by the aid of another, which he never would do nor require if baptized.

"But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.”—1st. Epis. John, c. ii., v. 27.

This is the power of baptism that follows that of John's, but no man can, let him be ever so classified in letters (as St. Paul), can never understand the things of God, save through the Spirits agency alone; salvation cannot be obtained by the co-operative assistance of man though proffered with Godly zeal and desire. "Know ye not" saith St. Paul, "that your bodies are the temples of the living Lord;" and although countless sects of religious denomination continually exclaim, that Christ is found in this house, or secret chamber, He himself has forwarned man to disbelieve, and "Go not after them."-The last commission issued from Heaven, was the prophetical revelations written by John, of the things that would, and is come to pass; as we have before stated it becomes a fearful duty to acquire a satisfactory knowledge, whether these prophesies has not been accomplished at a fearful sacrifice eternally of souls, both in the past and present, though painfully visible before us.

"I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and spake as a dragon.

"And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.

"And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men.

"And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.

"And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.

"And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads :

"And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or name of the beast, or the number of his name.

Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast; for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six."-Rev., c. xiii., v. 11-18.

Our task is here difficult, because the operation of these prophesies are in power, and having no desire to assert their truth, save that above stated, that eternal damnation, or joy, is for ever sealed, by accepting or rejecting the forms of ceremony and worship; granting also, that possibly there are a large number of upright and pious persons existing, zealous of the salvation of their fellow man, have been deceived, which the quotation above reminds us. As a tree is known by the fruit it bears, so truly might it indicate by the powerful working of the system to a finite conclusion.

God is not partial, neither can the truly followers of Christ be, therefore this denomination is disowned by him, who by the mouth of John hereby warned man, that this power which would shortly come to pass, would take for doctrine that members of their denomination, should not buy, nor sell, or trade, with others of another belief, nay, this antichristian inderdict extended to those who had not the sign (of the cross) in their foreheads, or (married) in their hands, furthermore, if not the number (professing that creed) of their name; as the angels of Heaven could not sing in holy harmony with the agents of Satan, neither can the sword that slays those for whom Christ died, and the bible be one unity. The Horns of War and the Horns of the Alter, may be like a lamb in godly appearance, whereby those that dwell on the earth are deceived, but disowned by the Lamb of God, who died to save, to reconcile, that war should not exist. We find in the above quotation, the following important headings for reflection :-beast-another beast-horns like a lambimages-the life-the mark in forehead-in the hand-the buying and selling the killing-the name of the beast, and the number of his name.

When the catholic power in these realmns was wounded, re-established, and again destroyed; some scribes of those days, zealous for the establishment of another power, and religious formation, boldly asserted that the Pope's power spiritual and temporal, was indicative of the first beast, in the commencement of the chapter; and the another beast was its establishment, after the tempory fall; be this as it may, we forbear to judge, or at present assert what the Pope in retaliative justice to himself has confessed, that the another beast was the establishment of a religious

Apostacy seceeded from the Catholic faith, without Divine Authority, whose mark and number of his name was Protestantism; we repeat that in the event of such declaration following excommunication, that the images of the beast, was the clergy; and the life that enabled them to speak, college education; the mark in the forehead, infant baptism; in the hand, marriage ceremony; that it would doubtless have been as such believed, and found no room for modern complaints of buying and selling, and killing. I lack patronage state the tradesman, I employment, the artisan, I have secret enemies, another, I lack the gift from legacies, the widow; come to my place and worship, cries the image in God's likeness; go not after them states Christ, for every one shall know me, from the least to the greatest. What with the millions of teachers of accumulative denominations, desirous of teaching God to man, a holy work that is solely invested in Christ's teaching, by the administration of the Holy Spirit in spiritual baptism, coming forth from that altar whereat no man giveth attendance, is antagonistic to the Spirit of grace by faith. No one but the King of Righteousness can administer these only wants; St. Paul tells us that we have such an High Priest, who hath ascended into the heavens to administer to man's wants; to teach all things spiritually, if we doubt this power of what good is our faith in him, whose voice if need be would shake the earth. If the High Priest is not competent to accomplish this Holy Work, which he Himself began, our hope is vain, the attempt to know the Lord from the lips of a fellow sinner, foolish, and offensive to the strivings of the Spirit, however seeming great his worldly positions. Why have we wars and famines, pestilences and distress of nations? but for the introduction of multitudes of religious forms of worship, and diversities of opinion, and God has prophesied by St. John, that he would add unto us the plagues written therein. To understand baptism we should remember that our first ancestors were driven forth from God, and except one race whom God purified, sanctified, and blessed, that a purity of blood sufficiently clean of impure inclinations of evil, to enable himself to descend, man were outcasts from God; by the establishment of baptism unto those willing to submit lies the reacceptation of man by God, and thence remained a daily communicant at His table of intellectual bread of life. A Holy Communion between man and his Maker, pure and impartial, as written of Adam, Enoch, Abraham, Moses, and the Prophets, the Apostles, and those baptized by them, and who went on their way rejoicing.

SPIRITUAL BAPTISM, the FIRST RESURRECTION.

"But all thinks that are reproved are made manifest by the light for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.

"Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepeth, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light."-Ephe., c. v., v. 13-14.

This second baptism, for wherefore the baptism of John prepares the way, to receive God, by the anointing of the Spirit that teacheth all things, that we need not that any man teach us, is-re-creation. When God originally created man, perfect, holy, and omniscient, after his own image and likeness, was forwarned of the death, which nature corrupted for ever in this life deplores, thus was man driven forth from God, and became a wanderer, in doubt, fear, and misapprehensions to the future.

"Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepeth, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give the light," and become like Christ a second Adam, an adopted Son of God, by this re-creation from the dead.

"This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind.

"Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their hearts."-Ephe., c. iv., v. 17-18.

Spiritual baptism therefore, when prepared to receive it, is being arose from the dead, whereby nature, from Adam's being driven forth from God, became alienated from the life of God, are vain by the darkened understanding of the things of God, are ignorant, because of the blindness of heart, this is the wilderness that should find an echo to the preaching of John, those who do, and those who do not, are faithfully represented by the wise and foolish virgins, and the ignorance in striving to obtain the oil of enlightenment, from anothers teaching, instead of Christ.

"If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right of God.

"Set your affections on the things above, not on things on the earth. "For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

"And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him.”—Colos., c. iii., v. 1. 2. 3. and 10.

"For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh.

"That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgment of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ.

"In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge."Colos., c. ii., 1-3

"For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day."-Corin., c. iv., v. 16.

No man can baptize, with this baptism, it is the work of the Spirit, that Christ died to administer; it is the true Tabernacle that himself pitched, and alone High Priest and Minister, no man giveth attendance at this altar, no man having risen in Christ, by the administration of the Holy Spirit, needeth any man to teach him; the law is no more, he hath broken her bars, her gates are cast asunder, the temple destroyed, the tabernacle broken down, her priests are among the slain, and his people scattered to the four winds of heaven, to become himself the great Holy Priest, after the order of Melchisedec.

"Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power."-Rev., c. xx., v. 6.

Whosoever knoweth himself deficient in the knowledge of Christ, is not accepted by the Spirit, nor can he be an adopted Son of God, for the spirit testifies with the spirit of those risen in Christ, that they are the children of God, by the full assurance of the knowledge of the mystery of God; by the inward man renewed day by day, in the spirit of the mind, and cry Abba, Father. There can be no salvation by Christ, except he has thus adopted from death, by this his Spiritual Baptism.

"Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

"Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

"But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they