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 Strange Effects of Faith; 
 
 WITH 
 
 (MADE IN 1792, &c.) . 
 OF THINGS WHICH ARE TO COME: 
 
 Also, some Account of my Life. 
 
 The Lord is coining (as he hath spoken by his Prophets) to be the 
 Mighty Counsellor, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace, 
 
 and the Desire of every Nation : And this is his Counsel To 
 
 deal with Men after the Manner of Men ; to have thrse Writings 
 tried by Judges and Jury : The Judges are the Ministers of the 
 Lord : the Jury are the Sheep of his Flock : So I give myself up 
 to the Judgment of Men, to be tried according to the Lawi of 
 God and Man. Now, if I am refused so just and fair a Trial, I, 
 must judge myself in a Land that Darkness hath overspread, and 
 gross Darkness the Eyes of the People; where Justice is fallen in 
 the Streets, and Equity cannot enter. 
 
 JOANNA SOUTHCOTT, 
 EXETER, JAX. 1801. 
 
 THE THIPD EDITION. 
 
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 In the first Edition, the second Page was left a Blank, and the follow- 
 ing is permitted to be added to fill up that Blank Page. It was given 
 by the Spirit to Joanna, on the 2Qth Oct. 1802. She was then told 
 she should mt only hare the knowledge from the SPIRIT, but also the 
 POWER, and it lias by divine Power she had been kept to go on, not 
 only in opposition to men and devils, but against her own will. For 
 she had often determined to burn all her writings. 
 
 Now these are the Words that were given to Joanna from the SPI- 
 RIT : " They will see the truth of my Words in thy Writings, 
 from thy own hand ; and here is the truth of thy dream, (see 
 page 32 of this book,) trying to break the feathers, but could 
 not, for my decrees are unalterable, and change not; and now 
 thou shall find thyself the little Bird that plucked the feathers 
 from the great ones. 
 
 For now, I say, thou'lt pluck them all, 
 
 When you to the purpose come : 
 Their lofty feathers they shall fall ; 
 
 The GREAT BIRD will be known, 
 Whose feathers hard they were of brass, 
 
 The gold was spangled there ; 
 For I shall then unveil my face, 
 
 And like the BIRD appear. 
 For none shall pluck, and none shall break 
 
 The things that I've decreed ; 
 And they shall find the simple bird 
 
 Confound the wisest head ; 
 Whoe'er do come, with words most strong 
 
 Thou shall confound them all ; 
 And they shall know before 'tis long, 
 
 Their fealhers all shall fall 
 Unto the ground, in every sound ; 
 
 My WORD Ihey cannot break, 
 Thai il was I did visit thee, 
 
 And in thee I do speak. 
 So high or low, let mortals know, 
 
 'Tis I direct thy hand : 
 The spangled gold thou didst behold 
 Upon trie Bird lo stand, 
 Whose feathers there did so appear 
 
 As solid Brass to thee ; 
 From it the nations all shall know 
 
 The firm decrees of ME. 
 So 'tis in vain, ye sons of men, 
 
 Ever to break my word ; 
 The spangled gold I now shall bring 
 
 To those that judge Ihe Lord 
 Will now go on, as I've begun, 
 
 Unlil I've made an end ; 
 And then the gold I'll give to man 
 
 That now will sland my friend. 
 So I'll end here and say no more, 
 
 For all is hastening on."
 
 v. 
 
 in- every age of the world, when the Lord be- 
 gan to work on the heart of man, to prophesy in his 
 name, Satan began to work on the hearts of others 
 to prophesy by him, that the Prophets of the Lord 
 might not be believed : so now, in the last days, 
 when the Lord intends to do as he spoke in the Pro-* 
 phet Joel, pouring his Spirit upon all flesh, and upon 
 his handmaids, that they shall prophesy, he well 
 knows Satan will do the same : therefore, it is writ-> 
 ten, False Prophets and false Christs will arise. 
 
 And that no man might be deceived in this matter, 
 I say, that the Gospel of Christ, and the Visions of 
 John in the Revelation (chap. xii. xix. and last) 
 shew who are the Prophets to be believed but no 
 living Man can give an explanation. The word of 
 God is as a book that is sealed, so that neither the 
 learned nor the unlearned can read (that is to say, 
 understand) it : for it was sealed up in the bosom of 
 the Father, till he thought proper to break the seals, 
 and reveal it to a Woman, as it is written in the 
 Revelation, 
 
 ;
 
 Had these things been known or understood by 
 man, the world would have seen many of these women 
 in every age and century ; but the Lord hath con- 
 cealed it from man, as he did from the Jews the man' 
 ner in which Christ should be born, which was a 
 stumbling-block to them; and now the case is the 
 same with the Gentiles ; for neither Jews nor Gen- 
 tiles understand their Bibles. 
 
 We art commanded to try the sbirits, whether 
 they be of God, or not. If they be oj God, the truth 
 will make manifest. 
 
 Now, if any twelve Ministers, who are worthy 
 and good men, will prove these writings come from 
 the Devil and his foreknowledge of things ; and ex- 
 plain clearly to me those mysteries of the Bible that 
 I shall propose to them, I will refrain from further 
 printing : but if they cannot, I shall go on, till I 
 have made public all the mysteries of the Bible the 
 times which are to come and what shall happen till 
 Christ's Kingdom be established: sometimes jrom 
 parables, sometimes from types and shadows, sometimes 
 from dreams and visions, and also from the Bible, 
 which sheweth, by the account of the tree of know- 
 ledge, that knowledge must come to man from the 
 woman. As she at first plucked the fruit, and brought 
 the knowledge of the evil fruit, so as at last she must 
 bring the knowledge of the good fruit.
 
 THE STRANGE EFFECTS OF FAITH. 
 
 FIRST PART. 
 
 AS I have begun to publish to the world, I shall 
 give some short account of my Life, which hath 
 been singular, from my youth up to this day. I shall 
 omit former particulars, and begin with informing 
 the Reader, that, in 1792, I was strangely visited, 
 by day and night, concerning what was coming upon 
 the whole earth. I was then ordered to set it down, 
 in writing. I obeyed, though not without strong 
 external opposition; and so it has continued to the 
 present time. 
 
 In 1792, my Sister told me, I was growing out of 
 my senses. She said, " You say there will be, a war. 
 " Who shall we go to war with ? The French are 
 " destroying themselves. As to the dearth of provi- 
 " sion you speak of, you are wrong ; for corn will 
 " come do\vn very low; I could not make 4s. 6d. 
 " a bushel of the best of the wheat this year. As 
 " to the distresses of the nation, you are wrong there; 
 " for England was never in a more flourishing state 
 " than it is in at present." I answered, u Well, if it 
 " be of God, it will come to pass, however likely or 
 " unlikely it may appear at present. If not, I shall 
 " hurt no one but myself m writing it. I am the 
 
 " fool,
 
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 " fool, and must be the sufferer, if it be not of God. 
 " If it be of God, I would not refuse for the world, 
 " and am determined to err on the safest side." My 
 Sister thought she should err on the safest 3idc, by 
 preventing me from doing it ; and said, I should not 
 do it in her house. However, I took advantage of 
 her absence; and, in 1792, I wrote of what has since 
 followed in this nation and all others ; but the end 
 
 is not yet. -I left my writings at Plymtree, and 
 
 came back to Exeter. 
 
 In 1793, the war broke out ; and in this year, three 
 remarkable things happened, which I had written of 
 in 1792. These events strengthened my judgment 
 that it was of God ; for it was said, " Whatever I 
 " put into thy mouth, I will do upon the earth." 
 
 In 1793, I told the Rev. Mr. L. how I had been 
 warned of what was coming. After hearing me in 
 silence, he said, " It comes from the Devil ; for not 
 " one thing you have mentioned will come to pass. 
 * f You have the war in your favour, which is all that 
 " will come true of your prophecies; and the war will 
 " be over in a quarter of a year. It is from the de- 
 " vil, to disturb your peace : Satan hath a design to 
 " sift you as wheat. Yet I believe you to be a good 
 " woman ; your friends speak of you in the highest 
 " terms ; but what you have said will never come 
 " true. Besides, if it were, the Lord would never 
 " have revealed it to you. There are a thousand in 
 "Exeter, whom I could point out, to whom the 
 " Lord would have revealed it before he would to 
 
 " you." Of these observations I had been warned, 
 
 before I saw him ; yet it made a deep impression on 
 my heart, tears and prayers were my private compa- 
 nions. But the next day, I was answered, " Who 
 " made him a judge. He neither knows thee, nor 
 " thy forefathers, who walked before me with a 
 " perfect and upright heart." Thus the feeling of 
 my heart was deeply answered ; with further sayings 
 used by him, which at present I shall not mention. 
 
 Soon
 
 Soon after this, I went to St. Peter's Cathedral, 
 
 and heard the Rev. * Mr. ; Whose text was 
 
 Walk ye in the light, while ye have light, lest dark- 
 ness come upon you. He remarked on the neigh- 
 bouring nations abroad," and on the seven churches 
 of Asia ; made application to the affairs of our own 
 land ; and concluded with the words of Samuel, Yet 
 for all this God will save you, because ye are his peo- 
 ple, if ye obey him; if not " As 
 
 soon as his sermon was over, I was answered, " Thou 
 " must say unto him, as our Saviour said unto Peter 
 " Blessed art thou, Barjonah for flesh and blood 
 " hath not revealed it to him, but the Spirit of God. 
 " What he hath this day preached is the will of God. 
 " If L. give it up, go to him [the Preacher] for he 
 " will not ; for the laws of the Lord are written in his 
 " heart." I had been answered, that the truth of 
 my writings must be brought to light by one man ; 
 
 either by the Rev. Mr. L. or the Rev. Mr. 
 
 the Preacher above mentioned. This was at the end 
 of 1793, not long after I had been with Mr. L. and 
 it was said to me, " I shall set signs before thee. 
 " He that bringeth to light shall come unto thee; 
 " for that shall be the sign unto thee, rny servant. 
 " He shall come ; for I will so incline his heart, that 
 <c my will may be done." But I was not to write to 
 
 Mr. the Preacher, till Mr. L. gave it up. 
 
 I told my friends of the signs ; but bound them to 
 secresy, that no one might be any way influenced 
 by my writing. 
 
 The next summer, 1794, com grew dear, and dis- 
 tress began in our land. Thus commenced the sha- 
 dow of my writings , and I was told the substance 
 was behind. I then sent another letter to Mr. L. ; 
 but he was not so confident as in 1793. He wrote 
 to me as follows : " The Lord may have revealed to 
 "you what he has not to me; but I am of opinion 
 
 * The names above and hereafter represented by clots are omitted by 
 the printer, who scrupled to insert them, not having the licence of the 
 persons alluded to. 
 
 " with
 
 " with many, we are going to sec good days." The 
 substance of his letter confounded me ; and made me 
 earnest in prayer. I was answered, " He erreth in 
 "judgment, as well as stumblech in visions, to 
 
 " judge that the storm is blown over." 1 took his 
 
 letter, and the answer to it, and sealed them up to- 
 gether, thinking time would shew whose words were 
 most true, those of the Spirit that visited me, or 
 those of Mr. L. and such as joined him in opinion. 
 
 In 1795, I sent him another letter, telling him, 
 that danger still stood before us, and that the truth 
 of what I had written in 17P/2 was to be proved by 
 12 men. Mr. L. wrote me an answer, that he had 
 taken my important caaestion into consideration; that 
 all were ready to serve me ; and that the wisest way 
 he could t,bink of would be to bring the 12 men to- 
 gether the Monday following. Before this answer 
 reached me, I was told, that he had not given it up ; 
 but that it would not happen according to his words. 
 The thoughts of their hearts were laid open to me, 
 and I was told, they proposed this, in order to con^ 
 vince me of my folly : So I was ordered to write him 
 a short reply, and to go and converse with him. I 
 was told, that it should be set before me as a sign, 
 that Mr. E. would come to my house, and invite me 
 to his, where I should meet Mr. L. -All this hap- 
 pened accordingly, The week after, it was said 
 
 unto me, " If L. come unto thee, thou hast nothing 
 " to fear from him ; but if thou go unto him, he will 
 " surely stumble; for he that doth obey will come; 
 " and when he heareth he will not condemn ; 
 
 " But, O thrice happy is the man, 
 That cloth begin and will go on, 
 Till ev'ry curtain be drawn back, 
 To know, and prove, if I do speak. 
 For happy then shall be the man, 
 
 That doth obey his call : 
 His talents five shall soon be ten, 
 
 My Spirit so shall fall. 
 Him I'll impower from on high, 
 
 My Spirit he shall feel, 
 The sinner's hearts he shall ^wake, 
 
 Th broken heart shall heal." 
 
 This
 
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 This was spoken before I had seen Mr. L. On the 
 Monday following, Mr. E. came to my house, and asked 
 me to come to his. Thither I went, met Mr. L. and 
 told him what reasons I had for believing my writings 
 came from the Lord. Mr. L. and all who were present 
 heard me in silence. When I had delivered my reasons, 
 I asked his judgment. He said, " What you know not 
 " now you will hereafter. If it be of God, we shall see 
 " more of it; if of yourself, your head is wiser than 
 " mine. " I asked him, if he would give up inquiry 
 into its truth. He said, " No ; it requires time to 
 " consider of it." The Monday following, I asked 
 Mr. and Mrs. L. to breakfast at my house ; but they 
 did not come. That day, I was answered thus : 
 
 " Now, tell him plain, he's not the man ; 
 
 For 'tis by it must be done, 
 
 Back to the Church, the standard all must come; 
 For in the altar I was seen at first ; 
 And in the altar did the glory burst, 
 Where Simeon did the holy child behold ; 
 And in the altar are the plates of gold." 
 
 The week following, Mr. L. sent me an answer, that 
 lie had given it up, and had resigned to the Minister, 
 who (as I have said) was chosen in his room. This was 
 at the close of summer, 179-5. At the end of the year 
 I was to have together six men of the dissenting class, 
 to try their judgment. Four refused to attend, as they 
 thought it from the Devil, or judged me to be both a 
 knave and a fool : So I had other four in their room ; 
 but was told, before I met them, that their judgment 
 would not be right, their wisdom was too weak; there- 
 fore I must be the judge myself; 
 
 If they believe that hell below 
 
 Such language e'er can speak: 
 But back their footsteps all will trace, 
 
 And marvel what they've done ; 
 And wonder that they could not go 
 
 In things that were so plain. 
 
 B I was
 
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 1 was ordered to meet the six men, and read to them, 
 how some particular chapters of the Bible were explain- 
 ed, with a few prophecies, and some remarkable in- 
 stances of my life. Every man was to keep silence for 
 the space of an hour. This they did ; and great is the 
 mystery explained to mesa's the watch was laid on the 
 seals, by which were inclosed the names of the 12 men. 
 When the hour was past, I demanded their judgment; 
 and quitted the room while they consulted. In some 
 time, they came to me, saying, they had agreed, and 
 must see the prophecies. I said, they should, if they 
 /judged them to be of God. They came again, sayingy 
 they must know who the ministers were. A third time 
 they came, and said, they must break the seals on the 
 ministers' names. I told them that should only be 
 done in presence of the twelve themselves. But curio- 
 sity made them break the seals ; and (thus breaking all 
 their wisdom, they said, it was from the Devil, or my- 
 self, or they could not perceive it to be of God; and 
 therefore they persuaded me to give it up, forgetting 
 what I had read to them, and that they had fulfilled my 
 
 writings. The meaning and mystery of this meeting 
 
 I shall explain another time. 
 
 Next day, I was persuaded 'to yield to their wisdom ; 
 but I was answered, that it should be fatal for me; for 
 the Lord would not resign to their wisdom ; therefore I 
 should not give it up to them. Thus I ended with the 
 dissenting line. 
 
 At the end of 1795 and beginning of 1796, 1 was or- 
 dered to write to the Church Ministers. At the time 
 of the general fast, I sent a letter to the Rev. Mr. 
 (the preacher before alluded to) on the Gospel, Sup- 
 pose ye, that thoseGalileans re ere sinners above all theGa- 
 lileans, because they suffered these things ? TheRev.Gen- 
 tleman sent me word by the bearer, that he would sendan 
 answer by his servant. I waited nearly a week, and did 
 not hear from him. One day, 1 was above stairs wri- 
 ting, and the last words I wrote were, "'Go down and 
 " see him." I went down and found him inquiring 
 
 about
 
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 about me. I asked him to walk in, and said, "Isup- 
 " pose, Sir, my letter hath surprised you." He asked, 
 " Was it you that sent it?" I told him, Yes, with my 
 reasons; and that Mr. L. had judged it from the 
 Devil. The Rev. Gentleman said that nothingof what I 
 had said to him appeared likely to have come from the 
 Devil. As to the dangers which I had said stood be- 
 fore us, he did not seem to doubt them; but said, if 
 I was called of God, I ought to warn the public before 
 the ro4 fell, as it would be of no use afterward. Thus 
 rinding the Rev 7 . Gentleman's conversation correspond 
 with what I had been foretold years before, I seat him 
 a letter. 
 
 My faith grew strong; and I sent a letter (as I was 
 ordered) to theRev.Dignitaryof theCathedral of Exeter. 
 I was assured, before I sent it, he would not answer it. 
 
 I dreamt soon after, that I was in a room with a well- 
 looking Gentleman and Lady. On a sudden, the door 
 was burst open, and the Devil entered in disguise, and 
 attempted to seize the Gentleman, who fled to the far- 
 thest part of the room. The Devil pursued him, en- 
 deavouring to put his arm around his peck ; but the 
 Gentleman pushed him off. The Lady and myself were 
 
 ; affrighted, and I awoke. The next day, it was 
 
 answered me, " It is the Christian Minister; he will 
 
 " eome to thee in disguise." 1 said to a person, 
 
 " How differently is my dream explained to what I 
 " expected !" I thought the above-mentioned Rev. 
 Gentleman Satan would try to deceive ; and I was 
 
 answered 
 
 ' 
 
 Thy thought of is not wrong; 
 
 For Satan will try there ; 
 But to the purpose he will come, 
 
 And baflle all his snares : 
 Asthou didst dream he pushed him off, 
 
 He Satan will defy. 
 He will appear, the truth to clear, 
 
 And stedfast he will stand. 
 Be not surpriz'd at the disguise, 
 
 That he may take in hand. 
 
 So
 
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 So now I bid tbee to go home, 
 And shew thy writings there ; 
 t And, sudden as thy garden dream, 
 I'll make him to appear. " 
 
 The last thing I had written was, that I should see him 
 the next day. Being then at work, Mrs. T. sent me 
 word a Gentleman desired to speak with me. He was 
 displeased, and said, a man had been at his house, and 
 told him I had prophesied lies : that, if it were so, it 
 could not be from God ; and I was committing the sin 
 against the Holy Ghost, and he doubted not, I should 
 lose my senses. Mrs. T. said, she knew not of any 
 lies I had prophesied ; but she knew, that I had told of 
 these things when there was ho appearance of them. 
 
 He said, that was very surprising. Such had been 
 
 their conversation, before I came. When I came, 
 
 I found it to be the Rev. Mr. , whom I ex- 
 pected, and he repeated his words to me. I told him, 
 he had been mis-informed as to the sense of my words, 
 and explained particulars to him. He said, " Then 
 " your prophecies were not false ;" yet he reasoned 
 with me on the danger of my proceedings, if I were 
 not called of God. Finding he could not convince me, 
 it was not of the Lord, he said, "Then why don't you 
 " have your writings proved? You will wait till you 
 " bring the sword, the plague, and the famine, upon 
 " u$. If you cannot get twelve, get six. I will meet 
 M with any." I said, " Sir, it must be twelve." He 
 said, " Then let it be twelve ; but do not wait till you 
 " bring the sword upon us." I said, I would not, if 
 the Ministers would prove them. I was convinced, 
 that he had disguised his real sentiments, and hfid thus 
 promised to examine my writings, thinking to con- 
 vince me of my folly. 
 
 " So, thou see'st plain, that he did mean 
 
 To stay thy written hand : 
 To please a tool, he'd anger rule, 
 
 T. ill he could all command. 
 That is to see the mystery, 
 
 And then convince the whole, 
 It was to lay thy follies by, 
 
 Made him the cause uphold.** 
 
 As
 
 As these words were revealed to me, I admired his 
 wisdom, patience, and prudence; and thought Heaven 
 could not direct me to a wiser or a better Minister; for 
 he that can conquer his own passions is a greater hero 
 than him who taketh a city. He must be a good man 
 that can so condescend to convince a fool of her fol- 
 ly. But he knew not my strong reasons for judging 
 my writings to be of God. 
 
 The May following, two things happened, as had been 
 predicted. I went to the above Minister's house, and 
 put a letter into his hand, saying, " Sir, as you doubt, 
 " what Spirit I am led by, be pleased to keep this 
 " letter till the end of the year; you will then judge 
 " of its truth. " This he consented to do. At 
 
 the end of 17/6, what I had written of came to pass. 
 He then said to me, " Formerly, if it were asked of a 
 " Prophet, how the wars would tend, he could tell. 
 " l^ow, if you can inform me of what will happen in 
 " Italy or England, I shall believe you." The next 
 .day, I was earnest in prayer, that the Lord would 
 answer his inquiries ; and they were so. I sent him 
 the answer, which was completely fulfilled, as to 
 Italy and England, in 177 ; but the three sheets of 
 writing, which I gave him, foretold affairs for years 
 to come, and spoke much of the present period. 
 
 The following spring, 17.97? I sent a letter to a se- 
 cond Dignitary of the Exeter Cathedral. His servant 
 returned it to me, saying his master would not be in. 
 Exeter to receive it till the next week. I then sent it 
 again and met the like disappointment ; but the letter 
 was left. I was now answered, that I should have 
 the same dissatisfaction when he came to Exeter, and 
 that both Dignitaries would treat my letters with 
 contempt. 
 
 "Thus both will thee deceive. 
 
 But shall they laugh thee unto shame, 
 For what thou dost believe ? 
 
 If they agree to laugh at thee, 
 Their laughter I shall turn ; 
 
 And
 
 And in the end, thou'lt find these men, 
 
 Like thee, will sorely mourn. 
 Thou build'st so nigh, that none can fly, 
 
 To rob thee of thy brood. 
 The fowler's net cannot come nigh ; 
 
 Nor can the shooter's load. 
 Tho' heavy charges men prepare, 
 
 And point them from their breast: 
 They are afraid to let them off, 
 
 Lest they their aim should miss. 
 Besides they fear, I may be there ; 
 
 And terror stops the blow : 
 Thus I thee guard from every snare, 
 
 And that they all shall know." 
 
 In this manner, from simple types and shadows, I 
 was foretold how every man would act ; and that I 
 had nothing to fear, as no man would hurt me, if 
 the truth of my writings should provoke them to 
 anger. 
 
 These promises, and the proofs of the truth of my 
 writings, strengthened my confidence in the Lord ; 
 but I have often marvelled, why I was ordered to send 
 to Ministers who would not give themselves the 
 trouble of searching out the truth; and, for this rea- 
 son, have often doubted whether the calling were of 
 God, or not. But the pondering of my heart was 
 thus answered : 
 
 " How can the fruit be ever trv'd ? 
 How can the truth be e'er apply'd : 
 The godly men will so decay, 
 If I shall prove as weak as thee. 
 I say, the fruit shall surely fall : 
 
 Let stand, and hear his call ; 
 
 And now a Moses let him be, 
 
 Or else my judgments all shall see ; 
 
 Then all together you may feast 
 
 And all together fast ; 
 I'll bring a mystery in the end, 
 
 That shall for ever last." 
 
 These words were delivered to me in 1796, in an- 
 swer to a sermon, preached on the 29th of May, by 
 the first mentioned Dignitary, to whom I had sent a 
 
 letter
 
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 letter. I fancied that he reproached me in his ser- 
 mon; and his words pierced my heart. I marvelled, 
 that a Gentleman, to whom I had appealed, should 
 decline seeing me to convince me of my error, if I 
 were wrong ; and in solitary tears, I repeated the 
 words of David, 
 
 " Since godly men decay, O Lord, 
 
 D6 thou my cause defend ; 
 For scarce these wretched times afford 
 
 One just and faithful friend." 
 
 I was answered : 
 
 " Since godly men do so decay, 
 
 And thou dost sore complain, 
 Then the good Shepherd shall appear, 
 
 The sheep for to redeem ; 
 For faithful labourers now shall come 
 
 And in my vineyard go ; 
 Mv harvest it is hastening on, 
 
 Which every soul shall know.'* 
 
 After this, it was said to me, * As men increase 
 thy sorrows, I will increase theirs : and the gene- 
 ral burden shall increase^ till men .take the load from 
 thee.' Yet I marvelled, how the 12th chapter. of 
 Revelation could be fulfilled, of the woman travailing 
 in birth, and longing to be delivered ? but the won- 
 ders John saw in heaven must take place on earth. 
 
 What wonders there would then appear 
 
 To ah enlighten'd race, 
 When every mystery is made clear, 
 
 And seen without a glass ? 
 No veil between then being seen, 
 
 No wonders you'd behold ; 
 For all alike is clearly bright, 
 
 As pearly streets with gold. 
 Should wonders there to you appear, 
 
 You'd wonder then of all. 
 To see them clothed with the sun, 
 
 Could wonder none at all. 
 
 Such is the mystery to man (that a woman should 
 be clothed with the Sun of Righteousness, who is now 
 coming with healing in his wings)- because they know 
 
 not
 
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 not the Scriptures, which indicate, that to fulfil all 
 righteousness, the woman must be a helpmate to man, 
 to complete his happiness. This men marvel at, be- 
 cause they never conceived what the Lord hath in store 
 for them, in fulfilling his Promise given to the woman. 
 
 So men, I see, do stand in wonder, 
 
 While angels also gaze ; 
 Satan broke man's bliss asunder ; 
 
 Man wandereth in a maze. 
 So, with amaze, you all may gaze; 
 
 The angels wonder here, 
 You cannot see the mystery, 
 
 Nor find the Bible clear. 
 Thpre Eden's tree you shall see 
 
 Preserved for your sake ; 
 The flaming sword is God's own word, 
 
 'Twill break the serpent's neck. 
 
 Thus, by types, shadows, dreams, and visions, I 
 have been led on, from 1792, to the present day; 
 whereby the mysteries of the Bible, with the future 
 destinies of nations have been revealed to me, which 
 will all terminate in the Second Coming of Christ ; 
 and the Day of Judgment, when the seven thousand 
 years are ended. 
 
 " Now, should men say, all this by thee is done, 
 Thy head is wiser than each mortal's son. 
 Ancl if they say it cometh from the Devil, 
 Then plainly tell them, that their thoughts are evil ; 
 For Satan's wisdom never lay so deep ; 
 Yet to thyself tnou mu<t the secret keep. 
 But if men say, it cometh from on high, 
 My judges shall appear, the truth to try. 
 Then in thy faith be stedfast still, 
 
 With salt be season' d well. 
 Remember thy b^iisnvi: vcw, 
 
 And triumph over hell. 
 Your Captain too shall quickly come 
 
 And bring all to an enu, 
 And fix his glorious Empire o'er 
 
 The wise, whose hearts will bend. 
 As in a humble manger here, 
 
 Kings did their Sovereign s^r, 
 So my low handmaid dpth appear 
 To all a mystery. 
 
 Now
 
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 *' Now, can you longer make dispute. 
 
 From whence you hear the sound? 
 Thus Satan must henceforth be mute, 
 
 Nor talk the faithful down. 
 The reasons all are none at all 
 
 Of those that won't believe: 
 Thus when the Bible forth I call, 
 
 What answer will you give? " 
 
 I omitted to mention, in the proper place, that, a^ 
 the end of 1794 I had a strange vision As soon as 
 I had laid down in my bed, a light came over the 
 room. I looked at the window ; but saw no light 
 proceed from thence. I looked at the door, to see 
 if any one was entering with a candle ; but no per- 
 son was there. The room now appeared to me to be 
 full of lighted candles, hanging, in candlesticks, on 
 lines crossing the room. Being astonished and 
 frightened, I covered my head with the bed-clothes, 
 and then saw a spacious room, with a chandelier 
 of many branches, and lighted lamps sparkling with 
 great lustre. In the midst of the room stood a large 
 table, with large lighted candles thereon, so that 
 the light equalled the noonday. I exclaimed, "What 
 " can this mean r" I was answered, " Arise and 
 " shine, for the light is come, and the glory of the 
 " Lord is risen/' 
 
 The next day, (being perfectly awake,) I was or- 
 dered to write down my vision, which was thus ex- 
 plained to me : That my writings must be proved 
 by 12 men; and, when met for that; purpose, that 
 the candle of the Lord would burn brightly among 
 them, and the spirit of wisdom and understanding be 
 given them ; for as the day of Pentecost was to the 
 Disciples, so should that day be to them ; and every 
 one present should see it was the Lord's doing. The 
 names of the appointed 1.2 I put into the hand of one 
 of the 6 persons mentioned in p. 10, and charged them 
 not to break the seals upon them, till the 12 were 
 assembled. However (as I said before) the watch 
 that was laid on the seals was removed and the seals 
 broken thro' unbelief, so that darkness came upon 
 
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 the minds of them. Thus is the mystery explained, 
 that this circumstance is set as a watch before man- 
 kind. 
 
 The harvest of 1796 was remarkably good, and 
 great plenty followed : And it was said unto me, 
 " As they (the men mentioned in p. 10) kept silence 
 " for the space of one hour, the Lord hath withheld 
 " the rain in time of harvest." 
 
 Now, if this publication awaken the Ministers to 
 
 search out the truth, or the Rev. Mr. , (the 
 
 Preacher) return to the examination of my writings, 
 the next three following harvests are promised to 
 he plentiful. " Prove me now, (saith the Lord) and 
 " try me, if I will not shower down blessings upon 
 " you." But, if the many truths laid before you, 
 with the threatenings put into the hands of Ministers, 
 do not awaken them to search out the truth, the Lord 
 will fulfil his word. 
 
 " If by the wise men I am mock'd flow, 
 Like Herod's fury, I' 11 fulfil my vow. 
 Who iny anger shall appease, 
 
 If all deny my will ? 
 My thunderbolts shall loudly roll, 
 And men's proud hearts shall chill." 
 
 Now, let the Reader look deep into the mystery, 
 and behold what Divine Wisdom hath directed me to 
 shew to mankind. I was foretold how Ministers 
 would act, and that the truth would be brought to 
 light by one man. I was now ordered to have my 
 writings copied, and put into the Printer's hand. 
 This' I did ; and the very day I had given them to the 
 Printer, the chosen Minister returned to Exeter. 
 I thought, I would not send to him till the book was 
 printed; but was answered, " How weak is thy 
 u judgment!" and was ordered to send to him next 
 day. I found he was offended by my putting his 
 name in the news-paper. He said, if I published 
 his name, he had done with me; otherwise he 
 would comply with my request, Two friends ^F 
 mine wrote to him, of the truth of my writings : 
 
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 and at his request, I waited on him with qnc of 
 my friends. He said, he found argument fruitless, 
 in persuading me to stop my hand, and should argue 
 with me no more. He bade me get the writings of 
 1792 copied out, as he could not set the originals 
 before Ministers, who would not attend to manu- 
 scripts which they could not read; and they would 
 not trust to what I should read to them : Therefore, 
 he bade me open the seals on the writings of 1792, 
 and send them with the fair copy ; and if the Minis- 
 ters he consulted should judge them to be of God, I 
 might have 12 or J4 afterwards. 
 
 When I returned home, I was ordered to follow his 
 advice, remembering what had been told me in 1793, 
 " I will -direct thee to a man, whose talents are 
 "greater than thine; he shall have five talents; he 
 " shall direct thee." So I had my writings broken 
 open before witnesses, marked, copied, and some part 
 sent to him. 
 
 The week after, I waited on him again. He said, 
 what I had sent was not enough to convince Ministers, 
 and I must open the seals set in 1794 and 1795. The 
 next day (Sunday) I was ordered to have them opened 
 in the presence of 12 witnesses, who were to set their 
 names on them. Three weeks were then allowed him, 
 to examine, to consult Ministers, and to judge whe-v 
 ther the writings were of God, or npt. 
 
 Soon after, I was ordered to write to three Ministers 
 (the letters will be hereafter given); and I was told 
 it would be fatal for me for time and eternity, if I did 
 not publish my writings, should the.se Ministers remain 
 silent seven days after. It was said to me, " I do not 
 " need the Ministers to prove whether they be of God 
 "or not; for that shall be proved by the truth: 
 "But this I command thee to do, to keep thee fro in 
 " the snares of men, who may charge and coma-iim 
 thee for imposture; saying, thou inst signed thy 
 aine to what thou hast not written. I have so 
 ordered every truth to be made plain, that no man 
 
 " can
 
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 " can prove one false report in thy writings, or dispute 
 '' what spirit inspires thee. Thy writings must he 
 " submitted to the judgment of learned Ministers of 
 " my Word. Let them be disputed before they be 
 " proved ; let Ministers be the judges, and common 
 " men the witnesses and jury, to try the truth of 
 " this ordination. All thou hast done and all the 
 " letters thou hast sent, have proceeded from the com- 
 " mand of the King of kings, the Lord of lords, the 
 " Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace, the Mighty 
 " Counsellor, and the Desire of every nation." 
 
 When 1 sent the letters to Ministers, it was said to 
 me, that if these things were not of God, their hearts 
 should be worked on to stop my hand in seven days ; 
 and if they did not, I should wait no longer than 
 New Year's Day (Old Style) 1801, and then have it 
 printed, to be judged of by the world at large, to 
 try the wisdom of men, and to let them see what 
 wisdom there is in the Lord, of whom it is written in 
 the Psahns, 
 
 " God in the great assembly stands, 
 
 Where his impartial eye 
 In state surveys the earthly gods, 
 
 And doth their judgments try." 
 
 New-Year's Day arriving, and the Ministers, to whom 
 I wrote, remaining silent, I consider their silence as 
 evidence, that they cannot prove what I said not to 
 be from the Lord, and have therefore published as I 
 was directed. 
 
 The following is a copy of the letter I sent to the 
 Piev. Mr. , at Heavitree. 
 
 " Sir, I have sent you many letters, wherein you 
 " have kept silence, as beieg at a loss from what hand 
 " they were indited. You judged it strange, Sir, the 
 " Lord should reveal his secrets to a woman : But, 
 " when you come to the knowledge of your Bible, you 
 " will not judge it strange at all. You first judged it 
 <: came from the wisdom of man ; and therein you 
 " erred as much as the former; for was every man on 
 
 " earth
 
 21 
 
 '' earth a Soloman for wisdom, they could not bring 
 " round such a mystery as in my writings, and 
 " make every truth agree. If there ever was so much 
 " wisdom in man, he must be a fool to give the praise 
 " to another, and not take to himself the merit due to 
 " himself. Now I shall come to the purpose. The 
 " century is ended ; the seals are cut open in the 
 " presence of six witnesses (what w r as written in 1 792) 
 " and marked, and copied out. What was written 
 " in 1794, till 179-5 and 1797, and nailed up in a 
 " box, is broken open in the presence of twelve wit- 
 " nesses ; and they have signed their names to all the 
 " writings; so that, if the originals be demanded, no man 
 " can be deceived. Some of them were copied out, 
 
 " and sent to the Rev. Mr. . So here the century 
 
 " ends with men. If those Ministers, that I have 
 " written to, do not go to Mr. before the year 
 
 / 
 
 " ends to the old style, and prove these writings are 
 " not from the Lord, their silence gives consent that 
 " it is of God, and they will be made public. The 
 " Lord was but seven days making the world, and 
 " rested on one of them ; and he will allow no longer 
 " for man than seven days to judge of his works; 
 " so I am compelled to warn you all, what you do 
 " you must do quickly, or for ever after hold your 
 " tongues. When you hear me make public to the 
 " world, that it is the * 
 
 * I am sorry, my intentions cannot be fulfilled, by giving to the public 
 in print the whole contents of the above, and of other letters hereafter. 
 The Printer declines copying them fully. He tells me, that however per- 
 fect my conviction may be, that what I have written is of God, and how- 
 ever strong my resolution may be to hazard all consequences in its publi- 
 cation, yet he has received no supernatural instructions, and therefore feels 
 not, in this case, any degree of the spirit of martyrdom within him ; for 
 which reason he chooses to decline giving any person the power of making 
 this publication a handle for venting the ill-humour of political disappoint- 
 ment upon him. This part of my writings, however, he has perused: 
 and promises, if he find them fulfilled, to bear impartial testimony to 
 their veracity. 
 
 " that
 
 00 
 
 " that are bringing down the judgments of God . . 
 
 
 " and they will bring the 
 
 " upon themselves. -Now, if any Ministers, that I 
 
 " have written to, can deny the truth of these things, 
 " let them bring forth their arguments, and shew 
 " their strong reasons ; or let them be silent before 
 " the Lord, and say we cannot answer thee one word 
 " of a thousand, in all the letters thou hast sent us : 
 " For, be it known unto you, and to all men, it is 
 " the Lord's doing, however marvellous it may ap- 
 " pear in your eyes. My writings are in the hands 
 
 " of Mr. , that you are to judge, if you think 
 
 " proper, in the time I have mentioned. I will give 
 " it tip to no man's judgment after the seven days 
 " are expired, but shall publish them as I have said. 
 " I have understanding as well as you all, neither 
 "am I a whit behind you; but-ye have all been 
 "judges of what ye know nothing about. I am 
 " clear from the blood of all men; and am, with 
 " the greatest respect, your humble servant, 
 
 JOANNA SOUTHCOTT. " 
 
 The following is a copy of a letter sent to one of 
 the Dignitaries of the Cathedral of E.xeter. 
 
 Jan. 4, 1801. 
 "Rev. Sir, 
 
 " I beg liberty to say unto you, (as the Voice 
 said unto Paul) Why persecutest thou me ? It is hard 
 for thce, O Paul, to kick against the pricks. And it 
 is hard for you, Sir, to fight against God, through un- 
 belief. You have done it, till almost a ... is come 
 on the poor; and if you continue, you will bring the 
 ... on the rich ; for you will surely find, Sir, you 
 have a God to deal with, and not (as you suppose) a 
 simple woman, whose senses are gone you know not 
 
 where.
 
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 where. I grant, they are gone out of the reach of man, 
 .while you judge through a glass darkly ; but you must 
 judge face to face, Sir, if you will be a judge for 
 yourself, unto whom you have done despite ; either to 
 the Spirit of the Lord or me. If it was to me, I would 
 never trouble your Honour with this letter; for my 
 spirit is too great to be treated M r ith contempt. But, 
 as you have done it to the Lord, I am ordered to warn 
 you in his name. The time of ignorance God winketh 
 at; but now you have no cloak for yourself, if you. 
 shut your eyes against the day -light. The letter I sent 
 you in 1799, of the harvest, I had copied out and sent 
 
 to the Rev. Mr. . Both harvests came as I foretold. 
 
 Mr. " disputed with me, if my foreknowledge did 
 not come of myself, and desired me to come to the pur- 
 pose of what I wrote in 1792 ; so I opened my seals in 
 the presence of witnesses, and had all my writings mark- 
 ed in the presence of 1 2 witnesses (what I wrote in 1 794 
 and 1795 and 1796 and 1792) and had part of them 
 
 copied out and sent to Mr. , for him to consult 
 
 with Ministers from what spirit they judged it came; 
 from the Spirit of the Lord, or the powers of darkness. 
 I shall not blush to say, that man is void of understand- 
 ing, that says, it is from myself. But now, Sir, I 
 must come to the purpose. The writings I have sent to 
 
 the Rev. Mr. , if they are not proved by Ministers 
 
 before the year is out by the old style, that they are 
 not of God, they will be published ; that they are of 
 God, the Ministers' silence gives consent. The . 
 
 bringing down the judgments of God 
 
 upon 
 
 . . ; and the Lord is just, to send the .... 
 on them. I was ordered, to send this .to you, Sir, 
 that you may judge for yourself, in seven days. What 
 
 I say unto you, I say unto the Rev. . You 
 
 are both at liberty to judge for yourselves, and if you 
 prove the writings are not of God in the space of seven 
 clays, I will give it up to you; but if you now keep 
 silence, I am the judge myself, and I shall have 
 
 them
 
 them published, as I am directed. They are In the 
 
 hands of Mr. . If you think proper to judge 
 
 them before the time, you are at liberty, or for ever 
 after keep silence. I am, with the greatest respect, 
 your most humble servant, JOANNA SOUTIICOTT." 
 
 Here I add a third letter. 
 
 ' To the Rev. Mr. , Exeter. 
 
 1 Rev. Sir, you may be surprised, to receive a letter 
 4 from a woman, of prophecies, to appeal to your 
 'judgment. Sir, now it is come to the eleventh hour. 
 
 * Strange as it may appear to you, I am ordered to 
 
 * proceed. You preached a sermon in praise of the 
 
 * King ; and I have his interest as much at heart as 
 ' you have. My earnest prayer is for him, that the 
 ' Lord will protect him through life, as being sur- 
 ' rounded with so many enemies. I do not lay any 
 
 ' thing to the King ; but those 
 
 i 
 
 * This was my prophecies for years agone there first 
 
 ' would come an Egypt's and after that an 
 
 1 Egypt's But now I must come to the 
 
 * purpose. I was called by the voice from heaven in 
 1 1792, what was coming upon the earth. I obeyed 
 
 * the summons, and have been writing ever since what 
 
 * the Lord would do upon the earth. And this hath 
 ' been sealed up every year; and now the century is 
 c ended with men ; and by the old style it will end 
 ' with the Lord. My seals have been opened in the 
 
 * presence of twelve witnesses, and marked, and copied 
 
 4 out, and sent to the Rev. Mr. . , for him to 
 
 1 consult with Ministers from what spirit they judged 
 ' it came. Now, Sir, I was ordered to write to you, 
 
 * the bringing down the 
 
 'judgments of God on the land, as you find in my 
 ' prophecies. And this I am going to publish to the 
 ' world, unless the Ministers that I have written to 
 'meet together, and prove the wirings are not of 
 
 * God, in the space of seven days, which ends with the 
 
 ' new
 
 ' ,New Years Day to olds tyle. If they can prove 
 
 * that I am wrong by that time, I will give it up to 
 ' their wisdom, but not after to any one's judgment, 
 ' till I see the end of another year; for the Lord will 
 c begin with a new century; and I will see what he' 
 ' will do, before I will hearken to any man's judg- 
 ' ment. Now, Sir, if you are as great a friend to 
 ' your King and Country as you preached, you will 
 ' diligently search out the truth of these things; but 
 ' you have no longer than New Year's Day to the 
 
 * old style. I am, with the greatest respect, your 
 ' humble servant, JOANNA SouTHcexx. 
 
 ' Jan. 5, 1801. 
 
 These are the first of the writings made in 1792. 
 
 The Reader will observe, that thefollozving is printed 
 word for word according to the original. Worldly- 
 minded Critics may cavil at the language ; but I have 
 been ordered thus to give it the world, to try the heads 
 of the learned. The Lord hath spoken to men, 
 as men : and lam only permit ted to allow the printer 
 to omit such parts, as (thro' fear of maris anger) he 
 may be unwilling to insert. 
 
 " QUENCH not the Spirit; despise not prophecy; 
 for the time is come, that your women shall prophesy, 
 your young men shall dream dreams, your old men shall 
 see visions ; for the day of the Lord is at hand. The 
 day is nigh at hand, that shall burn like an oven ; and 
 all the wicked shall be burnt up as stubble ; whose fan 
 is in his hand : I will thoroughly purge his floor; I 
 will gather my wheat into his garner, and burn up the 
 chart with unquenchable fire. Awake them that sleep; 
 arise from the dead, and Christ will give them life." 
 
 D This
 
 26 
 
 This I have penned, as the Lord hath directed me ; 
 for there is none holy as the Lord; neither is there 
 any rock like our God. 
 
 " Talk no more so proudly ; let not arrogancy come 
 out of your mouth; for the Lord is a God of knowledge, 
 and hy him actions are weighed. The bows of the 
 mighty are broken, and they that stumble are girt 
 with strength. The wisdom of the Lord is hid in 
 the great deep, and his paths are past finding out; 
 for the wisdom of God is foolishness with men, and 
 the wisdom of men is foolishness with God. Are 
 your ways equal, or mine unequal, O house of Israel ? 
 Judge ye: are not my ways equal? Are not your ways 
 unequal, O house of Israel? Fear ye the rod, and who 
 hath appointed it. 
 
 The time is come, that judgments must at God's own house begin, 
 And, if he tirst attacks the jnst, what cafe are sinners in ? 
 If God the righteous, whom he lov'd, with justice doth correct, 
 "What must the sons of violence, whom he abhors, expect ? 
 
 The Spirit of the Lord is with them that fear him. On 
 that man will I took, that is of a meek and contrite 
 spirit ; he trembleth at my word ; he committeth all his 
 ways to the Lord ; he will direct his goings, for God 
 is the same God yesterday, to day, and for ever.*' 
 Think not, for yourselves, our dear Redeemer came 
 into the world to make you more ignorant than the 
 Jews were. He came to enlighten our understandings, 
 and not to darken them. But ye will not come unto 
 him, that ye may have life ; for at the second com- 
 irtg, he shall scarce find faith on the earth ; for unless 
 ye sec signs and wonders, ye will not believe. "Faith- 
 less and perverse generation ! looking for signs, and 
 there shall be no signs given you, but the prophecy 
 of the Prophet Jonah : Nineveh shall rise up in judg- 
 ment against this generation." 
 
 I shall now proceed to my own experience, which 
 hath truly convinced me, the Lord is a wakenedas one 
 out of sleep; and the voice of the Lord will shake 
 terribly the earth. 
 
 The
 
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 The beginning of the powerful visitation of the 
 
 Lord to me wason . . . . , 1792. " I no more 
 
 intended thou shouldest go to reprove the people, than 
 I intended Abraham should offer up his son Isaac. I 
 did it to try thy obedience. Now Avill I swear unto 
 thee, as 1 did unto Abraham. I will make with thee 
 an everlasting covenant; and save thee with an ever- 
 lasting salvation." 
 
 When these words came to me, my soul was trou- 
 bled in the dust before God, and I began to cry out 
 ' What am I, or what is my father's house, that thou 
 hast thus honoured me, unworthy wretch as lam ? My 
 past life makes me ashamed of myself. These words 
 came to me : " I will reward thy obedience ; and in 
 blessing I will bless thee : And, as I kept nothing 
 from Abraham, I will keep nothing from thee. Thou 
 shalt prophesy in my name; and I will bear thee wit- 
 ness. What I put in thy mouth, that will I do on the 
 earth." 
 
 Then these words eame to me: " The Lord is awake, 
 as one out of sleep. The voice of the Lord shall shake 
 terribly the earth. Pestilence and famine shall go thro' 
 the lands. Men's hearts shall fail them for very trouble ; 
 because they have not known the visitation of the 
 Lord." As soon as these words came to me I trembled, 
 and was afraid of his majesty and greatness. Tears of 
 humiliation ran down my eyes, and a holy fear seized my 
 soul. I wept bitterly, and wondered at his divine good- 
 ness to such an unworthy creature as I was. But these 
 words were answered me ; "I have seen all thy en- 
 quiries, to know my will and obey it ; and now I 
 
 will reward thee. Dost thou believe it ?" 1 cried 
 
 out, ' Yea, Lord ; if it be thy voice, I do believe it ; 
 for I know thou art not a man to lie, nor the son of 
 man to be wavering. I have always found thee a God, 
 like thyself, faithful to thy word, and faithful to thy 
 
 promises.' 1 was answered, " Dost thou think I 
 
 will now?" 1 said, ' Yea, Lord; if it be thy 
 
 word, I know thou wilt. Thou hast been faithful to 
 thy word throughout the* Bible, in every age of the 
 
 D Q ' world :
 
 2$ 
 
 world ; a God, the same yesterday, to day, and for ever. 
 I was answered, " This thou believest, and this thou 
 shalt find me ; faithful to my word, and faithful to my 
 promises ; and next Sunday I will fulfil my promisee 
 at my table" which, I bless God, I felt remarkably, 
 and waited with a holy longing for the blessed pro- 
 mise made by Jesus Christ. I then made a solemn 
 vow to God, to be obedient to all his commands, as far 
 as I saw his righteous will concerning me, earnestly 
 praying that I might not be deceived by my own 
 weak understanding, nor deceived by the arts of Sa- 
 tan, pray ing that the Lord would keep me from every 
 evil, and from the evil of sin ; that I may be kept, as 
 Mary, humble at the feet of the Lord 1 was an- 
 swered, ' If pride rise in thy heart, Satan shall hum- 
 ble thee ; but thou sayest, thou hast found me a God 
 
 like myself: and so thou shalt.' 1 said, ' Lord, I 
 
 believe it ; and pray thee, keep me the remainder of 
 my life, and may I drink deep in the Spirit of my 
 dear Redeemer, and, as far as the earthly can bear the 
 image of the heavenly, so far may I bear thy image.* 
 
 This was the prayer and desire of my soul, that 
 
 I may know his voice, and obey it. 
 
 One morning when I awoke, these words wer6 
 sounded in my ears : "Wake, ye ministers; mourn, 
 
 ye priests ; for the day of the Lord is at hand." 
 
 1 thought I heard the sound of preaching in my ears : 
 " The Lord is awake, as one out of sleep ; the voice of 
 the Lord will shake terribly the earth. The sins of 
 the nations have provoked the Lord to anger. He will 
 go forth as a flaming fire ; he will be wroth, as in 
 the valley of Gibeon, untilhe hath brought forth judg- 
 ment unto victory." These words were so 
 
 dreadful in my ears, that they made me tremble, 
 and I M r as earnest in prayer to God, to know if these 
 
 iudgments were coining upon the earth. 1 was 
 
 answered, " I will shew thee in visions, this night, 
 
 what I will do.*' 1 went to bed ; I dreamt 
 
 nothing, and thought I had listened to the voice of a 
 
 stranger, and not of God. 1 was answered, ' The 
 
 night
 
 night is far spent ; the day is at hand ; lay thee down 
 
 and sleep again.' So I did, and dreamed I was on 
 
 a high mountain, and saw the sky as bright as noon- 
 day sun, and two men came out of the clouds, with 
 long robes of purple and scarlet, with crowns of gold 
 on their heads and swords in their hands, standing in 
 the sky. Two men came out with heavy horses, and 
 spoke to those that stood on the clouds, and soon af- 
 ter rode away, like lightning, in the air. Soon after 
 I saw the men on horseback coming out of the clouds, 
 as fast as they could, till the whole skies were covered 
 with men in armour and spears glittering in the air. 
 I thought I looked down, and saw the world in confu- 
 sion, men in armour riding fast. This dream alarmed 
 me ; and I was meditating with what divine majesty 
 and splendor our dear Redeemer was coming into the 
 world. Once he came meek and lowly, persecuted 
 by men ; but now he will come as a prince and a king, 
 conquering and to conquer. Once he came meek and 
 towly, riding on an ass; but now he will come riding 
 in the chariot of his everlasting Gospel. But, who can 
 abide the day of his coming, or who can abide the 
 day of his wrath ? The saints shall see it, and re- 
 joice ; for he will gather the wheat in the garner, and 
 burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire. Then I 
 was answered this psalm : 
 
 Ask, and receive thy full demands ; 
 
 Now shall the heathen be, 
 The utmost limit of the lands 
 
 Shall be possess'd by thee. 
 I'll crush them every where, 
 
 As massy bars of iron break 
 The potter's brittle ware." 
 
 This made me earnest in prayer to God, to know if this 
 was Christ's second coining into the world, to call in his 
 antient people, the Jews. " Is thy last coming when 
 thou comest to judge the world in righteousness?" 
 
 I was answered, " Thou hast judged right." Tn 
 
 prayer and praises I spent the day. In the night in 
 iny bed, it wall said to me, " I will shew thee a vision 
 
 this
 
 30 
 
 this night, that shall make the ears of those that hear it 
 to tingle." I went to bed ; dreamed nothing. It was 
 answered, " The night is far spent; the day is at hand. 
 Lay thee down to sleep again," I was restless and un- 
 easy, and did not believe the Lord has it said, and 
 thought it was the devil, to deceive me, and continued 
 restless from three to past five. I then fell asleep, and 
 dreamed I had something in my hand. I let it fall, 
 and it turned into a cup, and whirled up and down the 
 room. At last it turned into a cat, which I kicked to 
 pieces, and grew angry in my dream, and said, "Satan, 
 this is thy miracles; this is the way thou deceivest the 
 world, by whirling them in empty air, that neither 
 touch top nor bottom." When I awoke, I was griev- 
 ed, and afraid I had sinned in going to sleep ; but I 
 was answered, it was the Lord's permission, to shew I 
 might see Satan's miracles, how he deceived the world. 
 This made the ways of the Lord appear more to be ad- 
 mired ; and I meditated on my past vision, with what 
 glory I saw the Lord in the air, and with what swift- 
 ness the angels seemed to obey him. This set all my 
 soul on fire, and I wished I could fly in the air to the 
 Lord, and fall at the feet of my dear Redeemer. A 
 powerful v x oice*called me, "Joanna, Joanna, the an- 
 
 S'ls rejoiced at thy birth, thy Saviour embraced thee. 
 ost thou think thou canst love him as he loved 
 thee?" These words went through my soul, and I 
 cried out, " No, it is that drawee! my heart after him 
 in strong faith." 
 
 I went to bed and was answered, " I will shew thee 
 in vision this night. I dreamed, I was in an orchard 
 where were trees standing together, the branches were 
 joined one in the other, and the fruit was fallen. I 
 thought, I was going to take them up. I thought 
 the Lord s:iid to me, " Open the shells; but thou 
 shalt not taste, of the first fruit ; it is not orood." I 
 thought I opened the nuts ; for they were like French 
 nuts, but they were withered and dry, and a black veil 
 round them. The Lord said to me, " The first fruits 
 
 arq
 
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 are fallen ; they are not good. Look up, and thou 
 wilt see berries ; and when they are ripe, they will be 
 good." I looked up, and saw berries like the berries 
 of potatoes ; and went to a house, where I saw the 
 Lord. He rose up, as one out of sleep, and told me 
 to go, and mind all 1 had seen. I awaked. 
 
 The same night, I dreamed I was on the sea ;, and 
 I saw a large oven full of meat; and the stopper 
 broke, and the meat swam on the sea in abundance. 
 When I awoke, I was answered. " Thy dreams puz- 
 zle thee; but wars and tumults shall arise from 
 abroad and at home. 1 he sea shall be laden with 
 ships, many shall break in pieces, and thousands shall 
 launch in the deep. As to the dream of the fruit, 
 couldest thou look into the hearts of men, thou 
 wouldest see them as the fruit, withered.*' 
 
 Another night, I dreamed I saw my father sweeping 
 out the bain floor clean, and would not suffer the 
 wheat to be brought in the barn. He appeared to me 
 to be in ar^er. When I awaked, I was answered, " It 
 is thy Heavenly Father is angry with the land ; and 
 if they do not repent, as Nineveh did, they shall sow, 
 but they shall not reap ; neither shall they gather in- 
 to their barns. There shall coine three years, wherein 
 there shall be neither earing nor harvest." 
 
 Another night, it was said unto me, " I will shew 
 thee in dreams, of my anger against the nations." 
 I dreamed I had a dish in my hand, with dirt in it; 
 and some one throwed honey over it ; and the children 
 eat it, for the sake of the honey, which made me 
 sick. I awoke with my dream. I was answered, 
 " So sick is the Lord of the world. They eat the 
 honey and the poison together." 
 
 Another night, I dreamed I heard heavenly music 
 sounding in my ears, and a flock of sheep was gather- 
 ing round it. When the music ceased, the sheep leaped 
 for joy, and ran together, shaking their heads ; and 
 one shook his head almost off, and seemed to have 
 nothing but ears. I went towards them,and awoke. 
 
 I was
 
 I was answered, the sheep were the servants of the 
 Lord ; for they would be convinced, and trust no 
 more their own understanding, but be all ears, to hear 
 what the Lord saith. 
 
 *Another night, I dreamed, I had a large bird, full of 
 large feathers of brass gilded; and the bird fle\v down 
 on the room where I was. I thought to pluck some of 
 the feathers, but found it impossible to pluck one, or 
 break one. I could not think there was any interpretation 
 of this dream ; but T was answered, " It is the determined 
 will of the Lord, that cannot be altered, nor will he be 
 pacified, without repentance." I thought with myself, 
 why then did I dream I tried to pluck the feathers or 
 break them? I was answered, " Thou hast strove to 
 alter the decrees of Heaven, concerning thyself, but 
 to no purpose. The will of the Lord must be done in 
 thee, and by thee." This my soul would gladly obey. 
 
 The same night I dreamed I saw a little bird peck- 
 ing the feathers of the great birds ; but this was not 
 explained. As I was in earnest prayer, to know what 
 all this meant, and where it would end, a heavenly 
 joy filled my soul, as though a company of angels had 
 been singing in my ears these words: 
 
 " What good news the angels bring ! 
 What glad tidings of our King ! 
 Christ descending from his throne, 
 To bring his Father's glory down. 
 Saints shall see it and rejoice ; 
 Hell shall tremble at his voice. 
 Saints rejoice, and sinners fear, 
 When, he brings salvation near. 
 Jews and Gentiles shall agree, 
 Join In Christian unity. 
 Heathens, coming from afar, 
 Worship at the glorious star. 
 All the earth shall know the Lord, 
 And sing his praise with one accord." 
 
 \Vhat follows, concerning the blasphemies of Satan, 
 was written before the prophecies came to me, with 
 many more extraordinary things, that I went through, 
 from (jood Friday to Midsummer. 
 
 * This book has been commanded to be printed like the original, 
 WITHOUT ALTERATIONS, except in the second page, which was a blank 
 leaf, w herein communication has been added, which is to be read after 
 the above. 
 
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 As I was meditating on the unbounded love of Christ 
 to man, Satan's hlasphemy broke in upon me, 'Christ's 
 love was out of pride.' Here my passions grew high: 
 ' Thou devil incarnate, (said I) thou hast lost thy ho- 
 nour, and thou enviest that Christ hath retained his. 
 That was what cast thee out of heaven; because thou 
 would'st not worship him, and now thou enviest his 
 glory, as thy proud rebellious spirit would not stoop 
 to worship him. But we have reason to love him; we 
 have reason to adore him. See what he hath done for 
 us. When thou seekedst our destruction, how did he 
 leave the heavens above, and come down in this lower 
 world, to suffer a sorrowful life and a shameful death, 
 foroursakes ! How did he humble himself on the cross 
 to make us happy, when thou, by thy proud rebellious 
 spirit, sought thy own misery and ours! Thy pride 
 is envy and malice ; but the pride thou speakest of 
 God and Christ, is meekness and humility; and it is the 
 condescension of God to contain his honour. When 
 a man hath lost his honour, who will trust him? Thou, 
 hast lost thy honour, and none but fools will trust thee; 
 but Christ contained his; and every wise man will go to 
 him ; because he knoweth he will not deceive him. It 
 is the wisdom of God, to contain his honour, that men. 
 may trust in him, and rely on him. It is for our good 
 he contains his glory ; but thou hast lost thy honour 
 with thy shame. Christ is worthy to be loved, worthy 
 to be adored, worthy to be had in everlasting remem- 
 brance, and worthy to be honoured; but thou hast no 
 honour belonging to thee." Here Satin came in, with 
 dreadful blasphemy against God and Christ. This 
 enraged my passions, as I could not bear to hear any 
 thing spoke against God or Christ. I cried out 
 "Thou Devil, wherefrom didst thou come? Canst thou, 
 dare thus to trifle with God ? Hast thou not sunk thy- 
 self low enough already? Dost thou want to bring 
 the wrath of God more heavy upon thee than thou hctst 
 already? Dost thou not know all power in heaven, 
 
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 earth, and hell, is in his hand ? He fijleth the heavens 
 with his majesty; and therefore we worship him. He 
 fills earth with his goodness; and therefore we ought 
 to honour and obey him, love and worship him. He 
 fills hell with his terrors ; and therefore thou oughtest 
 to fear him." 
 
 In this manner, I continued with Satan for ten days. 
 His answer and blasphemy was too shocking to pen; 
 till I was worn out with rage and malice against him, 
 I could not bear myself. ,When he would come in 
 upon me with blasphemies, my spirits rose as one in a 
 fever. My Brother hath sometimes took me by the 
 hand, and pitied my weakness, as he thought I had a 
 fever; for I told it to no one, for fear they would 
 blame me. I went out of the house, sometimes in 
 the garden ; but the garden was not large enough to 
 contain me; so I went out in the open fields; and 
 went from field to field to dispute with the Devil, till 
 I had got rid of him, and wearied myself out with 
 passion. Then my spirit would sink low, and think I 
 had all Job's troubles, and my friends like his; for I 
 had no one to complain to. But I said, "Why do I 
 complain? Who was grieved for the afflictions of 
 Joseph? Who was grieved for the afflictions of 
 Job? 
 
 Shall Simon bear the cross alone, 
 
 And other saints be free ? 
 Each saint of them have got their own, 
 
 And there is one for me. 
 But now it is come unto my lot, 
 
 Let it not keep me from 
 Lord, never let me be forgot, 
 
 Till thou hast lov'd me home. 
 But could I die with those that die, 
 
 And place me in their stead, 
 How would my spirit learn to fly, 
 
 And converse with the dead !" 
 
 After I had thus sunk tny spirits, a heavenly joy 
 would arise in my soul, with these words : 
 
 " Gird
 
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 " Gird thy loins up, Christian Soldier: 
 
 'Tis thy Captain calls thee out, 
 Let the dangers make thee bolder, 
 
 War in darkness fear nor doubt. 
 Buckle on thy heavenly armour; 
 
 Patch up no inglorious peace; 
 Let the dangers wax thee warmer, 
 
 As thy fears and foes increase. 
 Lo, when dangers closely threaten, 
 
 And thy soul draws near to death, 
 When assaulted sore by Satan, 
 
 Thy object then's the shield of faith.'"' 
 
 After I had written the blasphemy of Satan, these 
 words came to me: " As thy spirit was enraged 
 and provoked with the blasphemy of Satan, so is my 
 Spirit provoked with the blasphemy of the nations: 
 And as thy Brother tried to hold thy hand from going 
 out of the house, and pitied thy weakness; so hath my 
 Son tried to withhold my hand, and pitied the weakness 
 of his people. But, as thy spirit grew so high, that 
 thou could'st not bear it, but wast forced to withdraw 
 from him ; so shall I. And as the garden was not 
 large enough to contain thee, but thou wast forced to 
 go out from field to field ; so the heavens are not large 
 enough to contain me. I shall come out of the heavens, 
 and dispute with man, if their sins and blasphemy do 
 not cease. As thou heard'st all this, and kept silence; 
 so have I. And as the fire kindleth in thy breast, 
 and thou speakest with thy tongue; so will the fire 
 kindle in my breast, and I shall speak. I will not 
 always keep silence; neither will I be always chicling. I 
 shall awake as one out of sleep; 
 
 And should my wrath for ever smoke, 
 Their souls must shrink beneath my yoke.'* 
 
 I shall add a few more words spoken in answer to 
 man's blaming my following the commands of the 
 Lord ; as he judged it to be foolishness, and could not 
 be the Lord's direction. I seemed to be answered 
 powerfully, as if the Lord had spoke to me in love 
 and anger, that man should not direct the hand of 
 the Almighty. 
 
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 * In thunder now the God the silence broke, 
 And from a cloud his lofty language spoke-. 
 Who, and where, art thou, O fond and pre- 
 
 sumptous man, 
 
 That by thy own weak measures mine would span? 
 Undaunted, as if an equal mat^h for me, 
 Stand forth, and answer my demands of thee : 
 But first, let thy original be trac'd, 
 And tell me then what mighty thing thou wast. 
 When to the potent world my word gave birth. 
 And fix'd my centre on the floating earth, 
 Didst thou assist me with one single thought, 
 Or my ideas rectify in aught ?' 
 
 Declaremy loving kindness to the children of men; and 
 my faithfulness and loving kindness thou shalt not keep 
 back; for my loving kindness I will never take from 
 thee; and it is impossible for man to do it. I am too 
 full of majesty for man to attempt it." 
 
 These extraordinary things have been now ex- 
 plained to me. 
 
 " As she so boldly for her Master stands, 
 
 Then now in thunder I will answer men : 
 
 And first let thy original be trac'd, 
 
 And tell me now, what mighty thing thou wast, 
 
 When first I took thee from thy native dust, 
 
 And in the garden thou alone wast plac'd ? 
 
 Cobld'st thou bring forth the world as she hath done? 
 
 Or, like the woman, bear my only Son, 
 
 Without her aid, as she did without thine ? 
 
 I tell you, men, the myst'ries are behind. 
 
 As from the woman you did all proceed, 
 
 Took from your side, man is pronounc'cl the head ; 
 
 But you must know, you are not the perfect man, 
 
 Until your bone is join'd to you again. 
 
 So both together must in judgment sit: 
 
 And tell me, men, if her disputes were right, 
 
 To say my honour I had still maintain'd, 
 
 And plead with Satan, as she hath began : 
 
 Then both together you shall surely know, 
 
 I have gain'd my honour by his overthrow ; 
 
 For if me woman stands so much my friend, 
 
 You all shall find, I'll stand her's in the end. 
 
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 if from herself this love and courage came, 
 I tell you plain, she is the head of man. 
 But if from me the spirit first did fall, 
 I tell you plain, I am the head of all : 
 And when her writings you've a)l went through, 
 Much greater imsteries must come to your view. 
 So by the woman now I will surely stand, 
 As for my honour she did so long contend. 
 Ten days he held her with his blasphemy, 
 Ten days a hero she held out for me ; 
 Then of these days I turn them now to years: 
 I'll prove her words, and man shall see it clear, 
 That every word was true what she had spoke : 
 I'll gain my honour, her words I'll never mock. 
 So if men mock them now, I'll them plain, 
 I'll gain my honour, to destroy such men." 
 
 What you know not now you will know hereafter. 
 The first is last, and the last is first. The end of all 
 things is at hand ; that Satan's kingdom will be de- 
 stroyed, and Satan chained down for a thousand years, 
 and Christ's kingdom established upon earth. Ir never 
 entered the heart of man, to conceive the glorious days 
 that are before those that wish Christ's kingdom to be 
 established. 
 
 But as the dreadful thunder from on high 
 
 Brings dosvn the rain and then clears up the sky ; 
 
 So must the dreadful thunder of his word 
 
 Sound first aloud the coming of the Lord. 
 
 Then all your swords to plough-shares you may turn, 
 
 To plough with plenty your delighti'ul land ; 
 
 And all your spears for priming-hooks may be, 
 
 To prune with pleasure your delightful trees. 
 
 No thistles then shall hurt the reaper's hand; 
 
 But peace and plenty flow throughout your land ; 
 
 No prickly thorns to hurt the binder's care; 
 
 For God will bind in bundle ev'ry tare; 
 
 And all the foxes he away will take, 
 
 That do so spoil and hurt the tender grape 5 
 
 For now the singing of the birds doth come, 
 
 The turtle's voice must sound in every land; 
 
 But first his thunder must before him roll 
 
 To break in pieces the most stubborn soul. 
 
 So
 
 " So now Isaiah's words are coming near; 
 
 The day of vengeance I to all shall clear, 
 
 And all shall know what I had in my heart; 
 
 It was on mockers for to turn the dart ; 
 
 Because by mockers I was crucified ; 
 
 And 'twas by mockers my disciples died. 
 
 And now observe the gospel and the law ; 
 
 And they in sunder did Isaiah saw ; 
 
 Then now in sunder I will break the whole, 
 
 And back on mockers shall my vengeance fall; 
 
 But those that humbly for my coining wait, 
 
 They all shall find my promises are great. 
 
 I know the foolish virgins and the wise ; 
 
 I know the discord that will now arise. 
 
 Some will believe and eager wish for me; 
 
 And the Desire of Nations they shall see ; 
 
 While others mock, and will my love despise, 
 
 And when too late, they'd wish they'd been more wise. 
 
 This is the different conduct of mankind, 
 
 And different answers they shall surely find. 
 
 The one shall find I am the sinners friend ; 
 
 But all despisers now I'll tell their end. 
 
 Like Herod's fury, I shall all destroy ; 
 
 For all my friends on earth I will enjoy. 
 
 And here, I tell you ev'ry line goes deep - 
 
 Lift up your eyes ; Fll save my frighted sheep, 
 
 Though un'o some it seem a pleasant dream, 
 
 Like Jacob's sons, when I did them redeem, 
 
 That was to free from long captivity, 
 
 At first a pleasant dream it seem'd to be ; 
 
 But in the end, they found it was no dream : 
 
 Nor is it now ; for man I will redeem." 
 
 These verses were written in 1794. Now, I must be 
 eandici with my Readers, and tell you plainly, I have 
 not been one of them that build their faith on a sandy 
 foundation. I have been powerfully led by a Spirit in- 
 visible for 8 years past: and though I was strongly influ- 
 enced to write by it, as a Spirit invisible, and convinced 
 in my own mind it was from God ; yet knowing Satan 
 might come as an angel of light made me earnest in 
 prayer, that the Lord would be my Director, my 
 Guide, and my Keeper; that I might not be permitted 
 to say, * The Lord saith,' if he had not spoken. In 
 
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 answer to my prayers, I had signs set before me of what 
 was'to happen, to assure me it was of God; that, was 
 I to pen them all, it would fill a volume, and how true 
 they all came. Therefore, I have not imposed upon 
 the world with prophecies, till I was clearly convinced 
 they were of God, and not from the Devil. The truths 
 of the harvests I put in the hands of ministers, for 
 them to be judges, if it came true. The war con- 
 tinued, as I was told it would, in 1794, continue till 
 we were in war with the Turks, and then our arms 
 would be victorious, as you will see in what was an- 
 swered me in prayer ; that as a God, the Lord would 
 begin like man, and make the same promise to me 
 that Herod did to the Damsel. My petition and re- 
 quest was, if I had found favour in the sight of the 
 Lord, that he would defend us from the foreign ene- 
 my, that the heathen nations might not say, " Where 
 " is now the God in whom they trusted ?" that Satan 
 might be cut off from the earth, as John the Baptist 
 was. I shall not mention all I asked in prayer; but 
 you will see the answer of the Spirit to it. But there 
 are storms arising ; and those that clearly discern the 
 days that are come will shelter themselves against the 
 storm, and screen themselves when it comes; but thou- 
 sands will perish through unbelief, and many will per- 
 ish through want of knowledge; but every wise man 
 will be like Solomon search out the mystery, to 
 judge for themselves ; but fools will judge of things 
 they know nothing about, and stop their ears, like the 
 deaf adder, that will not listen to the voice of the char- 
 mer, charm he never so wisely. By such I am sure 
 to be cursed ; but thus it must be to fulfil the Revel- 
 ation The dragon was wroth with the woman and 
 cast out floods against her ; and this he will do in the 
 hearts of men: sol may*say, with David, " If Shi- 
 mea curse, let him curse ; for the Lord hath bidden 
 him" and as our Saviour said to Judas, " What 
 thou dost, do quickly." As to my friends, I love and 
 esteem them; and my daily prayers shall be for them. 
 As to my enemies, t forgive and pity, knowing this 
 
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 must be, to fulfil the Scripture; but they cannot hurt 
 me ; for I am dead to the world, and the world to me. 
 By my own master I must stand or fall. Deep is the 
 mystery of my writing eightyears, and keeping it seal- 
 ed up, and putting it in print the new century. This is a 
 deep type to the land, that I shall explain in my other 
 writings. Deep is the mystery of the tree of know- 
 ledge being good and evil 1 am Alpha and 
 
 Omega, the beginning and the ending the first 
 
 shall be last, and the last shall be first: so the know- 
 ledge of the evil fruit came the first, the knowledge 
 of the good fruit must come last. 
 
 I shall add some that are mysterious at present ; 
 but to me is easily known ; and the reader will see it 
 clear hereafter. Could you see all my writings through 
 in one volume, you would be truly convinced it was 
 of God ; but that I cannot take out in a twelve- 
 month, how the Bible is all explained, and what shall 
 happen to every nation upon earth. 
 
 I shall now add the copy of a letter that I sent to a 
 minister in 17.96, after he had disputed with me, that 
 the marriage of the Lamb was to take place in heaven. 
 I said, " no ; the marriage of the Lamb meaneth 
 when he cometh to unite all nations, to be as one sheep 
 under one shepherd, and Christ to be the shepherd of 
 the whole. The Lamb's wife meant a woman, that all 
 these things should be revealed to; and readiness was 
 perfect obedience to all the commands of the Lord. 
 He seemed at a loss to believe it. I was ordered to 
 send him the following letter : 
 
 " Now, this to him I bid thee write: 
 
 If thou art not the bride, 
 Tell him to bring one that is right, 
 
 My Gospel's so applied. 
 For to the fullness it cannot come, 
 
 Until the bride be found : 
 Out of her closet she must go, 
 
 With jewels deck'd around. 
 For here's the pearl of great price, 
 
 .And unto thee 'tis given : 
 
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 And are these jewels of no use ; 
 
 Then she shall enter heaven, 
 In white appear before me there, 
 
 While you in grief will mourn ; 
 And all shall know her words are true, 
 
 For vengeance fast shall come. 
 In heaven the wonder first was seeji, 
 
 And you may wonder here. 
 The woman clothed with the sun 
 
 Shall make all nations fear; 
 Then let the stars begin to shine, 
 
 And publish my decree. 
 If these refuse, I'll others choose, 
 
 Though fatal destiny 
 To those that disobey their call ; 
 
 Tis me she hath obey'd. 
 The woman stands condetnn'd by all, 
 
 Was man by her misled ? 
 Then now by her he must come back 
 
 That paradise will regain. 
 In her I'll break the serpent's neck, 
 
 And will set free her chain. 
 She poured the ointment on my head, 
 
 And a good work she wrought ; 
 And with her tears she wash'd my feet, 
 
 Let man deny her not ; 
 For at the cross the woman stood, 
 
 The sword went thro' her soul, 
 While my Disciples saw and fled, 
 
 And so they left me all. 
 Np woman in the compnny, 
 
 W hen hands on me were laid ; 
 And Pilate's wife did pity me, 
 
 When Judas had betray'd. 
 When from the grave I did arise, 
 
 I ask, who there was first. 
 Then let the sons of men be wise, 
 
 If women love me best. 
 Have I her life and senses spar'd, 
 
 For to assume the bride ? 
 Then let the sons of men beware, 
 
 That she be not denied. 
 More fatal now than Adam's fall 
 
 'Twill happen to the man. 
 
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 For in the dark the light doth shine, 
 
 Your eyes are dazzled here ; 
 And will you shudder at the thought 
 
 To see the mystery clear? 
 Or will you, like the Jews of old, 
 
 Keep seals upon the tomb ? 
 Or will you bribe the keepers here, 
 
 The truth may not be known ? 
 Then soon to others I'll appear, 
 
 In the highway I'll go; 
 And this command, without delay, 
 
 I bid thee hasty do." 
 
 This publication that I have made to the world, is 
 to convince mankind the Bible is fulfilling and near to 
 the end ; and I must bring you tothe Apostle's words : 
 When the fullness of the timcicas come, God sent his Son, 
 wade of a woman, made under the law; a mystery no man 
 can explain. But the reader will be ready to say, 
 " What makest tbou thyself?" I answer, " I make 
 nothing of myself. I give myself up to thejudgmentof 
 men, for so it must be, to fulfil the Scripture. In 
 ages past, men were tried and condemned for prophe- 
 cies, until our Saviour and bis Disciples put an end to 
 that persecution with man ; for prophecies have ceased 
 in so strong a manner ever since with man, as not to 
 bring persecution on them ; again but be it known 
 unto all men, if it began with the woman at first, it 
 must end with her at last ; and now I must stand the 
 trial of what I say, as I am ordered to put in print, 
 the woman in the 12th chap, of Revelation is myself 
 the 19th and last. Therefore, is was written by Isaiah, 
 Rejoice, thou barren, that does not bear; and it is written, 
 All her children shall be lau^lit of t lit Lord, and great 
 shall be the peace upon the earth. This chapter is hid from 
 man's understanding, as well as all the others I have 
 mentioned. Now all men must know, the man cast the 
 blame on the Lord for the fall ; and the Lord of life 
 and glory beared it on the cross, lor man and by man. 
 The woman cast the blame on the serpent, ami in 
 the end the woman must cast the blame on him, and 
 
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 he must bear it, as the Lord of life and glory did for 
 man. Here I must appeal to men's conscience, if the 
 sentence is not just, when the Lord cometh to reason 
 with man ? and it is written, I will gather them together 
 at the valley ofjehoshaphat, andp lead with them there; 
 that meaneth, that he will bring all nations low to- 
 gether, as a valley is low, and plead with them by his 
 Spirit; and by his Spirit he will reason with men, and 
 make plain all his Bible to their view. But although I 
 say, it is explained to me by the Spirit, it must be 
 judged by man, and by the truth it must be judged 
 from whence it came but all these truths cannot be 
 put in print for the present. Little do men know 
 what is hastening on. The dreams and visions, that was 
 shewn me, theend of 1794, and explained to me, can- 
 not be put in print at present; neither was half of them 
 ever shewed any man ; but what I can print, of my pro- 
 phecies deeper I shall in my next part. But to shew 
 my readers how I have been led on by ministers, 
 from 17<;2 to this present day, hath taken up so much 
 of my time in the first part, sol have given you a short 
 account of many things ; but, if faith increase in the 
 readers, so that many are desirous of judging for 
 themselves, the books will come much cheaper. Let 
 no one think me vain, in believing these wondrous 
 things are of God, and are come to me. I tell you all, 
 it is but a mark for all men to walk by, to know the 
 end is at hand. The records of the Bible are now ful- 
 filling, as it was first written, and revealed to a woman 
 that doth not think so high of herself, as others might 
 think, if it had been them. Whoever think high 
 of these things, let them be assured, his heart was 
 never prepared for such a calling ; but to convince 
 you, what is the shadow to me is the substance to all, 
 I shall give you the following lines in verse. 
 
 " If to my voice you will but hearken, 
 
 And obey my strict command, 
 You shall know, from what I've spoken, 
 
 This shall be a happy land. 
 
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 Like Jehoshapbat be doing ; 
 
 JNever fight but with my word. 
 Do you know what I am pursuing, 
 
 To make all men know the Lord? 
 By the heavens ! (Til sweai no greater) 
 
 Mark the words I say to thee ; 
 I have indited every letter 
 
 That was sent, they all shall $ee. 
 'Tis the wood that next shall kindle. 
 
 And [ will make it for to burn. 
 Plain as thou didst hear the sermon, 
 
 Full as plain shall 1 return. 
 If the first appeared a mystery, 
 
 Yet the next, thou know'st was plain ; 
 Perfect so, I now do tell thee, 
 
 I will make it to all men ; 
 For the truth shall come before them,, 
 
 And I'll tell them who I am. 
 By prophecies my Bible stands 
 
 By every age was past ; 
 By prophecies I'll make them good, 
 
 And prove them in the last. 
 And let them bow as low as thee, 
 
 Think of themselves no more, 
 And put their faith as strong in nle, 
 
 Then all alike you are ; 
 For if one star doth now appear, 
 
 The others soon may shine ; 
 The firmament fix'd it here, 
 
 That all may know my mind. 
 I said the servant was the chief, 
 
 But not above the rest ; 
 Before nor after cannot be, 
 
 But with her followers blest : 
 And who they are, it shall appear, 
 
 That like her do believe, 
 And humbly stand with faith and fear, 
 
 I will not one deceive. 
 But as in order things do come, 
 
 The heavens do shew the sign ; 
 To what confusion all would go, 
 
 If I should tell my mind 
 To every one, as things do stand, 
 
 Your hearts are not prepar'd ? 
 And would you do as she hath done, 
 
 When I first warned her here ? 
 
 You'll
 
 You'll answer, No ; the truth is so, 
 
 You would it not believe; 
 For higher wisdom you would shew, 
 
 And therein be deceived ; 
 Because your wisdom you would trfcst, 
 
 And would not trust in me : 
 Then sure self-wisdom must be cast, 
 
 And think as low as she, 
 That in the man was merit none, 
 
 And she had none to boast ; 
 But free my promise was to all 
 
 That in me put their trust. 
 So now then come, as she hath done ; 
 
 Believe my Bible true, 
 Then now as brides yon all shall be ; 
 
 The Bridegroom all shall know. 
 Like David first, I'll be the last, 
 
 And have more wives than he ; 
 And Soloman did wisdom show, 
 
 And with them I'll agree. 
 But when begun it was with one, 
 
 Was all together wed ; 
 Then let my hundred wives become, 
 
 My royal palace made. 
 To take you all alike, I call ; 
 My hand and heart resign : 
 And now the marriage I'll read o'er 
 
 To those that will be mine. 
 Wedded to sin you all have been, 
 
 Ever since Adam's fall : 
 And 'twas from Eve, you do believe, 
 
 That brought it on you all : 
 So one was curs'd, the rest was cast J 1 
 
 There was moreover one ; 
 Then now the mystery comes at last, 
 
 And so turn back again ; 
 For Satan came, the strong man arm'd, 
 
 And bolted every door, 
 That scarce a virgin could be found 
 
 That was not tainted here. 
 This hath run thro' every vein, 
 
 Till now the strong is come. 
 .I'll make him tremble now like Cain, 
 
 And bring you back again. 
 So now, like Eve, let all believe, 
 The Bridegroom is at hand ; 
 
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 That all the earth I shall reprieve 
 
 The stronger now shall stand ; 
 For Satan's reign hath been so strong, 
 
 With thousands he did clear; 
 'Tis time for David now to come, 
 
 With his ten thousands here. 
 Your Mighty Counsellor, I'll begin, 
 
 Your Advocate and Friend ; 
 Then I will come your Priest and King, 
 
 Your Brother in the end ; 
 Your Husband too, you all shall know, 
 
 For 1 shall all protect ; 
 And if by one you all came down, 
 
 By one then all come back. 
 Then all will be as wise as she, f 
 
 Or yet as simple here ; 
 Then wives alike you all shall be ; 
 
 The marriage 1 shall clear. " 
 
 Now I shall begin with the 19th chapter of the Re- 
 velation. After I had seen the truth of my writings 
 come on, and my faith began to grow strong, in Janu- 
 ary 1 794, 1 was powerfully visited with these words : " I 
 will say to the south, Give up ; and to the north, Keep 
 not hack. I will call my sons from afar, and my daugh- 
 ters from the ends of the earth.'' I was earnest in 
 prayer, to know the meaning, and was answered, 
 *' Xnowest thounot the words of thy Saviour, The king- 
 dom of heaven is like unto a woman having a little leaven, 
 which she hideth in three measures of meal, until the whole 
 be leavened? And now I will open to thy view the Re- 
 velations ; and when theu hast leavened it, thou shalt 
 leaven the whole lump ; for, as I kept nothing from 
 Abraham, so I keep nothing from thee ; for the Lamb 
 is come, and the Bride hath made herself ready. By 
 thy obedience thou hast done it ; and the end of all 
 
 things is at hand.'' These words threw me in a flood 
 
 of tears. I put down my pen and was silent. I thought 
 it too high for me, and would not write it; but I was 
 answered, " The marriage of the Lamb meaneth the 
 uniting of all nations together. As marriage unites 
 two together, so the marriage of the Lamb unites 
 all together, to be as sheep under one shepherd ; 
 
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 and Christ to be the shepherd of the whole. By 
 the Lamb's Wife was meant a woman, that all this 
 should be revealed to ; and she should be in perfect 
 obedience to all the commands of the Lord. Readi- 
 ness is obedience ; and for thee to conceal these things 
 would be as wrong, as it would be in Mary to conceal 
 the nativity of Christ, for fear men should think it was 
 pride and vain-glory in her. Fear not the judgments 
 of men. The Lord is thy judge,.and knows thy heart. 
 To conceal the secrets of a king is honourable ; but to 
 conceal the secrets of the Lord is sinful ; for the Lord 
 will never reveal to man what he thinks proper to con- 
 ceal to himself." These arguments made me pen 
 
 them, unworthy as I am to receive them. But, know- 
 ing it is not our merits, but Christ's mercies, that \ve are 
 what we are, I was answered, " None is before nor af- 
 ter another; none is greater nor less than another; buthe 
 that is greatest amongst you let him be your minister ; he 
 that is chiefest amongst you shall be a servant to 
 you all." Deep and weighty reasons were assigned to 
 me, why I had gone through so strange and singular a 
 life, as my readers will see hereafter. Then \ras explain- 
 ed to me the 7th chap. Mat. of our Saviour in theMount. 
 The winds blew, and the storms descended, and it fell 
 not, for it was founded on a rock ; but he that built on 
 the sand, the storms came and the wind blew, and it fell, 
 and great was the fall thereof. The meaning of these 
 words is, " The powers of darkness that hath strongly 
 assaulted thee, and all the powerful persuasion of thy 
 friends that hath tried to prevent thee: But thy faith 
 fell not; for it was founded on the Rock of ages ; and 
 the words of thy Saviour shall be made manifest in 
 thee and by thee: But those that build on the sand, 
 are these that build on their own wisdom ; and when 
 the winds blow, and the storms descend, (that is, when 
 the truth of all come upon them) their wisdom will 
 fall, and great will be the fall thereof, for man's wis- 
 dom will all fall together." 
 
 When I had written these things, I was reading, one 
 
 t Sunday, in the Bible, 2 1st chapter of Revelation, Come 
 
 hit her, and Iwillxhcw thee the Bride, the Lamb's II 'j/'c. 
 
 And
 
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 And he carried me away in the. spirit unto a great high 
 mountain, where I saw the New Jerusalem descending 
 out oj heaven. Hearing these words, I blushed, though 
 alone by myself, and began to doubt by what spirit I 
 had written, or what I had believed. 1 went up and 
 was earnest in prayer, and was answered, " Thou wast 
 in the spirit, when thou sawest the New Jerusalem 
 descending, with all the host of heaven ; and thou 
 wast on a high mountain, where John saw the Spirit. 
 The Spjrit is the Spirit of God, that hath visited thee. 
 What do they make of the Spirit and the Bride? 
 What do they make of their Bibles?" But the ex- 
 planation of these chapters I shall defer to a future 
 publication. 
 
 END OF PART FIRST. 
 
 * # * In my Second Part, I shall acquaint the Reader with 
 what was explained to me, twelve Sundays, from Michaelytas 
 to Christmas 1794. 1 was ordered to fast eleven Sundays, 
 and the Lord zcould send me strength from the sanctuary. I 
 went from the sacrament to my chamber, and different things 
 were explained to me every Sunday; the type of ringing the 
 bel/s Jor prayers, in different parishes, some at seven o'clock, 
 some at eight, at nine, at ten, and at eleven ; the one o'clock 
 bet tin the afternoon, at all parishes, a great type for all lands; 
 the meaning of the seven stars; oj the leprous men; why 
 David zvas a man after God's own heart ; the type of Herod's 
 destroying the children ; the meaning of circumcision ; the 
 second chapter of Joel explained ; Athaii&siw's Creed ex* 
 plained; the type of the two candlesticks at the altar; - 
 and what our Saviour meant, when he said, As the days of 
 Noah and Lot were, so shall the coming of the Son of 
 M;n be ; then follow the dreams and visions, that were shewn 
 me in the 12 days of Chnstmas 1794, and how they were ex- 
 plained, and many more strange things which I shall publish ; 
 for there is nothing hid but shall be made known ; what hath 
 been done in the secret chamber shall now be revealed on the 
 house top. 
 
 The first edition was printed with many errors, which remain in 
 this, because the book was not to be altered. 
 
 Printed by (liilabin and Mnrchant, Ingram-court, Feiichurch^treet, London.
 
 
 The Strange Effects of Faith. 
 
 SECOND PART. 
 
 MUST beg to assign some reasons, why my 
 writings are spoken so much in verse. Verse is 
 an addition to words, and so is mine to the Bible: 
 Verse gives an echo, and it is the voice of the 
 Lord echoing back to man. Consider hew many 
 were the songs of Solomon and mine is indited 
 by a greater than Solomon. 
 
 I shall commence this part with the mystery of 
 the Fall, and how it was explained. 
 
 " Over the earth the darkness it is gone, 
 
 Nothing but darkness in the sons of men ; 
 
 And how my Bible \\ill they all explain, 
 
 For all dark sayings to be brought to light ? 
 
 I say the Bible-'s covered from men's sight, 
 
 Left to men's wisdom imply to explain; 
 
 And by men's wisdom simply it is done. 
 
 But nu\v I ask thee, are men's judgments true? 
 
 And now I'll bring it plainer to thy view: 
 
 As all men differ in tlu-i, 
 
 Bring me the man )' jlear, 
 
 That all gainsayers he can n-.nv c 
 
 There's not that man stands on the earthly ground. 
 
 Printed July _i v w. 
 
 JMaicliant, from (lie Fjrst Edition, 
 
 published i.'9th March,
 
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 Then in judgment men don't all agree. 
 
 My sealed jury still must sealed be ; 
 
 And by the twelve men they must give it up ; 
 
 I'll chuse another if that any drop. 
 
 The mighty Counsellor now I'll surely be; 
 
 The Pri.,ce of Peace, that every one shall see ; 
 
 And when my kingdom doth begin to reign, 
 
 'Tis then my Bible I will soon explain : 
 
 A stone of stumbling it hath always been, 
 
 Rock of defence I say is coming on. 
 
 The temple-gate I'll now throw open wide; 
 
 And with the jewels will adorn the Bride ; 
 
 For as a bridegroom doth his bride prepare 
 
 "With costly jewels, whom he doth adore, 
 
 So with all things I now will furnish thee ; 
 
 Out of thy chamber decked thou shall be ; 
 
 As in thy closet thou'rt directed there, 
 
 Bring forth thy jewels I do bid thee wear; 
 
 They say thou'rt black, but yet thy jewels fair. 
 
 This is the Bride I said before I'd chuse, 
 
 All black, but comely ; let them hear the news. 
 
