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There are nine positive commands, that a Jew must break and
deny, before ever he can become a Christian.
1st. He must deny the Unity of God, and support a
Trinity of Persons, which is Idolatry, (see Deut. 4:16,) and take the
name of a man
(a "male") as a God, into his mouth.
2d. He must deny the Seventh Day Sabbath,
which is the Seventh "Spirit of God," or the Seventh Spirit of
his Existence,
which is Rest, and keep the ROMAN SUNDAY.
3d. He must deny C i r c u m c i s i o n, which is
a positive command of God, never to be abrogated or gainsaid
by any inferior testimony: Excision is the penalty. See Gen.
17:10, 13, and 14.
4th. He must deny and cease to keep the Four Annual
Feasts, which were to be "kept forever throughout their generations."
5th. He must deny the whole Law* of God, as being
"Abrogated," "dead," and "Married to another," (see Rom. 7:4,)
and "Finished," and not merely succeeded, but superseded by a
Gospel (so called,) and thus destroy all that preserves the
existence†
of the moral character of God, or his Attributes, which is the
same thing. And who cannot see, if we destroy the Law, the Gospel (so called)
has no foundation whatever?
6th."He must lose sight and deny the Supremacy and
Pre-Eminence
of Israel as a Nation, and "Kingdom of Priests,"
(Exod. 19:6,) over the whole world, also Esau's selling his "Birthright"
to Jacob, which included also his "Blessing," of being "Lord
over him" and the whole visible creation. Gen. 27:29.
7th. He must deny God's positive command, "That
Israel shall dwell alone," (Deut. 33:28, and Num. 23:9,) "and not be
reckoned among the nations;" and by mingling himself amongst the Gentiles, loses
his own Identity, and if he have any children, they must be neither
Jew nor
Ashdod. Neh. 13:24.
8th. He must deny any difference between "Clean
and Unclean," "Sacred and Profane," which God positively
commands in his Law. See Lev. 11.
9th. He uses "Blood," "Things Strangled"
and "Offered to Idols," even to Three* DISTINCT PERSONALITIES,
which is Spiritual "Fornication and Idolatry," (see Deut.
4:16,) and whenever he eats anything blessed in any other name
than the "name
of the only one God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob," he sacrifices
unto a "Strange God;" besides he denies and destroys,
as far as he can go, the design God has in keeping the distinctness
and Identity
of that People upon whom alone "he has named" and placed his Great
Incommunicable and Ineffable NAME, as the alone medium of
Blessing the whole world.
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