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I am in the Father, and the Father in me, or else believe me for the very works' sake. ye love me keep my commandments, and I will pray the Father, and he will give you another Comforter, that may abide with you forevereven the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him. He that loveth me keepeth my sayings; and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me. These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you; but the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things. ... Peace I leave with you; my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth give I unto you. Hereafter I will

not talk much with you, for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me. If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love its own; but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. They hated me without a cause. . . . Nevertheless I tell you the truth—it is expedient for you that I go away; for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you: but if I depart I will send him unto you. And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment:

of sin, because they believe not on me; of righteousness, because I go to my Father; of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged. In the world you shall have tribulation; but, be of good cheer, I have overcome the world. These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee. This is life eternal, that they might know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. O, righteous Father, the world hath not known thee, but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. I have declared thy name, and will declare it; that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them."-John, chapters xv. xvi. and xvii. "Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him, and the soldiers platted a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and put on him a purple robe and said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they smote him with their hands.

"Pilate therefore went forth again, and saith unto them, Behold, I bring him forth unto you, that ye may know that I find no fault in him. Then Jesus came forth, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe; and Pilate saith unto them, Behold the man! When the chief priests, therefore, and officers saw him, they cried

out, Crucify him, crucify him! Pilate saith unto them, Take ye him and crucify him, for I find no fault in him. Then answered the Jews, We have a law, and by that law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God".John xix.

Such was the spirit indulged toward Jesus, "the Anointed," by whom the Gospel of Salvation was given to man; and the above compend, embracing the declaration of his mission, the purposes thereof, the law of life, revealed through him, the principles of heavenly requirements, the impossibility of fellowship with the world or carnal sphere, while in the way of heaven and righteousness; the union of his Being with the Divine; the certainty that those who loved him would keep his word; the promise of the Holy Ghost--the Comforter, which would be in direct opposition to the carnal man; his prayer; his crucifixtion: these reveal him not of the world; hence his kingdom is unlike that which would unfold from the human heart in its degenerate state. To this end, and for a purpose hereafter to be explained, these passages are thus collected, as well as those of the succeeding chapter, which comprehend the close of his labors before the Ascension, and the fulfillment of his promise by the Spirits' descent on the day of Pentelost. And these passages are quite sufficient to

show the want of harmony between the teachings of Jesus and his Spirit, and those of the popular spiritualism of the day.

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CHAPTER XIV.

COMMISSION, PROMISE, ASCENSION, DESCENT OF THE SPIRIT, ETC.

"BEHOLD," said Jesus, "I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves; be ye therefore wise as serpents and harmless as doves. But beware of men, for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their But when they deliver you up, synagogues. take no thought how or what ye shall speak, for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak; for it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you. He that findeth his life," (loveth the pleasures of the passional man,) "shall loose it," (shall come short of divine joys and dwell in darkness) "and he that looseth his life," (overcometh sensual gratification and liveth in truth,) "for my sake, shall find it.”—Math. x. "But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the market places, and calling unto their fellows, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented: for John came neither eating nor drinking, and ye say, he hath a devil: the Son of Man

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