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remembered, nor come into mind. But be you glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create. This is the predestination that I died to accomplish for man, to bring him in the end to the image and likeness that he was created for. Now what can men say to these things? Let them be strengthered from the words of the Apostle-If God be for us, who can be against us? And who can be against them that believe my Gospel? For if I delivered up my life for all that believe in ME for redemption, shall I not freely give you all things that are promised in my word? shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth, who is he that condemneth? Now answer ME, O vain men; bring forward all the cisterns that ye have hewed out to yourselves, that ye are the elect of God, and let all your works appear before ME, and where is the man who can stand and say, I am in the perfect image of the Son of God, in his likeness, or in his life? I tell thee, no man; every mouth must be stopped, and every tongue must be silent; and conscious guilt must condemn all men to say-" the image of Christ is not in me; I have sinned and come short of the Glory of God." Then where is my predestination for them to be in the image of the Son of God? No man will dare to say it; when the secrets of all hearts, and all their private and public ways are made known, this cannot be proved by men, that the image of the Son is in them. But I have shewed, from the Revelation of my Spirit, what this calling is for-to bring them back to the image they were created for; and this is the desire of believers, to elect ME as the only TRUE and LIVING GOD, united together in the creation, now to come and accomplish their redemption. Then who is he that condemneth? It is I the Lord that justifieth this desire in the hearts of men; and by this desire they are justified; and by this desire they shall be glorified, as their desire is to glorify ME,

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that God may be all in all. Then who shall lay any thing to the charge of my elect, when I have told you in these things, it is I the Lord that justifieth ? and these are the elect that shall stand, who have elected MB as their King; and I have elected them as my sons, to come to the image they were created for. Now where is the man, amongst the believers, that will boldly say he is this already? This presumption is not in them; yet this, I have told. thee, they are predestinated for; and I will maket them more than conquerors over their enemies, spiritual and temporal; because they confess it is not of theirselves, yet they believe the power is in ME; then who shall separate them from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus? It is not all the persecution of man can this accomplish. Romans ix. 9This is the word of the promise, At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a Son. So the promise was made by faith, and through faith, bẹfore it was accomplished; for Sarah had no son when the promise was made; yet after it was made it was fulfilled; then if the promise of a child was obtained through faith, how much greater must the promise of your redemption be obtained through faith, to them that believe? But now mark what followed from the promise made unto Abraham; and that unto Isaac, of Jacob and Esau-Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. Here the apostle himself did not understand what he was writing, neither did any prophet in the world, or apostle, understand all they wrote, any more than thou understandest all thou hast written and that thou sayest is very imperfect; and so imperfect is the knowledge of all men, as by their remarking from the words of the apostle, "be fore the children were born," that the words spoken alluded to God's election; but know, I have told thee, this election stood by types in Jacob and Esau, being from the seed of

Isaac, in whom I said all the families of the earth should be blessed; then there must come a type from him to shew the type of the evil that should be cut off. There was no good nor evil done by the children, when the words were spoken; but there was good and there was evil where I placed the type, from the Fall; and know, the promise was made to man, but not to the devil; for there you know the curse was fixed. So I have already told thee, and I now tell thee again, it is MAN that I loved, but Satan that I hated; and here the promise of election shall stand.

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THESE EXPLANATIONS OF THE BIBLE are continued in the SIXTH PART.

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