to be done in me. Seeing then that I am no more than any other man, how shall I do this great work? Holy Father, my strength is in thee; Thou art my Husband, and I am the wife of thy pure Spirit; therefore beget in the spirit of thy helpless wife thine own thoughts; then enable me to conceive them powerfully, and finally, cause me to bring them forth, embodied in words, acceptable in thy sight. So shall thy Word be made Flesh, and appear unto men the Son of God.

For the Thought of God is the Eternal Son of God; and the Thought of God is with God, even as the thought of man is with man.

But the Thought of God is hidden in God, even as the thought of man is hidden in man, according to his will.

And as a natural father makes known his thought unto his children as it seemeth good in his sight, even so our spiritual Father makes known his Thought, unto the spirit of man, according to the eternal purpose he hath purposed in himself. So when the Spirit saith,―That he hath predestinated his creatures to be conformed to the Image of his Son, we do understand our Father's eternal purpose which he purposed in himself. Moreover the Spirit hath now revealed in his creature, that by the Image of his Son is meant-The Image of the Father's Thought. And when our holy Father shall have

revealed his Eternal Thought, in the spirit of his creature, according to the eternal purpose of his will, then his creature will know his God according to his revealed will; and his creature shall have perfect peace, according to the most holy testimony of the ever blessed and ever faithful Spirit, saying, And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord of hosts. The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of hosts. The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the Lord of hosts and in this place will I give peace, saith the Lord of hosts. Haggai ii. 7, 8, 9.

Now the desire of all nations is, To know God as he is. And when we shall know his Eternal Thought towards All Flesh, then his Eternal Son will be fully revealed and made manifest in us. Then we shall know God by his Thought, even as a father makes known, to the son of his love, the treasures of his most secret thoughts.

And when his glory shall have been fully revealed in us, and all the goodness of his everlasting love made known unto us, then we shall rejoice with exceeding joy, even as the good Spirit now makes known unto us, saying, But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. 1 Peter

iv. 13.

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For then we shall know him as he is in his Eternal Thought towards us. And because we shall know Him, and shall believe in his Eternal Purpose towards us, therefore we shall rejoice with exceeding great joy.

Now this is the sum of our exceeding great joy; even his promise unto Abraham, and to his seed, and through his seed, unto all nations, saying, Fear not, Abraham: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great Reward. Genesis xv. 1.

And this is the Eternal Life which our God hath freely given unto All Flesh-for All Flesh shall honour him by belief of his promise in Christ, as it is written, That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the Gospel. Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power. Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach in the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ; and to make all men know what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ. To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God; according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord. Ephes. iii.

Now by these words we are given to understand the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord. That the Gentiles, even All Flesh, should be fellowheirs, with Abraham and his seed, unto the same promise in Christ by the Gospel. And because the seed of Abraham, through faith in the promise of the Spirit, shall be All Flesh, therefore the seed of Abraham is compared to the sand of the sea and to the stars of heaven innumerable. For the seed of Abraham is a seed of faith in the promise of the Spirit concerning the Eternal Inheritance, and the Eternal Inheritance, called the Exceeding Great Reward, is God.

Seeing then that our Eternal Inheritance and our Exceeding Great Reward is God, and that the man Christ Jesus is the first seed made perfect, in the sight of God, through the hearing of faith in the promise of the Spirit: we do then perceive that we are All heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ unto but one and the selfsame Inheritance, even God in Man.

And now we come to consider the three appointed stages of the Firstborn, and by passing through the same, he is at length made perfect in his Faith and Knowledge concerning his Exceeding Great Reward. He is first called: Secondly, He is justified: Thirdly, He is glorified.

By the hearing of our faith in the Voice of the Spirit, the following are the appointed times of

the Spirit for the deliverance of the Firstborn. He is called on July 12, 1812, and he goes back and turns from the Voice of the Spirit for forty weeks, from December 12, 13, 1812, until September 18, 19, 1813. He is then brought under the appointed punishment for his disobedience unto the Voice of the Spirit during the long night of his spiritual darkness, until the dawning of the day on March 14, 1839. That he is then justified by the hearing of his faith in the tender mercy of his God respecting the forgiveness of his sins, and for his faith in the revelation of the glory at the time known only unto the Spirit. That the matters contained in a Book written in forty days, and named, The Call to Repentance, is the repentance that was given unto the creature of his mercy at the second stage of his progress towards perfection. Moreover the repentance that was given unto the creature of his mercy, the same is the appointed time of the Spirit to call All Flesh to repentance,—but his Voice is not heard.

The Call to Repentance is written in forty days, from March 14, 1839, unto April 23, 1839, which is a period of full forty days.

The Third Stage of the creature of his mercy is that in which he is glorified, or made perfect in his knowledge of God through the hearing of faith. And this third stage by the hearing of our faith is a period of Forty Days, from August