 As thou enquir'st the perfect way to know, 
 
 Deeper and deeper shall my Spirit go. 
 
 In the beginning surely was my word, 
 
 To make man happy, perfect like his Lord; 
 
 In my own image 1 created man, 
 
 But little lower than the angels then ; 
 
 Lord of the earth I surely did him make, 
 
 And every living creature for his sake ; 
 
 And as alone he was not happy th' 
 
 I made the woman to complete it here. 
 
 That they in earthly blessings might abound, 
 
 And to posterity it might resound. 
 
 But then the tempter soon did find the way 
 
 Their peace and happiness for to bet: 
 
 So that the ground was cursed for man's sake, 
 
 Because that he my covenant did break. 
 
 Firm as the heavens my promise ever sttfod; 
 
 I did make all things, and pronounc'd them good, 
 
 And in the (in-t place gave them all to man ; 
 
 Butnow the other mystery comes on. 
 
 Because on Adam I did cast a sleep, 
 
 I tell thee now the mystery l;c^ deep; 
 
 When he awoke, and saw the woman there, 
 
 He was amtix'd; complete his earthly care ; 
 
 Or yet, I say, complete his earthly bliss, 
 
 And at that time a perfect paradise. 
 
 But now I tell thee that thy pen goes deep ? 
 
 Close to the woman did the serpent creep,
 
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 Advantage of her weakness he -did take ; 
 
 Therefore in her I'll break the serpent's* neck. 
 
 When I the helpmate did for man prepare, 
 
 (Go back to Eden, and y< u'H find it here; 
 
 For full as sleepy are the sons of men.) 
 
 This was the way the helpmate first began; 
 
 For in the garden she di'i stand alone; 
 
 And now the other mystery comes on. 
 
 Out of his sleep I did the man awake; 
 
 He saw the woman, and with joy partake; 
 
 He cull'd her woman, as she came from man. 
 
 When joy increas'd the sorrows soon came on ; 
 
 Because the tempter he was studying then 
 
 How to destroy the happy son of men. 
 
 His dark contrivance it did lie in hell ; 
 
 Against the woman did his malice swell ; 
 
 And man he envy'd for the woman's sake, 
 
 Rcsolv'd by arts his happiness to break. 
 
 Then as a serpent did to her appear ; 
 
 Ho knew a man would surely frighten her; 
 
 Then as a coward he did first begin, 
 
 And so he surely did in heaven the same ; 
 
 Because his malice rose against the Son : 
 
 But as his malice rose against those two, 
 
 I'll in the woman all my wonders do. 
 
 Are your ways equal now, ye sons of men, 
 
 For to condemn the thing that I have done ? 
 
 Was not the woman simply left alone, 
 
 AVhensubtilely the poisonous serpent came ? 
 
 And by her weakness she was soon betray'd, 
 
 *tia just in her that I should break his head. 
 
 !0id man refuse to take the fruit she gave, 
 
 Or justify her how she was deceiv'd ? 
 
 No but upon her he did cast the blame. 
 
 Bring forth your arguments, ye sons of men, 
 
 As by your wisdom you can never see 
 
 Why in the woman every truth should be. 
 
 Had you ne'er stoop'd to cat the fruit at first, 
 
 You never should have stooped at the last. 
 
 But now my flock I'll lead them by a child, 
 
 Till all like lambs are brought into my fold ; 
 
 And then my kingdom shall begin to reign. 
 
 1-ut deeper mysteries I shall soon explain; 
 
 For as in hell the arts did first begin, 
 
 To blast the pleasures that were coming on, 
 
 So now in heaven I say it is the same; 
 
 I see men's sorrows daily to increase; 
 
 I'll change the scenes and bring to perfect peace; 
 
 But yet my thunder must before me roll,
 
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 To break in pieces the most stubborn soul. 
 From Cain and Abel! shall next go on, 
 For to explain the further tall of man ; 
 And then the mountain in the balance comes ; 
 The little hills I weigh'd them in the scale; 
 And perfectly expluin'd the woman's fall. 
 )>ut now from Cain and Abel let you sec 
 How soon the man like Satan came to be ; 
 For then the tempter did like fury come, 
 More, like a lion, when he tempted man ; 
 For when the shepherd he did first appear, 
 'The tiller of the ground laid vengeance there; 
 So the poor sheep were simply left alone, 
 Their Shepherd murder' d by his brother's hand; 
 The tiller of the ground was fli-d away : 
 Think on the horror that comes in one day 
 Pour out his vengeance on the sons of men. 
 Now to men's conscience I will all appeal, 
 If he'd not make this world a perfect hell ? 
 By the short time he did begin to reign, 
 Fast- as the lightning did his fury run, 
 Pour out his fury on the sons of men. 
 What anguish must the parents now endure, 
 No friend "to comfort, but their souls despair I 
 This in my heart I surely felt for man, 
 Repent myself I ever did him form, 
 And griev'd my Spirit to the very heart ; 
 But for mine honour it could not depart ; 
 Because that Satan did my promise claim ; 
 Then all be wise, Oh, all ye sons of men ; 
 My promise great is turrf"d the other way, 
 To those that will but my commands obey." 
 
 Here follows wlat was unititentwmtlly omitted In Part the First. 
 
 The words that were said to me, that the Lord 
 would begin like man, and make the same promise 
 to. me as Ilerod did to the damsel- - -w licit ever 1 ask, 
 " to the half of my kingdom" should be given tc 
 my petition was, that Satan may he cast dt 
 Christ's kingdom established, our land delivered 
 from the hands of our enemies, and ail nations 
 brought iu. 
 
 Now thou sriv'st. thyself hast ended, 
 
 Now I answer, so .''.all it be ; 
 For this nation I'll defend it 
 
 I'Vom the ford 11 encmv.
 
 Think upon thy first amusing 
 
 Why is it thou art stumbled now? 
 Was it not tuo great a. spirit 
 
 To the Romish bands to bow ? 
 For I \viii have a strong army 
 
 Jews and Gentiles shall agree, 
 And my Spirit goes before them, 
 
 I will gain the victory. 
 Though i may awiiile defer it, 
 
 Vet I'll not with this give o'er; 
 Why is thy mind so greatly puzzi 
 
 I shall face the iocs once more. 
 Ai'i man's rights I am renewing; " 
 
 Can this give a just offence: 
 Those that gloried in my ruin, 
 
 Now's the tim.e I'll rccotnpencc. 
 jfor my servants I'll a\va 
 
 And their hearts I'll fill with love; 
 They shall find, they're not for: 
 
 By thei" i above. 
 
 lii heaven the armour's now preparing 
 
 That my soldiers they shall wear; 
 But the breast- es before theirs, 
 
 They have nothing new to f. 
 When my sword begins to glitter 
 
 And I'll p:;l k in il. 
 Th.'y shad hear the words I'll utter, 
 
 When 1 give them my command. 
 Ko-.v be strong, and htaud coura:- 
 
 You have nothing for to fear; 
 But remember Herod's ; 
 
 To the damsel he did sv, 
 To the hnlf of all mv 
 
 I will freely give to ; 
 All the words that thoi: < - ~ 
 
 For this nation, so shal. 
 By thy questrons ai; ' 
 
 Thud 
 That I'll now stand i 
 
 ' Ai' : II. 
 
 For in conquering now !, 
 
 All the bloody <whoi . :;;c; 
 
 All t : 
 
 Every one I will pull do^:i. 
 For the Protestant ;:i ,fc. 
 
 Which I ever i : . 
 I will now uwr' 
 
 For to love ME everiz; ..
 
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 When they're in the field of battle. 
 
 Then my thunder it shall roll; 
 When the roaring guns do rattle, 
 
 1 uill sound from pole to pole. 
 Then I'll shout before my army, 
 
 They have nothing for to tear; 
 For my glory goes before them, 
 
 Their deliverance then draws near. 
 Though this while I have kept silence, 
 
 That their folly they may see, 
 Trusting to their combined armies, 
 
 And they did not trust in ME. 
 Men they'll find are false and treacherous, 
 
 There can no trust be put in man. 
 What is it 'hat makes thee silent, 
 
 And for to put down thy pen ? 
 Am I not the King of Glory ? 
 
 And they seiz'd my royal grace, 
 And ray person they attended 
 
 To a much securer place. 
 What is it that doth thee puzzle? 
 
 Was it not in Gethsemane ? 
 Why dost thou so strangely wonder ? 
 
 There the soldiers seized ME ; 
 With swords and staves they did surround me; 
 
 And that all of them shall see, 
 While my soldiers observed silence, 
 
 Peter drew the sword for ME. 
 I will reason now no longer, 
 
 But come on to Calvary: 
 All my friends were mov'd with pity, 
 
 While my Iocs were satisfied. 
 So it was, when on mount Calvary, 
 
 1 for man my life laid down; 
 But I'll come again in glory, 
 
 As a lamb that's newly slain. 
 I have answer'd thy petition ; 
 
 But. thou'lt say, that is not all ; 
 In the Scriptures thou may'st read it, 
 
 Satan doth like lightning fall. 
 What have I to answer farther ? 
 
 Every nation to call in ; 
 Th' heavenly pillars shall be shaken. 
 
 What is it confus'th thy mind ? 
 At the time the earth i l M tremble, 
 
 And the Bridegroom's voice they'll hear 
 Thou may'st end and go no farther; 
 
 At that time thou'lt not be here:
 
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 But thy sons and daughters standing 
 
 On this very spot will be ; 
 And the days that they have long'd for, 
 
 With rapturous joys they then will see. 
 
 Nov. 17.94, I dreamt I was at a door, and saw 
 the moon shine very bright. I likewise saw a whole 
 train of men in long- cloaks, riding softly through 
 the air ; soon after I saw the whole heavens full of 
 men, riding swiftly after them. Those that were 
 before began to move their pace, when they saw 
 the others come so swiftly after them. The whole 
 heavens were covered vith men ; and one mai, rode 
 through all the ;,;/> towards me. I thought 
 others beheld it, as well as myself, and said they 
 never saw such sight in their lives ; but I said that 
 I had, before the war broke oat ; and then awoke. 
 This Dream was answered me in the following 
 manner. 
 
 " Tii en now this droam I'll answer unto thee: 
 
 The train of men, in their long cloaks to be, 
 
 At first appear'd, and slowly . n 1:0 move, 
 
 So slowly on, that thou Jio.u '; ul and gaze; 
 
 Soon after that appear'd as r:;;,:,; more, 
 
 Or twice the number that d,u lirst appear; 
 
 In haste they rode, the armies they were full, 
 
 The heavens cover'd, and thou could'st not tell 
 
 Who was the MAN that cross'd the ranks all through, 
 
 And rode so very hasty to thy view. 
 
 Then now the. mystery I to thee shall show: 
 
 The armies that did h'rst ride on so slow, 
 
 Display the dulness of mankind below; 
 
 Their cloaks do cover, and no danger's near 
 
 Their passing softly through the very air ; 
 
 But no foundation have they there to stand ; 
 
 For quickly after come the hasty train ; 
 
 They mov'd their puce when dangers did appear, 
 
 So will it be with all the sons of men ; 
 
 They'll move their pace when danger;; do come on. 
 
 But as a MAN rode hasty on to thee, 
 
 The MAN of GOD I say 'twill surely be; 
 
 And know, these dangers they are nigh at hand, 
 
 And therefore to thee he will surely come; 
 
 J'or all these visions will be in Ihe land ;
 
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 Because the wars most dreadful will abound : 
 And in this land you'll hear the dreadful sound. 
 They are preparing, yet it is but slow ; 
 What's coming on, I say, they do not know ; 
 Their cloaks do cover, for they trust in man, 
 And on the Lord they do not all depend ; 
 But on the Lord they surely all must lean, 
 ]f e'er my army comes to join with them; 
 And then their work it will be done in haste ; 
 Cylinder well, my army rode so fast. 
 This was thy dream, that slowly came at first, 
 But in the end the army was in haste." 
 
 I judged the substance past; but it is said to me, 
 the substance is to follow. 
 
 I now shall o-ive an account of the Seven Stars, 
 
 ^j 
 
 which were explained tome in the following man- 
 Ben They were the seven mysteries of God : The 
 first was, when he made man ; the second, when 
 he made the woman ; the third, the promise of re- 
 demption ; the fourth, the Angel appearing to the 
 Virgin Mary ; the fifth, Christ's birth ; the sixth, 
 Christ's death ; the seventh, his revealing the se^ 
 crets to a woman, as one standing alone. 
 
 " For as a sparrow on the house, 
 
 Thou say'st thou stand'st alone ; 
 And with thec to assist in ought, 
 
 The Lord well knows thou'st none, 
 Wi'.h Adam first this was the case; 
 
 For he did standalone; 
 And with him to assist in ought, 
 
 Lord well knew he had none. 
 A helpmate then 1 did prepare, 
 
 Bone of his bunc to he ; 
 When ho awoke, and found her there, 
 
 Appear'd a mystery. 
 When by the fall he was seduc'd, 
 
 And out of F/len sent, 
 ile saw his follies when too late; 
 
 Yet he did sore repent ; 
 But this repentance was in vain; 
 
 The fatal die was cast : 
 And he no pardon could obtain ; 
 
 For all his joys did b!a-t. 
 
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 But here's another mystery 
 1 shall not lonj; corv
 
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 For the Messiah promi/d then 
 
 His deadly wounds to heal. 
 But how it then should be perform'd, 
 
 Adam he did not know: 
 ilL d:-iys were rpent in sorrow great, 
 
 His sons : n his w<-e. 
 
 From age to age it was conceal'd 
 
 How this sh;.uid be perfona'd, 
 Uiitii the Angel did appear 
 
 And did the Virgin warn, 
 The Holy Ghost should on her come; 
 
 The power of the .Most High 
 Should over shadow from ubove, 
 
 Appear'd a mystery. 
 Though all the Prophets prophesied 
 
 Thi* thing should surely be, 
 But in what manner was not clear, 
 
 Appear'd a mystery 
 Unto the unbelieving JL 
 
 When Christ their lung was born ; 
 Therefore they all dopisvd him, 
 
 And did receive with scorn ; 
 But when he in the temple .came, 
 
 Simeon the child did know ; 
 For God had warned him before, 
 
 And he did find it so : 
 The manner he should be brought in, 
 
 The very day and hour; 
 And u hen he saw the babe appear, 
 
 He felt the Saviour's power ; 
 Therefore with raptures he was fill'd 
 
 To see the holy child; 
 But yet from him it was conceal'd 
 
 How they his life beguil'd. 
 But here's another nyy >: l.-"ry t 
 
 That I shall notconceajl. 7 - 
 
 That when lie died upon the cross v 
 
 He did the nations heal. . 
 Now think upon his dying words, 
 
 " Tis finish'd," he'd id Fry ; **"" 
 But what was finish'd at that time 
 
 Appears a mystery. 
 Now to the Prophet thou must turn 
 
 To discern the mystery 
 Oh ! thou desire of nations, corne- 
 ls now fulfih'd in thee. 
 
 is it uow contus'th thy head ? 
 
 Or why thy ptin put down t 
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 Hast thou not wearied heaven with prayers, 
 
 These truths might be made known ? 
 Then at what art thou stumbled now, 
 
 For thou these truths hast penn'd ? 
 For thou hast wearied heaven with prayers 
 
 To God's beloved Son ; 
 That he will come and intercede 
 
 His servants' wounds to heal, 
 And chain down Satan in his place, 
 
 That doth my servants foil. 
 Didst thou not come to ME in prayer, 
 
 When threatenings were applied ? 
 Had I been there, like Mary spoke, 
 
 " My brother had not died." 
 But here the words do puzzle thee, 
 
 As thou said'st they'd obey, 
 If I would let them know my will 
 
 My servants cannot stay: ' 
 Then now the meaning is the same, 
 
 For it" they do ME obey, 
 They sure shall live for evermore, 
 
 And that's most certainly. 
 Now thou hast ended with the sixth, 
 
 The seventh I'll begin, 
 That doth appear a mystery 
 
 Unto the sons of men. 
 As all these words do verify, 
 
 How can this thing e'er be, 
 That all the secrets of the Lord -^* 
 
 Shall be reveal'd to thee. 
 Yet so they'll find it certain is, 
 
 The truth I'll make so clear; 
 I'll leave no room for man to doubt^ jff 
 
 When I have ended here : "" 
 
 .. *-* 
 
 For then they'll find the little lump 
 
 Shall surely lump the leaven ; 
 And they shall find a single star 
 
 Is joined to the- seven. 
 But do not think I've ended here, 
 
 Or thou thy work hasf done ; 
 For all the mysteries of the stars, 
 
 They are not yet made known. 
 Now back to Adam thou must go 
 
 For he was sure the first, 
 And when the whole thou hast pass'd throu^jh, ^r 
 
 Thyself must be the last. -, 
 
 If thou bear'st record of thyself, 
 
 They'll say that is not true ;
 
 The servant is not greater sura, 
 
 Nor can his words be so ; 
 For it thy Master was denied 
 
 By his own chosen race, 
 How can thy words be e'er applied 
 
 In these dark evil days ? 
 When unbelief so much abounds, 
 
 Faith on the earth there's none ; 
 Like Abraham's let their faith be tried, 
 
 Who offer'd up his son. 
 Where is the man that would obey, 
 
 T. he sacrifice prepare ? 
 It surely is not God's command ; 
 
 His faith would stagger there. 
 And yet they say there's but one faith, 
 
 The faithful that must be; 
 So strong a faith on earth there's not, 
 
 As I have found in thee. 
 Thy faith is to the utmost tried, 
 
 By men and devils here ; 
 But when my premise is applied, 
 
 It keeps thee from despair. 
 And though I've put thee off so long, 
 
 Yet still thou dost obey, 
 Thinking my word I shall perform, 
 
 Though 1 so long delay. 
 This is the language of thy heart, 
 
 That, from my written word, 
 Declareth none shall be deceiv'd 
 
 That trusrcth in the Lord. 
 So shall it surely be to thee, 
 
 Thou shall not be deceiv'd; 
 Because I know thy inmost soul, 
 
 How strong thou dost believe. 
 Though some have laughed thee to scorn, 
 
 And others did thee blame, 
 Thy steadfast heart doth still obey, 
 
 And thou art still the same. 
 Therefore I'll own thee for the bride ; 
 
 Thou art the EVENING STAR ; 
 By thy appearance all shall know 
 
 That night is coming near. 
 The MORNING STAR is '.'oiif and past ; 
 
 The sun his course hath run ; 
 The evening star doth now appear, 
 
 And night js coming on. 
 Then in the night the stars will shine, 
 iu the midst are seven, 
 H 2
 
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 never shall divided be, 
 
 Urti* the whole are leavcn'd. 
 As was the first., so is the last ; 
 
 For Adam str.ocl ahv,-; 
 liis helpmate dd not strengthen him, 
 
 But surely pulled him down. 
 So \v ruld^hy friends have done by thee 
 
 Ii' thou hadst them obey'd ; 
 But now the woman's conquering seed 
 
 Shall break the serpent's head,," 
 
 One night I dreamed I was on a high place ; ancj 
 there were two roads in it, and two waggons going 
 before me ; one of them was so heavy laden, that 
 the weight of it broke down the p.ith, and the 
 bigh hills were thrown down to the bottom. I 
 thought I had a waggon heavy laden myself, and 
 was going on the same hill in another padi ; but 
 when I saw the waggon before me was gone to the 
 bottom, I was afraid; but the horses coiv.iug fast 
 after me, I was forced to go. on with my waggon; 
 but cannot tell how I came down the hill, only re- 
 member that the other path was brought from 
 a high hill to a low valley, and the wheel- ruts 
 washed away, 
 
 " Then now this dream that thou ha.st read to MX, 
 I'll answer every single line to 
 The first thou saw'st it is ^o,>e In , 
 Bow'd do\\niu piison by the human power. 
 IJm now I telj thee that thy pep p : 
 
 Tl.ou saw'si the ground did with tie 
 Till the high mount:. M-S they did thou en.iie low , 
 J^eop wa- ; I to thee did show. 
 
 So now I tell thee if shall Mire 
 Because my anger doth ii!\r fi 
 Against the stubborn hardened sons of men ; 
 And, like the wagons, 1 ^iiall crush them down. 
 Therefore tin- Wilson's lading now for thee ; 
 Thou m\ si go on, and canst not now di , 
 The horses close will surely on thee come ; 
 It is my Spirit for to p : ess thee on, 
 .Thou knowest ho\v that Brothers is he 
 \Vhich is the reason thou dost look and fear :
 
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 But by his \vcight the v,-ho!e it was pull'd dewn 
 J know my prophet's in a prison bound, 
 And in their hearts there's few for him do feel ; 
 I'll break mankind, as he did by the wheel. 
 It was Li, weight that shook the earth all through- 
 Dec!) is the vision brought unto thy iz| 
 ])'u to thy own dream thou hast sure forgot 
 WLrtl.iT iito waggon broke the ground or not: 
 No, no, I tell thee 'tis f r.c-val'd from thee ; 
 Th 01.; must o;o on, and I \\iil guide 'he way. 
 '1 lie s-ii.i of men \vili pull my vengeance down; 
 For sain; an.i sinner now do bring it on; 
 I say die/ >e sickly as they are lukewarm." 
 
 All lands are in darkness at present ; but as 
 I know the end of all things is at hand, and 
 as clear as the noon-nay's sun that the Bi- 
 bk ^ t'uUilling, that all hath happened together,) 
 I <;'',;, . .'.o\v give my readers tine meaning of our 
 , ; v.-.-rds, when he said, " As the days of 
 and Lot, so shall the coming of the Sou 
 " of M..n i>e."' In the ('ays of Noah they were 
 full of unbelief; and in the days of Lot the same; 
 and so t;.";-v are now ; but the- substance of the 
 days of Tv-ah is in Genesis, chap! vi. where it is 
 wiitten, " It repented the Lord that he had made 
 man ;"not ti-at ihe Lord repented that he had made 
 man. Here i- a mystery that men do not discern. 
 And the Lori said, u I will destroy man, whom I 
 " have created, fn.-'ii the face of the earth, both 
 " n.an HIK! bea>t; for it grieved him to the heart 
 th^t -he had m.ule man. But was man destroyed? 
 You must answer, no. Noah was not destroyed, 
 nor his sons ; and by them the world was again in- 
 creased to as large a number as before. Then 
 here is a mystery beyond the depth of human com- 
 prehension, which I never discerned ; and of myself 
 cannot explain, nor can any man by learning; for 
 in this mystery, man was preserved in a wonderful 
 manner: though it givetli room for men to say, 
 the Lord did not do as he said ; as they feared to 
 give their God the lie ; but was it man they would.
 
 Now I will throw open rny Bible to men. It rfr- 
 pcuted the Lord that he had made man so subject 
 to the arts of Satan, and that he had given him 
 such. power over man; and therefore he caused the 
 ark to be erected, for the preservation of man in 
 the great ami temble'day of the Lord. Now man 
 was so far from being destroyed, that the Lord 
 caused an astonishing building, for the reception of 
 iran aud beast, whom he said he would destroy. 
 Yet in this extraordinary manner were man and 
 beast preserved. The Lord was grieved to the 
 ](.-;rt to see how the powers of darkness were 
 ang man's destruction ; but as the deluge over- 
 thro wed the workers of iniquity, so shall the de- 
 luge overthrow the powers of darkness ; for that is 
 the man the Lord will destroy. It came first by 
 water, but now it will be by blood. For as the. 
 ark was made to preserve man, so shall the ark of 
 the New Covenant preserve man at last ; but it 
 will not preserve those that do not believe in 
 Christ, as the full redemption foreman. Now it is 
 said of all/beasts that were preserved, they should 
 come to the ark of Noah ; so all that will be now 
 preserved, must come to the ark of the New Cove- 
 nant, and call to their remembrance the words of 
 the Gospel, wherein our Saviour assureth them of 
 their full redemption in his blood, and shewcth the 
 signs that were set before them to lift up their 
 heads, for their redemption drawcth near; that 
 nieaneth a full redemption in the blood of Christ. 
 Now those that believe as Noah believed the 
 deluged would come : that meaneth, that the whole 
 world will undergo a great change ; and the sword, 
 like the deluge, will go over the land, till it doth 
 destroy < hose that do not conic to Christ, and believe 
 in him for full redemption; but those that do believe 
 in him, as the Saviourof mankind, will be preserved, 
 as Noah was in the ark, when the man of sin will be 
 cut off from the face of the earth, and that is
 
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 the devil. The Lord created all things in heaven 
 and earth ; the heavens he created for his 
 throne, the earth for man, and hell for fallen 
 angels; and these must all have their fixed 
 bounds, when Christ cometh to preserve man, 
 as he did Noah, and lay the axe to the root, 
 which root is the devil; and he is fhe root of every 
 evil; for it is said to me, that what.I have been 
 ordered to do, by sealing up of man, is a much 
 greater preservation for man than Noah's ark was. 
 Now marvel not that the devil \vas called man, when 
 he called the Prince of Glory, very God and very 
 man y because he took man's nature upon him ; and 
 so was the devil, very man and very dccil, when he 
 entered into the heart of Judas. This I shall ex- 
 plain more clearly at another time; but this is a 
 clear type of the last clays ; and those days are nigh 
 at hand. The earth was never made for fallen an- 
 gels, nor for the man of sin ; therefore be assured 
 he will be destroyed from off the face of the earth. 
 This is what our Saviour meant by saying, " As 
 11 the clays of Noah, so will the coining of the Son 
 ff of Man be." Here I shall come to the days of 
 Lot, and shew you what our Saviour meant by 
 that; but first I shall come to Sodom and Go- 
 morrah. The sins of Sodom were men united 
 in evil ; and this is the type of men and devils ; 
 for as he entered into the heart of Judas, so he en- 
 tereth into the hearts of men; as he did into the 
 herd of swine, and they ran violently down the 
 steep, and were choaked in the sand ; and so will 
 many now, that are so closely joined u ith the de- 
 vil as the men of Sodom were. All this stands as 
 a type of the last days. In every age of the 
 world men have committed the sin with men, 
 when they use violence one against another ; and 
 this was done, when they destroyed the Prophets, 
 and crucified the LORD of LIFE; and trm you. 
 must consider was not done, before the devil ne-
 
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 tared into the heart of Judas; therefore our Sa- 
 viour said, " it should be more tolerable for 
 " Sodom and Gomorrah, in the day of judgment,- 
 than for them ;" for they declared their sins and 
 hid them not; woe unto their souls! hut these 
 sins of cruelty will never be committed, .without 
 man being as closely united with the devil as the 
 Sodomites were to each other. And now the 
 time dravveth near, that such men will be destroy- 
 ed, as Sodom was ; for as the angels came to Lot 
 in disguise, and Lot judged them men; so the 
 angels of the Lord are come, to warn all men the 
 night is far spent, and the day is at hand, that 
 all these things will be fulfilled ; and those that 
 believe, like Lot, will be preserved, as he was, 
 when the fire of the Lord's anger will consume the 
 others. For you' are to consider, it is written in 
 Isaiah, the day of vengeance was in his heart; 
 and our Saviour said, " Offences mu,st first arise ; 
 but woe unto the land because of oflences." Per- 
 secutions I know will arise, and all will come, as it 
 was said of Sodom and Gomorrah. Now in every 
 age of the world sins as bad as of Sodom have been 
 committed, by killing of the Prophets, crucifying 
 our Saviour, and putting the Apostles to d^.th : ana 
 since those days, the Martyrs li-ive suffered b-\ the 
 same sin. Men and devils were united ugainsiihehoiy 
 laws of God ; as their's were temporal, so all their sins 
 of persecution were spiritual : for he that was bom 
 after the flesh, persecuted him that \vas born after 
 the spirit ; and this hath been done by men in every 
 age of the world. But now the spirit of prophecy 
 is given to a woman, there will be many women 
 that are in heart and life joined to the powers of 
 darkness, joined together in persecution against the 
 woman ; men will join with men, and women will 
 join with women, in persecution, that do .not be- 
 lieve, to persecute those who do believe, till the 
 anger of the Lord be kindled to destroy them. So
 
 6$ 
 
 it will end like the days of Noah and Lot. But 
 were you to suppose it to be as the days of Noah 
 and Lot, you must say there will remain but one 
 just man upon earth, and the greatest part of the 
 world must be Sodomites : But that will not be 
 the case; for when the sin of persecution abounds, 
 grace will much more abound. 
 
 I know the things that I have published are hard 
 to be understood, and full as hard to be believed, 
 which makes some marvel at them, and cast va- 
 rious constructions upon them. Some say, they 
 see no prophecies in them ; others, that it is from 
 the devil ; whilst some attribute it to fallen an- 
 gels ; and others conceive it as from myself alone, 
 asserting that all my foreknowledge is drawn from 
 the Bible ; and that 1 am out of my senses. 1 shall 
 answer every one according to their different 
 words. 
 
 Those that see no prophecies in them, do not 
 understand what they read ; the book is full of 
 prophecies throughout ; the letters I sent to the 
 ministers, and what was written in 1792, are deep 
 of prophecy, and speak of all nations in distress 
 and war: the shadow is begun, and the substance 
 is hastening on; but I cannot make the blind to 
 see, till it please the Lord to reveal to them the 
 truth ; and if the}' cannot see it any other way, 
 the Lord will open their eyes by the truth. 
 
 Now I shall answer those who say it is from the 
 devil. If Satan is divided against himself, how 
 then can his kingdom stand ? And how came Satan 
 to know in 1792 what the Lord would do upon the 
 earth, when it is concealed from the angels in hea- 
 ven, till the Lord is pleased to disclose it to them, 
 and to send them down to warn mankind thereof? 
 But if I, by the spirit of the devil, am become a 
 true believer in Christ, by what spirit is the world 
 become unbelievers in the gospel of Christ and 
 
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 their Bibles, believing that their Bibles will never 
 be fulfilled in any other way than their judgments 
 point out? And that is no way at all ; tor while 
 one is iifclined to this way, and another is inclined 
 to that, no man's judgment can be true; so it is 
 impossible to fulfil the Bible to the judgments of 
 men ; and therefore it must be fulfilled to the 
 judgment of God. But where is the man that 
 knows his decrees? For it is written by the Pro- 
 phets, " In the latter days the Lord will do niar- 
 " vellous things amongst them ; the wisdom of 
 " the wise, men shall perish ; the understanding of 
 " the prudent men shall be hid :" then how can 
 men tell how to fulfil their Bibles, seeing their un- 
 derstandings are hid ? Who by searching can 
 find out God ? or who can find out the Almighty 
 to perfection ? Yet the world is led to believe they 
 can, from their knowledge and learning, find out 
 the mysteries of the Bible, which no man can 
 maintain by arguments that their Bible is true, if 
 they have wisdom to find it out. Now I ask 
 mankind, by what spirit they are led to believe 
 things contrary to the Bible, and say I am led to 
 believe the Scriptures, consistent with the truth 
 thereof, by the spirit of the devil? May not he 
 that sitteth in the heavens laugh, to hear the folly 
 of mankind, whom the Lord hath pronounced 
 dead as to every .knowledge and perfection of 
 him, saying he is alive to all the knowledge of 
 God, contrary to the written word of God, which 
 the different opinions of mankind verity and 
 prove? So let God be true, and every man a 
 liar, who saith he can fulfil his Bible by learning; 
 and let those who say I am led by the devil, prove 
 it by the word of God, if they can, and I will 
 give it up. 
 
 Now I shall ansxver those who say, it is from 
 fallen angels, who wish to gain themselves in fa- 
 vour with God. This to me is as great an error as
 
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 the former ; for then the division must have taken 
 place in hell already. But can fallen angels, after 
 rebelling- against God in heaven, and joining with 
 the devil, work in the hearts of men upon earth to 
 break the commands of God, ever think to gain 
 themselves in favour with God again? This to me 
 is unlikely in the first place ; in the second more 
 unlikely, to think by mocking of God, by coming- 
 as an angel of light, pretending he is the maker 
 and judge of all men, and that all power in heaven, 
 earth, and hell, is his, should evergain him in favour 
 with God : I say, this appears so improbable to me, 
 that if the fallen angels think it, they must have 
 lost their senses, as well as their glory. I conceive, 
 therefore, those thoughts to be the production of 
 a weaker head, to judge it came from fallen an- 
 gels, than mine to judge it came from God ; for 
 I cannot build my faith upon any such sandy 
 foundation. 
 
 Now I shall answer those who say, I am, or 
 shall be out of my senses. This I grant is true ; 
 for out of my senses proceed all my writings; and 
 so far from any sense or knowledge I have of my- 
 self, so high as the heavens are above the earth, 
 and how much farther they will go, I cannot tell; 
 but this I know, they are gone so far, that they 
 never will come back to the senses of men, while 
 they are of so many different opinions. No judge 
 will give up his cause to a divided jury ; and I 
 must be no judge of my own cause, if I give it 
 up to a divided people: For the first minister f 
 ever spoke to on the.subject said,' it was from God; 
 the second, that it was from the devil; the third 
 minister said, the latter gentleman had not shewn 
 his sense in what he had spoken ; the fourth de- 
 clared, that It was not from the devil ; and if not 
 of God, it was of myself; other ministers said, it 
 . u as the disorder of a confused brain; and this 
 disorder had so increased over the land, that every
 
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 one felt the fatal effects thereof: and I feel it to 
 'my sorrow ; for the truth of all my writings lies be- 
 fore me; and I know I must go through evil re- 
 port, and through good report, through honour, and 
 through dishonour, as counted a fool, yet making 
 some wise : The hees gather honey from the bit- 
 terest herbs ; and those whose minds go deep, will 
 get wisdom from my foolishness, should it prove 
 from the devil, as some insinuate; but if of God, 
 as I judge it is, it will strengthen their faith to 
 stand in the evil day, and give them courage and 
 faith to stand against, all the wiles of the devil; 
 for it is by faith ye must be saved. I have already 
 told you, and I now again tell you, the end of all 
 things is at hand ; by which is meant, that Satan's 
 kingdom is to be destroyed ; that all nations will 
 be called in; the fulfilment of the Gentiles, and 
 the calling in of the Jews. 
 
 " Now I will answer those who say, if my writ- 
 ings are not of God, they are blasphemy. I grant 
 it, , and give credit to their wisdom ; for it is writ- 
 ten, WG& unto them that say, the Lord saith, when 
 he hath not spoken; but he. that hath my word, let 
 him speak my word faithfully, saith the Lord. Hea- 
 ven is my witness, I have spoken it faithfully in all 
 I have written; but as our Saviour saith. r J"hewind 
 bloweth where it listcth, and ye hear the sound there- 
 of, but cannot tell from whence it conic th, or whi- 
 ther it goeth, so is every one that is horn of the 
 spirit ; and perfectly it hath been often so to me; 
 nor can I tell from whence it comeib, or whither 
 it goeth, but judge the spirit to be of God, from 
 the truths of my writings, and the manner the)'' 
 are spoken ; yet leave the world to enjoy their opini- 
 on, and I to enjoy mine, till the truth is proved, 
 which' it certainly will; for when the public have 
 passed their judgment on them, then will the Lord 
 convince ill m, whose judgment was right, and 
 whose was \vrong.
 
 69 
 
 Now I shall aswer those who say, it is pre- 
 sumptuous blasphemy. And this is the greatest 
 presumption man can speak, to say he knoweth it 
 is blasphemy : for he must judge himself more 
 than man, and have a high opinion of his own wis- 
 dom, who will take upon him to assert, he know- 
 eth it is not of God, but presumptuous blasphemy 
 of myself. Let that man or woman make my 
 writings false, which with all their boasted wisdom 
 they cannot do; for I have now by me writings 
 for years past, which will prove the truth of my 
 words ; besides what I have put in print, predict- 
 ing what is hastening on, and which a few years, 
 will fulfil; and many men \\ill be convinced of the 
 truth, that all con.cth as I foretel. And what a 
 proud, conceited fool must I be, to say of myself, 
 I have more knowledge than the learned, and can 
 tell them better than they know, from my own 
 wisdom ! Shall I say I know it from philosophy, 
 and do not understand one planet? Shall I say I 
 know it from divinity, and never studied the Bi- 
 ble in my life, any further than I thought neces- 
 sary for my own salvation ? Shall I say I know it 
 from other men's works, when I put no belief in 
 any man's judgment but the prophets and apostles, 
 and those who were inspired by the Lord ? Shall 
 I say I had the spirit of wisdom given to me, when 
 I never had any talents to boast of in my life, and 
 was considered by all my wordly wise brothers and 
 sisters the simplest of my father's house? And I 
 always deemed myself the same : but the Lord 
 hath chosen the weak foolish things of this world, 
 to confound the great arid mighty. 
 
 I must intreat my charitable Christian readers 
 to keep my first books by them, till they see the 
 end of the ten years mentioned therein, in page 37, 
 which was turned to the ten days, in page 34 ; 
 this was in 179^, and the ten years will elapse in 
 1802; so they cannot judge clearly of my pro-
 
 70 
 
 phecies till they*lo seethetenyfcars fulfilled, when 
 it will be evident to them. The reasons assigned to 
 me for putting it in print the beginning of the 
 century is, the hand of the Lord will be close after 
 to fulfil them^ Very extraordinary and strange 
 events will take place in two years, and more ex- 
 traordinary in four ; but if fatal events, it is unbe- 
 Jjef will bring them on ; for I now tell all men, 
 that peace and plenty, love and harmony, will ne- 
 ver abound in our land, until men are wishing for 
 Christ's kinodom to be established : then the Lord 
 
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 will begin-to change our scene of sorrow into hap- 
 piness, which you will see in page 51, on the fall 
 of man. A few years will convince you of the 
 truth of my writings : the shadow is past, the sub- 
 stance is hastening on ; weigh deep the lines that 
 follow the fall of man. But some will say, can. 
 such a promise be made to a woman ? I grant it 
 mysterious to be believed; yet remember the first 
 promise that was made to the woman, and thru 
 you will not marvel it should be the last. Consi- 
 der how great \yas the promise made to Abraham, 
 that in his obedience all the earth should be bless- 
 ed ; and though that promise is not yet fulfilled, 
 i am of opinion it certainly will : But will you say 
 it ever was fulfilled ? then I answer, it was in an 
 age before I was born, and in an age I never read 
 of. 
 
 I shall now answer those who say, I go on as my 
 mind is deranged. I grant it; and so did all the 
 prophets of old. Their minds were so deranged, 
 that Noah was judged an old fool, and Lot the 
 same. I should fill my book with how the pro- 
 phets were judged deranged, if I were to enter in- 
 to the list of them. But the deranged sens, 
 the prophets and the apostles, and the words of 
 our Saviour, have so far deranged my senses, as to 
 believe in them. How must Noah's senses be de- 
 ranged, when he found no man believed him '
 
 71 
 
 yet he persevered to go into the ark. And what 
 strong infusion must take place in his head, when 
 the heavens gathered blackness, and those who 
 judged his building the ark to be the strange ef- 
 fects of faith, found it the fatal effects of faith. 
 And how must Lot's senses be deranged, when he 
 saw the strange effects of his faith, being judged 
 by his own sons an old fool, become the fatal effects 
 of unbelief to those who mocked him, when they saw 
 the fire come down from heaven ? How must his 
 senses be then deranged, when he saw his mockers 
 destroyed ? And how must my senses now be de- 
 ranged, when I see the strange effects of my faith 
 kindling all over the land, and bringing the fatal 
 effects of unbelief over all lands? Can my senses 
 stop here, without believing, that he who hath be- 
 gun his strano-e work, will in the end shew his 
 
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 darling attribute; and go on from conquering to 
 conquer, until he hath brought, forth judgment 
 into victory ; for mercy is his darling attribute, 
 judgment is his strange work : and strange to me 
 is ail before me. How men's senses can be derang- 
 ed, when they see the sun is risen, and say the day- 
 light is net broke; in what a dream, or what a sleep 
 must such men's senses be deranged ! and so they 
 may go on until they see the evening star appear, 
 and the sun begin to set in darkness. Will they 
 then say, I have passed my day in sleep ; and it is 
 too late to arise and be doing ; I will wait the ef- 
 fects of another day? But let such remember, that 
 at midnight was a cry ; and the bridegroom ap- 
 peared ; and you sleeped away the day, wherein 
 you ought to have got your oil ready, and your 
 lamps prepared. So in all ages of the world we may see 
 the strange effects of -faith, and the fatal effects of 
 xinbelief. And this our Saviour, and all his Disci- 
 ples, warned us would be the end ; the foolish vir- 
 gins and the wise. For wisdom teacheth us to fear 
 * the rod, and he that appointed it ; but folly teach-
 
 72 
 
 ethus to despise low things, and climb to high ones; 
 as the seed of Noah, who, because they had been 
 favoured in their forefathers, by being preserved in 
 the ark when the world was drowned, thought by 
 their wisdom that they could build castles in the 
 air, to climb to heaven, and so be preserved, if ano- 
 ther deluge should come; not considering that the 
 -h? ark was built by the command of God, and they were 
 building by their own wisdom, whose wisdom the 
 Lord soon confounded, by dividing their language. 
 And now it is the same ; men have built too high 
 
 
 
 in their own wisdom ; and the Lord hath divided 
 tbeir^. speech and opinions. There was not more 
 difference in tongues and languages, to stop their 
 building of the tower of Babel, than there are dif- 
 ferent opinions now about my writings. Then on 
 whose judgment shall I fix my faith ? on this man's ? 
 or on that man's ? or on the Lord of life and glo- 
 
 O 
 
 ry, who hath commanded us to have salt in our- 
 selves, and to judge for ourselves, and not for 
 another ? 
 
 I shall now reply to those who say, if I judge my 
 writings to be of God, I must think myself a great 
 favourite of heaven. I answer that I always con- 
 dered we were great favourites of heaven, or our 
 Bibles could never be true. Can any one reflect 
 for a moment, and see what the Lord hath done for 
 man in every age of the world ? what care and con- 
 cern he hath taken for him ; suffering his Son to 
 leave his Father's throne, and strip himself of all but 
 love ; to change the godhead into manhood ! and 
 trace his life from the manger to the cross; is it 
 possible he would have done all this for our sakes, 
 had we not been great favourites of heaven? For 
 what must the Holy Trinity feel ! Could the Son 
 suffer, and the Father, not? Can we suppose that 
 the heavenly host did not suffer pain, to see the 
 Son of God, the Prince of Glory, sweating drops 
 of blood, compassed round by men and devils, 
 
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 treated with infamy in Pilate's hall, and offered up 
 as a malefactor upon the cross ? Ca 1 : we believe 
 that he suffered all this tor pur sakes, and not con- 
 sider ourselves favourites or heavvn ? Should a 
 king !-ay he would venture his life and fortune for 
 his subjects, who were near his heart, would 
 it not be an unjust return for them to say, he did; 
 not love them? Should they not rather s-'y, his 
 love hath kindled ours, \ve arc greatly in favour 
 with our sovereign ; therefore we will hazard our 
 lives for him ': Now let your thoughts go deep and 
 you will perceive that the creature is a great fa- 
 vourite with his Creator. Man is a great favourite 
 with God; for the Lord saith, M$ delight shall be 
 with the sons of men ; and our Saviour saith, lie 
 that doth the will of my Father, the same is my 
 mother, my brother, and my sister ; then are we 
 not great favourites of heaven ? At what do ye all 
 marvel \ Our Saviour said, What I say n/,tu ytu, 
 I say unto all; God is a faithful reivarder of them 
 that diligently seek him. This was my deep medi- 
 tation from my early age, winch ma'!e me judge 
 we were favourites of heaven, and caused me to 
 love and fear him. If you weigh these things dt ep- 
 ly, I think you will join with me in opinion. Can, 
 you suppose the Lord hath shewn his love so far 10 
 man, and that he will leave him before he hath 
 completed and fulfilled all the promises he hath 
 made? Wh.it you so much marvel at, his reveal- 
 ing' 1 himself to a woman, is the least mystery, 
 when you trace your Bibles back ; for all the Bi- 
 ble is marvellous : you will find so it began ; and 
 so it will end. 
 
 Now I shall come to the purpose. What a 
 wonder does this appear, that the secrets of the 
 Lord should be revealed to a woman ! A wonder 
 so great to many, that they cannot belie\e it. 
 And was not the first as great a wonder as the last, 
 when the Lord caused a deep sleep upon man, and 
 
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 took one of his bones to complete his happiness, 
 and be robbed of his purpose, words and promises, 
 by the arts of hell, by the woman and the tree of 
 knowledge that he placed in the garden of Eden? 
 If you weigh this deeplv, you will see nothing more 
 towcnider at the woman's bringing you the know- 
 ledge of the good fruit, than her bringing you the 
 knowledge of the evil. But all is a mystery 
 
 " And I shall put the mystery here : 
 Ask if the learned this can cl< ar; 
 If so, their talents they must shine 
 In wisdom bright that is divine. 
 Out of the dust I made at first 
 
 My perfect image there: 
 I breath'd in him, it plain was seen, 
 
 My Spirit, bright and clear ; 
 And lord below, you all shall know, 
 
 I did my likeness make. 
 I took a bone i'rom him, 'twas known, M^ //tiis J-yciw ')" 
 
 To make his bliss complete ; 
 This I did do, believe it true, 
 
 Though man did it deny ; 
 It was the bone I took i'rom man 
 
 Brought fatal destiny. 
 Then here's a wheel beyond your skill 
 
 To answer my demand ; 
 The man or ME deceiv'd must be, 
 
 If that my word don't stand. 
 If it do not, (perceive your lot,) 
 
 Then I must surely err, 
 And like thy pen the fall of man 
 
 Must fall to rise no more. 
 But if I do, (believe it true, 
 
 My word I shall make good,) 
 It was the bone I took from man 
 
 Should break the serpent's head; 
 And that at last my word at first 
 
 I surely will complete. 
 The woman ne'er brought on the corse, 
 
 But did the serpent cheat : 
 A mystery here there's none can clear, 
 
 Became the 1 nes go deep; 
 But I'll appear to answer here, 
 
 And make the mystery out." 
 
 Now, if my readers say they cannot see how thrs 
 can be made out, I will in. the next part, render it
 
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 to them. In the way it is explained to me, as clear 
 as the noon day sun. Bat some readers will say, 
 can we believe the Lord will condescend to speak 
 in so familiar a manner to dust and ashes ? I an- 
 swer, how familiar did the angels appear to Abra- 
 ham and Lot, when thev rame to them in disguise 
 
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 as men ? and how familiar did our Saviour appear 
 in disguise to his disciples? I could fill a volume 
 with the freedom of the Lord with men. Angels 
 must first come to the similitude of men, before 
 men can arise to the similitude of angels; signify- 
 ing, that angels must stoop to the imperfections of 
 men, before men can arrive to the perfections of 
 angels; and there can be no perfection in men, till 
 they are all of one mhid: for every man's way is 
 clean in his own eyes ; but the Lord weigheth the 
 spirit. Now I have promised to give up my cause 
 to the opinion of twelve ministers, if they are of one 
 mind; and till they are, I am the judge myself 
 that the same Spirit that indited my writings, in- 
 spired all the prophets throughout the Bible ; and 
 if I err, they did the same; for one Spirit inspired 
 the whole. Whoever deny the truth of this, let 
 them bring forth their arguments, and shew their 
 strong reasons ; and I will bring forth mine, such as 
 no man s4lall be able to answer me one word in a 
 thousand : For the Lord hath a controversy with 
 his people; therefore now give car. O heaven ! and 
 bethou astonished, O earth ! for the wonder of the 
 woman is come unto men. If there be any sense 
 or understanding in them, they cannot read over 
 these two volumes without woiu.er and amazement, 
 if they judge it is not troui God that a woman 
 hath life and senses to be a mocker of God; a de- 
 ceiver of man ; and a defier of all the powers of hell, 
 despising him as being the author of ail our misery: 
 but. there is help laid upon one that is migut\ to 
 keep us from ail his power. But on whac [j 
 .can- I rely, if 1 am trailing with the Lord, to say
 
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 that all my writings came from him, when the 
 Lord hath not spoken. As to men, they see I nei- 
 ther regard their smiles, nor fear their frowns ; nei- 
 ther am 1 dismayed by their words, but say with 
 David, " If I arn vile, I shall still be viler ; and if 
 I have brought you wondrous things at first, I 
 shall bring you far more wondrous things at last 
 
 Till Adam's wonder will begin, 
 \\ncl s,o I say 'twill end \\itii men : 
 Till Adams here will all appear, 
 
 To see the bone of man ; 
 In every seal my mind reve i!, 
 
 And give it to your hands. 
 
 "I am sorry to disappoint my readers, by riot in- 
 serting in this book all I promised in the last; but 
 what use is my publishing what the world do not 
 believe, till I have convinced mankind from the 
 Bible, and put to silence the tongues of foolish 
 people, who do not discern what they read, and 
 what they profess to be judges of? 1 marvel at the 
 simpl- speeches I hear from some; how it is pos- 
 sible, that a people in a Christian land can be so 
 void of understanding, as to say, I havekepta jour- 
 nal or' what has happened for eight years, and now 
 put in print as prophecies ; then I must have shot 
 beyond the mark, and overshot myself; for they 
 are informed in my first part, that I have placed 
 letters in the hands of ministers, stating what 
 would be the events of years, and that the truth 
 followed. If I have published lies, is it not easy 
 to find out the truth, by demanding who those mi- 
 nisters are? If I refuse telling, then let them say, I 
 am an impostor. Every circumstance which re- 
 lates to 1792, I have living witnesses to prove I 
 wrote in 1792, and never had the seals in my pos- 
 session ; so 1 have not imposed on the world by 
 false reports, the Lord is my judge; and I can clear 
 myself with the truth of all I have said and clone.
 
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 The unbelieving v/orld, that mocked my writings 
 last year, are now fulfilling the very effects I said 
 would follow the harvest. I was then cursed by 
 buyer and seller; both farmers and tradesmen 
 boasted of the plenty, and called me fool and old 
 witch; said that I deserved to be hanged for tell- 
 ing them they would be disappointed, and perfectly 
 informing them what effects would follow the har- 
 vest, and they are now fulfilling my words. I shall 
 answer such fools according to their folly. 
 
 " So if a Prophet is denied, 
 
 Then say the witch is come, 
 Who can foretel what will befal 
 
 I'm jesting now with man ; 
 After their manner I do speak, 
 
 As I have often done ; 
 But soon my fury it will break, 
 
 And to the purpose come ; 
 And then you'll find J am no witch, 
 
 Nor do the lines rgree ; 
 But when my hand begins to touch, 
 
 Your witchcraft you will see J 
 That one another you've bewitch' d, 
 
 And one another blame ; 
 But when my ringers you do touch, 
 
 I'll put you all to shame. 
 So boast no more of your*great store, 
 
 Till you can make it good ; 
 And let your oaths 'bout me be o'er, 
 
 They're fallen on your own head. 
 I warn'dyou all it so would fall, 
 
 And you did not believe. 
 Can no one judge from whence the call f 
 
 Yourselves you did deceive ; 
 So now take care> 1 warn you here, 
 
 Of what is hastening on, 
 That if the sword doth now appear, 
 
 The famine next will come. 
 As in the p>;per was decreed,' 
 
 You'll find it come from heaven ; 
 And if your oaths make my heart bleed, 
 
 Then now the lump I'll leaven, 
 That is to fall upon you ail, 
 
 And vengeance now I'll take ; 
 For if your mocking still goes oOj 
 
 JNIy sceptre I will shake.
 
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 My rod before doth now appear, 
 
 And threatens now by man, 
 That they will see the harvest clear, 
 
 Or else the rod shall come; 
 And so 'twill fall upon you all, 
 
 If you do not relent. 
 Then see the witch that you did call, 
 
 To hang was your intent : 
 But now see clear, the danger's near, 
 
 To turn the other way ; 
 You have more reason now to fear, 
 
 Than see the judgment-clay. 
 I said in Spring it would begin, 
 
 And you would see it in Lent ; 
 And as the shadow's now begun, 
 
 Be wise, or you'll repent. 
 For deep you'll see the mystery 
 
 Of all was said before ; 
 And mark from me what I did say, 
 
 And May will soon be here ; 
 Then you may see your destiny 
 
 To hasten fast in May. 
 Your fortune-teller was despis'd. 
 
 And to be put away; 
 The Spirit you have try'd to quench, 
 
 And prophecies despis'd. 
 Reflect, in May what you did say, 
 
 And now you may grow wise ; 
 Or May 'twill be, you all will see, 
 
 A fatal May for man, 
 If you in confidence agree 
 
 The Prophet to condemn ; 
 Then you shall sec your destiny, 
 
 What I will put away; 
 And every mystery will come round, 
 
 As I before did say. 
 Let May appear, my hour is near 
 
 To turn it back on man ; 
 Then for the powers I bid you pray, 
 
 The heads now of your land. 
 This I'll explain another time : 
 
 But tell you this of May, 
 You all will sec such destiny, 
 
 To judge what I do say 
 Is spoke one year, and not appear, 
 
 Another hastening on 
 For ME to make the mysteries clear, 
 
 And prove from whence they come.
 
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 Could they discern how I do warn, 
 
 No learning can appear, 
 To shew I shall bring on the storm, 
 
 And every Hanger's near." 
 
 I dreamt 1 saw a large castle building, with large 
 bow windows and boards before them. 1 thought 
 the wind rose high, and carried the boards up in the 
 air, and that they fell back again in the same p^ce. 
 I said they must be fastened to make them remain, 
 
 " My house, is building now a-ne\v, , 
 
 My scaffolds I shall place, 
 The boards must keep the storms and rain, 
 
 For they shall want no glass ; ' 
 For my partition must be strong, 
 
 The glass will never do ; 
 You'll see the time before 'tis long, 
 
 I'll bring it to thy view. 
 Strong, firm partitions you must build, 
 
 Which stones cannot destroy : 
 I say the storms are rising high, 
 . For those that don't enjoy 
 
 A steadfast and unshaken faith 
 
 For to rely on M E ; 
 Fatal scenes are coming on, 
 
 That every soul shall see. 
 For every proud and scornful heart 
 
 I certain will bring low ; 
 For fatal years are coming on, 
 
 That every soul shall know. 
 And when thy writings are brought forth, 
 
 They'll say this is the year 
 That I pronounc'd my just decrees, 
 
 And England sure shall fear. 
 The last year I my threatenings sent, 
 
 With cold and hunger too ; 
 But now 'tis chang'd the other way 
 
 ^I'll bring it to thy view: 
 The weather mild, my smiles descend, 
 
 And now 'tis just the same; 
 Man with his Maker does contend, 
 
 But does not know my name. 
 Sin in your land does still abound, 
 
 As I have said before ; 
 If Satan's come for to condemn, 
 
 Then sinners sure may fear t 
 But if 'tis I that do reprove, 
 
 I bid mankind awake; 
 For if that they do slight my love, 
 
 My sceptre I shall shake."
 
 Compare the three chapters of Joel together, foe^ 
 ginning with the first " Hear this, ye old men, and 
 " all the inhabitants of the land ; hath this been in 
 " your days, or in the days of your forefathers ?" 
 Now look back on all the records of history, and 
 your Bibles, and see it'all things have ever happened 
 together as they now are. Were I to go through the 
 chapters which relate to the Jews at that time, and 
 what is for Jews and Gentiles now, I should take up 
 too much of your time; but I shall come to the 
 purpose. When the Lord was doing any extraor- 
 dinary thing in the land, it was to bring about 
 some strange acts, and some extraordinary event 
 was to take place. Now compare the words^qf our 
 Saviour with the words of the prophet Joel, and see 
 if such things have happened in the days of your 
 forefathers, as have within half a century. Nation 
 hath risen against nation, city against city ; fite 
 nations have been divided against themselves with- 
 in the space of forty years ; wars and rumou rs of wars, 
 perplexities and distresses of nations, and almost 
 the fear of a famine, which we have heard from a- 
 broad and at home ; and hath all this passed unno- 
 ticed? Men imprisoned for prophecies; yet the spi- 
 rit of prophecy cloth not cease, but much more 
 abounds ; and so do sorrows in all lands abound ; 
 then see if all such things have ever happened to- 
 gether in the days of your forefathers. Our Saviour 
 said, "I come not to -destroy the law and the pro- 
 phets, but to fulfil them;'' but were -the. prophets' 
 words ever fulfilled ? yet Joel's words must be ful- 
 filled, when the Lord comcth to pour out his Spirit 
 upon all flesh. Compare those words with the words 
 of our Saviour "When ye see all these things, lift 
 " up your heads.; for, lo ! your redemption draweth 
 "nigh." The word of the Lord spoken by tne 
 Prophets, and the words of our Satiour, and his 
 Apostles, are all fulfilling together. Now the 
 
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 prophet Amos, in chap. iiL ver. 7, says " Surely 
 " the Lord will do nothing, but he revealtth his 
 " secret unto his servants -the prophets." But will 
 you say, the Lord hath not done it ? Is there evil 
 in the city, and the Lord hath not done it ? Will 
 the jion roar where no prey is? The lion hath 
 roared, who can but fear? The Lord hath spoken, 
 who can but prophesy ? .Bring the law and the 
 gospel together ; for as a chain is linked together, 
 so they must be fulfilled together. I have given a 
 very short -account of what is explained very 
 clearly. 
 
 The 5th of November, 1734, was explained to 
 nie in the following manner: 
 
 " As Moes was a type of C/irist, foretold 
 15y ail riie Prophets you have heard of old, 
 November is a sure- and certain s 
 How it \viil end wit;* all ';id. 
 
 The plot at first resembk-d ti.^t of hell, 
 \Vhe.e the infernal fiend does ever .;\vell; 
 The am of man resemble all mankind 
 That to such master do their spirits bind ; 
 And in ihe manner they have kept the day, 
 So in like manner all uill pass awav. 
 Some of you now regard it not at all ; 
 lit -lure that day all such must surely fill; 
 Some are like madmen drunken at that day, 
 And so like madmen some will pass away; 
 Some sport with tire, and they do net know 
 Of any reason why they've kept it so; 
 But yet with fire some will pass away, 
 Anri be consumed in that awful clay; 
 Some sport with rockets mounting in the air, 
 The tire does sparkle, you may see most clear; 
 So will the fire sparkle from on hi^h, 
 And then too late lor any one to fly ; 
 Other> by lingi n make the echo sound, 
 Tin Ijellsin every parish round; 
 
 While Mime their son^s of loyalty do sing 
 In honour to their S-.vHnr, Lord, and King. 
 This is the dilierent iviuU.cl < f mankind ; 
 And those the difVeie;:t an-weis 1 hey shall find. 
 For when- the 1 ,tte;,s weie first blaz'd abroafl, 
 Then every one pursued his dili'erent road: 
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 So when thy letters are first blaz*d abroad, 
 Then e\ery one will seek his different road : 
 They'll seek at fiist the truth for to find out, 
 But I will make itpla n, they've nought to doubt. 
 For in the house the right man bore the name, 
 For whom ihe letter was when there it came; 
 Because kind Providence did order so, 
 That the^s the certain truth might surely know; 
 So when the right man cometh unto thee, 
 Whom I have mention'd so repeatedly, 
 Then the dark mysteries will be brought to light, 
 And plainly shewn to each believer's sight; 
 And then the different road they will pursue, 
 To prove to man that all my words are true. 
 Some will in tran>port wait for that glad day, 
 When they their King in triumph sure shall see; 
 The heavenly mu-ic will sound in their ear, 
 And they will long to see their Lord appear 
 In all his glory tor so bright to shine, 
 And eager wish for that appointed time; 
 While lukewarm Christians they will little care, 
 And say, if we' re in Christ, what shall we fear? 
 What farther hopes have we for to believe ? 
 If we're in Christ, what more can we receive ? 
 But such professors are lukewarm to me, 
 And much more hateful than the sinners be; 
 Because that they are loyal to their king; 
 But lukewarm Christians will no honour bring. 
 The day appointed they shall never see, 
 Nor with the Bridegroom welcom'd in shall be; 
 Their lamps gone out, and I will shut the door; 
 The foolish virgins shall not enter there. 
 NOW to the wicked thou must quickly turn; 
 For there my anger shall like fury burn. 
 Now change these lines, and thou wilt quickly see, 
 How well with reason all this doth agree. 
 Therefore let no one blame the Romish bands, 
 Nor the most spiteful Jews, nor heathen lands; 
 For they myself so much I do not blame; 
 Because they've never heard a .Saviour's name; 
 But those that do profess to know my name, 
 And by their conduct do deny the same; 
 Them of high treason I will sure condemn, 
 And lay it heavier on such sons of men ; 
 For once my anger does begin to smoke, 
 Then sure such souls shall shrink beneath my yoke. 
 Now from this type a warning I do give, 
 How every one may now begin to live.
 
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 In 1794 I dreamt I was on a high place ; but I 
 could not tell how I came there. . I thought I was 
 in a large room, that had got two how windows, 
 out of one of which I thought I looked, and. saw 
 the clouds working in a very strange manner, with 
 a train hanging double, that had the appearance of 
 gunpowder; and a most extraordinary spectacle 
 did the working of the clouds in heaven exhibit. 
 I was ordered to pen it, and it was explained in 
 the following manner: 
 
 " This is the very mystery of thy dream, 
 The working of the clouds I shall explain; 
 For in the heavens I say 'tis working high; 
 But there comes on arn ther mystcr, ; 
 For the dark train it must to all be known, 
 The fury of the Lori! is coming down; 
 But hanging doul'ly surely it would be, 
 And every nation shall my fury see ; 
 Yet as thou know'st not how thou didst come there, 
 So all's a mystery I to thee declare. 
 To know the will oi God, how can it be? 
 Thou know'st to man it is a mystery. 
 I ask of those that do my Spirit blame, 
 Am I not God, as yesterday the same ?" 
 
 - [The remainder of tins dream shall appear in Part J//.] 
 
 In 1795 I dreamt there were two boys sitting by 
 the fire; one of whom, hearing he was to be killed, 
 turned himself into a rabbit ; and they were com- 
 pelled to clash his head in pieces. I thought the 
 other boy said to me, you will not kill me, will 
 you ? the Lord is too merciful, and you are too 
 pitiful. I thought I took the boy up, in my arms, 
 hugged him to my breast, and said, no ; 1 would 
 sooner kill myself, than hurt you. Simple v as this 
 dream may appear, very deep is the meaning. I 
 shall give the explanation in the following manner: 
 
 " Then now unto the purpose (hou art come; 
 Just like the boys are all the sons of men. 
 Thou know'st that one turn'd himself to a beast, 
 M - When deTai upon him, and his sentence cast, 
 
 Which made it easy him tor to destroy. 
 .But now thou'rt come unto the other boy;
 
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 He saw the other did before him die, 
 
 And then for mercy he did humbly cry; 
 
 He sought thy mercy; it he did obtain, 
 
 Thou hugg'st the child when he did sore complain. 
 
 'Twas I that brought this vision to thy view; 
 
 Just iikc thy d'ream I with mankind shall do ; 
 
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 For such as humbly now to ME do come, 
 
 I bay, like thee, I have freely died tor them; 
 
 JNIy arms are open,and I will embrace; 
 
 But woe to them who turn themselves to beasts; 
 
 For like the other they shall surely die 
 
 To kill the beast it ii )0ur common cry; 
 
 This is the language you have got below, 
 
 And kill the beast when anger you do show. 
 
 And now my anger shall begin to burn, 
 
 If men to beasts themselves they now do turn; 
 
 And to the righteous (th"y are all asleep) 
 
 I tell thee now, the wheel-ruts will grow deep." 
 
 Simple as this dream may appear, it is deep and 
 weighty to the whole land. 
 
 The following lines were explained to me, in, 
 answer to the chosen men disputing. 
 
 " But such a mixture in these men is found 
 As grieves my soul ; I am provok'd to hear 
 Their yokes; their bonds asunder I shall tear. 
 Not jc in'd together, how can any draw ? 
 Backward and forward now my plough must go, 
 Jangling together; who can hold thesull ? 
 I say, the ploughman they must think a fool, 
 To let his bullocks thus go in the plough ; 
 Break up the furrows I do ask thee how ? 
 Thou know'st the sull will go out of the ground, 
 When such bja'nglittg's in the harness found ; 
 For if alike the harness don't agree, 
 No m;m can plough the ground, 'tis known to theo., 
 Till they're tot.k out, and others are yok'd in; 
 Then to that very purpose I \\ill come: 
 For, as n husbandman I'll do the same; 
 Unless tneir madness I can calmly tame, 
 And in one harness they will all ar r "e, 
 My plough is ready tiyr to set them free; 
 For, as a husbandman I'll now appear, 
 Break up the ground, and leave the fallows b^re. 
 A man of war I surely now will be, 
 And leave no foe without a victory." 
 
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 The f flowing lines were explained to me, when. 
 I was ordered to semi n;y iirst letter to one of the 
 dignitaries of the church. 
 
 " Now like the psalm I shall begin; 
 
 My name shail fly abroad; 
 Arui let the heathen nation* hear 
 
 The sentence of the Lord. 
 So wUh ihy letter now "begin, 
 
 thou nui-t send to 
 
 TLt souls of ni'u'.y he shall win, 
 
 it ho my voice will hear. 
 My words before him they must come, 
 
 And le f -IMII weigh them deep ; 
 For now my time is fully up, 
 
 If England now does sleep. 
 Out of their dren.n th -v n;ust awake, 
 
 If they preset-' 'd \v;il be: 
 My rod and sc -ptre both I'll shake, 
 
 If' men do not obey. 
 Great is my promise if they do, 
 
 Bt;t threatenihgs are severe ; 
 And they shall find my words are true 
 
 Before I've ended here. 
 o with thy letter now begin; 
 
 For I shall ail men try; 
 And if^iey to the purpose come, 
 
 They'll 3U iiiih. 
 
 Shock'd w.th surpr.se he'll surely be, 
 
 As you this day begin: 
 Another time I shall explain 
 
 The meaning of the thing." 
 
 The Sunday after I had sent the letter, the re- 
 verend gentleman's text was from Hebrews, chap- 
 ter iii. verst. 7- Wherefore, as the Holy Ghost 
 " saith, to-day if ye will hear hft voice, harden. 
 " not your hearts," &c. When I came home, be- 
 ing fLill of doubts, I was answered 
 
 " O thou of little fait!:, why dost thou doubt, 
 Because all mysterir< i-wi canst not find out ; ? 
 I said in bye- ; !i>t <:o through, 
 
 I, 7 ;. hang the iv:: ,'.<. - must go; 
 
 '! ' en in the gap I bade thee tor to come, 
 O MI mv fury 1 should throw all down ; 
 'i hen in the i>,ap I bid theg now at.ipear, 
 Make up the breach, as Moses ciid Before, 
 And from the text 1 said I'd fix it there.
 
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 The Holy Ghost to thee is surely come, 
 Tis lie inspires, it must to all be known. 
 From place to place, and heart to heart I go, 
 And know before what every man will do. 
 Out ot his mouth to-day he did deelare 
 That very text that brings the substance here; 
 For like the text I say I'll surely do ; 
 If men will jiot obey, aru u\vu M E true, 
 Piovuk'd to anger, 1 shall soon begin, 
 It iii en deny, v hen thou hast told my mind. 
 And now I tell ihee, ifthou dost draw back, 
 liuiu arvl th trieiids in pieces I shall break ; 
 Bi.tletihy irieiuK \\itii t "e in this agree, 
 Then l/y their tuith preserved they shall be, 
 As all thj writings are in a straight line: 
 And can they prove the writings are nor mine? 
 No greater 'judges then il ey must appear 
 Than thou wast of thfe feerroon thou didst hear; 
 And that ti ou s-a^At thou didst not understand, 
 So \\ilt not justify, nor wilt condemn. 
 Soto mankind I now do say the same, 
 If they'll n t justify, they can't condemn ; 
 An-i to thy juiigine..t they must give it up, 
 And 'tis !>} thee t! e curtains must come buck ; 
 For he that pre ch'u it n w the judge must be, 
 And now ( tell thee so must it by thee, 
 If that thy writings they can't understand, 
 1 ut say it is out of the reach of man, 
 To judge aright of things that are too high, 
 Then to thyself they all must give the day." 
 
 One night I dreamt I saw men in the air, who 
 pitched u it) i their horses upon the earth; the horses 
 fought -furiously, and tlje men fought furiously; 
 and so frightened me that I awoke, and thought 
 th., French would land; but I was answered in 
 the following manner : 
 
 " Tis ;,oi the French, as thou dost now suppose; 
 The hc.-ilc 1 . dye was on the soldiers' clothes, 
 And on the earth for battle firm they stood: 
 Thou kaow'st my garments they were dipt in blood. 
 No more in Bethlehem doth the infant lay, 
 But now in heaven my wonders shall display; 
 A place for horses, when the S /n of God 
 Unto mankind his coming first was know'd ; 
 And as the horses do the harness wear, 
 So let them know my chariot it is near.
 
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 These heavenly visions shall to all be known, 
 That in ray chariot I am caning down: 
 No more in swaddlings doth the iutant lay, 
 But no\v I'll come in glory's bright array, 
 And a true Saviour now 1*11 "surely be 
 To those who put their trust alone in ME. 
 But darkness o'er the earth will sure abound ; 
 Yet you, enlighten'ci land, his praise resound; 
 The glory of the Lord shall in thee rise, 
 And his salvation shall be in the wise. 
 Conquering to conquer I will now begin: 
 Rejoice, ye lands! wilh joy and gladness sing." 
 
 This dream is deeper than any man can possibly 
 imagine. 
 
 I shall here introduce a parable, that was inter- 
 preted to me at the time Campion was executed 
 for committing a riot, and who was drawn to the 
 gallows guarded by soldiers; near about which 
 time a mill-stone was broken at the very mill where 
 the riot first commenced, which shook the earth 
 for four miles round, as report then stated. It was 
 explained to me in the following manner : 
 
 " I said the thief with me did surely die, 
 "When I was. murder' d on Mount Calvary; 
 And now the sight much like it doth appear, 
 To let them know my chariot-wheels are near. 
 The stone was broken at the mill, 'twas so, 
 It shook the ground, let all the readers know. 
 The swords and spears thou whettest all in vain, 
 For to prevent, the time is coming on ; 
 And know the sceptre I shall surely sway, 
 And save the soldiers who do ME obey : 
 That is, to act according to my word, 
 And let them know that I alone am Lord: 
 A disaffected man they all call'd ME, 
 And said the tribute I refund to pay ; 
 Then now for tribute I shall pay them, all ; 
 My sword and gun do loud for vengeance call. 
 That very man to Paradise is come ; 
 Unto the cross he brought ME back again. 
 And now my sword it shall like fury smoke, 
 The hearts of men I'll surely bow or break, 
 , Just as the mill-stone did before the time; 
 
 I say of all men they are totally blind,
 
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 Or like thy sister, head-strong wisdom 
 And think their gods and they can iul< 
 \Vhen that the hearts of none they can command." 
 
 ST. ATIIANASIUS'S CREED paraphrai 
 
 " The Father, Son, and liuly Gliost, thes6 i 
 Make one true God in perfect unity; 
 The Father is the giver of the.u all ; 
 The Son is the redeemer of the full; 
 The Holy Ghost did to the Virgin come 
 To make the Trinity agree in ON K. 
 The Son did come, man's natur- to assume, 
 That man again might like his Maker come; 
 But here's a mystery I'll to lliee reveal, 
 That I no longer shall from thee conceal : 
 That GOD and Man must first united be 
 For to fulfil the glorious Trinity; 
 The Trinity and Unily are one, 
 A perfect peace then made with God and man. 
 Another mystery Ires still behind, 
 That thou in no ways out the truth canst find, 
 Which thou must gaiher from the Trinity, 
 Though join'd in one, inferior man must be. 
 These things that I to thee have now reveal'd, 
 Are from the wise and prudent men conceal'd; 
 Because the Son of God, when here below, 
 Has said, to babes he would the mystery show. 
 One person of the F;,thcr is the Son, 
 Another of the Son is surely Man, 
 Another of the Holy Ghost proceed 
 The woman's doom'd to break the serpent's head. 
 Not of herself she any thing could do, 
 But by the power of God these things are true ; 
 The Godhead of the Father and the Son, 
 And of the Holy Ghost, these three are one; 
 The glory equal, and in majesty 
 Make one true God in perfect unity. 
 Th;s is the faith that all men must believe, 
 II they aaain i:i perfect be ivceiv'd ; 
 For by the : hn-tian faith we are compell'd, 
 That ue urn, G< d and Christ be reconcil'd ; 
 Then every man in Christ shall be made lord 
 Of every blessing he doth here afford ; 
 And wi.man by the lld\ Ghost shall come- 
 To full perfeYtion, equal with the man; 
 Bone of his boiu-, and flesh like his become, 
 Dividing substance, but in heart us on/; 
 '1 he ^t'tM that's planted in the urgi;^ w< mb, 
 is'ot ut iicnel:, dolL to \ euecUvU come;
 
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 Nor no perfection could there be in man, 
 
 Ti:l by God's wisdom they \vere join'd as one; 
 
 Wade l^eirs of- God and Christ, and heirs of heaven 
 
 Shall be their seed, when the whole lump is ieaven'd. 
 
 So now your Saviour's words you plainly see, 
 
 They are mads perirct in this Trinity ; 
 
 None is before norafter, neither then, 
 
 Because in Gi .;: t( cy arc nil perfect men. 
 
 How can this Creed be e'^r made out by man, 
 
 \Vhut they do not believe nor understand?-. 
 
 To keep it underii'd there no men do ; 
 
 Then all must perish, if men's words are true. 
 
 But heie's the mystery now :;,ade out by God, 
 
 When all shall keep it by his holy word." 
 
 I shall now explain the faith of Abraham, when 
 he went to offer up his son Isaac, in whom the 
 promise was made. But how couki it be: fulfilled, 
 when he was dead ? would be the faith now a-day. 
 
 " But here was Abraham's strong faith j 
 
 Let Aoraham now appear: 
 By charity he follow'd ME, 
 
 Or else his faith would err. 
 Because of M E hi . 3 thoughts were high, 
 
 Or faith would soon been dead ; 
 He would have stumbled in the way, 
 
 When he to .th' altar led 
 His only son, to ail was known 
 
 The promise there was made ; 
 But when I bid him offer up, 
 
 Then faith must sure be dead; 
 The child be dead, the promise fled, 
 
 And it must be in vain; 
 But charity was found in he 
 
 The promise to obtain ; 
 Because he judg'd ME as a God 
 
 That would not man deceive. 
 This way the gloomy path he trod, 
 
 In charity believ'd, 
 That if his son I did demand, 
 
 Another I'd prepare, 
 To bring it to the promis'd land 
 
 That 1 had said before ; 
 And on my word he did depend, 
 
 And so did M E obey ; 
 He judg'd ME faithful in the end, 
 
 And so went on his way; 
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 And then the altar did prepare, 
 
 And bound the happy child. 
 But now the mysteries I shall clear: 
 
 When both together, mild 
 The son demands to see the lamb 
 
 The father must prepare ; 
 The father took and bound the son, 
 
 To prove the lamb was there. 
 "When this was done, the voice was known, 
 
 Which did them both surprise 
 Now, Abraham, stay thy bloody hand, 
 
 And cast about thine eyes ; 
 Let go the" lamb, and take the ram ; 
 
 lie's in the thicket caught; 
 Then like that lamb let men become, 
 
 The victory shall be wrought. 
 For my sons they are fast bound, 
 
 And on the altar cast; 
 But Satan's doom must so come round 
 
 To be the ram at last. 
 But here thy mind is puzzled now, 
 
 And puzzling doth appear ; 
 Can Satan e'er a ram be called ? 
 
 I'll make the mystery c,lear : 
 Comparisons have always been : 
 
 The serpent was of >j p., 
 When in the wilderness was seen, 
 
 The brazen serpent, see ; 
 And yet it was a type of ME ; 
 
 Then marvel not 'tis so, 
 That I compar'd him to a ram, 
 That with my Hock doth go, 
 For to defy and hunt my sheep, 
 
 And lead them all astray. 
 Now by the horn he shall be caught ; 
 
 The thicket's in the way: 
 If men like Abraham do begin, 
 
 I will my sons unbind ; 
 The walls which Satan made so strong, 
 
 Shall \fith his horns come down. 
 The waUs of Jericho must fall ; 
 
 The ram's horns must appear: 
 But let the sound be known to alf, 
 
 'Tis I have spoken it here. 
 I shall throw down, and now build up, 
 
 That you may stand secure ; 
 And build upon a firmer hope, 
 Than yon have stood before ;
 
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 Because my mind I have c~nceal'd 
 
 From all the sons of men ; I 
 
 But when the mysteries are reveal'd, 
 Then will your hopes be known." 
 
 Now I have given you a short account of Abra- 
 ham's Faith , and what a type that was of the last 
 days. Our faith is what we judge of God ; but as 
 it is written, " False prophets shall arise and de- 
 (< ceive many," I shall give you a short account of 
 what they are : They are those who prophesy out 
 of their own hearts, and have seen nothing; and 
 deny the true prophets of the Lord, Every man 
 that pretends to say things that will not come to 
 pass, as it is written, " Maketh himself a prophet,, 
 " and prophesieth out his own heart, and deceiveth 
 "all that believe him." Too many false prophets 
 are already gone out into the world, who have pro- 
 phesied false things and deceit; whom the Lord 
 neither sent or commanded ; yet they pretend to 
 prophesy, and deceive many thereby. Th.s I shall 
 explain more clearly hereafter, and shew you, from 
 the written word of God, that true prophecies must 
 be given, and the Bible clearly revealed to man. It 
 is not the sword of war that will open any man's 
 understanding ; it is the sword df the spirit that 
 must bring men to the knowledge of the Lord ; 
 or men would abide for ever in kraorahce. 
 
 
 
 The following lines were written in answer to 
 men's saying, that the Jews would be converted ; 
 and that many had pretended to prophesy, as I 
 had done. 
 
 " Vain are their thoughts, to think that I 
 Shall e'er convince them in the way 
 That their vain notions now suppose, 
 Which make my Gospel of no use. 
 What profit was it for to pen 
 What never is of use to men ? 
 ^ But here my Bible's thrown aside, 
 
 Since now my Spirit is denied. 
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 Bring now the woman, let her come, 
 
 That writes i r acts as them hast done ; 
 
 Then an impostor thou s-halt be, 
 
 And say another acts like thee. 
 
 No woman ever did assume 
 
 To say a child was ever born 
 
 As Mary did the son of God ; 
 
 fetidh tiling was never heard, nor know'd. 
 
 Now where's the. woman will appear 
 
 To shew herself the. bride so clear? 
 
 It Mich a thins; was ever done, 
 
 I will no longer guide thy pen. 
 
 So all g.nmaycrs now stand still, 
 
 It is your God, it is his will 
 
 To vindicate the lawful bride, 
 
 To shew his Gospel is applied ; 
 
 And then as brides I'll make ye all. 
 
 That on my name for mercy call ; 
 
 And all alike I'll join to ME; 
 
 'Tis but a mark that ye might see 
 
 That all my liible is made clear; 
 
 For like the jews the Gentiles are ; 
 
 It must come perfect to the word, 
 
 Or they'll deny it is from God: 
 
 Now 'tis come perfect to the word ; 
 
 Let Jews and Gentiles know the Lord." 
 
 As I am coming to the conclusion of my Second 
 Book, I must beg the serious reader will weigh 
 deeply the .First Book; and call his attention to 
 what was said in 1 79^ (see page 14), and which was 
 spoken in verse. I must also call his attention to 
 the 18th page, and earnestly intreat him to weigh 
 deeply what was spoken in the Psalms, page 20; 
 mark well the letter that follows, and the cross 
 and dots for words, which, though he cannot read, 
 are deep and weighty, and were sent to :he mi- 
 nisters in words that are concealed from the pub- 
 lic; and lie will find there is concealed from him 
 what is hastening on, that he knows no more of 
 than the dots lie cannot read ; for the one is as 
 much concealed from him as the other, at present ;
 
 so he must wait till the ten years are expired; and 
 then he will clearly perceive the truth of the first 
 letter. 
 
 I have understanding, as well as you all. I 
 must beg your attention to the Second Letter: 
 Unto whom have you done despite? either to the 
 Spirit of the Lord, or to me; if to me, no judg- 
 ments can follow; hut if to the Lord, they cer- 
 tainly will. For in all ages of the world, when 
 men mocked the words of the Lord, the Lord 
 said, I will laugh at their calamities, and mock 
 when their fear cometh. Then you will perceive 
 you have all seen through a glass darkly; and 
 read the hook as a man vieweth his face in a glass, 
 and goeth away, forgetting what manner of man 
 he was, and is therefore obliged to return to the 
 glass to recollect his features ; so you must re- 
 turn to the First Book, to recal the prophecies, if 
 y ou wish to be judges of what you read. The third 
 letter you are fulfilling, if you could read the dots, 
 that stand in the place of words, where it is spoken 
 of and concerning Egypt; but, like blind men 
 judging of colours that will not bear the day-light, 
 so many have judged of my writings, that when the 
 truth is come to light, their judgmentswill not bear. 
 I shall next call your attention to the contents 
 of page C 2Q. Talk no more so proudly, lest your 
 pride should have a fall. For some readers have 
 not discerned a word that they have read ; while 
 others have weighed deeply, ,and have not exer- 
 cised themselves in things too high for them ; de- 
 sirous of being more clear in their judgment, by 
 seeing more of it. 
 
 I shall conclude, by answering those who say, 
 my writings are the production of some minister 
 or another ; and that I, like a fool, have signed my 
 name to other men's works. At this so strange
 
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 an assertion I cannot but marvel; being at a loss 
 to conceive, how any man. who has read the 
 books through, can be so destitute of understand- 
 ing. He, or they, must discern in what manner 
 they are put ; the truth is easy to be found out ; 
 and had it been my intention to impose on the 
 public, I must have shot considerably beyond the 
 mark, and overshot myself. My soul is provoked 
 to hear what wrong constructions some readers 
 have put upon my writings. 
 
 " But barr-" piinrls, like barren soil, 
 
 M'ick the ciiltiv tor's toil. 
 
 Though you sow the choicest seed, 
 
 It produceth chaff and weed ; 
 
 So if chaff and weed, appear, 
 
 I will burn the fallows bare, 
 
 Until the ground is fit for wheat, 
 
 And then you'll find your crops are great. 
 
 But, Oh ! wbot seed shall I now sow, 
 
 When every blade of wheat I know 
 
 Is coinpass'd round so full of weed, 
 
 There is no room for it to breed ? 
 
 Then if the weeds so fast do grow, 
 
 My wheat must all be choak'd, 1 know, 
 
 Until I make my fallows bare, 
 
 And like a husbandman appear, 
 
 To cleanse my ground, and burn the weed, 
 
 And then my wheat I know will breed. 
 
 And so this year I will go on : 
 
 It nought but weeds ; the weeds I'll burn ; 
 
 And when y-our harvest does appear, 
 
 No more complain of scanty year; 
 
 For full as scanty I see man 
 
 To speak die truth, or judge my hand ; 
 
 For if believer* do upbear, 
 
 li.ey'rechoakM \\iih mockers every where. 
 
 Tien I will surd, mock the whole, 
 
 And cho'k ; ,e hn.'ve-l lor you all ; 
 
 Unless my ^erv "....s <.o I c::m 
 
 To pull the wt.eds ihat now do spring 
 
 So very fast to chonk the bh.iie, 
 
 No corn 'at harvest to be had. 
 
 But now (i e mystrry I'll explain ; 
 
 The word of God's the seed 1 me;ai,
 
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 That like the manna comes from heaven ; 
 And angels' food to man is given, 
 While in the- wilderness ^ou stand, 
 And help you to the promis'd land, 
 That you will find is now before, 
 And you may see the Canaan shore. 
 The blades that I have call'd the wheat, 
 Are those that judge the calling; .great, 
 That they from Satan shall be free : 
 And Pharaoh was a type of he. 
 The weeds that do so strong appear, 
 Are unbelievers every where, 
 That choak the heart, it cannot grow; 
 So here's the Gospel and the Law, 
 That I shall closely join in one; 
 And to the Gospel now I'll come. 
 The husbandman doth now apj ear, 
 To sow his seed both far and i;ear; 
 And as the tender blades do spring, 
 The enemy the tares doth bring ; 
 I saw his seed amongst the wheat ; 
 Then soon you'll find the harvest great; 
 For both together now may grow ; 
 To weed the tares too soon I know 
 That all my wheat I must destroy ; 
 Then who my harvest can enjoy ? 
 So both together let them spring, 
 Until my reapers do begin 
 For to cut down both wheat and tare ; 
 Then I'll divide my harvest here, 
 And all the chaff it soon shall fly, 
 And all will find my harvest nigh ; 
 For every mystery I'll explain, 
 What is beyond the heads of men." 
 
 I shall finish this Book with remarking, that 
 the two publications I have produced, are as hard 
 to be understood, and as hard to be believed, by 
 the Gentiles, who are under the Gospel, as the 
 Old and New Testaments are by the Jews, who are 
 under the Law. In my next Book I shall throw 
 open the Bible, and bring all things to your re- 
 membrance, and come to the purpose with Jews 
 and Gentiles. And what has been omitted in this
 
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 Book, I promise to insert in the next, provided I 
 do not hear too much contradiction by men, /or 
 me to hold a controversy with. 'Therefore, now 
 give ear, .O heavens! and be astonished, O 
 earth ! the Lord hath a controversy with his 
 people. 
 
 Joanna South cott* 
 
 March 29, 1801. 
 
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 rJi-iiu jTii. ft* .;
 
 The Strange Effects of Faith. 
 
 THIRD PART. 
 
 1 Shall begin this Book with the explanations of the 
 other two, and the meaning of the third chapter 
 of Genesis. The two volumes of books are deep 
 and weighty, which I must call your attention to, 
 and request you will compare them together (the 
 first and second) how they will be fulfilled ; and 
 which I shall shew you in this book. But now I must 
 direct your thoughts to the third chapter of Genesis. 
 The first prophecy that was given, was to the ser- 
 pent ; the second to the woman ; and the third to 
 the man. Now I shall shew you how it is ex- 
 plained ; and how it will be fulfilled you will see in 
 the volume of this book. To me it appeareth, as 
 clear as the noon-day sun, just and right for the 
 serpent to bear the blame the woman cast on him, 
 if the Lord of Life and Glory bore on the cross the 
 blame which man cast on him in paradise, when he 
 fell ; for those are the reasons assigned to me why 
 he died, which I shall shew you in the following 
 manner ; but this must be judged by the world at 
 
 N large. 
 
 Kvprinted by S. Rousseau, Wood Street, Spa Fields, from the 
 'fust tldition, published May iy, 1801.
 
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 large. The writings that I am ordered to pot in 
 print, are to try what is in man, to open the eyes of 
 the blind, and to unstop the ears of the deaf, that 
 the dead might hear his voice and live. And now 
 I say unto this land, , if this year that hath begun in 
 sorrow, does not end in joy, it is your own faults : 
 for England may be a blessed land ; and the first 
 redeemed of all the earth ; be able to boast in the 
 God of their salvation ; and see every enemy fall 
 before them, spiritual and temporal ; for the fulness 
 of the Gentiles is the calling of the Jews ; and in this 
 book you will find it written, how your full redemp- 
 tion must come. But as the Lord hath appointed 
 ministers as shepherds to their flocks, so all who 
 read this book, if they cannot understand it, ought 
 in' duty to appeal to their ministers ; for they have 
 as much right to demand their judgment, as the 
 ministers have to demand their money for preach- 
 ing ; and the sacrament binds and commands all 
 persons distressed in mind to go to their ministers, 
 and make known their grief; and they must be 
 careless readers, who are not desirous of knowing, 
 if this calling be of God, or not ; for as the benefit 
 is great to those who receive it worthily, so is the 
 danger great to those who receive it unworthily, for 
 then ye have eat and drank the body and blood of 
 Christ to your condemnation, not discerning the 
 Lord's body till his coming. This I shall explain, 
 that I might not hurt weak minds. The manner 
 of receiving it worthily, is, to see the justness of 
 God, how it was placed, and how it was all ordained. 
 But if jealousy arise in your breasts, whether the 
 report be true or not, appeal to the ministers of the 
 Lord for further instruction, to know what spirit 
 hath inspired a woman, to write such things in these 
 last days, as never entered into the heart or thoughts 
 of any one since earth's foundation was placed. 
 Those that thus concern themselves, are worthy 
 
 partakers
 
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 partakers of the body and blood of Christ, and will 
 reap much benefit thereby, to their great and end- 
 less comfort ; but those that receive it unworthily, 
 are such as read it as an idle tale, and do not care 
 whether it be true or nor ; and' their conduct will 
 kindle God's wrath against them, and provoke him 
 to plague them with divers diseases, and sundry 
 kinds of deaths ; for they have eat and drank their % 
 own condemnation, by eating the bread, and drink- 
 ing the wine, in memory of his death ad suffering. 
 And now they are shewn clearly what his death and 
 suffering meant, to turn it back on the serpent at 
 last as HE bore it at first. Then ye cannot be wor- 
 thy partakers, unless the same mind be in you, as 
 was in Christ ; for you know the devil was the au- 
 thor of every sin ; and the finisher when Christ died 
 upon the cross ; for then he betrayed both God and 
 man, when he entered into Judas; Judas hanged 
 himself, and our Saviour was crucified : therefore our 
 dear dying Lord said, it was finished. But you must 
 know, from Isaiah, that the day of vengeance wa 
 in his heart ; that meaneth, to turn on Satan the 
 spear. Know, if we are worthy partakers of his body 
 and blood, we shall all drink into the same spirit, 
 least we bring that day of vengeance on ourselves, 
 by committing the sin against the Holy Ghost. But 
 such a monster, I trust, there is not upon earth ; 
 yet I fear there are many Laodiceans, neither hot 
 nor cold, but lukewarm ; they are unworthy re- 
 ceivers of the sacrament. I shall now answer those 
 who marvel at my saying I am the Bride. I tell 
 you all, Christ stileth himself the Bridegroom; and 
 whoever hath his mind and will written on his heart, 
 the same is the Bride ; for Christ is the Bridegroom, 
 the Church is the Bride, Now call his words to 
 your remembrance " Who is my mother? he that 
 doeth the will of my Father, the same is my mother, 
 my brother, and my sister." " And now I ask you, 
 
 N 2 who
 
 who is the Bride ? those who have my mind and 
 heart within them, to avenge the injuries done to 
 the Lord. I am the Bridegroom, they are the Bride, 
 saith the Lord Jesus Christ. Judas betrayed ME ; 
 but he could not crucify ME, had not others agreed 
 with him ;" and though the petition is made by me, 
 it cannot be offered up as an acceptable sacrifice till 
 the church unite together. I shall shew you the 
 meaning of this mystery hereafter, from the two 
 rams that Moses was ordered to offer up as a burnt 
 sacrifice.' To explain the type of those two rams, 
 is too deep, too weighty, and a field too large to 
 enter into at present. 
 
