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iduct them. provide them territory, tood'
lraimcnt and other necessaries oil lie he
meant chat not only in this momentary
life would he provide them external ne
cessaries aud CONFERENCE.-The ai'er &c
lpartinS from this external habi,a,'on' nc
would amply supply them with iooo' ra',
ment aud socieiy-of spiritual oe'si"' s''"
lasting as endless duration. Every eN,e'r
nal promise made 10 men by the Loro ot
heaven and earth. embraces IN us in'erio'
a nrom,se Of spiritual substance, CORE
snoudng 10 the obvious external objects.
Then INV friends, the Jews, the promis-
ed land so much contemplated, must not
lie expected to lie on The banks OF the A
static Jordan, but in the invisible world,
where these many centuries past. Abra-
ham. Isaac, Elijah, Isaiah and the pro-
phets, with all the faithful Jews are enjoy
ing full possession, in fe:lo wship with their
substantial, spiritual and eternal Mess,as.
If the Messias were 10 reside and reign
in that promised territory of which ap,ienl
Jerusalem was the capital, then all the
faithful Jews who have for four thousand
years past departed this life, would be e
ternally deprived of his society and the adj
ICSutNipS
There is no process either in the spiri-
lual or temporal world, by which these an
tent and e,i,hful Jews, could return back
INFO terrestrial habitations. Let none here
say Omnipotence, If he pleased, migs,t ei-
feel This point--No, Omnipctence has pre-
scribed AN order from which he never has.
nor will devia,e-and from which he says
in a consistency with his essence, he never
can depart. BY the immutable laws of
the Eternal One. an acorn may process
into twig and from thence into sap
ling, and IN that course OF proceeding al
Ian hundred years, may arrive at the sta
lture of an oak tree--but the Omnipoient
has fixed no laws by which an aged oak
! may i'm rrtrograde order be reduced into
a sapling. and from thence into an acorn
as il was in IS original state.
I In like manner an embrio, or an infant,
may process into manhood; but by no laws
of Omnipotence can the old man be redu-
ced to the infant. and embrio, and finally
into hinl5is harentur1. From the same pa
rity Of reasoning no manner If retrocessi
on can exist by which Enoch, Noah. A.
brahan, Lac. and numbers Of obedient
Jews who have hundreds and thousa nsls OF
years since resided in world of spirits.
can again assume corporeal bodies or ts-
bernacles, of elementary materials, and
SO 10 residefat Jerusalem or in Judea. with
a Messias. As soon shall the soul OF a
grandfather become the soul OF an en-
brio, or infant, as that departed Jews can
return into flesh and blood and dwell with
a Messias on this globe.
The consequence is that if Messias
were TO appear according to he expceta.
ton of some homes good hearted, vet MS
taken Jews, all the old tes iament prophets,
and all Jews now in the spiritual world
would be at a distance from him. and he
would only preside aiming few Jews col
lected in this present generation were a
Messias TO appear and continue on earth
he would only be prince to the most in.
considerable part of the Jewish nation.
There are Cow existing in the spiritual
|, world tairiy Jews for one that at present
lives on the four quarters Of this globe.
Forty generations Of Jewish extra6f;op
have passed from this world and only one
exists.on earth.
Would reign OF a redecmer among
such an inconsiderable portion of that nail
on as the above related implement, the pre-.
dction OF hessIas ssrecorded in scrin-
,ure, when the very individual prppbeis
who predicted his advent would be Them
selves deprived Of his presence if he exis.
ted in this external world, they being in
the spiritual one. According 10 the nure
divine prediction of Moses, and the pro.
, phcts, the Messiss must be such per.o,
and in such situation and place as tba,
the confluence, The convocalion, the pa.
thering ofthe obedient Jews and GentiIes
should DE to him.
He must not reside at Jerusalem in A.
STA, but in the durable Jerusalem wherr al
ready are convened al the pious LEWIS
and the righteous of all nations who have
taken their departure from their subluna.
W habiiations, & where 10 the end of time.
all the pure people shall be assembled.
Isaiah, chap. 25th, YER. 8.
No Messias on this earth would an
swer TO the above description Of the pro.
phets. Leaving ont of the question that
small territory OF the sn,ient promised
land, the whole surface Of this globe after