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Principal gathering place for Saints following expulsion from Missouri. Beginning in 1839, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints purchased lands in earlier settlement of Commerce and planned settlement of Commerce City, as well as surrounding areas....
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, Hancock Co., IL, 5 Jan. 1841. Featured version from
William Clayton
17 July 1814–4 Dec. 1879. Bookkeeper, clerk. Born at Charnock Moss, Penwortham, Lancashire, England. Son of Thomas Clayton and Ann Critchley. Married Ruth Moon, 9 Oct. 1836, at Penwortham. Baptized into Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Heber...
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report copied [1880] in L. John Nuttall, Notebook, pp. 4–8; handwriting of L. John Nuttall; L. John Nuttall, Papers, BYU. For more complete source information, see the source note for Discourse, Dec. 1840, as Reported by William Clayton.

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See Historical Introduction to Account of Meeting and Discourse, as Reported by William P. McIntire.
Asterisk (*) denotes a "featured" version, which includes an introduction and annotation. *Account of Meeting and Discourse, 5 January 1841, as Reported by William P. McIntire Account of Meeting and Discourse, 5 January 1841, as Published in Clayton, Revelations *Discourse, 5 January 1841, as Reported by William P. McIntire Discourse, 5 January 1841, as Reported by Unidentified Scribe *Discourse, 5 January 1841, as Reported by William Clayton
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Observations on the Sectarian God.

That which is without body or parts is nothing.
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The 1646 Westminster Assembly’s widely cited Confession of Faith stated that “there is but one only, living, and true God: who is infinite in Being and Perfection, a most pure Spirit, invisible, without body, parts, or passions.” (Humble Advice of the Assembly of Divines, Now by Authority of Parliament Sitting at Westminster, concerning a Confession of Faith, 5.)
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The Humble Advice of the Assembly of Divines, Now by Authority of Parliament Sitting at Westminster, concerning a Confession of Faith: With the Quotations and Texts of Scripture Annexed. Presented by Them Lately to Both Houses of Parliament. Edinburgh: Evan Tyler, 1647.
There is no other God in heaven but that God who has flesh and bones. John 5— 26, “As the father hath life in himself, even so hath he given the son to have life in himself.” God the father took life unto himself precisely as Jesus did. The first step in the salvation of men is the laws of eternal and self-existent principles. Spirits are eternal.
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A 6 May 1833 revelation declared, “Man was also in the begining with God, inteligence or the Light of truth was not created or made.” Published by JS in 1842, the Book of Abraham explained that individual “intelligences,” or spirits, existed in the presence of God, the most intelligent of them all, before the creation of the world. (Revelation, 6 May 1833 [D&C 93:29]; “The Book of Abraham,” Times and Seasons, 15 Mar. 1842, 3:720 [Abraham 3:19, 22–23]; see also Letter to Orson Hyde and John E. Page, 14 May 1840.)
At the first organization in heaven we were all present and saw the Savior chosen and appointed, and the plan of salvation made and we sanctioned it. We came to this earth that we might have a body and present it pure before God in the Celestial Kingdom. The great principle of happiness consists in having [p. 7]
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Discourse, 5 January 1841, as Reported by William Clayton
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591
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5
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JSP, D7:490–495
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The 1646 Westminster Assembly’s widely cited Confession of Faith stated that “there is but one only, living, and true God: who is infinite in Being and Perfection, a most pure Spirit, invisible, without body, parts, or passions.” (Humble Advice of the Assembly of Divines, Now by Authority of Parliament Sitting at Westminster, concerning a Confession of Faith, 5.)
The Humble Advice of the Assembly of Divines, Now by Authority of Parliament Sitting at Westminster, concerning a Confession of Faith: With the Quotations and Texts of Scripture Annexed. Presented by Them Lately to Both Houses of Parliament. Edinburgh: Evan Tyler, 1647.
[9]
A 6 May 1833 revelation declared, “Man was also in the begining with God, inteligence or the Light of truth was not created or made.” Published by JS in 1842, the Book of Abraham explained that individual “intelligences,” or spirits, existed in the presence of God, the most intelligent of them all, before the creation of the world. (Revelation, 6 May 1833 [D&C 93:29]; “The Book of Abraham,” Times and Seasons, 15 Mar. 1842, 3:720 [Abraham 3:19, 22–23]; see also Letter to Orson Hyde and John E. Page, 14 May 1840.)