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Discourse, 2 July 1839, as Published in Clayton, Revelations

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Montrose

Located in southern part of county on western shore of Mississippi River. Area settled by Captain James White, 1832, following Black Hawk War. Federal government purchased land from White to create Fort Des Moines, 1834. Fort abandoned; remaining settlement...

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, Lee Co., Iowa Territory], [2 July 1839]. Version published [ca. 1857] in [William Clayton], Revelations, no date, 8. The copy used for transcription is held at CHL.

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See Historical Introduction to Discourse, 2 July 1839, as Reported by Wilford Woodruff–A.
Asterisk (*) denotes a "featured" version, which includes an introduction and annotation. *Discourse, 2 July 1839, as Reported by Wilford Woodruff–A

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KEYS.
O ye
Twelve

Members of a governing body in the church, with special administrative and proselytizing responsibilities. A June 1829 revelation commanded Oliver Cowdery and David Whitmer to call twelve disciples, similar to the twelve apostles in the New Testament and ...

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and all
Saints

The Book of Mormon related that when Christ set up his church in the Americas, “they which were baptized in the name of Jesus, were called the church of Christ.” The first name used to denote the church JS organized on 6 April 1830 was “the Church of Christ...

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, profit by this important
key

Authority or knowledge of God given to humankind. In the earliest records, the term keys primarily referred to JS’s authority to unlock the “mysteries of the kingdom.” Early revelations declared that both JS and Oliver Cowdery held the keys to bring forth...

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, that in all your trials, troubles, temptations, afflictions, bonds, imprisonments and death, see to it that ye do not betray heaven; that you do not betray Jesus Christ; that you do not betray your brethren; that you do not betray the revelations of God, whether in the Bible, Book of Mormon or Doctrines and Covenants, or any others that ever was or ever will be revealed unto men in this world or in the world to come; yea, in all your kickings and flounderings see to it that you do not this thing, lest innocent blood be found in your skirts and you go down to hell. All other sins are not to be compared to sins against the Holy Ghost and proving a traitor to thy brethren.
A Final Key delivered by Joseph.— I will give you one of the keys of the mysteries of the kingdom. It is an eternal principle that has existed with God from all eternity, that that man who rises up to condemn others, finding fault with the church, saying that they are out of the way while he himself is righteous, then know assuredly that that man is on the high road to apostacy, and if he does not repent will apostatize, as God lives. The principle is as correct as the one that Jesus put forth in saying that he who seeketh after a sign is an adulterous person, and that principle is eternal, undeviating and firm as the pillars of heaven, for whenever you see a man seeking after a sign you may set it down that he is an adulterous man. [p. 8]
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