DIVINE COMMUNICATIONS,

1836.

Wakefield, 10th of 1st month, 1836.

"THOUGH a man is a Jew, and his wife a Jewess, if he has connexion with her in her uncleanness, and she conceives and brings forth a child, that child is not a Jew, neither a Gentile, nor any of its posterity; but is of the corrupt tree, as the seven nations, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; (Exod. xxiii. 23;) their natural bodies must die.

"But the firstborn of the one hundred and fortyfour thousand families, who are only marred by the evil which Adam received from the evil tree, which shall be taken from them within the sixth day; and they shall become as the Son of man, and obey all the laws and commands of God, as the woman's seed did, and then become the sons of God immortal. And of them which are not heirs, but are of the same families, and are conceived in the cleanness of the tree, and escape into the rocks, clefts, and dens, and shall come out and seek unto Mount Zion, which are those who are redeemed from among men, for their lives, and they shall live a thousand years, by their bodies not dying, by their trees being pruned, and keeping the law.

"He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig-tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none. Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground? And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it:

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And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down." Luke xiii. 6-9.

Written from John Wroe's mouth by William Tillotson.

Wakefield, 17th of 1st month, 1836.

"It shall be brought into both houses of parliament, that this people do not regard the Gospel. But the Registers shall prove that accusation false. As the sun shineth out of the east unto the west, so shall this be fulfilled. It will be told in parliament, that they pay no tithes, nor have any regard for the Gen

tiles' Sabbath."

Written from John Wroe's mouth by William Tillotson.

Sheffield, 12th of 2nd month, 1836.

"THE light of the day sprung clear when Jesus appeared after his resurrection, all obstacles were removed; and it is going to be done again. It shall be easier for those that have the Spirit abiding on them to keep the law, than it was for you to break it."

Wakefield, 19th of 2nd month, 1836.

"FROM the birth of the woman's seed to his baptism in the river Jordan, his light was but as the bright and morning star; and from his baptism to his resurrection, his light was but as the light of the moon, which rules the night: so I withdrew myself from it, that the Scriptures might have their accomplishment. I then became the life of that temple, and I rent the vail of that temple, (Matt. xxvii. 51,) so that all that saw me, whether Jew or Gentile, believed. I shewed myself alive to about five hundred of the Hebrews, (1 Cor. xv. 6,) which were the

remnant of the ten tribes. I shewed them that I had the light of the day, and light shone in their hearts, and reigned over the night: and they expected receiving the life of the kingdom within their temples, that it might change them from mortal to immortality. And I cut off the tops of the unbelief of the twelve tribes. And I grafted the Gentiles into their stems, and they are yet with the Gentiles, that they might know the truth of God. After I had ascended, the Jews contended that it was needful for all men to be circumcised, and that they could not be grafted in without receiving circumcision, which fulfilled the words I said to them in Jesus the woman's seed, "Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me." John xiv. 28, 30. But I caused Peter to withstand them, that if they believed, it should be counted to them as circumcision, touching the redemption of their soul till their fulness that then I would cause a branch to grow out of the stem, under the graft of the Gentiles the wild olive, touching the law and circumcision, and that they should again contend, and it should take root in their hearts, and bear fruit, and that I would take a branch from the vine tree, and it should abide on them, and they should circumcise again, and observe all my laws and commandments; and it should be to me as immortal fruit; it should no more bear fruit of the olive tree but of the vine; "And shall put my Spirit in you, and ye shall live." Ezek. xxxvii. 14. The Spirit of the Bridegroom shall rest on the brides, and the light of the brides shall be to the public as a star shining in a dark place, till the time they receive the partial redemption, and from the time of the partial redemption to the receiving of their immortal lives, their light shall be to them as the light of the moon, they being brought to be the sons of men. Then from the receiving of their immortal lives, the light of them shall be as the

light of the sun in the firmament in its clear shining. So the remnant that escape shall be as men coming out of a dark solitary place, and when they see them it shall be as though they looked at the sun in its clear shining; and they shall say, "Lo! these are our gods," and they shall seek to be saved."

Written from John Wroe's mouth by William Tillotson.

Wakefield, 20th of 2nd month, 1836.

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"THE flesh of old people which is wrinkled shall wrinkle no more, for the spirit will not withdraw its attraction, but will continue in its strength; as a woman searcheth for a piece of gold with a candle, so shall Jehovah search diligently for Israel in all nations."

Written from John Wroe's mouth by William Tillotson.

Wakefield, 2nd of 3rd month, 1836.

THE words of the Lord came unto me this morning, and the Spirit is resting on me, and says to me."Send forth these words that I now give thee, that they may go to all nations, that both Jew and Gentile may read; that he that understandeth may run, for it is for him to know the mysteries that were left on record in the Scriptures, which are to remain till all Israel understand.

"Call thou a carpenter and a dresser of a vineyard, who pruneth the trees and putteth in the grafts. Ask the carpenter, whether he would rather have the wood of the tree which beareth good fruit, or that which beareth no fruit? He shall answer thee, The tree that beareth much fruit. Then ask the dresser of the vineyard, whether he will have the barren tree or the tree which has borne fruit. Here the dispute shall take place between the dresser of the vineyard and the carpenter.

"The dresser of the vineyard says, Let me have the tree which has borne fruit; the carpenter says, Let me have the barren tree. The dresser of the vineyard says, I will raise more trees, and produce more fruit than thou. The carpenter says, I can raise better trees for timber for building than thou. The dresser of the vineyard says, It shall now be proved. So the carpenter went to work with the trees that bare no fruit, and the dresser of the vineyard went to work with the trees that bare fruit. But the carpenter comes forward with all the rest of the trees,—the lawyer, the doctor and the parson, that when he put in the graft they should hold him to this-he should put it in at the top of the tree, and not in at the side.

"The dresser of the vineyard says, What mean ye by this? They said we mean this, Thou hast once grafted the Gentiles, which were the wild olive trees, into the stock of Israel, which is the stem of the root of the natural olive tree, and thou shalt put the graft in the top of them, if thou do graft it, and if not it shall be as it is. The dresser of the vineyard says, Have not I a right to put in the graft where I want? No, says the carpenter, Thou art not the owner of the vineyard. The dresser of the vineyard cried, Wherever I find life in the tree, and it bears fruit as the branches that have sprung from the root under the Gentile graft, there I will put in the graft of the vine. The part of the trees above the graft will not agree for the graft to be put into any part of the tree but the top of the former graft. The dresser of the vineyard cried, Seeing ye have all conspired together against me, that I should put the graft in at the top of the tree, or where they bear not fruit as the branches of the root, we will go to the owner of the vineyard, and if he says that I shall put in the graft at the top of the former graft, I will then do so. Here the doctor, the lawyer, and the parson agreed, and came unto the owner of the vineyard, and the carpenter said unto