and his evil things. Wherein you may clearly see, the outward body of man and woman is not the body of death, nor sins of the flesh, nor the old man with his deceitful lusts, which must be put off; and how that men and women had outward bodies, before the body of death, and sins of the flesh, and the old man came into them, and by what means they came into man, and by what means they are cast out again, while men and women are upon the earth. And how that the ministers of satan teach people, that they must carry about them a body of death, and sins of the flesh, and imperfection, whilst on this side the grave, which never did the prophets of God, Christ, nor his apostles preach any such doctrine.

THE Protestant priests, ministers, and teachers, preach to the people, and teach them both in public and private, that they must carry a body of sin, and a body of death, as long as they live on this side the grave; and none can be made free from sin and this body of death, as long as they live upon the earth. And they have so riveted this doctrine into the people, of carrying a body of sin and death, and not being made free from it while upon the earth, that both the professors and the hearers, as well as the priests, plead for this body of sin, death and imperfection while upon the earth; and many of the teachers and professors are so ignorant, that they say, the outward body or creature of man and woman, is the outward body of sin and death; which doctrine is utterly false, and they are quite mistaken, for the apostle saith, The earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God, because the creature itself shall also be delivered from the bondage of corruption, into the glorious liberty of the children of God.' Rom. viii. 19, 20, 21. So here it is clear that the outward man of flesh, blood, and bones, is not the old man with his body of death, and body of the sins of the flesh. For the apostle saith, Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with Christ, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin; for he that is dead is free from sin; but now being made free from sin, and become servants of God, that ye have your fruits unto holiness, and your end everlasting life.' Rom. vi. 6, 7. 22. So you may see here that the Romans, and the church of Christ, and the apostles, as men and women, were living, though the old man of sin was crucified.

And in the beginning, when God Almighty created man and woman in his own likeness and image, 'God blessed them, and said unto them, be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it. And said unto them, 'Have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowls of the air, and over every beast of the earth; and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

And God saw every thing that he had made, and behold it was very good.' Gen. i. 26 to the end.

Now here you may see all that God made was very good, perfect, and blessed; and man and woman had no body of death, nor body of sin, though they had outward bodies when God made them. And the Lord God planted a garden, and put them into it, to dress it, and keep it, and said unto them, 'Of every tree of the garden thou mayst eat freely, but of the tree of knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat; for in the day thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die.'

Now here you may see Adam and Eve in paradise, what commands God gave unto them, and as long as they kept under God's teaching they kept in his image, and were blessed, perfect, and happy, and they had dominion over all that God made, and the serpent; and they had outward bodies, yet they had no body of death, nor body of sin, but were perfect, as you may see in Gen. i. 2. For Adam said, 'Eve was bone of his bone, and flesh of his flesh.' So it is clear that their outward body of flesh and bone, is not the body of death, and body of sin, the old man which must be crucified and put off, as in Rom. vi. 6. And Adam and Eve had not this old man, the body of death and body of sin, when God made them, nor as long as they kept under God's teaching, but when they hearkened unto the serpent's false teaching; for the serpent said unto the woman, yea, hath God said, ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? The woman said unto the serpent, we may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden, but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, namely, of the knowledge of good and evil, God hath said ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest you die; for God said, in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.' The serpent said to the woman, 'ye shall not surely die, for God doth know that in the day you eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.' Here the devil was a liar and a murderer from the beginning, for he taught them to eat that which the Lord said, 'in the day they did eat they should surely die,' and the serpent said, 'they should not surely die, they should be as gods,' &c. So in this it is plainly seen, he was a murderer and a liar from the beginning. And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, to wit, the tree of knowledge of good and evil,' which God said, 'in the day that you eat thereof ye shall surely die;' here went out the lust of the flesh, and she saw that it was pleasant to the eyes,' here was the lust of the eye to that which God forbade, and she saw it was a tree to be desired to make one wise;' here was the pride of life.

And John saith, For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the

world; and the world passes away and the lust thereof, but he that doth the will of God abideth for ever.' 1 John ii. 16, 17. And James saith in his General Epistle to the church of Christ, But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed; then when lust hath conceived it brings forth sin, and sin, when it is finished brings forth death.' James i. 14, 15. Now here is the conception of the body of sin and death, and the old man which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts.' Ephes. iv. 22. Now here you may see clearly, this old man which lust hath conceived, which brings forth the birth of sin and death, and the lust of the flesh, lust of the eye, and pride of life, is not of the Father, but of the world; so this old man with his deceitful lusts, and body of sin and death, is not the outward creature of man and woman, nor his outward flesh and blood which God hath made. For you may see Adam and Eve had no body of death and body of sin when God Almighty made them; but when they forsook God and disobeyed his command, and forsook his teaching, and obeyed the serpent's, the liar and murderer's teaching, who abode not in the truth, and so followed the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life, which is not of the Father; and so when lust had conceived it brought forth sin, and when it was finished it brought forth death, and so there came the body of sin, and body of death into man and woman, called the old man with his deceitful lusts, which hath a wisdom below, which is earthly, sensual, and devilish, which is not from above. This wisdom man and woman got by hearkening to the serpent, and looking out at the tree they thought to be made wise, &c. became fools. After man and woman had transgressed the command of God, and disobeyed him, in eating that which God forbid, and hearkening to the serpent, and obeying him, they died, and fell from the image and likeness of God, and his wisdom, power, and dominion, and then God drove them out of paradise into the earth. And though man and woman died from the image and likeness of God, of righteousness and holiness, and his wisdom and power, yet they were alive outwardly in the earth, with their body of death, and sins of the flesh, and had children. And in process of time, the serpent the devil that deceived them, telling them, they should be as gods,' (instead thereof,) he came to be god of the world, which got in by disobedience, and rules in the disobedient; and so I say in process of time, the devil got the disobedient to make gods of stocks and stones, and to worship them. Now all the devil's messengers, teachers, ministers, disciples, prophets, bishops, and shepherds, and his angels and unclean spirits, like the devil that abode not in the truth, all these preach up a body of death, and a body of the sins of the flesh, that men must carry about them as long as they live whilst on this side the grave, and say they must not be made free

