"And therefore marvel not in thy heart, that I have told thee thy sufferings must be great; and thy danger of life will appear great: and this is the sorrow that thy friends and believers will feel, as I told thee, till the third day; for here is the TRANCE mentioned in thy writings; first the Trance of thy mind, from my visitation to thee at first; but the next comes when LIFE is brought into the world. And know what I have said in thy writings; Strange Effects of Faith, page 280.

"Then now 'tis LIFE brings on the strife

Behold an INFANT cry,

The MOTHER'S pain doth all remain,

When it is brought so nigh."

"Now I shall answer thee from these words. Hadst thou understood them, thou wouldest have known that it was from a CHILD being made mention of to be born of thee, which would bring on strife and contention amongst mankind and now thou wilt find, that strife and contention to rise high. See on the one hand what raptures of joy that the believers are filled with, to hear the glad tidings, that the PRINCE OF PEACE will now be born, to fulfil the words of the Prophets, to be the COMFORTER I said in my Gospel; and to come according to the words of Paul."

1 Corinthians, iv. 5-6.-" Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts; and then shall every man have praise of God. And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself, and to Apollos, for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men, above that which is written, that

no one of you be puffed up for one against another."

"Here Paul plainly saw that the Lord would come to bring to light the hidden things of dark. ness for all my Gospel seemed hid in darkness to all my disciples; because none clearly understood in what manner I spoke of my Second Coming; nor in what manner I should fulfil the words of the Prophets; and therefore John the Baptist sent out his disciples to know if I was the CHRIST, or whether they should look for another. But know my answer to his inquiry: Tell John what ye yourselves have seen and heard. But I did not tell him whether they should look for another, or not, that should come after ME, and be preferred before ME. For know, when I became flesh and dwelt with men, I was not preferred as a PRINCE, or a SAVIOUR, but was condemned to death as a guilty malefactor; but now the CoмFORTER, Whom I shall send in my name, will be preferred as a PRINCE and a SAVIOUR: and then the FATHER will be honoured for the Sox's sake; because they will see the truth of my Gospel.

"And now I shall answer the thoughts of thy heart. Thou sayest, it was John the Baptist that said, HE it is who cometh after me is preferred before me, whose shoe-latchet I am not worthy to unloose. Here I do not marvel that the words ` stumbled thee, of my placing his words to a likeness of myself; for then I must make the SON greater than the FATHER, and could not be the LAMB of GOD to take away the sin of the world. But I shall explain the sense and meaning thereof. Know that John and I came into the world nearly together, not long one after the other; and know what is written of John the Baptist in my Gospel."

Matthew, iii. 1." In those days came John

the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, and saying, Repent ye; for the kingdom of hea ven is at hand. For this is HE that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight."

"Now I shall answer thee of John's preaching, and of my coming in the flesh-it was to lay the foundation, to prepare the way for ME to finish what I began. Two ways I was spoken of by the prophets, and therefore two ways they must be fulfilled. But now I aşk mankind, from the prophets, who they would receive as the Son of GOD? who would they receive as the HOLY ONE of Israel? For though it is written, the LORD and his HOLY ONE; yet the HOLY One of GoD they would not permit, but judged their own selves to be the holy ones of Israel; and from this pride and vain boasting came their fall; and, instead of being the holy ones of Israel, they became an outcast nation. So that it is not from the Prophets that the LORD and his HOLY ONE will be received, but from the plan of my Gospel. I came to prepare the way, to make straight the path before mankind; and now I shall make it plain and straight before all men. I laid the foundation, I began the building of the house; but from the wisdom of men, all must say, that I began the building which I was not able to complete and finish. But know what I said of a king going to war."

Luke, xiv. 31.—“What king going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thou sand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?"

"From these words I shall answer thee. It is not from the Prophets that I could meet the king,

with ten thousand to destroy his twenty thousand; this could not be done had I not come to lay the foundation, to shew in what manner 1 should return again, and how my Gospel stands to fulfil the Prophets in the end, and the Psalms of David, which never were fulfilled in man; but now I have told thee that they shall be fulfilled in the Son that shall be born of thee this year. For HE shall be the King that I shall enable, with ten thousand, to destroy those that rise up against him with twenty thousand. So that if his enemies be double at first; yet, I tell thee, one man shall chace a thousand, and two shall put ten thousand to flight at the last. For now I shall make my Gospel clear; and prove that this was the building, this was the tower that I laid the foundation, for to raise it up in the end. But know how I was mocked on the cross-" Let him come down from the cross, and we will believe him. He saved others, himself HE cannot save: " and to their mockery I gave up, and laid my plan to return again. And all shall find, that according to my Gospel is my return, to come down from the cross, and raise the Sox that now shall reign in DAVID's stead. But here I shall leave thee at present, from my Gospel, and come to the witness that my Disciples bore of ME.

Romans, i. 1-4.-" Paul a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the Gospel of God, (which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy Scriptures) concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh, and declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead."

Romans, ii. 14-16. For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things

contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: which shew the works of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean. while accusing, or else excusing one anotherin the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my Gospel."

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Romans, iv. 19-25. "And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb. He stagger-, ed not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God :: and being fully persuaded, that what he had, promised, he was able also to perform. And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness. Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him; but for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead, who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification."

"If chil-,

Romans, viii. 17-19-32-34-39. dren, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ: if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together, For I reckon, that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall, be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth: who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea, rather that is risen again, who is even at the right hand