 But now I will come to Pilate's question, " Which 
 of the twain 'will ye that I release unto you ? the 
 serpent, or the woman ? Here is as just an inquiry 
 as Pilate made. One of the two must be cast, 
 before your full redemption can be accomplished, 
 Now answer for thyself, O man ! and I will for 
 the woman. Did I not bear all the blame man 
 cast on ME ? And is it not just, the serpent should 
 bear the blame the woman cast on him ? If ye 
 judge this simple, read back your Bibles, and ye 
 will find alias simple. Simple WHS my coming into 
 the world, and my manner through the world, and 
 my going out of the world ; all was as simple to the 
 Jews as this appears to the Gentiles. Was I not 
 born of simple parents, laid in a manger, and sim- 
 ply warned the wise men to return another way 
 for fear of Herod, when I could have destroyed 
 him ? Did I not simply fly into Egypt, and full as 
 simply returned again ? For a God to be afraid of 
 man, you must confess a simple thing. 
 
 And now in verse I shall begin 
 To echo back the lines to men. 
 Of simple parents ( wa- horn, 
 And worldly wise men did me scorn : 
 Simply, to Kgypt I did fly, 
 And simply all \V;K
 
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 And simply anothei way 
 I did turn back again ; 
 Simply I oft myself did hide 
 
 When man 1 could destroy ; 
 Simply the manger made my bed, 
 
 While mankind did enjoy 
 Their beds of down, and wore their crown, 
 
 While I was forc'd to flee ; 
 And simply shall their pride come down, 
 
 That every soul shall see. 
 Simple among the sons of men 
 
 I always did appear 5 . /#***" 
 
 And simple in the woman's form O/ <M 
 
 I've surely acted here. 
 Simple as these appear to be, 
 
 So simply all was done, 
 When on the cross at Calvary 
 
 I gave my life for man. 
 For, oh ! how few regard my love, 
 
 Or to the manger go, 
 Just like the shepherds you have heard, 
 
 To know if it be true. 
 The manger here doth now appear 
 
 As much despis'd by manj 
 They cannot see the mystery clear 
 
 The servant cannot come 
 No greater here for to appear 
 Than was her Lord before ; 
 And like the Jews the Gentiles are, 
 
 And open every pore. 
 Do I not see as well as thee 
 
 Thy poverty despis'd ? 
 For like the Jews the Gentiles be, 
 
 And pride hath dimm'd their eyes, 
 So now take care, I warn you here, 
 
 The natural branch did fall ; 
 Then the wild olive sure must fear, 
 If none can judge the call. 
 
 Now I shall explain what the calling meaneth, 
 from what was omitted to be put in the proper 
 place in the first book ; what is placed in the 1/th 
 page ought to be in the Qth page. Now I shall call 
 you to the Bible. " Had all stood in its proper place 
 as soon as I received the sentence from man, that he 
 east on me at first, Satan ought to receive the sen- 
 *' tence
 
 tence the woman cast on him ; but this was omitted, 
 till the fulness of the time came, that God sent his 
 Son, made of a woman, made under the law ; that 
 meaneth the spirit of prophecy given to the woman ; 
 for the spirit of prophecy is the Spirit of Jesus. 
 Now this spirit is sent to a woman, to fulfil the law 
 that was then given between the serpent and a wo- 
 man ; Satan hath already bruised my heel, when they 
 nailed my feet and hands to the cross ; and now, to 
 fulfil the law, the woman must bruise his head ; 
 therefore I let loose his reins, to cause such enmity 
 between thee and the serpent. The meaning of the 
 whole verse I shall explain another time." 
 
 And now I will tell you how to compare the two 
 books together. The first book is the beginning, 
 the other sheweth the ending, of all the visions. 
 The 30th p. book i. and the 83d p. bookii. is the 
 end of the visions ; the last vision in J7Q2 ends with 
 the dream in 17Q4, in the 83d p. book ii. Here I 
 have shewn you the end of the visions that you are 
 to compare together : now weigh the 3(3th with the 
 74th page, and the 38th with the 87th (the thief 
 upon the cross"). I shall end with comparisons for 
 the present, only call you to the l6th page 
 
 " Now, if they say all this by thee Is done, 
 
 Thy head is wiser than the sons of men ; 
 
 And now in wisdom all shall see it clear, 
 
 Men by their wisdom brought on ME the spear; 
 
 Or by their folly they did not discern 
 
 The day of vengeance in my heart must come. 
 
 And if the .vengeance I had in my heart 
 
 Was but on man to turn the fatal dart, 
 
 Then sure'y man must judge I died a fool, 
 
 To take such vengeance on the mortal soul. 
 
 To leave my Father's throne, and here come down, 
 
 To heighten sin, that man might sure be found 
 
 A guilty object of my just revenge, 
 
 And heighten sin, if this was all my ends; 
 
 To hare uich day of vengeance in my heart, 
 
 On mai) iUoiu- can turn the fatal dar, ; 
 
 Or
 
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 Or if I died, to save them in their sin, 
 
 I ask what victory I that way could win ? 
 
 But if I died to set the sinner free, 
 
 And b >re the blaaie that man did cast on ME, 
 
 The day of vengeance I had in my heart, 
 
 It was on Satan for to turn the dart, 
 
 That he should bear the blame as well as ME, 
 
 Cast by the woman. Now let all men tec, 
 
 No other way I could for rmn atone, 
 
 To free his guilt, but take it all my own. 
 
 Then as I first took on ME every blame 
 
 That man did cast, then Satan sure must come 
 
 To bear the blame the woman cast on he, 
 
 And there's no other way you can be free? 
 
 Your full redemption ye can ne'er atta'n . jf/ -JL*. 
 
 But by the woman, whom I did ordain ^ rj 
 
 To be your helpmate in your sore distress. 
 
 And in the end complete your happiness. 
 
 For this I tell you was my Father's will ; 
 
 And, lo ! I come, his promise to fulfil, 
 
 And pay the debt was cast on ME by man ; 
 
 And now the other mystery comes bn. 
 
 When Satan pays the debt was cast on he, 
 
 Your full redemption you with joy may see ; 
 
 No other way can your redemption come, 
 
 But by the woman copying after man, 
 
 To s:iy to Satan, now must come the spear, 
 
 'Tis just that you your sentence now should bear. 
 
 Now I shall come to reason with man. What 
 ideas could fill thy head and heart, O man ! to 
 think my .Father and I should agree together for 
 ME to leave my Father's throne, to come down on 
 earth, to suffer hunger and thirst, poverty and 
 want, temptation and persecution ; go through a 
 life, the half of what I suffered here below was 
 never penned ; and then to make myself a sacrifice 
 for sin, for man ; or suffer man to make ME a sacri- 
 fice for sin, that knew no sin, that man might live ; 
 and at that time to cast out my chosen people, the 
 Jews, and scatter them over the face of the earth, 
 as a just mark of my resentment; and make them 
 my people that were not my people; call them be- 
 loved that were not beloved ? Wherein have I chang- 
 ed
 
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 ed for the better ? Trace your Bibles back ; look 
 to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, Moses, Daniel, and 
 Job, in all the Prophets and Apostles ; are ye better 
 than any of them ? you must answer, no ; yet the 
 martyrs shewed their love as great in dying for ME, 
 as the Jews did : then here ye stand together, both 
 alike faithful, so I have not changed for the better, 
 nor the worse : but I will tell you what I changed 
 for to try you all in the end. The Jews perished 
 for want of that knowledge which the devil told them 
 they should have ; for had they been as gods, knowing 
 good from evil, they would have known ME, when 
 I put them to the trial of their knowledge ; therefore 
 I told them the devil was a liar from the beginning, 
 and by their ignorance they proved it : neither un- 
 derstood they their prophets ; but judged what they 
 prophesied of my second coming would be fulfilled 
 at the first, and erred for want of knowledge ; and 
 proved the truth of what I said to man, that he should 
 be dead as to every knowledge of God. And now I 
 am come to try the knowledge of the Gentiles, and 
 find them as far from knowledge as the Jews ; or 
 they would have discerned from whence the Spirit 
 came : but here is man lost in wisdom and under- 
 standing, and dead as to the knowledge of God. 
 ISJow I will throw open the Bible unto all men. 
 The woman, through her strange effects of faith, 
 was betrayed by the serpent, and gave it to the 
 man ; the man betrayed his Lord ; then followed 
 the wondrous prophecies, that no man ever under- 
 stood, that as the serpent bruised my heel, so shall 
 I bruise his head, by the same weak instrument he 
 first betrayed to bring it on MK, and should in the 
 end bring it back again ; so I suffered what man cast 
 on ME ; and Satan shall suffer the blame the woman 
 cast on him ; and that man that will not own it 
 just, shall go with his master he most prizes ; for 
 now I will cut short my work rn righteousness." 
 
 Do
 
 Do these things appear too marvellous in the eyes 
 of the readers to believe them ? I answer, they 
 appear to me so just, that the god of this world 
 must so blind their eyes, that in seeing they cannot 
 see, nor in hearing they cannot understand, if they 
 do not see it clear : and every one must own the 
 sentence just ; for I may say with the thief upon the 
 cross, Satan received the just sentence passed upon 
 him from the woman, but the Lord suffered an un- 
 just sentence from the man, at first and at last ; for if 
 they thought it right tojiearken to the woman at first, 
 why not Pilate hearken to the woman at last ? So I 
 cannot see but man is blameable, as well as the wo- 
 man ; but the author of the whole was the devil ; he 
 first rebelled in heaven; and, as soon as man and woman 
 were created, he studied arts and lies to betray them, 
 and made them break the commands of God ; and 
 the best of men cannot shun all his arts ; therefore 
 it is impossible for the will of God to be done upon 
 earth, as long as Satan's power reigneth ; for his 
 arts are as many as his power is great. Now is it un- 
 likely that the Lord should pass so just a sentence on 
 him, to turn back on his head the destruction he had 
 brought on us all ? He did not spare his Son, nei- 
 ther hath he spared man, and why should he spare 
 the devil, who was the author of every evil ? For 
 we learn from Judas, that the devil entered into his 
 heart, before he betrayed his Lord ; and it is plainly 
 proved from his hanging himself afterwards ; and I 
 believe he entered into every heart, or they would 
 never have betrayed the Lord Jesus Christ. Then 
 why should it be marvellous in any one's eyes to 
 say, the day of vengeance the Lord had in his heart 
 turned on Satan the spear, that he should receive 
 his sentence from the woman, as Christ did from/^^v' 
 the man ? This appeareth to me consistent with the t '-?" w/ " 
 mercy, wisdom, and the goodness of the Lord, who' 
 is wise in all his ways, and just and right in all his 
 
 O works.
 
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 works; and when I disbelieve the one, I shall the 
 other; for the prophecies are as clear of the one as o 
 the other. So here is my firm belief gone out into 
 the world ; and I believe this spirit as much came from 
 the Lord, as I believe Christ died on the cross. 
 Now let men of learning bring forth their argu^ 
 ments, and shew their strong reasons, why they be- 
 lieve the one and not the other ; and I will bring 
 forth mine, and shew my strong reasons, why I 
 cannot believe the one without the other. What- 
 ever be your thoughts, as judging it of myself, I will 
 tell you the answer of the Spirit to it tc Thy pen 
 is the pen of a ready writer ; thy heart hath indited a/ 
 good matter ; and all men shall know the weight, 
 and the truth, and justness of thy words; either to 
 their joy and comfort, and everlasting salvation, or 
 to their everlasting destruction. For now be it 
 known unto all men, the redemption of man would 
 never have been bought with my blood, had not that 
 been in the bosom of the Father and ME, for ME to 
 take the blame man cast on the Lord, that Satan 
 might bear the blame the woman cast on him ; 
 therefore I said unto thee, in answer to the mi- 
 nister, when he said he would never have believed 
 one God died to atone to another 
 
 One God unto another to atone ; 
 It is a mystery understood by none. 
 But now the mystery I shall shew it clear, 
 The fatal sin I bid you now beware ; 
 For here's the sin against the Holy Ghost, 
 To say the serpent's sentence is not just ; 
 Then sure unjustly I for man did die. ; 
 Look unto Calvary, men, and tell ME, why 
 You nail'd my hands and feet unto the cross ? 
 Jf Sacan's freed, then man, 1 say, is lost. 
 Greater than Adam man brought on the guilt, 
 And on your heads must all my blood be spilt, 
 If from my side there does not com? the spear 
 To bru:se the serpent's head, and wound it here. 
 My side, like man's, was open to your view, 
 Look on the woman now; believe it true. 
 
 That
 
 That here's a woman taken from my side, 
 That I've declared to man to be the bride, 
 And to take vengeance for the Bridegroom's heel, 
 And justly claim the serpent's blood to spill. 
 Now if this justice is denied by man, 
 I tell you plain, you've brought your ruin on ; 
 For then the vengeance I had in my hcar^ 
 Must be on man to turn the fatal dart ; 
 But if you own the woman's sentence just, 
 Then man is freed, and Satan's sentence cast. 
 So now the hearts of men I mean to try, 
 And then my arrows they shall surely fly ; 
 On men or devil shall my fury fall ; 
 So now take care, I warn you one and all. 
 
 Now I have shewn you plainly why I took man's 
 nature upon ME, and died for man that I might bear 
 the blame he cast on ME, that Satan might bear the 
 blame the woman cast on him ; for I felt for man, 
 that I had made him subject to the powers of dark- 
 ness. But was there no other way could be or* 
 dained for man's redemption ; and could my Father's 
 wrath be no other way appeased, but by my shameful 
 death upon the cross ? How inconsistent with rea<- 
 son, to think the shameful death men put ME to, 
 should appease my Father's wrath. No. no, I tell 
 you plainly, O man ! was it to stop there, it would 
 sooner increase his anger than abate his wrath : 
 But what will abate his displeasure with men, is, 
 their seeing clearly the justness of his sentence, in 
 casting on Satan the sentence from the woman, as 
 they cast the sentence on the Lord by man ; for 
 though the petition is made by thee, the just- 
 ness of the sentence must be cast by man, before 
 ever God and man can be reconciled. Where 
 is the age that sheweth or proveth God was ever 
 reconciled to man ? Have not the judgments of God 
 overtaken men in every age of the world ? Then 
 how is my lather's wrath appeased, when sin and 
 sorrow, and the judgments of God, have followed 
 if an to this day ? Will you say I died for them that 
 
 O 2 were
 
 were good men, and believed in ME ? And was that 
 all I died for to reconcile to God ? then my blood 
 was shed in vain ; for in every age of the world, 
 they that feared God, and worked righteousness, 
 were saved. So there is no way man's judgment 
 pointeth out my death was of any use to him. But 
 here are the ends of my death ; to see the travail of 
 my soul, and be satisfied ; to triumph over death, 
 hell, and the grave ; when I see my deadly foe cast 
 by man that crucified me, and clamour for Satan's 
 destruction, as they did for mine ; and all men say, 
 with the thief on the cross, Satan is cast justly, but 
 the Son of God has done no wrong ; then will my Fa- 
 ther be reconciled to man ; and Satan must confess 
 I have done him no wrong, if I bore the sentence 
 man cast on ME, for him to bear the sentence the 
 woman cast on him. If I stoop to the failings of 
 men, Satan must fall the same way ; for if man is 
 the sufferer, man must be the judge. But consider, 
 the Son of God suffered with man, and must be the 
 Judge for man ; men as men must be the jury, God 
 as God must be the Judge, to pass the sentence, 
 when clearly proved by man ; then will God and 
 man be reconciled. Weigh deeply these lines with 
 reason and the Bible, and tell ME, O man ! whether 
 this sentence is just or unjust, and J will answer 
 thee again. 
 
 But ne'er no judges in your land 
 
 Had e'er so weighty trial in hand, 
 
 S nee I was judg'd at Pilate's bar. 
 
 The Holy Ghost roust be judg'd here ; 
 
 But I do tell them, 'tis not thee, 
 
 It is the writings they must see ; 
 
 I am the Spirit did indite, ^ 
 
 That did induce thee first to write ; 
 
 And all mankind shall knmv I AM, ^, 
 
 And I JEHOVAH is my name, 
 
 The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, 
 
 In these three Is the sentence past, 
 
 And every mystery I'll explain, 
 
 And
 
 C 
 
 And echo back the lines to men. 
 
 I am the Maker of ye all, 
 
 Eden was found, when man did fall, 
 
 A tree of life within to stand : 
 
 Hear now my voice, ye sons of men ! 
 
 people ! simple and unwise, 
 Vain.are your thoughts, for to despise 
 A God that gave the woman first j 
 
 1 AM, I AM, too, gave her last ; 
 By her obedience freed the score, 
 Her faith is just, if man sets clear j 
 And she hath err'd the safest side, 
 The path is straight, the field is wide. 
 So if you judge her senses lost, 
 
 It is where man can never boast, 
 So far beyond the learned 's skill ; 
 So you may judge it as you will." 
 
 The following was written, in answer to a digni- 
 tary of the church, to whom I have sent many let- 
 ters. It was from the text he preached on a thanks- 
 giving day in 1797 " Serve the Lord with fear, and 
 rejoice with trembling," Psalm \\. ver. 11. It was 
 answered me in the following manner : j 
 
 " Now thou hast ended I'll begin. 
 
 The second Psalm to all is come j 
 
 My sword is drawn, and dipp'd in blood ; 
 
 'Tis time for man to know his God ; 
 
 For conquering now I'll conquer all. 
 
 And fast the deluge down shall fall, 
 
 Till every nation, you shall see, 
 
 Will each fall down and worship ME. 
 
 I'll trifle now with man no more; 
 
 My sword I'll send from shore to shore, 
 
 Until the nations do comply, 
 
 And in the vailies humbly lie, 
 
 To worship at Irnmanuel's feet; 
 
 Now I've begun I'll finish it. 
 
 But if your peace you'll keep at home, 
 
 My mind and will must be made known ; 
 
 That every nation now may fear, 
 
 Lj^England know my kingdom's near, 
 
 "VvTRj every burden I'll relieve, 
 
 And gladden soon the hearts that grieve. 
 
 But it this way ye do go on, 
 
 To keep in darkness still your land, 
 
 Just 

 
 Just like thy head all hearts will be j 
 We cannot stand, lie down like thee. 
 Provok'd by anger, first they'll go 
 Careless, like thee, of what they do,. 
 Until their feet a,re wet with blood, 
 /And soon the pain will seize their head ; 
 Then sure like thee they'll all lie down 
 " We cannot stand, nor bear the wound." 
 Therefore ye shepherds now awake, 
 The helmet of salvation take, 
 And the whole grinour now put on, 
 And shew the Corner-stone to man -, 
 The temple-gate throw open wide, 
 And shew your flocks where they must hide - t 
 The Rock of Ages now is come ; 
 Such days as these were never known 5 
 Nor did a woman so appear 
 To write or act as thou hast here. 
 Then every thing together weigh, 
 You'll see the dawning of the day, 
 Though like the weather it doth appear j 
 The sun seems hid and cloudy here, 
 That you cannot behold the sun, 
 No more you see the days are come." 
 
 If my readers are at a loss to know how these 
 things came to me ; and cannot believe them, be- 
 cause they cannot find out the mystery ; I shall 
 answer them from another text, and part of the 
 sermon preached by a reverend divine on the 
 25th of December, 1707. I hope my readers will 
 weigh deeply the words, and the answer to them. 
 The text was from id Corinthians, chap. viii. ver. Q. 
 " For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, 
 " that, though he was lich, yet for your sakes hebe- 
 " came poor, that ye through his poverty might 
 " be rich." 
 
 In the course of his sermon he said, if we did not 
 believe in Christ, because we could not find out all 
 mysteries, we should be like a man that sought for 
 an anchor in the dark, and so make sbjjjpn'eck of 
 faith and a good .conscience; or like a philosopher, 
 who threw away his cup, because he was outdone by 
 
 a 
 
 _
 
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 a boy, that made a cup with the hollow of his hand 
 to drink out of. In his sermon he said, nothing 
 could strike us more forcibly than our own con- 
 science, when our Saviour said, " I was hungry, 
 <c and ye gave me no meat ; thirsty, ye gave 
 " me no drink ; as much as ye did it not to the 
 ' least of my disciples, ye did it not unto me." 
 When I came home, it was answered me in the fol- 
 lowing manner : 
 
 " Now, Joanna, thee I'll answer, 
 
 As the master did appear, 
 If thou clear canst judge thy Master, 
 
 In it I was surely there. 
 Out of his mouth dost thou condemn, 
 
 And I will condemn him too; 
 What he did say, I bade him weigh 
 
 And lay before his view. 
 The thing's too high, now cry> 
 
 Too wondrous to believe j 
 As he can never rind the way 
 
 These truths thou didst receive. 
 Then like the man will he go on, 
 
 His clip to throw away ; 
 Because he is outdone by one 
 
 Appears as low as thee ; 
 Or in the dark, to miss his mark, 
 
 No pilot can he see, 
 No rock to climb, his anchor gone, 
 
 His shipwreck let him see : 
 What hazard run, what rock to clirab, 
 
 When he's benighted here, 
 And faith, and hope, and all isgone, 
 
 And charity despair: 
 For charity he'th none for ME, 
 
 To see my honour die ; 
 Am I not come to poverty, 
 
 Humbly to him apply ? 
 And will he say, like thee, that day 
 
 He did something bestow, 
 For to assist ME in the way, 
 
 My journey to go through ? 
 To bid ME come has he begun, 
 
 Or wish'd my kingdom here; 
 As all my flock h:.s now become 
 
 Just like thy father here ? 
 
 Wounded
 
 Wounded like be my people be, 
 
 What clothing do you send ? 
 I ask you where's your charity ? 
 
 See my imprison'd friend ! 
 \\\ih grief oppress'd, you wound her breast, 
 
 And stones for bread you send 3 
 She does not want your charity, 
 
 If gold be what you mean : 
 The charity wanted by she 
 
 Is faith and IOVK to show, 
 The feeble knee for to confirm 
 
 With charity below. 
 And judge your God as Abram did- 
 He's faithful in the end ; 
 He won't deceive those that believe; 
 
 Ceme, to the other send. 
 For perfect here do men appear ? 
 
 My word they do forget ; 
 No prophecies are mine ; by them 
 
 The mysteries seem forgot j 
 My Bible's clear, 'tis man doth err, 
 
 And trace my Bible back j 
 Did I not tell you in the end 
 
 The mysteries would be great ? 
 The Prophet's word is on record / 
 
 A Child should lead you all ; ^ 
 Whai answer now from you I've got ? 
 
 You mind it not at all. 
 And marvellous things to you I bring, 
 
 And marvellous all is done; 
 Were you to see the perfect day 
 
 Your senses would be gone. 
 The sun so bright would take your sight 
 
 When brilliant it doth shine ; 
 You cannot long look in the sun, 
 
 Nor see the things divine ; 
 So must appear now clouded here, 
 
 Your senses to secure. 
 Thy Father's hand so near doth stand, 
 
 I can't say any more." 
 
 Now I shall begin with our Saviour's words when 
 he was about to leave his disciples; he said, " When 
 * f the Holy Ghost cometh, that is the Comforter, 
 " whom the Father shall send in my name, he shall 
 " bring all things to your remembrance." Now 
 you are not to suppose lie meant it at that time to 
 
 his
 
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 his disciples ; for though he sent the Holy Ghost 
 upon them, and gave them power to work miracles 
 by the power of his Spirit, yet the Father did not 
 send it then in his name, as being the fulfilment of 
 the meaning of his words ; for Christ appeared per- 
 sonally unto his disciples, and the power of his Spirit 
 was given them. The Holy Ghost is the Holy 
 Spirit of God and Christ, as the soul and body is 
 united in one man, the body visible, the spirit in- 
 visible, yet the two are one ; so God and Christ are 
 one in power, one in wisdom, and one in heart and 
 mind ; yet they are two in person ; but the Holy 
 Ghost is the Holy Spirit of God and Christ invisi- 
 ble ; and where is the inspired penman that ever 
 said the Holy Ghost was seen ? Now, as the Holy 
 Ghost was to come, to bring all to your remem- 
 brance, you are to consider further our dear Re- 
 deemer's words, " What I say unto you, I say unto 
 all ; lo ! I am with you to the end." This is meant 
 to all his believers and followers, that he should be 
 with them till the end was come ; to send the Holy 
 Ghost, the Comforter, whom the Father should 
 send in his name, to bring all things to their remem- 
 brance. Now, my friends and enemies, I must ad- 
 dress the different readers ; for I know, as in ages 
 past, so is the present ; for in every age of the world 
 unbelief hath abounded, and so it will in this present 
 age; or the 12th chapter of the Revelation can 
 never be fulfilled. If the devil did not work in the 
 hearts of some men, how could the dragon cast out 
 floods against her ? But to come to the purpose. I 
 shall inform my readers, it is by the inspiration of 
 the Holy Ghost my writings are to bring all things 
 to your remembrance. I am ordered to write in 
 his name, to call you back to the tree of knowledge, 
 and to lay all the Bible before your eyes. I am to 
 call to your remembrance what our Saviour said ; 
 and what he meant by saying, the Holy Ghost was 
 
 P the
 
 the Comforter; for I have now to inform you of the 
 dangers and distresses ; sword, and almost famine, 
 seem to appear ; yet your redemption is nigh, to be 
 redeemed from death, hell, and sin ; that is, from 
 Adam's fall, by the redemption in the blood of 
 Christ i Satan to be chained down ; Christ's king- 
 dom to be established ; and the good fruit that was 
 on the tree of knowledge must cotne unto all men : 
 for the dead shall hear his voice, and live ; that 
 meaneth, those who were dead by the fall of Adam, 
 shall come to the knowledge of God, and the know- 
 ledge of their Bibles. The man that was born blind 
 received his sight by Christ, and so will men that 
 are pronounced dead be made alive by Christ ; and 
 first, see men as trees walking, will soon see they 
 are perfect men, and no more appear like 
 
 ' " 
 
 but so they now discern their Bibles' T"lorthe Scrip- 
 tures are hid unto them that are losfT~Now we 
 were all lost by Adam's fall ; and the Scriptures have 
 been hid from all men. But the proper meaning of 
 the word is it is hid from the powers of darkness ; 
 for as soon as the devil found out the command was 
 given to man, he found away to betray him ; and as 
 soon as the Son of God was upon the earth, he found 
 a way to work in man to betray him ; and did the de- 
 vil understand the Scriptures, he would soon find a 
 way to work on men, and make them like himself, till 
 he would draw men to the same pride, presumption, 
 and rebellion, as he did the fallen angels ; so all must 
 P er ' s h' l( Therefore, it is for the sake of man that the 
 Scriptures are hid from* men and devils, till the 
 powers of darkness .are chained down ; then I will 
 throw open the meaning of all the Bible, and give 
 them the enlightened knowledge that the fallen angels 
 had got, and place man in a state of perfect happi- 
 ness, as they were placed; and try man for one thou- 
 sand years; then shall I see what man is, when Satan 
 hath no power over him ; to be clear when I judge, 
 
 and
 
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 and just when I condemn, I will let him loose 
 to see what he will do. Now, if Satan does not tempt 
 man again, he shall have his perfect freedom to 
 walk up and down in the earth ; but if he tempteth 
 man again, he shall have his sentence passed in that 
 day, to be cut from off the face of the earth, 
 when the seventh thousand is expired. Now I will 
 appeal to men's consciences, if I am not as just 
 with Satan, as I was with man ; and if I am not 
 just in judging, and clear in condemning, when I 
 have made so fair a trial, and sat bounds tor the 
 devil as well as for man. But this I will explain 
 another time." 
 
 The answer to some one's inquiry, what use the 
 prophecies were ? 
 
 " Now, JOANNA, I will answer thee in plain words. 
 At the beginning, when man fell from the perfec- 
 tion in which he was first made, he fell under the 
 powers of darkness ; and had it not been for prophe- 
 cies, man would soon have become like the wild 
 ass's colt. The wild Indians, and the complete 
 heathens, who worship stocks and stones, shew you 
 what man was fallen to ; and what all men would 
 be, had I not senr my Spirit amongst them, to in- 
 struct and direcr them ; and by prophecies foretold 
 what lay before them. The promises and threnten- 
 ings were both foretold, and both were fulfilled, to 
 enlighten men's minds, and make them live in faith 
 and fear. But all this time man remains under 
 the fall ; few see any form or comeliness in religion ; 
 ignorant of God, pursued by the devil ; and what 
 are men now, but like wild bulls, rushing one upon 
 another ? Hath this made your land, or any other, 
 one whit the better or wiser? Various construc- 
 tions do all men put on it ; then how will ye be- 
 come new creatures ? How will ye know the Lord, 
 , : f your understanding is not enlightened ? And how 
 
 P 2 will
 
 will it be enlightened, but by the spirit of revela- 
 tion, and by the spirit of prophecy ? How shall I 
 bring men out of darkness into my marvellous 
 light, or how shall the knowledge of the Lord cover 
 the earth as the waters cover the great deep, if I do 
 not go on as I have begun ? Men now see but as 
 trees walking- ; but when I open to men all myste- 
 ries, then they shall see as men, why I permitted 
 the fall ; and why I fixed their bounds to be under 
 the fall ; and why I promised to redeem them from 
 the fall. These are mysteries concealed from man ; 
 and was I to shew signs and wonders in heaven 
 above, or in the earth below, it would not enlighten 
 men's minds. For though my Gospel is clear and 
 plain before them; yet those who do see, it is through 
 a glass darkly; but then shall ye see face to face: 
 when the truths of thy prophecies are made known, 
 then will men see the mysteries of the Bible, and 
 all men become of one mind, and one heart ; there- 
 fore have I made it so strong, and brought it round 
 in so strange a manner, that it is impossible for 
 man to-be deceived. The truths of thy prophecies 
 will convince men of the truths of their Bible ; the 
 strange manner it \\ill be brought tolight, will con- 
 vince men it is the Lord's doing, and will be mar- 
 vellous in their eyes. The more men wonder it 
 thee, the more will they wonder at their Bibles, 
 when they are brought plain to their view. Some 
 stumble at thee; others at my chosen men; bur 
 the end will convince all men that it is the wisdom of 
 God, and not of man, who chose these very men to 
 bring to light the hidden things that arc done in 
 darkness, and bring my Bible and thy prophecies 
 together. 1 will explain it more fully on the 
 morrow." 
 
 The Ityh of June, 1798.
 
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 I have given you a short account of the use of 
 prophecies, and now I will explain the mystery of 
 prophecies. They were delivered to the Prophets, 
 who never understood them, nor any that read 
 them ; as you will see by the vision of EzekieFs Dry 
 Bones. It was delivered to the Prophet long before 
 Christ came ; and the end of the vision was seen by 
 John (see Revelation, chap. vii. where he speaks of 
 the sealed people). Happy are those who believe 
 and pray to be some of the sealed number : for the 
 Lord will wipe away all tears from their eyes (as 
 you will see in the last verse,) and lead them to 
 living waters, and breathe ip them the breath of 
 life ; as you will find in Ezekiel's vision, which is 
 explained in the following manner : 
 
 " It must appear, the dry bones here, 
 
 Men's hearts are all grown dry, 
 In Satan's snare, I tell thee here ; 
 
 Does this a mystery 
 Appear to thee ? How can it be 
 
 The meaning of the word 3 
 The vision that was seen by him 
 
 Foretels the power of God. 
 When I do come to breathe in man 
 
 A spirit that is new, 
 I'll surely make the dry bones come, 
 
 And give them sinews too, 
 Upon their feet ; the number's great 
 
 When I do all awake ; 
 Though men have been all dead in sin, 
 
 Their sinews I shall shake. 
 Bone to his bone is known by none, 
 
 Nor isir understood 
 That I did make man for my own \ 
 
 'Tis there they death elude. 
 That by the fall, be't known to all, 
 I did pronounce man dead ; 
 But when I do them all recall, 
 
 They'll see their living Head, 
 That conquer'd death, will bring them forth, 
 
 And join them bone to bone j 
 That is to ME, the mystery, 
 
 I therefore took man's form. 
 
 My
 
 My sinews there shall sure appear j 
 t But then the Jews will quake, 
 
 When I do te'l them when and where 
 
 My ^tatutes they did break, 
 Till 'hey did come dry bones to man, 
 
 And sinews they have none, 
 And number'd in their graves so long, 
 
 And almost buried down. 
 Canst thou not see the mystery, 
 
 H >w they are bnried here, 
 And like the dead in graves now be ? 
 
 I'll make it to appear : 
 A living people once they were, 
 
 And trace their fathers back, 
 Abraham and Joseph now appear, 
 
 And judge how Enoch walk'd 
 Close with ME ; the mystery see 
 
 Let all the just appear ; 
 Then you will see they liv'd in ME, 
 
 And shone as pillars here. 
 Butthqse are dead, and ail are fled, 
 
 The branches are behind. 
 J ask what living stones appear, 
 
 What corner-stone to find, 
 J"or to keep up a Joseph's hope, 
 
 And Abraham's faith appear >" 
 
 The following lines were answered me from the 
 words of a Jewess, who said; "They were of all 
 " people the most unhappy ; for they were obliged 
 " to wander up and down the earth to get their 
 Cl bread." She was answered, " Some people were of 
 " opinion, that the Jews and Gentiles would soon be 
 " of one mind." The Jewess replied, " She wished 
 t( it was to-morrow, if it was the will of God," and 
 repeated it three times ; " they had expected it for 
 " two hundred years ago, but feared now it was not 
 " so near." Her words were answered me in the 
 following manner t 
 
 *' To her words I'll deeply answer. 
 
 Of one mind you soon may be ; 
 The two hundred and two thousand 
 
 h a Ivddtn mysterv. 
 
 The
 
 The two hundred they haveshorten'd, 
 
 As I told thee heretofore ; 
 The two thousand are approaching j 
 
 Let the Jews begin to fear. 
 Tel) me why they are complaining 
 
 That they wander up and down ? 
 For when first I came among them, 
 
 They no place ("or ME could find. 
 All the wonders I did shew them 
 
 Did but swell their malice high, 
 As I was not then exalted j 
 
 Now I'll shew the mystery. 
 Pomp and grandeur then did swell them, 
 
 And my poverty despis'd j 
 Trace the judgments, now I tell them, 
 
 It is time for to be wise. 
 If my love they longer slight it, 
 
 Fatal shall their sorrows come j 
 They for ME no house provided j 
 
 I for them prepar'd no land. 
 My disciples they did wander, 
 
 And as martyis they did die; 
 They are murmuring and complaining,, 
 
 But I bid them tell me why. 
 Haughty titles they were seeking, 
 
 And my poverty despise; 
 . If I bring them to the rnanger, 
 
 Will they now the babe despise ? 
 If they do not, I do tell them, 
 
 All that their forefathers done 
 I will blot out of my memory, 
 
 If they to the purpose come. 
 When I come 'twill be in glory, 
 
 And by every soul shall see j 
 If on earth I dwell amongst them, 
 
 In the Spirit it shall be. 
 I have died for man already, C~^ L 
 
 But I say I'll die no mere j 
 Let them tell how they expect ME, 
 
 And I'll fully answer here. 
 If they wish the days approaching, 
 
 Then to-morrow it may be ; 
 In my Gospel they may seek it, 
 
 In it there's a mystery. 
 Now the Jews, thou soon must warn them, 
 
 And the reasons now assign, 
 In what manner they expect MR 
 
 In their own appointed time. 
 
 Then
 
 Then their reason I will answer, 
 
 And their folly I will shew ; 
 But I say I'll not reject them, 
 
 If they own my judgments true. 
 All their lands I will redeem them ; 
 
 Nations shall before them fall ; 
 For one man shallchace a thousand 
 
 Till I have destroy'd them all. / 
 And that is the heathen nation, T 
 , ' With them I shall next begin, 
 
 Till Jews and Gentiles join together, 
 
 Then the victory they shall winj 
 For by two I'll kill ten thousand,) 
 
 And the rebels then shall fly j 
 I will build that holy city, 
 
 And the time is drawing nigh ; 
 > Then my kingdom it will flourish, 
 
 And you golden days will see ; 
 For the rebels all must perish, 
 
 That won't put their trust in ME 
 With the Jews thounow hast ended, 
 
 Till of them thoumore dost hear ; 
 And of others I did tell thee, 
 
 I shall answer all thy prayer." 
 
 I sliall now inform my readers the fulfilment of 
 these things is to all nations ; but more particularly 
 to Jews and Gentiles, as you will see explained 
 from Simeon's words " A light to lighten the 
 " Gentiles, and the glory of my people Israel." 
 The type was explained to me from the two candle- 
 sticks at the altar, in the following manner. 
 
 " How shall the glory now in Israel shine, 
 
 If I don't open the benighted mind ? , 
 
 Or the fulfilment of the Gentiles come ? 
 
 "i\vas by a woman first the deed was done ; 
 
 Because she d d the serpent first obey, 
 
 To bring it back must turn the other way } 
 
 The Mother she was surely of the Jews, 
 
 "But now the Bride I'll of the Gentiles choose. 
 
 Judge ibr yourselves, if these things don't agree," 
 
 That God and man might perfect likeness bv j 
 
 And if I stoop to come so low as man, 
 
 Why should I not now do as they have done ? 
 
 Two candles on the altar now are plac'd, 
 
 For types and shadows now, as Moses was ; 
 
 But
 
 But soon these shadows will be put away, 
 When every one doth shine to perfect day. 
 The meaning of the candles is conceal'd, 
 And now the mystery I'll to thee reveal. 
 'Twas the two lights that Simeon he did see, 
 The Jews and Gentiles, glorious lights to bej 
 . And why so glorious did these two appear ? 
 BeHuse. the Virgin did the Saviour bear ; 
 And to the Gentiles thou must surely come. 
 The Prophet's words must unto all be known : 
 Rejoice, thou barren ! thou who dost not bear, 
 Break forth in singing, thy Deliverer's near; 
 And of thy children many more shall be 
 Than of the married wile, most certainly ; 
 Th e Lord of Host thyjrusbandhe doth call , , 
 And 5 therldeTTromthl^ird^air. -fr 
 
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 jjuji. deeper m}'sjeries l|ejuTTbehln32II 
 jrhirTthou anotheTd^y~tEe truth shaTTfind ; 
 reveal_toUiee, 1^ 
 
 _ 
 Be(bre~my servants warned they shall be." 
 
 I shall now proceed with what was explained to 
 me in 1797. In that year I was ordered to fast 
 throughout Lent, and eat no meat but one day in 
 the week ; so I fasted six days, and eat no more 
 than a bason of broth a day ; not a morsel of bread 
 did I make use of but in my broth. Thus I fasted 
 the seven weeks in Lent, as I was commanded ; .and 
 on the Good Friday I was ordered to put three pens 
 in the Bible, and write down where I found them. 
 The first was in Micah, i. 2 "Hear, all ye people; 
 ic hearken, O earth, and all that therein is : and 
 " let the Lord God be witness against you, the 
 " Lord from his holy temple." The second pen 
 was in the 2 Chronicles, xxiv. 19 " Yet he sent 
 " prophets to them to bring them again unto the 
 " Lord, and they testified against them : but they 
 " would not give ear." The third pen was in Num- 
 lers, xxvii. 15, 16 "And Moses spake unto the. 
 " Lord, saying, Let the Lord, the God of the 
 " spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congrega- 
 
 Q " tion."
 
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 " tion." After I had written where I had found 
 my pens, as I put them in the Bible without know- 
 ing where, I was answered in the following .manner : 
 
 " Now hear the words of the Lord, ye< men of 
 Israel, and all ye inhabitants of the house of Jacob, 
 thus saith the Lord, I am God, and there is none 
 besides me that can deliver you. I am the'same 
 to-day, yesterday, and for -ever. In me there is no 
 variableness, nor the shadow of turning. Then 
 why have men sought out so many inventions ? 
 Why have ye set at nought all my counsel ? or why 
 iiave ye despised prophecies ? On what foundation 
 does the house of Israel trust ? Have ye seen vain 
 visions ? Have ye deceived yourselves in \ T ain divi- 
 nation ? Are ye become more Wise than your fore- 
 fathers ? or are ye become more foolish ? The 
 prophets trusted in ME, and sought ME not in vain. 
 I was a light unto their feet, and a Ian thorn to their 
 paths. I directed their goings, and my Spirit was 
 upon them from generation to generation. I never 
 left myself without a witness. Have I not cared 
 for man, whom I formed ? but how is the fine gold 
 become dim ! As past ages were, so is the present. 
 They despised my prophets, they were full of their 
 own inventions, till they brought destruction on their 
 ownselves. Then, lo ! I come : in the volume of 
 the book it is written of ME. Here was my Father 
 and ME ; one in -spirit, o^e in power, and one in 
 truth. The lame were healed and walked, the blind 
 received their sight, and the deaf heard. Not half 
 the miracles I wrought were ever penned. But 
 here is the chain that hangs the Law and the Gospel 
 together : the Law was given to man, but it was 
 fulfilled by the Son of God. Then now hear ye him, 
 " to day, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your 
 hearts." Did I come to give ye light, or to make 
 ye blind ? If light, walk in the light, and confess 
 that my Gospel is true, and my word verified. Ye 
 
 have
 
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 have wars and rumours of wars, nation against na- 
 tion, city against city, men divided against them- 
 selves, and perplexities and distresses of nations ; 
 judge for yourselves if it be not true. Then now 
 let the Bridegroom go forth from his chamber, and 
 the Bride go out of her closet ; for Sion is in travail, 
 and longing to be delivered; for darkness hath co- 
 vered the earth, and gross darkness, the hearts of 
 the people ; the wisdom of the wise men is pe- 
 rished, the understanding of the prudent men is 
 hid, and the bows of the mighty men are broken ; 
 then fear ye the rod, and him that hath appointed it ; 
 for he that stumbleth shall be girt with strength ; 
 nor shall this generation pass away till all is ful- 
 filled. Let men study their Bibles, and they will 
 find it is not fulfilled. Have I called the Jews from 
 all nations whitherever I have scattered them ? Is 
 Jerusalem new built ? Do all the nations of the 
 earth know ME ? These are not fulfilled ; but the 
 time is at hand, that I will throw down and build 
 up ; I will scatter abroad and gather together ; I will 
 wound and I will heal ; I will cast down and I will 
 raise up; I will kill and make alive ; I will quench the 
 flames of fire that are kindled seven times more 
 than usual ; I will stop the mouths of lions ; I will 
 gain the vicrories in war; I will go on as I have 
 begun, till victory is accomplished ; for judgment 
 shall be laid to the hue., and righteouness to the 
 plummet. I have begun, and I will make an end. 
 The days are accomplished for my chosen people ; 
 and their warfare must be accomplished and have an 
 end. Paul, Paul, do not persecute me. Peter, 
 Peter, do not deny me any more. I will gather you 
 together as a hen gather her brood under her wings. 
 I will set a watchman over you, and my banner 
 shall be ", love." Then now hear ME, O Jacob, 
 and all the families of the house of Israel ; the 
 stone that was rejected by the builders, is now be- 
 
 Q 2 come
 
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 come the head of the Gentiles ; and here is the head 
 of the building. '* I have chosen you a watchman 
 over you, that ye may not be as sheep without a 
 shepherd. Your shepherds are dumb dogs ; your 
 prophets are gone ; your cities are laid waste ; and 
 ye are become as cakes not baken ; for ye have fol- 
 lowed after wind ; and the pride of all nations testi- 
 fieth against you. Then now let us reason together. 
 Though your sins are as scarlet, I will make them 
 as snow ; and though they are as crimson, I will 
 make them as wool. Then now let your rocky 
 hearts be rent, and the graves of the dead be opened; 
 for ye are dead in trespasses and sins ; but now I 
 will call you with an effectual call ; now I will save 
 you with an everlasting salvation. Turn unto ME, 
 and I will turn unto you ; look back on your pro 
 phets, whom ye have slain ; and look unto Calvary, 
 whom ye have crucified ; confess your faults, and 
 wash your hands, and I will heal your backslidings, 
 and love you freely : but if ye harden your hearts, 
 as your forefathers did, then will I bring on you 
 swift destruction. This is my will for the Jews." 
 
 But now to come to the Gentiles. Awake, my 
 shepherd, whom I have anointed as a watchman 
 over you and all nations, to be a judge between ME 
 and my vineyard, and I will anoint him with the 
 oil of gladness, and he shall come into my presence 
 with thanksgiving. Give ear, O heavens! and be 
 astonished, O earth ! the Lord hath a controversy 
 with his people. I have nourished and brought up 
 children, and they have rebelled against me. Ye 
 have drawn the sword in vain ; ye have fixed your 
 bows for nought ; and by reason of your sins doth 
 your land mourn. Now this commandment is for 
 youT^TTiave chosen ME a shepherd, in whom I find 
 no hiult : if you choose him, I will choose you ; if 
 you obey his counsel, I will heal your backslidings, 
 and love you i'reely : but if ye reject him, I will 
 
 reject
 
 reject you ; and I will laugh at your calamities, and 
 mock when your fear cometh ; foY if you refuse him 
 you will refuse ME; for he hath not testified of him- 
 self, but I have testified of him ; my laws shall be 
 written on his heart, and my Spirit shall be in his 
 inner parts ; in seeing he shall see ; and in hearing 
 he shall understand ; he shall judge between thee 
 and ME ; between ME and my vineyard : true and just 
 shall be his judgment; and by himthou must stand 
 or fall ; for my Spirit shall be upon him ; because 
 he hath acted more wise than others, so will I give 
 him more wisdom than others ; for he that humbleth. 
 himself shall be exalted ; but he that exalteth him- 
 self shall be abased. Ye that seek for Wisdom, 
 shall find her as silver, and ye that dig deep, shall 
 find her as true goldj and be made heirs of God, 
 and joint heirs with Jesus Christ." 
 
 No man can read his Bible, without being lost in 
 wonder, love, and praise ; and know, it is not our 
 merits, but free unbounded love was the spring from 
 whence all his goodness flows, 
 
 " The righteous all with their enlighten'd eyes, 
 With modest joy the humble host replies, 
 
 ' Thy mercies, Lord, our goodness nough-t we know, 
 
 ' No good, alas ! then did we ever do, 
 
 ' To be so highly favour'd of our God . . 
 
 ' For Christ to die, and wash us in his blood ; cfi^ 'i^ W **<T 
 
 ' And full atonement for our ransom make, 
 
 ' When we had run ourselves so deep in debt." 
 And tiiis will surely make the humble heart 
 Repent the sins that made its Lord to smart, 
 And then you'll see there is no room for pride ; 
 "W hat is to one is unto all apply 'd. 
 If Eve's transgression fell upon us all. 
 Then one's obedience sure the same must fall; 
 So men of wisdom now must clearly see 
 That the good fruit that hung upon the tree, 
 By the same hand it surely must come down 
 That pluck'd the evil. Man too soon was found 
 To cast the blame upon the Lord on high, 
 And now the blame on man must surely lie 3 
 
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 Because the lying spirit was sent out 
 
 To fill the prophets' hearts with fear and doubt, 
 
 That no Micaiah could to them appear 
 
 To make them wiser pro h< ts than they were; 
 
 They judg'd their -wisdom an-1 their learning too 
 
 Brought greater knowledge unto all their view, 
 
 Than poor Micaiah's prophecies could be ; 
 
 And ineck'd the prophet as they m .eked he, 
 
 And ask'd which way the spirit ever went 
 
 From them to thee, to tell theemy intent ? x 
 
 That all the prophets wr ng d d j r phesy, 
 
 And in thy face they'd all give thee the lie. 
 
 Did not Micaiah in thy Maker stand, 
 
 And the Messiah nearly now at hand, 
 
 For to fulfil the words Micaiah spoke? 
 
 And now I'll tell thee how-tbey ail did mock. 
 
 Thou know'st that I have said, like Ahab's reign 
 
 Are all the prophets that adyis'd the king 
 
 For to go on for to support the war ; 
 
 But know not what they're so contending for : 
 
 Is it for to support the Romish b;.nd ? 
 
 Then Ahab's prophets they are in your land j 
 
 And now Micaiah every one shall see 
 
 Is the true prophet prophesieth by ME. 
 
 The Romish bands they never shall support, 
 
 And now Micaiah they shall never hurt ; 
 
 Because tor> soon I'll make it all appear, 
 
 And prove Miraiah is thy Maker here; 
 
 And the Messiah in that name doth siand ; 
 
 'Tis but few letters chang'd from God to man. 
 
 For if they say they'll have a glorious peace, 
 
 And gain the victory ere their arms do cease ; 
 
 Then let the spirit's sword begin to fight, 
 
 And say my Gospel musl be ke/,t aright j 
 
 Then I will soon support them in that war, 
 
 And prove to man the true M caiah's here; 
 
 Then as the difference in the name's no more, 
 
 I'll make it prove that the Messiah's here : 
 
 And if my shepherds they do now awake, 
 
 To change the letter, and Messiah take 
 
 To be the prophet that did tell them true, 
 
 And bring my Law and Gospel to their view, 
 
 And let the Spirit's sword begin to fight, 
 
 I tell you all I'll make them men of might, 
 
 And every foe shall down before them fall : 
 
 That way you'll conquer, and you'll conquer all ; 
 
 And the-) ;i h:ip, y nation you shall he; 
 
 Y*. ur land I'll pumper, and your b.<nds set free ; 
 
 And
 
 And you shall boast of victories in the war : 
 
 The night's approaching j le* the star:; appear; 
 
 Foi it' the evening star alone doth shine, 
 
 I ask what light wi.l it g : ve to mankind 
 
 T> 1 all the rest be lighted in the skies ? 
 
 Ye sons of learning look, and now be wise. 
 
 In this new century I have shewn the star, 
 
 Seal'd up from man, till night was drawing near; 
 
 S ; x years thou know'st that this hath been conceal'*!, 
 
 But !-;ow, the seventh, publicly reveal *d, 
 
 And this discern is in the date that's n w ; 
 
 Bring forth ynnr reasons, or believe it true 
 
 That now the evening star it doth appear, 
 
 And Ahab's prophets and Micaiah here. 
 
 So now act wisely, all ye sons of men ; 
 
 Be clear in judgment ere ye dj begin 
 
 To use the wo.;;an as you did the man ; 
 
 "\ou'll find a Jehu after soon will come, 
 
 And .'srae! -catter'd as they were of old 
 
 You'll find the truth was by the woman told." 
 
 But now I shall come to the purpose of types and 
 shadows. The brazen serpent was a type of Christ, 
 though made like a serpent that resembled the de- 
 vil (for in that shape he betrayed the woman ;) yet 
 the brazen serpent was certainly a type of Christ ; 
 as the ram that was caught in the thicket, when 
 Abraham offered up his son Is"aac, was a type of the 
 devil, though he was a sheep ; and Christ compar- 
 eth his flock to sheep, and himself to a lamb ; yet 
 then he compares the ram to a devil that will be 
 caught in a thicket, and must be slain instead of 
 man, when all men's faith becomes like Abraham's. 
 This I shall shew you in the volume of my books. 
 But to come to the type of the bells ringing in dif- 
 ferent hours in different parishes., so is the different 
 calling of the nations, and the type of the seven and 
 eight days. The seven o'clock bell denotes the 
 Lord's finishing all for man in seven days ; at eight 
 days old Christ was made known in the temple by 
 Simeon : now reflect on his words " A light to 
 lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of his people Is- 
 rael." But what followed Israel then I Now, as 
 
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 tlie bells stand for types and shadows, consider, as the 
 seven days were ended, so the decree for man, which 
 is one thousand years. The eight denotes the eight 
 hundred ; then the nine is to call back the leprous 
 men, who are to be brought back again and joined 
 to the ten, which denotes, that some of different 
 nations were convinced at that time, but did not 
 abide in the Gospel of Christ. The stranger was 
 the Gentiles. Now, all these men must be joined 
 together by the ten and eleven o'clock bells; for then 
 goeth in all churches. In the afternoon, the one 
 o'clock bell in all parishes ; so in the end all na- 
 tions will come to the Three-One God. Now the 
 one thousand denotes the Lord's finishing for man ; 
 and the eight hundred, Christ's second Coming. 
 Then now judge for yourselves ; as it is said to me, 
 the Lord will begin his strange works with a new 
 century, and go on in such a manner to fulfil my 
 prophecies, that in three years the major part of 
 our land will be convinced the Lord hath spoken 
 by me * ; and the Bible will be revealed very clearly 
 unto men. 
 
 Mr. L r dreamt one night he was going over 
 
 London Bridge, and the bridge was broken in the 
 middle ; that many persons were looking at the 
 water, and others were endeavouring to repair the 
 bridge. Deep is the mystery of this dream ; the 
 explanation of which I shall give, in part. 
 
 " Now by this dream cannot mankind discern 
 
 How they are warn'd to guard against the storm ? 
 
 In every age this thing hath surely been ; 
 
 Then now I ask if I am not the same ? 
 
 If that in dreams I ever do men warn, 
 
 "Tisby the Spirit, (they do not discern,) 
 
 And by the Spirit 1 do do the same, 
 
 By day and night my Spirit always came; 
 
 For should I leave man singly to himself, 
 
 There is no man could 'scape the powers of hell. 
 
 But 
 
 This was Joanna's own iiul-ment, that from the three ^ood har- 
 vests following as foretold people would be generally convinced.
 
 But though I guard them with a father's care, 
 I'll try their wisdom ere I'll say I'm here ; 
 And he that doih with caution now go on, 
 I will protect 'gainst every coming storm. 
 But now the mysteries I will soon unfold 
 This is the very mystery of his dream : 
 Bridges are safeguards for the sons of men ; 
 .But when they' re broken none can safe go through ; 
 And now I'll bring it plainer to thy view : 
 When bridges part or wholly are thrown down, 
 Some other road for man there must be found. 
 Thou know'st I said the storm was coming on, 
 That they must guard against the rising storm ; 
 And now thou seest the shadow is begun, 
 I say the substance now is hastening on." 
 
 I shall leave the further explanation of this, 
 dream to my readers. 
 
 Now I shall acquaint you with the days that are 
 before you. The end of finishing what Christ died 
 for is at hand, as I told you ; and you must know, 
 from the prophet Isaiah, Ixiii. 4, " The day of 
 vengeance is in my heart ;" then will you bring 
 the day of vengeance upon yourselves, by denying 
 its being for the devil ? then you may say it is 
 for man. Then know, O man, that day is at 
 hand, which you will see in Revelation, xi. 14 
 " The second woe is past ; and behold, the third 
 woe cflmeth quickly." The first woe was when 
 the world was drowned, and a fatal woe that 
 was to men. The second woe was the destruction 
 pronounced upon the Jews, the destruction of Je- 
 rusalem, and the scattering of the Jews over the 
 face of the earth. Now the third woe is to come. 
 The two first were pronounced on man ; the third 
 and last is for the devil. If it fall on men, they 
 will bring it on themselves by their careless regard 
 of bringing it on the devil. But if men will look 
 deep into the mystery, and pray the Lord to turn 
 the day of vengeance on the devil, as being the au- 
 thor of sin and the finisher of their sorrow, then 
 
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 Christ, who was the author of their faith to lead 
 them to trust in him, will be the finisher of their 
 faith ; which will now be the case with thousands. 
 Plor now is coming the kingdom of our God and our 
 Christ, and it is not all the powers of earth and hell 
 can tempt all men to disbelieve it, or to say it is an 
 unjust sentence in the Lord, to cast on the drvil, 
 that old serpent, the sentence the woman cast 
 upon him. So you may begin to lift up your 
 heads ; for your full redemption draweth near ; 
 which you will see in Joel,, ii. and in the Reve- 
 lation, xxii "For when that is fulfilled, I will 
 pour out my Spirit upon all flesh ;" it must be 
 fulfilled, that your women shall prophesy. Weigh 
 the chapter deep, and these words, Revelation, 
 xxii. 17 "And the Spirit and the Bride say, 
 come ;" then whomsoever will, may come and 
 take of the water of life freely, which signifieth the 
 water wherein the person is baptized, in the name 
 of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, to renounce 
 the devil and all his works. But was this ever yet 
 done ? No man knoweth how oft he offendeth ; the 
 best of men have sinned, and come short of the 
 glory of God ; then how have ye renounced the de- 
 vil and all his works ? But now I shall open to your 
 view, how you may renounce them all. By a sted- 
 fast faith in the Lord, that he will complete at last 
 the promise he made you at first by the woman, to 
 perfect your happiness : for though Satan robbed 
 you, by working in the woman at first ; ye trust in 
 Christ, he will make it good by working in the wo- 
 man at last; therefore are ye signed with the sign 
 of the cross, in token of his death and passion ; this 
 is the mark ye have in your foreheads Christ 
 dying to atone for man ; Christ is risen to arise in 
 the woman, to cast her blame on the serpent ; 
 then cometh your victory. And this is your bap- 
 tism to join with her to renounce the devil and all 
 
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 his works ; that is to say, it was all his works that 
 brought on your ruin. A word to the wise is 
 enough. But to turn to the Spirit and the Bride. 
 The Spirit, you must allow, is the Spirit of God ; 
 the Brde represents believers in God ; for Christ 
 is compared to the church, and to a man and his 
 wife. ^ ou do not suppose the church meaneth the 
 walls or the building : no. it means the building of 
 the body of ..an, as by the hand of God. Then before 
 the Revelation can be fulfilled, the Spirit of God 
 must visit all the churches, to make the church the 
 Bride. Then why do ye marvel it cometh to one at 
 first as the shadow, and then follows unto all as the 
 substance? Now he that denieth those things, 
 must deny his Bible, and take away the prophecies 
 that are there written ; for I have not added thereto, 
 nor taken therefrom ; for it is written in the book of 
 God ; and whomsoever says it is wrongly explained 
 or revealed to me, let him explain it another way, 
 and he must add thereto, or take therefrom ; for I 
 have shewed you the meaning of the chapter. How 
 can Christ s kingdom come upon earth, before the 
 Spirit of Christ is come to warn them of his com- 
 ing ? And you may as well expect the sun in its full 
 meridian as soon as it is risen, as to expect the 
 Spirit of God will appear to every one when it first 
 cometh ro warn. Yet by one Spirit ye have divers 
 gifts (see 1 Corinthians xii. 17, 18); the spirit 
 of wisdom, the spirit of knowledge, the spirit 
 of working miracles, and the spirit of prophecies ; 
 all Aese came from one and the same Spirit ; for 
 as the many members make the body, so the 
 different gifts make the body of Christ's church : 
 for wisdom alone would fail you in the co ning of 
 the Lord Jesus Christ ; and that day would come 
 unawares, was not the spirit of prophecy given to 
 warn you of his coming ; and the spirit of prophecy 
 would fail, was not the spirit of wisdom given to 
 
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 others to discern it. So the head cannot say to the 
 foot, I have no need of thee ; nor the foot to the 
 head, I have no need of thee ; then where is room 
 for any to boast ? If I had ten thousand gifts of 
 prophecy, and could speak with the tongues of 
 angels, if none had the spirit of wisdom to discern 
 it, my prophecies would avail nothing. He that 
 hath the spirit of wisdom to discern, hath' the gift 
 of God ; for the natural man cannot discern the 
 things of God ; for they are spiritually discerned. 
 So, if you weigh these things deeply, you will say I 
 have not made myself more than__another ; neither^ 
 am I preferred before another ; b7irTlhere~l^Dn_that^ 
 c^meth ajtej^me^^jtjj^refcrrjd_^fore me, w\\u^_ 
 shall discern all mysteries ; TmT~where there are 
 prophecies tfiey shall lauV^Prophecies were given 
 in part, and on condition, that when one faileth, the 
 other must also. Jonah's prophecies concerning 
 Nineveh failed at the time they were mentioned ; 
 the prophecies concerning Eli also failed ; as did 
 those concerning Hezekiah ; and many more, which 
 I could mention ; but charity never faileth. Now 
 charity is to judge 1 your God, slow to anger, and of 
 great mercy ; and threatened), because he is loath 
 to punish ; and repenteth of the evil, if men repent 
 of rheir faults, as Nineveh did. Therefore you cannot 
 believe all that the prophets have said: the Lord 
 repented of the blessings pronounced on Eli, when 
 he saw him careless of his honour and glory : the 
 Lord said, they that honour ME I will honour ; and 
 they that despise ME, shall be lightly esteemed. I 
 have explained these things, for the sake of some, 
 who have said, that when they read my first books 
 they trembled for fear of the famine. If this fear 
 be in our land, no famine will be in it; for to that 
 land that trembleth at his word, the Lord will look ; 
 that is, he will look in mercy; but that land that 
 his word, will shrink beneath his rod ; and 
 
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 what land 1 that calamity will fall on, I know not ; 
 but this I am assured, from my prophecies to convince 
 all nations that this calling is of God, that there 
 will come a three years famine, wherein there will 
 be neither earing nor harvest. What nation, I 
 know not ; whether in France, or Spain, Africa, or 
 America, or some other remote part ; but I hope 
 the Lord will keep it from our land ; though I am 
 promised it will never happen in my days ; for I 
 shall not live to see the affliction ; yet I feel for 
 those that are behind ; and know the just must suf- 
 fer with the unjust. My prophecies go to all na- 
 tions ; and it was unintentionally omitted in the 
 first book, " That the Lord would go from nation to 
 nation in the fierceness of his anger." Now I have 
 set one sign before you, to convince all nations this 
 calling is of God ; viz. in some nation or other there 
 will be three years of total famine, \\herein there 
 will be neither earing nor harvest. And now I am 
 come to set another sign before them ; if the tilings 
 that are already come to pass, and what is now be- 
 fore you being foretold, do not convince mankind it 
 is of God, as men think the Lord stoops too low for 
 them to regard his words (which was the very spirit 
 of the Jews ; they thought the Lord stooped too low 
 for them to regard him ;) now I say, if the Gentiles 
 are the same, I will set another sign before them 
 " I will send out my destroying angel to go through 
 the land, and I will set a mark over every house 
 that faith and fear are in, and the angel shall pass 
 by the door ; but every house that mocketh my 
 words, because I have stooped so low, the destroying 
 angel shall enter in and destroy ; and those that 
 wish to abide in the dark, in the dark let them 
 abide, till I come upon them as a thief in the night, 
 and take them unawares. For out of your own 
 mouths ye are condemned ; for ye confess it is not 
 placed ay though it came from men of learning, 
 
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 and then ye must confess the Lord hath chosen the 
 weak foolish things of this world to confound the 
 great and learned, when ye see all these judgments 
 executed that are here mentioned." 
 
 Simple as these books appear to some readers, they 
 are too high for any man to climb to, and too deep for 
 any one to fathom. Could ye behold the mysteries of 
 them, ye would see they wanted neither eloquent lan- 
 guage, brightness of speech, nor noble style to set 
 them forth, but depth of wisdom to understand them ; 
 and were they put into eloquent lan^uacre, deeply 
 spoken, and wisely placed, as though they came 
 from men of learning, they would baffle all your 
 belief, and men would judge it a cunningly devised 
 fable from some wise inspired penman. But now 
 to convince you it is from the simple, and that the 
 Lord hath dealt simply ; yet, however simple this 
 may appear, it is too strong for all your senses; 
 ye could no more look into these three volumes of 
 books, and see them clear, and keep your senses, 
 than ye could stedfastly behold the burning sun, and 
 not hurt your eyes ; for the one is as much too 
 strong for your senses, as the other is for your eye- 
 sight. So I must call you to our Saviour's dying 
 words, " Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani ?" My God, 
 my God,, v:hy hast ill w forsaken me? And may not 
 this be the language of every heart, My God, my 
 Qod, ivhy hast thou forsaken us, that in seeing we 
 cannot see, and in hearing we cannot understand ? 
 for in the midst of life we are in death, as we are 
 dead to the perfect happiness we were first created 
 for ; but we shall be changed ; and this change must 
 take place with thousands, that we may taste of 
 that perfect happiness, which to live in God will 
 produce ; and this change must come to this gene- 
 ration, or ye could not have a true knowledge of 
 the good and evil fruit ; and this knowledge will 
 come unto thousands that are in the midst of life 
 
 and
 
 and death, which I shall hereafter more clearly ex- 
 plain. 
 
 And now I shall come to the thoughts of my own 
 heart, which I was ordered to pen and put in print, 
 from what is revealed to me, and hew the Bible is ex- 
 plained, which has thrown my ideas into a different 
 channel from what they ever were before. I was me- 
 ditating how all was explained ; and it appeared so 
 clear and just to me, so consistent with the wisdom 
 of the Almighty, in creation and preservation, from 
 the manner all was placed, and all was spoken at 
 first ; all have suffered, both God and man ; then, 
 to act according to the justness of God, the serpent 
 must be cast. The ponderings of my heart I was or- 
 dered to pen, and my secret thoughts were known 
 to the Lord. When I had written the whole, I was 
 answered as man would answer man. 
 
 Here I shall give to the world at large what were 
 the meditations of my heart, and how they were an- 
 swered by the Spirit. 
 
 I was reflecting from the creation, how the man 
 and woman were both obedient to the commands of 
 the Lord, until the serpent, which is the devil, ef- 
 fectually imposed on the simplicity, innocency, and 
 ignorance of the woman, by telling her they should 
 be as Gods, knowing good from evil. Here she was 
 ignorantly betrayed by artful lies, and simply drew 
 in the man. Then the Lord spake unto the serpent, 
 and fixed his curse to be above every creature ; and 
 he should bruise the heel of the seed of the woman ; 
 and the wo'man's seed should bruise his head. Now 
 you know the serpent hath already done it, unless ye 
 deny the death of Christ. Then as all the prophe- 
 cies of the Bible have come both on God and man, 
 how can they be fulfilled until the serpent hath 
 received the sentence passed on him ? This must 
 be, to fulfil the words of the Lord ; and I cannot 
 see the Bible clear without it. The justice, wis- 
 dom,
 
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 dom, goodness, and truth, of the Lord of Hosts, thus 
 seem clear ; but I cannot see them clear in any other 
 way. The Lord cannot do justice to himself or to 
 'his Son, nor to the man or the woman, unless they 
 fulfil his words, by casting the devil in the very 
 manner in which it is placed and revealed. Then 
 men and devils must acknowledge the Lord is clear 
 from the blood of all men ; and that the woman the 
 Lord gave to man brought him that happiness at last 
 which he promised man at first. When I had writ- 
 ten these words, which had been the ponderings of 
 my heart, I was answered, as man will answer man 
 
 " Thou sayest, thy God cannot do justice to him- 
 self or to his Son, nor to the man or the woman, un- 
 less he does cast the serpent, as he promised to the 
 woman. Answer for thyself 
 
 Why the Lord cannot do justice to himself?" 
 
 I answer. How can the Lord, in justice to his 
 honour, and glory, and great name, suffer the Son 
 of his bosom^to come down upon earth, and suffer 
 such sorrowful life, and die so shameful a death, to 
 bear the blame man cast on him, and the serpent 
 be screened from bearing the blame the woman 
 cast on him, and escape being treated with that con- 
 tempt he deserves ? The Son of God had done 
 no wrong, but was deserving of honour, love, and 
 respect. Every honour, every gratitude, and every 
 love, was due to the all-gracious Son of God. And 
 if he condescended to bear the blame man cast on 
 him, shall that cruel serpent, the devil, be freed by 
 a just God ? Far be it from thee, O Lord. If thou 
 art clear from the blood o all men, wilt thou not 
 be clear to cast it back on the serpent, and just to 
 condemn him ? 
 
 Here I was answered, as man would answer 
 man. 
 
 " I shall now answer thee. From the ponderings 
 of thy heart thou fearest to speak out what thy 
 
 mind
 
 ( 137 ) 
 
 mind conceiveth ; but canst thou conceal from ME 
 thy thoughts ? I tell thee, no ; for I am in them. 
 Thou sayest, no judge will condemn an innocent 
 person, and free a guilty murderer : these were thy 
 thoughts ; and thou judgest thy God cannot be just, 
 to cast his Son, and free the devil. Thus far I will 
 not blame thee. But answer me, how I cannot do 
 justice to man, if I do not cast the serpent ?" 
 
 Here is my answer. Man was betrayed by the 
 woman and the serpent, and that guilt was passed 
 on all men unborn. Now man said he should not 
 have disobeyed had it not been for the woman ; the 
 woman said she should not, had it not been for the 
 serpent. Then to give man a fair trial for himself, 
 to discover where the fault lay, is to remove the 
 cause, and to take the powers of darkness from man, as 
 man lies under condemnation to this present moment. 
 
 Here I was answered 
 
 " How dost thou prove that ?" 
 
 I answered, from the Jews. 
 
 They stand out against their God, and their God 
 against them ; for it is written, In seeing they should 
 not see ; and in hearing they should not understand. So 
 they stand out against their God, through unbelief 
 against his Son : for if the Father and the Son are one, 
 they must stand out against their Lord, if they do 
 against the Son. Now it is written, The God of this 
 world hath so blinded their eyes, that in seeing they 
 cannot see ; nor in hearing they cannot understand, 
 Now if the Lord doeth them justice, he must take 
 that power from them, that in seeing they may see, 
 and in hearing- they may understand. And if man 
 suffereth for what his forefathers did, ought not the 
 serpent to suffer for what he hath done, that was a 
 transgressor from the beginning ? 
 
 O, my God ! pardon my weakness, if I have an- 
 swered wrong. But thou hast commanded me to 
 utter the thoughts of my heart, which I cannot 
 
 S conceai
 
 ( 138 ) 
 
 conceal from the Most High. If wrong, cleanse 
 the thoughts of my heart by the inspi ation of the 
 Holy Ghost. 
 
 Here I was answered, as man would answer man. 
 
 " Thou hast spoken right in all thou hast said. 
 Now answer for the woman. What justice is there 
 due to her, that is now left undone ? Answer me 
 that, and I will answer thee again.'* 
 
 I answered. The woman still crieth for ven- 
 geance against the old serpent, called the devil. 
 She was first betrayed by his arts, and condemned 
 by God and man ; her first son was betrayed by 
 the devil to slay her second son ; and when in 
 purity and innocence she was so highly favoured and 
 honoured of God as to be visited from on high, and 
 to have the power of the Holy Ghost, and bare the 
 Son of God, being called a spotless and pure virgin, 
 pure and innocent before the Lord; yet how was her 
 heart rent in pieces, and how was she pierced to 
 the soul, to see her son offered up as a malefactor 
 on the cross, by the devil's entering into the heart 
 of man ! Then does not the woman's blood cry 
 for vengeance against the devil ? If she cast it on 
 man, she must cast it on herself for betraying man 
 at first ; but the serpent first betrayed her ; then 
 surely her soul must cry for vengeance against the 
 devil, that was the author and finisher of all her 
 sorrows. Then may not the woman cry for ven- 
 geance, and plead, Lord, avenge me of mine adver- 
 sary, that is the devil, that we may wash our hands 
 in innocence, and bring a pure heart before thee, O 
 my God ? 
 
 These questions and answers may appear simple 
 to a world, that does not consider, that Abraham 
 was permitted to plead with the Lord, and Moses 
 the same, and Jacob wrestled with the angel : then 
 now we must be all wrestling Jacobs, if we will be 
 prevailing Israels. 
 
 Whatever
 
 Whatever may be the judgments of men on my 
 answers, I was replied to by the Spirit in the fol- 
 lowmo; manner, as soon as I had written the last 
 
 O ' 
 
 words bring a pure heart before thee, my God : 
 
 "Joanna, J tanna, I'll answer again. 
 
 Thy words and thy wisdom will ever remain 
 
 Enrolled in heaven, and published op earth. 
 
 Yemen of learning mark well what she saith. 
 
 But out of her senses you know she is plac'd, 
 
 And judg'd by men's wisd.>m as simpls as the ass; 
 
 But k ow that the ass did wise Balaam reprove; 
 
 And now from this shews the woman is love ; 
 
 As much as she's scoru'd and despised by man, 
 
 I ask you what spirit unto her is come, 
 
 That she from her heart can now forgive all, 
 
 And pray lor the vengeance on Saran to fall ? 
 
 A hazard most fatal you know she must run ; 
 
 If I do forsake her you know she's undone ; 
 
 If trifling with God, how can she appear ? 
 
 The anger of Satan she must kindle here. 
 
 So h AV do you judge her now trifling with all, 
 
 An ass now for wisdom your nation to call, 
 
 And warn you of dangers before they appear ? 
 
 Then judge 1 1 om your Gospel, your Master i= here 
 
 So strongly u; n her, your Gospel now see ; 
 
 I ne'er will condemn her foi carrying ofwE. 
 
 So now (' you judge her as ignorant as an ass, 
 
 Your Kuig is upon her, the Gospel now says; 
 
 So those that believe her, their clothing is here, 
 
 And now laid upon her, the Master to bear ; 
 
 The boughs and the branches you all may cut down, 
 
 Jn the way you may strew them, from heaven's the sound. 
 
 If this appears simple, as simply I came, 
 
 Your King on an ass, for to spread forth his fame. 
 
 Fc.r where is the man will so humbiy descend ? 
 
 Your chariots are ready your kings to attend. 
 
 But now all the mystery I surely shall clear; 
 
 I went in that manner to shew you all hero, 
 
 When I come to conquer, in triumph appear, 
 
 A woman that's simple my Spirit must bear. 
 
 So you that believe her, your clothing is cast 
 
 In faith now upon her, your joy now /nay bur=t. 
 
 The boughs and the branches I'll surely cut down, 
 
 Men's wisdom advancing I'll surely confound ; 
 
 For babes now add sucklings my praises shall sing. 
 
 From Solomon's wisdom I next will begin ; 
 
 For he that's so humble at first to appear, 
 
 S2 At
 
 ( 140 ) 
 
 At last is exalted, I now tell you here j 
 
 And now before honour humility comes. 
 
 These words they were spoken by wise Solomon ; 
 
 Then Solomon's wisdom I tell you must shine; 
 
 The Spirit from heaven was given divine } 
 
 And now you will find all heaven descend ; 
 
 I come for to warn you, and speak as a friend, 
 
 Thai all is fulfilled so near to the word ; 
 
 You'll find that the Spirit's the Spirit of God, 
 
 That work'd in the woman to see it all clear. 
 
 If men do despise her, 1 now tell you here, 
 
 This May will be fatal, I tell ye, for man ; 
 
 And coals on your heads from her prayers will come. 
 
 Her questions and answers I bid you weigh deep ; 
 
 Consider the cost, or you'll fall in the pit. 
 
 The way you are building you cannot go through ; 
 
 The cost is too great to be paid now by you ; 
 
 My laws you have broken ; my Son you have slain; 
 
 Mark well what is spoken, I tell you again. 
 
 As wise as the woman you all must appear; 
 
 Cast all on the serpent, your debt for to clear; 
 
 And say that he robb'd you to run you in debt. 
 
 Mark well from your judges how oil do they put 
 
 "Words wisely before you, the prisoner to fiee; 
 
 And I am your judge, and have done so by ye; 
 
 Because that ye know not your danger's so near ; 
 
 1o execute justice my angels appear, 
 
 As soon as 1 send them to fulfil my word ; 
 
 Then blame not your judge, you'll find 'tis the Lord 
 
 That shew'd you the vision so clear in the dream ; 
 
 And from the two boys 1 the whole shall explain; 
 
 For weli I know many will turn to the beast, 
 
 Though death's now upon them, the sentence is past ; 
 
 While others for mercy they humbly will cry, 
 
 ' My God. on the serpent thy vengeance must lie, 
 
 " For 1 have been robbed, I can't pay the score" 
 
 The thief must he taken, 1 need not sny more. 
 
 So this 1 have published, your hearts for to try; 
 
 And then fast my arrows they surely will fly. 
 
 A nd deep you will find is the vision and dream 
 
 That were spoke of those boys ; you may read it again. 
 
 But deeper doors I have to open, 
 
 Dreper shall my Spirit go ; 
 You shall know, from what I've spoken, 
 
 From Jehovah all doth flow. 
 Deeper dreams and deeper visions 
 
 Surely shall to all appear, 
 
 I've
 
 I've begun in this new century, 
 
 And the scenes I've chang'd them here. 
 Men have chang'd the scenes already 
 
 By the century thai is past, 
 And the end they made it bloody; 
 
 But the new I'll make it burst. 
 For the style by man was alter'd, 
 
 And the shadow all do keep ; 
 So I see that men do faulter, 
 
 All my flock is hush'd asleep. 
 Do my shepherds see no danger ? 
 
 Nor my Bible yet discern ? 
 They mistake the heavenly Stranger, 
 
 In what way he meant to come. 
 Perfect like the style they've chang'd it ; 
 
 But their changing I'll not blame 3 
 Eleven days they brought it sooner, 
 
 And like .man I'll do the same. 
 So the days they shall be shortened, 
 
 As they shorten now the year, 
 As men did by the last century, 
 
 So the new shall now appear." 
 
 Here I have finished the answer of the Spirit to 
 my words. Judge as you please ; it was answered 
 me by a Spirit invisible. 
 
 I shall now answer a letter, sent me by a gentle- 
 man from London. Having read my second book, 
 he desired to have these two questions answered, viz. 
 I . Whether the woman deceived the serpent, and did 
 not first eat the forbidden fruit ? 2. fp 7/7 a foreign 
 enemy land in England ? 
 
 This I shall publicly answer, as many of my 
 readers may be of the same mind. The woman eat 
 of the forbidden fruit, and gave it to her husband : ^ 
 so she did not cheat the serpent that way ; as she 
 knew no arts, she could practise none ; she was be- 
 trayed in a state of perfect innocence ; but the way 
 she cheated the serpent was, in casting the blame 
 on him. And now, to make it more plainly appear, 
 I will answer it from the judge of assize. Bring a 
 criminal before a judge, and if he is condemned for 
 
 stealing,
 
 ( 142 ) 
 
 stealing, and he brings tfie person who was confe- 
 derate with him, and drew him in at first to do the 
 deed, by assuring, him there was no harm in what 
 he did, as the property was his own, and therefore 
 he had a right to take it, and thereby deceives an ig- 
 norant and innocent person ; now when such a case 
 is brought before a just judge, if the law obliges him 
 to punish the one, would not justice compel him to 
 punish the other, knowing the innocent was be- 
 trayed by the guilty ? Let two such stand before a 
 just judge, and which do you think he would be most 
 ready to punish ; he that was betrayed through ig- 
 norance, or he that deceived him through deceitful 
 arts to make the innocent as bad as himself? Any 
 just man can be a just judge in such a cause as this; 
 for Satan was an old offender in heaven, and drew the 
 third part after him, and so he began upon earth to 
 draw in man the same ; but the woman turned, as 
 you say, kind's evidence, and betrayed her betrayer. 
 Now judge the cause. When the Lord beginneth 
 like man, he that turneth king's evidence is freed, 
 and so is man. God will deal with man, perfectly 
 after the manner of men; therefore it is written, our 
 secret thoughts must be had into judgment; and the 
 saints must judge the earth. My secret thoughts are 
 gone out into the world ; and the clay of judgment is 
 already begun with man. This I shall explain more 
 clearly in my next book ; as I cannot answer all the 
 first inquiry in this ; for my book was too near its 
 end before I received the letter; but you will see 
 every particular answered in my next book. 
 
 Now 1 shall answer the other inquiry in part, from 
 2 dream or vision that was shewn me in 179> r >. I 
 dreamt I had a basket of birds, and that I left them 
 at a house I knew not where, and left them to the 
 care of the people ; but when I came to seek them, 
 they were gone. I thought I went from place to 
 
 place
 
 ( '43 ) 
 
 place to find them; but to no purpose. At last I saw 
 two monks and two friars ; I asked them if they had 
 seen them. I thought they scornfully answered me, 
 " They knew nothing of the birds, nor had they seen 
 them." After a long and fruitless search, I gav^ 
 them up for lost, and went away with a heavy heart, 
 despairing of ever seeing them more. At last,- to 
 my great comfort, some one said they had brought 
 my basket of birds, and opened them ; but they were 
 so changed, I did not know them. They stood on 
 their feet like children, with the most beautiful fea- 
 thers I ever saw, hanging in the most curious man- 
 ner. Those who brought them, and others that 
 were with me, stood and gazed with amazement at 
 the beauty of the birds. I shall give the explanation 
 ;n part, as it was explained on the following day. 
 
 " To monks and friars I will never stoop : 
 Let France beware, it is not there 
 
 My Gospel is made known ; 
 And let the Romish soldiers fear, 
 
 It is not so in Spain. 
 Then let the feather'd fowls appear, 
 
 If they be in your land j 
 For though thy basket seemeth !o~,t, i 
 
 I'll bring it to thy hand : 
 And as the feathers seem'd to hang 
 
 In such a curious strain, 
 Such birds I'll surely make them here 
 
 As ne'er were seen by men. 
 No foreign nation you've to fear 
 
 Will now invade your land ; 
 But of your own you may take care- 
 Be wise, and understand. 
 
 O England, O England, I'd have you take carcj 
 A home now divided I'd have y< >u beware ; 
 A city divided, oh ! hv>w will ye stand ? 
 With wisdom decide ;t, aids keep y ur iand. 
 In heart be united ; when you have a peace, 
 If my warnings are slighted yom griefs, will increase. 
 The monks nor the friars my Gospel "don't see; 
 Mv honour shall keep you, if you will agree j 
 
 I'll
 
 ( 144 ) 
 
 I'll warn you of dangers when they do appenr; 
 And in ray next volume I'll shew you more clear 
 What doors I've to open to bring to your view; 
 The woman hath spoken, you'll find it all truej 
 So let May be over, and June but appear, 
 Then weigh \vell my writings, and with all compare; 
 Your nobles and country, see how all doth stand, 
 And then I'li inform you how to judge your land." 
 
 But all must look to the old style. I have not giv- 
 en you all the' explanation of the dream in 17Q5 ; 
 but I have set a mark of. what is spoken now from 
 the two woes, when the verse begins to change. 
 
 Now I am come to the end of the third volume of 
 a work, on which men of learning and ministers are 
 at a loss to form a judgment, whether I am inspired 
 by the Spirit of the Lord, or whether my head is a 
 little deranged. Ministers have acknowledged they 
 are at a loss, and will not therefore decide hastily* 
 But I can assure them my head is no way deranged, 
 but by the visitation of some Spirit invisible ; and 
 what Spirit that is, may be easily discovered from the 
 vision seen in 17Q4, when I was perfectly awake. If 
 then three books puzzle the heads of the learned, the 
 fourth will puzzle them much more, when they see 
 the day of judgment explained. It must first take 
 place upon earth, before it takes place with the Lord. 
 Shall I astonish my readers to tell them, men must 
 judge the Lord, before the Lord judgeth men ? And 
 as the war was begun in heaven, so it will now end 
 upon earth ; which meaneth, men will be divided 
 conceFniiig Christ's kingdom. 
 
 Joanna Soutlicott. 
 
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 146 
 
 What doors could be deeper to bring to your sight, 
 If by your own judgment you now prov'd it right ? 
 But now from these writings you all shall see clear, 
 I'll begin in this century to shew you all here, 
 Ti.e doors that were bolted so strongly tor man, 
 When out of the garden of Eden he c;nne ; 
 So deep from his knowledge I'll bring to his view, 
 I now shall unbolt them, and you'll see it true ; 
 But sure like the Bible this all must come round, 
 .And none but my sheep can e'er judge of the sound, 
 But now I'll speak plainer, and come to the fall, 
 ^'d your \ idc, f.nd I clos'd it from all ; 
 For deep was the sleep thai I ca*t upon man, 
 Anffcl'.x'p is the mystery the bone must return, 
 So closely united in heart and in mind, 
 Ov the man to perfection you never can find. 
 So now I will open the door from the fall ; 
 Then sew no more fig-leaves, they'll not cover all. 
 Ah ! why from my presence yourselves do you hide ? 
 Remember the bone that 1 took from your side ; 
 Your blame then upon her and MK it was cast, 
 And this is the door that I now shall make burst, 
 To cast her temptations on Satan and men, 
 And in her next volume her history must come,' 
 I low she hath been tempted, and how she withstood 5 
 Then I ask you, what spirit to her you'll allude ? 
 See how often her senses by man hath been ca>t, 
 Then you'll see how many their senses have lost, 
 Who jud;j;'d by her virtue her senses were gone ; 
 You'll find in her history it so fell on them. 
 So first upon man I have brought back the blow, 
 And next on the serpent my fury shall flow ; 
 Then you'll see the woman was took from my side; 
 In heart so united the Scriptures apply'd. 
 So know from this woman rhc fulness is come, 
 You'll find I urn present in the woman's form ; 
 That is, in her form all this doth appear, 
 But sure ' tis my Spirit to make it all clear ; 
 For by her own wisdom she cannot effect 
 No more thran another, the way I direct. 
 
 Now I shall come to the fulness of time, of the 
 woman made under the law. When the woman was 
 first created, she was made to complete the happi- 
 ness, of man, and to be his helpmate. The tr.ee of 
 knowledge was planted in the garden of Eden. 1 he 
 woman was taken froin the side of man; not of the
 
 147 
 
 dust of the ground, but of purified clay, the bone 
 of man, while he stood in' perfection, to complete 
 his happiness. The tree of knowledge, was the 
 knowledge of God, and the knowlege of the devil ; 
 the good and evil fruit both hung on the tree. 
 Then as man was divided into two parts, if the sam 
 hand that brought him the knowledge of the evil 
 fruit, does not bring him the knowledge of the 
 good fruit, he may still blame his Maker for ever 
 forming him. The Avoman, as the source of all 
 his misery and man may charge his God fool- 
 ishly; for all standeth as though I ordained it to 
 bring on man's destruction ; but now be it known 
 unto thee, O man, I ordained and placed the whole 
 for man's preservation, well knowing the depth of 
 Satan, that he would begin upon earth, as he did 
 in heaven ; and tempt man as he did the angels, 
 till he had drawn him into the same destruction ; 
 then how could I screen the man ? for what would 
 Satan say ? 
 
 If all alike the path is straight, 
 
 Then all alike must come. 
 I ask you in the judgment-clay 
 
 How I could screen the man ? 
 Now I'll begin for to explain, 
 
 And make the mystery clear: 
 Out of the dust I made at first 
 
 My perfect image there; 
 I breath'd in him, it then was seen, 
 
 My Spirit, bright and fair; 
 And lord below, you all shall know, 
 
 I did my likeness make; 
 A paradise I plac'd him in, 
 
 To make his bliss complete: 
 The trees around, you know, were found, 
 
 Whereof I bade him taste; 
 The tree of knowledge I forbade, 
 
 For well I knew his case. 
 Had dust increased in paradise, 
 
 Satan had found a way, 
 As he in heaven did first begin, 
 
 The angels did betray. 
 Lor uow to man the time is come 
 
 To judge the world below, 
 T2
 
 148 
 
 And now the mysteries I'll explain, 
 
 Why I ordain'd it so. 
 In heaven's high courts, enthron'd above, 
 
 The rebel there was plac'd ; 
 And well he knew I lov'd the Son, 
 
 Distinguished from the rest; 
 Which swell'd his pride to throw aside 
 
 My Son's united reign; 
 This Satan's malice caus'd to swell, 
 
 And made the heavens unclean. 
 He then began as god and king, 
 
 And thought to reign in heaven; 
 A mutiny he there did gain, 
 
 And he from thence was driven. 
 All heaven in disorder stood, 
 
 And parties fast increas'd ; 
 Had I not cast him headlong down 
 
 The tumult ne'er had ceas'd. 
 No sword of war did e'er appear, 
 
 More dreadful here below; 
 But loud the sound made heaven resound, 
 
 As tumult quick did shew. 
 Satan the king, declar'd by some, 
 
 Was then pronounc'd in heaven ; 
 To shew them of his bloody reign 
 
 A kingdom soon was given. 
 Now I'll explain what I do mean: 
 
 I claim the heavens my own ; 
 And soon from thence I cast him hencg, 
 
 And did him then dethrone. 
 To try again his future reign, 
 
 I soon created man, 
 To fill the place that Satan left, 
 
 And paradise command. 
 Now I'll begin to shew to man^ 
 
 How I made him at first, 
 And perfect like the heavenly plan 
 
 I order'd all the dust. 
 I made the man in my own form, 
 
 In my own likeness stood ; 
 I made him lord of all below, 
 
 And gave him all was good : 
 I made my plan so much for man 
 
 For to resemble heaven ; 
 I took the partner from his side, 
 
 That unto him was given. 
 So like my Son, the woman came, 
 
 The partner of his soul,
 
 149 
 
 And so my plan I plac'd for man, 
 
 In my own likeness all. 
 I and my Son were both as One ; 
 
 I took him from my side; 
 And so the woman I did form, 
 
 Which I pronounc'd the Bride, 
 For to bring forth a glorious earth 
 
 As I had made in heaven; 
 I made the angels as the birth 
 
 Of children you have given. 
 J shall explain what this does mean: 
 
 I brought up children there, 
 And they against me did rebel, 
 
 Lei every soul see clear. 
 Now I'll begin in words more plain, 
 
 As this doth puzzle thee ; 
 But surely 'tis for learned men 
 
 The mysteries to see. 
 How soon the earth was then drawn forth 
 
 So much to belike heaven, 
 To try the king who wants to reign, 
 
 A power to him was given, 
 When down below, let mortals know, 
 
 I did the rebel cast ; 
 And now the mysteries plain I'll shew, 
 
 How every thing was plac'd. 
 
