will send in His name the Spirit, the Comforter; He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever the word of God has said unto you. For they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened and heard it; and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name. Howbeit, when He, the Spirit of truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak; and he will show you things to come. He shall glorify

me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you. All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and show it unto you. Thus saith the Lord in the last day, that day which is now come, and of which the great day of the feast was but a figure,-Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink. He that believeth on me, as the Scripture hath said—that is, the prophet like unto Moses, of whom all the Scriptures, Moses and the prophets spake-out of his belly, out of his heart shall flow rivers of living water; for the Spirit of the Lord his God is upon him. This was spoken by the Lord of the Spirit which they that believe on Him should receive, when the Holy Ghost would be given in the time of the latter rain, when Jesus should come to be glorified in His saints, and admired in all them that believe in that day. Having, therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He hath consecrated for us through the vail, that is to say, His flesh; and having an high priest over the house of God; let us draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith,

having our hearts sprinkled, and our bodies washed with pure water. For behold the days are now come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah. This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel: after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: and they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. When these things come to pass, when the earth is filled with the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea, then shall be seen that great mystery of which the union of husband and wife are but a figure. Jesus the Son of God died upon the cross. His side was pierced, forthwith came thereout blood and water, with which he has prepared for Himself a glorious church, which is the bride, the Lamb's wife. He has left His father and His mother; the incarnate Deity has put off for ever fallen humanity-sinless flesh and blood; but before He did so He made out of Himself a new creature, created after His own image and in His own likeness. The marriage-supper of the Lamb is come, and the bride hath made herself ready; and as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall the sons of God marry her: they also, like their Redeemer, and like the man at Corinth, which was a figure, shall be delivered unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. They shall put off their old man, because Christ their passover is sacrificed for them.

Therefore they shall keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. Then shall they become the sons and daughters of God; then shall Christ's body, not one man, but the church of redeemed men and women on earth-then shall that body be transfigured and glorified upon the earth; then shall God rejoice over the church as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride; then shall Jesus Christ be manifested unto every eye: that same Lord of glory who was made flesh and dwelt among us, was seen alive forty days upon the earth after His passion-so shall His church, His true body, of which He is the head, be seen a living church upon the earth forty years. Then shall be the times of the restitution of all things, until which the heavens were to receive the Lord Jesus, when He shall come again the second time, and fill His church-His body-with the presence of the brightness of glory and the fulness of power; then will that be fulfilled which God hath purposed before the world was; then shall be the times of the restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began. Then the image of the Son of God—the church on earth -the kingdom-the Son-shall have put down all rule, and all authority, and all power; then cometh the end, for this is but an earthly glory, and this kingdom must be given up to God, even the Father; and when all things shall be subdued unto Him, then shall the Son also Himself be subject unto Him, that put all things under Him, that God may be all in all. Then the last trumpet shall sound, and the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God; and the dead in

Christ shall rise first; then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, that is, the glorified bodies of the saints made perfect to meet the Lord in the air, and so shall we be ever with the Lord. Then shall be completed the great mystery of godliness. God dwelling with man divine, and man divine dwelling with God, shall be received up into glory. Then shall be fulfilled that of which Adam and Eve were but figures; and every eye shall behold the Son of God and His Wife. Glorious thought! Even so come, Lord Jesus. Wherefore, comfort one another with these words.

Ver. 20-23. "Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols. And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not. Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds. And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works."

After declaring that great is the mystery of godliness, the apostle Paul saith, "Nevertheless, the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe the truth." (1 Tim. iv. 1-3.) Also to the

Thessalonians the apostle Paul writes, saying, "That day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he, as God, sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God." (2 Thess. ii. 3, 4.) Ahab was a figure of the ten kingdoms of Europe that would give their power and strength unto the beast upon which the woman sat, which woman John saw in vision arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication, and upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. And he saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of JesusJezebel was a figure of this woman. "Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab king of Samaria. And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near unto my house: and I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it; or, if it seem good to thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money. And Naboth said to Ahab, The Lord forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers unto thee." (1 Kings xxi. 1-3.) This is a figure of the Lord's vineyard, which, when planted by the Saviour, was regarded by earthly monarchs as too near their house. Until the beginning of the fourth century, the church received no favour at the hands of civil rulers, but was the object of frequent and