Excerpt from An Epistle to All Who Go Under the Profession of Friends Jesus was the promised seed which comprehended and contained the fulness; and was a sign according to the spirit of prophesy, that the hearts of many might be re vealed, as was declared, behold I give you a sign, a vir gin shall conceive and hear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. This sign of the times, which was fulfilled in its due season, could not be discerned by the Jew out ward, or those not of the circumcision of the heart, whose praise is of men and not of God: for without faith, God's gift cannot be seen either in figure or substance slthou b. The figure be a perfect representation of the reality. T e natural man can discern natural signs of the sun and the clouds; the spiritual man sees the sign of the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven, which is God's kingdom, throne, and dominion to which every knee must bow and tongue confess to the glory of his gift, in his name, the hiding place of the righteous to which they may flee and be safe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.