 The tree of knowledge of good and evil, was the 
 knowledge of God and the devil; therefore I for- 
 bade the man to eat it, and pronounced him dead if 
 he ate thereof. This command was given to man ; 
 and to try the whole, I left the man to himself ; the 
 woman to herself; and the devil to himself; all were 
 left to their own will and power, to obey, or dis- 
 obey ; and the man and woman stood in perfect 
 obedience, till the serpent began upon earth, as he 
 had done in heaven, to work by arts to betray the 
 woman. For as his malice came, for you to judge 
 the earth, I have shewed you my plan, why I crea- 
 ted the whole, and why I placed it on conditions. 
 Could you call ME just with Satan, that was once an 
 angel of light, and had long been a companion of 
 God and angels in heaven, to cast him from heaven,
 
 1.50 
 
 and chain him clown in hell for his rebellion in hea- 
 ven, before I had tried his reign upon earth ? He 
 wanted to be a king, and have the power in his own 
 hands; many of the angels he had influenced to judge 
 him fit for a king and governor, and they joined 
 with him, till I cast them all out of heaven ; and 
 blasphemy soon burst from Satan and his angels,, in 
 the like manner he came to thee, against the Lord, 
 and the Son of God, Then I created man, and gave 
 Satan power as a god of this world, and fixed his 
 reigri at six thousand years, wherein I laboured: and 
 one day is as a thousand years with the Lord, and I 
 am the Lord that hath spoken it ; one thousand 
 years of rest : I have said, my Spirit shall not al- 
 ways strive with man. I have been striving with 
 man ever since the fall ; I have felt for man ; I 
 have pitied man, well knowing what powerful adver- 
 sary and enemy he had to work with. But let men 
 know I am their King, their Captain, and their Con- 
 queror, to fight all their battles for them, if they 
 join with ME. For when I bring the tree of know- 
 ledge to all their view, the Lord is good, wondrous, 
 and wise, in all his ways ; just and right in all his 
 works ; and the same hand that plucked the evil 
 fruit, and broughtitto the man, will assuredly bring 
 you to the knowledge of the good, that ye may not 
 charge God foolishly, for giving you the woman to 
 complete your bliss : and by her it shall be com- 
 pleted, as I promised man at first; or Satan must 
 outwit ME, if she does not bruise his head. 
 
 So she and I the cause will try> 
 
 And let the stars appear ; 
 If in the land there twelve do lie 
 
 To judge the star is here; 
 Then they shall see the mystery, 
 
 How all's inroll'd in heaven ; 
 And every myitery I'll unfold, 
 
 To them it shall be given. 
 For here's the marriage of the Lamb 
 
 That shall them all unite j
 
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 Their lamps with oil I'll surely trim,, 
 
 And make them all burn bright. 
 For Canaan's wonders shall begin; 
 
 I'll make your water wine; 
 And szreater wonders shall be seen 
 
 Than were wrought at that time. 
 When you appear to see it clear, 
 
 To know it came from heaven, 
 Then every seal will be reveal'd, 
 
 And to vour hands be given. 
 So shepherds all now hear your call, 
 
 And judge your long-lost sheep, 
 Whom men conceiv'd was lost to all, 
 
 Her tracks were gone too deep. 
 You hear the sound that doth abound, 
 
 Like simple shepherds gaze 
 " We sec what tracks do now appear, 
 
 " And are lost in th' ama^e ; 
 " If be from heaven to us 'tis given 
 
 " To judge the world below ; 
 " And is this pearl hid from all ? 
 
 " The truth we'll surely know, 
 " And now act wise ; if she disguise, 
 
 " We'll soon find out the cheat ; 
 " But if from heaven the sound is given, 
 
 " Tis our Emmanuel's feet 
 " That do appear ; his tracks are here, 
 
 '' So wondrous in the sound ; 
 " His tracks were gone so long before, 
 
 " They all were buried down. 
 " So in amaze we well might gaze, 
 
 " To see the sheep appear, 
 " Whose footsteps we could never trace, 
 
 " Which way she wander'd there. 
 " Beyond our heads are mysteries laid ; 
 
 " They mysteries are to all; 
 " The Prophets knew not what they said, 
 
 " If this is now the Call." 
 Now I'll explain what I do mean : 
 
 They did not understand 
 What was the fulness of the time; 
 
 They judg'd it then at hand. 
 
 When the fulness of the time was come, God sent 
 his Son, made of a woman, made under the law. 
 Now I ask you, what fulness of time was then, 
 when the Jews were cast out, whom I pronounced
 
 my chosen people ? What fulness can you make 
 good was done at that time? But now I will tell you 
 ihe fulness-trip the time is, to fulfil the Bible; to 
 bring men out of darkness into my marvellous 
 light ; to redeem you from the fall ; to call the 
 Jews from all nations, whither I have scattered 
 them ; to bring my sons from afar, and my daugh- 
 ters from the ends of the earth ; to have the hea- 
 thens for my inheritance, and the uttermost parts 
 of the earth for my possession ; to pour out my 
 Spirit upon all flesh ; and bring in one thou- 
 sand years of rest for man and ME; and then the 
 fulness all will see that I am in the woman's 
 form, and brought this knowledge unto man. Now 
 call my words to your remembrance : If the days 
 were not shortened, no flesh could be saved ; but 
 for the elect's sake they will be shortened : the 
 elect was man ; and, for his sake, the six thousand 
 years will be shortened, to give a fair trial to men 
 and devils. 
 
 So now be clear, seven thousand years- 
 Six thousand Satan's reign ; 
 So long as he is chain'd before, 
 
 So long I'll free his chain. 
 Then certainly the judgment day 
 
 Must surely follow next, 
 When I shall sever from my throne, 
 
 And all my judgments fix. 
 An awful day you all will sec, 
 
 Just like the seat of war ; 
 The heavenly trumpets first will sound; 
 
 My angels must appear 
 \Vith every music in their hands, 
 
 And every trumpet sound ; 
 The music, striking every ear, 
 
 Shall reach the earthly ground ; 
 From shore to shore my thunders roar, 
 
 And earth's foundation shake; 
 Confusion must to all appear, 
 
 When I begin to take 
 The cause in hand, so deep for men,, 
 
 And bring them from the dust ;
 
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 In perfect order all must stand, 
 
 As they were made at first. 
 The graves must open, and awake, 
 
 And earth give up her dead; 
 The foaming billows they will roar, 
 
 Where are some millions laid. 
 But such a sound will then rebound, 
 
 And trembling saints will stand, 
 To see that awful day appear, 
 
 \Vhen I the earth command 
 For to appear and meet ME here, 
 
 And soul and body meet ; 
 In perfect form as now they're known, 
 
 The likeness will be great; 
 
 But iu the bloom of youth appear, 
 
 I say, they all shall come, 
 Much brighter than they ever were ; 
 
 But ^all resemble man 
 Just as your pictures do appear, 
 
 Some likeness to your view ; 
 But I shall make the body fair, 
 
 In brighter colours too. 
 Thus must begin the awful scene, 
 
 And all you'll call to mind, 
 How in the bodies you have been ; 
 
 And memories quick you'll find, 
 When face to face, from every place, 
 
 Acquaintance all will meet; . 
 And every age, I'll now engage, 
 
 Will'their companions greet. 
 Thus will appear the righteous here, 
 
 With hearts inflamed with joy. 
 But when the sinners do appear, 
 
 This will their peace destroy, 
 To meet the foe, that here below 
 
 There did their ruin seek j 
 The murderers will their sufferers know, 
 
 And tremble at their feet. 
 The scenes of war will then appear; 
 
 For men in ranks must stand, 
 And view each other face to face, 
 
 As you do now view man : 
 When this is done, war will begin 
 
 And enmity appear ; 
 Men's consciences will burn within, 
 
 To meet their fellows here, 
 Whom they iH-u.sed, or abus'd, 
 
 By any artful hand ;
 
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 For none can fly that awful day, 
 
 But must together btand. 
 O what a scene will then begin, 
 
 When every rank turns round J 
 Aud perfect like the seat of war 
 That clay will sure be found : 
 For face to face, a? in a glass, 
 
 You surety all must meet; 
 And as the day of battle is, 
 
 You'll find the battle great : 
 No glittering sword that goes abroad, 
 
 No cannon that doth roar, 
 Will strike more deep in any man; 
 
 For every shot is here, 
 And every dart to wound the heart 
 
 Of those that are unjust; 
 That day will make some millions smart; 
 
 For so to meet you must. 
 An awful scene will then begin, 
 
 And fast the shots will fly ; 
 You'll want no armour then of men, 
 
 For every armour's nigh ; 
 Because in men it all will come, 
 
 And every wound go deep ; 
 Much louder than the cannon's roar 
 
 Will then the sinners weep. 
 Then must appear in terror here 
 
 The kings by whom 'twas fix'd j 
 The King of Glory in the air ; 
 
 The prince of darkness next ; 
 Because as king he did begin, 
 
 Wanting to reign above, 
 And so his reign he fix'd in men? 
 
 Then judge which king you love. 
 As men began by the French king, 
 
 The traitor you will see; 
 The traitor here doth now appear 
 
 A bloody king to be. 
 A meeting then will soon begin, 
 
 And men will Satan hate 
 " But how shall we throw off his reign Jf" 
 
 The mutiny will be great. 
 " The king above, we did slight his Iove f 
 
 " We cannot mercy find ; 
 u The king below, with him to go, 
 
 " He will in fetters bind. 
 " So what to do we do not know, 
 " But down our arms must fall;
 
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 " O let the rocks and mountains coma 
 
 " To hide us now from all." 
 Then who shall fight ? Not small nor great, 
 
 But these two kings must stand. 
 I made them all, both great and small, 
 
 And plac'din every land, 
 I sav, these men that thou hast slain 
 
 Now Satan hear thy d-^om; 
 And, canst thou raise- them from the dust, 
 
 Torioht against ME, come ! 
 No; men'.vul lay theii armour by, 
 
 As dead men they'll appear, 
 While loud hosannas from my saints 
 
 The echo they will hear: 
 " Bless'd be our King, and bless'd his reign; 
 
 " He's worthy of a God ; 
 " The Prince of Glory once was slain, 
 
 " And wahh'd us in his blood." 
 With every sjuad will they abound, 
 
 " Th ice blessed be his name ! 
 " His garments once were dipt in blood; 
 
 " From him our armour came; 
 " He fought the battle for us all, 
 
 " Wounded our deadly foe" 
 And endless ages shall rebound, 
 
 From heaven and earth below ; 
 While hearts within in love will burn, 
 
 And happiness complete, 
 Then will the sinners silent mourn, 
 
 * 
 
 And tremble at his feet. 
 " Ah, happy men !" will they begin, 
 
 " Had we their footsteps trod, 
 " In triumph we should now appear 
 
 " With our victorious God ; 
 " No burning conscience should we feel, 
 
 " But hearts inflam'd with love : 
 il Then sure his worth is now set forth 
 
 " By all the host above." 
 For saints will praise, and angels gaze, 
 
 And trembling sinners fall ; 
 Thus will I come \vith armies strong, 
 
 Till I have rescued all. 
 The winners' smart will wound my heart, 
 
 For to destroy their foe; 
 And shew him of his bloody reign, 
 
 While he hath reign'd below. 
 So he and I the cause will try 
 
 In that tremendous hour, 
 
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 No more I'll hear the sinners' cry, 
 
 But free them of his power? 
 I'll shame him then by sinful men, 
 
 As he did cause their fall ; 
 And prove no heaven could be in him 
 
 He'th made a hell for all, 
 When he was king; and see his reign ; 
 
 In man it must appear ; . 
 Therefore I did let go his chain 
 
 To reign six thousand years. 
 The one you'll see preserved for ME, 
 
 That all may prove iny reign ; 
 And justice must in all agree, 
 
 That he is justly slain ; 
 For justice here must now appear 
 
 To chain him down below ; 
 The banish'd prisoners then I'll clear ; 
 
 Their time is up I know ! 
 So I'll dispute, while man is mute, 
 
 And all shall hear my sound ; 
 I'll cut the brunches from the root, 
 
 And then the stump I'll bind 
 In fetters strong, alone to burn; 
 
 Because his rage will swell, 
 To see his fall, condemn'd by all, 
 
 Will kindle flames in hell. 
 But then be clear, no MAN is there, 
 
 That trcmbleth at my rod ; 
 I mean to make the mystery clear ; 
 
 And all shall find their God 
 Did ne'er design the human kind 
 
 Created for such woe, 
 As here to die, in hell to lie, 
 
 In fetters bound below. 
 No, no ; that day, to man I say, 
 
 Satan will find the cheat: 
 An army strong he'll bring with him 
 
 But l.erc the lines go deep; 
 For when he comes with armies strong, 
 
 In hopes to win I, c field, 
 He'H h'nd his men such cowards then, 
 
 'I hut every man will yield, 
 No more to rise, (let men grow wise,) 
 
 V"'inst the laws of God; 
 
 i heir leader I chastise, 
 ii iind my lavs are good, 
 
 pe just ; let sinners trust ; 
 .-.imil shew their end ;
 
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 And down in'hell their king shall dwell, 
 
 With his own feost descend : 
 That is, (be clear), his angels here, 
 
 Whom he did drive from heaven ; 
 But MAX is mine ; he must resign ; 
 
 For he shall be forgivi-n. 
 Then I'll bring forth a glorious earth, 
 
 And place them here below; 
 But sure I have a paradise 
 
 Where all my saints shall go, 
 In true perfection to enjoy 
 
 A never-fading crown ; 
 For then their peace can none destroy ; 
 
 A heaven to them is found. 
 But those bejow, they'll rind it so, 
 
 Will greatly differ here ; 
 A heaven to some on earth will come ; 
 
 But anger will appear ; 
 Concealed long, some hearts will burn, 
 
 Their murderers to see ; 
 And conscience burn, 'twill make some moorn, 
 
 And spoil their harmony. 
 So that complete the sinners' state 
 
 AYill not be in the end, 
 Like those that do my favours seek 
 
 Tis deep all thou hast per.n'd : 
 But man I'll free from misery, 
 
 If sorrows do abound, 
 That one the other can forgive, 
 
 Your grief will then be found, 
 So I'll end here, and say no more, 
 
 But weigh the matter deep ; 
 If happiness you wish to share,' 
 
 Your conscience void now keep : 
 Not give offence ; for recompense 
 
 Will meet you on that day, 
 When I have made a heaven below. 
 
 My wonders all display'd ; 
 Wonders will be, you all will sec, 
 
 When Satan's hurried down ; 
 Such blasphemy \sill come from he, 
 
 And horror shake the ground ; 
 Thunder will roll from pole to pole, 
 
 And lightning fast will fly ; 
 More dreadful war than 'twas before, 
 
 When he rebell'd on high. 
 So war's begun, and war will end, 
 And sxich a war 'twill be,
 
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 In hell in \var they will contend 
 
 To all eternity. 
 So I'll end here, and say no more 
 
 Of that gi eat judgment-day, 
 In colours faint I've iven ;hee 
 
 Of what iL then will be : 
 Such battles fought, such victories wrought, 
 
 And Satan's pride will butst, 
 Condemn'd by all ' What ! must I fall, 
 
 ' And man preserved at last ? 
 * Then I can swell no more in hell, 
 
 ' The angels will me blame 
 4 What! must I sec such destiny. 
 
 4 As setteth hell in flames ?' 
 So now at last 'twill kindle f.ist ; 
 
 For then the tire will burn ; 
 It is from them the flames must come, 
 
 And on their heads return." 
 
 In this manner is the Day of Judgment explain- 
 ed to me, from the rebellion in heaven to the last 
 day of judgment, I shall give a few lines of my 
 own judgment on it. 
 
 All this is worthy of a God ; 
 
 And may I thus believe, 
 On Satan so to cast the rod, 
 
 As he did man deceive. 
 Thy power, thy wisdom, and thy might, 
 
 We all shall worship too ; 
 When he doth bring all this to light 
 
 Twill be a glorious view. 
 Men's hearts enlarged to speak his praise; 
 
 For who can set it forth ? 
 It may rebound in endless days, 
 
 But none can judge his worth. 
 My sonl too low I know must go 
 
 To fathom things so deep. 
 
 I shall leave my own thoughts, of the justness 
 of God on the day of judgment, to wiser heads 
 than mine, and deep divines, who I know will 
 An-ite from it, when they are clear it is from God. 
 .But I shall answer a few objections, that some have 
 already made on hearing it : They did not believe
 
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 that sinners would ever be saved from hell in the 
 day of judgment; as it was written, " Go, ye ac- 
 cursed, into everlasting' lire, prepared for the devil 
 and his angels." But that accursed thino- was the 
 
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 devil. And these were answered me from our Sa- 
 viour's words : I will separate the sheep from the 
 goats ; the sheep on my right hand, and the goats 
 on the left ; 'but though hand joined in hand, the 
 wicked shall not go unpunished. 
 
 " But on ;ny right hand all my sheep shall sit : 
 And on the left the goats I'll not forget; 
 For if I died to be the sinners' friend, 
 They all shall find I'll prove it in the end. 
 What in my heart did I for Judas feel, 
 To see his conscience like t4ie flames of hell ! 
 And in despair he died a wretched end, 
 And said he sinn'd for to betray his friend : 
 And in the end his friend I'll surely be, 
 Condemn the power that first betrayed he. 
 So here the doors are open now for man; 
 The day of judgment it is nigh at hand, 
 When men in judgment they muit surely sit, 
 And tell the woman if her thoughts are right; 
 And in her history what in her they blame; 
 Then alter that her trial must come on. 
 But if the sixth book it doth first appear, 
 The four and twenty ciders must see clear 
 That I am present in the woman's form, 
 When that the sixth book you do deep discern: 
 When all together you do deeply weigh, 
 Then know to man is come the judgment day: 
 And then to heal the nations you begin. 
 And now I'll bring you to a deeper dream, 
 Which I command thee now to pen it here, 
 And then the mystery I shall make it clear. 
 
 In the Christmas holidays of 1794, after I had 
 seen the vision at the close of that year, (being 
 perfectly awake when I saw the vision in the Christ- 
 inas), this dream was brought to my view. 
 
 I thought I was at a door ; and, looking in the 
 heavens, saw them full of sheep, lying in the air 
 like a flock of sheep on the mountains. In the midst
 
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 I 
 
 there was one of the size of a bullock, but cover- 
 ed with wool like a sheep, remarkably long, and 
 white as snow, and the head like a lamb ; the others 
 were of the common size of sheep, lying round 
 the large one ; but all had long white wool like 
 mow ; and their faces like lambs ; some were the 
 size of lambs ; and all lay in the air round the 
 large one, and. the heavens seemed covered with 
 them : so that some appeared near to the earth. In 
 the morning when I awoke, it was said to me 
 
 " Arise, and write, the day-light now is come; 
 My Spirit's waiting to direct thy hand." 
 
 It is now concealed from me how it was then ex- 
 plained, as my writings are sealed up from me. I 
 only remember these words. When I had written, 
 " the light came from the moon ;" I was question- 
 " ed, Where dost thou see the moon r" I threw 
 down my pen with astonishment, as knowing I did 
 not see the moon ; but judged it so from the light, 
 as I dreamt it at midnight. I was answered 
 
 " What thou hast written, I well know is true ; 
 'Twas I that brought this vision to thy view." 
 
 I cannot recollect how it was then explained ; 
 but it was in such a beautiful manner, that my 
 eyes were drowned in tears while I penned what 
 was then revealed of Christ and his flock. It is 
 now answered in the following manner. 
 
 " Then Christ and his flock now together must stand, 
 
 And prove from this vision my kingdom's at hand ; 
 
 And white as the wool my flock shall appear; 
 
 And the light from my lambs you shall all see it clear ; 
 
 My Spirit's descended so far from my throne, 
 
 And so near to the earth now my Spirit is come. 
 
 And surely around ME I'll gather my sheep, 
 
 And now in the air you with safety may sleep ; 
 
 No light from the moon there need to appear; 
 
 I'll enlighten my shepherds to light you all here ; /^ 
 
 So walk in this light before it is gone ; 
 
 My flock must not tarry ; 'tis time for to come ; 
 
 Because that this vision's conceal'd from thy view,. 
 
 How it was explained thou little dust know ;
 
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 No, no ; 'tis ray shepherds must search out the dream; 
 Then you'll find it true as I then did explain. 
 So of dreams now and visions another now pen; 
 It was ot the moons ; thou must give it to men." 
 
 If I remember right, it was the same Christmas, 
 I dreamed that I was in a bed, out in a remarkably 
 large open field. I thought I saw one moon over 
 my head, shining very bright, and another, very 
 large, at the end of a field, with the head of a 
 man in it, like a Turk's head. I cannot recollect how 
 it was explained : but I then thought it wondrous. 
 I shall pen the words, as it is answered me now. 
 
 " Then now I will answer. In wonders appear 
 Two moons, thev were shininsi so bright in the air. 
 Thou safest in one there appear* d the Turk's head; 
 The field is the world when-in t;iou wast laid ; 
 The head of the man in the moon did appear; 
 And the wisdom of Satan in so-:--e \\ill shine clear; 
 And now in his wisdom so bright some will shine, 
 And give light to the world that walketh in him. 
 I told thee the sun was an emblem of ME, 
 To give light to the world, that clear you may see ; 
 But sure as the moon that shines in the night, 
 Then unto the darkness the moon is a light. 
 And now by men's conduct thou surely wilt know, 
 From the sun or the moon,where men's wisdom doth flow; 
 For those that do gather their light from the sun, 
 They'll surely see clear which way it doth come ; 
 But those that do gather their light from the moon, 
 It is but in darkness their wisdom can shine ; 
 Because that the moon cannot lighten the day. 
 Ye men now of learning, mark well what I say: 
 For deep you will find is the vision to all ; 
 The sun must be risen to judge of your call ; 
 Because that in darkness there manv will shine, 
 And prove that these writings were never divine ; 
 The wisdom of Satan ; n man will appear, 
 And point out such Sight to deny it all here' 
 
 And so by ma. -,'s conduct the truth thou wilt see, ,-/. r ^^ 
 
 How true were the words I then answer' d to thee/^/^'/v / ta 
 That now from thy memory I hourly conceal'd ; 
 But unto my shepherds must all be reveal'd ; _kL 
 
 For then they will gather their light from the sun; 
 When the seals they are broken the day-light will come, 
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 For n r 'W I do tell thee to pen one dream more, 
 And then let the learned together compare." 
 
 I shall now mention one dream more. In 1794, 
 I thought I saw a pump, the handle of which was 
 so very high, that I could scarce reach it, and it 
 was so hard I could get no water from it. I thought 
 I lay down under the handle, and all on a sudden 
 the water gushed out, and ran down in a large 
 stream till it came to a very deep pond, where there 
 was muddy water, which frothed amazingly when 
 the clear stream came into the pond ; and the pit 
 was large and deep. I was answered 
 
 " And is that all thou knowest of thy dream? 
 
 This simple mystery I shall soon explain ; 
 
 For in thy dream thou know'st the pump was high ; 
 
 But in it here's another mystery ; 
 
 When for to pump it thou didst find it hard 
 
 'Tis plain thy words they little do regard ; 
 
 Therefore in silence thou must surely wait^ 
 
 Because the handle is most high and strait; 
 
 But by itself it certainly will go, 
 
 The living water shall gush out, you know, 
 _, And in the pit it certain will run down ; 
 
 (Thou know'st the fountain it was under ground ;) 
 
 And then it foam'd, it must to all be known ; 
 But here's a mystery thou canst not explain ; 
 
 But yet the mystery I'll explain to thee; 
 
 Far in it there's a double mystery. 
 
 I say the pit resembleth that of hell, 
 
 Where the infernal host do surely dwell. 
 
 And will the living waters thither come ? 
 
 It is a mystery to thee unknown. 
 
 No, no ; I say, it is not what I mean ; 
 
 The living waters are the living stream, 
 
 That like a fountain will come from on high; 
 
 But yet the sinners will it all defy ; 
 
 And as 'tis flowing, sin will sure abound ; 
 
 They'll froth with fury for to hear the sound* 
 
 Thou know'st thou saw'st the scarlet dye appear, 
 
 Amongst the waters thou didst see most clear ; 
 
 And how it came thou didst enquire to know ; 
 
 Thou saidst the waters Would be hurted through. 
 
 So that thy dream thou hast not wrote it all, 
 
 But for thy answer is thy eager call.
 
 This is a folly I do see in thee; 
 But in it here's another mystery. 
 Now for my answer thou dost always wait ; 
 In that the mystery 1 say is great; 
 For as the foaming with the waters came, 
 So will the tumult be In every land ; 
 For saints and sinners they will nut agree- 
 The water dirty did appear to thee, 
 Thut in the stream it did to lie below, 
 And make it foam when living waters flow; 
 So with the wicked it will certain be: 
 They'll foam with fury, and the truth you'll see. 
 
 But this was the dream that I shevv'd thee at first, 
 And so in the end all my glory shall burst." 
 
 This was a dream in 1792. I had been power- 
 fully visited by the blasphemy of Satan, which made 
 me earnest in prayer, that the Lord would cut short 
 the powers of darkness. I was answered, 1 will 
 shew thee, in dreams and visions of the night, what 
 I will do with him. The same I was answered 
 when I was going to bed. ..I went to sleep, but 
 seemed as full of life and sense, as though I had 
 been awake, when I heard the most heavenly music 
 I ever heard in my life, louder than an organ, but 
 much sweeter. With this heavenly music I saw my 
 chamber door burst open, and a man leading in a 
 pig with his mouth tied round with a cord, and the 
 man led him in with a halter. Two men, or angels, 
 I thought, stood at my bedside, with heavenly mu- 
 sic in their hands, while the other led forward the 
 pig, which seemed to breathe forth threatenings 
 against me, and the smoke ascended from its nos- 
 trils. I thought I trembled in my bed, and was 
 earnest in prayer to God to save me from his 
 power, as I thought in my dream it was the devil. 
 As 1 was in prayer he was led away, and the hea- 
 venly music ceased, and all was. silent. Some hours 
 after, in the same night, I heard the like heavenly 
 music the second time ; and all appeared before me 
 as at first ; only I conceived the pig seemed more
 
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 furious; but there was no other difference than that 
 between the former and the latter. I then awoke, 
 much confused. This was in \792. I cannot re- 
 collect the whole of the circumstances; but re- 
 mem her it was Satan's being bound. I shall here 
 insert the manner it is explained; as I could not 
 explain it myself. I was answered 
 
 " Why doubte.-.t thon that all from heaven descend, 
 
 As thou canst not answer one word thou hast penn'd ? 
 
 But here is the vision I shew'd thee at firsf, 
 
 And Leie is ihe vision that shall sorely burst. 
 
 The music from heaven shall surely appear; 
 
 And loudly the UIUMC >hall strike in your ear, 
 
 That I am approaching, my kingdom is nigh; 
 
 Then surely the rebels will bitterly cry ; 
 
 A noise that's most dreadful some thousands will make, 
 
 When the pillars of heaven begin for to sha';e ; 
 
 And earth's strong foundations will :i;ie trrmde here, 
 
 When Satan is bound, and that sight dorh ar/pear. 
 
 Against thee his malice he'll try for to vent, 
 
 And I tell thee in bunder he surely would rent, 
 
 If I had not bound him, as close as thy dream ; 
 
 My angels do guard thee to keep thee from him : 
 
 For now I do tell thee, could Satan gel free, 
 
 He'd vent out his malice he hath against thee : 
 
 Eut like as thy dream do my angels appear, 
 
 By day and by night they are guarding thee here. 
 
 So all men are simple to judge that thy hand 
 
 Could write in such manner, did I nor command. 
 
 No if thou wert mocking, all mortals would see, 
 
 Satan would be catching, and soon baffle thee ; 
 
 For I would not guard thee, nor keep thee from harm. 
 
 Ye judge of your Bibles, 1-ut do not discern, 
 
 As soon as impostors ave risen in my name, 
 
 The devils light on ti.i-ni a'ul put them to shame. 
 
 And now, if you'd uiadoui, you all would see clear, 
 
 Thy life would not last, or my Bible must err, 
 
 To say that your thoughts are all open to ME ; 
 
 Then surely thy writing 1 -, I plainly do see ; 
 
 Then surely some wonder in you must appear, 
 
 Jf you judge lhat my Sp rit hath not spoken here, 
 
 And weifjb well the writings that came from her hand, 
 
 It you judge not from heaven, in wonders you'd stand; 
 
 Unless to all knowledge you're totally dead, 
 
 The heavens are silent, and Satan is tied. 
 
 This must be the language of every heart,
 
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 That jadg'th Ms not Gou doth these secrets impart: 
 
 For sure like thy circa' . n,u t UK 'empier be bound, 
 Or all i en wo..id see how he'd quickly confound; 
 So now Irora ibe?e hues let the le.rnecl weigh deep. 
 And now I shall answer ho.. thousanJs will weep; 
 Becaus.- mat the tempter i surely shi.!l bind, 
 So much like thy dream, all ;ny shepherds shall find, 
 Th;r when they come boldly to ju< ge of the word, 
 And -ay ' We'll see Ciearly it this be from God ;" 
 Then the heavenly mus.c shall sound'm your ear 
 " The voice is fro'ii heaven, we've nothing to fear." 
 And then of the earth they're the first I'll redeem ; 
 And ihuc'h deeper mysteiies I then shall explain, 
 \\he.i _.uu bee the woman in wonders appear; 
 Ana wonders from heaven you surely will hear; 
 But this is a mystery you can't discern, 
 Nor yet unoent.ind in what way I do warn ; 
 Bccai^e irom the woman 1'il make it all clear; 
 And re.ur i back the bone for to shew you all here, 
 liow Satan you'll conquer, and Eden regain ; 
 And :,ow it was lost she shaii shew you ail plain ; 
 And then all the mysteries you all wih see dear; 
 And wonders from i.caveii to all Miall appear; 
 because I'll fulfil it so much like thj dieam 
 And n ;w from another the whoie I'll explain." 
 
 [I have omitted inserting, before my dream at 
 mulniq-ht, that 1 was awoke with the most dread- 
 
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 ful noise I ever heard in my life ; and was answer- 
 ed, it was like the noise of hc-il when the devils 
 are chained down; then I slept, and had the two 
 preceding dreams.] 
 
 In 1797 I dreamt I felt myself almost dying, 
 and whether awake or asleep I could scarce tell; 
 but I felt myself so shocked with pain, that I said 
 I could not live any longer; and thought I felt 
 my spirit depart from my body, and was carried 
 through the air to some wondrous buildings, the 
 most curious I ever beheld, and too remarkable to 
 pen. I thought there were galleries, filled with 
 and surrounded by soldiers. Before the galleries 
 there was a large court-yard, in which stood a 
 remarkable large oak, well spread, and well
 
 grown, the leaves of which I thought they had 
 gilded all over with s;old, and tied ribbons all 
 
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 over the tree, in token or some great victory 
 they had won. There were officers there, with 
 swords glittering with gold, and ribbons tied to 
 them ; all which seemed to bear the appearance 
 of some great victory ; and when I awoke I thought 
 I should hear of some \ but it is answered in the 
 following manner : 
 
 ** Then now the victory I'll explain, 
 And tell thce all the war I mean. 
 My servants shall like soldiers come ; 
 The tree of lite shall be made known, 
 In golden colours to appear ; 
 The ribbons shew the victory there. 
 So on thy bed wilt thou lie down ; 
 The day at last for ME is found, 
 That I an earthly j udgment meet : 
 This awful day must finish it. 
 But how, thou'lt cry, can I appear, 
 Though in my heart I wish'd it near ? 
 But now the awful day is come, 
 That in my heart I wish'd for long. 
 So much like Peter thou wilt stand, 
 Though boldly launch'd by my command, 
 To warn the jury to appear ; 
 But then thy faith will sink in fear. 
 
 save me, Lord, will be thy cry; 
 Can such a simple worm as I 
 Before such learned men appear ? 
 
 1 sink ! I sink ! will be thy fear: 
 But when these fears do thee alarm, 
 Like Peter, thou shalt find my arm ; 
 And in the galleries thou shalt see 
 The glorious victories wroupht by ME. 
 The soldiers are the men of G^\ 
 
 The glittering sword, the Spirit's word ; 
 In golden colours shall appear 
 The tree of life, that day I'll clear, 
 And every sign I'll then make good, 
 I bought your ransom on the wood. 
 So let the judge and jury come; 
 The tree of life shall be made known 
 In golden colours to appear : 
 And all shall find my Spirit near, 
 That is descended like a dove ;
 
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 And all I'll fill with heavenly love; 
 
 And then the waters I'll abate, 
 
 When I return your loving mate, 
 
 To bring the olive-branch of peace, 
 
 And make your jarring discord cease. 
 
 For sure a Thomas uill Le found, 
 
 That's jealous of the heavenly sound ; 
 
 And if in doubts he doth appear, 
 
 My hands and side I'll shew him there; 
 
 For then the mysteries I'll explain ; 
 
 Because I know they are but men ; 
 
 And you shall know what days are come; 
 
 And find ME in the woman's form, 
 
 To make your perfect bliss complete; 
 
 And you shall find your helpmate's great. 
 
 For this was first my Father's will, 
 
 And it you'll find I shall fulfil; 
 
 And then my rather you'll not blame, 
 
 When I the serpent put to shame. 
 
 I took my trir.l first from man, 
 
 And so the serpent next must come *f f U~<r**-* 
 
 To stand the trial just like ME. f / ~, 
 
 "I J*^* f *"} *& *-~^5 * 
 
 If you look deep I've honour'd he, *** 
 
 As he in heaven did affe. t the king; ^* +*' *** 
 
 Then so his trial now I'll bring ; -fi^-lh^- 1' ^^ 
 
 And he must surely fall by nrjn; \iof~ ^c^*-*^?* ' 
 
 Then all shall see the heavenly plan. 
 
 So let the glittering swords appear; 
 
 My shepherds must my armour bear, 
 
 And come like soldiers in the fight, 
 
 And then I'll make them men of might, 
 
 And every victory they shall gain; 
 
 The heavenly war they must maintain. 
 
 So here these dreams they do go deep ; 
 
 My shepherds must not careless sleep, 
 To say " We now do see it clear ; 
 What need have we for to appear, 
 To bring these mysteries to our view ? 
 It is of God, we well do know ; 
 For all's beyond a woman's head, 
 Did not the Lord her spirit lead." 
 
 But here, my friends, is your mistake; 
 
 Out of the sleep you must awake; 
 
 While others judge it but a dream, 
 
 You must awake, and see it plain, 
 
 That you as stars may rise and shine^ 
 
 To lighten the benighted minds, 
 
 That they may wake put of their dream,
 
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 v" t> " TVhen you can prove you have seen h plain; 
 
 Besides, some mysteries are behind, 
 Until that day you cannot find, 
 Till I unbolt the perfect door, 
 \Vhut I have jjot for man in store- 
 So let not faith to keep you back, 
 Nor unbelief to climb the rock, 
 Because you fear that you may fall ; 
 Your anchor's fix'd ; I'll keep you all. 
 So now I've ended with thy dream; 
 .And now from visions I'll explain, 
 And prove my prophet Joel true, 
 And bring the vision to your view. 
 The vision first was seen by man, 
 Just like my bible all's the plan, 
 That in the heavens to him appear'd ; 
 But he the mystery could not clear, 
 Nor yet no man could see it plain, 
 Nor shew the vision what it meant; 
 Till it came to the woman's hand, 
 I had conceal'd it all from man ; 
 To make the prophet's words more clear- 
 The prophet was the woman here. 
 So now the vision I'll explain, 
 And shew it with the former dream." 
 
 After I had written out the dreams shewn me in 
 1792 and 17.94, I received a letter from a worthy 
 minister in London, with an open vision hesaw in 
 the heavens as he was reading the burial service over 
 the dead. He sent me a representation of the vision, 
 neatly engraved. I must beg the worthy gentle- 
 man's pardon for putting it in print without his ap- 
 probation ; but I trust a gentleman of his good 
 sense and learning will forgive me, when I tell him, 
 the Lord hath commanded me, and I had not time 
 to write for his consent. So I shall insert the vi- 
 sion perfectly as he sent the words to me, and after 
 give the explanation, as it was explained to me. I 
 conceal the reverend entleman's name. 
 
 
 Description of an OPEN VISION. " There ap- 
 peared in the heavens an ill formed beast, standing 
 on the Continent, and afterwards marching upright
 
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 at the head of an immense army, issuing oat of a 
 cloud ; the beast stretched out his fore paws, as if 
 swimming, much agitated, and pointing to some- 
 thing at a distance. All marchect gently but boldly 
 on, mid appeared to cross the sea, making for an 
 island, which they invaded in a very short space of 
 time. The sea then assumed the appearance of a 
 barren heath, and every thing seemed to have fallen 
 before them. 
 
 ''The beast having arrived in the middle of the 
 island, put on the form and colour of a leopard; and 
 lay down, as if to take his rest, when the army dis- 
 appeared, and all things about him wore a most 
 beautiful appearance, like fertile land, when the sun 
 is rising upon it; and immediately (the leopard 
 keeping his position) a small cloud arose from the 
 middle of the space, and moved gently to the side, 
 followed by a buffalo and a crocodile; both which, 
 as they drew near the cloud, were invested with its 
 shape, and lost their own. 
 
 " The Vision N. N. E. Time about four minutes. 
 
 " The above Vision was also seen, and particular- 
 ly noticed by E. Wynne, schoolmaster, 
 Hill, on his road to Wapping, in the c y of 
 
 several gentlemen. The above E. W. noticed, that 
 the beast, when it was lain down, momentarily 
 panted, as if at its last gasp. T. \V. the publisher, 
 had, at this period of the vision, taken off his eyes 
 for a few seconds. 
 
 "The army and the beast, as represented at the 
 head, appeared to be about six feet high, and the 
 quadrupeds bore an exact natural proportion." 
 
 Lshall now come to the explanation of the. vision. 
 As the men are drawn in a bow in the cloud, pur- 
 suing the beast, it is explained in the following 
 manner.
 
 170 
 
 " When thfc world was drowned, the beast had SQ 
 powerfully worked on man, till he had drawn all 
 men after him, and the deluge of rain made the 
 world become like the sea. At that time the Lord 
 said he would destroy man from the face of the 
 earth ; but man, that was made of the dust of the 
 ground, and created in parkdise, was not destroyed ;. 
 the Lord preserved more in the ark than he created' 
 at first. But after the deluge ceased, the Lord said, 
 he would no, more suffer the waters to drown the 
 world ; and, as a sign unto men, he set the bow in 
 the clouds. In the prophet Joel he saith, when he 
 cometh to pour out his Spirit; upon all flesh, Your 
 young men shall see visions, and your women shall 
 prophesy ; and ye shall see signs in the heavens. 
 And in the Revelation it is written, they shall 
 overcome the beast, that is the devil, by the blood 
 of the larnb, and the \vord of their testimony; 
 therefore, rejoice, ye heavens, and all that dwell 
 in them; but woe to the inhabitants of the earth and 
 sea ; for the devil is come down in great wrath, be- 
 cause he knoweth he hath but a short time. Now I 
 have shewed you, from the written word of God, 
 how all is spoken on the record of the Bible. The 
 bow was placed as a sign of preservation for man ; 
 and the Revelation shews you how to overcome the 
 powers of darkness by the power of Christ. Now 
 I have shewed you, from the Bible, how all was spo- 
 ken ; and now, from this vision, you see how all is 
 placed. The bow, that was set in the clouds for 
 man's preservation, is now drawn with an army of 
 men pursuing the beast ; at the end of the vision the 
 beast lay down, much agitated, as if to take his last 
 repose. Now let men know, the men that were 
 in the clouds, are men on the earth, that, by faith 
 iu the blood of Christ, will pursue the bcLt, and 
 overcome him by their words and testimony of the 
 truth. The leopard denotes men, that Satan will
 
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 draw to join with him. The crocodile denotes all 
 the arts of the devil; as the crocodile makes a noise 
 to get men to come near him, and then devours 
 them, and so does the devil : But now the croco- 
 dile hath no power to approach man, if he be ad- 
 vised of his arts, and shun him; neither hath the 
 devil power to draw in man, or hurt him, if he be 
 aware of his wiles, and shun him. But this vision 
 shews you, what arts Satan uses to betray man ; for 
 Satan is now much agitated, and so he will con- 
 tinue. He has arts like the crocodile 
 
 And like the ravenous beasts he'll now assume,. 
 And like the crocodile with arts he'll come; 
 But men will conquer by the heavenly train; 
 And know, the rainbow was a type for men, 
 That at the lust preserved they shall be; 
 The beast I'll conquer, and the men I'll free; 
 And at his last gasp he is surely come ; 
 And the whole armour you may now put on. 
 Deep is the vision must to all appear 
 Rejoice, ye Jews; and let the Turks to fear; 
 For in that nation I shall end the war. 
 The bairen heath in Turkey doth appear ; 
 Their minds are barren; all is barren there. 
 And yet thou'rt puzzled, how these things can be : 
 The beast arriv'd the fertile land to see, 
 And all my armv they did disappear. 
 
 T' I I 
 
 Inis is a mystery thou canst never clear; 
 But now the mystery I will here untold, 
 And prove the truth is by a woman told ; 
 But by thy wisdom, as a woman, here 
 No more than man canst thou the mystery clear. 
 To see the beast possess the promis'd land, 
 And all my army silent for to stand, 
 Or at that' very time to disappear ; 
 It is a mystery that no man can clear, 
 lint now, I tell thee, I will clear the whole; 
 And know, my army they went on so bold, 
 And did pursue unto the promis'd land, 
 That for the Jews I surely shall command ; 
 But as the beast alone he did see there, 
 In his possession you may now see clear, 
 That certainly it was the heathen land 
 That now the beast has got in full command, 
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 172 
 
 Anri :vuv I tell tLee that thy per. coes deep 
 
 ^p; 
 
 Bur ." - a f;wai;e them Iron: tho ; r i^rearn, 
 
 And tiuT. the vision , ..:! see plai 1 .. 
 
 Now if men judge it of some curious head, 
 To see t!;e vision as they 1 ; 
 
 Then Solomon in \\isdo.r. mu.-t Appear, 
 To s!:ew the vision with thf K-ii'le clear. 
 Wise fool:-, I tell you here the moon docs shine, 
 It you will prove these writing not divine : 
 From Satan's wisdom you must draw your light, 
 To shine in darkness, and you may shine bright, 
 To bring forth reasons you cannot make clear, 
 When once the Sun of Righteousness ris'th here; 
 Then ali your light will vanish soon away, 
 When I do bring to man the perfect day. 
 jV'Iark ali these dreams and visions seen before ; 
 And from each other all concealed were, 
 Till I command the truth to fly abroad, 
 And then the vision must to all be know'd; 
 For, Jike the vision 1 shall now go on, 
 And fix my army in the tons of imn. 
 So now together you may ail compare, 
 And judge what senses are deranged here, 
 To bring such wondrous things before your sight, 
 Jn such a form, and every path is straight; 
 Unless I tell ye, you aie all sun-blind, 
 And at the noon-day you the walls cau'tfind ; 
 Then sure like bears you may be^in to roar, 
 And mourn Lke doves your blindness to deplore; 
 In pi; Ctsdisoh.te yn/ii surely be, 
 And ;-Ov.n hkf (lead uu n v. .liyour folly see: 
 For n;.-.v you'll find -'ur, 
 
 W:. en all ii.ankind \> 
 And 
 
 full reward; 
 
 - , . -iiier '.n, 
 
 iii ; 
 A i.'. \ou v.iii fi 
 
 e t the Biuli groc in ; and you'll teei my power, 
 To bhii; _)cu in iii uie irom i ; v( ;-y ibe; 
 '. , jtnir nan.es 1 know; 
 
 ftui '. .i.hsh virginhtjo appear, 
 
 Who : le wain nj ol ilie Bricie^rcom here, 
 
 ] tell \ou piiiin what then will i.eyoui lute; 
 Like fooli>ii viigins^cu will come too late; 
 iJetdU'-e jour names, i say, i do not know ; 
 You motk'U the warning, and iie..ij;is'd the blow
 
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 That I pronounc'd against the mockers here ; 
 
 And now the midnight hour to them appears, 
 
 That back on mockers must my fury fall. 
 
 So now take care, I warn ye, one and all ; 
 
 The midnight hour for all is nigh at band. 
 
 That on your heads the prophet's blood must stand, 
 
 As they asunder did Isaiah ^aw: 
 
 And now observe the Gospel and the L;nv ; 
 
 And Jeremiah in the dungeon c:-^:, 
 
 And nuw the midnight hour for all shall burst; 
 
 For now asunder I shall saw the whole, 
 
 And back on mockers shall my fury fall. 
 
 So here's my warning in the date that's new; 
 
 The days I'll sjjorten ; and like man I'll do : 
 
 As men asunder did Isaiah saw, 
 
 So now asunder you shall see my law; 
 
 Unto the one my pr >m:ses are great; 
 
 Unto the other tlu-y shall meet his fate, 
 
 And Jeremiah in the dungeon cast; 
 
 And now the dun aeon must for mockers burst. 
 
 Look to the blood the Romans they did spill, 
 
 And how the martyrs did their fury feel; 
 
 Back on their heads yon see I brought the blow, 
 
 And now the midnight hour ye all shall know. 
 
 As 'twas by mockers I was crucified, 
 
 And 'twas by mockers my disciples died ; 
 
 And will ye say, my Gospel you do know ? 
 
 Then on )cur heads you're bringing now the blow : 
 
 For Alel'h blood must unto men appear ; 
 
 The day of vengeance now is coming here, 
 
 That all their blood must now on mockers fall. 
 
 Now iVuin that woman I do tell you all, 
 
 Who bay your Bibles you do now see clear, 
 
 And jet dt-bp^e the warnings 1 give here; 
 
 Just like the blind my Bibles }ou do see 
 
 Write out her wc;rd*,and then I'll answer thee." 
 
 These words were in answer to a proud, ignorant 
 woman, who came into a house where I was ; and, 
 speaking of the prophecies, said, " She did not 
 want any one to tell her better than site kne\r ; for 
 the Bible was plain; and all our Saviour's words 
 were true; and wars and rumours of wars, and the 
 Revelation, were all fulfilled. She had read them, 
 and understood them all; and the day of judg- 
 ment was at hand," I shewed her the open vision,
 
 / 174 
 
 seen by the clergyman. She asked, " If it wa.* 
 not the gentleman's imagination ?" I said, No; he 
 must have had more wisdom than Solomon, to 
 imagine such a thing, to draw so lively a picture 
 of the last days ; so consistent with all the Bible. 
 But I found the woman, with all her boasted wis- 
 dom, had no idea at all of the last days. She was 
 h>j,,>rant and opinionated in her own knowledge ; 
 so I left off disputing with her ; for I found her 
 so wise in her own eyes, that there was more hopes 
 of a fool, than of her. Her folly was answered 
 me in the following manner. 
 
 " Thy observation was just. There is more hopes 
 of a fool, than of such, who think they know every 
 thing, and know nothing. If she knew my Bible, 
 she must know all these things that thou hast writ- 
 ten ; and the vision shewed her must first come to 
 pass. And he that is not with ME, is against ME ; 
 and he thatgathereth not with ME, scattereth ; for 
 no A' is coming the end. The day of judgment for 
 nan is already come; and this new century I shall 
 begin for men to sit in judgment, to judge the wo- 
 man and her writings ; and all will find such a trial, 
 as has never happened since my being judged at 
 Pilate's bar. 
 
 For all will find the trial great ; 
 l ; or different passions this will heat, 
 When men in judgment do appear, 
 For to condemn, or for to clear. 
 As ditiiTent passions will arise, 
 Some men of learning will chastise, 
 To prove their judgments not betray'd, 
 And cast it on the woman's head, 
 Thiit sunn- mad fancy fill'd her brain 
 
 We judg'il it wrong for to contend, 
 
 With one we thought so veiy low ; 
 
 'I h cut to re her lolly we let go, 
 
 Thinking her toily it would die; 
 
 But now \ve see 'tis rising high ; 
 
 And now our visd-nn we may blame, 
 " If we can't put her now to shame.
 
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 w Then deeply we did not discern, 
 
 *' If 'tis from God the Spirit came; ' 
 
 " But to this we will not submit, 
 
 " Until we sec the truth more great." 
 
 V/hile other men will see more clear 
 
 " It is of God, I now do fear; 
 
 *' And if it be so, I must submit, 
 
 " And ca^t my wisdom at his feet." 
 
 While there are some will see it plain- 
 
 " It is from God, I'll now mainrnin ;" 
 
 And strong the reasons they'll assign, 
 
 To prove the writings all divine; 
 
 While some are blind, and cannot see 
 
 They're spoken by divinity 
 
 " It surely was some curious head 
 
 <l Such different tongues to ether said, 
 
 " For Hebrew, Greek, and Lathi's here, 
 
 " To see in English now to clear." 
 
 So different are the minds of men ; 
 
 And so 1 say they will contend, 
 
 Until they bring the standard near ; 
 
 And then the mysteries I shall clear ; 
 
 For then the woman all will free, 
 
 And of the earth judge she must be. 
 
 So here's the judgment-day for man, 
 
 To free the woman, or condemn, 
 
 For saving I am in her form, 
 
 And prove the fulness now is come ; 
 
 And ME they've crucified afresh, 
 
 According as the Scripture saith ; 
 
 Because the Spirit it is ME 
 
 That they did persecute in thee. 
 
 Tis not thy conduct they do blame ; 
 
 Upright and just they all do own, 
 
 And all thy principles are good ; 
 
 Then to the Spirit they allude, 
 
 Wherein thy conduct they do blame, 
 
 And so you put your Lord to shame. 
 
 But as by ignorance this is done, 
 
 I shall forgive, and wink at man, 
 
 If now their love and courage rise, 
 
 To justify, or to chastise, 
 
 And bring the woman's trial on ; 
 
 Then sure the serpent's next must come; 
 
 For I shall follow next to thee, 
 
 Until I've set the nations tree. 
 
 I first was judg'd ai Pilate's bar, 
 
 And next the woman, must appear.
 
 / / 
 
 * sJ' ***-? *r i 
 
 And then the serpent next must ccme ^ 
 To take his trial just like them ; 
 And this you'll find will prove th' event; 
 Then judge how n^ar is my intent 
 To bring my glorious kingdom down, 
 And let the tree of life be found. 
 But here's the judgment-day on earth, 
 To judge of what the woman saith. 
 Now in the earth there's nothing new; 
 But here's a wonder to your v;ew, 
 That in the earth was never seen 
 Since earth's foundations were first lain, 
 To take my Bible and explain, 
 As ne'er was understood by men ; 
 And gave the following challenge here, - > J 
 
 That every mystery she. will clear; ^t** US'LL* Csl'* c * 
 When to the purpose all will come, ^H 
 To justify, Or to condemn. 
 Then she will j^ake the mystery clear, 
 And prove the tree of knowledge here; 
 That by her faith she reach'd so high, 
 And the good fruit she brought so nigh, 
 Whereof she bade you now to taste- 
 The bad is fallen, the good is plac'd, 
 Which now hangs hovering on the tree, 
 And ail shall find 'tis pluck'cl by she. 
 So, fallen man, canst ascertain 
 What madness now hath fiil'd thy brain, 
 To judge that e'er a woman's hand 
 Could give such challenge unto man? 
 No, No : In man I'd soon appear, 
 For to confound and ^hamehcr here, 
 Did not the, challenge come iroin ME ; 
 You are but men, you ail shailsee, 
 Whom I've pronounced to be cie id, 
 As you the woman first obe}'d ; 
 But if your life you'll now regain, 
 I tell you all to do the same, 
 And nw obey the woman's han<!, 
 And paradise you may command. 
 If you can judge the heavenly so: 
 Such woman ne'er on earth was found, 
 To give such challenge unto man, 
 
 And say, that I a:n in her form ; ^ 
 
 And if you come to see it clear, // ' C 
 
 Then in her form 1 will appear, ' 
 
 And you may judge it by her hami, 
 That never can be read by man,
 
 177 
 
 That is, to make all mysteries clear ; 
 ' And so you'll rind my liibh; here, 
 That you no. more do understand, 
 Than you can read the woman's hand. 
 There are some things you can read plain, 
 And so 'my Bible is to men ; 
 So perfect like the woman's hand 
 You'll fr.i-i my Bible all does stand, 
 That in thfc woman I'll make good 
 And so I'll prove it by her word : 
 But in the heavens I'd cease to be, 
 Than let a woman act like she, 
 If' I did not command it here, 
 And fully spoke, as doth appear ; 
 Whatever nonsense to your view, 
 I said like man I'd surely do ; 
 And nonsense doth in man appear : 
 And I shall make the mystery clear, 
 And then my fool ish'n ess you'll see 
 Is wiser than you mortals be. 
 To try the talents high of men, 
 Here every tongue" you may explain, 
 Hebrew, Greek, and Latin too, 
 And every tongue bring to your view ; 
 Here Franc" and Spain, and different coasts, 
 And English language is not lost. 
 So all these tongues together weigh. 
 Then speak the truth, or prove the lie ; 
 For I will shew you every tongue 
 That can be spoke or taught by men. 
 When you your reasons strong assign, 
 I'll answer men that speak divine ; 
 Lut for the fools, I'll answer here 
 In words that they can never clear. 
 So write the words were spoke by man, 
 And then I'll answer thee again." 
 
 These words following were spoken by a man, 
 who came into the house, and, reading my books, 
 said, " It was a parcel of jumbled nonsense." I was 
 desired to come and answer for myself, but, know- 
 ing the man wasignorant,obstinate, and opinionated 
 in his own wisdom, judging himself one of the elect 
 number, and that all others were lost; I knew it 
 was fruitless to contend with him, and therefore 
 kept silent, till he disputed our Saviour's neverput- 
 
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 ting off the godhead, and putting on the manhood. 
 I then went out, and asked him, if our Saviour did 
 come down from heaven a perfect God as he was 
 there? If he did not take man's nature upon him, 
 born as man, labour as man, act as man ? If he was 
 not perfect God, and perfect man ? The man re- 
 plied, he was not ; neither did he put off the god- 
 head, to put on the manhood. Someone coming 
 in, put a stop to our discourse. His saying it was 
 nonsense was answered in the latter part of the 
 words spoken in verse ; and now I shall answer the 
 other as it was answered to me. 
 
 " Poor, simple man ! what did I then appear 
 Invested in the godhead perfect here ? 
 Remember how mount Sion it did smoke, 
 When unto Moses in the bush I spoke ; 
 Israel did tremble, nor my face could see, 
 And Moses' countenance was changed by ME. 
 So eanh must tremble had I then come down 
 WUh all the godhead in the heavenly form : 
 FoTm'fhc godhead~I could_j>6tappear,~~^ 
 To bear the mocR of fools > anjjitmoj^jjerej^ 
 I-'or alt must stagger ancTfaTT toTBlTgroundV 
 'As they did brice'wrJen I "was in the sound j_ 
 But tGeii The~g63TieaTl did quick|y change7__ 
 Ami took the manfioo37~whichto you~TT strange, 
 That very_Go D and very MAN could be 
 Were not fnT angels sent to comfort ME.^ 
 What" need" rcomtort inThe 'godhead's form, ^L 
 Invested"!?! aTTnTs ower, 
 ~ 
 
 (Tr~tQ tn y Fa t'h t- r had TnoccTfo 
 To let the fatal cup to_pass away, _ 
 If'twas his will to have^Trlo be done, 
 An3~3rops 7>TT?Tood^irragoDie8"'to J comej^ 
 Or ou~flle~cfdss~ wHalTneecniagTto cry, 
 \ryUocl, my God, HasTtHouTorsalcen TVI t. ? 
 Then all the prophets surefy must speak wrong, 
 irTrTthjg_g(KUiead 1 tQ mortals come, __ 
 Tnested i n3HeJheavenly"Trini ty_,_^ __ ^. 
 
 with maiTpOhow could this agree ? 
 
 Or yet what judge could I e'er be for man, 
 If all their form I had not yet put on ? 
 And all their nature I did then assume, JP 
 And all my power did from the Father come;
 
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 For all the godhead I had laid aside, 
 
 And all man's strength and nature then I tried, 
 
 And found the arts of Satan how they swell; 
 
 And deeper nnsteries I to rmm shall tell. 
 
 Had he not fell in Eden then atjirnt, 
 
 I am their Judge, and know he would at last. 
 
 The kingdoms of the earth were offcr'd ME ; 
 
 And unto men the. kingdoms, they would see, 
 
 Would soon be ofter'd, as the full reward 
 
 To worship him, and not their God regard ; 
 
 And by his influence he'd men throw away ; i 
 
 Then all must perish in the judgment -day, 
 
 Had not my wisdom so ordain'd my plan, 
 
 To cast the serpent and to screen the MAN*, 
 
 That to perfection he's pronounced dead; 
 
 And bring his murder on the tempter's head, 
 
 That by the woman at that time was cast ; 
 
 And now 's the time I'll make the woman burst, 
 
 To claim the promise she had got of ME. 
 
 When Mordecai and Esther do agree, 
 
 That when men do like Mordecai appear, 
 
 And pray for Esther she may persevere ; 
 
 Then all the royal robes you may put on ; 
 
 The glittering sceptre shall to all be known ; 
 
 Then Esther's banquet you with joy may see; 
 
 And on the gallows Hainan he may be, 
 
 Or else the serpent in the room of man, 
 
 And so proud Lucifer his end must come. 
 
 These lines I've spoke, the learned men to try 
 
 If they can see the hidden mystery; 
 
 If not, the mystery I shall make more clear. 
 
 The end is come ; and let the dream appear." 
 
 ThisjHs a dream sent me by a reverend gentle- 
 man from London; not from himself, but another 
 fentleman, who lias had many visitations from the 
 pirit of the Lord, told it to him in the following 
 manner : 
 
 He thought he was in the temple of God, which 
 appeared to be unfinished, in a city ; the inhabi- 
 tants whereof, when he asked the name of it, called 
 it New Jerusalem. That he stood on a high place 
 in it, and saw a man walking below, whom he 
 thought at first to resemble himself, who took up 
 a sword lying on the pavement, and brandished it
 
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 several times, saying, The Sword of Gideon, and 
 then laid it down again. 
 
 This dream was sent me by an elderly divine; 
 and the vision by a voun<r clergyman. Now here 
 
 . / / O/ 
 
 is the explanation of the dream 
 
 " Of Gideon's sword, and brandish'd it shall be ; 
 And now the mystery I shall shew to thee. 
 For Joel's words together all are come; 
 The dreams and visions have been seen by men ; 
 And here's the woman that doth prophesy; 
 Then judge my prophet, give him not the lie; * , 
 Or else now prove all this was done before, 
 And then I'll prove my prophet he did err ; 
 Because my Spirit was not poured out 
 Upon all flesh ; the Jews do surely doubt ; 
 And heathen lands my Spirit do not feel ; 
 But now the nations I shall surely heal. 
 So ail together you may now weigh deep, , 
 
 And then you'll find I'll save my frighted sheep. 
 From Gideon's swcrd, you are to understand, 
 My sword is drawn to conquer e\ery land. 
 Of times to brandish, I shall now explain : 
 The mutiny in France did first begin, 
 Where 'men in anger brandish'd first the sword, 
 Destroy'd their powers, according to my word ; 
 For at the end you know that Rome must shake, 
 When once the Revelations they do break, 
 That is, their prophecies for to come true; 
 And by their fall the truth you all may view. 
 If men of learning do but weigh it deep, 
 The sword was brandish'd, and the powers do weep, 
 Which made the sword to brandish all abroad, 
 And every nation feels the glittering swcrd; 
 If not already, it will so come on, 
 And every land will find my sword is drawn, 
 Till men I've conqucr'd, and they all submit 
 To lay their jewels humbly at my feet ; 
 That is, their faith to trust in ME alone, 
 Then on the other must the sword come down. 
 For it I'll brandish in the enemy; 
 The powers ot darkness shall my fury see 
 For in the end I'll plunge it in his heart, 
 And he like man ^h ll feel the fatal dart; 
 For that's the way that I shall sheath the sword; 
 And then all flesh shall know the living Lord.
 
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 Hath drawn the sword, and drawn it not in vain, 
 
 When they do sec their deadly foe is slain ; 
 
 And I shall make for men a glorious peace, 
 
 Their foe I'll conquer, and their jarring cease. 
 
 So Gideon's sword you find will end the war; 
 
 And those that lap the water now appear, 
 
 And all the rest may wait in peace to see 
 
 The sword of Gideon make all nations free. 
 
 And now the fleece of wool I'll make it dry, 
 
 And wring, I say, the tears from every eye. 
 
 So here's the perfect meaning of the dream ; 
 
 Ye men of learning, judge, and now see plain, 
 
 That first the dew was on the people cast; 
 
 And tears from thousands like the dew will burst; 
 
 While all the lands were barren and seem'd dry, 
 
 Scanty of food hath been my children's cry ; 
 
 But now the dew shall on the land appear, 
 
 Trust ME, my children, and dry up your tears; 
 
 And judge no more came from a woman's head, 
 
 But mark the fountain and the way it spread ; 
 
 Then men of wisdom they m;iy trace the hnnd, 
 
 And now the prophet Joel's words command: 
 
 But if in doubts mankind do now appear, 
 
 With the beginning you may all compare: 
 
 The woman stands a wonder now to man; 
 
 And sure the woman's senses must be gone, 
 
 If she in wonder does not gaze on all, 
 
 Jf now you're blind, and cannot judge your call, 
 
 If all together you do deeply weigh, 
 
 You must discern the dawning of the day, 
 
 That as an echo in the veise appear'd, 
 
 It is my Spirit echo'd in her ear ; 
 
 For as in verse you have a different sound, 
 
 There is an echo in the words abound ; 
 
 And so my Spirit it doth echo here 
 
 The sound's from heaven, and with the lines will bear; 
 
 When all together you do perfect weigh, 
 
 You must be blind, if you don't see the day 
 
 That is broke, the day-light it is come 
 
 The Sun is risen in the woman's form ; 
 
 A K in her form all this to you appears. 
 
 But judge my Bible, and you'll find I'm here; ~fitjt, % 
 
 Though not in wisdom, yet I am in power, 
 
 Or men and devils would her soon devour, L^f^f t^> <JJ ft 
 
 If like a husband I did not protect, *{'/.*, a lL*4 dis 
 
 To save the wife that he did so direct : 
 
 And if in debt she runs by his command, 
 
 You know the husband must the trial stand.
 
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 So now the trial I will stand for all; 
 
 Bring forth the debts that on her head do fall, 
 
 And every debt that's forged in my name, 
 
 Ttien as a husband i will boar the blame; 
 
 And as a husband 1 the debt will pay 
 
 That you will clearly prove was forged by she ; 
 
 But it is time her promise to demand, 
 
 While you can prove 'twas forged by her hand. 
 
 So now the godhead doth to you appear 
 
 In perfect manhood, you may all see clear; 
 
 For as a man in reason I'll begin, 
 
 But as a God in power I'll make an end ; 
 
 And as a man I brought in the new date, 
 
 Who cut the seals, and sign'd their names to it. 
 
 By my command all this was surely done ; 
 
 But yet no power unto them ever came, 
 
 To testify the writings were from heaven ; 
 
 And as man the words to all were given. 
 
 So nought but manhood doth to man appear, 
 
 But now the godhead you shall all see clear: 
 
 That as a God this year I'll surely end, 
 
 And man with man in thee I shall contend, 
 
 Till all my jewels will fall at my feet, 
 
 And say, thy wisdom, Lord, we must submit; 
 
 For by our wisdom, if we baffle here, 
 
 One \vord out of a thousand we can't clear, 
 
 To prove the writings from a woman's hand, 
 
 And see our Bibles, how it all doth stand. 
 
 In such a manner I shall bring it here, 
 
 Till like a God you'll say I do a; pear. 
 
 As sown in weakness all was done at first, t / ^1 f 
 
 But rise in power when the seals you burst ; "^ 
 
 For judge, and jury, witnesses must ccme, 
 
 Look on the woman, whom you did condemn, 
 
 When in a court of equity 'tis brought, 
 
 Produce your seals, and every name was wrote, 
 
 And then the mystery you will all see clear, 
 
 I've chang'd the manhood and the godhead's here. 
 
 In simple weakness all was done at first; 
 
 But now in power and wisdom all must burst. 
 
 " To what perfection is our weakness come ! 
 
 " Such day as this was to us all unknown ! 
 
 " And yet with joy we all may bless the day 
 
 " That we pursu'd the woman, to obey 
 
 " The heavenly wonders What do we now hear ? 
 
 " We see the shepherds must the sheep now clear; 
 
 " We put our seals to what we did not know ; 
 
 " We wrote our names as she did command us to ;
 
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 '* As simple sheep we simply all obey'd ; 
 
 " And here the cost-is on the woman laid :" 
 
 And then your seals I bid you a.11 to burst, 
 
 And then the serpent he may lick the dust ; 
 
 For in the end his curse he'U surely see, 
 
 That he is cast, and man that I'll free; 
 
 And then your names you may with joy behold, 
 
 If I enrol them in a book of old, 
 
 And on that book at last to put my seal, 
 
 Then Satan's arts no longer shall prevail. 
 
 So here by faith the harlot now is freed ; 
 
 I do not say they're guilty of the deed; 
 
 But yet a whoring they do go from ME ; 
 
 I tell thee plainly, deep's the mystery." 
 
 I received a letter from a clergyman, who dis- 
 puted my saying, the Holy Ghost was never seen, 
 and it was written, he was seen descending like a 
 dov^L His observation I grant to be true ; and, as 
 many may stumble at it, as well as him, I shall an- 
 swer for it myself to the world at large. 
 
 I did not mean, that he was never seen in any 
 shape, or form; for the Holy Ghost, or the Spirit 
 of the Lord, moved upon the waters ; and in the 
 days of Pentecost, it is written, there appeared 
 cloven tongues like as ofjire, and it sat upon each of 
 them, and they were all jilled with the Holy Ghost. 
 But will any one say, the Holy Ghost was in per- 
 son, as a man, divided in so many parts ? The 
 Lord can infuse his Holy Spirit in any form or 
 power he pleases. But none of these arguments 
 prove, that the Holy Ghost was ever seen in form 
 or fashion, like a man, as cur Saviour did upon the 
 earth, and as he appeared to his disciples after his 
 resurrection, or as the Lord appeared to Moses on 
 Mount Sinai. So none of these reasons do convince 
 me the Spirit is wrong, that told me the Holy 
 Ghost is the Holy Spirit of God and Christ, whom 
 the Lord can send in any form or power. THe 
 devil sent his spirit in the form of a serpent ; but we
 
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 cannot suppose he was bodily in that shape. The 
 devil infused his spirit into the heart of Judas; but 
 we cannot suppose he assumed his full form, and 
 entered into him. Now, if we weigh these things 
 deeply, and call to our recollection the words of our 
 Saviour, the Holy Ghost was the Comforter, whom 
 the Father would send in his name, to bring all 
 things to our remembrance; it would shew us plainly, 
 that the Holy Ghost is the power of God's Holy 
 Spirit. If it was a person distinguished by himself, 
 you must say it is the greatest in the Trinity ; for 
 our dear Redeemer said, whosoever spcaketh against 
 the Holy Ghost, shall never beforgiren in this world, 
 nor in that which is to come. Then if it was a per- 
 son in body, like the Father or the Son, separated 
 by himself, the greatest in the Trinity, how should 
 the Father have power over it, to send it to whom 
 he pleased, how he pleased, or in what form he 
 pleased, if it was not, as it was said to me, the Holy 
 Ghost is the Holy Spirit of God, whom he said in 
 the last days he would pour out upon all flesh ? 
 The Holy Trinity was always a mystery to me ; I 
 never dived into it, till it was explained to me, that 
 it was the Holy Spirit of God. 
 
 Now I shall answer other disputants concerning 
 last May, as they expected to see some great thing 
 happen, not discerning how it was spoken. It was 
 spoke this year, "but was not to appear till next. 
 Yet few discerned what they read ; and many began 
 to say, \\liere is now the prophet? or where is the 
 God in whom she trusted? And my friends began, 
 to grow jealous, before I shewed them their error, 
 and asked them, how they could prove it true, it' it 
 had come this year, when it was written it should 
 not? or what mysteries were to be explained an- 
 otfher time? or how it could be written, it re- 
 quired learning to discern how it was spoken ? or
 
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 how they should reflect in May, what they said in 
 
 Mav : or how thev could agree t'oketner to con- 
 
 ' " . i 
 
 dernn the prophecies, it' all had come clear to their 
 
 judgments ? This I have explained to the public, 
 that they may weigh prophecies deeply ; and then 
 they will see the truth of every word. The Lord 
 does not speak plain to men's judgment ; for his 
 straight paths often appear crooked to mau ; and 
 he makes things that were not, as though they were; 
 and though the words had not been spoken by 
 man at the time I penned them, yet they were spo- 
 ken to me, as judge of that prophecy, when the 
 ten years are up. 
 
 But now I shall beg to answer for myself in one 
 particular. As many ignorant people have said, I 
 had published for the lucre of gain ; and though 
 they despised prophecies, and judged they knew 
 enough of the Bible, without the revelation of the 
 Spirit of the Lord; yet if they could get money by 
 it, they should be glad to do it. To such I answer, 
 that their mincls must be wordly, selfish, and de- 
 vilish ; not caring how they dishonour God, cheat 
 man, and rob the public, nor what a hell they get 
 at last, so they have a present reward for the mo- 
 ment; and but for a moment would such arts last; 
 divine vengeance would soon overtake them. To 
 rob God of his honour, and forge things in his 
 name, that they had no grounds to believe came 
 from him, but merely to impose on the public. 
 Such people, with all their boasted wisdom of re- 
 ligion, know no more than the wild Indians, the 
 Pagans, Turks, or Infidels. If they knew any thing 
 of religion, they must know they were kindling 
 the wrath cf God, the malice of hell, and 
 their names must be had in everlasting reproach 
 amongst mankind. This ignorance I have found 
 in boasters of religion in a Christian land; and they 
 judge me another such as themselves. 
 
 I shall now answer for myself. The thought of 
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 gain was never in my view, and what I thought I 
 was commanded of the Lord, I obeyed ; but so far 
 from any gains at present, I now stand one hun- 
 dred pounds worse than I should, had I never took 
 pen in hand, and I can prove it to the world. Then 
 where are my gains ? What I have laid out, is for 
 the Lord, in my judgment'; and if it proves so in 
 the end, be assured the Lord will reward me dou- 
 ble fold. Then you may say, you wish the Lord 
 had visited you instead of me. But remember, 
 ypu despised the visitation of the Lord ; and said, 
 you knew enough of yourselves, without regard- 
 ing what the Lord should say, or what he hath 
 spoken concerning us. 
 
 Aid, that the public may be further satisfied I do 
 not write for gain, I shall make this remark, that it 
 is well known to ail my acquaintance, that I can 
 maintain myself by my trade, as decently as any 
 woman of my line of life would wish to live ; and 
 should have placed myself in business years since, 
 had I not been ordered to leave all, to follow on to 
 know the Lord, and then I assuredly should know 
 him. So I have done as the merchants do, ran all 
 at a venture ; >and I have done as Peter did, 
 launched into the great deep. 
 
 And boisterous waves have swelled high, 
 And oft I've felt a Peter's cry ; 
 But though I've launch'd into the sterna, 
 J hope to meet my Saviour's arm, 
 Who oft has blamM my unbelief, 
 When I, like Peter, sunk in grief. 
 But now what dangers shall I fear, 
 If on the seas my Lord is near ? 
 Then he will keep me in his arms, 
 Though men and devils raise the storm;.. 
 
 I have given my answer to that part of the world 
 who have said, I print for gain ; and now * shall 
 give the answer of the Spirit to these words. 
 
 " Now let these boasting fools appear, 
 To write or act as thou hast here ; 
 Then they must have an arm like 
 Ar>d so confound the Trinity.
 
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 But they wish, and wish in vain ; 
 A hand like thine they'll never gain ; 
 Because their pride, 1 well do know, 
 Would swell too high if it was so, 
 The prophet Balaam they'd become^ 
 For Balak's gold they all would long. 
 Then how such heart could I obtain, 
 The heavenly victory for to gain ? 
 The oath that I did swuar to thee 
 Could never gain the victory; 
 For gold they'd ask as their reward, 
 And earthly grandeur their regard. 
 Then all my plan must be in vain, 
 To act like man in Herod's reign, 
 When to the damsel he did swear, 
 Whate'er sue ask'd he'd grant her there, 
 Unto the half of all his crown, 
 Because his kingdom so is found. 
 So now the same 1 offer'd thee, 
 One-half, like man, I'll give to thee. 
 So hear together both the sound ; 
 Let men or- devils this confound : 
 The damsel's nralice did appear 
 So influenc'd by her mother there, 
 That envy swell'd her wretched breast, 
 For my disciple she did thirst, 
 And every grandeur threw aside, 
 Revenge was all her haughty pride; 
 If she could have the Prophet's head, 
 All other grandeurs might be dead. 
 And now :o thee 'twas just the same, 
 When powerfully the Spirit came, 
 To tell the oath that I had made, 
 And half my kingdom ofiered, 
 Revenge was all that sweli'd thy breast, 
 And pray'd that Satan might be cast, 
 As John the Baptist was before 
 And now the mystery all. see clear : 
 For in a charger this was done 
 And now this charge I give to man, 
 To give the dams-el up her will, 
 And then my oath I will fulfil. 
 And now her will you may demand, 
 And on her head like stars now stand ; 
 Then you shall see the glittering crown. 
 Beneath her feet the moon is found, 
 That in the darkness giveth light, 
 And in the day los'th all his sight. 
 
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 So here's a mystery deep for man, 
 I've shewn you all my heavenly plan; 
 And let my shepherd to appear, 
 That did inquire thy combat here : 
 How thon could'st e'er destroy the joe, 
 Or in what mannt-r wish to know; ' 
 I gave this answer from thy pen : 
 The combat must begin by men ; 
 The damsel ask'd, and men fullill'd. 
 And now, ye learned, try your skill, 
 And then FlPspeak in words more plain, 
 How with them both you must contend. 
 So here's the answer to the world : 
 Had thy desire been for base gold, 
 Such promise I would never make ; 
 So no\t, yc fools, see your mistake, 
 You all may wish, and wish in vain, 
 Her baud and heart you'll never gain ; 
 While all your wishing is for gold, 
 Your hands and hearts does Satan hold ; 
 And now his- purse you may command. 
 If you by arts can forge her hand ; 
 But never let her hand appear, 
 Nor yet her name, I charge you here, 
 Unless herself she does command, 
 While on this earth her lite doth stand ; 
 To print her writings I forbid, 
 Unless by her 'tis So decreed." 
 
 Now as I am come to the conclusion of my fourth 
 book, I must beg liberty to answer for myself to 
 the public. Some say I have written nonsense, which 
 they cannot understand; while others say that my 
 writings ought to be burnt, as I am setting the 
 world at variance; the father against the son, and 
 the son against the father; so floods of oaths and 
 curses are poured out against me on the one hand, 
 and the greatest approbation of my writings is 
 given me on the other, as being beyond the power 
 of human learning; and that none but the Spirit 
 of God could indite such writings. Now as men say, 
 loughtto print what they could understand, Imust 
 bring you to understand the K'th chapter of the 
 Revelation of St. John : The dragon rcas wroth with 
 the woman, and cast out floods of water against
 
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 frer ; and so cloth man against me. You are not to 
 suppose this dragon meant the devil, that he co.iid 
 do it of himself; no; it is in the heart of man, 
 he must do it: and in man it is already done. And 
 the earth helped the woman, and swallowed up the 
 flood* ; and so the earth hath helped me ; and I 
 have worthy friends, and malicious enemies. Let 
 both read the 12th chapter of the Revelation, and 
 conscience must bear them witness, " We are mak- 
 ing the truth of the prophecies, and pouring the 
 whole on our heads. But how is she travailing in 
 birth, and crying to be delivered ?" may be your 
 inquiry. " If we are making good the one, how will 
 you prove the other?" I answer, I am still complain- 
 ing to be delivered ; for till my writings are proved 
 by the standard fixed for me, I shall never be 
 delivered, nor can the wound of my heart ever be 
 healed. For Avhat I have already seen, is through 
 a glass darkly ; but then I shall see face to face, 
 and know in whom I have believed, and my bur- 
 den will fall from me, and not before. So the same 
 Spirit that made the Revelation at first, hath 
 brought it round and placed it in such a manner 
 as to make that chapter plain and true, if men have 
 any understanding at all. I have many friends 
 and many foes ; the world helpeth me, and per- 
 secuteth me : So man is the earth that was made of 
 the dust of the ground ; and if one man opens his 
 mouth and casts out floods, another opens his 
 mouth and swalloweth them up, as you will see 
 when the truth is proved. So here is the noon-day 
 sun before you ; and will you say, then we are sun- 
 bllnd, and cannot see it ? I answer, the fault is 
 your's, and not mine; for I have made the crooked 
 path straight before you; and remember the days 
 of Noah and Lot, which are full as plain ; but if 
 men will shut their eyes against the day-light, the 
 fault is not mine. Will men find fault with their 
 Bibles, because they cannot understand them? The
 
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 ways of the Lord were always past man's finding 
 out, and his footsteps were hid in the great deep. 
 So let not men find fault with their Maker, because 
 they cannot find out his words nor wisdom. Who 
 is the man that can direct the Almighty? or who 
 can find him out to perfection ? Those that did judge 
 my writings nonsense, 1 must be plain to tell them, 
 do not understand good sense. Did they come from 
 myself, I would not say one word to justify them ; 
 I should blush to praise my own works ; but know- 
 ing every truth in them, thai they are from the Spirit 
 of the Living God ; therefore I will take upon me 
 to say, they are spoken in wisdom greater than ever 
 was in man, and brought round in such a manner to 
 fulfil the Bible, that it is impossible for any spirit 
 to bring it so close to the Bible, that did not in the 
 first place inspire men to compose it : he that was 
 the author of one, is now the finisher of both, whose 
 unerring wisdom men have taken upon them in every 
 age of the world to find fault with. But I am ready 
 to stand the trial, and meet my judges as they are 
 fixed forme, and my trust is in the God of my sal~ 
 vation : in the fire he hath promised to be with me ; 
 and the waters shall not drown me; but had I 
 learned the foolish nonsense of this world, then the 
 people of the world w r ould have understood it; but 
 as the natural man knoweth not the things of God, 
 for they are spiritually discerned ; then let not men 
 judge of things they know nothing about, nor ex- 
 ercise themselves in things too high for them. I 
 have already told you my writings must be judged 
 By "learned olvines ; and the sheep must be led by 
 tfie~voice~of the shepherds. J^ fy j^ ^/ 
 
 So now your charges you may load, 
 
 And let your shots to fly, 
 You all will find I have a God, 
 
 And every armour's nigh, 
 That will confound in every sound ; 
 His armour I'll put on, 
 And then he'll shake the earthly ground,
 
 I mfrart the hearts of men. 
 When they appear to sec it clear, 
 
 Confounded all will be, 
 That did pretend to baffle here 
 
 " We cannot answer thce 
 
 One word of a thousand. It is the Lord's doing, 
 and marvellous in our eyes." 
 
 But now I shall answer those who say, I am set- 
 ting the world at variance. I am sorry to say, I 
 never remember the world in peace since I knew it ; 
 for I may say, forty years have I been grieved with 
 a crooked and perverse generation, in a world where 
 I never saw any true happiness nor peace in my life. 
 And now I will call every man to bear me witness 
 from his own conscience, if perfect peace and true 
 happiness were ever in his dwelling for a long con- 
 tinuance at home ; and what do we now see but tu- 
 mults abroad ? In these things men's own conscien- 
 ces must condemn them. I never kindled the ha- 
 tred of the son against the father, nor of the father 
 against the son ; but the son hath been opposite 
 to his father's will ever since I knew the world. 
 Let men look into their own hearts and families, 
 and conscience must bear them witness to the 
 truth. So let no man say, when he is tempted, I 
 am tempted of God, when he is drawn away by his 
 own lust to do evil. But would men hearken to my 
 writings, they would forsake the evil, and learn to 
 do good, and be flocking unto Jesus Christ, as doves 
 unto windows, crying out, with the trembling 
 Gaoler, "What shall we do to be saved to inherit 
 ''the crown that is before us, looking for, and hast- 
 " ening, the coining of the Lord Jesus Christ ?" 
 
 As a report prevails, that my writings are not of 
 myself, but extracts from other books; it is proper 
 for me to observe, I shall not say what a hardened 
 wretch such judges must think me, were I capable, 
 of selecting from other men's works, and, by giving
 
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 them a new dress, insinuate to the world they were 
 revealed to me by the Lord. But as I must stand 
 the trial, whether such books can be produced or 
 not, I now forbid every one from printing any of 
 my productions, unless employed by me ; and I 
 hereby challenge the world, by asserting, there ne- 
 ver were such writings since the world was created, 
 as mine are. I have explained to you in this book 
 the nature of Christ's second coming: already in 
 the Spiiit, according to the Scriptures. Now judge 
 'for yourselves how long Christ remained upon 
 the earth before he expired on the cross, and 
 said it was finished, and recollect how many mira- 
 cles he had previously wrought. 
 
 Now if these books you can see clear, 
 
 You'll know the Spirit of Christ is here, 
 
 Or the greatest impostor ever known ; 
 
 Then judge what a trial for me is to come. 
 
 Therefore every Printer I hereby forbid, 
 
 No more than I publish my name for to spread. 
 
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 The Strange EfeSls of Faith ; 
 
 Wl 1H 
 
 Remarkable Prophecies, 
 
 MADE IN 1792, &c, 
 
 Of Things which arc to come. 
 
 FIFTH PART. 
 
 HAVING published to the world such wondrous 
 prophecies, as many are at a loss to give 
 credit to, and others judge it the disorder of 
 a confused brain, I shall inform my readers, that 
 my head was so disordered from my youth up, and 
 so were the heads of my forefathers : Therefore, if 
 the world judge, that a firm belief in the Lord, rely- 
 ing on all the truths of the Bible coming from men, 
 inspired by God, and the words left on record by 
 our blessed Lord and Saviour, is madness to be- 
 lieve, I was born mad, and so was my mother be- 
 fore me, as they will see i*i the volume of this book, 
 from the short account I shall give of my life. 
 
 From my early age, the fear of the Lord was 
 deeply placed on my mind and heart. Reading the 
 gospel of Christ, and all the persecution he went 
 
 B b through, 
 
 Printed for Joanna Southcotf . by 
 C. Floyde, JHib-&Ueet,
 
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 through, made me love him, and fear to offend him, 
 and I felt my heart burn with indignation against 
 his accusers, and that as I grew in years I grew in 
 grace, and in the fear of the Lord. I shall omit 
 particulars at present, and corne to some singular 
 circumstance that happened to my family, which 
 made me believe in my early age the Lord spake by 
 dreamsland visions of the nighr, and that the angels 
 of ; theLord are rhinistering spirits, to administer to 
 the heirs of salvation. 
 
 I shall quote one instance that happened to my 
 father's brother,, which convinced me the Lord was 
 rou >d our beds, and in our paths, the same now as 
 he was in ages p ist, to day, yesterday, and for ever 
 the same, as I shall infer from my father's brother, 
 who was H remarkably religious young man from his 
 youth up ; and when he was desired to take more 
 pleasure in the world than he did, he made this 
 reply, " I cannot live as others do ; this is no 
 <r world to me, neither will my life be long in it." 
 He was then mate of a ship, and when he took leava 
 of my father, he desired him to live for a better 
 world ; and said, (( he hoped they should meet in 
 " glory, but did not think they should ever meet 
 together again in this world." In this manner he 
 took leave of all his friends, and so bade them 
 farewell. When he \\as returning home, he wrote 
 a letter to his mother, signifying that he should go 
 in a ship bound for London, and leave the ship des- 
 tined for Topsham, as he intended to go and see his 
 father's family. But my grandmother had been 
 warned of his death in a dream, and informed him 
 by letter that she had been troubled in dreams con- 
 cerning him, and that she should never rest con- 
 tented until she hid seen him. To oblige his mo- 
 ther he altered bis mind, and sailed in the ship 
 
 bound
 
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 bound for Topsham ; the captain of which disco- 
 vering another ship many leagues before him, said 
 he would be in Topsham before her ; and in order 
 to effect which, he steered his ship a nearer course, 
 and she running on a rock was dashed to pieces ; 
 ail the crew, except one man, went to the bottom, 
 who saved himself on a broken plank, and was 
 picked up by another vessel passing by, and who, 
 on his arrival at Topsham, related the circumstance 
 of the ship's perishing, as above described. Here 
 was my uncle's foreknowledge of his death, and my 
 grandmother's tii earn, verified together. This sin- 
 gular instance, with many others, I never looked on 
 no other than a sure sign the Lord was with us as in 
 ages past ; but now it is explained to me, that those 
 things that have happened in our family, were de- 
 signed as warnings to the nations that the end of all 
 things was at hand. I shall now give the explana- 
 tion as communicated to me by the Spirit. 
 
 Then now together I will shew the whole, 
 
 It is my angels guard the iraked soul ; 
 
 And as the soul and body doth unite. 
 
 Where I give faith, I always give a light. 
 
 So faith in him in early aee vou see, . 
 
 His faith and knowledge both did come from me ; 
 
 And as he said, in earlv age he dy'd, 
 
 His mother's diea:n was unto him apply'd, 
 
 To have him hastily for to come home, 
 
 And iu that way hio death did surely come. 
 
 But th'/ this thing was done for some years paft, 
 
 1 m_'a"to bung it to your land at laft. 
 
 And with the Captain I shall first begin. 
 
 A shii. bcfoie him thou hast said was seen, 
 
 Which made the captain turn a nearer way; 
 
 Then now, O England ! hear what 1 do say : 
 
 Your ship againft the rock you'll surely spill, 
 
 And in the end yourselves you'll surely foil, 
 
 If you intend to turn another way 
 
 Than the strait path that doth before you lay 
 
 For like his knowledge, and the dream that's here, 
 
 In ail thy writings you may this compare; 
 
 For
 
 For as the dream and knowledge here ii penn'd, 
 
 J tell you, England, this will be your end, 
 
 If ye like mad men turn another way 
 
 Than the strait path that doth before you lay. 
 
 So by your wisdom it is vain to plan, 
 
 I tell yon plain the rock you'll split upon, 
 
 .And o;i the broken plank you may return, 
 
 If you intend a nearer way to come. 
 
 But, as thousay'st thou doit not underfland, 
 
 Nor in what manner this is to vour land ; 
 
 Jt is men's faith will turn a diffrent way 
 
 Than the strait path that doth before them lay, 
 
 And to the bottom you that w.iy will sink, 
 
 You little know how near you'ie on the brink. 
 
 To have thy faith and k nowledge all come true, 
 
 Jull like the Captain thousands now will do, 
 
 Who saw the ship so fteady go before, 
 
 And by the flrait line reach'd his native fliore ; 
 
 So if the ftrait path you do now go on, 
 
 Then to the native ftiore you'll surely come; 
 
 But if the Itrait path you do now forsake, 
 
 Your (hip againO the rocks you'll surely break ; 
 
 That is, your faith will split againft the rock, 
 
 That now is fix d, your anchor you've forgot, 
 
 For sure the Hock of Ages now is come, 
 
 And now like mad-men some will split thereon, 
 
 Because they'll thuik <o tvim another way. 
 
 It is a myii'ry, 1 do hear UK e say, 
 
 How he that (hunn d the lock came safely home, 
 
 And he that turn'd theieto thou say'st was drown'd ; 
 
 So herethou'it puzzird if the rock io me, 
 
 And he that came so close drowned fhould be. 
 
 Then here I tell thee now the lines go deep, 
 
 He faw no lock nor never thought of it, // 
 
 But yet the (trait path he did soon forsake, T^ ^ ^ 7 
 
 And on the rock his fhip in pieces brake. 
 
 So now the Rock of Ages it is come, 
 
 And by men's blindness they will split thereon ; 
 
 They'll caft no anchor, nor will judge him near, 
 
 And on that lock they'll fink in deep despair. 
 
 .Trifling's the fhadow but the subilance deep, 
 
 And from the parable I mean to speak, 
 
 And so ordain'd it in thy family, 
 
 That in the end your nation they may say, 
 
 That 'tis in vain for man to turn aside, 
 
 The path is flrait, the ocean now is wide, 
 
 And if you wifh to reach your natire fhore, 
 
 See
 
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 See ev'ry land-mark thdt is phc'd before, 
 
 A id then safe harbour yo i will surely gain. 
 
 D.-ep is this parable I give to man. 
 
 The one objerv d the land-rmrk set b?fo'~e, 
 
 With (ready p udence reach ':! hi* native 'hore ; 
 
 The other timi'd, and had no mark at all, 
 
 And his own wisdom *o >;i brought 0,1 hi-; fall : 
 
 So by men's w'sJom now they'll turn aiiJe, 
 
 And think the world i, as the ocean w.de, 
 
 But dj not know my rock is p'ac'd so near. 
 
 While those that do not see it will split there, 
 
 While those who see the 'and-m :ik how its plac'd 
 
 Will reach the lh<>ie, arid all he truth embrace. 
 
 But as thy uncle in the ship was found, 
 
 (That by the captain's madness he was drown'd) 
 
 He found the Koc'< of Ages there to Itand, 
 
 And bv hi; faith possess d a better laud : 
 
 So if men's madness doth deih'ov the julr, 
 
 I tell you plain a better world will burft. 
 
 So now let men of learning weigh this d-^ep, 
 
 I've fhew'd you plainly how the end will break ; 
 
 For deep's the parable I've given here, 
 
 And in the end the truth you'll all see clear. 
 
