ng, understanding, believing, willing, operating or coöpe -ating any thing from his own powers in matters of a spirtual and divine nature; or of applying or accommodating imself to grace; but that his natural will is only for those hings which are contrary to God, and displease him; thereFore that man in spiritual things is like a stock, but that till he has a capacity, not active but passive, whereby he an be turned to good by the grace of God; that nevertheess there remains in man since the fall, the free-will and ower either to hear or not to hear the Word of God, and hat thus a spark of faith may be kindled in his heart, which mbraces the remission of sins for Christ's sake, and imparts onsolation. That nevertheless the human will enjoys the berty of performing civil righteousness, and of making hoice of such things as are within the province of reason. “X. ON THE CHURCH. That the church is the congreation and communion of saints, and that it is dispersed over ne whole world among those who have the same Christ and ne same Holy Spirit, and the same sacraments, whether they ave similar or dissimilar traditions: and that it is princially a society of faith; and that this church alone is the ody of Christ, and that the good are both really and nomially a church, but the wicked only nominally; that the icked and hypocrites, because they are intermixed, are embers of the church according to its external signs, proded they are not excommunicated, but that they are not embers of the body of Christ. That ecclesiastical rites, hich are called ceremonies, are matters of indifference diaphori), and that they are not the worship of God, nor part of the worship of God; that therefore the church is liberty to institute, change, and abrogate them, as, for stance, the distinctions of garments, times, days, meats, ad the like; and that therefore one church ought not to ndemn another on account of things of this nature."

These are the doctrines of the Reformed Church and eligion in the abstract; but those which are taught by the chwengfeldians, Pelagians, Manichæans, Donatists, Anaaptists, Armenians, Cinglians, Antitrinitarians, Socinians, rians, and, at this day, by the Quakers and Moravians, e passed over, because they are reprobated and rejected - the Reformed Church as heretical.

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THE APOCALYPSE.

CHAPTER I.

1. THE Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, show unto his servants things which must shortly come to s; and he signified [it] sending, by his angel, to his servant

2. Who bore witness of the Word of God, and of the testiny of Jesus Christ, whatsoever things he saw.

3. Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear, the words he prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein ; the time is at hand.

-. John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be o you, and peace, from Him who is, and who was, and who o come; and from the seven spirits which are before his one;

- And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the -begotten from the dead, and the prince of the kings of the h. To Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in blood,

- And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his her: to him be glory and might for ever and ever. Amen. - Behold he cometh with clouds, and every eye shall see , and they [also] who pierced him; and all the tribes of the h shall wail because of him. Even so; Amen.

- I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the saith the Lord, who is, and who was, and who is to come, Altnighty.

- I John, who also am your brother, and companion in ulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, in the island called Patmos, for the Word of God, and for

testimony of Jesus Christ.

D. I was in the spirit on the Lord's day; and I heard behind a great voice, as of a trumpet,

1. Saying, I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the

the churches, which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto

Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis,

and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.

12. And I turned to see the voice that spoke with me: And,

being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks;

13. And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto

the Son of Man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and

girt about the paps with a golden girdle.

14. And his head and his hairs were white as wool is white,

like unto snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;

15. And his feet were like unto fine brass, as if they burned

in a furnace; and his voice as the voice of many waters.

16. And he had in his right hand seven stars; and out of his

mouth went a sharp two-edged sword; and his face was as the

sun shineth in his power.

17. And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he

laid his right hand upon ine, saying unto me, fear not; I am the

First and the Last;

18. And am he that liveth, and was dead; and behold I am

alive for ever and ever. Amen: and I have the keys of hell and

of death.

19. Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things

which are, and the things which shall be hereafter.

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Inifies,

f Jesus Christ," signifies, who from the heart, and so in the ght, receive divine truth from the Word, and acknowledge the Lord's Humanity to be divine : "Whatsoever things he saw," ignifies, their illustration in all the things which are in this evelation: “Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear, the words of the prophecy, and keep those things which are written merein," signifies, the communion of those with the angels of eaven, who live according to the doctrines of the New Jerusaem: "For the time is at hand," signifies, that the state of the hurch is such that it cannot endure any longer, so as to have onjunction with the Lord: "John to the seven churches," gnifies, to all who are in the Christian world where the Word , and by it the Lord is known, and who accede to the church: Which are in Asia," signifies, to those who are in the light of -uth from the Word: “Grace be unto you, and peace," signifies, ivine salutation: "From Him who is, and who was, and who - to come," signifies, from the Lord who is eternal and infinite, nd who is Jehovah: "And from the seven spirits which are efore his throne," signifies, from the universal heaven, where ne Lord is in his divine truth: "And from Jesus Christ," sigifies, the Divine Humanity: "Who is the faithful witness," gnifies, that he is Divine Truth itself: "The first-begotten from ne dead," signifies, that he is Divine Goodness itself: "And the rince of the kings of the earth,” signifies, from whom proceeds I truth originating in good in the church: "To him that loved 5, and washed us from our sins in his blood," signifies, who out

love and mercy, reforms and regenerates men by his divine, uths from the Word: "And hath made us kings and priests," gnifies, who gives those who are born of him, that is, regenerad, to be in wisdom from divine truths and in love from divine Dods: "Unto God and his Father," signifies, and so images of is divine wisdom and of his divine love: "To him be glory ad might for ever and ever," signifies, to whom alone belongs vine majesty and divine omnipotence to eternity : "Amen," gnifies, divine confirmation from the truth, thus from himself: Behold, he cometh with clouds," signifies, that the Lord will eveal himself in the literal sense of the Word, and will open its piritual sense at the end of the church: "And every eye shall ee him," signifies, that all who are in the understanding of vine truth from affection will acknowledge him: "And they lso] who pierced him," signifies, that they also will see who re in falses in the church: "And all the tribes of the earth

all wail because of him," signifies, that this will be when there re no longer any goods and truths in the church: "Even so, men," signifies, divine confirmation that so it will be: "I am e Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end," signifies, ho is the self-subsisting and the onl only-subsisting from first rinciples to ultimates, from whom all things proceed; thus, who the self-subsisting and only-subsisting love, the self-subsisting nd only-subsisting wisdom, and the self-subsisting and only-sub