor gather the gleanings. And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger. Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing. Flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood, shall you not eat. He shall even pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust. Ye shall eat no manner of fat that covereth the inwards, or upon the kidneys. a These are the beasts which ye shall eat: Every beast that parteth the hoof and cheweth the cud. 12---17 ver. Lev. 19 Ch. 11 ver. Deut. 23c 21v Lev. 19 Ch. 31 ver. 9 & 10 ver, Deut. 14c 3 v Gen. 9 c. 4 v Lev. 17 c13v & 3 ch. 7 c 23 v D (a) Which is called the two nears Nevertheless, these that chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; or divide the hoof, but chew not the cud; these are unclean unto you. Ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcase. These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales. Of all clean birds shall ye eat. Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself. Neither shall ye eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field. And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and bring you into the bond of the covenant. And the uncircumcised man-child, whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people, he hath broken my covenant. He that killeth an ox, is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, is as if he cut off a dog's neck. THE WORDS OF JESUS, IN THE FOUR BOOKS Thou shalt not swear. Verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and teach men so, he shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. This do and thou shalt live. If a man keep my saying he shall never see death. |