 Having ended with the explanation of my father's, 
 brother, I shall here add a singular instance of my 
 mother's brother; who was, like the former, a re- 
 markably religious young m i i, and was so inti- 
 mately acquainted with the young Mr. Dagworthy, 
 that they were like brothers, and were always to- 
 gether every opportunity tney coul<l spire. Their 
 conversation was of things divine, anl their obser- 
 vations and reflections on the wunderous works of 
 Providence were deep, and dt cp were their writings*' 
 But the almost sudden deaMi of the young Mr. 
 Dagworthy sunk deep in mv uncle's heart, as my 
 mother advised him in a letter that Mr. Bag worthy 
 was ill ; but my uncle nut judging him dangerous, 
 tarried to settle some affairs for his mother, and 
 did not go to visit him till a v/eek after; when, on 
 coming to the house, in hopes of finding his friend 
 
 C c better
 
 better, he met his corpse at the door. This sudden 
 shock so took my uncle's heart, that whether it 
 was the death of Mr. Dagworthy, or the reflections 
 of his own mind and heart because he had not gone 
 and seen him sooner, remained unknown to all his 
 friends, but the shock went deep, and a melancholy 
 preyed on his spirits; his sorrows seemed too great 
 to bear, and to fly from them, he one morning said 
 to his mother, I will go out and see the ground, 
 while you get the breakfast. She waited with im- 
 patience his return till nine or ten, and then began 
 to fear his absence. She sent to seek him, but to 
 no purpose. All the family began to be alarmed, 
 tmt vain and fruitless was every search. They 
 tried all the ponds, and sent to all his friends, but 
 to no purpose; none that knew him had seen him. 
 At length my grandmother gave herself up to 
 prayer, and she was warned in a dream, " thy bread 
 e< is cast upon the waters, and in a few days he shall 
 " return again in peace." The next day she opened 
 her Bible, and found nearly the same words, I think 
 in Isaiah. She made herself easy and all her fa- 
 mily, by assuring them their brother John was 
 gone to sea > and though she did npt hear from him 
 for more than a twelvemonth after, yet she did not 
 despair o' seeing him return in peace, which hap- 
 pened within two years after he went to sea, as she 
 had said, when he came home quite composed, to 
 the i cat joy of all his friends. 
 
 These singular instances I look on as a sure 
 sign that the Lord is with us as in ages past, to 
 warn us by ('reams and visions of the night; and a 
 present health in the time of trouble, if we put 
 our whole trust in the God of our Salvation. But 
 now it is given mo to understand, that these things 
 
 happened
 
 ( >99 ) 
 
 happened in my family for deep and weighty signs 
 to the nations, as it is explained in the following 
 manner. 
 
 Now from thy mother's brother I'll explain, 
 
 And bung it closely to the sons of men. 
 
 Thy mother warn'd him of his friend so dear, 
 
 That he was ill, and wifh'd him to appear. 
 
 Thy uncle did not judge his death so nigh, 
 
 Nor thought hi? friend was then ordain'd to die, 
 
 "Which made him to pursue his own affair, 
 
 And in a leisure hour he did appear ; 
 
 Eut then his leisure hour prov'd roo late, 
 
 He met his corpse, and saw his dying fate, 
 
 And then too late to take his laft farewell, 
 
 Which made his heart in agonies to swell, 
 
 To meet the corpse of one he lov'd so dear, 
 
 And of riL vck :rss he was warn'd before: 
 
 Th^'i self-reflection i i his heart did burn, 
 
 Too late, cry'd ho, I with l'dsoonercom 
 
 To take mv leave of me 1 lov'd so dear, 
 
 Ht never ihew'd nv such unkindness here. 
 
 And dll h;s formei ove he < all'd to mind, 
 
 And in j chine; hour In; might find 
 
 Some con (,i riuii in a dving friend, 
 
 But no 1 -'- ti-o i a .', he cry*d, 1 see his end. 
 
 So ?e f .. fl- 10 i -u t,k him in despair ; 
 
 A woumu- : hea t ;;ii'.l ro 'science who can bear ? 
 
 1 o fiv iioin so; io\vs h- went to the seas, 
 
 And judg'd the oct-an wide might give him ease, 
 
 A\ hVh d.d hi fii.-nds and mother much alarm. 
 
 And hf-re's th bread that you muft all discern, 
 
 Which 1 did warn his mother in a dream. 
 
 Ye men of if-aining judge, and now see plain, 
 
 That in th.,t man there was the bread from heav'n, 
 
 And if his writings were unto you giv'n, 
 
 You d see his pond'ring heart and thoughts went deep, 
 
 He lov d his friend, who all my flatntes kept, 
 
 And in his heart he lov'd his Lord the same : 
 
 But now I'll Ihew yon how his folly came. 
 
 To such a madness as you see his end, 
 
 'Twas unbelief concerning of his friend, 
 
 Because he did no' judge his ceath so near. 
 
 And now mv friends 1 give this warning here. 
 
 You see your sister in thib woman iiand,
 
 20 
 
 'iSowarn her brethren I am near at hand, 
 And that my Spirit suivivis (ie cend 
 Just as the hand of death vva^ to h. frisnd. 
 But if you say you will uot now appear, 
 You do not judge my c,.>m-ng i> so near. 
 Then like the former yo-.i will come too late, 
 And like the corpse you all will meet your fate ; 
 For when the Biidegroom he is at tru door, 
 It is too late to say I'm welcome th -ie, 
 For if before you will nut welcome me, 
 Juft like the corpse my vvJconv- \ou iliall see, 
 That is in silence like a dying f'nend, 
 And so you'll find I tell you now your end. 
 If you in unbeiief do linger heic. 
 Juft like the corpse my coining will appear : 
 For as the sickness in that ma,i was lound, 
 Juft so my Spirit is in ev ry bound ; 
 And as the hand of death was m ai his friend, 
 Juft so you'll find I stirtly shall detce ui ; 
 And those that c'o not judge rne now so near, 
 Will find the corpse to niret me it th. do.)r ; 
 That is, my coming it will be the same. 
 Judge as you will, these uiadows never came, 
 But by permission as they came from me, 
 That in the end the snbftance all might s>ee. 
 And now unto the purpose I [hall come, 
 And bring the subftance now unto your home: 
 And in thy mother 1 will p'ace thre here, 
 And with the dying friend myself compare ; 
 And with thy trie e 1 shall place the land. 
 Observe the hift'ry row, and underitand, 
 That as a sifler to vour bnd appear, 
 Thou'rt writing letters to thy brethren here, 
 To tell them plainly I am so descend. 
 And by thy hand I'm warning ev'ry friend, 
 That as the sickness in tee m .n : pnear d, 
 Juft so I'm sick till I the whole have clear'd; 
 Sick of men's sufFri.igs I am tome of late, 
 Sick of their sins for to brin^t on their fate, 
 Sick of the folly I see in mankind, 
 Sick of the fever that ris'th in thy mind. 
 As no physician seeks thy wound to cure, 
 I know thy burthen's more than thoa canft bear, 
 Did I riot take from thee pait of the li aJ, 
 For by thy sorrows thou doft wound thy Lord. 
 So aJl together thus do sicken me, 
 
 And
 
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 And with the dying friend compar'd might be. 
 
 And so the warrrng I have given here ; 
 
 But now the myft'ry I'll begin to clear. 
 
 If that the warning now mv friends don't take, 
 
 Juft like the co^e ;ny convngno v 'viil break, 
 
 And all my death I'll lay befoie your view; 
 
 For like the corpse 'twill be unto the Je^vs, 
 
 For like thy u;u!e they h.ive s'ighted :n J , 
 
 And not beliav'd that I tor th in did iie ; 
 
 But now I warn them all for t.i appear, 
 
 And then mv corpse 'hah me;t them at the door. 
 
 This is a mvtt'ry thou doft not underhand, 
 
 How they will meet mv corpse by my command; 
 
 For when the Jews I warn them to appear, 
 
 Perhaps they'll think some wounded fViend is here, 
 
 Or some disorder, man may easy cure, 
 
 And fay they'll come, and jtv'g- some friend is here; 
 
 For as thou call'tt them they'll judge 'tis a friend, 
 
 But then they'll come my funeral to attend ; 
 
 That is, my death and suff rings they will see, 
 
 And be convinc d that it is surely me 
 
 That now doth warn them of mv sickness here, 
 
 And like the corpse it will to th- m appear ; 
 
 For all my death I'll lay b -fore their view. 
 
 My friends like bearers ev'ry truth will ihew, 
 
 And then the hearts of many I ha'! wound, 
 
 And like thy uncle thev lhall hear the- bound, 
 
 And so dejected they will turn away, 
 
 And soon in grief they'll cross the i aging sea, 
 
 To wa ii their friend of ev'rv truth they Know 
 
 'Tis plain I did for them, the truth is so; 
 
 And .-o the bread is on the waters caft, 
 
 And like thy uncle iuw the Jews will burft, 
 
 Because my d-ath wiil unto them appear, 
 
 And like thy uncle's dying fr. end compare. 
 
 So of the Jews 1 ve told thee now theii end ; 
 
 Deep are the lines that in thv hi't'ry's penn'd ; 
 
 But to the Gentiles if th \ backward come, 
 
 I'll {hew their end as thou di:t now go on. 
 
 So for the present 1 mall end itht-rp 
 
 Let Jews and Gentiles now begin 10 f^ar, 
 
 Left they ftand out too long in unbelief, 
 
 Then in the end they'll find thy under grief; 
 
 Forifthe Gentiles judge I'm not .>o '.igh 
 
 As he didjudge his friend, protiounc'd to die, 
 
 Was not so hafty, they'll find their rniftake, 
 
 P d And
 
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 And in the end their grief like his will break, 
 
 We never attend him in his sickness here, 
 
 Nor for his coming did we once prepare, 
 
 But like the corpse it all is to our view, 
 
 A sudden (hock will Jews and Gentiles know, 
 
 That co not judge the coming of their Lord, 
 
 And how my Spirit has to. you occurr'd, 
 
 Wide wand'ring through the world, nor entertain'd, 
 
 And when in prison, (lories for bread you send. 
 
 And this my Spirit is to man apply'd. 
 
 My friend received now the field is wide, 
 
 As in the Spirit I do now appear, 
 
 And in the Spirit I am wounded here, 
 
 To see my friend to suffer for my sake, 
 
 And in the end I've many friend will break 
 
 As much diftress'd as did thy uncle here ; 
 
 Conscience conde/nn'd us, how fliall we appear, 
 
 As we Mood out so long through unbelief, 
 
 We see too late, which heighten'd all our grief, 
 
 To see the sorrows of our dying friend, 
 
 Then how the funeral {hall we notv attend ? 
 
 This is a my fiery conceal'd from all. 
 
 But maik, your sifter .cives you now the call, 
 
 That you will find is deep in ev'ry line ; 
 
 And from this parable then you will find, 
 
 That deep's the warning I have given all. 
 
 Let Jews and Gentiles now observe the call, 
 
 Left like thy uncle they do find the end, 
 
 And come too late to see a dying friend. 
 
 But on the waters now your bread is caft, 
 
 And like the waters many eyes will burfr, 
 
 Because they know they did forsake my friends ; 
 
 Then how my fun'ral will they now attend? 
 
 Because my fun'ral I fhall place in thee, 
 
 And in the end a myft'ry all will see. 
 
 So here's a parable goes deep for all, 
 
 And in the next the sinners I fliall call, 
 
 Who like the atheifts now do mock the Lord, 
 
 His love nor anger they do not regard. 
 
 So here's the second parable for man, 
 
 And in the third the fatal die mufl come. 
 
 Here 

 
 Here I shall proceed a little further, to shew my 
 readers how 1 was taught, from my early age, the 
 Lord is the same to-day, yesterday, and for ever, 
 as I was instructed from my mother ; whose earn- 
 est prayers were for her children, before they were 
 born, that they might be like Samuel to wait on 
 the Lord, and like Timothy to seek him in their 
 youth. I heard her repeat these words concerning 
 me: She said, she had great faith, great com- 
 fort, and great promises made to her in prayer for 
 me before I was born, and ever since ; and if I was 
 a wrestling Jacob, I should be a prevailing Israel." 
 And I remember her saying these words, "Joanna, 
 my dear child ! mayest thou be a mother in Israel." 
 These things I never understood further than that 
 they applied to my own salvation, and I pondered 
 them deep in my heart. 
 
 I shall leave particulars, and come to the death 
 of a neighbour, who sunk deep in my mind and 
 heart before I was 15 years of age. The man was 
 a professed atheist. The night before he died, his 
 wife requested my mother would permit one of her 
 daughters to stay up by him; and she sent me. 
 At midnight the room shook as though it had been 
 shaken by thunder. The dying man rose up in his 
 bed, and spake, with a voice most dreadful, " there 
 is a great black dog down in the window." I went 
 to compose him, but the dying man replied with 
 more fury, " you think I am light, but I am not; 
 I tell you the devil is there." This shocked my 
 very heart and soul ; the bed shook under him, and 
 the man trembled with great fear. It is impossible 
 to pen what I felt. This continued an hour, and 
 then all was ushed to silence. I do not remember 
 in all this time he once called on the Lord to have 
 
 mercy
 
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 mercy upon him. This made a deep impression on 
 my mind and heart, and made me fear sin more 
 than death. Weighty were my mother's words to 
 me concerning him. 
 
 I shall leave other particulars, and come to my 
 mother's death, which happened a few years after. 
 The night before my mother died, I heard some- 
 thing in her throat. I asked wh-it was the matter ? 
 She answered, " My dear child I don't you e ;r the 
 rattle is upon me ?" It shocked me to the heart* 
 I asked her if she was in any pain ? She answered, 
 "no, my dear child ! 
 
 " Jesus can make a dying bed 
 
 " As sweet as downy pi:lows are, 
 " While on his breaft I lay my head, 
 
 " And breathe my life out sweetly there.'* 
 
 At these words I was almost death struck myself, 
 to think I should lose so good a parent. I went 
 and called my sister, and we both sat by her side 
 till morning ; when, thinking our mother was bat- 
 ter, we went down about our dairy work, and left a. 
 neighbour to sit by her, not supposing her end was 
 so near. At eight in the morning (about an hour 
 after we left her) she said to Mrs. Ven, her time 
 was but short, and rejoiced in the hour of death. 
 " As to my children, said she, I must leave them 
 to the Lord ; but tell Joanna to come up to me. " I 
 immediately obeyed her summons ; but the doctor 
 having been there just before, and not conceiving 
 her death so nigh, my sister tarried to finish her 
 butter, and I went up alone. When I came, she 
 took me by the hand, and said, tf My dear child ! 
 stand here, and learn to die; live in Christ, for to 
 die in him is great gain. What profit would all 
 
 the
 
 the world be to me no v, if I ha:l it to leave to you, 
 and I myself >vis lo->t? Yoa are a maid of lively 
 spirits and great courage ; let your courage be 
 strong in the Lord ; cast all thy care on him, for 
 he careth for tliee ; commit all thy ways unto the 
 Lord, as he will direct thy goings ; and the blessing 
 of God be with thee, my dear child !" then fasten- 
 ing her dying hand in mine, she tried to utter more 
 words ; and my father and sister entering the room 
 just as she had done addres^Hg me, she endeavored 
 to speak to them, but her voice failed her, and she 
 fell asleep in the Lord, with her dying hand closed 
 in mine. It is fruitless to pen what we all felt on 
 so sudden a change in my mother, as she had not 
 been long ill, and no one had reason to judge her 
 dissolution so near, 
 
 My mother's dying words so strongly impressed 
 my mind, that, reflecting on the different shapes I 
 had seen death, in the man, and in my mother, it 
 made me weary heaven with prayers, to have some 
 assurance; which were increased, till at length [ 
 was powerfully questioned, " What is thy petition, 
 and what is thy request ?" I replied, Lord, thoti 
 knowest; a new heart. I was .mswcred, " A new- 
 heart I will give thee, and a new spirit I will put 
 within thee ; f will wnfe my laws upon thy heart, 
 and I will put my Spirit in thy inner parts, so that 
 thou shalt have the Spirit of God to bear witness 
 with thy spirit .h it thou art a child of God, whereby 
 thou shalt ciy, Abba, Father, my Lord, and my 
 God." At these words my fears vanished ; 1 began 
 to rejoice in the God of my salvation, and began to 
 have a lively and strong faith in the Lord; and 
 shortly after I was put to the trial of my faith ; as 
 I was inwardly told what would happen concerning 
 
 E e my
 
 my father, which my father thought madness in 
 me to believe; and asked me, if I thought the 
 Lord would work miracles as he did for the chil- 
 dren of Israel ? I said, the Lord was as well able 
 to do it now, as then ; while some put their trust in 
 chano*s, and others in horses, let Israel trust in 
 the God of their salvation : 
 
 Tliro'ig! 1 him the weak confound the ftrong, 
 
 A,;d oinfh their haughty fre. ; 
 And sn thou qu''.i"st the heathen's tongue 
 
 1 hat thee aud thi:;e oppose. 
 
 Mv f/*hor though*- mv faith presumptuous ; but 
 whec h; ir.n- the L( n hud done perfectly as I had 
 it au-i l.'fM iv the \vteK wjs at an end, he bursted 
 into tears, and said "Joanna, my dear child! if I 
 had faith like unto thee, I could freely consent to be 
 burnt in ihe flames. As the spirit of Elijah fell 
 upon Flisha, so has the spirit of thy mother fell 
 upon thee. God hath revealed it unto thee ; thou 
 art taught of God, and not of man". I shall for- 
 bear descending to particulars, and proceed to re- 
 late a singular circumstance that happened some 
 years after. 
 
 Having a desire to go abroad, I left my father's 
 home, and got a situation in a gentleman's family, 
 where my life was rendered miserable by a wicked 
 foe t man, who finding his base arts ineffectual, stu- 
 died nothing but revenge. I therefore thought it 
 dangerous to abide in the house. On a Sunday as 
 I was in a field, bathed in tears, devout in prayers, 
 looking towards heaven, ar.d earnestly supplicating 
 my Deliverance, 1 repeated these words: 
 
 From
 
 From tlii* sa<1 prison set me free, 
 
 And <larig'ro<is davs to frame, 
 Lord ! thou wilt sine deliver me, 
 
 A. id I rtiall prai e thy name, 
 And holv men will join wall me 
 
 1 hy praises to proclaim. 
 
 As soon, as 1 had finished these lines, I was an- 
 swered, *' Thou shalt not spend another sabbath in 
 this house." I went in very cheerful, relying on 
 the words. The footman, who always followed me 
 as close as a shadow, complained of my absence, 
 and said I was never in house like other servants. 
 I smiled at his malice, and observed to him, that 
 I hoped the next servant would please them better, 
 for I should leave them soon. I went up-stairs in 
 prayer to the Lord to direct me. This was on 
 Sunday evening. The Tuesday following the house- 
 keeper came out in the dairy where I was, and, 
 with tears flowing from her eyes, informed me that 
 there was a maid come in my place, and that I was 
 to go to morrow, it being the gentleman's custom 
 never to allow servants any warning. The reason 
 of my being turned away was through the false in- 
 sinuations of the footman ; who, finding all his vile 
 purposes baffled, persuaded my master 1 was grow- 
 ing mad. About five years after, through the ex- 
 travagance of this same footman and the rest of the 
 servants, and partly by his own misconduct, the 
 same gentleman became a bankrupt, lost his senses 
 thereby, and was sent to Bedlam, leaving behind 
 h m a wife, not 30 years of age, and four small 
 children, to lament his misfortunes. I never heard 
 what became of ihe footman; but some of the other 
 seivants are now vagabonds. The housekeeper 
 w s heard to exclaim, just after she had given me 
 notice to quit, " M} God ! what is my master 
 
 about?
 
 about? he has this day lisch irge-J the best servant 
 in his house." My re.i-.L-rs \viil hereafter discover 
 my reasons for putting these incidents in print. 
 
 From my last place, I repaired to a friend's 
 house at Fairmile, a religious good family, with 
 whom my mother had been acquainted, and tarried 
 with them two days. I had intended going to the 
 west of Devon, to see my sister, but as 1 was pro- 
 ceeding towards Exeter, meditating and praying 
 that the Lord would direct me where to go. I was 
 instructed to go into Exeter, to ask for some cakes 
 at a huckster's shop, and there I should be directed 
 where to go. I pursued my journey accordingly ; 
 and when I came into Exeter I applied to a huck- 
 ster's shop for some cakes. The mistress of the 
 shop knew me, and asked if I was not Mr. South- 
 cott's daughter of Gittisham ? i sai J my name was 
 Southcott, but marvelled hi-vv she kne.v me, not hav- 
 ing the pleasure oi knowing her. She said she knew 
 me by my father and mother, as she had Jived 
 housekeeper in a gentleman's family, whose ground 
 joined my father's. She requested me to sit, and 
 we entered into conversation. I asked if places 
 were plenty in Exeter? She said she believed not, 
 she knew of none. I then became sorrowful, medi- 
 tating to myself how I should be deceived as I never 
 was before, since my faith was so strong in the 
 Lord. As I was thus reflecting with myself, a 
 woman came into the shop, and the mistress asked 
 her if she knew of any place ? because if you do, 
 continued she, heie is a wo;;. an, of a creditable fa- 
 mily, whose parents I well know to be worthy, good 
 people, in want of a situation. The woman made 
 for answer, that she was at a house last Tuesday, 
 the master and mistress of which enquired of her, 
 
 if
 
 C 209 } 
 
 if she knew of a servant ? I thought to myself, 
 that was the identical day on which I left 'Squire 
 ' 's house. I enquired of her their ch.iracter*. 
 She gave the mister a very good one, and sai i there 
 was no mm but him in the house. I thought to 
 myself, tint was the place the Lord had prepared 
 for me ; so I went and offered, was accepted, went 
 there the week following, and rern .-liru'd in the fa- 
 mily near five years. But here I slid'l drop my 
 history for the present, as it would be a field too 
 large to enter into the mysteries of my being sent 
 into that house. But what ye know not now, ye 
 will know hereafter. 
 
 I shall now come to the explanation of the death 
 of the atheist, and the death of my mother ; for 
 these things were shewed to me, to convince man- 
 kind heredfter, that those who will not believe thit 
 th.ere is a God in this life, will most assuredly find 
 a devil in their death, as he aid. 
 
 The Beginning of the $d Pira l le. 
 
 ( 
 
 Then now the thirri duth unto thee appear, 
 Thy neighbour's death, so shocki'tg in thy ear. 
 He liv'd a tfrangn to me ail his Jays, 
 He judg'd no God, nor thought upoii his ways* 
 Thou say '(} an atheift he sp^nt all his life ; 
 And, like th .* husband, was thou know 1\ the wife; 
 For so they liv'd, and so they pei fecit d) 'd , 
 Atlaft in agonies the huiband cry'd, 
 When on his death-bed, and his h.iK drew near, 
 It was my wisdom for to have thee there. 
 For well 1 knew the days Wc-re nigh at hand 
 That all these (hadows matt conu i.i your land* 
 For as the types of ev rv thing are here, 
 Juft >o the subilan.ce will to all appear. 
 Ff
 
 At twelve at night thou say'ft the room did 
 
 And great confusion from thy neighbour broke, 
 
 With voice moft dreadful he did thee alarm, 
 
 And taw the fiend that thou didft not discern, 
 
 \Vhich Jike a dog did fiift to him appear, 
 
 His senses firong, and saw the devil there. 
 
 He saw thy fo:iy for to judge him light, 
 
 But well I know he saw thy ev'ry sight. 
 
 It was the devil that did fhake the room, 
 
 And for his prey he certainly was come ; 
 
 15u by tr.y angels 1 had guarded thee, 
 
 A -'ght so tiitndful they'd not let thee see : 
 
 But oh ! the following night hadit thou been there* 
 
 A voice more dreadful fhuu woukl'ft surely hear. 
 
 And yet all this did ns.-t his friends awake, 
 
 His wife nor sons did not their vice forsake. 
 
 Thou say'ft on God that he never did call ; 
 
 Ko, no, that name was bury'd from them all J 
 
 He liv'd a heathen, and a heathen dy'd, 
 
 And to th? heathens r.ow mutt be apply'd ; 
 
 For many heathens now art in your land, 
 
 "Who judge no God. nor do not underftand 
 
 That unto Satan they givf ev'ry will ; 
 
 But now's the time all :>urh he'll surely chill, 
 
 For now thf midnight-hour is coming near, 
 
 That a'l suth heathens may begin to fear; 
 
 For Satan's fury now is coming on, 
 
 And fail you'll find he'll (hake ihe hearts of men. 
 
 That to his spiiit th't-y themselves do bind, 
 
 A midnight-hour is coming they will find, 
 
 That he will surely fha'ke'their house of clay. 
 
 And like the dying man will thousands say, 
 
 In ev'ry fliape I see the devil there. 
 
 JFor now the midnight-hour will come for all 
 
 That on the ] ord tor mercy will not call. 
 
 The midnight hour for all is nigh at hand, 
 
 Then like the dying man will tiembling sinners {land, 
 
 For now the hour of death is coming near, 
 
 The death of Sin and Satan will appear 
 
 Much like a grtech' dog to get his prey, 
 
 Or in his fliape hi{> cwn for to convey 
 
 Unto his kingdom., there they all mufl dwell 
 
 L'r.til 1 r. me u lesnie death and hell. 
 
 For dea'.h arc! hu mi-ft thtn give i;p their dead, 
 
 Then eanh's ioumlation j;cv\h' will be iaid. 
 
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 But if your backs are bras?, and finnevvs here 
 
 An- made of iron, that you do not fear 
 
 To see that prison till the judgment-day, 
 
 And Satan's fetters do not frighten ye, 
 
 Then on the Lord 1 know you will not call. 
 
 Til! Satan comes to bring that fear on all, 
 
 Andy ur irp?ntance then will come too late, 
 
 When in your piison you will meet your fate, 
 
 And see the fiend, whose ways you like so well ; 
 
 And to all nations now this thing I tell : 
 
 Tha,t as the midnight-hour did then appear, 
 
 The dying man, a neighbour, that is here, 
 
 So will the midnight-hour for all come on, 
 
 Th^t trembling voices be in ev'ry land j 
 
 For Satan's roving like a bead of prey, 
 
 And like a dog he tteals my fiieep away, 
 
 And like himself in ev'ry fliape appear; 
 
 And nowth: midnight-hour for all is near, 
 
 Who unto Satan do their spirits bind,, 
 
 "Who fear no God, nor keep him in their mind; 
 
 Then sine tb< devil he will make them fear 
 
 If God cannot ; an i now I warn you here 
 
 The midnight-hour for all is nigh at hand, 
 
 When like the dying man you'll trembling (land. 
 
 But if your God you now begin to fear, 
 
 You need not tremble when his hand is near: 
 
 But if the fear of God you call away, 
 
 The midnight-hour doth close before you lay : 
 
 For like the dying man all lands will lLake, 
 
 And fair confufion on you all will break. 
 
 So 'mark the caution 1 have given all, 
 
 And as the shadows will the subfiance fall. 
 
 So in ihe hi't'ry you muft weigh all deep ; 
 
 I've (hew d the end how ail tilings they will break. 
 
 Am) now thts danger.- you will not come near, 
 
 If you fear GoJ> the other yon need not fear. 
 
 To fear tne Lord I'd have you all begin, 
 
 Or Satan's fury scon 1m fearo wi 1 bring; 
 
 And like the room the earth wilUuiely ihake, 
 
 And Satan's fury fait upon you break. 
 
 So f your fears you bani.1i all at fir A, 
 
 I tell you in the end they all will burir. 
 
 For as the hitt'ry doth to all appear, 
 
 Just so you'll fi'.jd the end of all is near. 
 
 So now these trifling fl'adows weigh them deep, 
 
 For so the substance unto all will break. 
 
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 The following is the ^th P irablc of my Mother's 
 
 Death. 
 
 Now from thy mother h -re's a line for all. 
 She had no fear when I her life did call ; 
 JBut yet h- r God QIC feared all her days, 
 And in her death She gave him ev'ry praise, 
 And all h^r children did com nit to me. 
 Now here's the difFrem masters, let men see : 
 The one with pleasur did her Lord behold, 
 The other saw his God, and soon turn'd cold, 
 That is, his heart was chill 'd with ev'ry sight, 
 The other dy'd with tiiumph and delight. 
 And in this manner soon your lands wi.l burst. 
 And now like Moses here the words are plac'd ; 
 For good and evil now I set before, 
 Chuse which you will, and let your fears be o'cr^ 
 For if you say you now wil chuse the good, 
 You need not fear, you all will shun the bad ; 
 And like thy mother thou wilt find a fiend, 
 That will prot^dt thee safe unto the end ; 
 But if the evil you say you will chuse, 
 And all the good you say you will refuse, 
 My lov nor anger you say you'll not fear, 
 Then like thr dying man you may take care, 
 Because your fea:s will meet you in onedjy, 
 To see your lead r trembling then you',1 'ay, 
 And then your tears th:-y wili come once for all* 
 O England ! Fng'and ! hear thy ev'ry t a'J. 
 For as that peace possess'd thy mother'. biaat^ 
 And in my bosom The compos'd hrr rest, 
 So shall my friends, that do re y on me, 
 As peaceful mansions each of them shall see, 
 Then all their children they'll commit to me: 
 And now her dying woids I'll answei thee. 
 Thy mother's faith it unto thee was known, 
 But in this hist'ry not one quarter s shewn ; 
 But from the faith rhatthou hast written herej 
 Her brother's death I'll now together clear. 
 She for her children all alike did pray 
 That fiom the womb they might be born of me. 
 But here'* a myst ry, none do understand 
 It is by heifftup comes your ev'ry land;
 
 Then as through h*irs!iip it doth ill appear, 
 
 The fourth daughter no\v nust b- the heir, 
 
 Since all che other three are s.iriiv 1 a 1 
 
 To whom as h^irs the prom;-.e it 
 
 To Sarah iirst tha proni,? it wss 
 
 That all her chiid-s:i ho i!J '.r- .u:rs of heav'n; 
 
 It was in Isaac all the earth I bl'.-ss'<l, 
 
 And all be'ievers are like Isjac p'ac'd. 
 
 So here's the first t : iat did assirns th^ htir, 
 
 To whom the pro.nis'd l,n I wis given there. 
 
 Now to che seconJ h -ir of course 1 come, 
 
 And that is Erther mufl to all ba known ; 
 
 Who, when her brethren weie -\ j sign'd to die 
 
 Upon a gallows, built by i la-nan high, 
 
 Efther, their lifter, then -iid so appear, 
 
 To free ber brethren, as a^i ijeireis there, 
 
 And the king's favour .he for M^m did gain, 
 
 So half his king looi h li I them obtain. 
 
 And here th? royj ic pi re it vas plac'd, 
 
 She free'd her people 1 , a 'J tiie d.e was caft 
 
 To fall o i Hainan, w:io -> i ,-ut tj -.b'troy 
 
 Her very b/eihren, th'.-v mi^ii. 10 enjoy 
 
 The promif"d blessing hev -ere toobta.n, 
 
 But yet by Efthe,- th.-y en promise g.ii.i'd. 
 
 So now I ve ihewu to yo.i ttujseco i>l ii ir 
 
 That did in Efth^r to UK- .lews appear 
 
 Then now I t?!l you I'i' Ct>me to tiie third i 
 
 You know to David wa- the promise made, 
 
 That from his hous- the e sareiy iu> ilcl -.ppjar 
 
 Anheireio then to bring the peife't heir, 
 
 That after him the scept;v lie !iould sway; 
 
 Ye mn of learning judge what I do say; 
 
 For if the heiress id no'ii hi n appear, 
 
 You all do know tii son mu"t be the h?ir, 
 
 And kings their cr.> v ns murt cail before my feet, 
 
 And at my cross you ;n . t my kingdom meet; 
 
 Therefore my judg dnl write my deftiny 
 
 In hebrew, greek, and iatin did appear, 
 
 And hebrfW, greek, and iatin you see here, 
 
 Thatss too high for you ro underfland v 
 
 Few men have learning all this to command; 
 
 For jurt lik? children vou do all appear, 
 
 That hebrew, greek, and iatin, cannot ciear, 
 
 No mor by learning can you clear ihe whole; 
 
 But now the sword went thiough the woman's soul. 
 
 Then uow the myft'ry you may all see clear, 
 
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 A father's anger doth cut off the heir ; 
 
 That is. to cut the entail from all his land, 
 
 And then another heir h doth command. 
 
 Then as a father I have done the same, 
 
 Ai:d from the Gentiies now the heir must come, 
 
 And let the generations to appear, 
 
 The thud and fourth is pi enounced here, 
 
 Where I sha'.l end mv blessing or my curse, 
 
 And here you'll find that every die is cast, 
 
 Fora,l will find the heirtss now is come ; 
 
 Look to my Gospel, and you may discetn 
 
 The barren womb doth to you ail appear, 
 
 And those that do believe, will bless her here; 
 
 For more than Esther she stood out for all, 
 
 And now, ye foob J if you can't see your call, 
 
 Then suit- tl-.e p-enerations must be com* 
 
 That ev ry fat;;l woe must fall thereon. 
 
 For seven children they are here apply'd, 
 
 That I shall give unto the world so wide. 
 
 The first a son, whom I shall cll an heir, 
 
 And so the elder brother did appear, 
 
 Then four daughters after hirri did come, 
 
 And the three first I have pronounc'd as dead, 
 
 Then sure the fourth must the heirship plead. 
 
 But yet thou say'st thou dost not understand 
 
 He \v ever a woman can possess the land, 
 
 \Vhile that her elder brother doth remain ; 
 
 But I've compar'd him to ihy brother slain. 
 
 Thou know'st thy brother ne er possest his land. 
 
 But as an heir he certainly doth stand. 
 
 But here the woman I pronounce the heir, 
 
 Then sure in thee the fourth doth appear. 
 
 Two brethren after thee thou know'st did come, 
 
 Thou know'st a Joseph, and thou know'st a John, 
 
 The one is living, but the other dead, 
 
 And so the Jews and Gentiles now are Jed ; 
 
 Foi sure like dead men do the Jews appear, 
 
 But many '.ivinq; in ;he Gentiles are, 
 
 Thoutrh iike thy brother they do not know 
 
 A Josepi-'s words do from the Gentilesflow- 
 
 1 hcu know'st thy brr-ther said he knew not thee, 
 
 But was surptis'd when he thy face did see j
 
 But after that he did thee sure deny, 
 He had no sister that could prophesy; 
 And many bi others then hast got the same, 
 And that's the way thy brother's prison came, 
 Because in angei I did hate the man, 
 To judge by all he was impos'd upon. 
 And as thy brother did deny thee there, 
 So I made man deny his ev'ry prtjr'r; 
 So if thybrethrer. do thee now deny, 
 I teil ttiem al. they'll feel a Joseph's cry 
 So now let men of learning weiirh it deep, 
 Lest in a prison th*y like Joseph weep. 
 But he<e's a myst'ry none do understand 
 Until the hist'ry further come; to hand. 
 But here's a Hannah that obtain'd by prayer, 
 And for the Gentiles now has got an heir, 
 For to possess the promise first was made, 
 The woman's seed to bruise the erpent's head. 
 
 Here I have cat short my history, to publish a 
 singular circumstance that happened some time in 
 the month of August last ; which is as follows. 
 
 A gent'eman came to me from Liverpool, who 
 said he had been ordered by the Spirit to come to 
 Exeter, to know the truth concerning me. He 
 began by telling me a most remarkable strange 
 dream. I asked him, if he had no other business 
 here, but to me ? He said he came on purpose, and 
 that his name was Peter Morrison, of Liverpool. I 
 looked on this as madness ; and having no recollec- 
 tion of my being evc-r warned of such strange occur- 
 rence, gave but little credit to his being sent by the 
 Lord, as I thought the Lord would have warned 
 me of his coming. 1 pitied the man in my heart, 
 and invited him to come and drink tea with me in 
 
 the
 
 the afternoon ; of which he accepted, an1 T enter- 
 tained him at a friend's house, where we ui ide hint 
 stay supper and spend the even! i# I was asto- 
 nished at his understanding, a i ) t'>.i-i;l i ii n a per- 
 son of sound judgment, and nor the ic.i^r inclined 
 to madness. Myself and frie.i-U heard him with 
 pleasure, and wished to have more "of his company; 
 but his saying he was ordered by the Spirit to come 
 near three hundred miles to know the truth con- 
 cerning me, was a stumbling-block unto me, as I 
 judged I should have been warned myself. My 
 friend gave him an invitation at her house the next 
 day ; but jealousy kept me from pressing him to 
 stay any longer than his own inclination led him. 
 He said he did not know whether he should tarry 
 or not ; so I gave him up to his own directions. 
 
 In the night, as I lay in my bed, I was ordered 
 to call to my remembrance the words that were 
 said to me in 1795, " 1 should know what Spirit 
 
 led me, when the Lord should send L unto 
 
 me." By this I understood a revet end gentleman, 
 whom I had been writing to fiom "795 to 1795. 
 And it was said to me in my writings, I should 
 
 know the Spirit when L did come, and say I 
 
 had warned him in a midnight dream, 
 
 And he to Exeter must surely go 
 Unto Joanna, ev'ry truth to know. 
 
 This I wrote and sealed up in 1795, with many 
 more words I do not renn u.ber ; but these words 
 have always been running i i my mind, that my 
 
 writings would never be proved oetore L was 
 
 warned, and came to me. But when it was brought 
 to nvy remembrance in my bed, that this was 
 
 the
 
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 the L the Lord meant, I marvelled^at his 
 
 bearing a different name. I was answ^re i, 1 should 
 remember Paul and P^ter were called Saul and 
 Simon : the Lord gave men different names. Tnis 
 made me restless and uneasy all the night. In the 
 morning I arose early, and went to the inn, to 
 enquire for him; when, to m/ sorrovV, I found he 
 was gone. My healt felt loaded with grief, because 
 I had not constrained him to abide with us a few 
 days. I acquainted all my friends that 1 hid reason 
 to think the Lord had sent him. Sj we all began, 
 to reflect on ourselves that we had not constrained 
 him to abide with us a few days, without being at 
 an inn. But all our repentance came too late ; 
 and I could not forgive myself I had not entreated 
 him to tarry longer, as I had many deep and 
 weighty things to lay before him, which jealousy 
 prevented my doing, thinking he might be a spy, 
 and that curiosity, not the Lord, had sent him ; 
 for I am jealous of men as well as devils ; fearing I 
 might be deceived, as I am of a fearful make : but 
 when I was convinced the Lord had sent him, my 
 heart and soul were wounded within me. I was 
 ordered to write out ti<e manner of his coming, and 
 it was answered me in the following manner. 
 
 Now this myft'rv I will answer, 
 
 If thou canil not see it plain; 
 I, Jehovah, is thv master, * 
 
 I shall shew it fr< >m the name. 
 Did Peter here t> thee appeal ? 
 
 And was the journey u.ng ? 
 The length c.fit he did not tear, 
 
 That length to th e he came. 
 Then let the L. go foi the Lord, 
 
 Then Peter's iove did reach, 
 To join you all with one accord, 
 
 His brethren to beseech 
 That they would see the myst'ry, 
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 And ev'ry sign see clear ; 
 !Nrw in the volume it mull go 
 
 To \vaiu men far and near. 
 3 am not trifling now with man, 
 
 His journey's not i:i vain, 
 For if his love did reach so long, 
 
 The Lord wi'l this maintain, 
 That it was I, who dwells on high, 
 
 Did sureiy scud the man; 
 And many things from 95 
 
 Are now in to thee come : 
 For this is now the L. I mean 
 
 That must tu thee appear, 
 And from the length I shall contend 
 
 The Lord did bend him here. 
 For row I'll prove a Peter's love 
 
 Did launch into the deep, 
 The boisi'rous waves from Satan came, 
 
 And made my Peter sink. 
 For what he came it was unknown, 
 
 The myft'rie^ are behind, 
 And like a bird is Petti flown 
 
 For to diflress thy mind. 
 Then I'll appear to answer here 
 
 Men's hearts will grieve the same, 
 When thi;t my supper doth appear, 
 
 V', ho do not know my name. 
 Jt Wi;s his name that thee deceiv'd, 
 
 For had his name been L , 
 It would have soon thy heart enflam'd, 
 
 And would thy friend beseech 
 With thee to ftay another day, 
 
 And would'il not let him go"; 
 But this b;ouj.>ht on thy jealousy, 
 
 A name thou dofl: not know. 
 For this to man rmift deeply come, 
 
 As thousands are the same, 
 They ne'er discern hew 1 do warn, 
 
 Nor do they know my :iame : 
 That when i cunje, it muft be known 
 
 My Spirit muft appear, 
 And mult be in. the woman's form, 
 
 And let th<- liars appear J'TITH^ 1 - ^ ^'^ c " >7/ 
 And then you'll see the myftery, 
 
 HOVJ I .shall all explain. 
 The fi'iy seipent now I'll clear, 
 
 And ihcw the vision plain.
 
 Mr. MORRISON'S VISION, 
 
 AS RELATED BY HIMSELF. 
 
 Mr. Morrison told tne, that being on a journey 
 \vhich the Lord had sent him, as he was travelling 
 over a common of great length, at the close of day, 
 there appeared to him a fiery serpent, with a large 
 body of fire turning him in different forms, and 
 apparently twisting his head round his body to rear 
 up his head. That it being dark, and having no 
 company, he grew afraid ; when lifting, up his 
 heart and thoughts to the Lord, his courage began 
 to come, and he had fortitude to bid the serpent to 
 go behind him ; which it di ^, and he lost it soon 
 after. There was also a sword presented to the 
 side of his face, as a body of fire or gold. He saw 
 the handle corne before his face, and two amazing 
 large stars rested on each side of the point of the 
 sword, working tor some time in different colours, 
 and at length disappeared. He shewed me the 
 chapters where he opened to in the Bible; the ex- 
 planation of which I shall give to my readers here- 
 after, and proceed to the solution of the serpent 
 and the sword. 
 
 The fiery serpent is the devil, who will appear in 
 a body of fire amongst mankind, with every art, 
 and every shape : he will now twist and work him- 
 self to enflame the hearts of men, and fill my 
 friends with fear ; but these fears will vanish, if 
 men, by faith, trust in me. It is not the darkness 
 that has covered the earth, nor the gross darkness 
 the hearts of the people ; one part of them shall 
 frighten the other part ; for Satan must get behind 
 
 them ;
 
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 them ; and the sword of the Lord shall go before 
 them, and by them, to protect them. Fur as the 
 sword was held by his side, so shall my sword 
 defend them from all dangers ; and as the two 
 stars that were on the top of the svvord are my 
 two great witnesses, such is the morning and the 
 evening star; and now they are both rose together, 
 be assured the day is far spent, and so shortened 
 that it is near its decline, so that the evening star 
 will appear before the morning star disappear. 
 Then judge how your days are shortened, and to 
 what a span they are come. Now compare my 
 Gospel together : " I was hungry, and ye gave me 
 no meat ; thirsty, and ye gave me no drink ; in 
 prison, and ye visited me not: as much as ye 
 did it not unto the least of these my disciples, ye 
 did it not unto me." 
 
 For by my Spirit I'm imprison'd here, 
 
 Wide wand'ring thro' the woiid my friends appear, 
 
 And yet I see but few do entei tain, 
 
 And of thy coUiness them dolt now complain ; 
 
 But itill reflexion in thy "heart doth burn. 
 
 And now this warning I do give to man : 
 
 If they, like thee, in lealousv appear, 
 
 When 'tis too iate like thee they'll see more clear, 
 
 That it is I th.,t dotli Hired thy hand, 
 
 And their miitaWis by the name dcth land. 
 
 For now my second coming doth dppfar 
 
 First in a woman is a uiyst iy h. re, 
 
 That men are stumbled, ami hki- thee become, 
 
 To find me present in tlu woman's form, 
 
 The time nor fulness no man ,>oth disc rn ; 
 
 To find a womar) in thv room of man, 
 
 Is just like thee w en Mom v> u thee came : 
 
 And 'twas the name alone thar stumb ed thee, 
 
 Had it been !.. the ca.iing tliou would'it see; 
 
 To say the calling surety \ v as from heav'n, 
 
 It was fulfill'd, to thee the wouis weie giv'n. 
 
 But now to reason I shall sure begin ; 
 
 The truth of thee had all tg L been seen ; 
 
 Therj
 
 Then sure I need not wain him to appear 
 To see the truth of what he k.jf-w before; 
 And if he judg'd it all an idle dr^am. 
 I need not warn him for to see more plain, 
 Because the truths are all !-efore his view, 
 And if I warn him, can he say its true ? 
 If Satan like an angel came to thee, 
 Then like an a:igel he may cjme to he ; 
 And so a ike you both may be deceiv'd: 
 And (hall I warn a man so wrong believ'd ? 
 I afk what use such warning would appear? 
 Then now. the my (fries I'll begin to clear. 
 
 This was the very L I said would comt, 
 
 And the firft thing he told thee was his dream, 
 That in thy mem'ry thou ha t now forgot, 
 And ev'ry myitcry's beyond thy thought, 
 And so is ail beyond the thought of man ; 
 But let the sword and itars together come ; 
 Beca.use the swo d you'll fi id if is> my word, 
 And the two liars upon the ylitt'ring sword, 
 It is the morning nar that doth appear, 
 And in the evening itar doth now ihine clear; 
 And now tog ther both you senate m 't, 
 The davs are (horten M and the trat.i js great. 
 If in the woman I anse t.) Oiine. 
 You all inn ft know the days are near decline. 
 And here s a rnv(t f ry deep for man, 
 
 As L and Morrison difF nt names did come ; 
 
 For Morrison told what I said befo;e, 
 'Twas but the name that made thee for 'oerr. 
 And now my second coining is the same, 
 The Holy Ghot, the Comforrei, is come; 
 And now mv Fathers w..r>ls 1'li sure y clear; 
 He said a helpmate he'd f.-r ma^i prepar , 
 That in the ei-.) -lie fhuu'd tompiete ni> bii^s; 
 And ca i my Father'^juft decrees eie miss ? 
 No earth .rui hell may IPAV coTiibi u- in vain, 
 The fiery seipent njay 1.1 ma i conta.n. 
 But scon you'.i fi HI my gntr iin^ sword appear, 
 And the two (iais upon the tup Te clear, 
 That at my coming I'll the woman free. 
 She calt her biame on S..tiiii m.t on m. ; 
 Then sure upon hei I'll not caft the blame. 
 But now mv r'arhei's promi>e 1 il al! claim 
 To make the s< r t )e,,t now to ic^ thj cluft, 
 And above all men to leceive his curse. 
 
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 And as the serpent firft did bruise my heel, 
 The fatal sword went through the woman's soul? 
 The day of vengeance then was in my heait, 
 To turn the sword that he fhould feel the dart; 
 So he may burn and twift himself in vain ; 
 Upon the sword the glitt'ring ''ars \veie plain. 
 The woman plead my promise to fulfil; 
 Then here's the ev'ning iUr, judge as you will ; 
 But 'tis the morning ftar muft in her rise, 
 And by his sword be plac'd before your eyes. 
 ' Fis 1 mufl. conquer as the woman's friend, 
 And bv my sword I'll make the fie to bend. 
 Now, from the manner all tht- itais are plac'd, 
 3 '11 bring the mylt'ry to the human race. 
 The day-light with the moming Har appear, 
 And the sun rising then you know is n-ar; 
 Then sure the sun mult govern firil the day, 
 For man to see his true and perfect way. 
 But that perfection man doth not obtain, 
 Which plainly (hews the sun hath ilione in vain; 
 Therefore the darkness coi'ers now the earth, 
 And man goes back from whence he firll had birth ; 
 That is, I say, created all anew, 
 And bring the woman now before his view ; 
 That as the ev'ning star doth now appear, 
 The day declining, and the night is near, 
 Then se what liars will now arise to (bine, 
 The sun be darken'd, and the moon decline ; 
 Because the sun is now in darkness set, 
 And it is gone beyond your ev'ry thought ; 
 And as the moon's declin'd, and it is gone, 
 The ftars are left to govern then alone ; 
 And from the ftars you gather all your light, 
 No moon at all, you'll find there is a night 
 "Wherein the moon doth not appear at all, 
 AVhich plainly proves to man the devil's fall. 
 The sun i? fteat'fast", and the stars the same* 
 Jndeep philosophy the^e thing-* I name, 
 Because th* moon doth never steadfast stand, 
 "Which is a sure- and certain sign for rjan, 
 That Satan's kingdom it inv^t pafs away, 
 And like the moon it certain must decay ; 
 Until you find there is no moon at all, 
 That sign is fix'd to prove the devil's fall ; 
 And now the moon it must be turn'd to blood, 
 And in the woman know the type hath stood.
 
 So here's a mystery stands deep for man, 
 The cleansing blood doth from the woman come; 
 And when the moon is turned into blood, 
 Then all are wafhed in that heav'nty flood, 
 And then my- Father you no more will blame, 
 To make the woman, as you said, your fliame 
 Was brought on by her, but you do not know 
 What light will burst when I the tlay-'ight shew, 
 And then the tree of knowledge you may taste, 
 The bad is fallen, and the good is plac'd, 
 That by the woman must be handed down ; 
 Let Jews and Gentiles both confie to the sound, 
 And know the woman was the bone of man ; 
 And tiow unto isaiah you must come : 
 I said a bone of him fhould not be broke ; 
 I ask the Jewa why they their prophet mock ? 
 For if like man 1 did to them appear, 
 And of my bone, that was not broken there, 
 And yet they say that 1 was but a man, 
 Then with the Gentiles I'll to reason come 
 For as in Adam they say that they dy'd. 
 Then so in Chiist they must b< j made alive. 
 Then sure in Adam you say that you fell, 
 'Twas by the woman, if the truth you tell, 
 And by the bone was taken then from man. 
 Then now unto the purpose I shall come, 
 And your strong reasons let them now appear, 
 And now the law and gospel you iftall clear: 
 For as you say that you dy'd from his bone, 
 That was the woman taken then from man, 
 Thela now the same it unto you must come, 
 And see the bone now taken from my side, 
 In heart and life must be to you apply 'd, 
 For to take vengeance on her master's heel, 
 And all to Satan ev'ry heart did teel, 
 To work by malice then my overthrow, 
 And to the root she surely cast the blow : 
 And now the axe is laid unto the tree. 
 And all that are her foes cut down shall be, 
 Because this bone it never shall be broke, 
 And men and devils now may fear the stioke; 
 For here's the sin against the Holy Ghost, 
 To jsay the woman's sentence is not just, 
 Because the devil they must sure appear, 
 Or else his friend, to wish his kingdom here. 
 Then to his kingdom I do bid such go, 
 
 And
 
 ( "4 ) 
 
 And then their master they wi I better know ; 
 So scribes and phaiisees vim niav appear, 
 And your hvpocrisy i now shall clear. 
 Pretend your zeal is far the Lord of -Ijst, 
 When your desire is Satan be not cast ; 
 But such hypocrisy I do despite, 
 And all my friends w<ll sav the woman's wise, 
 And give her credit fur a cu ious head, 
 If you do judge my Spirit never led, 
 Then saythat justice doth in h;r appear. 
 To bruise the jcrpem'i he ;d as prjmis'J there. 
 But her desire hath to her husband been, 
 And 'tis in sorrow now she'll children bring; 
 But they're deliverd ere they feei the pain ; 
 But over her, her husband he doth lei^n, 
 Or else I tell you she h^d ne'er went on. 
 Her faith and fears are ail concea.'d from man; 
 But there is nothing that's concrai'd from me, 
 And I let Satan work her jealousy, 
 To see if she would perstvere in lies; 
 And now no longei I shall here disguise. 
 I saw the anguish that was in her soul, 
 And by her fiiends this hath been seen by all. 
 'Then what impostor can to you appear, 
 "Who hath gone on in sorrow now nine years, 
 And warn'd of dangers they were nigh at hand ? 
 I warn'd the sword should t?o fiom land to land; 
 I warn 'a the scaicity that would appear ; 
 I warn'd the dearth, and vou have found things dear j 
 I warn'd the buuheu it would on you come ; 
 1 warn'd that discoid would be in your land ; 
 I warn'd that peace you would not easy make; 
 I warn'd your haivests that they stood at stake; 
 1 warn'd the blindness that v\;i$ in your i.ind ; 
 And now these warnings you may ail command ; 
 Forev'ry one do say these tiuths we feei. 
 But few do see it now my fneiids stand still. 
 Por sure as blindmen you must all appear, 
 To feel the truth, but cannot see ,t i ea ; 
 A blind man feels, you know, but cannot see
 
 O England! England! such blind fools are ye. 
 And this you know I warn'd you all before ; 
 Then say what beam before your eyes appears, 
 Ye scribes and pharisees ! I tell you plain, 
 You see the mote, but never see the beam : 
 For if I suffer Satan to appear 
 To tell one lie, you all can see it clear; 
 But if a thousand truths together come, 
 You feel them all, but cannot them discern. 
 Then now together you may all compare, 
 And now I warn you th:it the ditch is near ; 
 If that like blind men you do now go on, 
 You'll stumble at the noon-day, not the moon ; 
 Because in darkness you can easy see 
 If that one single lie is told by he. 
 But now, my Bible, let it all appear; 
 I ask what travail pains could ere be here ? 
 If ev'ry thing appear in a strait line, 
 No travail pains for man thou ne'er could'st find 5 
 For earth and hell may spend their rage in vain, 
 'Tis but thy fears that makes thee to complain. 
 I know the greatness of thy very soul, 
 Was thy faith steadfast thou would'st laugh at all; 
 For men and devils thou wiit iauvh to scorn 
 When once thou find'st the M&n-Child is but born, 
 Andal! thy travail pains thou'lt soon forget 
 When on thy head my giitt'nng stais, do sit; 
 Then Satan's malice it may rage in vain, 
 And thou wilt smile at all the sons of men. 
 So love and anger w.ll together burn, 
 And 'tis for men alone that thou wiit moujn, 
 For thou'lt rejoice to see the VTan-Child born, 
 Some men thou it pity, others thou wiit scorn j 
 But thou wilt find that thv icvenge is sweet, 
 To see the serpent fall before thy feet, 
 And see the glitt'rmg stars appear to shine, 
 Thy travail pains no longei then thou'lt mind. 
 When righteousness and truth together meet, 
 And love and peace wiil then each other greet. 
 And such a joyful day twill be for man. 
 As Adam found when I the woman ioim'dj 
 Kk
 
 f 216 ) 
 
 And more than Adam men will ftand amaz'd, 
 And more than Adam ev'ry one will gaze, 
 To see the knowledge fiom the woman's hand, 
 That by their wisdom they cannot command, 
 Because thy hand there is no man can read, 
 But soon they'll find ihe truth of all thou'it said. 
 O, heavenly wonder ! will mankind begin, 
 Is this the boi e was taken once fiom man, 
 That -ow so c'osely iticks ui to his side ? 
 One heart and tout together's now apply 'd. 
 How could the man upon htr call the blame ? 
 Was fte deceiv'd ? then he was jutt the same ; 
 And like the woman he might then reply, 
 And never call the blame on God Moft High. 
 But how ike Adam we muft copy here, 
 And give the glory to our Saviour dear : 
 For if on God the man did caft the^blame, 
 Then now f;om God doth all our glory come; 
 So on onr Maker we the praise will caft, 
 For 'tis fiom him that all our glory burlis. 
 Since now the good fruit he has handed down, 
 That on the tree of know-edge then was found; 
 And now thr knowledge it is in her hand, 
 By such wr tings as we cannot command, 
 And seal'd from us whatfhortly will appear, 
 And what all rations have to hope and fear; 
 And all our Bibles we see open wide, 
 And now in Adam we see how we dy'd, 
 And so in Chrifl we now are made alive. 
 For in the woman we dy'd all at firft, 
 Add in the woman POW we're brought to Chrift,J 
 That as in Adam is pronounced dead, 
 So now in Chnlt we see our l.ving Head; 
 To give the woman, taVen from his si-Je, 
 ftlay now, like Eve. be unto us apph 'd, 
 To pit ad the promise that her Lord did make, 
 To send the curse upon the pois'nou^ snake, 
 And gave her \\i*i\. rn for ;o see it p'ain, 
 He never yet receiv'd such curse as men : 
 For men do tremble when they feel the rod ; 
 The hardened sinners tr< rnb e at their God, 
 \V hen that the gallows is before their view, 
 And >atan's malice makes them tremb'e too : 
 Then surely n.an feel now the gr< ateft curse, 
 If thi*. g( eson, my prom'st then muft miss ; 
 this I've gave her wisdom to discern, 
 
 That
 
 That (he may plead my promises muft come, 
 
 To make the serpent for to lick the dull ; 
 
 A-' in my promises is now her truft, 
 
 That ev ry one of them I'll now fulfil, 
 
 And more than man the serpent's heart I'll chill* 
 
 And 'tis by wisdom you knjw how to pray, 
 
 Atvi how to plead your words aright to me. 
 
 Then now by wisd m let my liars appear, 
 
 A id like th<> woman plead in fervent pray'r, 
 
 T iata!l my p omises I may now fulfil, 
 
 And more than man the serpent's heart to chill. 
 
 For as the -ei pe:it 1 compar'd to beaft, 
 
 And so the devil now with man is calt ; 
 
 But ifth-^ serpent gave the beai'l a fling, 
 
 I ask you which is the greatell surFrer then, 
 
 Until that fiing from him is ta en away ? 
 
 The heart's fhe gieateft suff'rer he doih lay. 
 
 And here I tell you all the lines go deep : 
 
 The fling of Satan yo;i do all fee; it ; 
 
 Until that sting fiom man is ta'en away, 
 
 The greatest suffrt-r now in man doth lay; 
 
 The sting or conscience, and the sting or sin, 
 
 The fears of hell, do all your souows bring, 
 
 "While Satan triumphs as a traitor here, 
 
 No sting of conscience he doth feel or fear, 
 
 Because his nature is a poison stiong; 
 
 And you may marvel, as from heaven he came, 
 
 How such a fi'ry serpent II ould be there. 
 
 This is a myst'ry I to man shall clear, 
 
 When they together do in judgment sit, 
 
 In six days labour I shall all complete. 
 
 So if this vo'umeyou do but weigh deep, 
 
 You'll see my Bible plainly speaks of it. 
 
 But a yon say the woman's foiled here 
 
 "In many things, I'll make the myst'ry clear. 
 
 How could her travail pains then ere come on, 
 
 If Satan s arts did not upon her come ? 
 
 To be drliver'd (Tie could never cr) r , 
 
 It ail frf>m God in a strait line did lie : 
 
 Then her deliv'iame she must wish from me, 
 
 Ar d with my Bible this could not agiee; 
 
 For then no stars I'd place upon her head, 
 
 Nor at her feet could Satan ete be laid, 
 
 If tv'ry thing was clear before her view, 
 
 And Satan's aits did never her pursue, 
 
 And from hie pow'r and arts I kept her free, 
 
 If
 
 In pain to be delivered then from me 
 Must be the language of her heart and soul, 
 And such a heart I'd q.uc-ily froe fro n all , 
 And all her prophecies shou'd quickly drop ; 
 She need not cry, nor have no roo n to hope, 
 If all the sorrow (he hath now g me thiough 
 Was but to mo jrn that (he my work must do, 
 And wifli to be deliver'd from that pain, 
 I tell you -ill flie fliould not iong complain. 
 I'd soon give prophecies (hould stop her hand ; 
 And, to confound her, I'd soon wurkin mart, 
 That as the six together they did meet, 
 And by a lying spirit gave it u >, 
 So six more lying spirits (hould appear, 
 The twelve together, as they placed were, 
 And soon confound her in the ev'ry sound, 
 It is to stop thy folly now we're found 
 To meet together, no-.v to please a fool, 
 And stop thy madness doth our anger rule, 
 That no such folly ihould go in the Idiid, 
 We see no prophecies for to command 
 For thou to pubiilh to the world abioad, 
 Nor in it can we see the hand of God. 
 So thus together I'd make them to meet* 
 And by my anger would their anger heat, 
 To take the burthen thou complain st of ong, 
 If weary of my labour thou wast come, 
 And found'ft it difficult for to go thiough, 
 I say like man, like man, I'd surefy do ; 
 I'd ne'er keep silence like the orher two. 
 But like the Deacon ev'ry si.ul ll ouid know, 
 That all thy pray'rs 1 surely would turn back, 
 
 And then like ev'rv man .hould act, 
 
 To give the warning then for to appear, 
 
 And so a fool (houhl tiK'et her t'oily there ; 
 
 For to the twelve thou say'st thuu'dir give it up, 
 
 And by the twelve thy burthen soon Vhould drop 
 
 Till I a heavier burthen brought o i thi e. 
 
 And like this night thy slumber a I ihould be, 
 
 That no physician could appear to cure, 
 
 And then thy burthen I'd mcrvase much more. 
 
 For on thy death-bed thou \vould\t trembling lie, 
 
 My life's a burthen, and afraid to die, 
 
 Would be the language of thv h j a,t and soul. 
 
 And then such burthen I'd soon b: ought on ail, 
 
 That, like thy sister, daily do complain, 
 
 Thou
 
 Thou art a burthen to the sons of men ; 
 
 And in the end the burthen al! shoird see, 
 
 Hadft thou compiain'd tti- b nthen came from me. 
 
 But well I kn >vv what made rive to compla.n : 
 
 The arts of Satan oft h ,ve fill'd thy brain, 
 
 That in thv wiitings I let to appear, 
 
 And teil thee lies, and fi I thy heart with fear, *?c* . , 
 
 Then I appear'd in wonders that were true, /z^*^ L*' L *^' f" 
 
 And all the^e my fries laid before thy view, 
 
 Which cans c! a burthen in thy mind and soul, 
 
 Thou judg'dft o-ie spirit that did tell thee all. 
 
 But in thv writings tiiou doft not discern, 
 
 Noi in what manner 1 to thee did warn, 
 
 That if pride ever ihould arise in thee, 
 
 It wa, by Satan, humbled thou fliould'ft be. 
 
 And how could Satan ever lo.v'r thy pride, 
 
 Had I not let him go, an.! thee mislead ? 
 
 And when I saw he'd sunk thee in despair, 
 
 I sent my Spirit for to comfort there, 
 
 That thou in faith and fear mightTt It ill goon, 
 
 And so this burthen ltiil'\ipo:i thee come; 
 
 As like the chapter all thy life appear, 
 
 And now the glitt'ring Itars will ihew thee clear 
 
 That all this calling it did come fiom heav'n, 
 
 And unto them fhali ev'ry truth be giv'n. 
 
 For then the myft'iy thou w It all see clear ; 
 
 These are the tlars -hou sawe>t in th. 1 air 
 
 When M -- and W did bit down* 
 
 Tir'd with walking, thou know'it both were found. 
 
 But thou o'irlii ttl, thvm thou mull travei on, 
 
 Unto the g:itt'ring nars thou kuow'it thou didi't come ; 
 
 And on thy head thou It find the (Ian do (hi ie, 
 
 And great's the light th -y 11 give to all mankind : 
 
 For these are itais 1 ^hew' ; thee in the air, 
 
 And these are ttars that will to thee j pear. 
 
 Andtho* the daikness it has been ni thee, 
 
 Wand'ring alone th>u oft ha i lo.t th\ way; 
 
 But now these fta s th--\ will arUeto 
 
 And great's the light they'll g ve unto mankind, / ~_ 
 
 And great s the light they wi'l g ve unto all, t* '' u' 
 
 But down will t.<enty-fo ir suie.\ fall, f~ / 
 
 Who will be present at that v>- ry time, < 
 
 Without the seal truy will adm tta ice find, 
 
 But not as sta; > not named to appear, 
 
 It is the seals that ev'iy liar mult clear. 
 
 'LI 
 * See the Dream inserted in the following page.
 
 So in the end all this they'll surely see ; 
 
 And now remember what 1 said to thee. 
 
 iForthe disobedience of the fiift 
 
 They broke the seals, and how can they be plac'4 
 
 Ever to come as liars upon thy head ; 
 
 I'll truft no judges who so wjong do plead, 
 
 That Satan's come in any anel s funn, 
 
 To preach such drfftririe as th. y don't discern ; 
 
 And thosp thou aflc'it, and did refuse to come, 
 
 If DOW they do, 1M sue!y cai out them, 
 
 Unless thvy do repent before too hite, 
 
 And write to thee b. fore the bo-)k is shut. 
 
 For the fiist book thou do;>t together put 
 
 Of this filth vo ume, 'et it to be shut ; 
 
 That is, the book 1 bid tlue for to seal, 
 
 And then the names of ail 1 shall reveal. 
 
 On Christmas, in the year 179$, I dreamt, that 
 as Mrs. M. and Mrs. W. and myself, were going 
 a journey, I thought it was late in the night, and 
 that they were tired and sat down, saying they 
 could go no farther. I told them I would travel 
 on by myself, for I must pursue my journey. I 
 thought I went on to the top of a hill, where I saw 
 a parcel of stars in the air, like a flock of birds, 
 which shone amazing bright, but they were not in 
 the firmament. At this I marvelled, and thought 
 1 went back, and related the circumstance to Mrs. 
 M. and Mrs. W. and expressed a wish that they 
 had been with me to see them ; when they inform- 
 ed me, that they had seen the stars pass before 
 them. I know not how ii was explained to me at 
 that time, but 1 have shewed you how it is ex- 
 plained to me now. 
 
 The
 
 The following lines of this chapter were explain- 
 ed to me, in answer to a Minister, who read to me 
 the last chapter of the Revelation, and told me he 
 understood from thence, prophecies must be no 
 more. It was then shewn to me in the following 
 manner, which I was ordered to wriie out and 
 send to him ; but I shall now send it to him in 
 print, as 1 am ordered to put it in print. So what 
 I say unto one, I say unto ail, who judge the Bible 
 as he did. 
 
 Rev. Sir, Exeter, Aug. 1801. 
 
 Now I will come to the Revelation, 
 which you shewed me. As contrary as the Jews took 
 or understood the law and the prophets, so wrong 
 have tbe Gentiles understood the gospel and the 
 Revelation of St. John. I shall now come to the 
 purport of the words which are misunderstood by 
 the Gentiles. It is written, " seal not up the say- 
 ( ' ings of the prophecies of this book ;" which sig- 
 nifies the Bible. Then why do men seal them up, 
 as though all was said and finished, and no more 
 prophecies to be added to them, or no revelation to 
 be revealed from them ? It is called the Revela- 
 tion, as a book to be revealed, and not concealed; 
 as a book to be sealed up from man. He that add- 
 eth thereto, or taketh therefrom, addeth to him- 
 self all the plagues that are therein written. 
 Now I shall come to the purpose. He that addeth 
 thereto, must add to the Scriptures from his own 
 wisdom, and net assent or consent to the truth of 
 them ; then he wijj add to himself all the plagues 
 that are written therein ; and now they are all 
 ccming fust on men. Many add to the Scriptures, 
 and pervert them, to their own condemnation. 
 
 By
 
 By adding thereto, is to say things they cannot find 
 scripture proof for. NJ--V if any rn.ri will prove 
 that I have spoken what I cannot bring scripture- 
 proof for, I will give it up. Let men examine my 
 writings, and point out any one passage or page 
 they blame, and if I cannot find seripture-proot for 
 it, then I will resign to man ; if not, let them 
 know, the spirit is the Spirit of Jesus, that is rot 
 come to seal up the sayings of the book, but to re- 
 ve tl them. He that taketh therefrom, will surely 
 take his part out of the book and tree of life ; that 
 is, he will take away his part by his unbelief. For 
 the tree of life was preserved for man, guarded 
 with the sword. Now the sword meaneth the sword 
 of my word, that was given to the serpent; I pro- 
 nounced him cursed above every living creature; 
 then I must pronounce the devil cursed above every 
 man or woman, which hath not yet taken place, 
 but now the time is at hand when his curse will 
 come upon him by the promise I made to the wo- 
 man, her seed should bruise his head ; as he bruised 
 his heel, so shall she bruise his head. The promise 
 was given between the woman and the serpent : 
 the promise was given to the woman, her seed 
 should bruise his head, and so it must end ; ,m 1 he 
 that taketh ;>way that promise, will certainly take 
 away his part out of the book of lite; for on that 
 promise stands your full redemption irom the 
 fall. With the woman and the serpent it heiM:i, 
 and with the woman and the serpent it must C-D , 
 when the seed of the woman stands the woman's 
 friend ; for let all men know, it was not the 
 seed of man. 
 
 Then
 
 ( 233 ) 
 
 Then why do you the Trinity condemn ? ^ ii.^^t'f' 
 
 If I in unity did so appear, 
 
 The Holy GHo.>t did unto her appear, 
 
 An 1 bv that seed produc'd the heav'nly Heir. 
 
 Then sure the Spirit and the iJnde mast come 
 
 To bring the unity with God and man ; 
 
 And he that doth this promise take away, 
 
 He hath no part in the great mystery ; 
 
 And he that adds thereto will surely miss, 
 
 And on himself will surely bring a curse, 
 
 Because he'll add it all another way, 
 
 And not believe the promise as it lay. 
 
 For the first promise I did give to man, 
 
 It was the woman should as helpmate come, 
 
 And thereby promis'd to complete his bliss, 
 
 And of this promise ev'ry one will miss ; 
 
 That now this promise he will take away, 
 
 And bring the plagues that do b-fore him lay. . 
 
 For now I ask, what promise they can plead ? 
 
 The Jews did prove their mother was misled; 
 
 Then sure as bastards they did all appear , 
 
 Then how their Bibles will they now see clear, 
 
 Since all their Bibles they have thrown a-ide, 
 
 And all their prophets' words they have deny'd ? 
 
 For ev'ry promise thev have took away 
 
 That in the book of I f-- before them lay, 
 
 And to themselves they suiely add a curse, 
 
 And of these promises they al 1 did miss, 
 
 As they the Scriptures a<!d another way, 
 
 Or to the words they difF rrnt all did sav ; 
 
 They took their part out of the book of life ; 
 
 But now I'll come to end then ev ry strife. 
 
 And from your sister I shall now begin ; 
 
 Deep is thf shadow of this vejy thing. 
 
 Thou know'st how ' in thy writings p'ac'd, 
 
 And. tho' reprov'd. must stand thv judge at last. 
 And t< thy judge thy siste: now appeals, 
 And in this wisdom neither one .hall fail, 
 For it was I that worked on her heart 
 
 To write to , and I fix'd tne dart 
 
 To open a 1 thy bifler's wounds anew ; 
 I'll bring it to the Gentiles and the Jews ; 
 For I'li indite a letter so for thde 
 That to thy jud-e the J ws 'i-a 1 ! surely free. 
 And to his judgment they (hall sure appeal, 
 
 And then in judgment ihall not fail. 
 
 Mm But
 
 But firft, I tell thee, he muft judge you too, 
 And after that the Gentile and the Jew 
 
 Muft &ure be judg'd at 's seat 
 
 And in the end you'll find his judgment great; 
 As in the manner he doth now go on, 
 A doubting Thomas unto me is known ; 
 Unless I find he saith I'll not be'ieve, 
 Then all the print that in his head I gave 
 I'll make so clear, he will know it is I, 
 "My Lord ! my God ] (hall be his ev'ry cry, 
 ^Because my side (hall so to him appear, 
 And he (hall know my Spirit surely here. 
 
 I am now come towards the Conclusion of my 
 Fifth Book, which I deferred till I could say, with 
 clear grounds, the Spirit of the Lord hath visited 
 me. And I now am clear it certainly has, or it 
 never visited no man since earth's foundation was 
 placed. For the same Spirit that inspired men to 
 write the Bible, hath inspired me. 
 
 If you look deep into the mysteries of my writ- 
 ings, you will find this year to have been perfectly 
 as I foretold ; of which another year will convince 
 you. If you say I speak in mysteries, I will prove 
 the Bible does the same. And now I must call all 
 to your remembrance, to weigh the whole together. 
 Take care you do not fulfil the prophecies you de- 
 spise, and make good what is concealed from yc-ur 
 knowledge under the specks and strokes ; if you do, 
 I am witness against you, that ye are fulfilling the 
 prophecies you despise. And I ask, why ye despise 
 them ? Is it because you put bitter for sweet, and 
 sweet for bitter : good for evil, and evil for good ; 
 and love the powers of darkness better than you 
 love cne another ? For such must be the language 
 of your hearts, if you wish to bring the day of ven- 
 geance
 
 geance on yourselves and on one another, sooner 
 than pray the Lord to turn it on the devil, who was 
 the author of all your sorrows ; and now he wiii be 
 the finisher thereof, if you follow him, and wish for 
 his kingdom. 
 
 We have a peace ; as I said, the year that begun 
 in sorrow would end in joy. And how could it end 
 in joy without a peace ? I said we had nothing to 
 fear from invasion by a foreign enemy. Then now 
 take care one of another ; as there is a peace, let it 
 be a peace. But I may say, what peace, as long as 
 Saian and his witchcrafts are so many to work in 
 the hearts of men, to bring the day of vengeance on 
 themselves. And you have despised me for placing 
 it on the devil. What mad men are ye ! to wish to 
 abide in your chains, which are bound by Satan. 
 
 Now let it be known by all men, my prophecies 
 are not ended, nay scarce begun ; though all has 
 happened as I foretold for ten years past ; and this 
 year, as 1 will prove before any man, hath fallen 
 out exactly as published in my books. But you 
 say they are mysteries you cannot find out, and it 
 distracts your senses to look into the mysteries. 
 Then now take care you do not distract the senses 
 one of another, and lay violent hands one on another. 
 O England ! O England ! England ! the axe is laid 
 to the tree, and it must and will be cut down ; ye 
 know not the days of your visitation. Will ye fall 
 out one with another, and lay your fury one on the 
 other ? Then the midnight-hour is coming for you 
 all, and will burst upon you. I warn you of dan* 
 gcrs that now stand before you, for the time is at 
 hand for the fulfilment of all things. r Who is he 
 that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from 
 
 Bozrah ?
 
 Bozrah? that speaketh in righteousness, mighty to 
 save all that trust in him ; but of my enemies I will 
 tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my 
 fury ; for the day of vengeance i in my heart, and 
 the year of my redeemed is come. I looked, and 
 there was none to help, I wondered there was none 
 to uphold ; therefore my own arm brought salva- 
 tion unto me, and my fury it upheld me.' (Isaiah, 
 chap. Ixiii. ) Then now tremble, all ye nations, and 
 be afraid, all ye people, that put not your trust in 
 the God of your salvation ; who is mighty to save, 
 and trod the wine-press for you, that the day of ven- 
 geance might not fall on you, but fall on your be- 
 trayer, the devil. But will you say, we will not 
 bring it on the devil, but on ourselves ? Then now, 
 O man ! I will tread down the people in my anger, 
 and make them drunk in my fury, and will bring 
 down their strength to the earth. Therefore now- 
 awake, O Zion ! put on thy beautiful garments, O 
 Jerusalem ! for the year of your redeemed is come. 
 For Zion's sake I will not hold my peace, and for 
 Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteous- 
 ness of the Lord goeth forth, or the brightness there- 
 of. For I said, if for a while I defer it, 1 would 
 face my foes once more. 
 
 For now you say your war is ended, 
 
 Now I say 'tis not begun, 
 In heav'n the armour s now intended, 
 
 Let the Spirit's sword come on- 
 And now to fight like men ut might, 
 
 And all my armour wetr, 
 For Satan's weapons now will fight, 
 
 What loom have we to fear. 
 .1 tell you plain, ye sous of .men, 
 
 Your fears will faft abound ; 
 The tree is caft, you'll find at lafl 
 
 The midnight-hour abound 
 To save the tree will thousand's flee, 
 
 And murder fur hie sake ; Until
 
 ( 2.37- ) 
 
 Until you see youndefliny, 
 
 The midnights-hour will break. 1 
 'Tis Satan's kingdom to possess 
 
 Will kindle boon the war, 
 And S will loje her happiness, 
 
 And ihortly will appear, 
 As ma<I as Frenchmen ere have been, 
 
 They are bur hulh'd asleep, 
 Then now be wise, take care, O S - I 
 
 You do not wake and weep, 
 To utter groans thafc-are unknown, 
 
 Your heart* are known to me, 
 The day of vengeance now is come, 
 
 And on your heads muft be. 
 I tell you ail it so will fall, 
 
 If you bring it on man, 
 And do not catt the enemy 
 
 As I have laid my plan. 
 To p'ace his curse above all beaft, 
 
 You mutt that promise claim, 
 To make the serpmt lic'x t'i.- dud, 
 
 The woman's cause maintain, 
 That (he is jail to have >iim ca^r, 
 
 And see her promise tl -ai ; 
 The day of vengeance comes at lad, 
 
 That men may hope a id fear. 
 For if you say another way; 
 
 The woman is not right 
 The he^ds of men you iJ break in twain, 
 
 And so you'll take yo n fri^'U ; 
 Till houses deso'at vo.i'll find 
 
 If you [(jo on this wav ; 
 The warning's deep to a 1 mankind; 
 
 See how the tree did lav. 
 Between two men tlie tiee was seen, 
 
 Which kind!.- .1 boon the HiifV, 
 And brought trie fatal death to one, 
 
 The other fled foi life, 
 Who sai the wi kings were too high 
 
 Men's senses for to drow i ; 
 But let him know th blow was nigh 
 
 That took the life ot 1111:11. 
 And >o men's lives aw.iy 3 7 ouM take, 
 
 If you j?o on this way; 
 The -midnight hour you'll find wili break, 
 
 And you in grief will lay? 
 
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 If you go on to caft on man 
 
 The day of vengeance here ; 
 But the fiift blow, vou all iha'l know, 
 
 Th' Offender now Ihall clear, 
 If he relent, and doth repent 
 
 The folly he hath done ; 
 'Tis he that gives the firit offence ; 
 
 To reason now I'll come : 
 Because offences 1 foibid, 
 
 And know off^ncr was there ; 
 'Tis the fiift blow that .then was laid, 
 
 Muft set th* offender clear. 
 So now the'trembiing pris'ner see, 
 
 Which I'll compare to man, 
 The other dy'd about the tree. 
 
 By claiming it his own. 
 So here's the type, and it goes deep, 
 
 My Bible (lands the same, 
 The day of vengeance in my heart 
 
 For Satan is and man. 
 To ttll you plain, ye sons of men, 
 
 If you dispute it here, 
 Your heads you all will bieak in twain, 
 
 And like the other fear ; 
 But if you fay,, another way 
 
 We all will give it up, 
 'Tis Satan did us all betray, 
 
 And so the tree muit drop ; 
 Bntifas men you will contend, 
 
 I say, to part the tree, 
 Your heads you'll surely break in twain, 
 
 And like the other fiee. 
 To give it up, the tiee muft drop, 
 
 For I shall cut it down ; 
 And fatal 'tis for .to dispute. 
 
 The end will so be. found. 
 So here you sec a myiiery, 
 
 .A parable for man ;* 
 And perfect ?>o the end will be, 
 
 And so my Bible Hand. 
 
 * Now I shall explain what the parable was be- 
 tween A, and B. who quarrelled about a tree that 
 
 grew 
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 grew betwixt their lands. A. contended it was his 
 property, and B. insisted it was his. Ar length B. 
 proposed dividing it, but A. refused. Then B. said 
 he would give it to him, of which A. would not ac- 
 cept, conceiving it his own. Wo; ds then ensued, 
 and A. struck B. with a bridle, which violently pro- 
 voking the latter, he unfortunately struck A. oh the 
 head, which proved fatal. B. fearing to be appre- 
 hended, fled at midnight to the house where I was, 
 and alarmed the family. This news, being brought 
 to me at midnight, \va-s deeply explained to me. So 
 the midnight hour would break for mockers, B. ha- 
 ving been a great mocker of my writings; but as 
 this was temporal, it is spiritualized to me. The 
 tree represents the devil; for it is written, when the 
 axe is laid to the tree, it must be cut down. As it 
 is a type of men and devils, the dispute will be on 
 whom it must fall. If they will not give it. up, the 
 woman's right to cast it to the devil they will bring 
 it on themselves, and distract more families by their 
 words, than they have done by their blows. I -shall 
 answer all disputants, by deciding to which 'of the 
 two the tree belonged. 
 
 For as you say you do not know, 
 
 As it between their lands did grow, 
 
 Then fully I will answer here, 
 
 1 he day of vergeanre now is near. 
 
 For like the tret it now doth stand 
 
 Between the serpent and the man; 
 
 And this the woman must decide, 
 
 The way she fell and was betrav'd, 
 
 And how she did draw in the man, 
 
 Must be decided by her hand, 
 
 And by her hand it doth appear 
 
 The day of vengeance now is clear 
 
 To caft it on the serpent's head, 
 
 And make him prove the words he said, 
 
 That they as gods should now appear, 
 
 .And good from evil discern clear. My
 
 My Sixth Book will treat chiefly of the Day of 
 Judgment. For tho' it is written, the saints must 
 judge the earth, it never entered the heart of man 
 what it meant, nor how they wiU.hear the Spirit of 
 the Lord speaking in the woman in every age of the 
 world, how she brought forth the good fruit, and 
 man always destroyed it by the evil fruit ; and now 
 it is the same. And were fools and sinful men to sit 
 in judgment on my Sixth Book, they would bring, 
 the day of vengeance on themselves, and not on the 
 devil, who was the author of all our sorrows. There- 
 fore it is well for mankind, that this must be judged 
 by saints, who are men inspired by the Spirit of the 
 Lord ; for Satan would speedily work in fools, to 
 cast the fault on the woman for the fall, and then 
 she must cast the blame on m:m fur crucifying her 
 Son, who was born by the Holy Ghost ; and so the 
 arts of the devil would free himself, by working in 
 the hearts of fools, and bringing destruction on the 
 whole human race. For as it is now cast by men,, 
 so it must stand for ever. Therefore men, svito are 
 not inspired, .by the Spirit of thj Lord, are not lit to 
 sit in judgment on these things. 
 
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 without paying the postage, I /v to remark, 
 
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 charging. 1 have- there lore to rci;iast, that all -writ- 
 ten communications addressed to me he in future post* 
 paid, at which I trust no one will feel vjfafieted. 
 Dec. i, 1801. JOANNA SQU FHCOTT. 
 
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 The Strange Effects of Faith ; 
 
 WITH 
 
 REMARKABLE PROPHECIES, 
 
 MADE IN 1792, &C. 
 
 Of Things which are to come. 
 
 SIXTH PART. 
 
 I 
 
 SHALL begin this book with the Judgment- 
 Day for Man. 
 
 * 
 
 It is written, the Saints must judge the earth, 
 from the foundation of the world " And this 
 century (the first in the 1 900th before it is com- 
 pleted) is fixed for man to sit in judgment, to 
 judge between ME and my vineyard. Therefore 
 I have called by my Spirit, anci by the mouth 
 of all my prophets : Come, let us reason toge- 
 ther, saith the Lord ; though your sins are as 
 scarlet, I will make them as white as snow. 
 Turn unto me, and I will turn unto you: I will 
 heal your backslidings, and love you freely. 
 For now be astonished, O earth ! I have a con- 
 troversy with my people : and as the echo of 
 verse gives the sound of one line to another, so 
 have I, by my Spirit, echoed back in verse to 
 the words of man. O simple and foolish gene- 
 
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 ration ! from the fall of mail to this day, what 
 iniquities have you found in ME, that you seek 
 after other gods to your hurt? You blame ME 
 for giving the woman power to answer all her 
 controversies \vith you. For now I will pull 
 down, and raise up; J will kill, and make alive ; 
 I will wound, and I will heal ; I will destroy, 
 and I will save ; I will establish my covenant I 
 made with man at first. The spirit of deep sleep 
 hath been upon you, and wisdom's words have 
 been sounding in your ears ; but ye have put 
 sweet for bitter, and bitter for sweet; ye have 
 called good evil, and evil good; and, like Ja- 
 cob's sons, all hath appeared a pleasing dream 
 unto those that believe or see any form or come- 
 liness in the words before them. 
 
 " But now, as I have told you, the saints 
 must judge the earth, I shall come to that pur- 
 pose, and lay before you the manner in which 
 they must judge the earth, when they hear the 
 voice of the Spirit of the Lord speaking in the 
 woman, in every age of the world, both to men 
 a,nd devils. To men, because they always des- 
 troyed the good fruit, as soon as it came ; or 
 rose up in anger against it. This has been in 
 every age of the world ; but now every thing 
 hath got its time j and bounds are fixed for all. 
 He that said to the proud waves of the sea, 
 hitherto shalt thou go, and no further, hath fixed 
 his bounds for man. And now I will come to 
 reason with man. Suppose I had never made the 
 woman; and man had stood in perfect obedience 
 at first ; do you vainly imagine the devil would 
 use no other arts to betray man, as he did the 
 angels in i^eaven, who gave themselves up to his 
 temptations ? Would not Satan find the same 
 way to work on them now, if there was no 
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 woman? Sodom and Gomorrah will rise up in 
 judgment against mankind, who blame the Lord 
 for giving the woman ; for their sins M 7 ere not with 
 woman, but men with men, for which they were de- 
 stroyed : and this sin the devil would tempt man to 
 commit, if there was no woman in the world, and 
 dust had increased as worms in the earth, or as 
 worms increase by the breath of a fly ; for by 
 the breath of my mouth I would increase a 
 whole race of mankind. And had this been the 
 case, do you not think the same subtle arts that 
 infused rebellion into the angels in heaven, would 
 infuse rebellion into men on the earth ? If the 
 whole world was rendered a paradise unto them, 
 Satan would soon find a way to swell their pride, 
 that the servant would be greater than his mas- 
 ter ; and the very men who gave themselves up 
 to disobey the laws of God, and rise up in re- 
 bellion against his prophets, would rise up against 
 those men who lived in innocence ; and earth 
 would soon become in the same rebellious state 
 that heaven was, when the devil influenced the 
 angels to conceit they were great and mighty, 
 and ought to worship no superior power. Thus 
 he began in heaven, and thus would he begin, 
 upon earth ; and man, whom I created, must 
 have been cast for ever with the devil and fallen 
 angels that listened to him. Therefore know, O 
 vain man J the very way you think I placed 
 every thing for your destruction was placed for 
 your redemption : as every art of Satan was 
 known to ME, I therefore laid my plan to catch 
 him in a net by his own feet; and to cut him 
 down with his own weapons, to prevent man 
 from perishing everlastingly. For I well knew, 
 if I made man flesh and blood, and let him fall 
 a prey to the wrath of the devil for ever, he 
 would say with Cain, my trouble is greater than 
 
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 244 
 
 I can bear; therefore 1 felt for man, whom I had 
 created to inherit this life. 
 
 " But as this might cause doubts to arise in. 
 men's hearts, and they might question, why I 
 made man so subject to the arts of the devil,' 
 that the powers of darkness should have any 
 power to tempt him ? I answer: How could I 
 prove I had created a better race than the fallen 
 angels, if man was not liable to the same temp- 
 tations as they were? Now answer for thyself, 
 Oman! \vherein my ways are unequal, to deal 
 justly with men, and devils that fell from 
 glory? You complain of being tried and tempted. 
 Have not the just suffered the same temptations, 
 and much greater persecutions? For not saints, 
 but sinners have always judged and condemned 
 the saints ; but now; the scenes are changed : and 
 the saints must sit in judgment on the bench of 
 justice between ME and my vineyard, between my 
 dealings with men and devils, and the justice of 
 my sentence on all flesh. For if the just, in 
 every age of the world, fell a prey to the unjust, 
 will you say my ways are now unequal, to give 
 it up to the judgment of the just ? O ye foolish 
 and unwise ! were ye left to sit in judgment on 
 this great judgment-day, who fear not God, nor 
 discern his footsteps, ye would soon bring the 
 day of vengeance on your own heads ; and, 
 being blind leaders of the blind, ye would fall 
 into the ditch together. For Satan would soon 
 fill your weak heads, that it was some cunningly 
 devised fable of the woman, to clear her fall, and 
 cast it on the devil ; and so ye would do as the 
 people of old did, who heated the furnace seven 
 times hotter than usual, to burn themselves by 
 coining near it. For Satan would soon cast a 
 film overyour eyes to make you blind ; and, under
 
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 pretence of taking it away again, would say, 
 this was a film that was laid before you, and so 
 make you stark blind. 
 
 11 And now I will answer men, after the manner 
 of men. If children were now their own carvers, 
 they would cut their fingers : and men would 
 make as great a sacrifice of themselves for the 
 devil, as I made for man on the cross ; for as 
 this is cast by man, so it must stand for ever. 
 For now are the sons of God coming to present 
 themselves before the Lord ; and should Satan 
 come amongst them, I will answer him in the 
 woman. 
 
 " Now trace all my footsteps back, and see 
 how I have directed to bring it to trial for just 
 men to sit in judgment on it. Where is the man 
 who can condemn, when from my Spirit the 
 church hath been warned by thy hand ? And 
 where are thy accusers, or those who have 
 compelled thee to stay thy hand ? Or, who have 
 called for justice ? or, who have pleaded for 
 truth ? None but my servants, whom I have 
 chosen ; none but my people, in whom I delight; 
 who have strengthened the hand that hangs 
 clown, and confirmed the feeble knees ; who have 
 said to the feeble mind, be strong ; who have 
 added to their faith, virtue ; to virtue, brotherly 
 kindness; to brotherly kindness, charity; cha- 
 rity towards God, and charity towards man. 
 And the ways of good men are ordered by the 
 Lord ; and I, the Lord, have established their 
 goings ; for their feet are shod with the prepa- 
 ration of the Lord ; and I, the Lord, work in 
 the hearts of my people, to will and to' do of my 
 good pleasure.
 
 \ 
 
 " And now remember what I told thee at first, 
 that they should be a willing people in the day of 
 my power ; for I have hearkened and heard what 
 each man has said to his brother ; and they shall 
 be mine in the day I make up my jewels ; and I 
 will spare them, as a man spareth his own son 
 that serveth him. For I was hungry, and they 
 gave ME meat ; 'thirsty, and they gave ME drink ; 
 naked, and they clothed ME ; in prison, and 
 they administered unto ME : for as much as they 
 have done it to the least of my disciples, they 
 have done it unto ME. Thou hast been hungry, 
 and they gave thee meat, and thou livest now on 
 their bounty ; thou stoodest in want of clothing 
 for thy father, when he died, and they have sent 
 clothing unto thee. My other friend is in prison, 
 and they have administered unto him ; that is, by 
 their writings they are trying to deliver him. 
 Now all this is done unto ME ; for it is by ME, 
 and through ME, ye are both come to poverty 
 and want. Now all this is done, that the Scrip- 
 tures might be fulfilled : and now cometh the 
 end Come, ye blessed children of my Father, 
 inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the 
 foundation of the world. For such men as these 
 were my disciples ; and had they been in my days, 
 they would have followed ME, as my disciples did ; 
 and those who mocked in these days, are such as 
 mocked in my days. 
 
