(*) 31. Tractatus de Charitate, or, A Treatise on Charity. (*) 32. Canones præcipui Novee Ecclesiæ, or, The principal Canons of the New Church.

(*) 33. Varia Observata de Domino, &c. or, Various Observations concerning the Lord, on the Athanasian Creed, on the Word, on Divine Love and Divine Wisdom, and on Marriage.

(*) 34. Quinque Memorabilia maximi momenti, or, Five memorable Relations of the greatest importance.

There are also some other printed pieces and manuscripts of our ay. thor, of which we can at present give no account, not being able to procure them, or to obtain an accurate account of their titles, &c.

CEREMONY

Of laying the corner-stone of the First New Jerusalem Temple built at Philadelphia, situate at the south-east corner of Twelfth and George streets, on Thursday morning, the sixth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, and of the second advent the sixtieth.

AT eight o'clock in the morning, a number of the members of the church having been assembled, proceeded to the place appointed for the edifice, when having deposited on the spot, to be covered by the stone, at the south-east corner of the building, a glass bottle, containing a paper, on which was written the date of the laying of the stone, with the names of the members present, the following service was performed by Maskell M. Carll, officiating, at this period, as the lay reader of the society.

LET US PRAY.

"Our Father, who art in the heavens; sanctified be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so also upon earth. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: for thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ages. Amen." (Matt. vi, 9 to 13.)

"O Jehovah, remember David, and all his afflictions: how he sware unto Jehovah, and vowed unto the Mighty One of Jacob: surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed: I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to

mine eye-lids, until I find out a place for Jehovah, an habitation for the Mighty One of Jacob. Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah: we found it in the fields of the wood. We will go into his tabernacles: we will worship at his footstool. Arise, O Jehovah, into thy rest; thou, and the ark of thy strength. Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness: and let thy saints shout for joy.~ For Jehovah hath chosen Zion: he hath desired it for his habitation. This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell, for I have desired it." (Ps. cxxxii. 1 to 9, 13, 14.)

"Thus speaketh Jehovah of Hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the house of Jehovah should be built. Consider your ways: Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith Jehovah." (Hag. i. 2, 7, 8.)

"Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith Jehovah, and be strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech the high priest, and be strong, all ye people of the land, saith Jehovah, and work: for I am with you, saith Jehovah of Hosts. For thus saith Jehovah of Hosts, Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land and I will shake all nations, and the Desire of all nations shall come, and I will fill this house with glory, saith Jehovah of Hosts. The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith Jehovah of Hosts. The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith Jehovah of Hosts and in this place will I give peace, saith Jehovah of Hosts.--And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of Jehovah. Consider: is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig-tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive-tree, hath not brought forth from this day will I bless you." (Hag. ii. 4, 6 to 9, 15, 18, 19.)

"Therefore thus saith Jehovah, I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith Jehovah of Hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem." (Zech. i. 16.)

"Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith Jehovah. And many nations shall be joined to Jehovah in that day, and shall be my people: and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that Jehovah of Hosts hath sent me unto thee." (Zech. ii. 10, 11.),

"And the angel of Jehovah protested unto Joshua, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of Hosts, If thou wilt walk in my ways, and if thou wilt keep my charge, then thou shalt also judge my house, and shalt also keep my courts, and I will give thee places to walk among these that stand by. Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou and thy fellows that sit before thee: for they are men wondered at: for behold, I will bring forth my servant the BRANCH. For behold, the stone that I have laid before Joshua: upon one stone shall be seven eyes; behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, saith Jehovah of Hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day. In that day, saith Jehovah of Hosts, shall ye call every man his neighbour under the vine, and under the fig-tree." (Zech. iii. 6 to 10.)

"Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovih, Behold, I lay in Zion, for a foundation, a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation: he that believeth, shall not make haste.” (Isa. xxviii. 16.)

(Preparation was here made to lay the stone.)

