And the fruits of this pure spirit are pure love, righteousness, and godliness, patience, temperance, and humility; by which spirit all are made to drink into one spirit; so that all are the living wells, that have their living water from God and Christ, their true and living fountain; and in which spirit they have a holy and spiritual fellowship, in this baptizing, mortifying, circumcising spirit, yea, one with another, and with the son and the Father also, through which the love of God warms every one's heart. But when the love of many waxes cold, as Christ saith, then they go from this grace, light, truth, power, and spirit, and the anointing, and the word of God in their own hearts; then such turn to be betrayers, and not saviours upon mount Zion. And against such God's swift judgment turns, and suddenly falls, though they may cry for a time, liberty, freedom, and peace, peace; but a day of trouble will overtake them ere they are aware.

And therefore, all ye friends of Christ Jesus, stand fast in that liberty wherewith Christ hath made you free, by his light, grace, truth, spirit, faith, and everlasting gospel, the everlasting power of God, which is an everlasting freedom and liberty above all bondage and false fallen liberties and freedoms; in this glorious gospel, and glorious joyful liberty, where all may exercise God and Christ's holy gifts in his holy supernatural light, grace, truth, spirit, and divine faith, and word of life, and the gospel; which word cannot be bound with all the world's cords or chains; for it is a fire to burn, and a hammer to break, and a sword to cut in pieces.' And therefore love the word, and keep the word of patience, and the Lord will keep you, for it is a tried word, and it will keep you in all trials, which shall come upon all the world to try them. For the word was before the world was, and will be when the world is gone, which all the new born babes of the incorruptible seed, who partake of the milk of the word, grow by it up into an immortal life, and kingdom that is without end; Glory and praises to the Lord God for

ever.'

And now, ye babes of Christ, if the world do hate you, it hated Christ your Lord and master also; if they do mock, and reproach, and defame, and buffet you, they did so to your Lord and master also; who was and is the green tree, that gives nourishment to all his branches, his followers.

Now, if the world do persecute you, and take away your goods or clothes, was not your Lord and master so served? Did not they cast lots for his garments? Was not he haled from the priests to Herod, and before Pontius Pilate, and spit upon? And if they hate thee, and spit upon thee, he was hated and spit upon for thee. Did he not go to prison for thee? And was he not mocked and scourged for thee? Did not he bow to the cross and grave for thee, he who had no sin, neither was

guile found in his mouth? And did he not bear thy sins in his own body upon the tree? And was he not scourged for thee, by whose stripes we are healed? Did not he suffer the contradiction of sinners, who died for sinners, and went into the grave for sinners, and died for the ungodly, yea, tasted death for every man, who through death destroyed death, and the devil, the power of death, and is risen? For death and the grave could not hold him, nor the powers and principalities, with all their guards and watches, could not hold him within the grave; but he is risen, and is ascended far above all principalities, powers, thrones, and dominions, and is set down at the right hand of God, and remaineth in the heavens till all things be restored. And he is restoring with his light, grace, truth, power, spirit, faith, gospel, and word of life; so that you read of some, that came to sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.

And therefore all must bow at the name of Jesus their saviour, in his light, grace, truth, power, spirit, and gospel, (for he hath bowed for you,) if you rise with him; and you must suffer with him, if you will reign with him; and die with him, if you will live with him. And all that are dead and buried with Christ, and are risen with him, they will seek those things that come down from above, where Christ sits at the right hand of God; and there you will seek those things which come down from above, and not things which are below.

For those which seek those things that are below, are the talkers of God and Christ, and the prophets, and apostles' words, but they are not dead with Christ, nor risen with him; and therefore they do not seek those things that come down from heaven, where Christ sits at the right hand of God. But they are them that seek the things that are above, that are dead with Christ, and risen with him; they, I say, do seek those things which come down from heaven, where Christ sits at the right hand of God; and they have not only sought them, but have found them, and received them, and come to sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, a safe, established, and heavenly sitting in the heavenly rest and habitation in Christ Jesus, who is the first and last, and over all, from everlasting to everlasting. Blessings and praises over all be to the Lord God through him for ever. Amen.

The eternal living God of truth, he is a God of order, and is not the author of confusion, but of peace in all the churches of the saints.

Now the author of confusion, and not of peace, is the god of the world, who abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him; and when he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own; for he is a liar, and the father of it.

Now the Jews, who did the god of the world's lusts, and those called christians that do, were in strife, confusion and disorder.

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For the Jews went out of the order of Aaron and Moses, going from the spirit of God poured out upon the house of Israel, and so went from the Lord, and his law, into confusion and disorder, which the living God of truth was not the author of.

Also the christians, who go from the light, grace, truth, power, spirit, gospel, and faith, which Christ Jesus is the author of, they go from Christ and his order, who was not made a priest after the order of Aaron, but after the order of Melchizedeck, who was without beginning of days, or end of life; an everlasting order.

And such go into strife and confusion that go from Christ, which Christ and God is not the author of, but the world's god, who got into man and woman by transgression and disobedience of the command of God; who is the author of confusion, strife, and disorder, in whom there is no truth. For what order can there be in the world's god, and amongst his subjects, in whom there is no truth? For in whom there is no truth, there is no true order; and they that abide not in the truth, grace, light, spirit, gospel, faith, and word of life, they abide not in the order of God and Christ.