 ( 
 
 " And now, ye fools, who despise prophecies 1 
 was it not for prophecies, how could I try all men 
 in the end ? How could I bring a blessing on my 
 friends, or how could I bring a curse on mine ene- 
 mies, if I was not to try them by prophecies, as the 
 prophets were tried ? For I said, all the righteous 
 blood should come on this generation, from the
 
 247 
 
 blood of righteous Abel, unto the blood of Za- 
 chariah, son of Barachiah, whom they slew be- 
 tween the temple and the altar. 
 
 " Now the blood of all has fallen on the Jews ; 
 and was it not for prophecies, how could I try the 
 Gentiles ? for I shall deal alike with both. And 
 now I shall try all ; and it must come back on all 
 that mock the prophets of the Lord. For now I 
 shall begin with man, and end with the devil : for 
 now he hath tried men upon earth, as he tried the 
 angels in heaven ; and he hath found men as firm 
 in their worship to God, as the angels were in 
 heaven ; and those whom he has drawn away, he 
 does not find so firm to him, as the angels were 
 that fell: when men see him, they hate him. But 
 how could 1 do justice to fallen angels, if I had 
 not given them a fair trial upon earth of the power 
 they wanted ? I knew their nature, or I never 
 should have cast them out of heaven. But would 
 they not say, I judged them wrong, if I had not 
 proved the truth ot my judgment? So all shall 
 find I am clear when I judge, and just when I 
 condemn. Mercy, men will find, is my darling 
 attribute; judgment is my strange work. 
 
 " Now I have shewed you my strange works in 
 creation and preservation. That in creation all the 
 arts of hell were known to ME ; and I placed all for 
 man's redemption ; he being pronounced dead, un- 
 der the fall, as to the knowledge of God, man hath 
 room to look for redemption in and through the me- 
 rits of his Son, who took upon him the nature of 
 man, and found the devil had confidence enough to 
 tempt the Lord his God. Then was I not clear he 
 would tempt man, in a state of innocence, to wor- 
 ship him and, offer him the kingdoms of the earth,
 
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 'as he offered ME ? But how fatal must have been 
 man's case, if he had fallen in that manner ! to 
 rebel against the Lord that formed him, and sent 
 every blessing unto him : then he must have fallen 
 like the rebellious angels, and have perished like 
 them ; but herein I have laid my plan to redeem 
 man from the power of darkness. Wheti they see 
 the evil of their ways, and turn unto ME, I will 
 turn unto them, and plant them into the noble 
 vine ; for I am the root, and they shall be the 
 branches. But if they reject my voice, and despise 
 my just dealings ; I will cut them off from the vine. 
 So now hearken and hear, all ye families of the 
 earth ! I have begun, and will go on, till judgment 
 is turned into victory." 
 
 The following lines were explained to me, from 
 Jeremiah, chap. ii. verse 21, 22, and Zephaniah, 
 chap. iii. verse 15. 
 
 " Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a 
 right seed : how then art thou turned into a dege- 
 nerate plant of a strange vine unto me ?" 
 
 " For though thou wash thee zvith nitre, and take 
 thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before 
 me, saith the Lord God." 
 
 ^ The Lord hath taken away thy judgments, he 
 hath cast out thine enemy.'' 
 
 These two chapters were shewn to me by a 
 friend, who had opened the Bible at the above- 
 mentioned places, wishing to know if my writings 
 were from the Lord. They were much distressed 
 in mind on reading the first verses, fearing the 
 judgments were pronounced against themselves, 
 but found comfort on reading the last. Those
 
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 passages were explained to me in the following 
 manner. 
 
 " I will put away these judgments from those 
 that believe; but all these judgments will fall on 
 those that do not believe : For the Gentiles were 
 planted a noble vine, a pure and right seed. But 
 how can they be called noble, that despise the 
 very thing that makes them noble ? To make 
 them noble, is to cast the enemy of the Lord. 
 All these judgments will fall on them that despise 
 this calling. 
 
 " So 'tis your land hath this to fear, 
 What to their sight I then brought near ; ' 
 But those that tremble at my word 
 Will rind the goodness of their Lord, 
 To put these judgments all away 
 
 O ! ! this I say, 
 
 That as this chapter doth appear, 
 
 You all may hope, and all may fear. 
 
 If like thy friends they do begin, 
 
 To say they fear from what they've seen ; 
 
 Then all these fears I'll put away ; 
 
 These judgments will not come to ye. 
 
 But if these things ye do not fear, 
 
 But say, " We're nobly planted here ; 
 
 " For Christ hath plac'd in us the vine, 
 
 " And nitre in his blood doth shine 
 
 " To wash away our every guilt, 
 
 " And 'twas for us his Blood was spilt ;" 
 
 Then all these washings will not do ; 
 
 My Blood I never shed for you ; 
 
 And all your soap will be in vain, 
 
 To wash away your every stain : 
 
 And let the stain of man appear, 
 
 And then I'll fully answer here. 
 
 " At first my honour man did stain, 
 And with his Maker did contend, 
 That it was I brought on his guilt, 
 To give the woman, as he felt
 
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 A chang* in him that did appear : 
 He did not say " The serpent there 
 *' Tempted the woman for to take, 
 * And I with her the laws did break ; 
 ** Because he said, we should not die, 
 *'* But soon as gods appear to be, 
 
 And good from evil for to know ; 
 
 We ate the fruit the truth to shew 
 
 We had no knowledge of a lie, 
 
 As he declared we should not die ; 
 
 Nor do we know how he could speak, 
 
 Unless thy power did undertake 
 " To make him speak in words so clear." 
 Then they'd condemn'd the serpent there, 
 And from his power man must die. 
 This is a mystery, thou dost cry ; 
 Because his knowledge must be dead ; 
 Man knew not how his arts were laid. 
 But here, thou say'st thou'rt puzzled more, 
 How Satan all the blame must bear: 
 If both on him had Cast the blame, 
 Thou say'st, to man, what death could come? 
 Why then the death must been to sin, 
 And know the evil he had done ; 
 And" dead to all his powers he'd be, 
 As the good fruit was on the tree, 
 Which I would give them both to taste, 
 And then the serpent must be cast. 
 But here, thou criest thou'rt stumbled more. 
 Could I not then in man appear 
 That very way to cast the blame, 
 And put the serpent then to shame? 
 Yes, so I know it could be done ; 
 I might in power then work'd in man, 
 And never left him to his will ; 
 And so the serpent's heart to chill. 
 But then his arts I well did know, 
 And how he meant to cast the blow. 
 From which I'd meant to screen the man ; 
 No will nor power was in him ; 
 For in them both I then did rule: 
 His arts are more than man can tell ; 
 Therefore 1 left them all alone, 
 And Satan form'd himself in man, 
 And quickly cast the blame on ME. 
 I took my challenge then from he,
 
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 That if 'twas so, I'd bear the blame ; 
 
 And to the woman next I came, 
 
 Who cast it on the serpent's head* 
 
 And to the root the axe was laid, 
 
 And to the root it now must come; 
 
 For I'll begin to answer man : 
 
 I gave the serpent up his will, 
 
 To work in man, my heart to chill ; 
 
 And all his will for man did bear, 
 
 Until they pierc'd ME with a spear. 
 
 So Satan had his every will, 
 
 And all my friends their hearts did chill. 
 
 But had these things come all from man, 
 
 My Blood must sure been spilt in vain, 
 
 And brought on man a more sad curse. 
 
 And man tor ever must been lost 
 
 And lost for ever man must be, 
 
 If I've no friends the truth to see, 
 
 That when 1 have gone through the whole, 
 
 It next on Satan so must fall. 
 
 " So here you see is a noble vine, 
 To take my challenge for mankind, 
 When he in man t>o proudly spoke. 
 And instantly in man did mock, 
 To say, the woman I gave he 
 Had given the fruit forbidden by ME ; 
 And so by her he disobey'd, 
 And so on M E the blame was laid. 
 I answer'd then the blame I'd bear. 
 And in the field I would appear; 
 But knew my second then must -come 
 To take the sword out of my hand 
 And plunge it in the rebel's heart, 
 And so turn back the every dart. 
 If justice did my Blood demand, 
 To take my challenge from his hand ; 
 Then sure my second now must come, 
 And plunge the dagger back again ; 
 And say, " My Lord was not to blame; 
 " From Satan all the mischief came, 
 " Who first betray'd me with a lie, 
 " I was not then pronounc'd to die, 
 " And good from evil I should know, 
 " And every lie from Satan flow, 
 " Which brought my Lord upon the tree, 
 '*' And bore the death pronounc'd for m.
 
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 And since for me he did appear. 
 His Father's promise must be clear, 
 That all thy lies must bruise thy head, 
 If I've an advocate to plead. 
 Therefore my cause he now will plead, 
 And bring his blood upon thy head ; 
 Or he must bring it all on mine, 
 For hearkening to the lies of thine. 
 It was my sins that made him bleed, 
 For hearkening to the lies thou'st said, 
 And so the sword went through my soul ; 
 And wilt thou triumph over all ? 
 Then I most have no foot to stand, 
 No advocate is nigh at hand ; 
 No Father's promise for to claim ; 
 My Saviour's Blood was all in vain ; 
 And I must sink beneath the curse, 
 If now my Father's words do miss, 
 To have my seed to bruise thy head ; 
 My Father's words are all my stead, 
 And trust his words he will fulfil, 
 And not uphold the murderer still. 
 As Satan first a murderer came, 
 He knew that death was in the name 
 Of eating the forbidden fruit ; 
 He cast his eyes so near the root, 
 While I in ignorance did appear, 
 And of his arts was unaware. 
 I knew no angels that had fell ; 
 I knew no arts that came from hell ; 
 I knew no power that could appear, 
 But what came from my Maker dear ; 
 And all I thought must then be good, 
 As 'twas pronounced by my God. 
 And in that shape thou didst appear, 
 In what war, good, pronounced there ; 
 And good to evil thou didst bring, 
 And in the serpent plac'd a sting, 
 Whereby thou stung'st me to the soul ; 
 For of my children, I know, all 
 That were like Abel, met a Cain, 
 And so- my Lord the same did find ; 
 Thus, like champion in the field, 
 He took his challenge, and did yield 
 To bear the blow that thou hast given, 
 And now his triumph is in heaven,
 
 253 
 
 ** That he did die to conquer all ; 
 
 " Then sure I know his sword must fall 
 
 " For he to give it to my hand, 
 
 " And vengeance now tor to command. 
 
 t( As he hung bleeding on the tree, 
 
 " My Lord and Saviour dy'd for me 
 
 'Tis thee and I must bear the blame; 
 
 His murder sure from us did come. 
 
 So take the weapon in thy hand, 
 
 And now thy challenge I will stand. 
 
 A coward thou didst first appear; 
 " The weakest vessel thou saw'st clear 
 " Was took from man' one single bone, 
 " Not form'd in power like his own ; 
 " And so advantage thou didst take, 
 " In coming like a poisonous snake, 
 " To rob my soul of every bliss, 
 " And poison all my unborn race. 
 " So on thy belly thou must come, 
 " Thou'st not one foot to stand upon, 
 ** To say thou actest like a man 
 " Of honour and of honesty. 
 " I ask what challenge thou canst give, 
 " To answer for thy base design ; 
 " Such coward prove to me and mine, 
 " To cheat my soul with such a lie 
 " As caus'th my children for to die, 
 " By reason of thy cursed sting ? 
 " And now to reason I'll begin : 
 " Did heaven create me for thy spoil f 
 " Create a race for thee to foil, 
 " That hath no footing here to stand ? 
 " How dar'st thou interfere with man ? 
 " Or didst thou the world ever form ? 
 " Or didst thou e'er create the man, 
 " Or take the partner from his side? 
 " How dar'st thou ever rob the bride 
 *' Of innocence that there was plac'd ? 
 " I know my Lord I did disgrace, 
 " By listening to the arts of thine : 
 " And now with shame I must resign 
 " To own his anger then was just ; 
 " And so my grief did ever burst, 
 " From age to age his anger bear, 
 ft The weaker vessel full of care,
 
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 While thou didst triumph in ray grief j 
 
 But npw my Lord will give relief, 
 
 To place the weapon in my hand, 
 
 And as thy challenger to stand, 
 
 And justice I may now demand. 
 
 And now I ask how thou'lt appear ? 
 
 Thou robb'dst thy God, thou robbedst me ; 
 
 This world was never made for thee. 
 
 Then how cam'st thou to interfere, 
 
 Unto God's footstool to appear, 
 
 To rob the footstool of thy God, 
 
 When all he had pronounced good ! 
 
 Yet good to evil thou didst turn, 
 
 And did thy God impose upon ; 
 
 Then well thou may'st impose on me ; 
 
 The weakest vessel thou didst see, 
 
 Which good from evil did not know, 
 
 And by thy arts received the blow, 
 
 Which I've a right to return back, 
 
 As I the evil fruit did pluck. 
 
 And now thy lies I'll make them good, 
 
 And know that evil in thee stood, 
 
 And all thy arts I well do know ; 
 
 And back on thee I'll cast the blow ; 
 
 For well I know thou canst not stand, 
 
 To give the challenge from my hand. 
 
 Could'st thou no better arts command 
 
 Than like a serpent to appear, 
 
 With lies that thou could'st never clear ? 
 
 And yet I now will clear them all, 
 
 And from thy mouth thou now must fall. 
 
 Thou saidst the evil I should know ; 
 
 And now the truth I'll prove it so ; 
 
 For every evil is in thee, 
 
 And so thou hang'st upon the tree, 
 
 And all the good with it was plac'd, 
 
 And so the first must come at last ; 
 
 And so my Lord he did appear, 
 
 As on the cross, I may compare, 
 
 That it was taken from a tree 
 
 Thou bad'st me pluck that fruit for thee, 
 
 To fill my soul with envy here, 
 
 To turn on thee the fatal spear : 
 
 And so thou bad'st me pluck the rod, 
 
 To prove, when I did know my God,
 
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 Him I should love, and thee should hate j 
 And so thou bad'st me pluck thy fete ; 
 For if my God I now do know ; 
 He promised to turn back the blow. 
 So where's the honour thou canst boast, 
 But like the serpent lick the dust, 
 And on thy belly for to come? 
 Thou hast no foot to stand upon : 
 For all thy words did thee condemn. 
 For well I know my God is good. 
 And mercy unto me has shew'd, 
 To keep me from thy every power, 
 Or else my soul thou would'st devour. 
 So here I own thou didst not lie ; 
 The fatal truth was pluck'd by thee ; 
 And by thy words thou must be cast, 
 And man's redemption must be plac'd, 
 As 'twas my heavenly Father's will 
 Man's happiness I should fulfil. 
 And dost thou think to rob thy God, 
 Of performing the words he said, 
 Because thou hangedst on the tree ? 
 Then know that fruit was pluck'd by me- 
 And now I say I'll pluck the whole 
 Till-down the evil fruit shall fall, 
 And then the good may all remain j 
 And from thy words I'll still maintain, 
 That like as gods men may appear, 
 The evil fruit I'll shew them clear, 
 That thou didst bid me for to taste ; 
 I'll shew thy arts, how all was plac'd, 
 And then my judges let them come, 
 I'll take my trial first from man ; 
 And then discover which they'll blame j 
 'Tis me or thee they must condemn. 
 And now wilt thou in man appear, 
 Thy innocence in aught to clear, 
 To say thou art not justly cast? 
 Then sure from hell such man must burst, 
 And him I'll prove an evil fruit. 
 Who came from thee to save the root, 
 From whence all mischief first did spring, 
 And on my Lord to cast the blame, 
 Which he had got no right to bear; 
 His innocence I now will clear.
 
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 " If simply I drew in the man, 
 
 *' And on my head the blame doth stand, 
 
 " Then I must throw it back on thine. 
 
 " And now I bid thee look to Cain, 
 
 " How soon a murderer he became. 
 
 " I know thy power was in my Son ; 
 
 " For when the fruit did first appear, 
 
 " Then good and evil I saw clear ; 
 
 " Then good was murder'd by thy hand : 
 
 " And now let men the trial stand, 
 
 *' And see how they will now appear, 
 
 " Thy innocence in aught to clear. 
 
 *' Then man must say I am a devil, 
 
 " And all my nature it was evil, 
 
 " And so the woman now I'll blame* 
 
 " As from her fall we so became. 
 
 " Then from my fall I'll answer here, 
 
 " An Abel will for me appear, 
 
 " To prove I had not tainted all, 
 
 " As the good fruit in him did fall. 
 
 " So here's a child by me will stand, 
 
 " Though murdered by his brother's hand., 
 
 " To prove I had not tainted all. 
 
 " If I'm condemn'd, then man must fall ; 
 
 " For let my children all appear : 
 
 " I've Moes and Elias here ; 
 
 " I've all the prophets of the Lord 
 
 " To prove the good fruit I have bearM ; 
 
 " But as their murderers will appear, 
 
 " Will man condemn me them to clear? 
 
 " Then surely I'll condemn the whole, 
 
 " And bring my seed before you all, 
 
 " Because you murder'd then my Son, 
 
 " That never was begot by man, 
 
 " And in his mouth was found no guile. 
 
 " 1 ask you how you him can foil ? 
 
 " Perform the miracles he wrought, 
 
 " By Beelzebub as you were taught ? 
 
 " From Satan's arts to fill your brain, 
 
 " He all these wonders did maintain. 
 
 " Then now I bid you do the same, 
 
 " Or else I'll put you all to shame.
 
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 "And prove the fault must be in man, 
 <f Though you receiv'd it from my handj 
 " And from my hand there did appear 
 " All those that did reprove you there : 
 " And from my hand in Pilate's hall, 
 " You know I did reprove you all, 
 ** And told you then the man was just; 
 " And if in me you say you'll trust, 
 Why had you not my hand obey'd 
 And free'd the just, as then I said? 
 If you will cast the blame on me, 
 For the bad fruit was on the tree, 
 Why did you all refuse the good ? 
 The prophet's blood is on your head, ' 
 The blood of Abel and of Cain : 
 And tell me if the fault was mine, 
 That he is brother then did kill? 
 You men may judge this as you will ; 
 But I for Cain will answer now, 
 Why he his brother Abel- slew ; 
 Because in him he saw the good : 
 Then how can you the fault allude 
 To say you'll cast the blame on me I 
 Then the good fruit was on the tree. 
 Which you was eager to destroy, 
 The evil fruit for to enjoy. 
 For now I say I'll challenge man -. 
 When unto you in vice I came, 
 You all was ready and obey'd ; 
 I'll bring my guilt upon your head, 
 Because you did refuse the good, 
 And to the evil you have stood ; 
 For Naboth you did place on high ; 
 When I had robb'd you did comply ; 
 And ne'er no sin did I invent 
 But man was willing to consent : 
 To murder, and adultery, 
 To bid you sin, too soon you'd fly ; 
 One smile of mine, that came from hell, 
 Would kindle flames in you to swell 
 Until you burst them all abroad, 
 And perish in the devil's road. 
 When I the prophet's blood did claim, 
 It soon was given me by men ; 
 And there's no vice that you withstood : 
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 For when my children did appear, 
 And the good fruit in them was clear. 
 Your murderous hands destroy'd them aM, 
 The martyrs' blood I now shall call, 
 How they were cast into the flames, 
 And all the prophets I can name. 
 So here's a challenge now for man: 
 If on my head you cast the blame ; 
 Then I will cast the blame on you : 
 AH vice that I did tempt you to 
 In every age was eager done ; 
 And will you say you e'er did shun/ 
 Because a Joseph there was found, 
 Rejefct my vice in every sound ? 
 Then down my vice I say must fall/ 
 Had you wisely rejected all ; 
 My every vice that I had plac'd, 
 Your prisons had not you disgraced; 
 But higher honour to you bring, 
 Exalted by your heavenly King. 
 So here's the fruit that's good to boast ; 
 But by his brethren he was cast ; 
 Then how will you say I'm to blame ? 
 You hated good fruit when it came. 
 So now I bid thee answer, man, 
 If on my head thou cast the blame, 
 Why all my vices thou pursu'dst, 
 And all my virtues e'er withstood'st, 
 As things despised in thy sight ? 
 If I had children walk'd upright, 
 Thou sought'st their lives for to destroy; 
 That I no comfort could enjoy 
 From the good fruit was on the tree. 
 If man condemns, then answer me, 
 And see what reasons you'll assign 
 For hating all the good was mine. 
 Had I no children for to boast, 
 Wherein the good you see was plac'd ; 
 Then you may sure condemn me all, 
 And say I brought the fatal fall ; 
 But as I'll prove I'd many good, 
 You in their virtues might have stood. 
 : But as you did not answer, man, 
 What made you lay such wretched plan, 
 To put my children all to death, 
 That I brought forth by noble birth ?
 
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 " You cannot say that came from me , 
 " From Satan's arts they all did flee ; 
 " And when to you he did appear, 
 " You did no more discern it there, 
 " Than I discerned his arts at first ; 
 r< And well I know, if I am cast, 
 " The serpent will betray you all, 
 " And so mankind would surely fall j 
 *' For was no woman to be found, 
 *' I know that sin would now abound, 
 " Unless you strike unto the root ; 
 " And men in silence must stand mute, 
 " Tay these reasonings now are just "' 
 *' We own the serpent must be cast ; 
 For if the good fruit does appear, 
 We know the evil fruit is near, 
 That surely doth from Satan come, 
 As on the tree the fruit did hang ; 
 And he must hang upon the tree, . 
 His poisonous blood destroyed must be ; 
 For now we know he cankers all, 
 And like the crocodile doth call, 
 Till he secures men for his prey. 
 What to the woman can we lay, 
 When we see'raan as much deceiv'd 
 As she was then for to believe 
 That they as gods should surely be, 
 By subtle arts that came from he ? 
 And he by arts hath man betray'd, 
 Or could mankind so wrong beea led, 
 To put the Son of God to death ? 
 Consider what the woman saith : 
 The miracles that he hath wrought, 
 By men nor devils could be taught ; 
 For 'tis not all the powers of hell 
 Could act like him, we all know well, 
 Nor all the learned sons of men : 
 ' For earth and hell may try in vain ; 
 ' And all the powers we know would miss" 
 ' And so proud Lucifer may boast 
 ' In simple fools that are so vain, 
 ' To think that hell in power could reign, 
 ' To turn the water into wine, 
 ' Give sight to him who was born blind, 
 ' Or yet the hungry thousands feed 
 ' With fishes few and little bread ;
 
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 And see what numbers did appear, 
 That by my Son were feasted there; 
 As you approve the Son was mine, 
 And to your words I'd! now resign. 
 But you affirm he came by man ; 
 Then answer now my written hand, 
 And in my Son in words I'll stand, 
 And now will answer in his stead, 
 Arid in his name I'll now proceed : 
 Did ever man to you appear 
 Such miracles to work them here ? 
 You say that JVIoses did the same, 
 And turn'd the sea to be dry land/'- 
 
 " But know he was a type of ME ; 
 These things were never wrought by he ; 
 For it was I that wrought them all, 
 And there my Spirit it did fall, 
 For to uphold his every hand ; 
 The seas, could ne'er been parted by man, 
 No more than man can now appear 
 To do the wonders he. did there ; 
 So all these wonders came from ME 
 And now the brazen serpent see, 
 Who on the pole was lifted up, 
 And so my cross to you did drop ; 
 For as a serpent on (he tree 
 Ye hung ME up, and nailed ME : . 
 A brazen serpent was your cry, 
 To say I came from God on High, 
 When from the devil you declare 
 My miracles performed were. 
 
 " So here's the brazen serpent plain, 
 As I from hell you did contend 
 Perform'd ihe miracles I wrought, 
 And boldly I my God did mock : 
 Then boldly now I'll answer here, 
 The living serpent did appear, 
 And gave you all such fatal sting, 
 And death upon you he did bring ; 
 Because he stung you to the soul, 
 .Despise the brazen serpent all ;
 
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 For as the serpent was of brass, 
 
 With brazen confidence you say, 
 
 That I assume the Son of God, 
 
 And by the serpent to you show'd 
 
 The miracles that I had done. 
 
 I knew before what you would form, 
 
 And so my prophet lift ME up ; 
 
 I knew your hearts how they would drop ; 
 
 Because your hearts I all had try'd 
 
 The miracles were all deny'd, 
 
 That Moses shew'd you all before ; 
 
 Your golden calf did then appear, 
 
 And trusted to another god, 
 
 That Satan to your ears had bor'd. 
 
 " Now your forefathers all trace back, 
 And then you may behold the wreck 
 That brought your fatal destiny ; 
 And the good fruit, you all may see, 
 It always was despised by man 
 Let Moses and Elias come ; 
 Let all my prophets to appear, 
 You always did condemn them here. 
 Then now I ask where man can boast J 
 The good fruit you have always cast, 
 The evil fruit for to embrace, 
 And so your Lord you did disgrace, 
 To say a bastard he'd uphold j 
 Let all my miracles be told ; 
 They never could be work'd by man, 
 Nor work'd by all your hellish plan, 
 Which you with Satan then agreed, 
 From men and devils did proceed. 
 
 " But now I'll fully answer here ; 
 Let men and devils now appear 
 And all my miracles perform ; 
 Then you the Son of God may scorn ; 
 But if these things you cannot do, 
 Let all be brought before your view, 
 And let your Beelzebub appear, 
 And see if he will answer here, 
 That he can work the same by man ; 
 Then I'll resign my every hand ; 
 Or let these empty fools appear, 
 Who said from hell they worked were.
 
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 For to call in a heathen land, 
 And make the Gentiles understand 
 There surely was a God in heaven, 
 By whom the promises were given, 
 He had a Son to do his will, 
 And made the woman to fulfil 
 What he at first did her design, 
 A helpmate great for all mankind, 
 And in the end complete his bliss. 
 And from her seed I'll answer this ; 
 Her seed is sown a noble vine, 
 To change your water into wine, 
 That in my altar doth appear. 
 Let men and devils answer here : 
 If I'm a God that made the earth, 
 According as the Scripture sailh, 
 Did I not know all this before, 
 The miracles that did appear 
 Would so bring in .a heathen land, 
 That to his Gospel they would stand, 
 And honour as the Son of God, 
 To wash them in his dying blood ? 
 Did I not know the heavenly form, 
 His death would be kept up by man : 
 And how to him they would appeal 
 His blood nor merit might not fail 
 To wash away their every guilt, 
 And say for them that it was spilt, 
 And mix his goodness with mine own, 
 And both in one address my throne, 
 And so address the Trinity, 
 One God united in the three? 
 Then now, ye fools ! ye may appear 
 To say, " One God we worship here, 
 " And all his knowledge we allow." 
 Appear, vain man, and tell ME how 
 I gave such power unto man, 
 Who said he from my throne did come j 
 If he had tokl you then a lie, 
 His miracles they all should die ; 
 For I would not give it to man 
 To mix with ME upon my throne. 
 You know that Moses I forbade, 
 No worship to his bones be laid, 
 And of his death you did not know, 
 Where to his body you might go ;
 
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 Because you should not worship there ; 
 But now the mystery you see clear. 
 
 " And now to David you must come : 
 Did he not tell you of the Son ? 
 And all the prophets did the same ; 
 But will you say I never came 
 So perfectly as Isaac spoke? 
 You know you all regard ME not, 
 Though bruis'd for your iniquity, 
 In casting first the fault on ME, 
 And on ME lay the blame of all ; 
 And Jews and Gentiles both I call : 
 From Noah's sons, you Jews appear ; 
 Your fathers' nakedness is here ; 
 And will you backward ever go 
 To cover all as they did do ? 
 Or will you like the elder come 
 Their nakedness for to discern ? 
 Then all your sins I'll put away, 
 If ye the elder brother be, 
 Or like the elder brother see 
 Your fathers' nakedness to be ; 
 The grapes have made your fathers bare j 
 The wine destroyed their senses there ; 
 Your younger brothers were to blame. 
 To cover all your fathers' shame 
 " For how can we now. cover here? 
 " He, drunk, with anger did appear 
 " To cast a curse upon his son ; 
 " For no great evil he had done 
 " To see his father so appear ; 
 " He only laugh 'd, as we may here ; 
 " And if our corse so soon must come, 
 " We are all lost, and all undone." 
 But here your reasoning thoughts may say. 
 " The curse that was pronounced by he 
 " Could never fall upon the son, 
 "" Unless the Lord had done the same"' 
 No ; here's a mystery that goes deep ; 
 Had I not given up to it, 
 His words had never curs'd the son> 
 Had I a blessing sent to him, 
 To baffle all his father's will. 
 But Jews and Gentiles now stand still- 
 This was a simple type of man, 
 To shew when power was in his hand,
 
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 How he that power would instant rule, 
 And soon destroy his children all. 
 
 " As Noah had ME right obey'd, 
 And built the ark, as I had said, 
 I gave him will, I gave him power, 
 And now you see the fatal hour, 
 When man in power began to rule, 
 How soon his anger let him fall 
 To ruin all his unborn race, 
 And every child thereby disgrace. 
 So now I ask what man can boast, 
 When power in him by ME is plac'd? 
 In pride and passion he'd soon swell, 
 And send his children fast to hell. 
 Because offence he could not bear, 
 Too soon his anger did appear, 
 Which I in anger granted he, 
 That in the end you all might see 
 Wan is unfit to have the power ; 
 Their children they'd too soon devour, 
 As Noah did unto his son. 
 And now to reason I shall come : 
 If I like man should so appear, 
 To curse my children every where, 
 Because that they have laugh 'd at ME, 
 Like Noah's son you all would be ; 
 And so you all would find a curse ; 
 For Satan's arts in all are plac'd. 
 
 " When I the world completely drown'd. 
 One. upright man there sure was found, 
 Whom I preserved in the ark ; 
 But Satan never miss'd his mark, 
 And, like a ravenous beast of prey, 
 He watch'd my children every way ; 
 When I destroy'd the world of sin, 
 He study'd then how to begin 
 To make it bad as 'twas before, 
 And soon to Noah did appear, 
 To make him drunk at first with wine, 
 (This nakedness is in mankind) 
 Which was discover'd by the son, 
 And Satan quickly laugh'd in him, 
 His father's anger for to heat, 
 And so for both he laid his net,
 
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 To catch the simple in his snare 
 I ask what woman then was there ? 
 You all may answer, you read none ; 
 The father and the sons alonej 
 No sooner 'scap'd out of the snare, 
 Not perish'd with the deluge there, 
 Than all together they begin, 
 By Satan's arts, to fall in sin ; 
 For when the father curst the son, 
 You know not how his heart did burn, 
 And thought his father so unjust, 
 Such heavy sentence for to cast. 
 
 " So sin and anger did abound, 
 Though all the world of sinners drown'd ; 
 But still there was the man of sin, 
 With all his poisonous darts within, 
 To set the hearts on fire for hell ; 
 And so his mischief ever will, 
 While in this world he has got power, 
 He studies the unwary to devour. 
 For should I now in wrath appear, 
 And burn the stubble every where, 
 And set this world all in a flame, 
 And save no more than fear my name, 
 I know that fear would not abound ; 
 Too soon the tempter would be found 
 To works by arts and to betray, 
 And draw my children fast away. 
 Trace all the judgments I have sent, 
 In ages past that have been penn'd, 
 And yet the world is full of sin. 
 And now to reason I'll begin : 
 The Jews a proverb they do stand, 
 And scatter'd now from- land to land, 
 Without a house, withuot a home, 
 That they can boldly call their own ; 
 And there's no nation they can boast 
 That is their own ; they're so outcast, 
 And all their judgments they do see, 
 And yet they do not live to ME, 
 According as their law was plac'd 
 But live in sin, like all the rest. 
 I know their arts, I know their lies, 
 And how to cheat they'll all disguise : 
 I know the form they all do make, 
 And know the truth they all forsake,
 
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 And all ray judgments are in 
 While Satan's arts in man do reign ; - 
 I see no peace there will appear, 
 While Satan's witchcrafts are so near. 
 Until I rid him from the coast, 
 And then may man in virtue boast. 
 So let the Jews for to appear, 
 And my demand to answer here, 
 And say they worship now one God, 
 As it was written by his word ; 
 And say their conscience now is clear. 
 They do not lie, nor do they swear, 
 They do not cheat, they do not steal, 
 My sabbath they do never fail 
 To keep it holy to their Lord ; 
 They love and fear their only God, 
 Ana by the law their conscience free, 
 No sin they do commit 'gainst ME ; 
 But perfect as my laws have stood, 
 They live in all things perfect good, 
 And upright. men they say theybe 
 In every Taw was given by ME. 
 
 " Now if -these things they all can clear,. 
 They need to have no Saviour hire; 
 For their transgressions to atone, 
 If they can prove thut fchay have none. 
 But live as men before t; r tr Lord, 
 That have each evil word afohorr'd ; 
 For by my law they are not free, 
 Unless their lives so upright be ; 
 And if their conscience now is clear, 
 To say, " No sin in us appear ;" 
 Then they do want no Saviour's blood, 
 If in my laws they've perfect stood ; 
 But if their conscience do condemn 
 " We broke the laws that thou hast nam'd ;" 
 Then now I say I'll break them all, 
 And vengeance shall upon them fall, 
 Unless they instantly do turn, 
 And see the evil they have done; 
 ' We have no merit for to plead, 
 * If that our sins are on our heads ; 
 1 In guilt we know we must appear, 
 ' Unless our Saviour comes to clear ; 
 ' And this we have been waiting for, 
 ' Thinking he would for us appear,
 
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 ** To be our prince, to be our king, 
 
 " And David's throne to us he'd bring." 
 
 Then read your Bible back once more, 
 
 Arc. Answer all my questions here, 
 
 And tell M E who was crucify'd, 
 
 To bear the sin of man, that dy^d, 
 
 And you regard it not at all, 
 
 When I did bear the blame for all ? 
 
 And who was smitten then of God, 
 
 And bore for man the fatal load, 
 
 That bore the burden for you all, 
 
 That from the woman then did fall ? 
 
 I answer now, ye sons of men, 
 
 These things by man could not be done ; 
 
 Had I not blinded then your eyes, 
 
 Could man the Son of God despise, 
 
 To put him to so shameful death 1 
 
 Consider what the Scripture saith ; 
 
 If you had known what you had done,,, 
 
 You all must with the devils come ; 
 
 For how the man could I e'er free? 
 
 No war was kindled then for ME, 
 
 As angels kindled it in heaven. 
 
 And how could men be e'er forgiven, 
 
 If they had known what they had done -r 
 
 To crucify God's only Son ? 
 
 But as their blindness did appear, 
 
 Because man's blame I said I'd bear, 
 
 As man did cast the blame on ML : 
 
 But here's my travail all shall see, 
 
 Wherein my soul is satisfy'd, 
 
 To see the woman's claim apply 'd; 
 
 How man will clamour for his blood, 
 
 And say that promise always stood ; 
 
 And when that promise I fulfil, 
 
 The serpent's heart I then must chill, 
 
 And all these things must bruise his bead, 
 
 And all in public must be laid. 
 
 " For here's the Judgment-Day for man, 
 To judge the earth how all doth stand. 
 And those that can't afford to buy, 
 I know my friends will give away; 
 When they have prov'd it came from heaven, 
 Unto the public 'twill be given ; 
 And then men's hearts I soon shall try> 
 And fast my arrows they shall fly ;
 
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 For if men now do mock the word, 
 They soon shall find my glittering sword, 
 To cut the rebels to the heart, 
 That will not now turn back the dart ; 
 For every mystery I'll make clear, 
 And prove the Day of Judgment's here, 
 Wherein the saints must judge the earth. 
 According as the Scripture saiih, 
 Spoke by the Spirit and the Bride ; 
 And all my laws are here apply'd, 
 And every law Pll now make good : 
 I bought your ransom, as I said, 
 Upon the fatal cursed tree ; 
 Did .Satan pluck the fruit for MF, 
 Or tempt the woman so to do ? 
 Bring all the mysteries to your view, 
 How in the garden all was placed, 
 And then discern how all was cast; 
 The good and evil fruit hung there ; 
 The serpent's arts did soon appear, 
 To tempt the woman it to take, 
 And eat the fruit, my laws to break ; 
 And boldly he appear'd in man 
 To answer then the fault was mine, 
 To make the woman to appear; 
 And well I knew he mock'd ME there: 
 But was the power in Satan's hand? 
 Did I .not know how all did stand, 
 That if the woman he betray'd, 
 In her I'd surely bruise his head ? 
 And now in her I will appear, 
 And all her promises shall clear, 
 That she'th a right for to demand ; 
 And now the trial she must stand, 
 And shew the evil and the good, 
 And ask to which you'll now allude, 
 TO pluck the whole from off the tree, 
 That nought but good fruit there must b. 
 For to her hand I'll now resign : 
 And tell ME if the fault was mine, 
 To give the woman to your hand, 
 Because,the serpent did command 
 For her to pluck the evil fruit ? 
 And now she strikes it to the root ;
 
 And let mankind as close obey 
 As Adam did that very day ; 
 Then I no more the man will blame, 
 If he with her alike condemn, 
 And say the woman I had given ; 
 He saw it wisdom then in heaven 
 To take the partner from his side, 
 Whom God in wisdom calls the bride. 
 And as the serpent did appear 
 To rob the bride, as you see clear, 
 Your laws will now condemn the man 
 That robs your wives, and so become 
 For to bring in a bastard race, 
 And so your families disgrace. 
 But if the woman free consents, 
 And with the man is fully bent 
 With her betrayer for to go, 
 Divorcement you've a right unto ; 
 But if by arts she is betrayed, 
 And no deceit in her was laid, 
 As he at first had made her blind. 
 And drown'd her senses, for to find 
 A way to get admittance there, 
 And every truth she shew'd you clear, 
 And you should prove as blind as she^, 
 And in like manner to agree 
 There was no evil in the man ; 
 You see no arts in him could come, 
 When both alike you were betray'd, 
 When all is clear before you laid ; 
 And if the bride do first condemn, 
 ' By arts I was impos'd upon ; 
 '' For now his arts I plain do see. 
 By all his arts for to rob me. 
 Is all the gold he offer'd here; 
 And all his arts I now see deaf 
 Is for to seek my overthrow, 
 Is all his friendship now I know. 
 Now if the wife doth this see clear, 
 And then discern his every snare; 
 Then if in violence he goes on, 
 I ask the husband how he'll stand 
 For to support a faithful bride, 
 When all the arts of man she laid
 
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 So clear and open to his view, 
 Despise the sins he did tempt her to f 
 Will not the husband feel alarm'd, 
 To keep his wife from future harm, 
 And jealously within him burn ? 
 
 " And now to reason I shall come : 
 A man of honour will appear, 
 Condemn the man, his wife to clear, 
 And from his house he will forbid 
 A man that doth wilh arts proceed, 
 To rob the virtue of his bride, 
 When she the whole before him laid. 
 So now your Bibles you trace back ; 
 For in that manner I have spoke, 
 From age to age, I say, to man, 
 And to that purpose now I'll come; 
 For all the arts of Satan here, 
 I in this manner may compare : 
 And those that freely do consent, 
 To say, " Our minds are fully bent 
 " With this betrayer for to go ; 
 " We do not wish his overthrow ; 
 " His ways and arts we love too well, 
 " To have him banish'd down to hell." 
 
 " Then like a husband, now I say, . 
 Such brides I all will put away ; 
 And Moses' laws I'll now fulfil, 
 And all such brides their hearts I'll chill ; 
 For my divorcement now shall come ; 
 And this you'll find in every land ; 
 For mark the words I said before, 
 That like a bridegroom I'll appear ; 
 And as a bri.degroom now I'll be 
 Of honour and of honesty ; 
 But if my brides do now complain, 
 (For men and women both I mean,) 
 That Satan like a man appears 
 With every art invented here, 
 To rob their hearts arid steal away, 
 And like these treacherous knaves doth lie 
 In every ambush for the bride, 
 I am the husband now apply'd, 
 That will take vengeance of your ill. 
 Some men of honour they did kill
 
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 Such men as did insult their wife, 
 
 To rob her of a virtuous life ; 
 
 And now such man I'll surely be, 
 
 Of honour and of honesty, 
 
 And shew my rage through jealousy. 
 
 As men by jealousy have done. 
 
 And to that purpose now I'll come. 
 
 To free my brides that do complain, 
 
 (I speak of women and of men ;) 
 
 For Dinah's brethren, all shall see. 
 
 Are now within the heart of M E ; 
 
 And as the elders did appear, 
 
 I say again Susannah's here ; 
 
 Just so the devil, I do know, 
 
 By vile arts seeks your overthrow ; 
 
 And those he cannot tempt to sin, 
 
 I know his malice burns within, 
 
 And what false witness he doth bear 
 
 Against my brides that shunn'd hira here, 
 
 " And now the mysteries all I'll clear, 
 As in thy heart thou doit complain, 
 These mysteries all do shew thee plain, 
 That if I now would act like man, 
 The serpent's ruin now must come ; 
 For where's the man that will appeal 
 To have his wife so tempted here ? 
 If she to him did but complain, 
 Thou say'st he'd free her of her pain ; 
 Because his wife he would protect ; 
 But here's a mystery thou know'st not. 
 Let man with man now bold contend, 
 His wife's a harlot he'll maintain, 
 And he can easily make her so ; 
 The husband's prudence may let go 
 His erery art, to try awhile, 
 To see if he his wife can foil 
 By any art he can adopt ; 
 And wheft he finds that vain's his plot, 
 His love and anger will arise 
 Against the man that did devise 
 Such wretched schemes to rob the wife ; 
 And love and anger end the strife : 
 In love unto his wife declare, 
 ' The villain's arts, I now see clear, 
 *' Was but her virtue to destroy 
 " That I no comfort might emjoy
 
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 With one whom I did love so dear ; 
 But all his arts I now sec clear ; 
 And as a man of honour here 
 I'll make the villain for to fly ; 
 No more his honour he shall try, 
 As she with prudence hath withstood 
 These very arts that he pursu'd." 
 
 " So this may be the case with man, 
 Where subtle knaves have laid such plan 
 Against the virtues of a bride ; 
 And here the field is open wide 
 No sooner had I form'd the man, 
 Than Satan's arts began to burn, 
 And said I'd cast them out of heaven 
 And must the place they left be given 
 To such a foolish worthless worm, 
 Who like the angels soon would turn 
 To rise against ME and rebel ; 
 Or else with pride they soon would swell, 
 That they were gods as great as ME, 
 And like the devils 1 should see 
 How in a short time they'd become; 
 I plac'd no better in their room, 
 Than what before I had cast out, 
 And of their virtues he did doubt, 
 I had not made a better race 
 To fill the fallen angels' place ? 
 So instantly he did complain ; 
 I gave the trial then, like men, 
 Whose wisdom I have mention'd here j 
 But now my brides I'll surely clear, 
 And like a husbaud now I'll come, 
 To clear a race that he condemns, 
 Whose virtues he has ever try'd, 
 As man by arts can try the bride. 
 There are no arts that man can use, 
 But Satan first did them infuse ; 
 And there he thought that he could boast, 
 As they their virtues all had lost, 
 And in his hands he had them theje, 
 To try my children every where. 
 
 " And thus I let him to go on, 
 To shew what virtue was in man, 
 Whom he at first so much did scorn, 
 Taken from earth a simple worm.
 
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 And now these worms he soon shall see 
 Are fit companions for to be 
 Join'd with the glorious heavenly host, 
 And in their virtues now I'll boast, 
 In what they've suffer'd all for ME, 
 And now a husband let him see. 
 My friends they did not fear to run, 
 When he infus'd the thoughts in some, 
 What dangers may fall on their head 
 For doing as the Spirit said. 
 
 " So here the tempter miss'd his aim, 
 And in the end you'll all see plain 
 Which way the tempter laid his dart 
 To wound the men of upright heart. ! 
 For well I know the just will turn, 
 And soon repent of what they've done ; 
 And so the mysteries all will see, 
 What virtue in my children be ; 
 And all my children gone before, 
 And all together you compare, 
 I'll prove I've made a better race 
 Than those that did in heaven transgress, 
 To fill the angels' vacant seats, 
 Enlarge the heavens in praises great j 
 For men and angels, they will join 
 In praises heavenly and divine ; 
 And my delight shall be in men ; 
 They'll find their love was not in vain, 
 To run such hazards for my sake, 
 And know their lives were at the stake. 
 
 " So now let all together come, 
 The dead their names I'll raise to man ; 
 The evil fruit must disappear 
 When I the blood of Abel clear, 
 Who still for vengeance loud doth call j 
 So it must now turn back on all ; 
 I tell all you that are like Cain, 
 The evil fruit have had their time; 
 And now 1 see they're dead-ripe come, 
 I'll raise the winds and blow them down; 
 But as the good fruit do appear, 
 The wind and weather they can bear ; 
 Because they are not dead-ripe grown, 
 And they will stand against the storm ; 
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 Besides, in blossoms some appear ; 
 I have much fruit to ripen here; 
 And well I know that it will stand 
 And every bounds I tix'd for man. 
 
 " The evil fruit have had their time, 
 To pluck the good fruit that was mine ; 
 And some they pluck, and some they pull 
 And now I say I'll shake the whole ; 
 And those that will not boldly stand, 
 And answer to thy written hand, 
 To say my sentence all is just, 
 Like evil fruit shall all be cast. 
 For now I'll turn it back on man, 
 If they do mock thy written hand ; 
 The blood of Abel now shall turn, 
 And Cain shall perish in his room ; 
 And all the prophets' blood the same 
 I'll bring on those that mock my name. 
 As men the furnace did prepare 
 For to destroy my children there ; 
 Just so I'll heat it now for all 
 That do depise the heavenly call ; 
 And as the lions did appear, 
 The mockers shall in pieces tear ; 
 For 1 will now preserve the good, 
 As in the flames they firmly stood, 
 And in the lions' den were found 
 Preserv'd unhurt, though compass'd round 
 By hungry lions wanting prey; 
 And now like Daniel all shall be, 
 That do not fear the wrath of man ; 
 Like Daniel now they all shall stand ; 
 For all the days Pve now gone through. 
 And saw the fruit how all did grow ; 
 And was my labour then in vain, 
 One thousand years to work with man, 
 From every day was mention'd here, 
 Till the six thousand did appear? 
 Then see how near they all are up 
 It was the sixth day I did drop, 
 To hang upon the cursed tree ; 
 Then sure that day must shorten'd be. 
 From the sixth hour to the ninth' 
 Great is the mystery to mankind.
 
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 " For as the ninth did then appear, 
 To change the darkness that was there; 
 So shall this century be for map ; 
 Their rocky hearts I'll rend in twain, 
 And all the graves then now shall burst, 
 And raise the names of all the just, 
 And range them all before your view, 
 And in their days the same you'll do, 
 That do despise the calling here, 
 And on your heads shall all appear, 
 The blood of all that you have slain ; 
 They all were murder'd by such men, 
 Who now appear these things to mock, 
 And now on them I'll bring the stroke; 
 As down the kettle* then did fall, 
 You shall perceive I'll bring on all j 
 But those who do not it despise, 
 My blood, before them, as it lies, 
 Shall wash away their every guilt ; 
 They'll see their names though it was spilt ; 
 Through all the dirt it will appear, 
 And then I say I'll wash them clear ; 
 But those that now do mock the call, 
 This caution I shall give to all, 
 That as the dirt does now appear, 
 Your sins before ME now are clear; 
 For in one spirit all was done ; 
 And in their days if you had been, 
 The prophets you'd have mock'd the same. 
 No greater Prophet ever came, 
 Since earth's foundation it was plac'd, 
 And all yourselves you must disgrace, 
 To think that e'er a woman's hand 
 Could give such challenge unto man, 
 And devils boldly challenge here ; 
 If from her hand did all appear, 
 
 * Just as I had written, " these things to mock," 
 my meat kettle, which was on the fire, fell suddenly 
 off, and in my stooping to take it up, I threw my 
 writings before it, which involved them in smoke, 
 ashes, and water ; fortunately, however, on getting 
 dry, I found no part of them obliterated, 
 
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 Her wisdom must outshine you all, 
 It deeply you do weigh her call ; 
 And if she does so wisely speak, 
 And men like adders mind it not ; 
 Then men like adders will appear, 
 I know 4.heir sting, I know their spear ; 
 But I'll turn back their every sting, 
 And like a husband will begin, 
 In love and jealousy appear, 
 And on the mockers turn the spear, 
 Who mock .he virtues of the bride, 
 Whom men and devils both have try'd, 
 And yet in virtue she doth stand. 
 Answer the challenge from her hand : 
 Do I not know, do I not see 
 The challenge she hath given thee, 
 I say, vain man, for to appear, 
 And Satan boldly challeng'd here ? 
 And in the end I'll challenge all, 
 If on her head the blame doth fall ; 
 That is, I mean, if men do blame. 
 The serpent I shall put to shame." 
 
 As I have shewn you in verse, how the Spirit 
 spake rn the Woman throughout the world, and it 
 may appear marvellous in your eyes, I must call 
 your attention to the Bible. You say, as in Adam 
 all died, even so in Christ shall all be made alive ; 
 and when the fulness of the time was come, God 
 sent his Son, made of a woman. Now, how do you 
 prove your Bibles, where you say, that death passed 
 on man, came first by the woman ? Then it was by 
 the woman all died ; and by the woman all are to be 
 made alive. You say, by one man's disobedience 
 many were made sinners ; and by one man's obe- 
 dience many were made righteous ; yet you say, 
 by the woman's disobedience many were made sin- 
 ners; then by the woman's obedience many must be 
 made righteous : if in the woman all died, even so
 
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 ye must be all made alive. Now I shall come to 
 the purpose. You cause your Bibles to become a 
 mystery ; and all is a mystery ; for you say, all came 
 by the woman ; and yet you say again, by the man 
 sin entered into the world. Now I ask, how you 
 prove it? But this I will prove, that all came 
 from the MAN at first : He was the first in creation ; 
 not made of man, but of God ; and the BONE was 
 taken from MAN to complete his happiness. But 
 Satan found arts to rob man of that happiness, by 
 breaking the BONE ; that is, she fell, and broke off 
 all the happiness from man. Now Christ is com- 
 pared to the second Adam ; then there must come 
 a second Eve, to bring the GODHEAD and MAN- 
 HOOD to a perfect likeness.. For as the bone was 
 taken from man, and made woman in man's like- 
 ness ; then Christ, who is the second Adam, must 
 have a bone taken from htm also, to fulfil the law 
 of God and the gospel of Christ, that the bone 
 that is given to man, as a bone of Christ, cannot 
 be broken. For on the cross the bones of men 
 were broken ; but the bone of Christ was not 
 broken; and he said I come to do thy will, O God ! 
 It was the will of God to make the woman to be 
 a helpmate for man, and to complete his happi- 
 ness " And by her it shall be done ; for if Satan 
 had his will at first, 1 will have mine at last. So 
 all men shall know my word shall not be broken, 
 nor the bone of that man, Christ Jesus ; for now 
 shall mortal put on immortality ; that is, the bone 
 of man, that was formed after the manner of men, 
 as Christ was born after their manner; though he 
 came from God, yet he came into the world after 
 the manner of men ; not after the manner of Adam, 
 but born of a woman, after the manner of men; 
 so now the woman, who came into the world not 
 as Eve did, but after the manner of women, even
 
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 so Christ came after the manner of men." Now 
 to be clearly understood in this mystery, at his first 
 coming, he came in the form and fashion of a man, 
 but in the power and spirit of God. At his se- 
 cond coming he promises to redeem the fall ; then 
 he must come in power, and in spirit, to the wo- 
 man ; and imperfection must put on true perfec- 
 tion ; and the bone of Christ, that is the spirit of 
 Christ, must come in the same likeness as the bone 
 of man did ; and this must first be completed, be- 
 fore man's redemption can come, or the fall of 
 man be repaired. 
 
 " So now let learned men dispute, 
 
 And prove their Bibles clear, 
 The bone of man to all is come, 
 
 With every knowledge here. 
 So let your knowledge now appear 
 
 That I pronounced dead ; 
 But by my bone I'll prove it here 
 
 I am the living head." 
 
 Here I shall drop this subject for the present ; a 
 word to the wise is enough, for the wise to weigh 
 their Bibles deep. 
 
 And next I shall come to the Revelation, which 
 is a wonder in heaven and on earth. And here 
 is a wonder of me, and a wonder of men. The 
 distress of my mind causeth the wonder in me, as 
 many mysteries confuse my mind ; but the many 
 truths ought to change my doubts. So 1 am a 
 Wonder to men and angels ; and men are a wonder 
 to both, how they can read such writings, and 
 judge them the productions of the devil, from 
 whom nought but blasphemy proceeds. Another 
 wonder is, how any man can judge it from myself.
 
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 and see the bible so plain before him. These won- 
 drous thoughts must lead them to the Revelation, 
 where the mystery is revealed the prayers are 
 daily beiore the throne, crying to be delivered 
 
 " While saints amaze, and angels gaze 
 
 To see the heads of men, 
 They do not see the mystery, 
 
 The Revelation's plain. 
 Such words from hell do angels tell, 
 
 To an enlighten'd race ; 
 While others judge it from thyself 
 
 ' The woman must disgrace 
 " The learned men, we see it plain, 
 
 " Gross darkness doth appear ; 
 " The wonder now to heaven is come^ 
 
 " How man so much can err !" 
 Those are the wonders now above, 
 
 Enlighten'd saints do see 
 How strong my Spirit here doth move ; 
 
 Can man so darken'd be, 
 Not to discern from whence it came ? 
 
 The wondrous angels fly 
 To tell that man knows not my name 
 
 The glorious Trinity 
 Hath now agreed, the serpent's head 
 
 Must fall by that weak hand 
 That he so artfully betray'd, 
 
 And man's redemption come. 
 This wonders all, to see such call, 
 
 And man so long stand out; 
 Had Adam done it first of all, 
 
 Then man might well dispute ; 
 But he did not ; now see your lot, 
 
 Like Adam all go on ; 
 He cast on ME his destiny ; 
 
 Then now to ME 'tis corae. 
 The woman here doth now appear, 
 
 That 1 have given to men ; 
 And now I bid you persevere, 
 
 And judge her written hand, 
 And answer then, as he began, 
 
 " The woman us beguil'd ;" 
 Then I'll appear to answer here, 
 
 The serpent must be foir/d.
 
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 So cast on ME your destiny, 
 
 To give the woman here ; 
 Improve your call, I tell you all, 
 
 I'll act like Satan there, 
 Who claim'd my word, condemned his Lord, 
 
 For to bring on the fall ; 
 For man must die, was his reply, 
 
 And death was past on all ; 
 Then now 'tis life brings on the strife 
 
 Behold an infant cry, 
 The mother's pain doth all remain 
 
 When it is brought so nigh. 
 Ye sons of men, could you discern 
 
 The lines that here go deep, 
 You'd see what birth must bring you forth, 
 
 And all like children weep, 
 That you stood out so full of doubt, 
 
 RefusM your Maker's call, 
 From Satan's head too soon betray'd, 
 
 And so brought on your fall. 
 But now be wise betimes to rise ; 
 
 The fulness now is come, 
 That in disguise, before your eyes, 
 
 I'm in the woman's form ; 
 But like the Jews you hear the news, 
 
 My wounds you open here, 
 'Tis all afresh ; the Scripture saith, 
 
 My Spirit doth appear." 
 
 Here I s shall end with the Revelation, for the 
 present, and come to the Law and the Gospel. To 
 be more plainly understood, I shall come to the 
 brazen serpent, Numbers xxi. 8, 9. "And the Lord 
 " said unto Moses, make thee a fiery serpent, and 
 " set it upon a pole : and it shall come to pass, 
 " that every one that is bitten, when he looketh 
 " upon it, shall live. And Moses made a serpent 
 " of brass, and put it upon a pole ; and it came to 
 " pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when 
 " he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived." Now 
 I shall bring this to St. Matthew's Gospel, c. xxvi. 
 v. 64, &c. " Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said :
 
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 " Nevertheless I say unto you, hereafter shall 
 "ye see the Son of Man sitting on the right 
 " hand of power and coming in the clouds of 
 " heaven. Then the high priest rent his clothes, 
 "saying, he hath spoken blasphemy; what 
 "further need have we- of witnesses? behold 
 '" now ye have heard his blasphemy. What 
 " think ye? They answered and said, he is 
 " guilty of death. Then they did spit in his 
 " face, and buffetted him ; and others smote 
 " him with the palms of their hands." They 
 also mocked him on the cross, saying, " He 
 " saved others, himself he cannot save." 
 
 " Now I shall answer those passages of the 
 Old and New Testament together; the shadow 
 and the substance. The serpent of fire, that I com- 
 manded Moses to lift up in the wilderness, and 
 which was made of brass, was my foreknow- 
 ledge, how my Son would be lifted up. They 
 condemned him for blasphemy, for doing his 
 miracles by devils ; and blaspheming the name 
 of the Lord, by saying he was the Son of God. 
 So they placed him on the cross, as a serpent 
 that had acted in every form as a serpent of 
 fire ; for fire is a body of heat, and so they 
 judged my Son a body of heat in the form of 
 the devil. Brass is considered an emblem of 
 boldness ; and for boldness they judged him. 
 Now the brazen serpent saved all that looked 
 up to him; but himself he could not save; be- 
 cause, being in the hands of men, they turned 
 him in what form they pleased. Just so was my 
 Son : He saved all that looked to him for re- 
 demption; but himself he could not save. If 
 he would destroy the works of the devil, he must 
 cut him down in his own likeness ; for to cure 
 the sting of sin, he must come, as I have said,
 
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 in like manner with the serpent I will bear the 
 blame the man east on me ; and thou shalt bear 
 the blame the woman cast on thee ; and then I 
 will euie the sting of sin. So look unto me, all 
 ye to the ends of the earth, and be saved. 
 
 " Bind up the testimony, seal the law amongst 
 * c my disciples." Isaiah, c. viii. v. 16. 
 
 " For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son 
 '* ia given : and the government shall be upon 
 "his shoulder: and his name shall be called 
 " Wonderful, Counsellor, the Mighty God, the 
 " Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. Of 
 " the increase of his government and peace there 
 ** shall be no end." Isaiah, c. ix. v. 6, 7. 
 
 " The Lord will cut off from Israel head and 
 " tail, branch and rush, in one day. The an- 
 " cient and honourable, he is the head : and the 
 " prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail." 
 Isaiah, c. ix. v. 14, 15. 
 
 " And they set up over his head this accusa- 
 " tion written, This is Jesus, the King of the 
 " Je;$." Matthew, c. xxvii. v. 37. 
 
 " The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of pro- 
 phecy." Revelation, c. xix. v. 10. 
 
 ** Now I will bring these mysteries together. 
 A Child was born unto all men that believed in 
 him ; and on the cross his government was writ- 
 ten, the King of the Jews; and they have had 
 no king since this. That was the government 
 that was to be on my shoulders, the destiny that 
 Pilate wrote, whom they called my judge. This 
 \vas the prophecy that was written on my cross ; 
 and for their unbelief, their honourable men, 
 their wise men, and prophets, were cast out ; 
 for they would not have a prophet but such as 
 prophesied lies unto them ; so all were cut off in
 
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 one day ; for the wisdom of their wise men is 
 perished, and the understanding of the prudent 
 man is hid ; for they do not understand their 
 prophets. They prophesied of my first and se- 
 cond coming ; but did not say, one was my first, 
 the other was my second ; so they expected at 
 my coming, to see my government and my king- 
 dom established. Now I will tell them the 
 meaning of the words ; my government being 
 on my cross, was to govern myself, and be 
 brought as a sheep to the slaughter; and as a 
 Jamb before the shearer is dumb, so I opened 
 not my mouth. If ye will govern the world, ye 
 must first govern yourselves, and set an example 
 for others to walk by. So I set an example be- 
 fore all men, to bear patiently my destiny, that 
 my adversary may bear his." 
 
 I shall drop this subject for the present, as I 
 intend filling my book with different subjects ; 
 and shall here insert a letter I sent to a reverend 
 gentleman, in June, 1799- 
 
 Rev. Sir, 
 
 As I heard you inquired 
 
 about me at a public parish meeting, I must refer 
 you to a private meeting, and call your attention 
 to the Revelations. Were they made tp be ful- 
 filled and understood, or not ? As I heard a 
 minister once say in his pulpit they were designed 
 for eternity to explain ; for no man living could 
 ever find them out. Sir, I grant that no man, 
 by learning, can ever find them out ; had they 
 been plain, impostors would have risen to fulfil 
 them, and rendered the perfect truth of them 
 more difficult to be discovered, than it is now ; 
 for now the crooked paths are made straight be- 
 fore you.
 
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 I shall begin with the wonders John saw in 
 heaven. Are they to be fulfilled in heaven, or 
 on earth ? If you say, on earth ; I answer, 
 then the wonder of the woman travailing in, 
 birth, and crying to be delivered, must take 
 place on earth; and the wonders which 
 were seen in heaven by John, must come on 
 earth to men. If you say nay ; they are past 
 already ; as some simply dispute of the Virgin 
 Mary and our Saviour ; I ask, when was this vi- 
 sion seen ? was it before our Saviour was born, 
 or since? Your answer must be, since. Then 
 I ask, if Satan could appear in heaven to Christ 
 to destroy him there ? or the Virgin Mary could 
 be travailing with child after Christ ascended 
 into glory, and all. was finished ? Then if you 
 cannot make it good that it is passed, it must be 
 to come. You will then be ready to ask me, 
 who is the Man Child that is to rule all nations 
 with a rod of iron ? This I am ready to answer, 
 when an explanation is demanded. 
 
 Now I will call your attention further. When 
 John saw Michael and the angels fighting against 
 the Dragon, and the Dragon was cast out, was 
 Satan then in heaven ? You will be ready to 
 answer, no ; Satan was cast out before man was 
 made. Then it must be casting from earth to 
 helL You may say, why then was it written, he 
 is come down in great wrath, because he knows 
 his time is short ? I answer, his casting is firsf 
 from heaven: though he is, not in heaven, 
 yet he is the power of darkness and prince in 
 the air ; you may see him in the moon ; though 
 some have simply said it is a man, but the Spirit 
 of revelation or divine inspiration has reavealecl 
 to me it is the devil : therefore it is said of the 
 wonder of the woman in the Revelation, " The
 
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 " moon was under her feet, and onherhead a crown 
 " of twelve stars." You may then be ready to 
 ask me, who are the twelve stars? Sir, I an- 
 swer, the twelve chosen men, who strengtheu 
 my hands. Therefore the moon will be turned 
 into blood before the great and terrible day of 
 the Lord ; but that terrible day is for devils. 
 
 Now I have given you a short account of what 
 is very clearly explained to me, I must call your 
 attention to the twenty-four elders. Do you 
 think it means, Sir, in heaven or on earth? If 
 you judge it in heaven, whom do you judge to 
 be the prophets, apostles,, or martyrs? Do not 
 all the hosts of heaven fall down and worship 
 him ? But if it is fulfilled on earth, when was 
 it done ? All must be fulfilled on earth, which 
 John saw in heaven. I will tell you who will be 
 the twenty-four elders, when I know who are 
 the twenty-four-men that will prove these wond- 
 rous tilings. After my hands have been strength- 
 ened by twelve men, they will gain other twelve ; 
 then they will see what no man ever thought, 
 and what never entered into the heart of man to 
 conceive. When they see the wondrous wis- 
 dom of God in creation and preservation, his 
 love to man. his mercy and goodness over all his 
 works, and how he has condescended to lay be- 
 fore men why he has done all things; then will 
 the twenty-four elders cast their crowns before 
 him, saying, " Thou art worthy, O Lord, to 
 receive glory, and honour, and power, for thou 
 hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they 
 are, and were created : wise is the Lord in all 
 his ways, just and righteous in all his works," 
 will be the language of every heart ; and 
 well it may. The Bible ends with the Reve- 
 lation ; and when the Bible is revealed, they will 
 be convinced they have been dead while they
 
 were alive, as Adam was pronounced ; yet, as 
 we call life, he lived long after ; but he was .pro- 
 nounced dead. Just so is every man under the 
 fall ; but as in Adam all died, even so in Christ 
 shall all be made alive. 
 
 Now I must call your attention to the 5th 
 chapter of the Revelation, respecting the seven 
 seals. In 179% I left my writings at Plymtree; 
 and when they were brought to me, they were 
 sealed up with seven eals, undesignedly by me; 
 but whether designedly or promiscuously done, I 
 know not; but they were written within and 
 without; and I was ordered to put them in Mr. 
 Ts possession ; and no man can read them : and 
 what is sealed on earth, is said to me to be sealed 
 in heaven. I am now ordered to write to five 
 different ministers, by sending a letter, sealed 
 up, to each of them. 
 
 And now I must call you to the 6th chapter of 
 the Revelation ; as these five seals are explained 
 to me ; but the sixth seal is not explained at 
 present. 
 
 I must beg you will weigh your letters toge- 
 ther, as they are all on different subjects. 
 
 " So now your parish meetings call, 
 
 And quit yourselves like men ; 
 The tree of knowledge comes to all, 
 
 And the good fruit must come*"
 
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 The following letter was sent in die year 1799-, 
 to a very dignified Clergyman. 
 
 Right Rev. Sir, Exeter, &c. 
 
 I trust, from the amiable, worthy, and good cha- 
 racter I hear of your Lordship, you will pardon the liberty I am. 
 going to take, in sending you the following lines ; the weightiest 
 subject that ever entered the human brain such an instance has 
 never happened to any human being sinef earth's foundation was 
 placed before ; the deepest inspired penman, th taest learned 
 divine, nor the deepest philosopher that ever wrote, ever 
 had such thoughts of divinity or philosophy, as have been 
 revealed to me by the Spirit of Revelation; and what Spirit that 
 is, must be judged by men. Will your Lordship be astonished, 
 when I tell your Lordship, in 1792 I was foretold all that was com- 
 ing on the earth ? Perfectly as I was foretold, all has happened 
 in every nation ; but the end is not yet. When the truth of my 
 writings began to come, I was encouraged strongly in faith, that 
 has been impossible for man to destroy, although their arguments 
 have often shaken my faith, by telling me it came from the 
 devil ; but the answers given me to their words, and the 
 wondrous manner in which the Bible is explained, truly 
 convinced me their judgment was wrong ; and as throw- 
 ing oil into the fire makes the flames burn the greater, the 
 very way men went to chill my faith, confirms the truth of the 
 Bible and the truth of my writings, as being foretold how every 
 man I was ordered to write to would act. And who can tell the 
 heart and thoughts of man, but God a-lone ? 
 
 Now, my Lord, will you be astonished when I tell you, the 
 end of all things is at hand, and the powers of darkness must be 
 destroyed from the face of the earth, by that weak hand that he 
 first betrayed ? Here your Lordship may be lost in wonder, how 
 Satan shall fail by a woman's hand. Mysterious as it may appear, 
 yet very clearly it is explained to me, by rny pert'ect obedience to 
 thje commands of the Lord, who made the same 'promise to me, 
 as Herod did to the damsel ; and \ was ordered to ask in writing 
 and my petition and request was, If I had found favour in the 
 aight of the Lord, that Satan might be cut off from the face of the 
 earth, as John the Baptist was. I was answered, the Lord will 
 grant my petition, and give me my request ; and I should seal it 
 up with three seals, and carry it with me to the altar, when I re- 
 ceived the sacrament I did ; and was then answered, " what J 
 have spoken by my Spirit, sealed with aiy seal, I will now seal 
 with tuy blood." But it is said to me,
 
 288 
 
 " It is man must raise thy hand 
 
 And tell thee to grow wise, 
 .Like Herod's damsel to go on, 
 
 Then all shall gain the prize. 
 When men begin as she did then, 
 
 And like Herodias burn, 
 To wound the foe, as she did do., 
 
 I will like Herod come." 
 
 The man strengthened the woman's hand by the fall, and he 
 must strengthen her hand to bring it back. What God designed at 
 first, he will accomplish at last. It is not all the powers of hell 
 can frustrate the designs nor purposes of the Most High. The 
 Lord made the woman to complete the happiness of man, and by 
 her it must be done. For as the sun riseth in the horizon, and 
 shineth over the face of the earth, and then setteth in darkness, 
 and riseth again in the same place ; and dust returns to dust ; and 
 wave returns to wave with ebbing and flowing ; yet all centre in 
 the same place so must man centre, at last, as God placed hira 
 at first, in perfect happiness ; and by the woman it must be com- 
 pleted. Christ died for man's atonement, and rose again for our 
 justification. Therefore now give ear, O heavens ! and be as- 
 tonished, O earth ! the Lord hath a controversy with his people ; 
 and the saints must judge the earth. That day of judgment must 
 take place, , when my writings are proved ; such writings as 
 never were before since earth's foundation stood. 
 
 Will your Lordship marvel if I tell you, it is a sign to me, why 
 
 the Lord hath done all things ; I have written to the Rev. , 
 
 the Rev. , and the Rev. ; but I am told, the 
 
 Lord will never permit my writings to be proved, till I had 
 written to you. If your Lordship will give me liberty, I will 
 wait on you, to tell what grounds I have for this faith. 
 
 From your dutiful and humble Servant, 
 
 JOANNA SOCJTHCOTT. 
 
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 A CONTINUATION OF 
 
 PROPHECIES, 
 
 BY JOANNA SOUTHCOTT, 
 From the YEAR 1792* to the present Time. 
 
 I SHALL insert in this book Copies of Letters, 
 which were sent to me by a worthy Gentleman, 
 now deceased ; but though he is dead, his letters 
 still speak. I shall however preface such my de- 
 sign by observing, that as men have warmly re- 
 proved my writings, and said, prophecies had ceased 
 ever since our Saviour was on the earth, I must 
 intreat the learned world to answer the following 
 quotations from the Bible. 
 
 How the knowledge of the Lord can cover the 
 earth, as the waters cover the great deep ? How 
 they shall all know the Lord, from the greatest to 
 the least ? How they arc to follow on to know the 
 Lord ? for it is written, then shall ye know the 
 Lord, if ye follow on to know him, for the kingdom 
 of heaven is within you. Let your eye be single,. 
 and your whole body shall be full of light. Com- 
 mune with God in your heart, and he will commune 
 with you. The Lord saith, 1 am the same yester- 
 
 A day, 
 
 Ext ttr : Printed fry G, Fioyde, High-Street.
 
 day, to day, and forever : in me there is no varia- 
 bleness, nor the shadow of turning : but man sought 
 out many inventions. The Lord spake by dreams 
 and visions ot the night, and the angels of the Lord 
 are ministering spirits, to administer to the heirs 
 ot salvation. The Spirit of the Lord is with them 
 that fear him, and he reveals his secrets to them 
 that believe in his name. The Prophet saith, sure- 
 ly the Lord God will do nothing, but he will reveal 
 his secrets to his servants, the prophets. Our dear 
 Redeemer said, he came not to destroy the law of 
 God or the prophets, but to fulfil them ; this gene- 
 ration should not pass away till all was fulfilled : 
 this was near 1802 years ago. Let the learned 
 world explain what he meant ; for the Old Testa- 
 nient is not fulfilled, that he called his sons from 
 afar, and h.is daughters from the end of the earth. 
 Is Jerusalem new-built ? Hath the Lord esta- 
 blished the covenant that he made with Abraham, 
 Isaac, and Jacob? Is the throne of David esta- 
 blished ? Is righteousness and truth met together, 
 doth Jove and peace kiss each other? Doth every 
 man speak the truth by his neighbour? Doth 
 righteousness run down our streets as a flood, and 
 the fear of the Lord as a mighty stream ; or men 
 ilock unto Jesus as doves to the windows, crying out 
 like the jailer, what shall we do to be saved, to in- 
 herit the crown which is set before us ? Is there 
 any crown set before them, that they are so seek- 
 ing after ? Do not men drink in iniquity, as the ox 
 drinketh water ? Is not every man's hand against 
 his neighbour ? Are not the Apostle's words veri- 
 iied, who hath asked counsel of the Lord, or who 
 bath ascended c>n high ? for since the prophets fell 
 ask-x-p, all things rtmained as they were. Do not 
 men try to quench the Spirit, and despise prophe- 
 cies ?
 
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 cies ? Do they not do despite to the Spirit of Gocl, 
 and say they want not the knowledge of the Most 
 High ? Do they not crucify the Lord afresh, and 
 put him again to an open shame ? Are not men the 
 same at his second coming as they were at his first ? 
 Are not his words verified at his second coming, ye 
 shall scarce find faith on the earth ? yet men nave 
 faith to believe their Bibles as they have placed 
 them, but faith to believe the manner of Christ's 
 second coming is scarce to be found on the earth. 
 And this is what our Saviour meant, when he said, 
 but they that fear the Lord speak often one to ano- 
 ther ; and the Lord hearkened, and heard, and a, 
 book of remembrance is written, and they shall be 
 mine, saith the Lord, in the day I make up my jew- 
 els : and I will spare them, saith the Lord, as a man 
 spareth his own son that serveth him : for to that 
 man will I look that is of a meek and contrite spirit, 
 and trembleth at my word ; for he that honoreth me, 
 I will honor, and he that despiseth me, shall be 
 lightly esteemed : he that seeketh me, shall find 
 me, and he that ordereth his conversation aright, 
 in him will I dwell and take up my abode with him, 
 and he shall sup with me, and I with him : my de- 
 light shall be with the sons of men ; for I am the 
 good Shepherd, and my sheep know my voice, and 
 they follow me wheresoever I go, and I go to pre- 
 pare a place for them, that where I am, there they 
 may be also. 
 
 These texts of scripture let the learned world 
 answer, or I shall do it for them. But I shall post- 
 pone the subject for the present, and proceed to in- 
 sert copies of some letters received by me from 
 that highly esteemed and very worthy character, 
 B. Bruce, esq. 
 
 LETTER
 
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 LETTER I. 
 
 Basil Bruce, Esq. to Joanna Soutbcott. 
 
 MY dearly beloved sister in the Lord and Saviour 
 Jesus Christ ! for such you are in the strongest. 
 sense of the word, and'which I shall be ever proud 
 to call you, while one spark of his blessed Spirit is 
 graciously vouchsafed to fill my soul, in thirsting 
 after righteousness ; for his divine Spirit, wherever 
 it dwells, must find out its kindred Spirit, which 
 you possess in a very high degree ; and that the 
 very God of Love may unceasingly shower down his 
 choicest blessings on you, for your obedience and 
 great exertions in the noble work he has allotted 
 you, is the earnest prayer of my heart ! 
 
 My friend Torin having put this letter into my 
 hand to forward under cover to Mr.Taylor, foF which 
 purpose I have got a frank, I felt that I could not 
 employ 'he few spare minutes I have just now, bet- 
 ter, than in executing the desire of my heart, to tes- 
 tify to you my admiration of the heavenly \\ork in 
 which you are engaged; and to convince you, that 
 the presumption ivitb which you^wrongfully accused 
 me in your letter to my father, viz. " mat I thought 
 "he wrote too humbly for a gentleman," &c. I 
 say, to convince you that my heart is incapable of 
 such presumption, 1 need only tell you, that ever 
 since 1795 I have been led by the Spirit of the 
 Lord to know, that his time was at hand to execute 
 the long predicted judgments on an apostate world, 
 out of which he would preserve a people to serve 
 and obey him in purity of spirit and holiness of liv* 
 
 ing;
 
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 ing; and that in 1798 I was urged by tli3 same 
 Spirit to quit an office, which I had held 14 years 
 under government with credit and approbation, 
 from a conscientious desire, to fulfil the express 
 command of Christ against swearing Oaths. A-id 
 I immediately published an Exhortation to the 
 world against the rapidly increasing .S//z of swearing 
 Oaths, and testifying my firm belief in the Divine 
 Mission of Richard Brothers. I have also further 
 to say, that I received your two first books with 
 rapture, before my father had seen them ; for I put 
 them into his hand with that assurance, as he can 
 testify. Now, believe me, I do not mention these 
 things out of pride and vanity (for I know of mine 
 own self I can do nothing, and that every good gift 
 cometh from the Lord), but only to justify myself 
 in your eyes, and to convince you how incapable I 
 am of imagining any thing prejudicial to you. 
 For after bearing up against the bufferings of the 
 world, and the ridicule and persecution of my for- 
 mer friends and relations ; after sacrificing every 
 worldly consideration, for the testimony of 'Jesus, 
 God forbid I should turn back, and lose the pro- 
 rnised reward ! Nor do I mean to detract from the 
 merit of my worthy father when I add, that for 5; 
 years (that is, from 179$ to 1800) I experienced a 
 warm opposer even in him ; for the Lord can re- 
 veal himself to whom he pleases, how he pleases, 
 and when he pleases, and it is our duty to receive 
 the heavenly Visitor with humility and thanksgiv- 
 ing in the way in which it pleaseth him to send it. 
 Another time I will take the liberty to send you 
 an account of a remarkable vision with which I was 
 favored 4th March, 179$. 
 
 I observe, by your last letter to my father, you 
 
 B received
 
 received tlip pnine.i which niv wife (not my father) 
 stni ty yiuug ylor, as a trifling testimony of 
 
 her Christian love for you. And it gives me inex- 
 pressible pleasuie to te.ll you (mind I do it as a 
 dii'\, and in* humility, not in pride), that the Lord 
 has blessed my endeavours -to make you a present 
 of a little purse, with success, and. in the course of 
 next week 1 hope to be able to send you a token of 
 our love and affection. I wish it was ten times the 
 sum; but for these years I have felt it my duty, 
 as a Christian, to relieve the distressed servants of 
 the Lord whenever they fell in my way, which has 
 greatly lessened my means and power to fulfil in 
 this respect the desire of my heart ; " but such as 
 (t I have, I freely give unto thee ;" and may the 
 God of Love and Peace be with you, now and 
 henceforth for ever, is the wish of, my dear Sister, 
 
 Your's most affectionately, 
 No. 77, Jermyn-Str. St. Jas. > BASIL BRUCE. 
 
 22 Aug. lOOI. ) 
 
 P. S. It gave me great pleasure to hear my very 
 worthy friend, the Rev. Mr. Foley, had written to 
 you. I expect him in town every day, when you 
 will be the frequent subject of our conversation. 
 
 LETTER II. 
 
 Basil Bruce, Esq. to Joanna Soutbcott. 
 
 London, 31 Aug. 1801. 
 My dear Sister in the Lord ! 
 
 AS it is impossible for me to give you an 
 adequate ir'ea of the grateful feelings \viih winch 
 n. y soul was overwhelmed at the perusal of your 
 
 very
 
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 very kind letter; I shall only say, that when the 
 Lord permits, and you have time, you cannot con- 
 fer a greater favor on me and my dear wife than by 
 writing. I am truly sorry it is not in my power to 
 write you a proper answer just now, as the whole 
 of this day has been folly occupied in a variety of 
 business previous to leaving town at 5 o'clock to- 
 morrow morning for Lincolnshire, where I expect 
 to meet my father, who was this day to set off from 
 his living in Wiltshire across the country to Market- 
 Deeping, where he hcisa married daughter residing ; 
 and I could ni r delay an h -r post to beg your accept- 
 ance of the inclosed, as another instance of the Lord's 
 favor to you, bis faiibfid servant, as well as to those 
 he has deemed worthy instruments to further his 
 glorious work in yon, and by you. In order to 
 make the conveyance quite safe, I paid 14 into 
 my bankers' hands, and got a post bill from them, 
 payable to Mr. Taylor, as being more in the way 
 of negotiating such notes, and have requested him 
 to pay you the amount. 
 
 In order to acquaint you with particulars I must 
 tell you, the day after I received your letters I went 
 to my worthy and spiritual friend, Mr. Sharp, who 
 lives at No. 50, Titchfield-Sireet, Mary-le-bone, 
 well-knowing his ability and inclination to send you 
 a token of Christian love. After reading your let- 
 ters with great inward pleasure, he presented me 
 with seven guineas, saying, he had long had it on 
 his mind to beg your acceptance of a trifle. I can- 
 not express to you how my soul leaped with joy, and 
 pouring out of gratitude to the Lord on the occasion. 
 I hope yon will write a few lines when you can. 
 Two guineas are from my sister Beecraft and hsr 
 husband at Deeping, where I am going oh a visit ; 
 
 the
 
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 the rest of the money is from myself and wife, ex- 
 cept a guinea my father desired me to send from 
 him whenever I was able to make a sum worth send- 
 ing. I perceive you still labour under a mistake, with 
 respect to my having said something about my fa- 
 ther's writing with too much humility & familiarity 
 to you ; for I call God to witness, that no such ideas 
 ever entered my head, nor any such words ever es- 
 caped my lips. All I said to my father on his giving 
 me one of his letters to you to read, was, that I 
 thought he occnpie.d too much of his letter in rela- 
 ting trifling domestic anecdotes, which could not 
 be very interesting to you, who was occupied with 
 the great work of the Lord. However, it that cir- 
 cumstance was the occasion of your relating the 
 wonderful history of your life, I am satisfied it was 
 all ordered for the best, and I praise God for it. 
 When you favor me with another letter, pray ex- 
 plain farther the mystery of the Father and the Son 
 coming one after the other, as all the shadows 
 co'me to you from the, substance ; because in your 
 book you say, the shadows come first, or one year, 
 and the substance the next. Please to direct your 
 letters for me and my father, as usual, to Jermyn- 
 Street, and my wife will forward them. 
 
 Mrs. Bruce, and my friend Mr. Bryan, who is 
 here, and is a highly favored character in spiritual 
 things, unite in Christian love, &c. with, 
 My dear friend, 
 
 Your's ever sincerely in the love of the truth, 
 
 BASIL BRUCE. 
 
 ^T My readers will particularly notice, that the 
 contents of the two foregoing letters were commu- 
 nicated
 
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 nicatedto me in July, nearly a month before they 
 were written, when it was foretold me, that the Lord 
 would raise up for me friends in London, who 
 would readily grant me any assistance in the prose- 
 cution of his work. 
 
 In the book of printed letters you will see the 
 promise was made, that the Lord would s?;id a 
 blessing for their sakes, and stop the rain in the 
 time of harvest : the truth of both followed, as you 
 find by the letters and harvest ; though at the be- 
 ginning of the harvest, it is well known, the crops 
 were likely to be spoiled by rain, and judged so by 
 most, as it rained both old and new St. S-.vithin's 
 day, which have al'.vays been remarked to bring a 
 long continued rain : yet all these scenes changed 
 on a sudden ; the rain ceased as promised, and 
 brought in a plentiful harvest. This I know the 
 ignorant part of mankind will laugh ah and say, 
 will the Lord send a blessing or a curse, as her 
 words are believed or disbelieved ? But you know I 
 have told you, they are not my words, but the words 
 of the Lord. But come now to your Bible. Did 
 not the Lord, in every age of the world, send a 
 blessing or a curse, as the Prophets were believed 
 or disbelieved f Witness Nineveh, Sodom, or Go- 
 morrah, and trace all your Bibles back, do not you 
 say, the eye of the Lord is every where present ? 
 Then was his eye not present in 1798, when I wrote 
 a letter from Bristol on Aug. 23 of that year, stat- 
 ing, that if my writings were mocked, and men re- 
 fused to search out the truth, the anger of the Lord 
 would be kindled, and the following harvest would 
 be hurt by sun or rain ? If men despised the words 
 of the Lord, and brought a burthen on me, so the 
 Lord would bring a burthen on the land in the sue- 
 
 C ceeding
 
 ceeding year. Now I must give my readers to un- 
 derstand, that in the following year my writings 
 were despised and mocked before the harvest, and 
 my letters turned back, with contempt to me again, 
 which caused a heavy burthen on my mind and 
 heart, arid tears like a fountain flowed from my 
 eyes. I. was answered ; as men increase thy sor- 
 rows, I will increase theirs ; and as thy letters 
 were turned back with contempt, so shall their 
 prayers for the harvest ; and so it followed. Prayers 
 were every Sunday offered up in all places of wor- 
 ship, that the Lord would stay his heavy hand to 
 stop the rain in 1799; but they were treated like 
 my letter, and turned back with anger unanswered, 
 and not granted, till the harvest was hurt -by the 
 rain, and brought in a scarcity. Now my readers 
 must understand, some of my letters were burnt 
 in contempt. Then I was answered; the Lord 
 will in his anger burn up the land in the following 
 year, and it proved so; as it was said they had done 
 'despite to the Spjrit of God, and had kindled the 
 anger of the Lord to a flame, which should burn 
 upon the land. Now the following year, 1800, 
 many fields of barley were so much burnt, that 
 they brought 'forth no grain, which produced a 
 much greater scarcity and dearth tha.n the former ; 
 and had other nations met with the like affliction, 
 so as to have prevented their sending us a supply, 
 xve should have wanted bread before the harvest. 
 
 
 
 I was then ordered to get my writings printed, 
 and if there were found just men and ministers to 
 search out the truth of them, I was promised the 
 harvest in 1801 should produce great plenty (see 
 page )8 of my first book). So ministers did begin, 
 to search out the truths of my writings as soon as 
 
 they
 
 they were made public ; the harvest was abundant, 
 as promised ; and the heavy load of the land began 
 to lessen, as the ministers and other good men had 
 lessened mine. Now if any man, endowed with 
 sense and reason,' believes the sacred truths of 
 the Bible, that the eye of the Lord is every where 
 present, round our beds and round our paths, and 
 all our words and ways are open before him, then 
 all these things uere open to his view. The Lord 
 knew I hud written, he would deal with men as 
 men dealt with me. But can you believe the 
 Lord would verify these words, if the Lord had not 
 spoken them himself? Certainly no. I must first 
 believe there is no knowledge in the Most High, 
 before I can believe these truths would have fol* 
 lowed had they not been spoken by the Most H.igh : 
 He that spoke them, had power to fulfil them as he 
 hath done; and I believe it to be from that Su- 
 preme Power alone, who governs the world, per- 
 suaded that no other power can make the sun 
 and rain obey him. 
 
 Now I shall proceed to give the answer of the 
 Spirit to what is here written. 
 
 Now thou hast ended I'll begin. 
 Awake, ye simple son of men ! 
 And from the dead of sn; arise, 
 And then I'll open both jour eyes.. 
 Can you suppo.ea woman's hind 
 Could in such order ever stand, 
 In perfect tr.;th and a trai :ht line, 
 Unlefs the writing* all were mine? 
 Xo \ian I'll piove you're totally dead, 
 Pluck'd from the icot, as then I said, 
 Because youi:eiv - y< i 1 ph ck'd from me, 
 For good and evil oil the tiee 
 
 That
 
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 That was of knowledge there was plac'd 
 
 I'll answer now the fallen race. 
 
 The angels that I cast from heav'n 
 
 Had knowledge to them surely giv'n, 
 
 Which they pronounced to be good, 
 
 And so the tree of knowledge stood : 
 
 The under branches I plac'd there 
 
 To shew, if he did man ensnare, 
 
 That to his knowledge man would cor.... 
 
 The good I now shall shew to man, 
 
 Is like the grains of wheat that die 
 
 And in the earth conceal'd do lie, 
 
 And do appear firft like a blade, 
 
 And afterwards each ear is seed, 
 
 Firft for to shoot, and to appear, 
 
 And then the hlofsom you see clear, 
 
 Before it comes to perfect corn, 
 
 To bring the increase unto man. 
 
 So here the parabie is plain 
 
 You know my wheat 1 called man ; 
 
 That firtt I told him he should die, 
 
 And can you provt.- I then did lie ? 
 
 For nothing but the blades appear 
 
 In ev'iy age I now see clear 
 
 There's nothing but the blade in man, 
 
 His wisdom, like the wheat, is gone 
 
 Dead in thr bowels of the eaith, 
 
 So pe fectly the Script' uv saith ; 
 
 And wh^n the b'a ;es of wheat appear, 
 
 The husbandman may ask you there 
 
 "What setd h~ in thf fie d did sow ? 
 
 Thousands will *ay, the)' do not know, 
 
 Before by them the ear is seen 
 
 And now to reason I'll begin, 
 
 And like the husbandman appear 
 
 My seed is sown f tell ye here; 
 
 And as the blades of wheat ye see, 
 
 The husbandman now asks of ye 
 
 What seed is sown amongst the ground ? 
 
 My word's the wheat the blade is found 
 
 Among the nations now to spring. 
 
 And here's the myst'ry of the thing : 
 
 Let any husbundman appear, 
 
 He'd tell the sowers wheat was there ; 
 
 While those who did not understand, 
 
 A different grain they might command. 
 
 And
 
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 Ana" say 'twas barley, oats, or rye ; 
 And perfect so my word does lay 
 U.-til my harvest does appear 
 Thousands know not what grain is here, 
 But ev'ry husbandman can see, 
 Before the time, what grains they be 
 So let a husbandman appear, 
 (Whom with myself I Jo compare) 
 Then by the blade he'll surely know 
 The wheat is sown, the blades do grow 
 So diffrent from another blade, 
 The husbandman is not mi .-laid. 
 So now, my friends, I've shewn you here 
 How with myself I you compare, 
 Who can be judges of the word, 
 
 And say the writings came from God ; 
 
 But yo j that cannot see it clear, 
 
 Confefs no husbandmen ye are, 
 
 That are acquainted with my ways, 
 
 And so the blade deceives your eyes ; 
 
 In ev'ry age this has been done, 
 
 My words were like the seeds were s^wn, 
 
 And when the blades to man appear, 
 
 None but the husbandmen saw clear 
 
 That e'er the seed could be my word, 
 
 Nor judg'd the husband.nan the Lord, 
 
 Unlefs their spirit joia'd with me, 
 
 Then husbandman alike mun be. 
 
