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redemption. Now I fhall come further to the Creation Know, it was after my day of rest, on the seventh day, that I said I had ended from my work, that I made the Woman for a helpmate for Man; and after my day of rest that the woman was beguiled by the serpent, and the curse was fixed upon the serpent; then now discern, all men, this brought on each of my days to be a thousand years, to labour for man, and to labour with man ; but know, as I finished the creation in the six days, and then made the woman in the time that I called my rest; so, I tell you all, it is by the promise I made to the woman, of bruising the serpent's head, that I must complete the whole for man; and this is what I said in my Gospel-If I was lifted up, the prince of this world should be cast out; for I would draw all men unto ME; then they may say, Christ abideth for ever to dwell with men, when the root of evil is destroyed, and my Spirit is poured out upon all flesh; then they will understand the meaning of my wordsWhoso eateth of my Flesh, and drinketh of my Blood hath eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. John vi. 54. And this I have shewed thee from the creation, how I mean to raise them up at the last day, that they may drink deep into my Spirit, and that they may be renewed into my likeness. But do men vainly suppose that I meant they should eat my Flesh, and drink my Blood? I tell thee, no; for that is impoffible for man to do; and had they done it in those days, to drink my Blood when it was shed for man, it could not have been continued; therefore, reason must tell all men, the words were not meant in the manner they were spoken; but as ye often say of families that have all one spirit, they have all one blood, so if my Spirit be poured out upon men to form them in my likeness, and ye wish to drink deep into my Spirit, then ye will all confess and say, my Flesh is meat indeed, and my Blood is drink indeed, when ye are renewed in my likeness, and

cleansed from the evils of the world. But how can men understand the words to take them perfectly as I spoke them-He that eateth my Flesh and drinketh my Blood dwelleth in ME, and I in him? Can men vainly suppose that these words were spoken as of a temporal meaning? I tell thee, no; they were spoken as of a spiritual meaning, to make man in my likeness, when I bring in man's redemption, as I came in the likeness of my Father: for know, I said, As I live by the Father, so he that eateth ME shall live by ME: But know what I have told thee, by eating of ME; it is not to eat my Body as ye eat food; but I tell thee it is the digesting and eating my words by faith, as ye often say, ye eat the words one of another, what ye delight to hear and digest as truth ; in the same perfect manner true believers must believe from my Gospel, that my Spirit will be so poured out upon them, and ye will be filled with the joy of the Holy Ghost, as the stomach is filled with neat, that ye may live in ME, and I in you. This is the full redemption of man; for know what I said unto them: It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing; then know, my meaning was to my spiritual kingdom for the redemption of man: but I no more meant of eating my Flesh or drinking my Blood, than I meant to build the temple in three days, that was built by the hands of men; but now I tell thee, as many of my disciples were offended at my words, so are many men now offended with my Gospel; and they think it hard sayings, who can hear them; and I tell thee, because they cannot understand them, there are thousands that cannot hear them; because they do not understand I spoke of the end, when I come to fulfil the whole. If my Gospel had been plain to all men, and I had spoken no words in mysteries, the miracles that I wrought must have convinced them that I was the Son of God; then how could the words of the prophet be fulfilled, for ME to be wounded for the transgression

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of man? or how could the Jews stand out in unbelief, to shew the true state of man? or how could I pronounce man dead under the Fall, and prove the truth of my words, when I came to make an end of all things, to prove that man was dead, as I pronounced him, if I had come in the Body and made every thing clear and plain to man? Then the Scriptures could not be fulfilled to be true; but now when I come to fulfil my Gospel and explain the meaning, all men will find the truth of my words, that I came into the world, and became flesh for man, and bore the transgression for man, that I might destroy all the works of the devil, and bring man perfectly to my image and my likeness, as I created him for at first. This is the fulfilment of my Gospel; and he that believeth on ME hath everlasting life. This meaning is not understood by man; for I tell thee, there are many that do believe in ME, and in my Gospel, and yet they have no regard for ME, or my Gospel; then how can they have everlasting life? But those that believe to have everlasting life, must believe the words that I have said unto them, that I came to be a light to the world, to seek and to save that which was lost; and they must believe they were lost by the Fall, as to the image and likeness of their Creator; and as they died through the Fall, by the transgression of man, so by my bearing the transgression for man, they may eat of the good and live in ME at the last, as they died in Adam at first. This is the belief that men must have, if they will have everlasting life in ME; and weigh the words of the Prophets with the words of the Gospel; for I tell thee, they both must join together, the beginning with the ending; and know when I come to fulfil the words of the prophet, to be the Prince of Peace, then I shall bring in everlasting life to man; and when I come to pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and destroy all the works of the devil, then men will find the truth

of my words, that men will live in ME, and I in them. This is the fulfilment of my Gospel; but where is the man who can answer that this is fulfilled in him? that he perfectly lives in ME, and I in him, without a veil between? I tell thee, no man; therefore I spoke the words so strongly and so powerfully that they might stand on record at my second coming; for I well knew what was in men, how strongly they would deny my likeness to be in man, or that I ever intended to fulfil the creation, to bring man to my image and likeness. But now come to my Gospel, and mark the words that I said unto the people-The bread of God is HE which cometh down from heaven and giveth life unto the world; then know for what I came down into the world; for to give life unto mankind. But will men say they were not alive when I came down amongst them? that I came to give them a temporal life? I tell thee, No; they had all life when I came; and yet they had the death that was pronounced upon them by the Fall; and to remove that death, and to give them life, I came down from heaven. And know I said I should raise them up again in the last day; for this was the will of HIM that sent ME, that they should have everlasting life, that believed on ME, and I should raise them up at the last day. Now let all men observe from these words, I did not tell them, at that time they should be raised up, but that I should raise them up at the last day, to have everlasting life; but how could the assurance of their being raised up at the last day be argued, or proved, or believed, if I had not spoken those words when I was upon earth amongst mankind, that all men might see the assurance of my promise that I left on record for man? Now where is the man that can come forward and prove he hath experienced all my words that I said in that chapter? I tell thee no man can say it hath been his experience in this world; neither will it, till the prince of this

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world be cut off; then will they find the truth of my words; neither do men understand my words, that I spoke unto them-He that cometh to Me shall never hunger, and he that believeth on ME shall never thirst; but where is the man who can say he never hungered? and if ye look to the words in a spiritual sense, believers are commanded to hunger and thirst after righteousness; so that no man can say the words are fulfilled, neither is that Christian upon earth who can say, after he believed in ME, that he never hungered or thirsted after ME; for while the powers of darkness remain they stand as a bar between believers and ME; and believers often feel themselves as barren as a hungry stomach; so they hunger and thirst for a greater power of my Spirit; but when I come to fulfil my Gospel, and destroy all the works of the devil, and pour out my Spirit upon them, then they will never hunger, when their souls are filled with my loving kindness and goodness; neither will they thirst, when their thirst is quenched by ME; for what have they to hunger and thirst after, when the SUN of RIGHTEOUSNESS is arisen with healing in his wings, to give them every blessing that I have promised, and daily feeding them with my loving kindness, mercy, and goodness? They will not be like the children of Israel, when they were freed from the bondage of Pharaoh, who hungered and thirsted to go back to the flesh-pots of Egypt, as many of them did after they were freed from bondage; but when they are freed from the bondage of sin and Satan, they will never hunger and thirst more to go back to be bound with his yoke; neither will they have need to hunger when by my Spirit they are daily fed, and the blessings of this world, you know, they are promised in the Scriptures of truth. Here I have explained to thee the meaning of this chapter in part, that men may be convinced that all these things must be, to fulfil my Gospel, and that my Gospel speaks