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 must repent and be baptized by water? And the Lord said unto Adam, Behold I have forgiven thee thy trangressions in the garden of Eden. Thence came the saying abroad among the people, That Christ hath atoned for origi­nal guilt, wherein the sins of the parents cannot be answered upon the heads of the children, for they are whole from the foundation of the world.

And the Lord spake unto Adam, saying, Inasmuch as thy children are conceived in sin, even so when they begin to grow up, sin conceiveth in their hearts, and they taste the bitter, that they may know to prize the good. And it is given unto them to know good from evil: wherefore they are agents unto themselves, and I have given unto you another law and commandment: Wherefore teach it unto your children, that all men, everywhere, must re­pent, or they can in no wise inherit the kingdom of God, for no unclean thing can dwell there, or dwell in His presence; for in the language of Adam, Man of Holiness is His name; and the name of His Only Begotten, is the Son of Man, even Jesus Christ, a righteous Judge which shall come.

I give unto you a commandment to teach these things freely unto your children, saying, That, inasmuch as they were born into the world by the fall which bringeth death, by Water and Blood and the Spirit, which I have made, and so become of dust a living soul, even so ye must be born again of Water and the Spirit, and cleansed by Blood, even the Blood of mine Only Begotten, into the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven; that ye may be sanctified from all sin, and enjoy the words of eternal life in this world, and eternal life in the world to come, even immortal glory: For by the Water ye know the com­mandment; by the Spirit ye are justified, and by the Blood ye are sanctified, that in you is given the record of heaven;—the Comfortor;—the peaceable things of immortal glory;—the truth of all things;—that which quickeneth all things, which maketh alive all things;—that which knoweth all things, and hath all power, according to wisdom, mercy, truth, justice, and judgment.

And now, behold, I say unto you, this is the plan of salvation unto all men: the Blood of mine Only Begotten, which shall come in the meridian of time. And behold all things have their likeness, and all things are created and made to bear of me, both things which are temporal, and things which are Spiritual; things which are in the heavens above, and things which are on the earth; and things which are in the earth, and things which are under the earth, both above and beneath: all things bear record of me.

And it came to pass when the Lord had spoken with Adam, our father, that Adam cried unto the Lord, and he was caught away by the Spirit of the Lord, and was carried down into the Water, and was laid under the Water, and was brought forth out of the Water: And thus he was baptized, and the Spirit of God descended upon him; and thus he was born of the Spirit, and he be­came quickened in the inner man: And he heard a voice out of heaven, say­ing, Thou art baptized with fire, and with the Holy Ghost.

This is the record of the Father, and the Son, from henceforth and for ever: and thou art after the order of Him who was without beginning of days or end