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and man made Gon, heaven thus kept continually open in the DIVINE HUMANITY of the GLORIFIED SAVIOUR, and all admitted, who are dispos ed to repent of their sins, and to believe in that manifested GOD who came to deliver them from the power of sin. Here therefore I make the interesting and delightful discovery, that there is but ONE GOD in the church, and that the LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST in His DIVINE HU MANITY is that GOD, being CREATOR from eter nity, REDEEMER in time, and REGENERATOR to eternity. Here therefore I am admitted by the eye of faith, to a participation of the blessed vision seen by the beloved apostle of old, when, as He Himself describes it, He saw seven golden candlesticks, and in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of Man clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle. His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow, and His eyes were as a flame of fire; and His feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and His voice as the sound of many waters. And He had in His right hand seven sturs, and out of His mouth went a sharp two-edged sword; and His countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength, (Rev. i. 12 to 17.) I am resolved therefore henceforth to take this God for my GoD, and thus to approach and worship the INVISIBLE FATHER in the VISIBLE HUMANITY, which He has been pleased to assume and unite with Himself as the sacred medium, by and through which all

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His penitent children may have perpetual access unto Him, and He to them. I am resolved further to repent me of all my sins, and endeavour to enter into that process of renewed life, to which my SAVIOUR invites me both by His precepts and His example. Thus may I encourage the blessed hope, that that SAVIOUR will mercifully accomplish in me, in miniature, the same blessed work which He accomplished, when here on earth, in all its magnitude, by first instructing me in the ways of His righteousness, and afterwards conducting me, through His cross and sufferings, to the subjugation of all sin and the powers of darkness, until finally He arises also from the dead in me, and is exalted in ascension-glory to the supreme dominion in my love and life, by virtue of which exaltation I shall be enabled to join in the song of the everblessed, Worthy is the LAMB that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing, (Rev. v. 12 ;) and again, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our GOD, and the power of His CHRIST [the DIVINE HUMANITY,] for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night, (Rev. xii. 10.) AMEN.

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MIRACLE OF PENTECOST.

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ACTS ii. 1 to 37.

And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place; and suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mightywind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting; and there appeared to them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit guve them utterance, &c. &c.

Q. WHAT do you here understand by the day of Pentecost 2

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A. The word Pentecost is derived from the Greek word Pentecoste which signifies the fiftieth, because the feast of Pentecost was celebrated the fiftieth day after the sixteenth of Nisan, which was the second day of the feast of the passover. The Hebrews call it the feast of weeks, Exod. xxxiv. 22, because it was kept seven weeks after the passover. On the sixteenth day of the month Nisan, or March, the wave-offering of the first sheaf was to be made, to implore the

divine blessing on the ensuing harvest, which began about that time, that climate being so much warmer and forwarder than ours: and fifty days being allowed with that for the getting in all their corn, that is, the remaining fifteen in Nisan, (March,) and twenty-nine in Ijar or Zif, (April,) the sixth of Sivan (May) would be the day of Pentecost; when they were to hold the solemn festival of thanksgiving, for their participation of the harvest, together with a grateful commemoration of their being delivered from Egyptian servitude, and enjoying their property by reaping the fruits of their labours, Levit. xxiii. 10, 11, &c. The learned have observed, that the very day of Pentecost was the same day on which God delivered the law from mount Sinai, Exod. xix. 11, as it was that on which the apostles were filled with the Holy Ghost, and the gospel was attended with remarkable

success.

Q. And what do you understand by their being all, on this occasion, with one accord in one place?

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A. In the original Greek there is no mention here made of place, but it is expressed eis to auto, which more properly signifies for this (purpose,) to denote that they were all of one mind to celebrate the solemn feast of Pentecost, which was the object of their assembling.

A. And what do you conceive to be here meant by the words, Suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty

wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting?

A. According to the literal sense of this mi racle, these words are to be understood literally, because they were literally true; but according to the spiritual sense, they are to be understood spiritually, and are to be interpreted in agree ment with the general law of interpretation, when applied to signs or symbols from heaven. According, therefore, to this law, by a sound from heaven, is to be understood the operation of a principle which affects the will, because sound applies itself to the sense of hearing, and hearing is a sense more subject to and connected with the will of man, as the sense of sight is more subject to and connected with the understanding. By a sound from heaven then, on this occasion, was intended to be expressed the operation of the divine love which prevails in heaven, and which was designed, according to this symbolical language, to prevail on earth, and therefore it is written, that it was as a rush. ing mighty wind, and filled all the house where they were sitting, because by a rushing mighty wind was figured the powerful influence by which it was felt and perceived; and by its filling all the house where they were sitting, is fur ther denoted its taking entire possession of the minds of those who were assembled in the house.

Q. But it is written, There appeared to them cloven tongues like as of a fire, and it sat upon

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