PREFACE.

AMONGST those whose hearts are awakened by the quickening power of Divine Truth, there are many inquiring doubtfully on the great questions of Sin and Holiness, and on the great questions inseparably connected with them, namely, Atonement and Righteousness before God.

Young hearts are perplexed by doubts as to what constitutes a thing lawful or unlawful. Older hearts desire to cast away the fetters of worldly thought and habit, and to walk at liberty in the way of God's commandments; they fear to come short, yet fear hardly less an over-strictness in the eyes of others. They realise that the question of Holiness of heart and life is a question that includes pursuits, amusements, social intereverything that makes up life. they are not able clearly to trace how to refuse the evil and choose the good, because they do not clearly see the mind and will of God revealed in

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our Lord Jesus Christ, and are therefore not able to take their stand in the Atonement, and the Righteousness which is of God by faith.

Such appear to long for the Divine Law to be uttered as of old, in the exactness of 'The Letter;' not breathed in the Life-giving Grace and Love of the Word by The Spirit of Truth.' But God writes not the Law for His children on tables of stone, with the mandate affixed to each act, ‘Thou shalt,' or Thou shalt not.' He reveals His mind and will, His very heart to them, in Jesus Christ. 'All things that the Father hath are Mine; therefore said I that He (the Spirit of Truth) shall take of Mine, and shall show it unto you.' (John, xvi. 13-15.) He will guide you into all truth.' Again, Jesus said, 'The words that I speak unto you, they are Spirit and they are Life.' Through the Word of God, applied by the Spirit of Truth, the Lord and Giver of Life,' the soul is restored-converted to God, the eyes enlightened, and the whole man governed.

This Book is written as a TESTIMONY to the Truth as it is revealed in Jesus Christ,' opened to man in Eden, and perfected in Heaven.

EDEN AND HEAVEN.

CHAPTER I.

INTRODUCTION.

'WHO CAN BRING A CLEAN THING OUT OF AN UNCLEAN? NOT ONE!'-JOB, XIV. 4.

BEFORE entering on Scenes in Eden, we would face the Question that lies at the door of every Conscience, What is Sin? Holy Scripture contains a plain, direct, and complete reply; with a full revelation of the way of entire deliverance from it. Nowhere else can any answer be found, nor any remedy provided, on which the soul can rest with unshaken confidence. That which speaks with uncertainty, from a finite and limited view, can never bring assurance. It must be the Testimony of an Infinite Mind, taking in the Whole- the Beginning and the Ending on which alone the soul can rest. God is Light, and in Him is no Darkness at all.' (1 John, i. 5.) If we are willing, in His Light to see Light (Ps. xxxvi. 9), the most

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