 So here the parab e is pla n ; 
 
 I've an^w -r'd now the sons of men, 
 
 And if thtf word you do nt.tknow, 
 
 Give to my husbandmen their due, 
 
 That the true judges they mu be 
 
 Who join in husba idiy wit'i me - r 
 
 And you as well m.;y give it up 
 
 As you wouid do thy sowei's crop ; 
 
 For when the harvelt do s appear, 
 
 You mull co.if ">s the sower there 
 
 Was the true judge what he did sow, 
 
 And you'd no wisdom for to know 
 
 What seed Wds bury'd in the earth 
 
 Now mark the Spirit what it faith; 
 
 For deep's the parable for man, 
 
 For none can judge thy written hand 
 
 Who have no knowledge of my ways, 
 
 Nor know the wheat I mean to raife 
 
 D Unto
 
 Unto the blofsom of the ear, 
 
 And faft my harveft .^hall appear 
 
 For man is like the blade of wheat, 
 
 And from the earth I firft rose it, 
 
 And then I said that man should die, 
 
 And so your corn does always lie 
 
 Bury'd in the earth below, 
 
 And perfect so the man does grow. 
 
 Man with the blade 1 shall compare 
 
 A myirry deep 1 now wiilckar. 
 
 When him I had pronounced dead, 
 
 How could I deem him but a blade 
 
 Before the ear began to shoot ? 
 
 And here's man in his perfect ftate : 
 
 For by the forming of the ear, 
 
 The blofsom does in man appear, 
 
 And some do kern to perfect wheat, 
 
 And so does man, without deceit, 
 
 Come perfect as the wheat does grow, 
 
 And some are deaf, you all do know; 
 
 And perfect so are many men, 
 
 The ruft and canker in the grain 
 
 Doth perfect so in man appear ; 
 
 But now the harveft I shall clear 
 
 If knowledge to the woman come, 
 
 To give that knowledge unto man, 
 
 To bring the knowledge of the full, 
 
 Then from her mutt the knowledge burfl, 
 
 Or men and devils the}' may boaft 
 
 Their Maker's wisdom it was loft, 
 
 When first the woman he did form 
 
 To be a hrlpmati- unto man, 
 
 To bring him into mifen 
 
 And now, \e b.ind, bi j gin to see, 
 
 If .'he don't h<>.p him out again, 
 
 Your Vak'er s WJM <<m's all in vain, 
 
 To make her to compltte your biiss, 
 
 Then paradise jou all mu t miss 
 
 I ask, how man i fan i ;Vein, 
 
 By anypi mi e made to him.* 
 
 V 'herein 'lu woman <!<: ;iot stand 
 
 To shaie the picmist ma e with man ? 
 
 For it the rna ; was made at fiist, 
 
 J tt.ld ymi lu- mujit he thr la:.I ; 
 
 And if the woman as the iast, 
 
 1 told you she must be the fmt. 
 
 When
 
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 When I the myst'ries all do clear, 
 And my first word perform'd them here, 
 That ev'ry thing I said was good, 
 Too high for man my knowledge Hood, 
 For he to pluck againft my will, 
 And Satan shall his folly feel, 
 As he so soon reveal'd the whole, 
 To bring destruction then on all. 
 Then here the fool's bolt it Was shot, 
 And so he digg'd the fatal pit, 
 And laid the net therein to fall 
 
 Then now be wise, I tell you all^_ 
 
 The woman's promise for to claim, 
 
 Then man you know I must redeem ; 
 For when the woman is made free,"^2I- 
 Then perfect heirs you all must be^ I 
 Or how could she bring on your fall ? 
 
 Dead to all knowledge ye are all, 
 
 Or soon you'd see the my&t'ry ciear 
 
 Our Maker never judg'd her here 
 
 A thing inferior so to man, ~~-^^^- 
 
 If he the world for her condemn'd, 
 
 Whom he said should complete man's bliss, 
 
 But then the promises did miss, 
 
 As Satan robb'd man of his store ; 
 
 But is your Maker grown so poor 
 
 That he cannot repay that loss, 
 
 Enrich his children as at fiist, 
 
 And cancel all before his bar, 
 
 And cast the thief that icbb'd them there ? 
 
 But how shall 1 bestow mv i-lore, 
 
 Seeing the thief stands at the d. or 
 
 Ready to steal the whole away ? 
 
 IVlark well the words that now I say. 
 
 \Vhen I my people do redeem 
 
 From ev'ry prw'rof hell ^nd sin, 
 
 Your houses I k hi:li build anew, 
 
 And palaces bung to vour view ; 
 
 For golden mines I have in stun?, 
 
 The foaming seas shall frf mi on shore 
 
 Millions of treasure hid thru 
 
 And mines of di'rnonds shaii be seen, 
 
 Cf pearls, an ev ry piecious. stone. 
 
 I vi- n;ines concea/d fiom mm LI, known, 
 
 I've gold of oplvr, that shaU come 
 
 To build Jerusalem up again, 
 
 And
 
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 And those that are the first redeem'd 
 May say, these promises we claim; 
 It is conceal'd from ev'ry eye 
 What a new earth you'll find is nigh, 
 When I bejrin to shew my store, 
 And make the barren mountains here 
 Become to man a fruitful field, 
 And all the forests too shall yield 
 A pleasant pasture then for man, 
 The furious beasts shall all be tame, 
 And ev'ry house I'll buiid anew, 
 And bnn? the mvst'ne* to your view, 
 When paradise you do regain, 
 A pa-ad se must be fot men. 
 Or how my kingdom can it be? 
 Now >et the blind begin to see 
 What heathen nations do possess, 
 While Satan's kingdom I call this; 
 For well you know i told you here, 
 Satan will as a God appear 
 Overthe world, to b'md your eyes ; 
 And now my little flock grow wise, 
 For I shall claim the earth my own, 
 The heathen nations shall dethrone. 
 You'll find your war is not begun, 
 I told you when you thought 'twould eni, 
 Sadly mistaken all would be, 
 'Twas not begun, you all would see- 
 And so you'll find tis not begun, 
 You little think what's hast'mngqn 
 To bring it to an eastern war. 
 And all shall know the end is near, 
 As they a heathen nation be. 
 The promis'd land possess, you see 
 When I cut oil he perfect heirs, 
 As Satan's aits did man ensnare, 
 I gave their nation to such men 
 As in spirit acted like them ; 
 For Satan's kingdom then did fight, 
 (Bring ev rymyst'ry to your sight) 
 
 And
 
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 And he did ev'ry battle gain, 
 Myself and brethren then were slain ; 
 For my disciples dy'd for me, 
 And Satan got the victory, 
 And so his servants I plac'd there, 
 He got his vict'ry then by war. 
 And so I let the tyrant reign 
 But now the myst'ry I'il explain-.' 
 When I cut off the perfect heirs, 
 Nothing but bondmen tfeAi appear. 
 And bondwomen they surely be ; 
 But now the heirs I mean to free. 
 And all these bondmen I'll cast out. 
 And the true heirs have nought to doubt, 
 For I'll cut off the bastard race, 
 And in their stead the true heirs place 
 For to possess that very land. 
 And now, my friends, you may demand 
 To stand like princes in the fight. 
 And now I'll bring the truth to light ; 
 So let my gospel now appear- 
 You know my vineyard once was there. 
 And all my servants they did kil!, 
 And so the heir his blood did spill, 
 And all the vineyard claim'd their own, 
 As in my gospel it is shewn ; 
 But then I told you what I'd dot, 
 Bring ev'ry m\'t'y to your view. 
 When I tht vineyard come to claim, 
 I said these men must ail be tlain. 
 So now's the time I'll slay them all; 
 The vineyard's mine, the Lord doth calf. 
 Who will these hubandmen destroy, 
 For th* true hens shall now enjoy 
 Every vineyard that is mine, 
 And the true heirs with me I'll join. 
 And now I'll tell you that each heir 
 Is him who does in laith appear. 
 Believes my gospel I'h fulfil, 
 And all these husbandmen will kill. 
 Who've no right longer to possess, 
 WhR I bring U my gospel pet$e, 
 P
 
 For then the rebel he mutt fall, 
 And so his serx r ants they muft all. 
 So now you'll find the time's at hand 
 When 1 my vineyard shall demand, 
 And ail my bible will fulfil 
 Then now, ye learned, try your skill, 
 And let Jehosaphat appear, 
 You all will find the valley near, 
 And I shall come to plead with all 
 So, men , together ye I call 
 To judge your bible and my word, 
 And then aright you'll use the fword, 
 Or elfe your bow you'll draw in vain, 
 And by the enemy be slain ; 
 But if you let the' Lord direct, 
 In ev'iy battle I'll protect ; 
 For I'm the Lord does it declare, 
 Obey my word you've nought to fear, 
 But if v ou run againft my word, 
 You afi will h'tid'that I'm the Lord: 
 For now's the time that Satan's hoft 
 Muft fall like Pharaoh's, near the coast; 
 That is, to perish in the deep 
 llejoice, my friends, your foes muft weep, 
 As Satan's vicVries are all paft, 
 I'll gain the vidYriesat the laft. 
 And now a myft'iy I'll explain 
 Unto the learned sons of men, 
 And bring them to the prophet's word, 
 And let them know with one accord 
 Jofliua the high pried was seen 
 With Satan, ready to condemn ; 
 As he with Jofliua did appear, 
 The Lord rebuk'd the tempter there. 
 But now the myft'ry I'll explain 
 Jerusalem was then unclean, 
 And so unclean proceeded on. 
 And filthy garments so become, 
 And all are filthy garments there- 
 But now the myft'ries 1 shall clear 
 Out of the fire now shall come, 
 And pluck from those that are unclean; 
 For change of garments all shall see, 
 A change of people now fhall be. 
 
 I shall defer the continuation of this subject for 
 awhile, and insert the vision of Mr. B. Bruce,
 
 ( '9 ) 
 
 Mr. B. BRUCE was favored with the following 
 Vision of the night, between the 3d and 4th of 
 March, 1795. 
 
 After offering up my earnest prayer and thanks- 
 giving to God for all his mercies and dispensations 
 to his humble creatures here upon earth, and parti- 
 cularly for the inestimable blessings bestowed on 
 me, in placing before my eyes, in such strong co- 
 lours, the total dependance of man on his Creator's 
 wisdom and goodness ; I began to make my suppli- 
 cations to God, that he would vouchsafe to en- 
 lighten my understanding and open my spiritual 
 sight, so as to enable me to discover clearly and un- 
 equivocally the truth or falshood of Mr. Brothers's 
 pretensions and mission, when I suddenly found 
 myself removed from the room I was then in to 
 the garret, where I continued to pray and pour out 
 my soul to my blessed Lord and Saviour, and he 
 was graciously pleased to hear x my prayer; for I 
 thought (and the impression is indelibly stamped 
 on my heart) an Angel approached me in the hu- 
 man shape, with a dignity and grace that instantly 
 infused a degree of ecstasy and confidence through 
 my whole frame far beyond the power of language 
 to express or describe ; I felt as it were transported 
 from misery to felicity, from earth to heaven I 
 The Angel assured me, in terms the most distinct 
 and forcible, " that the wickedness, presumption, and 
 <f apostacy of mankind, bad reached the highest 
 " heavens, and that the long suspended -wrath of 
 " God was now pouring forth on the earth, which 
 " alone would bring its inhabitants to a sense of 
 " their own depravity, as well as their duty to and 
 
 ft dependance
 
 " dependance on an offended tbo' merciful Creator,! 
 <( and that these judgments would be made manifest 
 " thro' Mr. Brothers, as those upon Egypt were by 
 <f Moses." The Angel then vanished from my 
 sight, and which was imniediately followed by a 
 sharp angry voice, distinctly uttered from the 
 clouds, " My power and vengeance shall be made 
 4( manifest and severely felt by this obdurate people /" 
 I then thought I left the garret and went out into 
 the street (though it was in the night), and found 
 several people in motion, particularly a gentleman 
 of my acquaintance, a violent opposer cf Mr. 
 Brothers, who had also heard the voice, and was 
 very much alarmed. Whilst I was speaking to him 
 about so dreadful a denunciation and the threatening 
 appearance of the clouds, the wind increased to such 
 a degree as to shake the house we were then in (for 
 during the conversation we had entered his house) 
 so violently, that I did not think or feel myself safe, 
 and immediately returned home, where I found my 
 wife proving in the parlour, in which I joined her, 
 and soon afterwards the same Angel appeared to us 
 both, assuring us that " the Almighty ivould pre- 
 " sentlv pass through the streets of London in a vio- 
 " lent whirlwind and storm!" and then left us. I 
 then thought the firmament w is remarkably clear 
 and serene, in order to make the approach of the 
 Almighty more manifest. Whilst we were waiting 
 in great anxiety and awe, I cast my eyes to the earth 
 (for we had been looking some time very steadfastly 
 towards heaven), when I found myself by the edge 
 of a beautiful piece of water, in which two boys were 
 bathing, and who seemed to be in danger of drowning, 
 altho' they succeeded in getting safe to the shore. At 
 this moment I found myself naked, and awoke very 
 much agitated, tho' pleased, with my dream. 
 
 B. BRUCE. 
 
 LETTER
 
 LETTER III. 
 
 Basil Bruce, Esq. to Joanna Southcott. 
 
 London, aoth Oft. 1801. 
 My dearly beloved Sister in the Lord, 
 
 On my return to town the other day, 
 my eyes were unexpectedly feasted and my heart 
 rejoiced with your very kind and wondrous letters 
 to my dear wife, my father, and myself; but to at- 
 tempt to describe the emotions of my soul, or the 
 feelings of a heart fraught with the love of God, 
 would be in vain ; suffice it therefore to say, they 
 were truly heavenly, and consequently in perfect 
 unison with your divine writings. But when 1 
 think of the great mercy and loving kindness of the 
 Lord, in deigning to choose me an instrument in. 
 his hand to forward th'e great work to which you are 
 called, and to sit in judgment too, I am overwhelmed 
 in tears, and lost in wonder ! I know my own un- 
 worthiness and total inability., and that I am not fit 
 to be called his servant. I stand self-condemned, 
 and am frequently lost in wonder how the Lord 
 should bestow any blessings on such an evil corrupt 
 worm as I am ! but then the transporting thought 
 rushes in and assures me there is one, even Christ 
 Jesus our Lord, who took our nature upon him, and 
 fulfilled the law and nil righteousness, that in the 
 end it might be imputed to us, and that old serpent 
 the devil receive the just reward of his transgres- 
 sion. For so far does the astonishing mercy and 
 love of God surpass the utmost stretch of human 
 capacity to conceive, that he assures man by the 
 mouth of his prophet (Isaiah, c. i. v, 18) ft Though 
 
 F " your
 
 " your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white 
 " as snow; though they be red like crimson, they 
 " shall be as wool ; if ye be willing and obedient," 
 Sic. And again (c. Iv. v. 7), ''Let the wicked for- 
 " sake his way, and the unrighteous man his 
 *' thoughts : and let him return unto the Lord, and 
 "he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, 
 " for he will abundantly pardon." " Come unto me 
 " all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will 
 " give you rest," saith our blessed Saviour himself. 
 On these and such like assurances rest all my hope 
 and confidence : and therefore, however sensible I 
 may be of my own unworthiness and incompetency, 
 I joyfully accept the arduous station to which it has 
 pleased God to call. me; prostrating myself before 
 the throne of grace, imploring with all humility his 
 Spirit to direct* my trembling steps and guide my 
 \veak judgment ! 6 that I may be wise and have my 
 lamp trimmed ! for I .know that the midnight hour 
 approaches when there will bea sudden cry, " behold 
 the Bridegroom cornet h, go ye out to meet him." 
 I hope, however, I have not altogether been like the 
 Unprofitable servant who hid his talent in the earth, 
 but trust in confidence in the love of God to clothe 
 me in a wedding garment that I may go up rejoic- 
 ing to the marriage feast ! Not to occupy too much 
 of your, precitfus time in giving vent to the effusions 
 of my soul, you will see by what 1 have already said, 
 that I am ready to sit in judgment against myself and 
 all mankind, to free the woman, and pray God 
 to cast all on Satan, that arch-enemy of the human 
 race. I have constantly prayed for the coming of 
 Christ's peaceable kingdom ; and for these last six 
 years have fully believed, through the inspirec 
 writings of Richard Brothers (as you would see 63 
 my printed testimony, sent you by my wife), that I 
 
 should
 
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 should live to see the glory burst on an astonished 
 and benighted world : and it has been no small com- 
 fort to me, under all the bufferings and persecutions 
 of rhe worldly-wise, to be blessed with a wife, whose 
 sentiments and faith are in perfect unity with my 
 own, so that within the small circle of my own fa- 
 mily I may say we have a foretaste of the promised 
 regeneration, or heaven upon earth, which we hope 
 to see established over the whole world : six amia- 
 ble and well-disposed children is the fruit of our 
 happy union. But to return to your letters. I 
 c;:nnot sufficiently express to you my grateful feel- 
 ings for your very kind letter of the id Sept. to 
 think the Lord should have influenced me to fulfil 
 your dream of 1795, and since, in assisting you at 
 the very time you needed it. Six weeks before it 
 happened I had a strong desire to send you a small 
 token of my love towards you. J told my father 
 my intention before he went into the country, I 
 wrote to my sister Beecraft, and spoke to some 
 oilier friends on the same subject, in order that it 
 might be the more worth your acceptance; but it is 
 evident God had his own time to do it in, as I could 
 not carry the desire of my heart into execution a 
 day sooner than I did ; and I am quite satisfied that 
 his time is the best, as he best knows how and when 
 to fulfil his own word. I am also well persuaded 
 my journey to the country was well ordered, as 
 whilst I was endeavouring to forward the work of 
 the Lord there, my wife had a great work to per- 
 form totally unknown tp me, but for which I Jove 
 her, if possible, more than ever, and am truly thank- 
 ful to God for deeming her worthy of so great an 
 honor. The first I knew of it was by yr/ur wonder- 
 ful and love-inspiring letter to her on <he occasion, 
 which she sent for my perusal, and in the rv.^ : : a of 
 
 winch
 
 which aloud in the presence of my father, sister, 
 and brother, I was frequently interrupted by the 
 tears of joy gushing from my astonished eyes ; in- 
 deed we were all in tears on the happy and ever- 
 memorable occasion ! but it is utterly impossible to 
 describe a hundredth part of what I then felt, and 
 do now feel. Gratitude, love, and holy joy, and all 
 these celestial sensations, were equally excited by 
 your divine letters of the 8th, loth, and iithOct. 
 as well as those to Messrs. Webster and Sharp, co- 
 pies of which I have had, but I must wait to see Mr. 
 Foley's till his return from Suffolk, where he has 
 been gone near a fortnight. 
 
 You may be sure we are fully satisfied with the 
 prolongation of your father's life, which is not only 
 more convincing than would have been his death at 
 the appointed time, but which could not be otherwise 
 to fulfil the scriptures : and here I cannot forbear 
 to exclaim with St. Paul, " O the depth of the 
 " riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God ! 
 " how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways 
 " past finding out." As to your giving way to sor- 
 row and anxiety I am not surprised at, for whatever 
 portion of his Divine Spirit it may please the Lord 
 to give us, the time is not yet come to be placed be- 
 yond the reach of human feelings; for till we are 
 divested of human nature, we must be more or less 
 subject to those feelings : and if it were not so, how 
 could Mr. Brothers's words be true, where he says 
 in his last publication, that " This is the hour of 
 *' trial : it is the hour that tries the faith of every 
 " living soul on earth !" It was truly said of our 
 Lord himself, that "He was a man of sorrows and 
 acquainted with griefs." And the divine Psalmist 
 says, cxixth & 71 v. " It is &ood for me that I have 
 
 been
 
 been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes." 
 And in the cxlth psalm & izthv. " I kno\v the 
 Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted." The 
 Lord also says by Zephaniah (c. iii. v. 18), " I will 
 gather them that are sorrowful," &c. This in my 
 opinion is so necessary and wholesome to keep us 
 humble, that I am convinced God frequently per- 
 mits us to be instruments of trials to each other, 
 and certainly allows great bodily afflictions to over- 
 take the very best of his servants. Observe, I do not 
 mean to apply this last observation to you, as I never 
 met with a person possessing so completely humble 
 and Christian a spirit in my life. But how can it be 
 otherwise, while you are led so powerfully by the 
 Lord to will and to do of his good pleasure. As to 
 the trouble, opposition, and distress you experienced 
 at the publication of your fourth book I am not at 
 all surprised at; because, as you say, you was or- 
 dered to print a thousand of eacii volume till you 
 came to the sixth, which was a deep mystery, it 
 would not have corresponded with tfve six days of 
 creation, or the six periods or epochas of the world, 
 unless the powers of darkness had united all their 
 means to stop your hand., and so put out the light 
 and life, bursting upon the world at that particular 
 period: for we know it.'\vas on the fourth day 
 '.that God divided or separated the light from the 
 darkness, by creating the sun to rule the day, and 
 the moon to rule the night ; and it was also at the 
 end of the fourth period or epocha of the world, 
 that our Blessed Lord and Saviour came in the 
 flesh to bring life and immortality to light : so that 
 at these particular periods we tind the powers of 
 darkness, or Satan and his infernal host, exerting 
 their utmost fury and strength, using every vile, 
 stratagem to shut out the light, and so preserve 
 
 G their
 
 their reign : but your having fought the good fight, 
 withstanding his temptations, and by the grace of 
 God overcoming the enemy, you have nothing more 
 to fear; he will of necessity retire from the field, 
 and your hands continue to be strengthened more 
 and more, till the conquest is complete, and your 
 army, or rather Christ's army, rend the air with joy ! 
 
 Mr. Brothers's hand was forged just like yours; 
 but of this, and other things relative to him, you 
 will undoubtedly know more hereafter; for I could 
 point out many instances v\ herein you and him ex- 
 actly resemble each other, and it must be so to 
 bring us back to the paradisaical state of man ; for 
 as male and femaJe were but one perfect man before 
 the separation of Eve from Adam's side, so I con- 
 ceive the regeneration of man, the new heavens and 
 new earth, or Christ's glorious kingdom of peace, 
 must commence with that last best work of crea- 
 tign, " lovely woman," being reunited with man in 
 principle, in spirit, and in love. This is the leaven 
 that will leaven the whole lump! And , as in the 
 beginning God created man first, so he in the same 
 order 13 preserved at this last period. He (Mr. 
 Brothers) first stood forth to the world in the di- 
 vine principle, publicly prophesying the great e- 
 vents of this momentous crisis, and denouncing 
 God's judgments against the wicked, and then falls 
 under the power of Satan, who through the human 
 power immures him in a prison ; when, wonderful 
 instance of divine love ! God brings forth his better 
 half (yourself) prophesying the same things to 
 the world, and denouncing the same judgments, 
 with the additional light and power to cast Satan 
 and rescue man ; so that he must remain in 
 his present state of subjection, to fulfil jhe scrip- 
 
 turea
 
 tnres and his own writings, till woman frees hi* 
 chain. 
 
 I shall take the liberty to send you a dream I 
 was favored with some years ago, which is the 
 more remarkable, as I seldom or ever receive 
 communications through that medium, and perhaps 
 the Lord may give you the interpretation of the 
 latter part of it, where I found myself naked* &c. 
 May it not mean, that the Lord will in his great 
 mercy and goodness strip me of every selfish prin- 
 ciple? And for the same reason (though I hope 
 you will not impute it to the very principle I wish 
 to be stripped of) I shall trouble you with a singular 
 dream of Mrs. Field about me and my family. But 
 I have always resisted any rising propensity to be- 
 iieve in it, as leading to that great enemy of spiri- 
 tual blessings, pride and vanity ; for it is by far too 
 flattering, and I know I do not in the least deserve 
 any such reward. Indeed if it were possible' to live 
 jree from sin (which it is not), and I was able to 
 discharge all the duties of a cbrisiian, what claim 
 have I to reward for simply doing my duty to God 
 and my neighbour ? I am therefore inclined to 
 stand afar off and say with the publican, " God be 
 merciful to me a sinner." And if there be found 
 any good in me, I must say with St. Paul ( i Cor. 
 xv. 10) " By the grace of God I am what I am." 
 I have sent my father (who is still in Lincolnshire) 
 your last letter, together with copies of all the 
 others, so that I have no doubt you will receive a 
 grateful acknowledgment in a few days. I hope you 
 have ere this received a testimony from the Rev. 
 Mr. Mossop, of Deeping St. James, who is fully sa- 
 tisfied from whence your writings flow, and assured 
 me he should write before I left the country. He 
 
 is
 
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 is a very worthy and zealous minister, and would, 
 in my humble opinion, be a desirable witness ; but 
 the Lord knows best," and will direct you accord- 
 jngly ; and I may say the same of my friend 
 Wm. Bryan, who is a firm believer in your divine 
 writings, and is a very spiritual man and a highly 
 favored character. If I offend in presuming to make 
 these observations, I humbly beg^ pardon, and hope 
 it will be imputed to the right cause, viz. my zeal 
 for the Lord's glory and your high calling; and al- 
 though my apparent neglect of not answering your 
 kind letter sooner might render that zeal question- 
 able, yet I hope you will make allowances for my 
 absence from home, and the many unavoidable things 
 J had to attend to immediately after my return. 
 Mr. Charles Taylor spent the evening with us four 
 or five days ago, and told us he had written to his 
 father. He is a fine youth, very sensible, and I 
 have no doubt well disposed, and as such it will al- 
 ways give us particular pleasure to shew him every 
 attention. He safely delivered your letters to Mr. 
 oVlorris, of whom you speak in your letter to my 
 wife. She begs to join me in the most cordial and 
 sincere love, and praying the Almighty to shower 
 down an everlasting succession of his choicest 
 blessings on your head. We also beg you will re- 
 member us in the kindest manner to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Taylor, to whom \ve return our sincere thanks for 
 their very friendly invitation. I know my wife will 
 be very much disappointed if she does not accom- 
 pany me to Exeter, an<i yet I am. afraid her business 
 and family concerns will be insurmountable obsta- 
 cles at that period ; and it is probable her situation 
 may render her incapable of travelling so far, as 
 sl.e will at that time be near seven months advanced 
 in pregnancy ; but as all things are possible to God, 
 
 if
 
 if he is willing, I know she is also; for our blessed 
 Lord says, " Seek ye first the kingdom of God and 
 his righteousness, and all other things shall be 
 added unto you," to which I say, Amen, Amen f 
 Grace be unto you, and peace be multiplied. With 
 all humility and respect I subscribe myself, 
 
 Your very affectionate fellow -labourer in the 
 Lord's Vineyard, 
 
 BASIL BRUCE. 
 
 Thursday Night, 22$ Oft. 
 
 I finished the preceding part of this letter at two 
 tfclock this morning, fully intending to forward it 
 by to-night's mail, when behold, about eleven o'clock 
 this forenoon, we were surprised and delighted at 
 the receipt of your invaluable present of spiritual 
 food. I exclaimed, the mercy of the Lord breaks 
 in upon us more and more, thanks be unto his 
 holy name ! Your divine letters to my father 
 are more astonishing than ever; new lights break- 
 ing in upon us in every direction, but language 
 cannot express our ravished senses at the perusal 
 of them. In the course of the day the Rev. Mr. 
 Webster called, in hopes of hearing something of 
 you, and he was amply rewarded and fully grati- 
 fied ; he then went for Mr. Sharp, an i returned 
 here with him; in the mean time Mr. War. Bryan 
 came in ; so that altogether we passed a most de- 
 lightful and heavenly evening ; all were equally 
 surprised and gratified ; and we all agreed in opi- 
 nion, that not a .day should be lost in arranging the 
 letters for the press, in obedience to our blessed 
 Lord's gracious commands. I shall write my father 
 to-morrow, inclosing your letters, and have no 
 
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 doubt 6*f their bringing him to London in two or 
 three days, to perform the work the Lord has as- 
 signed him, and in which I am sure we shall all be 
 very happy and ready to assist him. 
 
 I do not wonder at your observations to Mr. 
 Busby (to whom I s-'nt your letter) and to my fa- 
 ther on Mrs. Field's coronation dream ; for it is no 
 doubt wisely ordered as a seasonable check to some 
 believers, who probably may unintentionally sink 
 part of the glory and honour exclusively due to our 
 Lord and Saviour, in their adoration of Richard 
 Brothers's person- and character ; but I hope we are 
 all quite sensible, that all the honour and glory, 
 riches and dominions, principalities and power;?, 
 entirely and exclusively belong to the Captain of 
 our Salvation, Christ Jesus cur Lord ; we know 
 without, his Spirit Richard Brothers can do nothing, 
 and I am certain he is in himself, if possible, quite 
 as humble, in spirit, as yourself; but this does 
 not surely preclude our belief in bis revelations, or 
 respect for bis person. We have the most unques- 
 tionable proof of his divine communications, by the 
 constant and wonderful fulfilment of his predic- 
 tions, and a thousand other things equally strong, 
 uhich a ktter could not contain. Indeed, you 
 yourself bear the strongest testimony of him by the 
 Spirit, without perhaps its being known to yourself. 
 I therefore rest in full confidence in the goodness 
 of God to muke-^very mystery clear in due time. 
 
 On reading this letter to my wife since it was 
 written, she cried \eiymuch at what I had said 
 about her riot being able to visit you, and is very 
 sony indttd that I said any thing about it, so 
 much is she set on coming. So 1 must leave all 
 
 to
 
 3 
 
 to the Lord, who will not leave his people com- 
 fortless and without strength to bear the burthen 
 he may lay upon them. 
 
 Again, farewel ! and God bless you, my dear 
 sister in the Lord. 
 
 BASIL BRUCE. 
 
 Now having given my readers some of the letters 
 sent to me by Mr. B. Bruce, exactly as I received 
 them, I shall proceed to lay before them the man- 
 ner in which his dream or vision is explained to me 
 from the Bible ; but I shall first call to their recol- 
 lection his being compared as a type of Christ in 
 my letters before his death; and inform them, that 
 previous to his death he was chosen with his honored 
 and worthy father, the Rev. Stanhope Bruce, to 
 judge of my -writings and loose the seven seals; but 
 when the appointed time drew near that he was to 
 come down to Exeter to prove them, the worthy 
 gentleman was persuaded by many not to go, and 
 they endeavoured to convince him the writings were 
 not of the Lord. Thus persuaded, and a letter 
 having been sent to London by a clergyman of 
 Exeter, caused doubts to arise in his mind, which 
 made him halt between two opinions, and which his 
 worthy father tried to reason him out of, wishing 
 him to have salt in .himself. But to clear all doubts 
 in his mind, he was lain on a sick bed ; and his fa- 
 ther, whose faith was strong in the Lord, left hjm 
 very ill, to proceed to Exeter *and search out the 
 truth of what he had heard ; and as he was jour- 
 neying thither, to prove the truth concerning 
 Christ's peaceable kingdom here upon the earth, 
 his son departed this life, to possess the glorious 
 
 kingdom
 
 
 kingdom of Christ in heaven ; for as he saw thro* 
 a glass but darkly, he was taken to see face to face. 
 Now follows the answer of the Spirit to this 
 mystery. 
 
 Let the dead hear my voice and live, and let the 
 living lay it to heart, for now I will tell thee all 
 the mysteries of Bruce. He is the man child 
 caught up to God and to his throne : for Satan 
 stood before him to devour his faith, and fill him 
 with doubts, as soon as he was born. For he that 
 is born of God sinneth not, neither chargeth he 
 God foolishly ; and his letters shew he does not 
 charge God foolishly, neither is there guile found in 
 them. By the fulness of the heart the mouth 
 speaketh that he is born of God, and so thou hast 
 brought him forth to the world a priest and pro- 
 phet, and all shall find his prophecies true : for he 
 was to rule the nations with a rod of iron, and 
 with a rod of iron he shall tread down the powers of 
 darkness, and to him shall be given the key of the 
 bottomless pit, for he is sealed to the day of re- 
 demption, that is, to be redeemed from death, hell, 
 and sin, and to burst the bars of the grave. But as 
 the spirit of Elijah fell on Elisha, so must his spirit 
 fall on man, to go through all his priestly office 
 here on earth. He that hath ears to ear, let him 
 hear; and he that hath eyes to see, let him see; 
 and he that hath an heart to understand, let him 
 understand. The promise was made to Abraham, 
 Isaac, and Jacob, but in Isaac all the families of the 
 earth were to be blessed : and from Isaac's wife came 
 twain, Jacob and Esau, the two different nations; 
 but Jacob robbed Esau, and Esau hated Jacob. 
 So here are the two nations, kingdom and people, 
 Satan's and mine. So now the elder shall serve 
 
 the
 
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 the younger; for now the heathen nations shull be 
 given to all the seed of Isaac. As Isaac stojj to 
 his word I have blessed him, yea and he shall be 
 blessed; and this blessing shall now rest on man- 
 kind, I have blessed them, yea and they shall be 
 blessed, and the gates of hell shall not prevail 
 against them. For as the twain struggled in Re- 
 becca's womb, so do the two now struggle in the 
 womb of Providence ; and he that sells his birth- 
 right to the promise that is made him for a present 
 reward, shall lose his blessing as Esau did ; but he 
 that ^listens to the voice of the woman as Jacob did, 
 shall enjoy all the promises made to tfacob. For 
 in Rebecca stands the type of the last days : the 
 woman must gain the promise for man, and ye are 
 all Jacobs that will obey her voice as Jacob obeyed ; 
 for the voice of the woman is the voice of the Lord, 
 to take the blessing from Satan, wjio was before 
 man as Esau was before Jacob ; for Satan was the 
 elder, and his birthright was in heaven, but he sold 
 his birthright there, and when he came on the earth 
 he came to the woman as the first born ; but when 
 she knew him she did not love him, and cast her 
 blame upon him, though she put his cloathing on. 
 man by giving him the forbidden fruit ; but man 
 seemed' as though he had loved him, by casting the 
 blame on his Maker. But now the woman may say 
 unto all men as Rebecca said to Jacob, pat on all 
 the words of Satan, and so come before the Lord, 
 we are thy sons, thy very sons, thy first-born, who 
 were to be as gods, knowing good from evil : then 
 here is the feeling that resembles Esau's (or like 
 the devil's, because they are his words), but the 
 voice is like Jacob's, as man's voice has been differ- 
 ent from Satan's, who was like Jacob : and now 
 shall they find, Jacob have I loved, and Esau have I 
 
 I hated;
 
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 hated ; for these twain have been struggling in the 
 womb of Providence from the foundation of the 
 world; but as Rebecca got the blessing for Jacob, 
 and disinherited Esau, so the woman claiming her 
 promise, Isaac's seed, by faith obeying her voice, 
 are scaled to the day of T coemption, and it is not ail 
 the poveis of earth and hell shall now disinherit 
 them ; for wrestling Jacobs shall be prevailing Is- 
 raels ; and I will give them the heathen nations ;or 
 their inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the 
 earth for their possession, for as princes they shall 
 have power with God. But 1 will now tea you 
 the mystery, 
 
 . So let it be known unto all men, that as they 
 were sealed together for the day of redemption, 
 and coming from different counties to prove the 
 truth of my peaceable kingdom here on earth, he 
 that was like Jacob, and began to halt between two 
 opinions, seeing but through a glass darkly, was 
 taken to my kingdom, to see face to face. And 
 this shall be a sign unto all men, he that believes in 
 my word and relies on my promises, shall inherit 
 my kingdom here, and have a crown of never-fading 
 glory hereafter. For now the halting Jacob is 
 come before rne as a prince, to recejve power from 
 his God, and his name shall be called Israel, and 
 he shall intercede .tor all the true Israel of God. 
 So he that has ears to hear, let him ear what the 
 Spirit and the Bride sny Awake them that sleep, 
 and arise from the dead, and Christ will give them 
 life.' So whomsoever will come, may come, 
 and drink of the waters of life freely. But now I 
 shall lay before you anothor mystery, from the 
 fifth chapter of Revelations. . When the sc^rti 
 seals \\ere first produced, there was not i^und any 
 
 man
 
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 man in heaven, nor on earth, nor under the earth, 
 who was able to loose the seals. Now where is the 
 inan who can by learning explain this mystery? 
 Yet I shall give you the explanation from Mr. 
 B:isil Brure's dream (for which see page 19 of this 
 book), and likewise from a dream of my own, both 
 which were explained together, March 1802. 
 
 I dreamt I was at the altar, and saw the moon 
 be r ore it, and a magnifying glass before the moon, 
 which rendered it more large, and bright as coals 
 of fire. In the moon theie appeared a lion and a 
 lamb standing together, and yearly the same colour 
 as the moon, only the lion and the lamb looked 
 much brighter and fkrcer than the moon. Here 
 is the answer of the Spiiit to it. 
 
 Now to reason I shall come 
 And firft I'll tell thee of the moon, 
 The lion and the lamb is there, 
 And now the myst'ries I shall clear 
 Because the lion all shall see 
 Is Bruce in spiiit come to me, 
 And he isjoined with the Lamb, 
 And both together on my throne, 
 Which in the moon di<l so appear- 
 Then Satan muft be conquer'd there; 
 For now to conquer I shail come, 
 And Bruce's vision will explain, 
 Because that he's transported here, 
 (From earth to heav'n) let all see clear ; 
 And so the angels did descend 
 To tell him then the final end; 
 The final end you'll see is come, 
 Apostate world ! you may mock on 
 Until my fury does descend, 
 For 1 shall make a final end, 
 And those who for my kingdom thirft, 
 In glorious trumph it shall burft, 
 
 Beyond
 
 Beyond the hearts and thoughts of man 
 The Revel atio is now are come, 
 Wh : ch 1 by Bruce shall sh^w you plain 
 Th~ Idmb was by the lion slain, 
 When the creation firrt appear'd, 
 And Cain kill'd Abel, as you've heard ; 
 And so the lion did go on 
 Jn furious rage to work on man, 
 Untii he vent his rage on me, 
 And so they nail'd me to the tree. 
 But now the lion does appear 
 To shut his mouth againit me here, 
 As Daniel found them in the den, 
 And so the enemy was slain, 
 Because their mouths they open'd wide 
 When that the enemy was try'd, 
 And quickly did dertroy them all, 
 And so the lion mim I call, 
 Whose teeth no more (hall murder me. 
 But now, my foes, you all shall see 
 The lion does in heav'n appear, 
 And you, my foes, may stand in fear ; 
 Before you come unto my den, 
 Take notice, you shall all be slain, 
 Who wish to cast a Daniel there 
 Rejoice, my friends, my foes must fear, 
 For I shall shut the mouths of all 
 That now do mock this heav'nly call. 
 So here's the myst'ry of the moon, 
 To Bruce's vision it is come, 
 For he is so transported here, 
 Jn heav'nly glory does appear : 
 For now's the myst'ry of the seal*, 
 The perfect truth I'll now reveal. 
 No man on earth or heav'n was found 
 To break the seals, or judge the sound, 
 Until the elder did appear ; 
 Then now the myft'ry you see clear 
 In heav'n the thing could not be done 
 Till Bruce ascended to my throne, 
 Because the seals were gave to he, 
 That heav'n and earth alike may be, 
 And Bruce you know was not on earth, 
 Mark well the Spirit what it saith, 
 When they came down the seals to .see 
 Remember that they wept for h, 
 
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 And some did weep and so.ne di I mourn, 
 
 And thuieo-v i , i -. .hin did b.n.i, 
 
 When th ?y t;-,ld thee t i.-re, 
 
 And tlvju in seem v: pt.t i ) prty'r, 
 
 And mourn'd th; d 'aM of t'u- <l -.ir f r i-nd 
 
 Whose sou! to liij. \ j - he.w':i w s flj-.Vii ; 
 
 But tue.i in.' >. j .iK c-ndd not be bi. 
 
 Men w re nut r'u 1 1 I to,> n ic i t'l^y mjck'd; 
 
 Th^-n woit'iy they could n-'.vc-r ba 
 
 To loose the seals a> made by ms, 
 
 So disappnirlted :hjv uood all,' 
 
 As twelv tog ther is my call 
 
 Before t ie seals [ will uiiltole, 
 
 And so their* coming Ji 1 ret' 
 
 To have the s-al- be bruken then 
 
 Before I'd all my choien m^n. 
 
 So here the scriptures you see plain 
 
 The seals weie sign'd and giv'n to men, 
 
 But sure unable they were there 
 
 Until the twelve do all appear. 
 
 But now the myst'ry I'll make plain 
 
 In heav'n could man with me contend, 
 
 To whom I'd ne'er reveal'd the word, 
 
 I ask you how he there could plead 
 
 Till Bruce in person did appear ? 
 
 And now the myst'ry you see clear 
 
 In heav'n nor earth he could not be 
 
 "When they came down the truth to see. 
 
 Three days you wander in the air, 
 
 Then the firft heav'n to you appear, 
 
 And with enlighten'd saints to meet, 
 
 Ere you approach the judgment seat, 
 
 And to the highest heav'n you come, 
 
 r Six days I tell you muft be known 
 
 Ere you in glory can appear, 
 
 And then my sabbath, you'll see clear, 
 
 Shall be the seventh day for reft, 
 
 As heav'n and earth alike are plac'd. 
 
 So now, I say> when they carne down, 
 
 In heav'n uor earth he was not found, 
 
 Brfjie my word was giv'n tu tliee, 
 
 The s als .r.uft not then loosed be; 
 
 But sure I ,av you .1 'd not fear, 
 
 Th 'i .11 < ie is near, 
 
 As \\- w-s j ,in t (i to th'- tribe, 
 
 The path is'aUaigh^ tue fielj Is wide, 
 
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 And seals alike to all were giv'n, 
 
 The &f als are now in earth and heav'n, 
 
 Foi what on earth was sealed there 
 
 Loth now to me in heav'n appear, 
 
 And what is sealed now in heav'n 
 
 Shall to my friends on earth be giv'n, 
 
 "When they do meet to loose the seals, 
 
 Then ev'iy myst'iy I'll reveal, 
 
 And from my bible you'll see clear 
 
 The woman is your helpmate here. 
 
 To bring the knowledge of the tree, 
 
 The good andevij both you'll see : 
 
 As she the serpent fit ft condemn'd, 
 
 I gave the stais ir.to her hand, 
 
 And she hath i^ivn them unto men, 
 
 As she in paiadi>e btga.i ; 
 
 1 hen -uic the my-t i\ now is plain, 
 
 And paradise you nujn ).g.iiu 
 
 Jfycu: so c o^-i'v i upy her, 
 
 As A<:ajn did, you've nought to fear; 
 
 For if by h'-i \<<u sa\ 'tvv^s ost, , 
 
 Maik we>l. hei son ti'en paid the cost ; y u * 
 
 Then suie her husband must redeem 
 
 Sp wake, ye simple sons of men. 
 
 I shall here insert the Thoughts of the seven 
 worthy and good gentlemen, \vho came to Exeter 
 to examine my writings and give their opinions on 
 the Sixth Book, which are as follow. 
 
 THOUGHTS on the SIXTH BOOK, 
 
 Printed for 
 
 JOANNA SOUTHCOTT. 
 
 FIRST THOUGHT. 
 
 Tn the name of the all-wise and most merciful 
 God. 
 
 Thou, O Lord, in these writings of thy servant, 
 Joanna Southcott, inspired, or dictated, by thy 
 Holy Spirit ; the same which filled the hearts, and 
 
 spoke
 
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 spoke by the mouths of thy Holy Apostles and 
 Prophets of old, has*" opened to us as much of thy 
 counsels, and manner of acting with the Angels 
 \vho never fell, with Man who did, and with Satan 
 and his Associates, who first rebelled against *tbce t 
 the Lord of Life and Glory, the Fountain from 
 whom all good and happiness flows, and who after- 
 wards, by hellish arts, endeavour'd to destroy all 
 mankind, as far as is needful, and suited to the pro- 
 sent occasion ; which thou hast most graciously and 
 condescendingly submitted to our judgment, and 
 hast commanded us to declare (as far as lies within 
 the compass of our abilities) thy ijws, delivered in 
 the everlasting Gospel, and thy righteous dealings, 
 to all mankind. With respect to myself, the view 
 fills me with the highest gratitude and asioni'-h- 
 ment. I am truly sensible of my own unworthi- 
 ness. I have too frequently transgressed thy most 
 holy laws ; and know tnat it is the Blood of t:\y 
 dearly beloved Son, Jesus Christ, alone that can 
 wash away my sins, and those of the whole human 
 race ; which He will do in the end ; according 10 
 what is declar'd by himself in the Gospel, by thy 
 Apostle Paul, .in these words, " For ibis we both 
 labour and suffer reproach : because we trust in 
 the living God ; who is the Saviour of all men : es- 
 pecially of those that believe;" and now again by 
 thy servant Joanna, Therefore I should hardly 
 presume to form, much less to declare my judg- 
 ment on these thy wonderful works and wise pro- 
 ceedings unless thou hadst commanded it. Now 
 then in obedience to that command (having pre- 
 viously implor'd the Grace of thy Ho; Lpiitt to 
 .enable me to decide thereon) I join witn llu y\jma;j, 
 in praying thee to cast the blaire on the i'ri;go;], 
 that old serpent, which is the Devil and baiun, that 
 
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 she laid upon him at the fall, and to execute the 
 sentence thou didst then pronounce against him. 
 For my part I cannot avoid confessing, that holy 
 and just are thy ways, Lord God Almighty, true 
 and righteous are thy judgments. I humbly be- 
 seech thee that I may never fall from thy grace, 
 and that thou wouldst permit me to search out and 
 enable me to proclaim thy unbounded mercy., great- 
 ness, truth, and loving kindness, throughout the 
 endless duration of eternity. 
 
 SECOND THOUGHT. 
 
 The reasonings contained in this 6th book in fa- 
 vour of God's Wisdom in placing man as he did in 
 the creation ; Justice in putting down the kingdom 
 of Satan; and Mercy in the redemption of man 
 from everlasting punishment under the powers of 
 darkness, and taking on him the blame and punish- 
 ment due to man; are so conclusive, that I cannot 
 but acknowledge them to be from God. 
 
 THIRD THOUGHT. 
 
 Honor, Glory and Blessing, be unto our God and 
 our dear Redeemer, Jesus Christ. .How shall we 
 praise the Lord for his goodness to the children of 
 men ! for his having revealed such knowledge to 
 babes and sucklings, when to the wise and learned 
 of this world he has denied it. How wonderful has 
 this sixth book laid cpen the mysteries of the Bible, 
 and has furnished the servants of the Most High 
 God with such weapons, as neither the powers of 
 darkness, nor all the wickedness of men will be able 
 to stand a moment before them ? May we put on 
 the whole armour of God ! may we be strong, firm, 
 faithful and obedient to our Blessed Saviour, Jesus 
 Christ ! then will he send us strength, wisdom, 
 
 faith,
 
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 faith, and courage, from his holy sanctuary ; that 
 we may be enabled to withstand ail the wiles an 1 
 fiery darts of Satan ; that we may be enabled to 
 overcome all the enemies and foes of the Captaiti of 
 our Salvation, and through hi> blessing, be the 
 happy instruments of establishing his blessed king- 
 do in upon earth. Then may \ve rejoice with the 
 Oil of Gladness, because his Bride hath made her- 
 self ready, and by her perfect obedience, our deadly 
 foe (Satan), together with his host, will be cast 
 from the earth, and that promise will be soon ful- 
 filled, " of the seed of the woman bruising the ser- 
 pent's bead." 
 
 FOURTH THOUGHT, 
 
 I have examined and read the sixth part of the 
 writings of Joanna Southcott, and I desire to bless 
 the Lord for the light, life and comfort derived to 
 my soul by these inspired writings. They are like 
 the rest of her writings ; a garden enclos'd, a foun- 
 tain seal'd from the world ; but the Lord in his 
 rich mercy to my soul, has granted me the blessing 
 whereby I have drank deeply of these living waters. 
 And I trust and earnestly pray the Lord will shortly 
 destroy Satan's kingdom and establish his own upon 
 its ruins! to the glory of his great name, and the 
 everlasting good and comfort of his people. 
 
 FIFTH THOUGHT. 
 
 The sixth book wrote by Joanna Southcott, must 
 be indited by the Divine Spirit of the Lord, its con- 
 tents being both ju.st and true. It is true that per- 
 fect innocence must be without suspicion, and the 
 most easy to be deceived ; the fall of the woman 
 therefore cannot be the woman's fault. And it is 
 perfectly jusi that Divine Love should* by his di- 
 
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 vine wisdom, destroy the power of the devil by the 
 woman's hand, whose innocence he first betrayed. 
 
 SIXTH THOUGHT. 
 
 I give my judgment on Joanna Southcott's six 
 books, that they are wrote by the directions of the 
 Lord God. 
 
 SEVENTH THOUGHT. 
 
 The sixth book. In it I perceive, and he^r the 
 voice of the Lord through the woman by the Spirit, 
 speaking and reasoning justly with man and devils, 
 and that the Son of God had suffered the blame, 
 which man, by the influence of the devil, cast un- 
 justly upon him . and the woman pleading of being 
 deceived by the devil ignorantly, and that the devil 
 may be cast, and the dagger fall upon him as the 
 root of evil : and the Son of God declaring that he 
 now will have his will, as the Devil and Satan has 
 had his will before. And this I perceive to be just 
 of the Son of God claiming his purchased kingdom 
 and destroying the works of the devil, and driving 
 him from the face of the earth, that man may 
 serve and glorify God his Maker, perfectly in 
 holiness. 
 
 This is the answer of the Spirit, to the Thoughts 
 of the seve^n worthy gentlemen. 
 
 Now these thoughts ara placed by seven men, 
 
 And now thi answer I do bid thee send. 
 
 The first I thought it was for man and me, 
 
 That man and I in likeness should agree; 
 
 Man had my image, and he had my form, 
 
 He had my Spiiit breathed into him ; 
 
 All my thoughts weie to make his bliss complete, 
 
 I irade a helpmate for to finish it 
 
 So this; I say. was my first thought for man. 
 
 I caus'd a sleep to biing the second on. And
 
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 And when my second did to man appear, 
 He saw his helpmate, and admir'd her there, 
 Whom Satan's arts did instantly betray, 
 He broke their peace and close to them did lay. 
 And on their Maker Satan caft the blame, 
 Then my third thought as quick as lightning came 
 I'd bear the blame the man did caft on me, 
 And Satan fhould the blame was cafl ou he. 
 So this I say was my third thought for man- 
 The tree of life did in the garden Hand, 
 
 And had he e*ten as pronounced dead. 
 
 Then he had Hv d for ever, as 'twas said, __ 
 
 Under the fall pronounced dead by me, 
 Then how in life could man and I agree? 
 
 So, to secure him fiom that fatal curse,_ _ 
 
 Out of the garden he was sudden call; ^ . 
 And so the tree of life did there r<-main.^ t > 
 The flaming sword to cut the serpent down, 
 Whene'er the woman did my promise claim, 
 
 To claim the promise I made her atTir';, 
 
 So now's the time the serpent mult be~caft : 
 So if men now do miss the glorious thougKfT" 
 Then their destruction is for ever wroughC^^ 
 And on their heads my vengeance it muufaTl7 
 For men or devils now muft pay for all : -~~~^. 
 So here I've Ihewn my fourth thought for man, 
 How to preserve him I have laid my plan. ~ _^ 
 So now my fifth thought fhall to man appear 
 I caus'd the aik to shew my judgment theie ; ^ 
 And then I sai ' mankind I would destroy, 
 But in the ark mankind did life enjoy, 
 And on the waters then the ark did move, 
 And in the ark there was the harmless dove 
 That brought the olive-branch of peace for man, 
 E'en so the seal is given to thy hand ; y_ 
 And know the rainbow it was plac'd by me, 
 And know the rainbow it was sent to thee ; 
 So altogether you may now weigh deep, 
 Here's ev'iy thing to save n y frighted sheep. 
 For my sixth thought it was to build the ark, 
 And leave the subtle tempte. in the dark; 
 
 That as the worid of sin was swept away, 
 
 Whom Satan's aith had caus d f o follow he, 
 
 Then surely after he muit go the same ^- 1_ ^- 
 
 And now 1 ve uVwn jou rry six'h thought for man. 
 
 1 hen now the .seventh thought it mutt appear, 
 
 The biazen serpent, see the myft'iy clear, That
 
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 That full of fire I order' d man to make, 
 And so that ivav to kill the pois'nous snake, 
 Or for to cure trie i"^ he made in man, 
 And deep's th> s^vei'th thouglit ait-> you com* j 
 For now the brazen serpent, ali ihall see. 
 Will cure the ftiug of sin for man and thee, 
 And all that look to me thai! now receive 
 The promis'd blessing 1 to her did give 
 So now the seventh I have ended here, 
 For man and me alike I aow compare ; 
 And let th^se thoughts be publilhed jp man, 
 And closely after let my answer come. 
 For here the seven stars they did appear, -^- 
 
 And in them were my seven Spirits there; 
 And seven golden candlefticks they be, 
 As in the vision I d.d (hew to thee ; 
 So now the sparkling light (hall soon appear, 
 Tor^vith the law the seven placed were, 
 To have the glorious light to Israel come, 
 And bciifg the ark back unto them again ; 
 For by the eighth I fhall the gospel join 
 Unto the Revelations of St. John 
 Thou putt'ft my seals the first and second star, 
 And to confirm the truth I sent thee here 
 The promise of the gospel with my seal- 
 And now the myst'ries 1 shall all reveal. 
 The man and woman do together sit, 
 As I ordain'd, to make my words complete; 
 And of temptations they do both complain, 
 And upon Satan both do call the blame 
 Then sure the serpent he must now be cast, 
 He brought my seal, which seals your peace at last; 
 And as the olive branch it shail appear, 
 And in my book you all are sealed there ; 
 Because a third book thou wilt have to sea!, 
 And ht"i the myst'ries I shall all reveal, 
 And let that sea) be sealed then within, 
 For ev'ry myst'ry must to all be seen. 
 And now I'll tell thee why 1 piac'd this maa, . 
 Because unto thee he did bring the seal 
 That shall the Revelations all reveal; 
 And as my picture doth to thee appear, 
 Just so my face you all shall see it clear. 
 One side is darken'd like the minds of mtn 
 Whose harden'd hearts do Satan's fetters bind, 
 And unto him they do give ev'ry will, 
 And so my blacken'd face they all shall feel, 
 But on the other side there is a li^ht, 
 And *Q my friends shall find my cv'ry <{ht. 
 
 THE
 
 THE EIGHTH THOUGHT 
 
 n the Sixth Book of the Pmpbecies of JOANNA SOUTHCOTT of 
 xeter, respecting the Day of Judgment -finished Jan. 9, 1802. 
 
 Adam ! where art thou ? was the call of Jehovah 
 to the first man after the fall. His conduct bespoke 
 his shame that he had sinned. Naked and ashamed 
 he was found with a human imperfect covering of 
 fig-leaves. The answer he gave for his disobedience 
 was, " The woman tboii gavest me, gave me the 
 evil and I did eat!" Here he cast the blame upon his 
 frail partner, whereas the man and woman (being 
 the perfect man) ought not to have been divided 
 against themselves, but ought to have been one in 
 spirit, and one in perpetual unity and innocence. 
 But the woman had sinned here, The serpent had 
 beguiled her in the original, there was the source, 
 spring, and foundation of the evil." Here it appears 
 the man cast the blame wrong, by blaming the Lord 
 in saying, the woman thou gavest me deceived me. 
 He ought to have gone farther, and laid the axe of 
 truth to the root of the corrupt tree ; and said, the 
 serpent beguiled us and we did eat. Hid he toid the 
 truth he had then shamed, cast, and bound the devil : 
 but alas ! his posterity have ielt the falshood : perpe- 
 tual evil, perpetual rnmity* and perpetual falshood 
 has been entailed on all. The devil has reigned to 
 this time on earth triumphant. However the infinite 
 wisdom and mercy of God was soon manifested in a 
 promise to the seed of the woman in order to com- 
 fort and heal the breach, by saying, that her seed 
 should bring the blow on Satan, and order and unity 
 in time should again be manifested in the man-wo- 
 man. He said to Satan, " cursed art thou above 
 every creature :" I have found a ransom I will pay 
 the price for the man's redemption, and Lhou shalt 
 
 M bear
 
 bear the woman's blame, thou art a transgressor, 
 and thou shalt ultimately feel it. Thou hast re- 
 belied against the order of my creation, justice 
 shall have its course ; thou hast sinned against me 
 in heaven and upon earth, therefore, I will die for 
 man, and the woman's blood shall lie upon thy head : 
 then whcre's thy ground on earth receive thy 
 doom, the pit, there twist in flames, and there thy 
 like deceive ! Then Cain received thy doom from 
 Abel's blood. Then where is Pharaoh and h;s host ? 
 Judge then, need Moses fear ! Where is the lion 
 fall'n : and the pit has oped its mouth---the cover- 
 ing's dropt the Lamb has nought to fearthen 
 roar no more to shake the earth and sea. Where 
 now's the eagle and vultur'd host- thy wings are 
 plucked on earth, she stands defenceless, the fatal 
 net bene;;th---The dove now has protection, she 
 ranges earth and sea, and soars aloft unhurt, un- 
 feared to carry peace to all. The ark is opened 
 now, she brings the olive branch the floods are 
 past, where now's the giant race ? Who pressed on 
 Lot? 'Twas thee the proud oppressor ! where art 
 thou now? Where is thy pride and city ? Knowest 
 thou the words, come out ! come out ! let Sodom 
 feel its doom. Where now is Lot ? At Zoar safe ! 
 Where is his wife ? Is she not salt all ? The writ- 
 ing's on the wall Thou lewdly rcvellcst with the 
 bo\vls of God -Thy kingdom's past away- Now see 
 my Daniel rise. Who cast him in the den ?- 'Twas 
 thee ! Thou rolledst the stone, thou sealedst his 
 doom- the roaring lion thee ! Then let the stone 
 r* turn, the seal be broke, and go thou in his stead. 
 V> here is the image gold arid Bci ? Where is proud 
 I ahei's buildtr ? Confusion is thy name : coi : u>, u 
 is thy doom ! Let Bel asunder burst ! the pi.ch, 
 and tar, and walls of wood expose thy make ; dent it 
 
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 and craft and pass in flames away. The God of 
 Daniel stands- Da iel rise up ! six days are past 
 the seventh now is hereseven times refined and 
 purifkd in innocency come. The emerald unhurt 
 in fire displays great Judith's son-- Let Urim's light 
 and Thummim shine in bright perfection's day. 
 The twelve men stand upon the plate the fourth 
 denotes great Judah's son, who is the rightful heir. 
 The stones denote old Jacob's sons, their light and 
 quality - they shine as stars in Jesus ciown upon 
 the woman's head The sun unveiled shall now 
 arise --The moon from scarlet shall emergeThe 
 sturs from darkness now appear to light the mid- 
 night hour Then where art thou, O Satan ! where 
 are thy heads, and horns, and dragon's tail, which 
 slew and hurt the living stars ! where are thy rays of 
 firethy watry floods-- behold they are past away 
 The woman's fears of thee are o'er---the wilderness 
 receives her child, whose iron rod now feel. The 
 pit has oped its mouth- -thou now art cast, shut up 
 and sealed---The Saints now judge the earth. The 
 Omnipotent is here, in power, and Spirit in the 
 word--The sword, white horse, and King of Kings 
 has drawn the flaming sword ! Rejoice, ye Saints, 
 rejoice ! The beast, and dragon, mountain, tree, no 
 more shall hurt, devour, becloud the Saint, the 
 gold, and vine. The gold and gems appear- -The 
 mighty earthquake now displays the hidden Son of 
 God. The rod and smitten rock gush forth, and 
 smite and slay, and make alive, now saves, and now 
 destroys. The cloud and glory Jonah's sign dis- 
 play the virtues of the word, the light and darkness 
 shews. The Gospel brings the light and life and 
 death---and death as men obey or mock. The six 
 denotes the suffering time to shew the Son of Man- 
 The sign within the sun The fowls now feast on 
 
 thee l
 
 thee \ Then where's thy former reign? Beneath 
 the rod of Moses see thy fall from heaven's height. 
 Son of the morning, Lucifer, no more oppress--.be 
 thou a fallen star ! Great Og and Agag where are 
 ye ! The walls of Jericho art thou, fall flat ! Jo- 
 shua's rams horns, the seven and twelve, pass Jor- 
 dan's stream- -Where is the lion, bear, Goiiah huge, 
 but in the centre thee. David appears a stripling 
 youth, now tears and slays and slings the stone, and 
 smites thy dragon's head. Now see great David's 
 reign---The temple's stones, unhewed by man in 
 those days, unite, the King of Peace amidst the 
 seven in oil unite, and in a stone with seven eyes 
 appears. The stately fabric now is laid, founded 
 and topped with gems of every hue. The ark of 
 Moses now is built The words, the laws, the scep- 
 tre all unite, and Aaron's budded rod He now is 
 chosen, eat the bread, prepare the sacrifice. John 
 eats the book which sweet and bitter is He pro- 
 phecies, the temple metes, and stands before the 
 Lamb. The temple measures and anoint, and 
 Moses* tabernacle. The witnesses, Matthew and 
 John, as olive trees appear The broken stones of 
 Moses now uplift, renewed in books arise from 
 death. The Lord's anointed reigns---The rods or 
 laws of Ephraim, ten unite in one, and hold by 
 Judah's skirt- The Son of Man o'er Israel reigns - 
 The dry bones now arise---Here ends thy earthly 
 reign. The bond of union now is come- -The mar- 
 riage ring appears. The bride is come The Bride- 
 groom now receives the marriage seal. The law 
 and gospel now unite The moon and sun appear- 
 Caleb and Joshua pass the stream in triumph to re- 
 store. Where now thou Canaanite art thou ? 
 Where all thy madden'd Crew ? 
 
 Hittites,
 
 ( 49 ) 
 
 -HitHtes, be gone ! no more appear to hurt or to anno/ ; 
 Now Israel's sons in peace succeed and Canaan's land enjoy. 
 Behold, from Edom 1 appear with garments dipt in blood : 
 My sons are freed, and sav'd, and wash'd amidit the purple 
 
 flood. 
 
 The law, or moon, imperfect was to save 
 But now the Star points dead-men to the grave. 
 
 Mercy benign appears- The Gospel Sun embraces 
 all The Spirit and the Bride invite, and oifer wine 
 and milk but not to mockers here. Infinity of 
 Love and Grace ! Gentiles and Jews unite, no more 
 from love to part. Six days are past Peter and 
 James and John, behold my glory in my word. 
 
 The Law and Prophets now are seen with Jesus' word to fhine 
 But what hall thou, thou Serpent here, to do with love benign ? 
 
 Tremble and flee, 'tis done. The seals are burst * 
 the vials pour, and end tiiy destiny. 
 
 Thus a small part of the thoughts of the judg- 
 ments of God pronounced on Satan, with his final 
 overthrow, concludes the writer, who is a gentleman 
 of vast respectability. 
 
 shall insert, a little further on, an answer 
 to the eighth thought, as explained to me by the Spirit. 
 
 Now I have gone so far with this book, wherein t 
 have shewn you how every crooked path is made 
 straight concerning Mr. Bruce and I deny the 
 learned werld can. prove the Bible to be from the 
 Lord, and that my writings are not. There is none 
 but God could have brought round such a mystery, 
 to fulfil the Bible, and make every thing appear in a- 
 straight line together. So every man of deep pene- 
 tration And discernment must say, I am a, wonder 
 
 N U
 
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 to .men, if they do not believe it is the Lord's doing, 
 and marvellous in their eyes. But how ! shall tell 
 you another mystery. 
 
 The worthy Mr. B. Bruce has been represented as 
 a type of Christ ; and Christ it is said is the Son of 
 Kighteousness, to arise with healing in his wings, 
 by which is meant, to heal the fail of the woman, 
 and so bring in the redemption for man ; and being 
 clothed with him, is meant the clothing of his Spi- 
 rit, which are his words. Now, to bring the shadow 
 fo the substance, let every man know, that as Mr. 
 Bruce is called the shadow, I am now clothed with 
 his clothing, sent to me by his worthy bride ; for a 
 wan and his wife are one: and further let it be 
 known unto all men, that it happened for me to 
 wear it for him in the tenth year. So now weigh 
 deep the letters sent to me by the son of man, and 
 consider well my answers to them by the Spirit of 
 the Lord. And now as Christ died to reconcile the 
 world untoQod, that we might be heirs of God and 
 joint heirs of Jesus Christ; so h.ereby ye are to 
 know, that Mr. Bruce is brought forth unto the 
 world an heir of God and joint heir of Jesus Christ, 
 \vho is ascended on high to receive gifts for men; 
 that is, to be permitted to come boldly before the 
 throne of God to have the act of grace passed for 
 man, and the promise made to the woman fulfilled. 
 
 So now see clear the ihadow's here, 
 
 She's clothed with the son, 
 For all his clothing she does wear, 
 
 And the tenth year is cpme. 
 If you discern how 1 do warn, 
 
 The shadows first appear, 
 And now you see the son of man 
 
 His clothing she does wear. 
 But in that day, to you I say, 
 
 you together meet, Hif
 
 His clothing there will then appeav 
 
 And make the myft'ry great. 
 So now see plain, ye sons of men. 
 
 The shadow you ma)' see, 
 But as the word is on record, 
 
 She's clothed now with me ; 
 Who soon shall come to rescue man 
 
 And free the woman's fall ; 
 As Bruce's letters shew his hand, 
 
 You'll find my hand in all. 
 And as his word is on record, 
 
 That he sent by his hand, 
 So mine you'll see alike to be, 
 
 And both together ftand. 
 So, learned men, no more contend 
 
 Till you have seen all clear, 
 The woman clothed with the son> 
 
 A wonder to you here. 
 So in amaze you all may gaze, 
 
 As Adam did at fit ft, 
 To see the bone, to him unknown, 
 
 The woman there was plac'd. 
 The woe, you see, she brought on he, 
 
 And the firft woe for man- 
 But how shall Satan now get free, 
 
 She cafts her woe on him : 
 Then sure her woe on him muft g4, 
 
 And man muft now be free, 
 If you do plead as Bruce has said, 
 
 Imputed all fiiall be. 
 Unto you men I tell you plain, 
 
 As jury-men appear, 
 And now the woman's cause maintain, 
 
 Then as a judge I'll clear. 
 For as a judge. I'll surely come 
 
 When you the cause do try, 
 And Satan shall receive his doom, 
 
 The woe for him is nigh. 
 So now you see the myftery, 
 
 Took from the woman's name- 
 She brought her woe on man and me, 
 
 And both did bear the blame. 
 Though 'twas not (he, I muft tell ye, 
 
 Did caft the woe on man ; 
 The serpent was condemn'd by flie, 
 
 And there her woe mult come. 
 
 Here-
 
 Here follows the answer of the Spirit to the 
 Eighth Thought. 
 
 The seven past, the law of God appear'd, 
 As with the law the seven I compar'd 
 But mark, the eighth does with the Gospel join, 
 To brin'g the Revelations to mankind ; 
 And as my angels did my servant warn, 
 Just so my Spirit he did not discern 
 Working within him deep in ev'ry thought, 
 For Satan's doom is plac'd in all he wrote : 
 For as the woman he by arts betray'd, 
 The sword of juftice now is on his head, 
 And he's the Cain shall now receive his doom 
 From Abel's blood, and Abel's now in man. 
 For now of Sodom here his thoughts went deep 
 *Tis Satan's doom, the flames on him shall break, 
 For now the myst'ry ev'ry one shall see 
 The woman stands the pillar now for he, 
 That is, I tell you, for to catch him there, 
 The liquid fire shall on his head appear : 
 Jf she for disobeying in one word 
 Became a judgment-pillar of her Lord, 
 Then now my judgments he shall surely feel 
 If e'er he tempts my chosen, bhe doth seal, 
 A ,id now a pillar she shall be for man, 
 Of salt to savour those can judge her hand- 
 Mark we]l the shadow did so strong appear, 
 When fire from heav'n was on Gomorrah there 
 ]Butcan you deem my judgment soseveie 
 To turn the woman in a pillar there, 
 Had 1 not set the type for the mil days 
 That all may see the justness of my ways* 
 For as th'j woman there he did condemn . 
 For disobedience, and to salt fhe came, 
 Then now the woman I'll make salt for all, 
 And Satan now shall find her final fall, 
 ] fhe goes on to disobey like she, 
 Then the same net is surely.laid for he. 
 And now the woman shall like salt appear, 
 She'th seal'd my people as I commanded hef, 
 And jf the tempter ever looks to them, 
 Then Sodom and Gomorrah's now his doom. 
 Was Lot my friend, and did I save tlv m ? 
 Did he preserve my angels that, to him c^. 
 A -id did such judgments to hu wife appeal i? 
 Miflaken man, y tn never knew me hue
 
 I sent that judgment to the woman there, 
 That in the end she may like salt appsar, 
 To t-\\ the tempter he was bound the same, 
 And now like Sodom ha shall feel the rla<ne, 
 If he goes on to tempt those that are seai'd 
 There's nothing done but now muft be reve^l'd. 
 And herein pub.ic (lands the tempter's doom, 
 The woman's freed, and Satan's in her room- 
 If now he revels with the bowls of God, 
 Then Daniel's lions shall to him be shew'd, 
 For to destroy him haft'ly in the den 
 Men I'll preserve that on me now depend: 
 And as the lions he has made of me i. 
 Then no.v as lions they are so become ; 
 Their mouths are shut, and will not wound my fame, 
 Unlefs be those that with the tempter join, 
 And those like him will fall into his den, 
 Like Daniel's lions they will all be slain ; 
 That is, the lions did deftroy them all, 
 And so my lions they on him ihall fall. 
 But aJ his thoughts, when I have all went through, 
 Isaiah's prophecies you all shall know 
 Was deeply written on his mind and heart, 
 And 'twas my thoughts when I for man did smart, 
 That in the end he sure should see my reign, 
 I'd come to conqQ3r, and the fight maintain, 
 Till all his Babels I'd throw to the ground 
 Right is the judgment in the eighth thought found ; 
 And now let four more as right appear, 
 And then the'marriage ring to all I'll clear. 
 
 As in all probability a few certain passages of this 
 work have, from the mystical manner in which they 
 are given, puzzled some of my readers, I shall here 
 add a clear explanation of them. 
 
 The meaning of being sealed to the day of redemp- 
 tion (see page 36 & 37). When I had got printed 
 5000 of my books I was ordered to write to the Rev. 
 Stanhope Bruce, and request him to get printed, 
 book fashion, loco copies of the letters I had sent 
 to him and other worthy divines and spiritual good 
 
 O men,
 
 ( 54 ) 
 
 men. Which being done, I was ordered to take one 
 of each of my books, and one of his (which was 
 the perfect obedience of man and woman), and seal 
 them together ; and it was said to me, this is the 
 book that is sealed for man's redemption* There- 
 fore not all the powers of earth and hell shall pre- 
 vail against those that believe ; for the book is seal- 
 ed in heaven and earth ; and what is bound on earth 
 is bound in heaven; and Satan is bound by man on 
 earth, and it is said to me he is bound in heaven. 
 But these are mysteries concealed from the public 
 till the time my wriiings are proved. 
 
 Now I shall inform my readers why the Lord 
 permitted seven men to come down, and no more, 
 to fulfil the law. By the seven stars are meant the 
 seven Spirits of God in seven men ; for the Spirit of 
 the Lord is but one spirit. , The five wise virgins in 
 the New Testament, (which alludes to the five 
 Evangelists) being joined to the aforesaid seven 
 men, make the twelve spoken of in the Revelations 
 to bring in the twelve tribes of Israel. 
 
 Some men having written to me, that they are 
 called of God to be chosen with me, I think prope- 
 to tell them here, that I know them not: None 
 are chosen with me, but such as are revealed to 
 me. And I sm sorry to say many false prophets 
 and false Christs are risen up in the world, for I 
 have heard them, and have their letters to testify 
 against them, wherein they assert, that they are 
 the Saviours of the world; so that the Gospel 
 of Christ is fulfilling every way, and the end is 
 at hand. But let no man judge himself the 
 Saviour of the world. The plan of salvation was 
 laid at the creation, and no prophet can arise but 
 
 what
 
 ( ss ) 
 
 what is spoken of in holy writ. A prophet like 
 Jonah was to appear, and he has appeared in Mr. 
 Bothers, and therefore our Saviour said, " I was 
 sick and in prison, and ye visited me not." 
 
 And Joel's words muft firft comt true 
 
 Before I make an end> 
 The Revelations to your view 
 
 Must make the learned bend. 
 The woman clothed with the son 
 
 You'll find must first appear, 
 The Marriage of the Lamb must come, 
 
 My seal it muft appear. 
 All this is done by my command, 
 
 Then judge your summer nigh, 
 For my elert shall ever stand, 
 
 And Abba, Fathe"r, cry. 
 'Tis spoke of tike, let all men see, 
 
 That such one must arise; 
 So if your bibles plain you see, 
 
 There's none can blind your eyes. 
 For what impostor can take place, 
 
 'f uiseJy you discern ? 
 *Tis but a dark benighted race, 
 
 That fools can never harm. 
 
 Now I am come to the end, I shall clear up the 
 beginning, to prevent my readers from stumbling, 
 as I did when I was told that the harvest should be 
 hurt, as they had brought a burthen on me it 
 should fall on the land. I then thought within 
 myself, will the Lord afflict a whole nation for the 
 sake of a few. But I v^i#n^vvered, thou knowest 
 not what man is; the hearts of all men-are known , 
 unto me, and were thy writings public, thousands 
 would mock as they do, for nothing but judgments -t 
 will awaken your land. The truth of this I soon 
 found to follow as soon as my writings \vere put in 
 print. So let no one say, afflictions came lor a 
 
 few,
 
 ( 56 ) 
 
 few, they came as the jiearts of most men were 
 alike. And now I shall inform my readers what 
 part of my writings have been fulfilled since I 
 began to publish in 1801, and what are hasten- 
 ing on. 
 
 FULFILLED. 
 See Page i& 
 
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 60 
 
 84 
 
 94 
 
 126 
 
 141 
 
 161 
 162 
 
 197 
 200 
 
 HASTENING ON 
 See Page 8 
 27 
 29 
 
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 46 
 
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 87 
 
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 l6o 
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 The last eight pages of the Book of Letters are 
 hastening on. The prophecies in that book are 
 deeper than any man can imagine. 
 
 JOANNA SOUTHCOTT. 
 
 Entered at the Stamp Office, Somerset Place, London. 
 
 Sold at Mr. SYMONS'S, Gandy's-lane, Exeter ; and by Mr. ELIAS 
 JAMESON FIELD, No. 3, Broad-Court, Long- Acre, London. 
 
 G. Floyde, f rimer, High-street, Exeter.
 
 THE 
 
 Strange Ejfefts of Faith : 
 
 BEING 
 
 A CONTINUATION 
 
 OF 
 
 JOANNA SOUTHCOTT's PROPHECIES 
 
 OF THINGS WHICH ARE TO COME. 
 
 I SHALL now anfwer for myfelf to the public; as I 
 have Tent printed letters throughout the kingdom 
 by divine command. I anfwer for myfelf, that I have 
 written no cunningly devifed fable, nor have built my 
 faith on a fandy foundation: but I mud entreat my 
 readers to fearch the fcriptures; for in them, ye 
 think ye have eternal life : for the fe are they which 
 teftifyofme, or i'ome fuck one to ? rife before man's 
 redemption can ever come. The fpint and the bride 
 mud come. Then whofoever will, may come, and 
 take of the waters of life freely. But here my readers 
 Avill fay, I ha-ve begun at the Revelations, and have 
 ended at Genjfai. i^mr% jHm^iuft go back with your 
 bibles, if yop*% ill ever trace the divine footfteps of the 
 Lordfor his footfteps have bee^i hid in the great 
 deep, and his paths paft man's finding out I am Al- 
 pha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the firft 
 and the laft. The Lord (aid he would make man in 
 his own image j and he faid, it was not good for the 
 man to be alone. I will make an helpmate for him. 
 Now let U3 reafon together faith the Lord; but O man 
 
 A where
 
 ( 58 ) 
 
 where is thy reafon, if I Am the fir/I I faid at firft. It 
 was not good for the man to be alone ; and made the 
 woman to be his helpmate to complete his happinefs. 
 Now if I am the la/I, (he muft complete it at laft. 
 What I 'laid at firft I muft complete at laft. But 
 know, fatan came after me at firli, and as he now 
 Hands I was the beginning, and fatan is the ending, if 
 I flop here; then how can I be the fir/I and the la/I; 
 if I do not accomplifh at laft what I faid at firft ? Now 
 here is the wifdom of the wife men perifhed, and the 
 underftanding of the prudent men hid. My word at 
 firft, was, it was not good for the man to be alone. 
 My word at laft is now the fame. The man is evil 
 here alone. The pride of man afpires to be a god. 
 
 " Too plain I fee as he'th his Maker's form, 
 They judg'd my honour all their own ; 
 If I had fo ordain'd my plan, 
 To give my wifdom all to man. 
 Your fpints you do little know, 
 S.;,an would fwell your pride below ; 
 .But as the woman doth appear, 
 She never was a favloin here. 
 Nor in my bibie faid to be, 
 Then here you ail may honour me ; 
 To fay the woman, now is good, 
 Becaufe in her the light has flood ; 
 Tho' weak as water fhe appears, 
 The fpirit of the Lord is here. 
 And on. the water now doth move. 
 That all mankind may know my love ; 
 For I'll divide the day from ni;.jht, 
 Bring every myflery to your fight." 
 
 And now I fhall give you a clear prophecy from 
 the bible, placed backward, as the fun went backward 
 for Hezechiah, when he was pronounced to die, but 
 when the Lord promifed to prolong his life, it was by 
 the fign of the fun going backward ten degrees. Now 
 when the Lord giveth a newnefs of life to man, the 
 bible muft be placed backward, the fame, to {hew you 
 
 he
 
 ( 59 } 
 
 he hath renewed his covenant with you, and raifed you 
 from death unto life, by as pleafant and fweet a fruit 
 as the figs were when applied to Hezechiah, and the 
 Lord added to his life fifteen years, after he "was pro- 
 nounced to die. And when the-bible goeth backward, 
 then the Lord will add to man all the promifes in the 
 bible which I have fet before you and know that his 
 promifes are yea and amen. Then is it not your pri- 
 vilege to plead them? fo the following lines are from 
 the bibie, and I fhall give you the explanation of them 
 in part, and then judge for yourfelves. 
 
 " The fpirit and the bride fay, come : and let him 
 that heareth. fay, come, and let him that is athirft, 
 come." " For the marriage of the lamb is come, and 
 his wife hath made herfclf ready." <; Thy Maker is 
 thy hufband, the Lord of Holts is his name, and thy 
 Redeemer the holy one of Ifracl; the God of the whole 
 earth fhall he be called for the Lord has called thee 
 as a woman for fa ken ; and grieved in fpirit, and a wife 
 of youth; when thou waft rcfufed faith thy God, and 
 all thy children fhall be taught of the Lord, and great 
 fhall be the peace of thy children; in righteoufnefs 
 fhalt thou be eftablifhed- Thou fhalt be far from op- 
 preflion, for thou fhalt not fear; and from terror, for it 
 fhalt not come near thee. Behold, they fhall furely 
 gather together, but not by me. Whofoever fhall 
 gather together againft thee, fhall fall for thy fake." 
 
 4; In forrow thou {halt bring forth thy children: thy 
 defire fhall be to thy hufband, and he fhall rule over 
 thce." " No weapon that is formed againfl thee fhall 
 profpcr : and every tongue that fhall rife againft thee 
 in judgment thou fhalt condemn. This is the heritage 
 of the fervant of the Lord. And their righteoufnefs 
 is of me, faith the Lord.' 5 " I will rJut enmity be- 
 tween her feed and thy feed, and it fhall bruife thy 
 head." ii I Jefus fent my angel to teftify unto you 
 thefe things in the churches. I am the root and o'fF- 
 fpring of David, and the bright, and the morning ftar." 
 
 A 2 "I
 
 ( 60 ) 
 
 " I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the 
 end, the firft and the laft." " Blefled are they who 
 do his commandments, that they may have right to the 
 tree of life." " For the mountains mail depart, and 
 the hills be moved; but my kindnefs (hall not depart 
 from thee: neither (hall the covenant of my peace be 
 moved, faith the Lord, that hath rnercy on thee. O 
 thou afflicted, to fled with tempeft, and not comforted. 
 Behold, I will lay thy {tones with fair colours and lay 
 thy foundations with fapphires and I will make thy 
 windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles and 
 all thy borders of pleafant flone^." " A garden en- 
 clofCjd is my filter; my fpoufe: a fpring fliut up, a 
 fountain fealed, a fountain of gardens, a well of living 
 waters: and ftreams from Labanon. Awake, O north 
 wind, and come: thou fouth blow upon my garden, 
 that the fpices thereof may flow out: let my beloved 
 come into' his garden, and eat his pleafant fruits." 
 "Who is this that cometh up from the wildernefs, 
 leaning upon her beloved? fet me as a feal upon thy 
 heart; and as a feal upon thy arm." ct For lo! the 
 winter is paft, the rain is over and gone, the flowers 
 ^ppeaf upon the earth, the time of the fmging of birds 
 is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our 
 land." " The fig-tree putteth forth her green figs, 
 and the vines with the tender grape give a good fmell. 
 Arilc, my love, my fair one. and come away. Oh! 
 my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the (e- 
 crct places of the flairs; let me fee thy countenance: 
 let me hear thy voice; for fwcct is thy voice, and thy 
 countenance is comely. Take us, the foxes, the little 
 foxes, that fpoil the vines: for our vines have tender 
 grapes. My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feed- 
 eth among the lillies." " The law of the wife is a 
 fountain of life, to depart from the fnarcs of. death." 
 " in the fear of the Lord is ftrong confidence; and his 
 children fhall have a place of refuge. The fear of the 
 Lord is a fountain of life to depart from the fnares of 
 
 death
 
 death. Wifdom refteth in the heart of him that hath 
 understanding: but that which is in the midft of fools 
 is made known. Righfeoufnefs exalteth a nation: but 
 fin is a reproach to any people. Therefore the un- 
 godly fiiall not (land in judgment: nor iinners in the 
 congregation of the righteous, for the Lord knoweth 
 the way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly 
 ihall perifli. Kils the fon left he be angry, and ye pe- 
 rim from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a lit- 
 tle ; blefied are all they that put their truft in him I 
 will declare the decree; the Lord hath faid unto me, 
 Thou art my fon, this day have I begotten thee. Aik 
 of me, and I will give thee the heathen for thy inheri- 
 tance, and the uttermoft parts of the earth for thy poffef- 
 iion: fojourn in the land, and I will be with thee. and 
 will blefs thee: for unto thee, and unto thy feed I will 
 give all thefe countries: and 1 willperform the oath 
 \vhich I {'ware unto Abraham thy father: and I will 
 make thy feed to multiply as the ftars of heaven, 
 and will give unto thy feed all thefe countries: and in 
 thy feed mall all the nations of the earth be blefied: 
 becaufe that Abraham obeyed my voice: and kept 
 my charge, my commandments, my ftatutes, and my 
 laws. And God faid, let us make man in our owa 
 image, after our likenefs: and let them have dominion 
 over the fifh of the lea, and over the fowl of the air, 
 and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over 
 every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth 
 fo God created man in his own image: in the image 
 of God created he him, male and female, created he 
 them: and l.od blefTed them, and God faid unto them, 
 , be fruitful and multiply, and replenifh the earth, and 
 fubdue ir, and have dominion over the fid of the fea, 
 and over the fowl of the air, and over every living 
 thing that moveih upon the earth. And there (hall 
 be no more curie: but the throne of God, and of the 
 Lamb (hall be in it: and his fervants ihall ferve him: 
 and they {hall fee his face; ana his name Ihall be in 
 
 their
 
 (heir foreheads. And he faid unto me thefe fayingsare 
 faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy" pro- 
 phets fent his angel to Ihew unto his fervants the things 
 which muft {hortly be done. Behold, I come quick- 
 ly : blefled is he, that keepeth the fay ings of the pro- 
 phecy of this book. And he (hewed me a pure river 
 of water of life, clear ascryftal, procr eding out of the 
 throne of God, and of the Lamb: in the mid ft of the 
 ilreet of it, and on either fide of the river was there the 
 tree of life, which hath twelve manner of fruits, and 
 yielded her fruit every month, and the leaves of 
 the trees were for the healing of the nations. And 
 he that fat upon the throne, faid, behold, I make all 
 things new. And he faid unto me, write, for thefe 
 words are true and faithful and he faid uiao 
 me, it is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the b- gin- 
 ning and the end. I will give unto him that is athir it of 
 the fountain of the water of life freely he that over- 
 cometh (hall inherit ail thing?: and I will be his God, 
 and he fhall be my fon. And I faw an angel come 
 down from heaven, having the key of the bottomlcfs 
 pit, and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold 
 on the dragon, that old ferpcnt, which is the devil, and 
 fatan, and bound him a thoufand years; and catt him 
 into the bottomlefs pit, and (hut him up, and let a feal 
 upon him, that he fhoutd deceive the nations no more 
 til! the thoufand years mould be fulfilled. And I faw 
 heaven opened, and behold, a white borfe, and he that 
 i'at upon him was called faithful and true: and in 
 ri-;htconlhc(s he doth judge and make war. His eyes 
 were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many 
 crowns ; and he had a name written that no man knew, 
 but IK* himfclfj and he was clothed with a vefture 
 dipped in !;Un d, and his name is called the word of 
 Co;]. And there appeared a great wonder in heaven, 
 a woman clothed vith the fun, and the moon, underher 
 (-ft. and upon herhcad^a crown oftwclvc {tars. And 
 Ihe being \\ith child, cried, travailing in binh, and 
 p-.i*.i"d to be delivered. And I heard a loud voice, 
 
 faying
 
 ( 63 ) 
 
 faying in heaven, now is come falvation and flrengtb, 
 and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his 
 Chrift: for the accufer of our brethren is call down, 
 which accufed them before our God day and night, 
 and they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, 
 and by the word of their teflimony. And they that 
 dwell upon the earth fhall rejoice over them, and make 
 merry, and lhall fend gifts one to another ; becaufe 
 thefe two prophets tormented them who dwelt upon 
 the earth. And after three days and a half, the fpirit 
 of life from God entered into them, and they flood 
 upon their feet, and great fear fell upon them who faw 
 them. And hath made us kings and prielts unto God 
 and his Father to. him be glory and dominion for 
 ever and ever, amen. And when thefe things begin 
 to come to pa is, then look up, and lift up your heads, 
 for your redemption draweth m_h. And he fwallow- 
 ed up death in victory, and the Lord God (hall wipe 
 away tears from off all faces, and the rebuke of his 
 people lhall he take away from off all the earth; for 
 the Lord hath fpoken it, and it fhall be faid in that 
 day; lo! this is our God: we have waited for him, . 
 and he will fave us : this is the Lord, we have waited 
 for him : we will be glad, and rejoice in his falvation. 
 Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which 
 kecpeth the truth may enter in. Thou wiit keep him 
 in perfetl peace, whofe mind is (layed on Thee, be- 
 caufe he trufteth in Thee. And the key of the houfe 
 of David will I lay upon his fhoulder. So he fhall 
 open, and none fhall fliut; and he fhall fhut, and none 
 fhall open. And I will fatten him as a nail in a fure 
 place, and he fhail be for a glorious Throne to his fa- 
 ther's houfe. And it fhall come to pafs, in the day 
 that the Lord fliall give thee relt from thy forrow, and 
 from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein 
 thou was made to fsrve. Therefore with.joy fliall yc 
 draw water out of the wells of lalvaiion. And in that 
 day fhal] ye lay, praife the Lord, call upon his name, 
 
 declare
 
 f 64 ) 
 
 declare his doings among the people, make mention 
 that his name is exalted. The wolf alfo fhall dwell 
 with the lamb, and the leopard mail lie down with the 
 kid and the calfj and the young lion, and the falling 
 together, and a little child'ihall lead them. The rem- 
 nant mall return, even the remnant of Jacob unto the 
 mighty God: for he faith, Are not my Princes, alto- 
 gether Kings? Bind up the teftimony : feal the law 
 among my difciples. Behold I and the children whom 
 the Lord hath given me are for figns and for wonders 
 in Ifrael. Afk thee a fign of the Lord thy God; aik 
 it either in the depth, or in the height above. They 
 that truft in the Lord mall be as mount Zion ; which 
 cannot be removed, but abideth for ever; as the 
 mountains are round about Jerufalem ; fo the Lord is 
 round about his people from henceforth, even for 
 ever. For the rod of the wicked fhall not reft upon 
 the lot of the righteous. A/id the elders of Jabefh 
 faid unto him, give us f even days refpite, that we may 
 fend meffengers unto all the coafts of Ifrael, and then 
 if there be no man tofavcus we will come out to thee. 
 And Rebecca took goodly raiment of her cldeft fan 
 'Efau, which were with her in the houfe, and put them 
 upon Jacob her younger fon. And I will make of 
 thee a great nation, and will blcfs thee, and make thy 
 name great, and thou fhalt be a blefling: and I will 
 blefs them that blefs thee, and curfe him that curfeth 
 thee; and in thee fhall all families of the earth be 
 blefled. And the Lord God faid; it is not good that 
 the man mould be alone, I will make him an help- 
 ir.ate for him, And the Loid God caufcd a deep flcep 
 to fall upon Adam, and he flcpt, and he took one of his 
 ribs, and ciofed up the flefh inftead thereof; and the 
 rib which the Lord God had taken from man nlade he 
 a woman. And the fpirit of God moved upon the 
 face of the waters and God faid, let there be light, 
 and there was light and God faw the light that it was 
 good. I have given my readers ths prophecies of the 
 
 bible,
 
 Bible, as I was ordered to fulfil the fcripturcs, to begin 
 with the laft, and to bring it back to the tirtt, that the 
 firft may be lalt, and the lalt may befirlt: and {peak 
 from the parable of the labourers being called into 
 the vineyard, at the eleventh hour to receive equal with 
 th?m wh? have born the' burthen and the heat of the 
 day ; and here is the lad hour for man. The fir (I man, 
 Adam, had every promife made him to be in the like- 
 nefs of his Creator. Mal^ and female created HE them' 
 at the time the heavens had fuffered violence, and 
 man hath been purfued by violence ever fmce the 
 creation. Men have ufed violence one with another, 
 as the fallen angels did in heaven before they were 
 caft out; and the promife was made to the faithful that 
 they mould fight and overcome on earth, as the angels 
 did in heaven. Now to gain this promife, men have 
 born the burthen and heat of men's anger: witnels 
 all the prophets, apoftles and martyrs what they fuf- 
 fered from the violence of men. Thus heaven and 
 earth have fuffered violence, and in the likenefs of 
 men I came down to dwell amonglt them : And in 
 their likenefs I died with them. 
 
