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ward, yet I cannot perceive Him; on the left hand where He doth work, but I cannot behold Him; and on the right hand also He hideth himself that I cannot see him. But He knoweth the way that I take; when He hath Tried me, I shall come forth as gold.'-Job xxiii. 8--10.

'We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of Peace. Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and All Faces turned to paleness? Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it; it is even the time of Jacob's trouble. But he shall be Saved out of it.'-Jer. xxx. 5--7.

'He Ruleth by His Power forever; His eyes behold the Nations; the Rebellious shall be not able to exert themselves. For thou, O God hast proved us; thou hast tried us as silver is tried. Thou broughtest us into the net; Thou laidest affliction upon our loins. - We went through Fire and through Water, but Thou broughtest us out into a wealthy Place.'-Ps. lxvi. 7--12.

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'Fear not; for I have Redeemed thee. I have called thes by thy name, thou art Mine. When thou passest through the Waters, I will be with thee; and through the Rivers, they shall not overflow thee. When thou walkest through the Fire, thou shalt not be burned, neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour.'-Isa. xliii. 1--3.

"Then shall they meet the Father, and remain
In the eternal presence; God in Christ

Shall bless All Spirits overflowingly.

Then shall they render back to Him the love
Which is His own, none else is worthy Him.
The world were poor in thanks, tho' every soul,
Were to do nought but breathe them, every blade
Of grass, and every atomie of earth,

To utter it like dew. His ways are plain,
Only in His own light. And this great day
Unveils all natures, laws, and miracles.
The world's incomprehensible no more,

But all is plain as new-born starry spheres.”—FESTUS.

III. PROMISES CONCERNING THE LORD AS PURIFIER.

Unto Thee shall ALL FLESH Come. Iniquities prevail against me; but as for our transgressions, Thou shalt Purge them away.'--Ps. lxv. 2,3.

Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be WHITE AS SNOW; though they be red like Crimson, they shall be as WOOL.'-Isa. i. 18.

'When he had by himself Purged our Sins, he sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.'-Heb. i. 3.

"Him that loved us, and Washed us from our Sins in his own blood.'---Rev. i. 5.

"The blood of Jesus Christ His Son, Cleanseth us from All Sin.'-1 John i. 7.

"The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against All Unrighteousness and Ungodliness of men.'-Rom. i. 18. The object of the Lord's Punishments upon the wicked, is the destruction of their Sins, their 'unrighteousness and ungodliness,' and not the injury of their souls.

Hath He smitten him, as He smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are saved by Him? In measure when Thou sendest it forth, Thou wilt be CAREFUL With it. He STAYETH His rough wind in the Day of His east wind. By this, therefore, shall the Iniquity of Jacob be PURGED; and this is all the fruit [of the whirlwinds of God's Punishments,] to take away his Sins.'-Isa. xxix. 7--9.

"Redeeming Spirit, O behold,
A world by sin destroy'd!
Creating Spirit, as of old,-

Move o'er the formless void!

Give Thou the word, the healing sound,

Shall quell the deadly strife,

And all the earth like Eden crown'd,

Shall rear the tree of life.

If rang the morning stars for joy,
When nature rose to view,

What strains will angel harps employ,
When Thou dost All renew!"

PROPOSITION FORTY-EIGHTH.

The Ultimate Redemption of All Mankind, is Designated by the Type of The First-Fruits,' which points to those who are chosen in this world through Faith to Eternal Life, THE ELECT, as the Earnest and Pledge of the Final Ingathering of All Things in Christ.

EVIDENCES.

"The Feast of the Harvest, the First-Fruits of thy labors which thou hast sown in thy field; and THE FEAST OF INGATHERING. which is in the End of the Year, when thou hast Gathered in (the Residue of) thy labors out of thy field.'— Ex. xxii. 16. Thou shalt observe the Feast of weeks, of the First-fruits of wheat harvest, and THE FEAST OF INGATHERING at the Year's End.'-Ex. xxxiv. 22. Also xxiiid Leviticus, 10--20, and Deut. xviii. 4, 5.

