there is not a more remarkable passage in the Bible than this: "Christ loved the Church, and gave himself for it;" "That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word." Therefore, the faithful mother will, in every possible way, bring Truth to bear upon the minds of her children. Those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, and they should be so inwrought, ingrained in the minds, into the very nature of children, that their influence can never pass away, their sustenance never cease to be nutriment to the soul, their life never cease to exist. "The Lord revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the Lord."

In commencing this work, I am deeply moved at the position I occupy, conscious of the holy ground upon which I stand; in reverence I put off my shoes from off my feet. It is an awful thing to stand in the Holy of holies before the Divine Glory, the Holy Oracle, to inquire of God. "Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar."

In this undertaking I have three great objects in view. First, to trace the mystical seven of Revelation, to show that seven dispensations in our world's history are clearly revealed to us; and six more, probably of fourteen thousand years, foreshadowed to us. To show that the seven days of Creation were seven cycles; with intervening nights-periods of rest -probably of fourteen thousand years. This only, would

make our earth two hundred thousand years old, independent
of Original Creation, spoken into existence at "The begin-
ning," by the word of faith. I think "the seventh day,"
that God sanctified, and upon which He instituted our Sab-
bath, was a Millennium day of glory of the believers of a
human race antecedent to our own-of those who are now
angels, seventh signifying perfection; that after that period
God did institute our Adamic economy; and thus it was
that, immediately, in all the first histories and types, He did
set forth seven more dispensations in the newly-instituted
economy. In the two first books, Genesis and Job, they are
most strikingly taught; the prophets taught them, Christ
most lucidly set them forth, and, in the last Revelation He
gaye to John, the seven dispensations are the most promi-
nent feature of it. Let us not dream that we are living in
the Saturday evening of our day, it is but the Wednesday
evening. When Adam fell, we became part and parcel with
the region of the dead that had gone before, and we shall
not rise till the seventh day. "Man lieth down, and riseth
not, till the heavens be no more."
Christ was sown, and
did rise the firstfruits, and there will be a waving, glorious
harvest.

John, on the Sabbath day,-whether on the Christian Sabbath, or in the seventh day of the week which God instituted to commemorate the seventh day of glory in which He rested, and to typify the seventh day of Millennium glory still in the future,-John, I say, was taken back "in the b

Spirit" to "the Lord's-day," the seventh so grandly recorded for our observance (Gen. ii. 2, 3; Exod. xx. 8-11), and, without doubt, forward to the Millennium-day rest of the future (Rev. xx. 4, 5, 6), and then was given to him the seven-day history of our world intact, complete: "I heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet." This was the voice, trumpet of prophecy; and then the words that followed governed, girded, the page of history from Adam to the last head-stone that shall be brought forth with shoutings, Grace, grace unto it. "I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last : and, What thou seest, write in a book." I say, this announcement, Divine proclamation, girds the world's history, and then the seven dispensations, regenerations, were plainly revealed. I am not going into them here; suffice it to say, that the Flood did close the first, the utter expulsion of the Jewish Church the second, and that a like expulsion, disruption of the formulary of the Christian Church will close the third. "And I saw another sign in reaven, great and marvellous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God." (xv. i.) These are the seven closing or last vials of the seven dispensations, called "the seven last," because in each dispensation there had been many before these last direful overthrows. How many in the Antediluvian Church, world, we do not know; but in the Jewish we do know of the destruction of Sodom, of the whole race of the Canaanites, of the fall of Babylon, Tyre, Nineveh; and Josephus tells us that Jerusalem had

been taken five times before her final destruction by the Romans. And, Christian Church, how many voices, warnings, chastenings, vials have you had, before God comes to proclaim this last plague, full of His wrath? Nowhere in Revelation, save in the Apocalypse, are these seven dispensations taught more clearly than in the Book of Genesis and of Job. The first of these was the root of the teaching of the Lord of the Sabbath-day in the Apocalypse, and thus it is I particularly direct attention to the subject in my Preface.

"God was in Christ,

My second purpose in this undertaking is to trace the doctrine of the Church as revealed to us by God. She is an instrument of His power, an agent of His love, sent in His name, begotten into the world by Himself to gather souls out of the kingdom of Satan, to draw spirits from that evil nature, till it be recovered, destroyed, eternally triumphed over. Then what is a Church? As I have said, a spiritual power, agent; first, God in Christ to redeem all fallen nature; and then God in man to recover fallen nature. reconciling the world unto himself." ambassadors for Christ . . .. stead, be ye reconciled to God." may be as old as the apostles, but this spiritual order of priesthood is as old as God Himself; for "the Spirit of God" and "the Spirit of Christ" in His ambassadors are Himself, and were one with Him from a past eternity. "Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth." By faith, through knowledge, we know ourselves to be one with God

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through Christ. "Ile that is joined to the Lord, is one Spirit." And by the light of Revelation, and "the light of life," we may say, even as Christ did, "O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was." Read this chapter, and you will see if I am teaching error, John xvii. 5, 11, 21, 22, 26. I am not impious enough to teach coequality with Christ, but I am believing enough to teach our oneness with Him. This is the true scheme of the Gospel, to extricate, deliver us completely from the evil nature, and to translate us into the nature of God.

I believe I have been completely misunderstood upon the doctrine of the Church; for while I have strongly and fearlessly maintained the truth of apostolical succession-of the institution of an order of men by Christ, any other than a spiritual order, succession, has never entered my thought: I trace this as much from Abel, Seth, Shem, and the Patriarchal Church, as from the apostles. If I have been understood to teach the heresy of merely an official order of priesthood, I do renounce the error before God and His holy Church; or rather, I repeat, such trash has never entered my mind. The office and order of the great High Priest of our profession were spiritual; His Headship is a spiritual function, and His Church is a body of spiritual men; the government He instituted was a spiritual one. He Himself never assumed a vestige of temporal power; He never gave anything but spiritual authority. The Pentecost was the