munication given to thee, that if it was of the Lord, my kingdom must be established in righte ousness and peace in five years, without discerning the other words that were spoken, to prove it was not so; because I said many would fly through unbelief, and it would not be established at the time; but, like the death of thy Father, be unaware; but this he hath not discerned: and perfectly so stand the Jews; they discerned one part, and not the other; and therefore, without the visitation of my Spirit, to set signs for them of the end, what shall follow on from nation to nation, and the signs that I have set, and the truth of my words that must follow, to con vince them, of the end, or the days would come upon them unaware. For it is impossible, by the wisdom of man, to convince the Jews, the Atheists, or the Arians; because they discern the scriptures, as Hann discerned the communication, that if it was of the Lord all must have been finished in the five years and yet, my promise made in the time. shall be fulfilled; and then will the words of the prophet be fulfilled, that I ordered thee to send to Hann, for him to explain: Isaiah xxv.-" And he will destroy in his mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the veil that is spead over all nations; HE will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall be taken away from off all the earth; for the Lord hath spoken it."

These are the words of the prophet, that thou knowest I have revealed unto thee I am coming to fulfil; and these are my promises that were made and sealed by thee and the believers; which meaneth, revealed to thee, and sealed up by them, with faith, like the following words: "This is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us; we will be glad and rejoice in his salva

tion." This was a rejoicing through faith, be lieving the promise will be fulfilled; but this faith is but like the faith of Abraham, to believe before they see the thing accomplished: Abraham believed in my promise, that he should have a son, and my promise I fulfilled; and, it was by faith the promise was made to Abraham, which I have told thee shall be fulfilled to the children of faith, as Abraham was. And now according to the words of the prophet was my sign set, and the standard fixed, to swallow up death ir victory, to wipe away tears from off all faces, and to take away the rebuke of my people from off all the earth. This, I have told thee is the devil, that I shall cast out, and come and save my people, that trust in ME for their salvation; and then will be fulfilled the words of the prophet, in the xxxv chapter-"The wilderness and the solitary places shall be glad for them, and the desart shall rejoice and blossom as the rose; they shall see the glory of the Lord, and the excellency of our God: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you." With vengeance to those who despise my name, but a recompence of reward to save those that trust in ME and my salvation, to believe and rely upon all my promises, that they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. This chapter sheweth you the end, how the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads. xli Chapter -"Keep silence before ME, O islands, and let the people renew their strength; let them come near; then let them speak: Let us come near together to judgment." The nations must keep silence, and renew their strength in the Lord, when I come near to judge the earth. Then they will know, "it is I the Lord have done it, calling the generations from the beginning;

I the Lord the first, and with the last, I am HE." From the beginning I have called the generations, for what ends I created man at first, and what is my will to accomplish at the last. Then will the isles see it and fear, the ends of the earth will be afraid when I come near to judgment with man. But then discern my promises to all them that look for my coming: "Fear not, for I am with thee; be not dismayed, for I am thy God, and will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righte ousness." Here are my promises to support all them that trust in ME: but they that are incensed against them shall be ashamed and confounded. These are promises that stand for the end, when I come to destroy all my enemies: "And the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them; and thou shalt rejoice in the Lord and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel. I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the vallies; I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water." These are words spoken by the prophet, that I am coming to fulfil: for though the good tidings were brought to Jerusalem of my Birth, yet those tidings were not believed; therefore no fulfilment of my promises came to the Jews, to see the MESSIAH as they expected; because the fulfilment of scattering their enemies, and bringing salvation and deliverance unto Israel and Jacob, the seed of Abraham my friend, was expected by the Jews to take place at my coming as the MESSIAH. This they expected at first without discerning the other chapter. liii-" He was wounded for our transgressions; he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed; all we like sheep have gone astray." Thus the Jews did not discern what I had to go through, when I became

flesh and dwelt amongst them; and therefore like sheep they went astray, looking to the ending, but not the beginning; expecting to see my power to destroy their enemies, and establish the blessings that I had promised, without discerning, when I fulfil the words spoken by the prophets, it is not only to the Jews and Gentiles, but to all nations, kindred and people. xlii chapter"Behold the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them. Sing unto the Lord a new song, and his praises from the ends of the earth." From these words of the prophet, let men discern, it is from the ends of the earth, that all nations, kindred, and people shall be brought to praise the Lord. These are the new things I have declared unto thee that I am coming in power to fulfil it is the former things, spoken from the beginning and by the mouth of all my prophets, that I have said shall now come to pass to be fulfilled; and yet it is a new thing to mankind, the manner I have warned, and the way I have revealed unto thee, that I shall fulfil the words of the prophets, as I said in my Gospel I came to fulfil them. This is a new thing to man, that the former things should come to pass to be fulfilled, in a way no man ever expected, nor a way they ever understood: but know I said, "I will bring the blind by a way that they know not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known; I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight." These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.

Now I shall answer thee from these words, as men boast of their knowledge of the scriptures, that there is enough already revealed to man, that no further revelation will be given of the Lord; let such answer how they can fulfil them; or what way they will lead the blind to see; or lead them

into paths that they have not known. Do not the scriptures stand open for all in this nation? And yet, thou knowest, it is out of the power of man to make the blind to see; which meaneth, those that are spiritually blind, as I have told thee concerning the Jews, and those that are like them, the way they understand the words of the prophets, that way they go on in blindness; but when I come to bring them out of darkness into my marvellous light, to make that darkness light before them, it is by a way they never knew, nor understood; and this is a way which was never known by man, the way I am bringing round prophecies that are new in the likeness of the old, to make the crooked things straight before them, that they may discern hereafter, when I begin to work with power, to fulfil the words I have spoken to thee, and then call them to the scriptures to open the eyes of their understanding, that they may discern, that in the like manner was my speaking by the prophets of old. without thus dealing with mankind, those that are blinded in unbelief would so remain till the day came upon them unaware; and then my promises made to the Jews could never be fulfilled; but they are not the only blind; for there are thousands, besides the Jews, who stumble at the Gospel and the words of the prophets; because they compare together what was spoken by the mouth of the prophets concerning my coming to be their Deliverer; and therefore my sayings concerning the Jews, which thou hast pondered in thy heart, ought to be a convincing proof to them of the truth of my words in my Gospel. Yet this they compare with the words of the prophets, judging, if I was the MESSIAH, I must have come to redeem them at that time; and from this discernment thousands depart from the Gospel; because they do not weigh the whole together;

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