'If the First-Fruit be holy, THE LUMP is also Holy; if the Root be holy, so also are the branches.'-Rom. xi. 16. 'The Kingdom of God is like leaven which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till THE WHOLE Was leavened.'-Luke xiii. 21. 'A little leaven leaveneth the Whole Lump.'-Gal. v. 9. [Please read here the 2d chapter of Leviticus.] 'Now also the axe is laid unto the Root of the Trees.'-Mat. iii. 10; Luke iii. 9. 'Thou bearest not the Root, but the Root thee.'-Rom. xi. 18. 'I [Christ] am the Root of David.'-Rev. xxii. 16. [See Parable of the Mustard-Tree.-Mark iv. 31, &c.] Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it Filled the land; the hills were covered with the shadow of It, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.--She sent out her boughs into the Sea, and her branches unto the River.'-Ps. lxxx. 9--14. Isa. xl. 10; liii. 2.

'We, [the Elect,] which have the First-Fruits of the Spirit, groan within ourselves, waiting for the Adoption, to wit, the Redemption of OUR BODY, ['the Creation,' the Body

of Mankind, of which Christ is 'the Head.'] Rom. viii. 19. 'Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out a People for His Name, to Build again the ruins thereof, that THE RESIDUE OF MEN might seek after the Lord.'-Acts xv. 14--16.

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'God hath quickened us together with Christ,---by Grace are ye saved,---and hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, ---That in the ages to come He might show THE EXCEEDING RICHES of His Grace, through His kindness toward us by Jesus Christ.'-Eph. ii. 4-7.

'Who is the Saviour of ALL MEN, but especially of those that believe,' [the elect.]-1 Tim. iv. 10.

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'All the Kindreds of the Earth shall be Blessed. unto You first, God having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you.'-Acts iii. 25, 26.

"All Things are of God, who hath reconciled us to Himself, and hath given us the ministry of reconciliation, to wit, that God was in Christ Reconciling THE WORLD unto Himself.'-2 Cor. v. 18, 19. Col i. 20--22, to same purport.

'Of His own Will begat He us through the word of truth, that We should be a kind of FIRST-FRUITS of His Creatures, [or, Creation.]-Jas. i. 18.

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'I [Paul] obtained Mercy, that in me First, Jesus Christ might show forth all long-suffering, for a Pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him, to life everlasting.' -1 Tim. i. 16.

'But what saith the answer of God unto him?---I have reserved to Myself seven-thousand Men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal.---Even so, then, at this present time, there is a Remnant according to the Election of Grace; and if BY GRACE, then it is no more of works.'-Rom. xi. 4--6.

'So the Election hath obtained it, but the Rest were blinded.---But have they stumbled that they should [irretrieva bly] fall? God forbid.'-Rom. xi. 7, 11.

By the Son of God we have received Grace and apostleship, for obedience to the Faith among All Nations, for his name.'---Rom. i. 5.

When THE FIRST came, they supposed that they should receive more: but they likewise received Every Man, a penny. And when they received it, they murmured against the Good Man of the House.---But He answered,---I will give unto THE LAST even as unto thee. Is it not rightful for Me to what I will with Mine own? Is thine eye evil because I Good? So the last shall be [like] the First, and the First [like] the last; for MANY, [the Many, the Mass, MANKIND,---Gr.] ARE CALLED, but FEW Chosen.'Mat. xx. 10--16. xxii. 14.

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There shall be a handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the Fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon ---Men shall be Blessed in him; All Nations shall call him Blessed.'-Ps. lxxii. 16, 17.

'We [the elect] have access into this Grace wherein we stand, and Rejoice in Hope of the [Complete] Glory of God.' -Rom. v. 2. See 18--21; iii. 23, 24.

'In whom ye also trusted after that ye heard the word of truth, the Gospel of your Salvation; in whom also after ye believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of Promise; which is the Earnest [the token, the pledge,] of our Inheritance, until the Redemption of THE PURCHASED POSSESSION,' [namely, Every Man of the Whole World, Heb. ii. 9; 1 John ii. 2.]--Eph. i. 4--14.

'He shall cause them that come out of Jacob to take root. Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the World with fruit.'---Isa. xxvii. 6.

"Them who are the Called, according to His Purpose. For whom He did foreknow, He also did Predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, [for their own exclusive salvation?] that he might be the FIRST-BORN, among the Many Brethren,' [the Great Mankind-Brotherhood.] --Rom. viii. 28, 29.

These, [the 144,000 elect,] were Redeemed from among men, being THE FIRST-FRUITS unto God and to the Lamb, and in their mouth was found no guile; for they are without fault before the throne of God. And I saw another angel [messenger] fly in the midst of heaven [the Christian Church,'] having the Everlasting Glad Tidings, to preach un

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