TWO SERVICES AT THE CHURCH IN NEWMAN-STREET OXFORD-STREET; SUNDAY, MAY 21, 1837. CONSISTING OF THE ADDRESSES OF THE ELDERS AND THE EVANGELISTS, TO WHICH IS ADDED EXTRACTS FROM SERMONS, &c., BY THE LATE REV. EDWARD IRVING, A.M. Illustrated with a fine Portrait of the Rev. E. Irving, LONDON: PUBLISHED BY W. HARDING, 14 GRAYS' INN TERRACE, AND SOLD BY PURKISS, COMPTON STREET; G. BERGER, HOLLYWELL STREET; W. Mc- W. H. Smith, 192, Strand. S. Lowe, 42, Lamb's Conduit Street. G. H. Street, 15, Carey Street, Lincoln's-Inn. J. F. Shaw, Southampton Row. J. Mortimer, 2, Wigmore Street, Cavendish Sq. C. Allen, 81, Great Portland Street, Portland Pl. Forbes and Jackson, Islington Green. C. Gorbell, 24, Aylesbury Street, Clerkenwell. W. Griffith, 41, Goswell Road. JUNE, 1837. PRICE 6d. AT THE CHURCH IN NEWMAN-STREET, OXFORD-STREET. SUNDAY, MAY 21, 1837. Consisting of the Addresses of the Elders and the Evangelists, TO WHICH IS ADDED EXTRACTS FROM SERMONS, &c., BY THE LATE REV. EDWARD IRVING, A. M. 5-5-931 THE ANGEL OF THE CHURCH having | fested in weakness, as we are able to bear uttered a short invocation proceeded to read the 12th chapter of St. Luke. At the end of the 32nd verse, he was stopped by a member of the church, delivering the following MANIFESTATION :— "Has he not called you to his inheritance? Hath he not supported you, and shall ye not trust in him? Give up all, yea, all, all, all for his inheritance. Ye must give up all, ye must follow him in his humiliation, that ye may be made one with him in his exaltation." [It was delivered in a kind of chaunt.] THE ANGEL OF THE CHURCH then read the remainder of the chapter, and resumed his seat. After a momentary pause he stood up and said, "Let us rise and praise the Lord with a psalm." He then read the 8th psalm, after which he gave out the 8th psalm in metre, from the version used in the Scotch kirk, part of which was sung to Abingdon tune, and having offered up another prayer, he delivered the following EXHORTATION :- it, shall then be manifested in all its fulness and glory, and the church, the bride of the Lamb, shall be the eternal dwelling place, and mauifester of the Holy Ghost. Now it is this that gives weight and importance unto the gifts of the Holy Ghost; while it is for our edification, while it is for our comfort, and for our blessing, remember that the end of God is to manifest himself, and the Holy Ghost in his distinctness and separateness of substance from the Father, and from the Son. It can only be revealed, it can only be manifested in the body of Christ which is his church. Now we know but in part, and according to our measure of faith, but when that which is perfect is come, it shall be manifested in all the fulness and glory of God. THE FIRST ELDER then rose and said, It is not said in scripture that God is omnipotence, though he be omnipotent; it is not said that he is infinity, though he be infinite; it is not said that God is power, though he be omnipotent; it is not said that God is holiness, though he The Church, the body of Christ, is for be the Holy One; but it is said, brethren, the manifestation of the Holy Ghost, that God is love. Now the degree of which work was began in the day of blessedness which the creature shall penticost, when Jesus, who ascended up attain unto, is in exact proportion to the on high, received gifts for men, even for creature's capability of receiving and the rebellious, that the God of all might containing God; it is in exact proportion dwell among them. The one has been as he has a capacity for the enjoyment of manifested in the flesh, and had pleased God. Now the first step in the spiritual the Father; and when he was raised ladder is baptism; and that ladder folfrom the dead he was declared to be the lowed and pursued, step by step, leadeth Son of God with power. But the Holy the creature unto the throne of Jesus; Ghost had not been manifested; and this and it is only in Christ, that the fulness is the end of the Lord in the church, to of that truth shall be seen, that God is build up a spiritual house, a living temple love; that the glory of God shall be wherein the Holy Ghost may dwell, and manifested in the creature and seen be manifested. Now, brethren, this dis- ruling over the universe of God. It is pensation is accomplished only in part; only when that is brought forth into and so the Apostle Paul says,- "When manifestation, that the truth of what that which is perfect is come, that which Paul wrote to the Corinthians shall be is in part, shall be done away." But made known unto you :-" Charity never understand in what way it shall be done faileth; but whether there be prophesies, away. It is only by the manifestation of they shall fail; whether there be tongues, the fulness of glory. That which is now they shall cease; whether there be but an earnest, shall then be manifested knowledge, it shall vanish away. For in fulness; that which is now but mani- we know in part, and we prophesy in Α ་ |