from sin and this body of death; whereas the body of death and sins of the flesh, came into man and woman by disobeying God, and forsaking his teaching, and hearkening to the devil's teaching. And so the devil and all his messengers, ministers, prophets, false apostles, priests, bishops, and shepherds, study and labour with all their might in the devil's dark power and unclean spirit, to keep up the devil's works in man and woman, and tells them, there is no perfection here, no overcoming here, while on this side the grave. So they deny the end of Christ's coming, for God never sent any of his prophets, nor his son, nor his apostles, to tell the people they must carry a body of death, or a body of the sins of the flesh to the grave, but said, Be ye holy, for I am holy.' And Peter saith, He that hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation.' 1 Peter i. 15. And for this purpose was the son of God manifest that he might destroy the works of the devil.' And again, Ye know that Christ was manifest to take away sin.' 1 John iii. 5. 8. This is the ministers' of Christ's doctrine, and the blood of Christ cleanseth from all sins. 1 John i. 7. And he shall finish transgression, and make an end of sin, and make reconciliation for iniquity, and bring in everlasting righteousness, &c. to wit Christ. Dan. ix. 24. Now the devil's teachers say you must have your sin, and it is not taken away as long as you live, but you must carry about you the body of death and sins of the flesh to the grave, which is the devil's works, and his ministers' doctrine.

And Peter saith 'Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation, &c. but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish or spot.' 1 Pet. i. 18, 19. And the apostle saith, 'Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.' Heb. x. 22. And Christ sanctifies his people with his own blood.' Heb. xiii. 12. And John saith, Christ that loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood.' Rev. i. 5. And again the apostle saith, 'We have redemption through the blood of Christ, the forgiveness of sins.' Ephes. i. 7. And the apostle saith, being justified by the blood of Christ.' Rom. v. 9. So you may see the doctrine of the holy apostles of Christ was not to preach up the body of death and sins to the grave, as satan's ministers do, but how they were washed, and cleansed, and justified by the blood of Christ.

The Lord said, Noah was a just and perfect man in his generation, and walked with God. The Lord said to Abraham, I am God Almighty, walk before me, and be thou perfect.' Gen. vi. 9. and xvii. 1. And the Lord said unto Israel, Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God.' Deut. xviii. 13. The Lord said Job was a perfect and upright

man, one that feared God and eschewed evil. Job i. 1. and ii. 3. Solomon saith, The path of the just is a shining light which shines more and more unto the perfect day.' Prov. iv. 18. And Christ saith, Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." Matt. v. 48. Zacharias and his wife Elizabeth were both righteous before God, and walked in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless. Luke i. 5, 6. The apostle saith to the Corinthians, That ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.' And again the apostle saith, 'We speak wisdom among them that are perfect.' 1 Cor. i. 10. and ii. 6. And the apostle saith, Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of the Lord.' 2 Cor. vii. 1. And the apostle saith to the Corinthians, We wish even your perfection. Finally brethren, farewell, be ye perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind,' &c. 2 Cor. xiii. 9. 11. And James saith, Let patience have its perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.' James i. 4. And the apostle said, strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, or perfect; let us go on to perfection. Heb. v. 14. and vi. 1. And Peter saith to the saints, 'The God of all grace who hath called us into his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered awhile, make you perfect, establish, strengthen and settle you.' 1 Pet. v. 10. And the apostle saith, that the man of God may be perfect,' &c. 2 Tim. iii. 17. And you may see in Ephes. iv. how Christ gives gifts unto men for the work of the ministry, and for the perfecting of the saints, and for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come into the unity of the faith, and the knowledge of the son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ.' Ephes. iv. to the 14. And again the apostle saith, Christ in you the hope of glory, whom we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.' Col. i. 27, 28.

Now here it may be clearly seen, God, and Christ, and his prophets and apostles, call and encourage to perfection, and justify the perfect. And the work of the ministers of Christ was and is to present every man perfect in Christ Jesus, and bring them to a perfect man. So here it is clearly seen from Genesis to Revelations, never did God, the prophets, Christ, nor his apostles preach up a doctrine to people, and tell them they should not be perfect, but they must carry a body of sin and death whilst they are upon the earth to the grave. So is it not clear here that all such are satan's ministers and preachers, and not God's nor Christ's, that say people must be imperfect, and have a body of sin and death whilst upon the earth, which body of sin and imperfection came into man and woman by disobeying God, and hearkening to the