And such will cry against the order of the truth, light, grace, spirit, gospel, faith, and word of life, which brings into the order of Christ, and the order of the living eternal God of truth, who is a God of order, and delights in order, having pleasure in them that live in his spirit, and law of life, and the gospel, and its order. For blessed is the man that delights in the law, or order of God; it was so under the old covenant. Much more blessed is the man or woman that delights in the law and order of love, and the law and order of faith, and the law and order of life, and of the gospel, the power of God.

And none keep the law of faith, but who keep in the faith which Christ is the author of, which works by love. And none keep the law of life, but who keep in the law of the spirit, and walk in it, which is in Christ Jesus, the heavenly and spiritual second Adam, who was before old Adam, who was under the world's god, out of truth, in whom there is no truth, nor true order, but confusion and disorder.

And therefore all who come to God, who is a God of order, must come by the grace, truth, light, power, gospel, faith, and anointing, the word of life within; and such come to love the Lord Jesus Christ, and to delight in God and Christ's order. So you may see, that God is a God of order, who called Aaron and Moses, and they had an order from God. And Melchizedeck had an order; and Christ is after his everlasting order.

And Christ, the truth, hath an everlasting kingdom, that stands in everlasting righteousness, and power, and joy in the holy ghost; yea, an established kingdom, that will never have an end, and cannot

be broken; and no imperfect, defiled, nor corruptible thing enters into it.

And all Christ Jesus's subjects of his everlasting kingdom, that see it, and enter into it, are born again, not of the will of man, but of an incorruptible seed, by the word of God, and have the incorruptible milk of the word of God, by which they grow from babes to men of God; and have the fine linen, the incorruptible clothing, the righteousness of Christ, which is the fine linen, which they do wear in Christ's kingdom.

So all Christ's subjects of his kingdom are known by their birth and clothing, and live in the order of his gospel of love, life, light, grace, and truth; and no man comes into his kingdom and order, but by the light, grace, truth, faith, power, and spirit, and anointing, and word of life within, through which they know Christ, and his everlasting kingdom, that stands in power, and righteousness, and joy in the holy ghost; and by it keep in the order of the law of life, which they have in Christ Jesus.

And they that follow the world's god, that are out of truth, and disobey their Creator, the God of truth, and the Lord Jesus Christ; I say, all such obey and follow him in whom there is no truth; and such cannot endure to hear talk of the order of truth, and of the gospel, or the law, or order of the spirit of life which is in Christ Jesus; which all they that do obey the voice of the Lord, and Christ Jesus in his light, grace, and truth, and gospel, the power of God, and his holy spirit, and faith, and word of life within, come into unity and fellowship one with another, and with the son, and with the Father; and in this they know the order of Christ, and God to be a God of order, and delight in his heavenly and eternal order of light, life, power, and spirit of God, that is over death and darkness, and the world's god, who is a god of disorder, in whom there is no true order, but confusion; and into this holy order of the everlasting light and life he cannot come. Glory to the Lord God, and his son Christ Jesus, who is over all from everlasting to everlasting, and is the rock, and foundation, and habitation of his people, blessed for ever and evermore. Amen.

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POSTSCRIPT.

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Here you may see by these following scriptures, how the apostles loved the good and holy order of Christ in his gospel, and light, and life, and truth; but as Job said, The land of darkness is without any order.' And Babylon signifies confusion, which is the false church, and is called a woman, and a city of confusion, who is against the order of the true church, and gets the titles of the true church that is called a

city, and a woman, which brings forth the man-child,' Christ Jesus; and of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end; who sits upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, to establish it with judgment and with justice, from henceforth and for ever.' So here you may see Christ doth order in his kingdom; and them that have him, have his order. Isa. ix. 7.

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And David saith, Although mine house be not so with God, yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure; for this is all my salvation, and all my desire,' &c. 2 Sam. xxiii.

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Again David saith, Order my steps by thy word, and let not iniquity have dominion over me.' Psalm cxix. 133.

Which is the duty of every christian, to have their steps ordered by the word of God, that lives, and abides, and endures for ever; which word is a word of order.

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And David saith, The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, and he delights in his way. I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread. He is ever merciful, and lendeth, and his seed is blessed.' Psalm xxxvii. Here you may see, how the Lord delights in him, and them that walk in the steps, the Lord orders them with his word.

'And he that orders his conversation aright, shall see the salvation of God.' Psalm 1. 23.

And this order must be in the light, which is the life in Christ the

saviour.

And the apostle Paul, after he had spoken many things to the Corinthians, said, 'The rest will I set in order when I come.' 1 Cor. xi. 34.

And he saith concerning the collections for the saints, in 1 Cor. xvi. 1. As I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye,' to wit, the Corinthians.

So they were to practise the same order, who were the believers in Christ, which the apostle in the power of Christ had given to them.

For the apostle had the wisdom of God, which he had ordained before the world began, unto the glory of his people then and now also. 1 Cor. ii.

And the order that the apostle did give to the churches of the Galatians and the Corinthians was, 'That upon the first day of the week, every one of them should lay by him in store as God had prospered him,' &c. 1 Cor. xvi. 2.

And in Acts xiv. when they had ordained elders in every church, and had prayed, they commended them to the Lord on whom they had believed, confirming the souls of the disciples, &c. and exhorting them VOL. VIII.

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