COMPENDIUM OF THE ORIGIN, HISTORY, PRINCIPLES, RULES AND REGULATIONS, GOVERNMENT, AND DOCTRINES OF THE UNITED SOCIETY OF BELIEVERS IN CHRIST'S SECOND APPEARING - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 Excerpt: ... of this jubilee sounded, all debts were cancelled, and all slaves were restored to freedom. Equality of person was established, and the Lord reigned triumphant for one whole year. 5. All the spontaneous produce of the land was free food for the Lord's people--the wheat, the grapes, the figs, etc., were gathered and eaten where they grew, by the poor and the fatherless, the widow and the orphan, the Levite and the stranger; and even the beasts of the field were not forgotten--they rested from their labors, and roamed the fields in peace. 6. The fiftieth year was the Sabbath of sabbaths, and there were concentrated in it all the equalizing elements and fraternal relations of the three preceding sabbaths; and, to crown the whole, the land itself, the foundation of all selfish property, was restored to its original and rightful owners. Thus the last grasp of the monopolizer and selfish speculator on the means of subsistence was loosened, and his selfish, unrighteous accumulations were divided and scattered; society became again resolved into its original elements, as in the wilderness, and a condition of imiversal 'brotherhood was established. 7. These four orders of sabbaths corresponded to the four Dispensations, or cycles. The last of them, the great Jubilee of jubilees, typified, in a. very perfect manner, the sabbath of the world, the fourth and last Dispensation, or cycle, wherein, wlf being destroyed, property is " common;" lust being crucified, a virgin life remains; the lion, war, being overcome by the lamb of peace and non-resistance, gentleness and tranquillity prevail; and, finally, the principle of hate being supplanted by love to God and man, we have the ram-counterfeited seal of the second Christian Church. 8. In Jesus (as a perfect Je...
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