It is an admirable plan to try the wicked; for enough has been understood of the Scriptures, so that the wayfaring men, though fools, should not err therein, Isa. xxxv. 8, while the ill-inclined have distorted them to cover their vicious propensities.

By taking the word of the Lord with judgment, so that no part may be construed into a different meaning to another.

2 Peter i. 20. Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the Scripture is of any private interpretation.

And putting here a little, and there a little together, where they agree, a grand and harmonious whole will be formed, and their true meaning ascertained.

It must be borne in mind, that the reason the Scriptures are written figuratively, is because they are addressed to the fallen angels, as well as mankind. Jesus reminded Satan of this, See Matt. iv. 7, 10. Luke iv. 4, 8, 12, see also 10th and 11th verses, which he did not deny, and Satan showed that he understood their figurative and prophetic meaning, when he desired the Messiah, to make himself and his angels, the stones of darkness, bread for mankind, as he knew Jesus was to be. See Luke iv. 3. Matt. iv. 3. also 6th verse, and Job xxviii. 3.

In this work, repetitions will necessarily be unavoidable, to explain the subject in hand; for it must be recollected, that nothing is so soon forgotten as Scriptural truths.

THE OPENING OF THE MYSTICAL INSTITUTION OF THE LORD'S SUPPER,

After the resurrection of the Messiah from the dead, he gave his last comprehensive commandments to his eleven disciples, saying: Matt. xxviii. 18. All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, &c. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you.

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One of these commands is

John v. 39.

Search the Scriptures; for in them ye think ye have

eternal life and they are they which testify of me.

The Messiah referred them to the Old Testament Scriptures, and this was his practice repeatedly, as we find by the following passages: Matt. xxi. 42. Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the Scriptures.

xxii. 29.

xxvi. 54.

Luke xxiv. 27.

Ye do err, not knowing the Scriptures,

But how then shall the Scriptures be fulfilled?

And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, he expounded unto them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

32. And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the Scriptures?

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And he said unto them, these are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the Prophets, and in the Psalms, concerning me.

Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the Scriptures.

The Old Testament Scriptures therefore combined with the New contain all things necessary to salvation; always recollecting the passage at 2 Peter i. 20.

Prov. xxx. 6. Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

The Redeemer constantly rejected the traditions of the Jews, calling them liars, John viii. 44, 45, and accused them of annulling the Scriptures by such means. The Scribes and Pharisees asked him,

Matt. xv. 2. Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? 3. But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the cammandment of God by your tradition ? 29 29 6. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.

Mark vii. 8. For, laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men.

99 99 3. Holding the tradition of the elders.

Thus we find that God had revealed his mind to the Jews, in the Scriptures, to make which of none effect, the Spirit that worketh in the children of disobedience, Eph. ii. 2, had invented his additions, and handed them down from father to son repeatedly, as the tradition of the elders. Read Matt. xxiii. 13, &c.

In the Old and New Testament Scriptures, the only and full explanation is given by God to his people, of the mystical institution of the Lord's Supper. In opposition to which is the perversion given by the Serpent to the Church of Rome, against the evidence of our senses: 2 Cor. xi. 14. For Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Like the Scribes and Pharisees of old, the Babylonish priests cherish carefully their traditions, handed down for ages, from their Popes, and Councils, and Writers; by which they gloss over several parts of Scripture, and give their own wrong interpretations of them.

Written documents are in existence, that prove their aversion to the circulation of the Scriptures among the people, even by those high in their church. And their newly elected monarch, in his encyclical letter of 1846, decries the numerous translations of the Scriptures, into the different tongues of mankind. God sanctioned these translations when he gave the disciples the gift of tongues on the day of Pentecost, Acts ii. 6, that they might preach the gospel to the nations in their own languages. Let the King of Rome also reflect that his own Latin bible is a translation from the languages in which the Scriptures were originally written. By allowing it, he condemns himself, and tacitly admits the propriety of translations.

Although the Hebrew is generally admitted to be the primitive language, yet so little regard has the Almighty shown for any particular tongue, that the Scriptures were written in the one that was most convenient, when they were made known. The Old Testament was written in the Hebrew and Chaldee languages, and the New Testament in the Greek.

Although the Ethiopian eunuch understood not when reading them in the desert, the Spirit of God did not check him, but commanded Philip to join the chariot, when he preached to him Jesus. See Acts viii. 26, &c.

England, by her example, has roused other nations to form Bible Societies for the distribution of the Scriptures, that all may read, and search them, like the noble Bereans.

Acts xvii. 11. These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the Scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

In the institution of the Lord's Supper are four emblems; the bread, and the cup containing the wine, laid upon the table. And that the explanation may be clearer, the heads are now given of both tables; the Lord's table, and the table of devils.

THE LORD'S TABLE, 1 Cor. x. 21.

The Bread is emblematical of the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

The Wine, of meekness.

The Cup, of the New Testament, called the Cup of Salvation.

