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Zion Ward's answer to Mr. Howitt's History of priestcraft
Zion Ward's answer to Mr Howitt's History of priestcraft Author:John Ward Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: he is no longer bound to any religious laws of man's making, or in bondage to their doctrines and notions. He knows that he cannot sin, for the sinning principle... more » is destroyed ; for the man who was the Devil (by disobedience) the same has become the Son of God— Shiloh or Christ, by obedience. So here is the perfect law of liberty, and complete freedom and redemption. All that is required is obedience, and love to receive this free unconditional Gift of the Great Giver of all good, who has thus in his decreed time, condescended to come down to the standard of the human mind, and to the capacity of the human intellect. The true " Creation of Man" is thus begun in the one chosen and predestinated for the purpose, viz., Zion, or John Ward.; and from the commencement of this new work of the Eternal Spirit, the years are dated since i825. A new living soul, a spark of the Immortal Deity, generated immediately out of God, was then added to the human spirit, which new soul is called Adam, the first man; who must fall, through ignorance, into all the sufferings and woe of which the Scriptures speak, but rising again, being regenerated, he becomes Christ, the second man, the Lord from heaven, in whom is all judgment, wisdom, and power in the invisible spiritual world. It is this Divine principle out of the Supreme Intelligence or Universal Mind, that, working in the minds of men—its dwelling place, will effect every outward reform, and remedy every social abuse. For God, by his spirit, is the only possible Reformer, and to his wisdom, and power, and love, all honor is due, and all praise must be given. Though it was the gracious will and pleasure of God to reveal himself in a man of no attainments, or natural education, and of obscure position in the world, the power of the God nature ...« less