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And it came to pass when they heard him no man laid their hands on him, for fear came on all them that heard him, for he walked with God.
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And there came a man unto him, whose name was Mahijah, and said unto him: tells us plainly who thou art, and from whence thou came.
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And he saith unto them: I came out from the land of Cainan, the land of my fathers, a land of righteousness unto this day, and my father taught me in all the ways of God.
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And it came to pass as I journeyed from the land of Cainan by the sea east I beheld a vision,
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And lo, the heavens I saw, and the Lord spake with me, and gave me commandment;
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Wherefore, for this cause to keep the commandment I speak forth these words.
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And Enoch continued his speech saying: The Lord which spake with me, the same is the God of heaven;
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And he is my God, and your God, and ye are my brethren; and why council ye yourselves and deny the God of heaven?
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The heavens hath he made and the earth is his footstool, and the foundation thereof is his;
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Behold, he laid it, and host of men hath he brought in upon the face thereof, and death hath come upon our fathers;
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Nevertheless, we know them and cannot deny; and even the first of all we know, even Adam;
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For a book of remembrance we have written among us, according to the pattern given by the finger of God; and it is given in our own language.
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And as Enoch spake forth the words of God, the people trembled and could not stand before his presence;
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And he saith unto them: because that Adam fell we are, and by his fall came death, and we are made partakers of misery;
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And wo! Behold, Satan hath come among the children of men and tempteth them to worship him;
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And men have become carnal, sensual, and devilish, and are shut out from the presence of God.
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But God hath made known unto my fathers that all men must repent.
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And he called upon our father, Adam, by his own voice, saying: I am God, I made the world, and men before they were.
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And he also said unto him: If thou wilt turn unto me and hearken unto my voice and believe and repent of all their transgressions and be baptized —
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Even by water in the name of mine only begotten Son, which is full of grace and truth, which is Jesus Christ, the only name which shall be given under Heaven whereby salvation shall come unto the Children of men—
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And if ye shall ask all things in his name, whatsoever ye shall ask it shall be given.
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And our father Adam spake unto the Lord and said: Why is it that men must repent and be baptized by water?
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And the Lord said unto Adam: Behold, I have forgiven thee thy transgressions in the garden of Eden.
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Hence came the saying abroad among the people that Christ hath atoned for original guilt, wherein the sins of the parents cannot be answered upon the heads of the Children, for they are whole from the foundation of the world.
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And the Lord spake unto Adam saying: In as much as thy children are conceived in sin, even so when they begin to grow up, sin conceiveth in their hearts,
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And they taste the bitter that they may know to prize the good;
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And it is given unto them to know good from evil, wherefore they are agents unto themselves.
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And I have given unto you another Law and commandment; wherefore teach it unto your children:
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That all men everywhere must repent or they can in no wise inherit the kingdom of God; for no unclean thing can dwell there, or dwell in his presence;
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For in the language of Adam, Man of Holiness is his name;
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And the name of his only begotten is the Son of Man— even Jesus Christ—a righteous Judge which shall come.
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I give unto you a commandment to teach these things freely unto your Children saying:
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In as much as they were born into the world by the fall, which bringeth death by water and blood, and the spirit which I have made, and so became of dust—a living soul;
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Even so ye must be born again of water and the spirit, and cleansed by blood—
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Even the blood of mine only begotten, into the mysteries of the kingdom of Heaven, that ye may be Sanctified from all sin and enjoy the words of eternal life in this world and eternal life in the world to come, even immortal glory;
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For by the water ye keep the commandment, by the spirit ye are justified, and by the blood ye are sanctified;
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That in you is given the record of Heaven, the Comforter, the Peaceable things of immortal glory; the truth of all things, that which quickeneth all things, which maketh alive all things; that which knoweth all things and hath all power according to wisdom mercy truth , justice, and judgement.
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And now behold, I say unto you: This is the plan of salvation unto all men—the blood of mine only begotten which shall come in the meridian of time.
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And behold, all things have its likeness, and all things are created and made to bear record of me; both things which are temporal and things which are spiritual things: which are in the Heavens above and things which are on the Earth;
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And things which are in the Earth and things which are under the Earth—both above and beneath;
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All things bear record of me.
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And it came to pass when the Lord had spoken with Adam, our father, that Adam cried unto the Lord, and he was caught away by the Spirit of the Lord and was carried down into the water and was laid under the water and was brought forth out of the water; and thus he was baptized.
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And the Spirit of God descended upon him, and thus he was born of the spirit and became quickened in the inner man.
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And he heard a voice out of Heaven saying: Thou art baptized with fire & with the Holy Ghost, this is the record of the Father & the Son from henceforth and forever;
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And thou art after the order of him who was without beginning of days or end of years, from all eternity to all eternity;
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Behold, thou art one in me, a son of God, and thus may all become my sons. Amen.