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CHAP. til the woman was taken out of the man; so in the first appearing of Christ, that spirit of anointing which constituted Christ, was male and female jointly, but not separately in visible order: Nor could any spiritual union and relation exist in order, between the sexes, until the woman was raised up, in her appointed season, to complete the order in the foundation of the new creation, for the redemption of both man and woman.

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13. This was the reason why the woman was not permitted to teach in the times of the primitive 1 Cor. xiv Church: as saith the apostle, Let your women keep 1 Tim.. silence in the Churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak: And again, I suffer not a woman to teach-and if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home.

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14. The woman was the first in the transgression, and therefore must be the last out of it, and by her the way of deliverance must be completed. Nevertheless, by her faith, and in her subjection to the man, she was justified and accepted in the primitive Church; and only in the line of prophecy, as rela ting to the second appearing of Christ, was she afterwards allowed to teach, until the time of her redemption came.

15. Before the first woman was taken out of the man, he had a work given him to do. He gave names to every beast of the field; but among all those animals, there was not found for him a help, according to that order which was before him :-co, after the second man was created, and his body anointMatt. vii. ed, every beast received from him, his name,* so 15, and 3. that the kingdom of the beast became full of names; Rev. xiii. but there was none among them all, a real help to and xxii. the first-born in the new Creation. Nor could the real spiritual work of his kingdom be set in order, until the names and characters of those beasts were filled up, which was at the end of the beast's dominion, about the middle of the eighteenth century.

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16. When the persecuting power of the beast ceased, the body of the true witnesses, who had the spirit of the two anointed ones, or first foundation pillar in the new creation, fell into a deep sleep; and out

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of that body was the woman taken, by the Spirit of CHAP.
life from God, and by the operation of his creating
power, she was purified, and raised up, as a founda-
tion pillar, and the first born in her order, to stand
as a help with the first born of many brethren, in the
administration of the covenant of redemption.

17. From what hath been observed on the cove-
nant made with Abraham-the law of Moses-the
state of man at the first appearing of Christ-what
was wrought in the days of Christ Jesus and his
apostles and ali that followed, through the reign of
Antichrist, it is evident that the covenant of eternal
life was yet lacking in a very essential point.

18. For as every form, or appearance of a cove. nant, that ever God made with man, stood between two, and required two to fulfil it; so it is evident, not only from the nature of things, but also from every promise and prophecy, which related to the cov enant of eternal life, that it equally required two, in order to its final execution.

19. Then as the first covenant was established between the first man and woman, in the creation of man, and the order and relation of man was comple ted by the woman; so, by the woman, is the order and relation of the man Christ Jesus completed, and a perfect union and equality established, for the purpose of full redemption, and the increase of that mutual glory and happiness, which God, according to the covenant of eternal life, promised to accomplish in the latter day.

20. This covenant relation is between them both : for as the first covenant between the male and female was broken, and the whole creation was thereby marred; so no restoration could take place without a » new covenant relation between male and female: and therefore it was necessary both in the purpose of God, and in the order of things, that Christ should make his first appearing in the man, and his second in the

woman.

21. It was reasonable that Christ Jesus, who was the beginning and first pillar in the new creation, should not be begotten in the ordinary course of nature had it been otherwise, he could not have

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CHAP. wrought any deliverance from sin in the earth, because he was alone, and there was none before him of the human race, who had ever done it. I have trodden the wine press alone; and of the people there was none with me. Yet, if he had not been begotten through that medium by which he took upon him the nature of sin, he could not have destroyed death, which came by sin, nor established the foundation of man's redemption.

22. By his perfect obedience to the law and counsel of God his Father, and the perfect law of rightCol.i. 18. eousness and truth which he established, and by ofHehfering up his own life a sacrifice, through sufferings, Phil. ii. 9, he became the first born of every creature in the new 10. creation, the first begotten from the dead; and God

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hath highly exalted him, and given him a name above every name, not only in this world, but in that which is to come, so that in all things he hath the preeminence.

