thereof & suffered themselves through the power of the Devil to be overcome unto the denying of the truth & the defying of my power; They are they who are the sons of perdition of whom I say it had been better for them never to have been born, for they are Vessels of wrath, doomed to suffer the wrath of God with the Devil & his Angels throughout eternity, concerning whom I have said there is no forgiveness for them in this world nor in the world to come, having denied the only begotten Son of the Father crucifying him unto themselves and putting him to an open shame. These are they who shall go away unto the Lake of fire & brimstone with the Devil & his Angels, They are the only ones on whom the second death shall have any power, yea verily the only ones who shall not be redeemed in the due time of the Lord after the sufferings of his wrath. they shall be brought forth by the resurrection of the dead through the triumph & glory of the Lamb, who was slain, who was in the bosom of the Father before the worlds were made— And this is the Gospel, the glad tidings which the voice out of the Heavens bore record unto us, that he came into the world, even Jesus to be crucified for the world & to bear the sins of the world & to [p. [66]]