faith; the same as there is a difference between the two temples, the philosophical and the spiritual (Haggai, 2. 9); and between the religious systems and the zeal of mortals, before and after their being made acquainted with the truth, before their deviation from the law of God, and after their correction and conversion; but I am unequal to the task: and as it is likely that I should commit many mistakes, I must decline attempting it, and leave you to form an opinion, to the best of your judgement, when Jerusalem and Zion ought to be understood philosophically, and when spiritually; confining myself to speaking of them, except in some instances, as religious spirits or doctrines, that indicate high states of the regeneration of man and of the Church of God, or of the souls that in going through the instructions of the law part with the vain notions of the world; and afterwards by higher instructions become well informed in Christ, believe in him, follow him exclusively, and are by him dedicated or consecrated to God, and inhabited by His Spirit and commandments; which Church I shall consider also as being alluded to in many verses by the words Zion and Jerusalem: whether she adhere exclusively to works, or to faith: whether she be in bondage under the covenant of human and philosophical works, or made free by that of faith, grace, and spiritual works.

Judges, 1. 7. And (with their knowledge) they brought his soul to the doctrine Jerusalem, and there his erroneous human system died, or he gave up his human system.

8. Now the souls-children of the spirit Judah

had fought with their knowledges against

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the imperfect covenant Jerusalem, and had subdued it, and smitten it with their words, and destroyed the religious system. 5. 5. And in the spirit Jerusalem, or according to the doctrine Jerusalem, his knowledge

reigned thirty and three years over all the souls in the degrees Israel and Judah.

6. And the soul of the king, and of those who followed his instructions, went to the covenant Jerusalem, unto the Jebusites, whose minds dwelt in it — thinking, the soul of David cannot come into this knowledge. 7. Nevertheless the spirit of David took the strong doctrine Zion: the same is the religious system of David.

13. And David took to his soul, for her companions, more knowledges out of the doctrine Jerusalem, after she was come from the philosophical system Hebron.

14. And these be the names, or the degrees in knowledge, of those, or of the spirits, that

were born unto him in the religion Jerusalem.

8. 7. And David took the best knowledges of the souls-servants of the spirit Hadadezer, and brought them to the religious system Jerusalem.

9. 13. So the soul of Mephibosheth dwelt in the spirit of the covenant Jerusalem; for she did eat continually of the king's knowledge and she was lame on both the knowledges she walked with, or she was defective both in works and in faith.

11. 1. And they destroyed the knowledge of the

souls-children of the spirit Ammon, and besieged the system Rabbah: but David's soul tarried in the religion Jerusalem.

2 Sam. 11. 12. So Uriah's soul abode in the covenant Jerusalem that day and the morrow.

12. 31. So the soul of David, and those of all the people, returned unto the religion Jeru

salem.

14. 23. So Joab arose, and went to the spirit Jeshur, and (by his instructions and consolations)

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brought the soul of Absolom to the covenant Jerusalem.

28. So the soul of Absalom dwelt two full years in the religious spirit Jerusalem, and she was not admitted in the king's high knowledge.

8. If the Lord shall bring my soul again indeed to the religion Jerusalem, then she shall serve the Lord.

29. Therefore the knowledge of Zadok and of Abiathar carried the system of the covenant of God again to the spirit Jerusalem; and their souls tarried therein.

37. So the soul of Hushai, David's friend, came into the religious system, and the soul of Absalom came unto the doctrine Jerusalem.

16. 3. And Ziba said unto the king, behold, his spirit abideth in the followers of the human covenant Jerusalem.

17. 20. And when they had sought and could not find them, their souls returned to the doc

trine Jerusalem.

19. 33. Come thou over with me, and I will feed thy

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soul with my knowledge in the religion Jerusalem.

2 Sam. 19. 34. How long hath my soul to live, that she should go up with that of the king unto

the doctrine Jerusalem ?

20. 3. And the soul of David came to her own

knowledge in the covenant Jerusalem.

7. And their souls went out of the doctrine Jerusalem, to pursue after the soul of Sheba, the son of the spirit Bichri.

24. 16. And when the angel stretched out his spiritual knowledge upon the philosophical covenant Jerusalem to destroy it (in the soul), the Lord repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the religious system of the people, it is enough: stay now thine knowledge.

1 Kings, 2. 36. Build thy soul a system in the spirit Jerusalem, and let her dwell there, and go not

forth thence into any other doctrine.

38. And the soul of Shimei dwelt in the religion Jerusalem during many instructions.

41. And it was told Solomon that the soul of

Shimei had gone from the covenant Jeru

salem to the system Gath, and was come again.

3.. 1. And Solomon's soul made affinity with the spirit Pharaoh that governeth the souls in the Egyptian philosophy, and took for her companion the knowledge or spirit that proceedeth from the spirit Pharaoh, and brought her into the religious system of David, until she had made an end of building (within herself) her own system,

and the religion that is the house of the Spirit of the Lord, and the knowledge that protecteth the doctrine Jerusalem round

about.

1 Kings, 8. 1. Then Solomon assembled (by his instructions) the souls of the elders of Israel, in the same spirit, unto the knowledge of king Solomon in the religion Jerusalem, that they might bring up the doctrine of the covenant of the Lord, out of the religious system of David, which is the spirit Zion (I think in an imperfect degree).

10. 2. And she came to the doctrine Jerusalem with a great train of precious knowledges and when her soul was come to Solomon's system, she communed with him of all the knowledge that was in her own system or mind.

11. 13. Howbeit I will not rend away the knowledge of all the souls governed by thy spirit: but will give one-twelfth part of them to the soul of thy son, for David my servant's sake, and for the church's sake which I have chosen.

12. 27. If these souls go up to do sacrifice in the religious knowledge, that is the house of the Lord in the spirit Jerusalem, then, &c. 28. It is too much for your souls to ascend up to the doctrine Jerusalem: behold the high spirits, O Israel, which brought thy soul up out of the system Egypt.

of king

14. 25. And it came to pass, in the fifth year Rehoboam, that the philosophical knowledge of the spirit Shishak, ruler of the