In the name, and to the honour, of our ever-blessed and everadorable Lord and Saviour JESUS CHRIST, whom alone we acknowledge to be the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, in essence and in person indivisibly and eternally ONE,-This stone is laid (Here the stone was laid)-This stone, I say, is laid, as the first or principal corner-stone in the foundation of a New Jerusalem Temple, now to be erected, and hereafter to be dedicated and devoted to the service and worship of the same only Lord and Saviour JESUS CHRIST, who in his most holy Word has declared himself to be the One Omnipotent, Omnipresent, and Everlasting God of Heaven and Earth. AMEN.

"This is the word of Jehovah unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith Jehovah of Hosts. Who art thou, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain; and he shall bring forth the head-stone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it. Moreover the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it: and thou shalt know that Jehovah of Hosts hath sent me unto you. For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven: they are the eyes of Jehovah, which run to and fro through the whole earth." (Zech. iv. 6 to 10.)

"Thus speaketh Jehovah of Hosts, saying, Behold the Man, whose name is the BRANCH; he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of Jehovah : even he shall build the temple of Jehovah, and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne, and he shall be a priest upon his throne, and the counsel of peace shall be [with him.] And they that are far off shall come and build in the temple of Jehovah ; and ye shall know that Jehovah of Hosts hath sent me unto you. And this shall come to pass, if ye will diligently obey the voice of Jehovah your God." (Zech. vi. 12, 13, 15.)

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"Thus saith Jehovah, I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem, and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of Jehovah of Hosts, the holy mountain. -Thus saith Jehovah of Hosts, If it be marvellous in the eyes the remnant of this people in these days; should it also be marvellous in mine eyes? saith Jehovah of Hosts. Thus saith Jehovah of Hosts, Behold, I will save my people from the east-country, and from the west-country, and I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem, and they shall be my people, and I will be their God in truth and in righteousness. Thus ..saith Jehovah of Hosts, Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, which were in the day that the foundation of the house of Jehovah of Hosts was laid, that the temple might be built." (Zech. viii. 5, 6 to 9.) Yet remember, that, "except Jehovah build the house, they labour in vain that build it." (Psalm cxxvii. 1.)

"Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet, that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces. Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing-floors, and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone, that smote the image, became a great rock, and filled the whole earth." (Dan. ii. 34, 35.)

"Did ye never read in the Scriptures, the stone, which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes? And whosoever shall fall on this stone, shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder." (Matt. xxi. 42, 44.) "I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.

And I John saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven, saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them; and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new." (Apoc. xxi. 1 to 5.)

LET US PRAY.

Most adorable Lord God and Saviour Jesus Christ, who in these latter days hast been graciously pleased to manifest thyself a second time unto the children of men, in the power and glory of thy holy Word, by revealing the spiritual and celestial senses thereof, wherein thou hast thy more immediate residence, and by the light of which, proceeding from thy Divine Humanity, we are enabled through mercy to approach thee alone as our Father and our God, our Creator, Redeemer, and Regenerator; we pray for the prosperity of thy New Jerusalem, now descending from thee out of heaven. Dissipate, we beseech thee, the thick clouds of darkness, which prevent thy appearance; remove all the prèjudices arising from evil and the false; and may the glorious truths of thy heavenly kingdom, at this day revealed in the unfolding of the spiritual and celestial senses of thy holy Word, find an ample reception in the hearts of all thy people. Particularly we pray for the establishment of thy New Church in this land. Open thou the eyes of those, who sit in darkness, and in the shadow of death, that they may see the genuine light of thy holy Word, and thereby be brought to acknowledge thee in thy Glorified Humanity as the only true God and eternal life. And wheresoever thy New Church doth appear on the face of the earth, may it be so led by the Holy Spirit proceeding from thy Divine Humanity, that all who embrace and profess the heavenly doctrines of the New Jerusalem, may with one accord maintain the same in purity of heart, and holiness of life. These things we beg, most merciful Lord, in thy own name, and for the salvation of mankind. Amen.

"The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen." (Apoc. xxii. 21.)