23. And therefore, when the foundation of man's redemption was laid by the work of Christ's first appearing, the way began also to be prepared for his second appearing, to make a final end of sin, and to bring in everlasting righteousness. For although the foundation was laid, yet there could be no complete redemption from sin, until the revelation of. Christ, for its final destruction, should be made where sin first took its seat.

24. As sin first took its seat in the woman, and thence entered the human race, and as Christ Jesus, in taking upon him the nature of fallen man, made his first appearing in the line of the male only; therefore the mystery of iniquity or man of sin was not fully revealed, nor the mystery of God finished, in Christ's first appearing.

25. And therefore it was also necessary, that Christ should make his second appearing in the line of the female, and that in one who was conceived in sin, and lost in the fulness of man's fall; because in the woman the root of sin was first planted, and its final destruction must begin where its foundation was first laid, and from whence it first entered the hu

man race.

25. Therefore, in the fulness of time, according to the unchangeable purpose of God, that same Spirit and word of power, which created man at the beginning which spake by all the prophets-which dwelt in the man Jesus-which was given to the apostles and true witnesses as the holy Spirit and Word of promise, which groaned in them waiting for the day of redemption-and which was spoken of in the language of prophecy as a woman travailing with child, and pained to be delivered, was revealed in a WOMAN.

27. And that woman, in whom was manifested that Spirit and Word of power, who was anointed and chosen of God, to reveal the mystery of iniquity, to stand as the first in her order, to accomplish the purpose of God, in the restoration of that which was lost by the transgression of the first woman, and to finish the work of man's final redemption, was ANN LEE.

28. As a chosen vessel, appointed by divine Wisdom, she, by her faithful obedience to that same anointing, became the temple of the Holy Ghost, and the second heir with Jesus, her Lord and head, in the covenant and promise of eternal life. And by her sufferings and travail for a lost world, and her union and subjection to Christ Jesus, her Lord and head, she became the first born of many sisters, and the true MOTHER of all living in the new creation.

29. Thus the perfection of the revelation of God in this latter day, excels, particularly, in that which respects the most glorious part in the creation of man, namely, the woman. And herein is the most condescending goodness and mercy of God displayed, not only in redeeming that most amiable part of the creation from the curse, and all the sorrows of the fall, but also in condescending to the lowest estate of the loss of mankind.

30. So that by the first and second appearing of Christ, the foundation of God is laid and completed, for the full restoration of both the man and the woman in Christ, according to the order of the new covenant, which God hath established in them for his own glory, and the mutual good and happiness of each other.

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31. And in this covenant, both male and female, as brethren and sisters in the family of Christ, jointly united by the bond of love, find each their correspondent relation to the first cause of their existence, through the joint parentage of their redemption.

32. Then the man who was called JESUS, and the woman who was called ANN, are verily the two first foundation pillars of the Church of Christ-the two anointed ones the two first heirs of promise, between whom the covenant of eternal life is established-the first Father and Mother of all the children of regeneration the two first visible parents in the work of redemption-and the invisible joint parentage in the new creation, for the increase of that seed through which all the families of the earth shall be blessed.

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CHAPTER VI.

The Subject continued.

VERY thing that exists has a correspondent relation to the cause of its existence. Thus, there is a correspondence between the creature and the Creator; the redeemed and the Redeemer; the sanctified and the Sanctifier; and if there were no creat ure, there could exist no such attribute as Creator.

2. He that sanctifieth, and they who are sanctified are all one: that is, in the order of correspondence. In the same sense, the ruler and ruled, the father and son, the mother and daughter, are respectively one in a correspondent relation, or in a correspondence of attributes.

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3. Without which union or correspondent relation, neither can have real existence. So that the very existence of Father depends upon Son, as much as the existence of Son depends upon Father. from this correspondence in the nature and existence of things, arises every attribute of God and Christ which are known to man.

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