The Table, of the crucified Redeemer, the only mediator between God

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THE TABLE OF DEVILS, 1 Cor. x. 21.

The Bread is emblematical of the leaven of hypocrisy, called the bread of deceit and wickedness.

The Wine, of violence.

The Cup, of tradition; therefore the cup of damnation.

The Table, of saints so called, for mediators, and consequently the practical rejection of the Messiah, by worshipping Angels.

By the crucifixion, and resurrection of the Messiah from the dead, the Mosaic law was practically abolished.

Rom. x. 4. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.

The symbols at the passover were then changed, because the great antitype had suffered. The Lamb slain by the Jews was a type of Jesus, the Lamb of God, without blemish and without spot, 1 Peter i. 19, that taketh away the sin of the world. John i. 29. The prophet that was to come like unto Moses. Deut xviii. 18, 19. John i. 45. Acts iii. 22, 23; vii. 37.

Instead of the Jewish Passover we have the Lord's Supper instituted by Jesus, as typical of himself, who died for our sins according to the Scriptures. I Cor. xv. 3. Luke xxiv. 46.

For even

CHRIST OUR PASSOVER

is sacrificed for us. 1 Cor. v. 7.

The Lord will pass over those who keep this feast aright, when he cometh to judge the world, as he passed over the houses of the Israelites, who kept the passover as he commanded them, see Ex. xii. chap., when he destroyed the first born of Egypt.

1 Cor. v. 8. Therefore let us keep the feast, with the unleavened bread of SINCERITY and TRUTH.

Pilate asked Jesus, What is truth? John xviii. 38. Jesus had previously told his disciples.

John xiv. 6. I am the truth.

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10. The words that I speak unto you, I speak not of myself. 24. And the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's

which sent me.

xv. 15. All things that I have heard of my Father, I have made known unto you.

These agree with Deut. xviii. 18, and John xii. 49.

John viii. 47. He that is of God heareth God's words. See 1 John iv. 6. iii. 34. For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God. See Isa. xlviii. 16.

viii. 45. And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not. Jesus said to his Father

John xvii. 8. I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me.

14. I have given them thy word;

17. Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. See Ps. cxix, 142, 151.

For these reasons Jesus is figuratively styled The Word of God. Rev. i. 2, 9; xix. 13. Luke iii. 2. The same as the seed sown. Luke viii. 11. John xii. 24. John calls him the Word. 1st chapter. John i. 14. And the Word was made flesh, &c., full of grace and

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truth.

17. Truth came by Jesus Christ.

v. 33. Ye sent unto John, and he bare witness unto the truth.

viii. 31. If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples

indeed;

32. And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make

you free.

John vii. 16. My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.? 192299117. If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.

The Pharisees confessed to Jesus,

Matt. xxii. 16. Master we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth. See Mark xii. 14.

And Jesus answered Pilate

John xviii. 37. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.

xvi. 7. I tell you the truth.

viii. 40.

Now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God.

46. Which of you convinceth me of sin? and if I say the truth, why do you not believe me?

Jesus is the faithful and true witness. Rev. iii. 14; xix. 11. John viii. 14. Prov. xiv. 5 ; xxvii. 20.

But we also read that

1 John v. 6. The Spirit is truth.

And Jesus said to his disciples,

John xvi. 13. Howbeit, when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you unto all truth, &c.

Eph. v. 9. The fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth.

Therefore Jesus and the Holy Ghost are the truth, together with God the Father.

2 Cor. i, 18. God is true.

-Titus i. 2. God, that cannot lie.

Num. xxiii. 19. God is not a man, that he should lie.

Ps. xxxi. 5. O Lord God of truth.

Rom. iii. 4. Let God be true, but every man a liar.

1 John v. 7. There are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one;

Figuratively. See John x. 30. The Father is in heaven. Matt. v. 16, and when Jesus was on the earth fulfilling his ministry, he said, he was in heaven, John iii. 13, therefore the Spirit is in heaven also, because Jesus and the Spirit cannot be separated, as it will be found hereafter.

When opening Rev. xii. 1. it will be seen, that heaven is a type of them that are publicly in covenant with God; who are outwardly professing Christians, in whom the three bear record. The three are one in unity of purpose and action. See Eccles. iv. 11, 12.

As the three are the truth, it follows that nothing but the truth can emanate from them. The Scriptures are inspired by the Holy Ghost, 2 Pet. i. 21, who is the Spirit of God; and Jesus spoke the words of his Father that he had heard, John xv. 15, and by the Spirit given him without measure, iii. 34. The Scriptures are therefore the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth that we are called upon to eat. But the question naturally arises, How can we eat words? The Scriptures explain this.

Jer. xv. 16. Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart.

Isa. lv. 2. Eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

Ezekiel was commanded to eat the roll, and John, the book, Ezek. iii, 1, 3, Rev, x. 9, 10, and they were, in their mouths, sweet as honey. Ps. cxix. 103. How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter brow at 91s you than honey to my mouth! giao da 391079.152 afT