 And fo far is the likenefs of man and ME 
 And heav'n and earth {hall now agree; 
 For in man's likenefs I'll appear, 
 At firft the heavens I did clear ; , 
 
 And caft the rebel from my throne, 
 And in my likenefs foon V.vas known: 
 The earth all in confulion flood, 
 Tho' all things I pronounced good; 
 As good in heaven did all appear > 
 But now the myfteries I (hall clear. 
 Proud Lucifer, from heaven's high throne, 
 Judg'd he had power like my own ; 
 And fo in heaven he did fwell, 
 And made the angels to rebel, 
 And fo the tumult it went on ; 
 Xh" wars \vtth niiiTU are unknown. 
 Before I caft the rebel down,' 
 Ua eafih the likcneis ioou was found; 
 
 B And
 
 ( 66 ) 
 
 And fo on earth it hath gone on, 
 As it in heav'n at firll begun. 
 But now your privilege you may fee, 
 Awake, mankind, and act like me; 
 To caft the rebel from your thro 
 And then the earth is all your own. 
 (, So in my likenefs now appear, 
 
 And then the myfteries I (hall clear. 
 "When you begin to aftlike me 
 In my perfection ail flia.ll fee: 
 Your kingdom mall in glory fcurfr, 
 When you the rebel here have caft ; 
 For now you fee the journey's end, 
 Ip hcav'n the rebel I made bend ; 
 And caft him headlong from my throne, 
 And then in peace, to all be 't known, 
 P^ifl the heav'ns alone poflefs, 
 And now my likenefs I'll place this : 
 _/ Let men, as Gods, now boldly {land,-^L 
 If they this earth will now command; 
 Then now as Gods they mult appear, 
 And boldly tell the Scrpenthere,^^ _~ 
 That earth was never made lor he, 
 And with the woman all agree. "~ 
 It was for man the earth was made, _ 
 When the foundation hril was laid ; 
 
 And now the earth you've all gone 
 Survey vour lands, and claim your 
 
 And fee the land marks, how they're ^lac'd, 
 
 And now arife, ye fallen race. 
 i__ And fay, as Gods we now {hall be 
 ' Thou ipok'ft the truth, we'll conquer thce , 
 
 For in God's likenefs we'll appear, 
 
 Our Saviour died our guilt to clear ; 
 
 Theo now HIS promife v.-e do 
 
 He made the woman at the time ; _ 
 That we mould furely bruife thy head", 
 And now that promife is our plfad_' L ____ 
 '1 hat we may have this earth our owr, 
 1 ike God, thy power for to unthrone; 
 And in his likenefs to appear, 
 We do not want thy pretence here, 
 For to direr! us what to do, 
 Our God, our God, we wiih to know ; 
 And HIM to fervc. and to obey, 
 We fee the lanv: -arks, how they lay. 
 . I hat we are liken'd to our God, 
 By every footllep we have trod. 
 
 Chrift
 
 . .. 
 
 for us. jipd we^for mm, 
 AnTplain the likenefs now'is feen. 
 Thert as the likenefs doth appear, 
 Our God for us muft conquer here ; 
 By every promife HE hath made, 
 We fee the land marks how they're laid. 
 
 The following words were from myfelf, 4 burfting 
 into tears and thankfulnefs at the unbounded good- 
 nefs of God, for the clear manifeftation of his love to 
 man. 
 
 41 Glory", honor, praife and power, 
 " Be unto ihe Lamb for ever, 
 " For thou'rt worthy of a God, 
 To have the power and tife the rod. 
 
 The anfwer of the fpirit to thefe words: 
 
 Then now let all men fay the fame, 
 
 And they fhall know their Maker's name ; 
 
 That in my likenefs they appear, 
 
 For in the woman I (land here: 
 
 So with the woman let them (land, 
 
 And every promife now command, 
 
 That I have placed before them all, 
 
 For fo my kingdom now {hall fall ; 
 
 And to the faithful muft appear, 
 
 For every myftery I fliall clear, 
 
 And place them in the fcven here. 
 
 It is the Mother and the Son, 
 
 And Abel's vengeance now muft come; 
 
 And Abraham's promife mull appear, 
 
 And Ifaac next the truth fee clear; 
 
 And Jacob's princes n-ow become, 
 
 And Mofes gain the promis'd land; 
 
 And Hezekiah muft be found 
 
 To pray for life, and muft abound 
 
 To raife a fallen David's throne : 
 
 Then all thefe land marks are your 
 
 For I have brought it back to man, 
 
 That in my likenefs you may ftarui ; 
 
 And in my likenefs to appear, 
 
 And then purfue your journey here. 
 
 As I have brought it back to man, 
 
 How in my likenefs all do fland ; 
 
 The woman in her hufband's room, 
 
 Then, Lucifer, now, know thy doom, 
 
 B 2 This
 
 ( 68 ) 
 
 This fubject I fhall drop for the preterit, and de- 
 fer the farther explanation of it till another time, and 
 infert a letter that I fent to a gentleman in London, 
 on 2Oth Oftober, 1801. 
 
 SIR, Exftcr, 10th OB. 1801, 
 
 I mud beg to inform you, you judge too highly of 
 rrie and Mr. Brothers. The name of the bride, ami 
 the name of Mr. Brothers lead you into'rnittakcn no- 
 tions. Chriit is the bridegroom, believers are the 
 brides; but the fhadow is to one, the fubftanpe to 
 all. It is placed in the Bible, " the bride, the Lamb's 
 wife, hath made herfelf ready ;" that means, by per- 
 fect obedienee to the commands of the Lord, me is 
 ready to declare what is his righteous \vill con- 
 cerning men: That the marriage of the Lamb is come 
 
 C5 
 
 to all that come unto him; that he \\ill join all na- 
 tions and kindreds together as the heart of one 
 man. For the Lord \vill not leave till he be the 
 denre of every nation. You little think what is be- 
 fore you, nor how true my writings have been this 
 year; but another year will convince you my pro- 
 phecies will come on faft. The name of Mr. Brothers 
 {tumbles himfelf and all men. Chrift is the Prince, 
 the King of kings, that \vill rule and reign in every 
 heart, and all believers are his brothers; and when the 
 Lord brings in his glorious kingdom, he will make his 
 brothers kings and princes unto God : for his friends 
 are his brothers; and for your fakes Mr. Brothers has 
 fuffered imprifonment, to mew what his brethren hav v e 
 fuffered for the fake of Chriit, in Mr. Brothers and me. 
 There is a great myttery in his having been in prifon 
 near feven years; and I have fufr'ered imprifonment 
 in mind and heart, in temptation and perfecution, in 
 fbrrows more than pen can paint, or heart conceive, 
 lor near ten years. 
 
 So
 
 So now you fee a myftery, 
 
 The man and woman piac'd, 
 And bound as prifoners for to be, 
 
 And ev'ry furrow tafte. 
 And to the fall this calls you all 
 
 A myftery deep for man : 
 Which at the time, the nations all, 
 
 In forrow feem'd to ftand. 
 Tumult and war abroad did appear; 
 
 DiflreiFes were at home. 
 And Zion's travails muft be clear. 
 
 When he and I did groan. 
 Encom'pafs'd round with ev'ry found, 
 
 By man that is unjuft: 
 They faid fhe fame, my fenfes gone, 
 
 And both alike were phic'd. 
 But foon you'll fee a myftery, 
 
 When heaven frees our chains. 
 Then your dehv 'ranee you will fee, 
 
 That never felt cur pain. 
 In heart and mind, what did we find! 
 
 Temptations firong within, 
 Encompafs'd round wuh ev'ry found, 
 
 And fore afflictions feen. 
 What we went through you do not knew : 
 
 But this you do difcern 
 Becaufe the prifon's in your view, 
 
 Which keeps the man from harm. 
 While I without, fo full of doubt, 
 
 Feel ev'ry travail pain 
 
 Of jealoufy and mifery, 
 
 While faith and fear remain. 
 Left to go on, and ftumble men ; 
 
 Their fenfes all feem loft: 
 They know not who does guide my hand; 
 
 Nor can their wifdom bcaft 
 That they cou'd f;e as clear as me, 
 
 Of what was haft'ning on : 
 Nor how their bows now broken be; 
 
 The wife men are become 
 To mifs their mark, and in the dark, 
 
 They'll be benighted foon; 
 And. like the blind, the wail can't find * 
 
 They're fun-clouded at noon. f 
 
 If they can't fee the myfteiy. 
 
 To (hivers all are broke, 
 And, like the clock, ftrike fixty three, 
 
 And mifs in every flroke. For 

 
 For thirty one it ftruck at ten, 
 
 And thirteen at eleven : 
 But when it to the middle eamc, 
 
 Two ftrokes alone were givert. 
 So it began, and fo went on, 
 
 With random work all round ; 
 And when unto the four it came, 
 
 Full fixty flrokes were feund. 
 So by the clock, from every ftroke, 
 
 No man could judge the hour, 
 And fo to men it now is come, 
 
 It's all beyond their power. 
 For random work did all begin, 
 
 And random work will end ; 
 And you will fee a myflery, 
 
 In all that I have penn'd. 
 And every line you'll fine goes deep, 
 
 To Olivers all are broke, 
 For like the clock the wife men fpeak^ 
 
 And mifs in every ftroke. 
 So if the hour you wifh to know, 
 
 You rnuft look to the dial ; 
 For like the ftroke the words did flow'j 
 
 And every word did fail. 
 As I have faid, they were mifled, 
 
 As Ahab's prophets were, 
 To tell the king for to go on 
 
 In fuch a random war. 
 But for the dial, it did not fail, 
 
 But every hour did keep ; 
 So all might fee, that look d at it, 
 
 That random* it did fpeak. 
 Now I'll explain what this doth mean ; 
 
 The church clock it came from, 
 That regular in hours went, 
 
 But ev'ry hour ftruck wrong. 
 So from the clock, and from the ftroke, 
 
 I'll fully anfwer here ; 
 Ihe dial was true, bring to your view, 
 
 The Bible does not err. 
 
 f To run their Bibles fo, 
 That every word they fpeak is wrong, 
 . The truth from none you know. 
 .Tor every hour 's beyond their power, 
 
 For man to fpeak aright ; 
 Unlefs it's by the Spirit's power, 
 To bring it to their fight. 
 
 * The clock ftruck at random.
 
 Then to the Bible you muft look, 
 
 To fee how all is plac'd; 
 The man the truth he did forfake, 
 
 And did his Lord difgrace ; s 
 
 To blame the partner of his foul, 
 
 And caft the blame on Heav'n : 
 The Serpent muft been fcreen'd from all, 
 
 Had not her word been given. 
 And now, alone, (lie makes her moan, 
 
 And does for vengeance call, 
 For men to free her mifery, 
 
 And break the bonds for all. 
 As man was bound, as fhe was found 
 
 For to bring on his guilt, 
 But (lie is free a myftery 
 
 No prifon fhe has felt. 
 Becaufe no blame (he <:aft on man, 
 
 Nor did her Maker blame ; 
 'Twas but the Serpent (he condemn'd, 
 
 And now fhe cries the fame. 
 So how can {he in prifon be ? 
 
 Will you the woman caft ? 
 And fay the Serpent now you'll free, 
 
 And let his malice burft ? 
 Upon you all it fure muft fall, 
 
 To ftrike the woman dead ; 
 Then with the Devil you muft fall, 
 
 No advocate to plead. 
 For if you (land, be 't known to man, 
 
 The woman muft you free ; 
 And Chrift in her muft fure be found, 
 
 In freedom left for man. 
 , For in the fall, I tell you all., 
 
 She no man did condemn. 
 When on her head the blame was laid, 
 
 The Serpent did appear ; 
 And on his head the blame fhe laid, 
 
 Will you condemn her here ? 
 Then Satan he, a man muft be, 
 
 Much ftronger than at firft, 
 And there's no way you can be fcreen'ti ; 
 
 Your advocate is loft. 
 
 Here I (hall tell you die myftery of the clock. I 
 was at Sowton, near Exeter. I was there one day in 
 1796, and took notice of the church clock, how it 
 (truck. At ten it (truck thirty-one at eleven it itruck 
 thirteen at t \velve it ilruck two at three it flruck 
 
 one
 
 ( 72 ) ' 
 
 one at four it ftruck fixty at five it ftruck fixty- 
 tbree and at eight (they fay) it ftruck forty; but I 
 cannot remember every hour. It was then deeply 
 explained to me as a type of the nation. I am, &c. 
 
 JOANNA SOUTHCOTT. 
 
 Having received letters from many different men, 
 that they are the gods of the earth, and the Lord will 
 reveal himfelf to no other: their letters were anfwer- 
 ed to me in the following manner. Now I ihall anfwer 
 thee and all mankind. They fhall know I am lov- 
 ing unto every one, but to ftrip man of the pride, that 
 the fallen angels had, I took a bone from him in Para- 
 dife to preferve him at laft And therefore man alone 
 is. imperfect; then how can an imperfecl man afpirc to 
 .perfection ? I tell thee there is no perfection in man, and 
 had he been made the perfect man alone without the 
 woman, Satan would have fwelled him with as great a 
 pride, as he did the fallen angels; and men and devils 
 would have perifhed together: for men would afpire 
 to be gods by the arts of Satan therefore the bone 
 that I took from man, and the tree of life which I pre- 
 ferved for man, fhall be for his prefervation at laft. 
 And all men fhall know the fame hand that brought him 
 the evil fruit, fhall bring him the good fruit and as a 
 child is nourifhed by his mother's milk: fo ye muft 
 become as new-born babes to defire the fincere milk 
 of the word, that ye may grow thereby and now all 
 men fhall know thefmccrc milk of the word muft come 
 from the woman, that no man may boaft. But when 
 ye are come to ftrongcr years, then will the fcriptures 
 be opened to your view. 
 
 For then you all will fee the winr. 
 That I'm the roor, and thou'rt the vine; 
 And then the wine mud all appear, 
 And MOW the luvftcrtes I Oiull C!C;T. 
 Man wtia his Maker cLa contend, 
 But now 'us drawing i> an end, 
 That I (hall fo contend 'with ail, 
 And prove to man I knew his fall. 
 
 without
 
 ( 73 ) y 
 
 Without the woman would appear, +'^ 
 
 And now without the womanjiere, 
 
 Do men as gods afpire to he, 
 
 And fay the knowledge of the tree 
 
 Is furely placed in them alone, 
 
 And they as gods my mind have known, 
 
 Mert how as gods they may appear, 
 
 But I (hall fully infwerhere; 
 
 That they as gods fhall never come, 
 
 Till they are joined to thtir bone ; 
 
 And with the woman do agree 
 
 To take the fruit held out by {he ; 
 
 And then I'll join them to the vine, 
 
 And all (Hall know the root is mine ; 
 
 Who took the partner from my heart, 
 
 As I at firft the man did partj 
 
 To take from him one fmgle bone, 
 
 To be his helpmate then alone. 
 
 But as his helpmate he did blame, 
 
 By her I'll put rriankind to fhame; 
 
 And as his rival will appear: 
 
 I died the woman's guilt to clear. 
 
 And nov> in her I'll clear the whole, 
 
 And bring all to the gofpel pole. 
 
 So let the barren womb appear, 
 
 That I pronounc'd fo blefledhere: 
 
 And fee the paps that ne'er gave fuck 4 
 
 Sft full of every perfecl milk, 
 
 And perfeft it (hall now appear; 
 
 For all my gofpel now I'll clear; 
 
 As indignation I did fee, 
 
 In my difciples for to be; 
 
 To fee the woman on my head, 
 
 Give me fuch honour as {he laid: 
 
 So on my head me doth appear, 
 
 And honour to me file brings here: 
 
 Which men's proud hearts cannot approve, 
 
 Becaufe yourfelves too much you love, 
 
 And all my love you have forgot, 
 
 When I your ranfom dearly bought, 
 
 When hailed to the curled tree 
 
 Appear, vain man, and anfwer me, 
 
 How you can ftand without your bone? s 
 
 You fay you're gods, aftd gods alone, , ,/} / 
 
 Then gods alone appear to be, f\ 
 
 But never afk an help from me; J**f 
 
 For I fhall never help you here, * 
 
 But in your helpmate all I'll clear ; 
 
 C Secaufs
 
 ( 74 ) 
 
 Becaufe my ways- are not like man, 
 You know not how I've laid my plan ', 
 For your redemption to appear 
 And prove my wifdom did not err. 
 
 "When I the woman fir ft did form, 
 
 Though man too foon my ways did fcorr. 
 
 And now vain men, I'll fcorn you all, 
 
 That now defpife the woman's call ; 
 
 For you fhall find I'm not like man, 
 
 For to defpife my father's plan : 
 
 But in the woman I'll appear, 
 
 And your redemption fo I'll clear. 
 
 Then at the head I now muft ftand, 
 
 The fecond Adam now to man. 
 
 And bring the partner from my fide. 
 
 Whom I have pronounc'd to be the 
 
 That over her I now do rule, 
 
 And man muft judge his god a fool ; 
 
 To let a woman thus appear, 
 
 In wifdom man can never clear, N 
 
 In arguments for to confound, 
 
 That 'tis not like the heavenly found, 
 
 In every promife made at firft, 
 
 And here your happinefs muft burft. 
 
 For now in Adam I do Sand, 
 
 But as a God, and not as man, 
 
 Though in your iikenefs I appear, 
 
 But now the hker.eis I (hall clear; 
 
 For now I'll cleave unto the bride. 
 
 As it by Adam was applied ; 
 
 And to the bride I'll furely cleave, 
 
 Father and motner now I'll leave ; 
 
 For to complete my father's wii!. 
 
 The woman (hall the ferpoct chill ; 
 
 For I in her will ftrong appear, 
 
 And all her children llrong I'll cir 
 
 And vou fhall find I am more than 
 
 Then how fliall fatari foil her hand, 
 
 Or dare to pluck her h.ind from me, 
 
 And now your weaknefs you may fee ; 
 
 That you could never keep the bride, 
 
 From fatan's arts that were applied ; 
 
 But faid flic did you overcome, 
 
 Then new I'll turn it back on man ; 
 
 For (he {hall overcome the whole, 
 
 As 1 in power o'er her do rule; 
 
 As her defire in me is plac'd, 
 I'll nufwcr now the human race, 
 -And let thy words in print to ftand, 
 And. ien I'll boldly^ anfwcr man ; Tha.: 

 
 ( 75 ) . 
 
 ' y 
 
 That thy define is all to me, 
 
 And I am the rival all fhall fee; / / ^ 
 
 That is in power to keep the bride, & f , 
 
 And throw rny Bible open wide; ^ &1 fry l+* c " 
 
 Which I {hall do now by her hand, ' 
 
 For now I fee the pride of man, 
 
 That they as gods irould now appear, 
 
 Did not the woman foil them here ; 
 
 And fo fhe foil'd them at the fnft. 
 
 When they in Paradife were plac'd; 
 
 And now the laft (he doth appear. 
 
 And all lhall find fte'lt foil them here. 
 
 Here I fhall infert the lines that 1 am ordered, and 
 which I never thought to have made public to the 
 world but now being Commanded I muft obey. 1 
 was ordered to chule one of thefe two things, viz: to 
 have an inheritance given me with my brethren and 
 fellow-labourers in the Lord or, when 1 had finiftied 
 my work the Lord had given me to do. to depart this 
 lite and be with Chrift. So death or life was put to 
 my choice. But as my deiire is not for this world, 
 but to be with Chrift, which is far better, I gave the 
 following anfwer, which is the defire of my foul; but 
 never intended to,have made it public, though now I am 
 commanded to do it. It is as follows. O my God, my 
 anfwer is ready, when I have finifhed the work thou 
 haft given me to do, for thy own honour and great 
 glory, and the good of mankind. Let me, I pray thee, 
 have a building with God, eternal in the heavens. 
 
 And when the mighty work is wrought, 
 
 Receive thy ready bride. 
 Give me in heaven a happy lot, 
 
 With all the fanciified. 
 
 For thou that know'ft all things, knoweft I love thee, 
 And that I fet no idol up above thee; 
 I love thee more thaqalifeor interell, 
 Nor haft thou any rival in my breaft, 
 That with my Saviour I can now compare; 
 For O the heavens to me would fcarce feem fair, 
 Unlefs I there behold thy glorious face, 
 And coop all heaven in the dear embrace : So
 
 So "here, my Lord, my hand and heart rcfign, 
 And let rae fay my Lord alone is mine. 
 
 Here i? the anfwer of the fpirit to the above words; 
 
 Then now I anfwer I'm thy Lord alone, 
 And in thee now I'll lower the pride of man ; 
 And let their fig-leaves now for to appear, 
 And fay we're naked, now we all fee clear. 
 Becaufe as gods we can't afpire to be, 
 Though we are are tcld fo, as they now told thee ; 
 % Then now I afk who 'twas that told them fo ? 
 
 And will they anfwer now they do not know ; 
 Or will they anfwer fatan in dilguife : 
 Then I will anfwer, men will now aft wife, 
 And then as gods I'll make them t'appear, 
 And give them clothing they did never wear. 
 For on the ferpent both muft caft the blame, 
 And then they find that I'm God the fame. 
 As in the new creation at the firft, 
 And in the woman did man's pleafure bnrfl; 
 When from his fleep he did awake to fee 
 His perfect likenefs in the woman be, 
 A happy union then did foon take place, 
 Awake, awake, O all ye fleepy race, 
 And fee your helpmate ftand before your eye?, 
 Which foon in wonder will you all furprife. 
 Much more than Adam was furprifed at firft, 
 And more than Adam (hall your glory burft ; 
 To fee your helpmate then for to appear, 
 And bring fuch news as you did never hear. 
 And bring fuch knowledge to the fons of men, 
 And fee the good fruit to be handed down : 
 Then all together men will ftand amaz'd, 
 Jn heavenly raptures men \vill ftand and gaze; 
 To what new pitch 01 knowledge are we brought, 
 To know our Maker by a woman taught; 
 To be our father, and to be our friend, 
 To be our Saviour, now from heaven defcend; 
 With heavenly wings then gliding from above, 
 With tranfport joy we fee the harmlefs dove ; 
 ' Bone of our be ne, and flefh like ours to be, 
 Is this the hand that Satan did betray ? 
 ^s this the hand our Saviour did redeeem ? 
 'Mien now we fee the fountain, and the dream, 
 As from the woman he did come at nrll, 
 And in the woman doth his glory burfl j Ar.A.
 
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 And in the woman it doth all appear, 
 
 And now we fee the light divided here : 
 
 The man in darkncfs he appear'd at firft, 
 
 I^.ut from the woman did the light then burft; 
 
 And in the woman we do now fee clear, 
 
 Oui Maker's wifdom, when he form 'd her here. 
 
 O ! b'.efled Maker, how could Adam blame, 
 
 We fee thy wifdom, and admire the fame. 
 
 Bleft be the frui:, now given from her hand, 
 
 We fee thy wifdom in the woman ftand; 
 
 That all alike we may be perfeft men ; 
 
 And 'tis by faith we mull perfeftion gain; 
 
 And 'tis by faith the promifes were made, , 
 
 Our Maker's wifdom cannot be betray'd. 
 
 So by thy wifdom we'll receive our bone. 
 
 And then thefe promifes are all our own; 
 
 Becaufe we know flie there was took at firft, 
 
 And now our bone return'th it, back at laft : 
 
 For we, like Adam, all have been afleep, 
 
 1} it now, like Adam we may wake and weep ; 
 
 With joy and gladnefs we may now behold, 
 
 O;ir Maker's goodnefs HE hath now unfold'd. 
 
 And plain we fee we are not perfect men, 
 
 Utttil our bone is join'd to us again. 
 
 And here's the pearl that we find was hid, 
 
 And here's the fountain that at firft was laid, 
 
 For fure HE wifely then did lay the plan, 
 
 To raifc the houfe of clay as he began 
 
 For now his building he hath all gone through, 
 
 We fee the beauty, and the houfe we know, 
 
 Is like the corner ftone was laid at firft 
 
 And in this likenefs all our joys do burft ; 
 
 And in his likenefs it doth all appear, 
 
 We fee no fliadow of a turning here; 
 
 So all together it is like our God, 
 
 He doth not vary, as before he faid. 
 
 Then how fhall man like God for to appear, 
 
 If he do vary from his Maker here ; 
 
 For every turning now we plainly fee', 
 
 Is found in man. that now doth turn from HE. 
 
 Then how God's likenefs can we fee in man, 
 
 That from his Maker Uv'th his every plan; 
 
 And judge his ways arc c'ean before his fight, 
 
 And crooked now tie tnakes the paths fo ftraight; 
 
 And by thefe crooked paths we now fee clear, 
 
 That God is right, and men alone do err, 
 
 As
 
 As he does vary from the ways of God, 
 And now the fall of Eve is clearly fhewed; 
 To be as Gods brought on her fall at firft, 
 To be as Gods the Serpent now does burft. 
 As much in man we fee him to appear. 
 As in the woman, when he made her err. 
 So now in both we plainly fee the fall. 
 And now, our God. we fee is all in ail . 
 And all in all HE doth to us appear. 
 And now the day-light we do fee moft clear; 
 If we will come to be the fons of God, 
 We muft confefs the truth of what he (aid. 
 It is not good for man to be alone, 
 We all came naked from our mother's womb ; 
 And.naked thither we will now return, 
 And of her fpirit let us to be born. 
 Becaufe the myftery now we plainly fee, 
 Chnft's kingdom we muft all enjoy that way. 
 For now like Mofes, ye muft all appear; 
 Put Grt your (hoes, the ground is holy here ; 
 For in your fhoes, I fay, you all do ftand, 
 And in your wifdom, I do now fee man 
 To ftand with boldnefsout againft his God, 
 Then you may tremble all at Mofes' rod. 
 If he puts off the wifdom he hath placed. 
 And now. like Mofes, will his God embrace, 
 And now to ftand like Mofes. heretofore, 
 Put off his wifdom, and I'll fay no more. 
 And to God's wifdom let him riow fubmit, 
 And then he'll put the (hoes from off his feet. 
 And then the flaming bufli will faft appear, 
 And IfraePs children may begin to fear ; 
 And fay. my face they tremble for to fee, 
 Deep are "the lines, and great the myftery ; / 
 As many Mofeses, I fay, arc found, 
 To caft their wifdom, all to hear the found ; 
 And fo their (hoes already they've put off, 
 I mean their wifdom, now I've faid enovigh. 
 Then to the flaming bufh they may appear, 
 And then my voice, I fay, they'll furely hear: 
 For deeper myfteries lie before your view, 
 From types and fhaclows all my Bible through ; 
 Bi:t when the fubftance doth to you appear, 
 Then every myftery I (hall furely clear. 
 
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 Here I mall infert part of two letters, that I fent to 
 two reverend divines, on the 6th of December, 1801^ 
 in anfwer to two dreams of the former, and other 
 things relating to the latter : the whole of which may 
 perhaps be given to the world hereafter. 
 
 Reverend Sirs, 
 
 I beg pardon for troubling you with a letter; but 
 confcience compels me : and I am commanded to write 
 to you from your dreams. The Lotd is the fame 
 yelterday, to day, and for ever. He warns by dreams 
 and vifions of the night; and the angels of the Lord 
 are miniitering fpirits. You are warned in your dreams 
 of dangers that will fall on minHlers, if they are now 
 carelefs in looking into thefe my[teries,anddonot awake 
 as men out of ileep. This was my prophecy in the be- 
 ginning that when thefword of war ceafed, the fword 
 of the fpirit mud begin. That mcaneth men difput- 
 ing by words, like fwords contending with each other. 
 They that are led by the fpirit of the Lord believing 
 and looking for Chrilt's kingdom, and pleading for it: 
 and they that are led by the fpirit of the devil, believ- 
 ing all a dream, and plea.ding again 11 it. So this con- 
 troverfy will be among men upon the earth, as it was 
 among the angels in heaven, when fatan and his party 
 were calt out: and ib it will be now upon the earth. 
 A holy war will now enfue: and fatan and his party 
 be cut off from the face of the earth. For now the 
 Lord will try men. Who is fbr him, and who is 
 againft him. They that are for him will.poflefs his 
 holy mountain, and he will take the ftumbling-btock 
 out of the* way of his people; and th.-y (hall ei joy his 
 glorious and peaceable kingdom : but thofe that are 
 againit him he will cut oil' -\ m the face of the earth; 
 as the angels were calt out of heaven. Satan mutt fall, 
 and all his friends mult fali with him, as the angels did. 
 The Lord will fend out his deitroying angel to go 
 through {.he land, auci will cut oil men fa'Kr by the 
 
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 plague, peftilence, or fome other difeafes, than thejr 
 were by the fword of war. But judgment -will begin 
 at the houfe of God: that is, with the fhepherd's of 
 his flock. If they will not give them the warning 
 their blood will be required at the fhepherds handj 
 if they die in their fins. Therefore, it is written their 
 teachers were blind guides, and their priefis were pol- 
 luters of the fan&uary. Woe unto them that go Un- 
 to them ! For now if the blind are leaders of the 
 blind, they will all fall into the ditch together. So 
 this danger ftands before you, and all fhepherds, if 
 you do not awake, as men out of fleep. Now I fhall 
 come to the other dream of the horfe carrying you in- 
 to the pulpit, and you there finding thefe words "and 
 Jefus wept." Then now reflect on his love to man: 
 and now he is come to try men's love to him: and he 
 finds them every where, and in every place cold and 
 lukewarm. Then may he not weep to fee his love 
 fo great for man; to fhed his blood for their fakes, 
 and them fo dead and cold to him ? > " The ox 
 knoweth his owner, and the afs his matter's crib, but^ 
 Ifrael doth not know J my people do not confider.' 
 Your horfe knew his owner, and his matter's crib, to 
 carry you into the pulpit. But mark, what words met 
 you there, " and Jejus wept" to fee you had no fait in 
 yourfelf. but was carried away by every wind that 
 blew. The Lord hath fet an example for man, by 
 faying, ** I will go down, and fee whether thefe things 
 atre fo as they are come up before me." The Lord 
 did not want to go down to know, for his eye is 
 every where prcfent : but he fpoke thefe words as a 
 pattern for man. When ttrange things are brought 
 before them, deep and weighty, they ought to go down 
 and know if it be fo; that they may be clear when 
 ihey judge, and juft if they condemn. Now judge for 
 yourfelf, Sir, if your text may not be applied to you, 
 and uuto ail ministers. Is there not caufe enough to 
 
 fav
 
 fiiy, c< Jcfus wept?" judge the writings which way you 
 will. If you judge them not. of God, where is the re- 
 gard for his honour and great name, to fuffer a woman 
 to go ou, and to lay the Lord faith, if he hath not 
 fyoken. All the letters I have wrote to minifters i,i 
 his name, from 1793 to this time, mu(t now be brought 
 forward before the whole; and how will minifters an- 
 fw r for themfelves, if they judge it not of God? for 
 it is written, <; tho'u fhall not f lifer fin upon thy 
 neighbour:" (Lev. xix. 17.) and this is the fin they 
 ought not to fufTer. Yet they are fuffering the great, 
 ell fm that ever was committed in the world, if they 
 judge the writings not of the Lord to fee his name 
 branded throughout the world to fay he is come in 
 the fpirit of prophecy, fpeaking in the woman, to warn 
 all men of his coming in majefty, and great glory, and 
 great power, to fave his friends, and deftroy his foes. 
 Now if I have faid what the Lord hath not fpoken, are 
 not all the woes pronounced againft me? and would 
 not men fhew their love to God, to put my fooltfli 
 tongue to filence; not to rob God of his honour, and 
 brand his name with arts and lies, if it be lies? how 
 ready are men to contend for their own honour? then 
 ought they not to contend for the honour of God? 
 But on the other hand if it be of God, let men judge 
 for themfelves. When our dear Redeemer came to bear 
 the blame, man caft on him in Paradife, how ready were 
 men, how warm and zealous to caft it on him, and fay, 
 " crucify him, crucify him." They were not wanting to 
 bruife his heel: but now he is come in the Ipim to 
 fulfil the prophecies given to the woman, to bruife the 
 ferpent's head, how lukewarm is man now found ? Not 
 caring whether his head be bruifed or not: but foori- 
 er fay, with the Jews of old, " his blood be on us, and 
 our children:" we will not try to bring it on the head 
 of the ferpent. ' Yet all men know it was prophecied, 
 " the day of vengeance was in his heart." (llaiah Ixiiij 
 fo it mufl fall on man or devils. May not this un- 
 
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 kind, cold retfirn in man grieve the holy fpirit of the 
 Lord? And meet every minifter at his pulpit door 
 with thefe words, < and Jefus wept?" This letter I 
 was ordered to fend to you with thefe words " Whe 
 ther he will hear, or whether he will forbear, fpeak my 
 words unto him." I was ordered to have your nc^t^t 
 written in the fealed book; and you are at liberty to 
 come and judge for yourfelf. I know the expence of 
 the journey is great, but the love of Chrift to lay down 
 his life for man was much greater. Confider what 
 a thorny journey he undertook for man. Fatal in- 
 deed muft it now be for all menj if no man would: 
 undertake a journey for his fake, to find out the truth 
 of thefe things. 
 
 For as the dream did fo appear 
 
 The roads are fo for man ; 
 The Shepherds may begin to fear s 
 
 Tke'll feel my heavy hand. 
 If they ftand out, fo full of doubt, 
 
 They all will tumble down ; 
 The horfe ami rider I fhall throw, 
 
 That will not judge the found. 
 I well may weep, to fee my (hecp 
 
 Such carelefs Shepherds have ; 
 When I've fliewn them all fo plain, 
 
 How they their flocks may fave, 
 In Adam's ftand I now demand 
 
 The man for to appear ; 
 And tell me from the woman's hand, 
 
 Why he denied me here. 
 Will you begin as Adam then, 
 
 The woman we obey'd ; 
 Then I'll confefs the fault is mine, 
 
 If you be now mifled. 
 B\H if you flee another way, , 
 
 As man obey'd at firft ; 
 When Satan's arts did her betray, 
 
 And death on man was call. 
 I told you then, ye fimple men, 
 
 That he would bruife my heel ; 
 And juft the fame I told you then, 
 
 The Serpent flic would foil. 
 To bruife his head, as it was faid, 
 
 And now his head I'll bruife ; 
 
 If
 
 If you like Adam now proceed, 
 
 And don't her hand refufe. 
 For I'll begin to plead for man, 
 
 This way I cannot blame ; 
 He*firft obey'd, as (he hath faid, 
 
 And now he has done the fame. 
 Thenflie and I the caufe muft try, 
 
 And man muft fure be free. 
 In Adam'fe innocence you're found, 
 
 In true fimplicity. ^ 
 
 Five thoufand years, ye now fee. qfcar, 
 
 Fire men have right obey'd, 
 That now together fealed are, 
 
 And fix in part are laid. 
 But like the date, it came too late, 
 
 To have the letter through ; 
 And fo 't will be the end you'll fee, 
 
 1 he Century all (hall know. 
 'Tis now too late, the book is (hut, 
 
 And all is fealed up; 
 The fix did come by my command* 
 
 And Satan here muft flop. 
 For I'll begin to place thefe men, 
 
 To every thoufand paft ; 
 And firft from Adam I'll begin, 
 
 He right obey'd at laft. 
 And Noah then, I'll prove the fame. 
 
 And Abraham muft appear ; 
 And Daniel's in the lion den, 
 
 And Mofes' rod is near. 
 So for the fix, I now will fix, 
 
 The fhortening of the days ; 
 In true obedience, like the reft, 
 
 And all (hall fee my ways. 
 That it is come fo much like man, 
 
 The century's now too late, 
 To have the thoufand yean to ftand, 
 
 Like every other date. 
 So I'll begin to feal up man, 
 
 That now obeys my word ; 
 And ftrike the lintels of the doors, 
 
 And fend my glittering fword. 
 For to go through you all ihall know, 
 
 And Pharaoh 's hoft deftroy ; 
 My fealed number now fliall come, 
 
 My kingdom to enjoy. 
 So 't (hall not ftand, by my command, 
 
 As it hath flood before ; 
 And it (hall never come to paft 
 
 As men fuppofe it here. 
 
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 For I'll go on as I've begun, 
 
 Anda'l I'll now go through ; 
 And as the people ctirfed thee, 
 
 I'll bring rt to thy view. 
 They {hall not {land, againft thy hand, 
 
 For every foul (hall fall ; 
 And now yo;; all fhall fee my ways, 
 
 I will deflroy them all. 
 So afk a fig n, and thou fhalt find, 
 
 The fign it {hall be given : 
 And all {'hall fee, it f.'i fhall be., 
 
 When I the- lump have leavened. 
 
 The latter part of thefe verfes was addreffed.to the 
 latter divine, and which was explained, to me from a 
 dream of Mrs. Jones. Sh^ detained fhe heard me 
 reading jmy writings, and a fo the (eventh chapter of 
 Ifaiah, the yth and nth verfes particularly. Soon 
 after fhe told me the dream, I went to Mr. Taylor's 
 and a lady who was there, and who firmly believedmy 
 writings herfelf, told me how much Ihe had heard n,e 
 curfed, as they faid, peace and plenty were come, and 
 they judged every thing would go on uell, as it had 
 for years pafl; bu^ as it is in the yth verfe, it will 
 not ftand according to their judgment; and as the 
 fign is mentioned in the nth ve-rfe, it is now faid 
 to me, I fhall afk a .fign, and it mall be granted me, 
 
 ,to the convincing of you and all mankind I fhall 
 conclude this w-iih the words I finifhed the former 
 divines's letter. I trull you will pardon the liberty 
 1 have taken, as I have not done it of myfelf ; but 
 fent you a letter as I was ordered by the Sp-irit, word 
 
 for word) perfcft as indited to me by the Spirit. So 
 J have forwarded it to you, and I truft the will of the 
 Lord will be done in you, and by you. I fhall be 
 happy to fee you in Exeter, with the other minifters, 
 for then you will be a clear judge for yourftlf. I 
 am,&c. JOANNA SOUTHCOTT. 
 
 I fhall now give fome faint defcription of the man- 
 ner in which I was led in 1792, which brought me to 
 my prophecies. My religion is that of the eitablifhed 
 
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 Church of England ^ hut being of St. Paul's mind, 
 to try all, prove all things, and to hold faft that 
 which is good; knowing God is no refpecler of per- 
 fons; but in every place where his Goipel is preach- 
 ed, it is faid, the Lord is in. the mid It of them; I at- 
 tended conitantly my church, forenoons and after- 
 noons, and received the Sacrament. At the fame 
 time I alfo attended Mr. Wellley's preachers at eight 
 o'clock in the mornings and at fix in the evenings ; 
 thefe hours not interfering with the fervice of the efta- 
 blifhed church; but did not then join their fociety, 
 though I was much invited to do fo. But at Chriftmas, 
 1792, by divine command, I was ordered to join the 
 fociety, for ends I mould know hereafter, for fome- 
 thing mould happen in the clafs meeting, \\hich would 
 be the means of convincing the people. So I joined 
 them as commanded, but nothing happened till the 
 halter following: the Good Friday I was more than 
 commonly (truck with the love of Ch rift for man; 
 and all his love and fufferings from the manger to the 
 crols appeared before me in fuch lively colours, that 
 it would be fruitlefs to attempt to pen the feelings of my 
 heart. The funday following I was deeply (truck with 
 hearing the 24th chapter of St. Luke's Gofpel read, 
 and particularly noticed thefe words in the 25th verfe, 
 4i O, fools, and flow of heart to believe all that the 
 prophets have fpoken ! Ought not Chrift to have 
 luffered thefe things and entered into glory?" And how 
 he expounded to them in the fcriptures. This brought 
 all the fcriptures to my remembrance the following day, 
 and thinking with myfelf, that I might fay with our Sa- 
 viour, ye fools, and fK)w of heart, to difbelieve them. 
 How true is God to his word, how true to his promifes? 
 My paft life with the Bible came quick to my remem- 
 brance : and I began to meditate on what manner I 
 was fent to Exeter, praifing the Lord in my heart for 
 all his goodnefs towards me. J was then anfwered I 
 ftiould go to the clafs meeting and fpeak of thefe 
 things, that had been called to my remembrance. But 
 
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 thinking with myfelf, no one fpoke of part experience 
 in a clafs meeting; how fhould I go to al different 
 from others? But I was anfwered, if thou art afraid to 
 fpeak of the goodnefs of God, I will take it fforri thee. 
 For now thou art comforted, ftrengthen thy brethren. 
 This made me fpeak of the manner of my coming to 
 Exeter in the clafs meeting, which you will fee in my 
 fifth book. This I thought they might judge me 
 fimple, and I was much confufed whilft I was 
 fpeaking. The day following I had a cloud come 
 over my foul in the morning, and all my comfort 
 feemed gone. I went alone, and was e'arneft in prayer, 
 as the comforts of the Lord feemed to* have left me. 
 I was anfwtrted the people at the meeting were mali- 
 cious againft me; hearing me fpeak fo much of the 
 goodne-fs of God, they had been in prayer that the 
 Lord would take it from me. At thefe words I ftarted 
 with confufion, and faid to myfelf, it cannot be; they 
 are too religious men, and Mr. E , I know to be too 
 good a man. I was anfwered, it was not he, it was 
 the reft. But he wiihed me out of the fociety, fear- 
 ing I mould hurt the people. I faid why had he not 
 told me fo ? I was anfwered, by the Spirit, becaufe 
 he was afraid to offend thee. This occafioned me 
 to be drowned in tears, and I faid to myfelf, I 
 would not be offended; and judged I was going out 
 of my fenfes. Tears and prayers were my private 
 companions, and I began to refleft upon myfelf, 
 that ever I thought fo much of the fcriptures; and 
 called to my remembrance my father's words, who 
 often ufed to fay to me in my early age Joantia 3 
 my dear child, why doft thou exercife thytelf in things 
 too high for thee? It mult be milk for babes, but Wine 
 for men of llron-ger years. T his was often his gentle 
 reproof, when feeing me affecled in reading the gof- 
 pel Here I thought his advice good, and determined 
 in my heart not to ponder fo dee)5 as I had done; but 
 the more I thought to give it uY>> the more the Bible 
 broke in upon me, and feemed as though I had mi- 
 
 nifters
 
 nifters preaching in my ears in this confufion I fpent 
 the day in tears and prayers, and could have faid with 
 St. Paul, whether in my fenfes or out of my fenfes I 
 could not tell ; but trembled for fear I mould have 
 loft them. It is fruitless to pen the particulars of that 
 week, but at the end I was powerfully told that I 
 fliould go to the clafs meeting, and tell the people 
 what had happened unto me; and what was alfo in 
 their hearts and thoughts concerning me. This I 
 trembled to do, but being threatened that the Lord 
 would withdraw his fpirit from me, if I did not do as 
 I was commanded. This made me go with trembling 
 fteps, and when I came I thought many times I fhould 
 have fainted at the meeting, as the clafs leader began 
 with thefe words let us come to the purpofe of the 
 things that are prefent, and fay no more of the things 
 which are pad. This took all fortitude from me, and 
 I tho ight of leaving the meeting, as I grew faint, but 
 was anfwered I mould not and then the Lord te- 
 ftored my courage, and I told them I thought it was 
 the powers of darknefs that had given me fuch an ac- 
 count of them, that fuch things as before-mentioned 
 were in their hearts and minds concerning me to fct 
 me againll them. But finding the clafs leader was 
 filent, and the men looking one upon another with 
 confufion in their countenances; I began to grow 
 jealous, and thought to myfelf what can all this mean? 
 I was anfwered by the fpirit I fliould leave the meet- 
 ing for good. The next day I was earned in prayer. 
 being jealous for myfeif as well as for them; but I 
 was anfwered what. I was told was the truth the very 
 hearts and thoughts of the men. I faid tomyfelf Mr. E. 
 is a good man, and I never will believe any other. I 
 was anfwcred Mr. Eaftlake was a good man,, and an 
 humble chriltian before N the Lord, hut he muft come 
 more out of himlelf, and rely more upon the wifdom 
 of God. 1 wi.l make this a deep convincing proof to 
 him and to all mankind. This ftran^e working of the 
 fpirits within, and feeing every face formed ".a gai me
 
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 without of thefe my companions, whom I thought re- 
 ligious, made me weary heaven with prayers, to know 
 if it was the command of God or not, viz. the going 
 to fpeak as I had in the clafs meeting this I conti- 
 nued for four days, pleading the words and the pro- 
 mifes of God: when all t>n a fudden I thought the 
 voice of the Lord came to me with power, u It was 
 1 the Lord, that fent thee unto them,, and my loving kindnefs 
 I will never takejrom thee:'' it is impofiible for man to 
 attempt it; I bid men pray for mercies, but not to 
 direft the hand of the Almighty. Then followed tbc 
 words fpoken in verfe in my fit It book. 
 
 In thunder now the God the filence broke, 
 And from a cloud his lofiy language fpoke ; 
 
 Who, and where art thou, O fond, prefumptuous man, 
 
 That by thy own weakmeafures mine would fpan ; 
 
 Undaunted as an equal match for me, 
 
 Stand forth, and anfwer my demands of thee ; 
 
 But firft let thy original be trac'd. 
 
 And tell me then what mighty thing thou waft. 
 
 "When to the world my potent word gave birth, 
 
 And fix'd my centre on the floating earh ; 
 
 Did thou affift ME with one fin-gle thought, 
 
 Or my ideas rectify in aught. 
 
 Thefe words were delivered to me in a voice, wl ich 
 feemed to mix both love and anger together, and this 
 made me earneft in prayer to know its meaning, and 
 I was anfwered, the Lord was angry t with them for 
 directing the hand of the Almighty, whole ways were 
 as far from man's ways, as the heavens were diftant 
 from the earth. Thefe ftrange things brought me 
 into a flow fever; for I brought myfelf almoil lifelefs 
 by fervent prayer. I then went into the country to 
 my fifhr's for the benefit of the air, where the powers 
 of darknefs fo Itrongly afTaulted me for ten diys, as is 
 written in my firft book. So my controverfies began 
 with the devil and will end with men, for as the dif- 
 ferent fpirits invifible I contended with in 1792; fo 
 now I fhall contend with the fame fpirits now vihble 
 in man. The fpirits of the Lord working in one part 
 
 and
 
 and the fpirits of darknefs working in the other: for I 
 find the fpirits of men now vifible, as 1 found then 
 the fpirits invifiblc. But here I {hall proceed to give 
 a further account of what happened in 1792: after the 
 powers of darknefs had left me, and the fpirit of the 
 Lord came llrong upon me, and renewed my former 
 flrength. I returned back to Exeter, and was per- 
 fuaded by fome of my friends to join the fociety 
 again, but I told them what had happened, and alfured 
 them it came from the Lord, and that I knew it; at 
 which they marvelled, and could fcarce give it credit. 
 The next day I was powerfully anfwered in prayer, it 
 was true, audit was from the Lord: and I mould go to 
 Mr. E. and he would confefs the truth, and the Lord 
 would draw him by another man to come to me. The 
 Sunday following I met the man, and he entreated me 
 to join the meeting again ; I told him they had judged 
 me wrongfully, and aTked whom we oughtto obey, God 
 or man ? he anfwered the Lord ; I told him I had ; 
 and would never more go to the meeting, unkfs Mr. 
 E. would tell me the truth: he faid' he would goto 
 Mr, E. and would make him come to me, and was as 
 good as his word. Mr. E. came, and I told him all I 
 have written, and as much more: he confeifed all was 
 true-, but wifhed I had told them, that the Lord had 
 commanded me to (peak of pad experience, for then. 
 he faid no one would have been offended; but there had 
 been a great deal faid about it he then defired me to 
 come and join them again. Finding the truth of all, 
 1 returned home and made a promifing prayer, that 
 as the Lord had been (b gracious and good to me to 
 lay every heart open before me, and every tongue to 
 confefs the truth: I would live in perfect obedience to 
 all his commands as long as I lived; and earnefliy 
 prayed, that the Lord would not fuffer any wrong 
 fpirit to deceive me, but keep me as in the hollow of 
 his hand, as the apple of his eye, and that by the God 
 of truth, I might be led into every truth. The morn- 
 
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 ing following the fpirit of the Lord broke in upon me, 
 and I was ordered to go to the clafs meeting in their 
 own wildom, and tell them that the Lord had fent me 
 unto them to reprove their harfh judging, for who 13 
 he that judgetli another? They were no doers of the 
 law but judges, and they mould not direft the hand 
 of the Almighty, for his ways were not as man's ways, 
 or his thoughts as man's thoughts. Thus being ordered 
 to go aftd reprove them, chilled my heart and foul 
 \viihin me; well knowing iftbey had been offended with 
 my fpeaking of the goodnefs of God to me, they would 
 be much more offended if I went to reprove them : 
 fo that I shought it impoffible to go; but I was an- 
 i'wered by the i'pirit I fhould remember my promife; 
 
 When thou haft made a vow to God, 
 
 Defer not then to pray, 
 For Go3 has no delighnn fools, 
 
 Who mock him in delay. 
 
 Tbefe and many more words to the fame purpofe, 
 made me determine if they were all againft me, naffer 
 what I would, I would perfevere, and do as I was 
 commanded. But the powers of darknefs preffing 
 hard upon me, my own fears began to alarm me, 
 thinking I fhould not have flrength of mind, nor utter- 
 ance of fpeecii, to go through without fome affiftance: 
 therefore 1 prayed the Lord would permit me to go to 
 Mr. Eattlake, the clafs leader, and confult with him. 
 J was anlwered go to Eafllake, and do as he direfts 
 thee, and thou wilt fee what man is ! The Saturday 
 night I dreamed I was in St. Peter's church, Exeter, 
 and trying to feat myfelf cm a chair, it gave way, and 
 I was near falling, when I awoke. I was anlwered 
 by the fpirit, fo will Eattlake deceive thce. Thou 
 trufleth in man, and thou wilt fee what man is! When 
 J came out of St. Peter's I fpoke to Mr. Ea(tlake > 
 and faid I had fomething to fay to him, but he very 
 coolly anfweredj and addreffed another man, not heed- 
 ing my words, i then followed him flowly till hs came 
 
 neat
 
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 near his houfe, when the man left him ; he then look- 
 'ing coolly on me, faid, he would fpeak to me another 
 time. At this I felt as though a dagger had been put 
 to my heart, and jealoufy arofe in my breaft. I went 
 into the fields where I might have liberty to indulge 
 my {arrows alone. Deep were my thoughts, tears, 
 and prayers jealous for myfelf, as thinking fo good 
 a man as Mr. Eaftlake could not err. I was anfwered 
 if i: be of man, it will come to nothing: if it be of God 
 they cannot overthrow it; l"e(l they are found to light 
 againft God. But thy friends are like Job's friends; 
 becaufe they cannot account for the manner of God's 
 itrange dealing with thee: they are fometimes filent, 
 and when they fpsak they (peak wrong. In this con- 
 fufion of my heart, I went into a building made for 
 cattle, and took out my common prayer book, and 
 opened to the noth pialm, and was deeply (truck 
 with thefe words, <; Thy -people Jhall be willing in the 
 day of thy power ," which gave me much comfort. I 
 then opened to the y2nd pfalm, and \yasftruck wills, 
 the i8th and igth verfes: " Blejfed be the God, the God 
 of Ifrael, who only fioeth wondrous things: and blejfed bf 
 his glorious name for ever^ and let the whole earth he filled 
 with his glory.'' The pfalms with many powerful 
 words coming to me, feemed to adrninifter fome confo- 
 lation to my wounded heart yet ftill jealoufy alarmed 
 my breaft, fearing I was led into fome errors, and in 
 a retired manner alone I fpent the day. In the eve* 
 ring I was earnelt in prayer, that the Lord would 
 direct me aright, and I was anfwered then have thy 
 conveifation aright. This alarmed my jealoufy, that 
 all I had been doing was wrong; and I laid, how aright? 
 I was anfwered, have thy converfation in the world, 
 and give up thy thoughts of religion, and apPwjITTe 
 well. This I knew came from the powers of darknefs; 
 and faid to myfelf, it is written ye fhall have yduf~con- 
 verfation in heaven, and commune with God in your 
 hearts, and he will commune with you. I was anfwer-
 
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 ed if thou doeft thefe things, thou wilt lofe thy fenfes, 
 if thou doeft not give up troubling thyfelf fo much 
 about religion. I faid to myfelf, what then will become 
 of me if I give up religion? I am loit for ever; and 
 I had rather lofe my fenfes than my foul. I was an- 
 fwered; why can'fl thou not do as others, who mind 
 the world? and all is well. Thus being anfwered by 
 the powers of darknefs encreafed my forrows, as I 
 well knew fuch arguments never came from the Spirit 
 of the Lord ; and my troubles feemed greater than I 
 could bear. I wa-s then anfwered, " heavinefs may 
 endure jor a night^ but joy cometh in the morning" 
 
 <f A tedious night (hall a bright morning have, 
 
 u And then thy foul (hall take her old abode, 
 
 " And cloth'd in flefh thou (halt behold thy God." 
 
 Thefe words gave me eafe, and wifhing for the 
 dawn of the returning day. I was much comforted 
 in the morning; and after fitting at my labour many 
 hours, pondering in my heart all that was pad, and 
 thinking with myfelf, why I was ordered to do all as 
 Mr. Eatllake directed me. And he had directed me 
 to nothing, but deferred to another time. Then an ho- 
 ly fear feized my foul, and I felt as though I had been 
 in the preience of the Moft High : when a powerful 
 voice came through me, " I no more intended thou 
 fhould'ft go to the clafs meeting to reprove them, than 
 I intended Abraham fhould offer up his fon Ifaac." I 
 only did it to try thy obedience ; and as far as thou 
 hadtt it in thy heart to obey, fo far will I reward thee. 
 For now will I fwear unto thce as I did unto Abra- 
 ham, that I will make with thee an everlafling cove- 
 nant, and I will lave thee with an everlafling falva- 
 tion. Thou fhalt prophecy in my name, and I will 
 'bear thee witnefs." What followed you will fee in 
 the 2yth page of my firfl book. Here I have given 
 my readers in what a flrange manner J was led on to 
 believe the words from the truth I had been told, of 
 what was in the hearts and thoughts of men. Here the 
 
 ' \vifdom
 
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 wifdom of God may appear foolifhnefs with men; and 
 I mutt anfwer the wifdom of men hath appeared foolifh- 
 nefs with me. For as Hezeckiah, that was a good man, 
 when the Lord left him to himfelf to fee what he would 
 do, didzurong; fo I fee all men when left to themfelves, 
 do wrong. Here J fhall drop this fubjet, and infert 
 an anonymous letter that was fent to me by the wifdom. 
 of man, but who was afhamed of putting his name to 
 it ; and well he might. How unmanly do men appear 
 to take it upon them to reprove a woman, and not 
 have manly courage to own their names, fearing their 
 deeds mould be reproved: fo they loved darknefs 
 rather than light, becaufe their deeds are evil. Now 
 I Ijiall put this wife letter in print, and {hew the 
 writer he hath gathered his light from the moon: but 
 when the light of the fun ariies, the light of the moon 
 difappears ; for the moon cannot lighten the "day, 
 neither can the writer of this letter anfwer one word 
 of a thoufand, when I begin to point out the day -light, 
 to him. Here -follows his letter, word for word. 
 
 Mrs. SOUTHCOTT, 
 
 Time and circumftances, the bed tutors of all others* 
 I mould fuppofe mutt have opened your eyes, and 
 have convinced you, and your deluded followers, that 
 your communications are not from the fountain of 
 truth. Had you or they been open to conviction, 
 the lame excufe concerning your father's death on the 
 22d of September, was fufficient evidence to prove 
 you in error: but admitting that had, not, the death of 
 the worthy Bafii Bruce, ftirely was more than enough 
 to determine the whole bufinefs; as you pofitively de- 
 clare that the Lord had chofen him and his father to 
 go to Exeter and judge your writings: but it was 
 as though the Lord had fpoken with an audible voice, 
 he died the very night that the reit fet off for Exeter. 
 Your trifling attempt to interpret this folemn affair, 
 only proves that the Lord knows not to-day what he 
 
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 f 94 ) 
 
 fhall do to-morrow. I may, perhaps, be told that the 
 Lord has been pleafed to deal in this way with his 
 prophets. Such an anfwer as this may fatisfy thofe who 
 do not judge for themfelves: but thofe who have made 
 the Bible their ftudy, and even the writer of this, is 
 ready to prove that the Lord never gave a poi'itive 
 command, and like a weak man, repented of what he 
 had done; dif-annuUing his former command : this is 
 making the eternal Lord of Heaven more inconfiftoiu 
 than the fabulous heathen gods, who, when they de- 
 creed or fwore by the infernal Styx, never violated 
 their oath. 
 
 But were the circumflances I have mentioned in- 
 capable of convincing you. and yuur followers, furely 
 the prefent one before them is fufficient; you tell 
 them that this lajl Mjy would be " a fatal May for 
 man," and that as foon as June made its appearance 
 people were to be convinced that your writings were 
 given from the- Spiiit of truth. May is part, nothing 
 uncommon has taken place, June is here, yet all things 
 remain as they were: what miferable excufe is to be 
 brought forward now, is the fatal thing to be under- 
 itood to_ mean, that a few letters have been fent to a 
 parcel of men, the greater part of whom neither be- 
 lieve in God, Devil, Heaven, or Hell ? Alas! my 
 good woman, open your eyes, and read your Bible. 
 This is the command of the Lord, "they have Mofesand 
 the prophets" Now then let us be honeft to God and 
 ourfelves, and be tried by the word of God. When 
 the children of Ifrael delired to know how they were 
 to know a true from a falfe prophet, Moles lays, " If 
 th r u fay in thine heart, how fliall -we know the. word which 
 the Lord hath n~>t fpoken; when a prophet fpeaketh in the 
 name, of the Lord, if the thing follow not t nor come to 
 pafs, that is the thing which the Lord hath not fpokcn ; 
 the. prophet has fpoken it prefumpiuoufty : thmjh&lt not be 
 afraid of htm." Now, agreeable to the pofitive de- 
 claration of the word of God, you have fpoken pre- 
 iumptuoufly; as the things you have mentioned have 
 
 /neither
 
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 neither followed nor come to pafs." from which it ap- 
 pears evident that you have prefumed to {peak in the 
 name of the Lord, what he has not commanded: there- 
 fore I refer you to the 2Oth verfe of the fame i8th 
 chapter, " but the prophet which Jhall prefumc to fpeak a 
 word in my name which I have not comrnanded him to fpeak, 
 even that prophet JJiall die" Ezek. ch. 13. * Thus, 
 faith the Lord God, wo, unto the fooliih prophets, 
 that follow their own fpirit, and have feen nothing ; 
 they have feen vanity and lying divination, faying 
 the Lord faith, and the Lord hath not lent them, and 
 they have made others to hope that they would con- 
 firm the word. Have ye not feen a vain vifion, and 
 have ye not fpoken a lying divination ? Whereas ye 
 lay the Lord laith it, albeit I have not fpoken, and mine 
 hand (hall be upon the prophets that fee vanity, and that 
 divine lies; they fhall not be in the affembly of my 
 people, neither ihall they be written in the writing of 
 the houfe of Ifrael, neither ihall they enter into the 
 land oflfrael." 
 
 It has been a cuftorn with me never to condemn 
 any one. Whenever I have done fo from my own 
 fpirit I have generally found myfelf in an error; 
 which has given me pain : if the facred word con- 
 demns any one, they itand condemned without my 
 poor condemnation, but whenever the word of God 
 condemns, I mould be a traitor to the truth, if I was 
 to lay, it is not fo. I, perhaps, may be told that many 
 things mentioned by Mr. Brothers have not come to 
 pafs, and that thofe who have taken up your writings 
 may with as great propriety believe what you have 
 faid, though it has fallen out contrary, as to Uelieve, 
 Mr. Brothers, whole writings they profefs to believe: 
 but it is not poffible, fo far, to prove that any one 
 thing he mentioned has erred in its accomplifhment; 
 even the very dates have not yet failed; whenever 
 they do, be affured fuch communication cannot have 
 been given by the fpirit of God. 
 
 The
 
 The writer of this hopes you will have honefty and 
 candour enough to let the whole be read before 
 thofe poor deluded men your followers ; he has no objec- 
 tion if it is neceffary for the fake of defending the 
 word of God, to come forward; but as he feeks nei- 
 ther applaufe or popularity, he for theprelent conceals 
 his name: but if you are afraid of coming to the only 
 fountain we have given us for determining what is 
 true, the contents of this letter will'be given. 
 
 N.B. This letter was received Monday, June 21, 1802, 
 
 The following are the names of the gentlemen al- 
 luded to in the above letter, under- the name of poor 
 deluded men: they being convinced that Joanna South- 
 cott's writings are of divine authority, and publifhed 
 by divine command, particularly requeft their names 
 to be publifhed to the world at large in this book. 
 Rev. Stanhope Bruce, Rev. Thomas Webfler, Rev. 
 Thomas P. Foley, William Sharpe, George Turner, 
 and John Wilfon. 
 
 One gentleman being abfent, we have not taken 
 the liberty of inferring his name. Now I have given 
 my readers the anonymous letter that was fent me, I 
 /hall now anfwer for myfelf, to fuch poor deluded men^ 
 who judge of things they know nothing about; but 
 like men looking in the fervent funfhine, whole bright 
 fplendor is' too itrong for their eye-fight; and going 
 into a dark room become fun-blind and this is the 
 darknefs of men's understanding. Seeing the day- 
 light of the gofpet thrown open before them by a -wo- 
 man t bright as the fervent fun; truths of the prophe- 
 cies clear as the moon: which is as much too ftrong 
 for their weak judgment as the fervent funfhine is for 
 their eye-fight for they can no more look into the 
 divine brightnefsand beauty of the one than the other. 
 And this being loft by the divine beauty and fplendor, 
 they go and confult with their dark benighted minds 
 
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 f 97 ) 
 
 where no light is, and fo they grope f -r the wall like 
 the blind. I will not fay the writer of the above let- 
 ter was a fool ; but I fay he is a man void of under- 
 ftanding, and has. concealed his name, knowing that if 
 his deeds were brought to the light, he would be re- 
 proved: and then he could not anfwer foV himfelf 
 but now I will anfwer for myfelf. It was written if my 
 father died at the appointed time, thenChrift's kingdom 
 muft be eftablilhed < t whatever time my writings were 
 proved j but if he did not, Chrift's kingdom would 
 not be eftablifhed at that time. Before the appointed 
 time was up I wrote to one of my friends, and laid 
 my father muft out-run the time fpecified, though 
 when I wrote the letter he appeared to me to be a 
 dying man. But he out-ran the time as I faid I 
 then wrote to another of my friends, he would die at 
 a time he was not judged to die unexpected and iud- 
 denly it would appear. Now I mutt inform my read- 
 ers the very day my father was death-ieized; I faw 
 my brother-in-law, and afked him when he faw my 
 father. He anfwered lafh week, and he never faw him 
 look better, and thought he would out-live him. A few 
 days after I received a letter that my father was dying: 
 and when I came to fee him, found he was feized with 
 convulfion fits, which cauled his death, the very day 
 my brother judged he would out-live him: and my 
 filter's fon faid the week before, he thought his grand- 
 father would live for ten years-: he looked fo well, fo 
 ruddy and lively. So my father died according to my 
 prophecies fpoken of him, having out-run, the time I 
 faid at firft, and died at a time unexpected at laft and 
 fo will the coming of Chrift's kingdom be. And nov, 
 I fhall anfwer for Mr. Bruce. I grant he was chofen 
 with his worthy father to judge of my writings, as one 
 of the. twelve : and as they were corning clown to Exeiev 
 to judge them, he was called to his father in heaven; 
 fo he went one journey to Chrift's kingdom in L 
 ven : while his father was purfuing his to prove Chrift's 
 kingdom upon earth. And here the father and the fon 
 were icparated on earth, at the fccond coming of 
 
 F Chrilt:
 
 Chrift ; that was compared to the fliadpw of Chrift! as 
 the father and the fon were feparated in heaven at the 
 firtt coming of Chrift. Now let the blind to fee, and the 
 deaf to hear! Mr. Bruce and his fon were compared 
 as types and fhadows of the father and fon in heaven. 
 But how could this ihadow be perfecl like the fub- 
 flance, if they had not been parted on earth as they 
 were in heaven. For as the Son of God left his Fa- 
 ther's throne, and came down to dwell amongft men, 
 when he came to bring in his gofpel, to be wounded 
 for our fins, and to be bruifed for our iniquities, and 
 the chaftifement of our peace was laid upon him: To 
 be the judge of all men, he dwelt amongft men; and fa 
 the father and the fon was divided, that they might 
 judge together of heaven and earth. Now I mult 
 anfwer; the worthy Mr. Bruce was chofen with his 
 father to judge of me and my writings, when the faints 
 muft judge the earth. So to make the perfeci likenefs 
 of the father and fon, the Lord parted them on earth, 
 as they were parted before in heaven that the fon 
 might afccnd up into glory, and judge of things in 
 heaven, while the father is judging of things on earth; 
 that the fon might give up all judgment to God; and 
 be a clear proof to man of the fecond coming 
 Chrift, by parting the father and the fon at bis fecond 
 coming', as the father and the ion were parted at the 
 Jirft fo this brings the ihadow and the iubftance to-, 
 gether. 
 
 For now the laft is like the firft, 
 And now my kingdom it (hall burfl ; 
 For as the fhadows do appear, 
 JiiH fo the fubftance 1 (hail clear. 
 The father and the fon were plac'd as one, 
 But when the prophecies of man were come, 
 Thev then divided, and the fon you fee, 
 Did leave his father, and come down to yp, 
 But unbelief did then in man appear, 
 And now the likenefs I to all {hall clear; 
 For now the fecond coming does appear, 
 1 he father and the fon are parted here : 
 But fee in judgment they Hand both as one, 
 And now unto the purpoie I ihall come ; 
 
 Judgts
 
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 Judges together I fay both do ftand, 
 And all may fee it by his written hand j 
 How both in judgment thefe two do agree ; 
 And now I'll anfwer all the myftery: 
 Should I as fimple now like man appear, 
 And fay the likenefc I fiiall now compare J 
 To part the father, and to take the fon, 
 To (hew the likenefs did in heaven begin, 
 To tell the truth I knew they could not bear, 
 But mark the letter, and you may fee clear; 
 I faid the mourning it was fent for nae, 
 And with the ointment it fhould all agree: 
 For well you know the fon on earth did fall, 
 I faid the funeral foon would prove his call; 
 That like the fon he Would to all appear, 
 And 'by his death I'll prove the likenefs here, 
 But if the likenefs I had made more plain 
 Could they have borne it then? (his friends I mean) 
 Oh fimple men for to direft your God. 
 I told his death though 'twas not underftood. 
 And fo my gofpel I did fpeak the fame, 
 And now I'll anfwer, (O ye fimple men;) 
 -4- I faid the buildings I would foon deftrdy ; 
 But leave the meaning man for to enjoy, 
 The devil's wifdom he in them had plac'd, 
 But now be wife O all ye fullen race : 
 For as that myflery you did not fee plain, 
 Then now by Bruce the fame vou do contend ; 
 Though plainer myfteries lay before your viev> 
 lie was the judge, I'll prove his judglhent truei 
 And to his father now he all hath given up, 
 And foyeu fee his life did iurely drop : 
 So here the likenefs you may all fee plain. 
 And now in judgment this I'll now maintain} 
 The father herepronounc'd the judge alone, 
 Then fure the fon muft die to make it come; 
 As in the funer'l fervice doth appear. 
 And now the myfteries I to all mall clear; 
 For here's the very father, and the fon, 
 ThatfubjeS unto God muft now become ; 
 That put the ferpent now beneath his feet, 
 Here ii'th the myftery, and the truth is great, 
 Becaufe the Son of God cannot appear, / / 
 
 In no fubjeaion as is liken'd there >" "*' ** *f 
 
 But ty befubjtS muft inferior be *yf ^ '** ^ 
 So now I've fliew'd you plain the myftery ; 
 For to btfubjecl is the fon of man, 
 And now to retfon I fiiail firong begin; 
 As in the burial fervice doth appear, 
 Then every myftery I will now njaXe clear," The
 
 f 100 ) 
 
 "the lafl enemy that, is to be deftroyed is death, 
 and that enemy was paffed on man by the fall. Then 
 when all is put under foot by the united Trinity, to 
 bring in the perfect unity of God and man; then 
 comes in the likcnefs of God's image; and now is the 
 likenefs begun from my gofpel, fpoken by the Spirit. 
 I will end, and come to the words I faid unto Peter 
 when one faid I was Elias, another faid John the 
 baptilt; I afked Peter who he faid I was? He an- 
 fwered, them art Chrill the fon of the living God. 
 Now mark my anfwer, bleffed art thou Bar-jona, 
 for flem and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, 
 but the fpirit of the living God. And on this 
 rock will I build my church and now mark the 
 firft letter I ordered thee to fend to Bruce ; and on 
 this rock will I now build my church, and the gates of 
 Hell fliall not prevail againit it. For now I anfwer 
 thele men that I ordered thee firft to write to, fome 
 faid on one hand, and fome faid on another, but thefe 
 feven have faid it is from the living God; and on this 
 rock will I build my church. 
 
 For now the living God he fliall appear, 
 
 And every myftery I (o man will clear; 
 
 As in one Spirit they do all agree, 
 
 And here's the rock that every foul (hall fee. 
 
 Where all the gates of Hell (hall not prevail, 
 
 But at that time you know the words did fail : 
 ' Bccaufe the gates of Hell were open wide, 
 
 J^ut here's the my ft cry {hall be now applied. 
 
 I'll furely fiiut. and none fhall open here, 
 
 And every my fiery I to man will clear; 
 
 Bccaufe thcfe hearts are opened unto me. 
 
 My. feven Spirits furely in them be. 
 
 And now I tell them there's no man can fruit, 
 
 And death and hell may tremble at their feet. 
 ' For May is over, June doth now appear, 
 
 Wife fools, I tell you now for to take care : 
 
 For fuch a May was never feen by man, 
 
 The fccond ftar is fent throughout yourMand ; 
 
 To fhevv my fecond coming doth appear, 
 
 And I'm rejected now I fay take care. 
 
 f'-ah are broken and tvirn'd back by man f 
 
 I fp jke of May, and May, I fay.,, is goiv.
 
 So now in June my ahfwer doth appear, 
 
 Judge well your nation and the whole compare. 
 
 So altogether fee how this doth ftand. 
 
 And then you'll know how now to judge your land. 
 
 For-fuch a thing was never done before, 
 
 Throughout the land to fend the fecond ftar: 
 
 For all fliall know that ftar is fure my feaf, 
 
 What to the bride my Spirit did reveal ! 
 
 So now. wife fools, you've boafted all too foon, 
 
 But mark, your fun you'll find to cloud e'er noon. 
 
 Becaufe the C doth with the ftar appear, 
 
 And all fliall know my chariot wheels are here : 
 
 For in the Spirit here. I fay I'm come. 
 
 And you may find me in the woman's form : 
 
 But not a heathen god appeared to be, 
 
 To fwear by Styx, vain man, now aufwer me ; 
 
 If I a father do to man appear, 
 
 He threatens long before he ftnkes fevere. 
 
 And as your right hand you do little know , 
 
 I've waited patient and kept back the blow. 
 
 But as your boafting I do fee fo foon, 
 
 Mark well, I've told you what fliould come in June. 
 
 And now my anfwer to you doth appear, 
 
 Wife fools, I tell ye, you have all to fear; 
 
 For here's my anfwer now turn'd back in June. 
 
 Once more I tell you. you've boaft'd all too foon. 
 
 For as the truth you do not feek to know, 
 
 Then gVoping for the walls you all may go ; 
 
 Becaufe from you it furely is conceal'd, 
 
 What to my chofen members is reveal'd. 
 
 But what vain vifiorl doth to you appear, 
 
 That like the heathen gods, you ME compare ; 
 
 And hope that others wiW confirm the word, 
 
 Juft like yourfelvcs you all do judge your God? 
 
 Much like a dog, to bite before he bark, 
 
 And now ray gofpel you've judg'd in the dark. 
 
 Becaufe dumb dogs I called them all before, 
 
 That could not bark, and now the truth fee clear. 
 
 But like a clock my words fliall ever ftand, 
 
 He wirn'th before he ftnkes, and now command; 
 
 Becaufe this May I've warning fent to all, 
 
 One thoufand letters fliew you every call, 
 
 That I've fent out to warn you one and all. 
 
 And now this warning if they all defpife, 
 
 I fay, too late, they'll furely grow more wife.' 
 
 So of my patience let men mock no more, 
 
 My eye is kindled and they may fee here, 
 
 How that thy eye is kindled to a flame, 
 
 And thev {hall fure Iv find inv eyes the fame, Becaufe 

 
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 Becaufe the voice of wifdom it is here, 
 
 And loudly calling men for to appear. 
 
 But Wifdom's voice, I fee it's all in vain, 
 
 The lepers ftill, I fee their fpots remain : 
 
 For what is black, I fee will not be white, 
 
 And if the mortar doth the foolifh break. 
 
 I fee thehr folly they will flill contain: 
 
 Then now be wife, O all ye fons of men, 
 
 For in the mortar I have bray'd them all, 
 
 By fword, by famine, and by every call. 
 
 Becaufe the fwoid you know it has been here, 
 ^-1 And fo the famine has been to the pooTT 
 
 And all thefe fhadows there's no ma"fT does Tee, 
 
 Then now I tell you all a my fiery. 
 
 In ages back, it ever was the fam'e, 
 
 For Satan always did this kingdom claim; 
 
 Becaufe the woman by his arts did fall- 
 Then now be wife, I tell you one and all ; 
 
 That now the woman doth my promife claim, 
 
 And here's her feed, O all ye fimple men. 
 /_ Who I've deluded to believe her_vvrord,__ _. 
 
 And in their hand I've furely put the fwordj _ 
 
 That all (hall find will cut the ferpeTnjT 
 
 And on this rock my church (hall how be found : 
 
 That all the gates of Hell (hall not prevail, 
 
 I'll acl; by man, as they've acled by my feal. 
 
 And all (hall find this hath been May for man, 
 
 As never was before fince Earth began. 
 
 So now, wife fools, I'd have you boaft no more, 
 
 But fee my eye how it's inflamed here. 
 
 Beraufe my eye they all may fee in thce, 
 
 As thine's inflam'd, they'll find the eye of me; 
 
 But as the other doth not feel the pain, 
 
 Juft fo^ my friends, my eye to them remain; 
 
 So by thy eyes the public now may fee, 
 
 What is my heart, and know the eye of me; 
 
 For as thy eye's inflam'd 6n the right fide, 
 
 Juft fo my anger's light, a? now 's applied. 
 
 But as the left is fo near thy heart, 
 
 Juft fo, my friendi, fhall never feel the fmart. 
 
 And as thy fight to all men doth appear,^ 
 
 -JL, I tell you, England, you may hope "and fear.; 
 
 So now of boaihng let them fay no more, 
 
 There's no vain vilion doth to you appear ; 
 
 But t>y thy fight I (hall confirm the whole, 
 
 Weigh altogether, let your reafon fall, 
 
 For times and circumftance will foon appear, 
 
 To prove to man my eye 's inflamed here. 
 
 So now the letter let them all weigh deep, 
 
 The man in filence let him filence keep. Or
 
 Or flronger reafons let him to aflign, 
 
 r lo prove to man the writings are not mine ; 
 
 Becaufe the great A line he cannot fee, 
 
 A partial judge, no judge at all can be. 
 
 Becaufe that Brothers, he faid, did not err, 
 
 Then 'tis from Satan muft his truth appear; 
 
 Becaufe of late I've furely left the man, 
 
 To fhew you Satan, and his every plan ; 
 
 That if the woman did not interfere, 
 
 You men would find the ferpcnt to appear, 
 
 Wuh every art as much to cheat the man, 
 
 And foyour MAKER you have blam'd in vain ; 
 
 And now like Satan you do tempt your God, 
 
 To fend down vengeance, and you call my rod, 
 
 And when my rod in vengeance doth appear, 
 
 You muft confefs you all did alk it here. / . 
 
 For as at firft, you did the woman blame, ^ 
 And fo atlaft your God you've done the fame, 
 For now at laft the fame you've blam'd your God. 
 So now your fig-leaves let them to be ftiow'd, 
 That you together have fo vainly few'd, 
 Jf they can cover, let your fig-leaves do, 
 For all your clothing I (hall take away, 
 And now, O men ! hear ye, what I do fay ; 
 I've other clothing you muft all put on, 
 If naked garments yoi'll confefs are come. 
 Then all your garments I will give anew, 
 Weigh well the words and you {hall find it true. 
 But if your fig-leaves now y ouwifhto__wearj_ 
 Then my new garments you can never bear ; 
 Becaufe my clothing it muft now be new^ 
 I'll mend no longer, for it will not doj^.., 
 For worfe and worfe I fee the renj is made^ 
 
 And never was a nation more miuecT. "TL 
 
 yC Than thofe who judge, that e era woman's hand 
 Such wond'rous writings eveY could comm'andT 
 Unlefs from God the words' were lurely call - f ' : L. 
 And here's the wine will maKe^TLgUles l?urfl_. 
 As the new wine does to yTMTaTTa p pear ," 
 Then the old bottles, let them now take care, 
 But for the bottles I have now made new 
 The wine's the fame, and bring all to your view, 
 So both together now I fay wilt ftand. 
 And fo in the end you all will find the land : 
 SQ I'll conclude with warning to the wife, 
 Another day I ftiall them all furpmc. 
 
 Here is the anfwer to the anonymous letter. But 
 having mentioned about my eyes, which may appear 
 puzzling to my readers, J ,nuit inform them I have
 
 ( 104 ) 
 
 had an inflammation in my'right eye ever fince I came 
 to London. And I was told the eye of the Lord 
 was as much inflamed againft the people, as mine ap- 
 peared to the fight ; becaufe they had rejected the 
 word of the Lord ; and let them take care the Lord 
 does not rejeci them. And I mutt inform my readers 
 thefe figns have often been fet before me; for in Ja- 
 nuary, 1796, I had an inflammation feized my finger, 
 and it was then faid, it fhould be as a fign to me 
 that men's hearts would be inflamed the fame, and 
 their hands would break out againft their governors. I 
 fhall leave particulars: only call to your remembrance 
 the following year feven hundred men mutinied on 
 the fea. Some were hanged in the fliips," and fome 
 were mot in Plymouth, tied to their coffins. In ]a. 
 nuary, 1800, I had an inflammation feized my leg, 
 at fir It it appeared a final! fpot, but when thai was 
 removed it broke out more and more, till both legs 
 became inflamed. It was then faid to be as a fign to 
 me that the heat of the fummer would bring in a dearth, 
 and men's hearts would be inflamed like my feet. 
 I iliall leave all the particulars, but only call my 
 readers to reflect that the truth followed in the 1800, 
 and men's hearts were inflamed as before mentioned, 
 and mobs rofe in various parts of the kingdom, the 
 ipring after, and were pacified (as it was laid to me) 
 by the prudent care of men, a? by the prudent care 
 of the apothecary my legs had been cured. But fur- 
 ther particulars I fhall now leave, as the fubflance fol- 
 lows the.fhadows fo now judge for your yourfelves. 
 When the eye of the Lord is inflamed, I may aniv,. r 
 \viih St. Paul, " Who is afflicted and burn not? 
 
 Here I fhall drop this iubjeft, and Inicrt a particular 
 circumftance I was commanded to do. Being invited 
 v.iih my friends to dine at a gentleman's houfc, I was 
 ordered to obey. But wh n the day arrived for me 
 to go I felt fuch a gloom come over me that I wiflicd 
 to decline going, if I could with any propriety, but 
 knowing it. would be imprudent I went: when I ar- 
 rived there I found freedom with the mailer and i. 
 treis of the houfe. My heart fccmed to be drawn
 
 ( *05 ) 
 
 particularly to the miftrefs; but foon after a flranger 
 came in, when I felt myfelf hurt, and my fpirits be- 
 came oppreffed I could fcarce fpeak. While I was 
 at dinner I thought I would have given any thing to 
 be out of the company, as I felt no freedom of fpeechj 
 and thought it was cafting of pearls before fwine, and 
 that which is holy before dogs, to fpeak before 
 that fame flranger. I fpoke to the miftrefs concerning 
 him, but fhe begged me to take no notice of him So 
 I began, but in a confufed manner, as I felt my fpirits 
 much oppreffed before three gentlemen entered the 
 room, I then felt a fudden joy at their appearance^ 
 though I thought before I went they were the very men 
 upon whofe account I mould feel that load Upon my 
 fpirits, for I knew of their comirig; but found myfelf 
 deceived! the perfon who occafioned my embarrailment 
 w.as to me unknown of being there but others gave 
 me pleafure when they arrived, and I felt embarraffed 
 as before when they were gone, but freedom of fpirit 
 whilft they were, there. This circumltanee I was or- 
 dered to put in print with the anfwer of the fpirit as 
 follows : 
 
 Now thou haft ended I'll begin, 
 In print let all thefe truths be feen ; 
 For now the myfteries I (hall clear, 
 And tell thee why I fent thee there. 
 All hearts I know, all hearts I'll try, 
 And then my arrows faft (hall fly ; -X. 
 My fpirit it is juft like thine, 
 I know the ftranger, and his mind ; 
 My kingdom he don't wifh to fee, 
 He neither loves his God or Thee ; 
 for Satan did his fpirit draw, 
 And I draw'd thine the truth to know, 
 That light with darknefs can't appear, 
 For what communion can be there? 
 For God with Belial can't agree, 
 Then how thy heari could it be free? 
 When I within did know the man, 
 I've made thy fpirit like my own; 
 And as my fpirif did appfear, 
 A fon of-Belial fure wus there ; 
 Whofe luke-warm heart could never fee 
 The different love in man and me ; 
 
 G Thai
 
 That I muft fure complete your blifs, 
 If fur my kingdom you do third ; 
 And all vour hearts I muft refine, 
 And love muft kindle at the time; 
 For all ftiall know that God is love, 
 And fo my friends they all {hall prove; 
 _/, For there's no man can dwell in me, 
 That in this love doth not agree ; -f~- 
 For all {hall find my heart like thine, 
 Thou was't impatient at the time, 
 And didft not wifti to tarry there, 
 And now the myftery.I mall clear. 
 I tell rhee I AM jufl the fame, 
 Men only laugh to hear my name; 
 Therefore unpleafant 'tis tome, 
 Such luke-warm chrift'ans for to fee ; -/-- 
 AVhen all my Bible's made fo clear, 
 And Satan {hall be conquer'd here ; 
 And bring my glorious kingdom down, 
 Then thefe may tremble at the found 
 That now diflike the heavenly call, 
 And from that man I'll anfwer all ; 
 That I've a fpirit juft like thee, 
 The man thou didft not love to fee ; 
 Nor with him there for to abide, 
 Ah ! here's a field that's open'd wide ; 
 For all fhall find I AM the fame, 
 And all fuch men I now {hall name ; 
 -yL Are full as fickly unto me, ^ 
 
 As his appearance was to theej ^ 
 
 But when the three they did appear, 
 
 L I fay my fpirit enter'd tfeere ; 
 
 For wrongly thou didfl judge the men, 
 As they condemn 'd thee but unfeen._^ 
 But when thefe men do know the whole; 
 They'll wifli my kingdom for to fall, 
 A lively chriftian one will be, 
 The man tliat took the eye of thee ; 
 Though of ihy words he the re_did la 
 But mark the blot, I've fauTenough ; 
 For he will laugh another way, -yU. 
 When I my angelsJencTFo RcT; 
 For ftrongly guarded TTTirTalce^aT], 
 For Satan's malice fo will fall ; 
 That if my friends I doriotgiiardj__ 
 I know their foes will "Be toonardT 
 But now I'll be a man of war,"" " 
 And every foe I now will clear ; 
 And all my friends they now mall fee, 
 That double guarded they {hall be ; 
 
 T
 
 Therefore that word in thee I fpoke f 
 
 Though he did laugh and feem to mock ; 
 
 But now I'd have him mock no more, 
 
 For ftrong my guards muft now appear ; 
 
 That he will furely find for all 
 
 That now believes this heavenly call ; 
 
 For now a father I'll appear, 
 
 And all my children I' 11 make heirs ; 
 
 And now a man of war I'll be, 
 
 And every foe they now (hall fee, 
 
 I'll furely put beneath their feet, 
 
 And all mall find the victory's great. 
 
 And now a king I will appear, 
 
 And princes now I'll make my heirs. 
 
 For as men's luke-warm hearts I fee, 
 
 My friends do kindle flames in me; 
 
 Becaufe I fee their perfeft love, 
 
 And mine more ftrong they now lhall prove 
 ^ But thofe that luke-warm doap_p_ar,_ 
 My kingdom they {hall never mare: 
 For I'm the counfeltor now become, 
 The mighty counfellor (hall be known; 
 And every trial now I'll plead, 
 And all my jury now I'll lead ; 
 To fpeak in juftice at my bar, 
 And from the judge I this fhall clear. 
 The jury muft the fentence part, 
 And then the judge condemns at laft. 
 And fo the judge I will appear, 
 And now the myfteries I will clear. 
 I'll judge the quick, I'll judge the dead, 
 For fo men's fpints now are led ; 
 For fome in death do now appear, 
 And fo in death I'll judge them_here. _ 
 But fome are quicken'd by my power^___ 
 
 And they (hall fee the gloriousjiour; 
 
 To have my harvefl to appear, _ __ 
 
 And like the hufbandman fee clear, 
 Rejoices in the harvelt day, 
 For fo my harveft now does lay. 
 For altogether I'll cut down, 
 And now let all men judge the found ; 
 For now men's wifdom I'll cut all, 
 Juft like the harveft now (hall fall. 
 That is men's wifdom all muft fee, 
 Juft like the corn cut down muft be. 
 And fo the wheat I know will fall, 
 Confefs dead-ripe they arc grown all. 
 For they in wifdom cannot grow, 
 Becaufe the Bible yoa've run through ; 
 
 And
 
 And row the niyfleries you'll fee plain^ 
 That this Js come, the harveft lime fV 
 
 ,id -TOW my reavers do appear, 
 To-r 1 :!. my vhea' and tell them here 
 Their wifdom can no longer grow, 
 Thfey fee the Hubble ?.:id the flraw, 
 "VVhereon the bullocks they may feed, 
 But they are cut down, the wheat to breed* 
 For ncyv tl'.f- gro>..id I'll make a nezv } 
 Ami hke the hufbandman I'll do, 
 I'll fan my corn, I : !i fowmy wheat^ 
 And now the increase I'll make great. 
 
 here J fliall break oif this fubjeft for the preferitjj 
 and iniert a frw vcrfes, 'hat were fpoken in anfwer to 
 my contending with men 
 
 fin-ace fiu&c afcenrled, 
 
 So th f oke iv f/ian appears ; 
 But as t'-.e ^ou^il from Heaven refounds 
 
 ".Vith harmony <o fweet : 
 Sov/'ll the end o f a'' be found, 
 
 \Vuen you together meet. 
 To fee ail clear, 'by hour draws neaf^ 
 
 And near does all come round; ~ a 
 
 And ninety-two brings to thy view, p 
 
 How diflF'rcr.t was the ioiind ! 
 For* Sat?n came and clu! blafpheme, 
 
 And fill'd th y - f.ml vith wee : ^ 
 
 Then did my ancrcls wfit thee, ^ 
 
 And heavenly ] did ilow ; ^ J 
 
 So both did com? to thee unfeen, 
 
 But now the fight appears, 
 Thef.- diff'rcnt fpirits both are come, ^55 
 
 A;-d both t'nou' now feeft clear ; ^ g 
 
 So what began unfeen to man, 
 
 Is now feen plain to all ; 
 And thou with Hell dJciu 1 firft contend, 
 
 And fogoes on thy cull u x 
 
 So all is plain when learned men, "g ^1 
 
 Have weighed the matter deep, 
 It is with Hell thou doll contend, 
 
 For he in man doth fpcak ; c - V. 
 
 And angels here do now appear, & g 
 
 For they do fpeak in man, 
 And tell thee for to perfevere 
 
 Like a good foldier ftand. 
 So both are come the ranks to join, 
 
 And I'll join with my friends ; ^ 
 
 And Satan's come to join his own, 
 
 Mark well and fee the end. 
 
 E, STRACC, PR1NTEP, 27, BOW-STREET, COVENT-CARt
 
 THE 
 
 CONTINUATION 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Prophecies of Joanna Southcott. 
 
 A Word in Season to a sinking Kingdom. 
 
 ONCE more I am ordered to address the public, 
 The day of the Lord is at hand, and he hath 
 warned by his Spirit, and by visions, as he promised 
 by the prophet Joel, ii. ch. 28 v. that, in the latter days, 
 when " He cometh to pour out his Spirit upon all 
 flesh, that your sons and your daughters shall pro- 
 phesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young 
 men shall see 'visions." Now call to -your remem- 
 brance the words of our dear Redeemer " Think 
 not that I am come to destroy the Law of God, or 
 the Prophets ; I come not to destroy them, but to 
 Julfil them ; and this generation shall not pass away 
 till all is fulfilled" thatmeaneth,M^<?;/m7//o/; under 
 the fall but when the Lord cometh to pour out his 
 Spirit upon allfesh, he must destroy the works of 
 darkness, and put upon us the armourof light, that we 
 may be made children of the light. He gave us 
 a parable from the fig tree putting forth its green 
 leaves, knowing that summer was nigh at hand. So 
 when you see the fulfilment of the prophets and the 
 gospel together, know, thatyour redemption draweth 
 
 A 
 
 !/'//< .frr.'W T.d/finn. printed in .1;t^>- 1 *o?, b>; S. l!uUss>.AV, I' 
 S'.'rci/, .V;.' L'ttiu'i, t'/'nii tln'rii-st I'.Jidon, ]>rinit<i in Ju,:* ijJO.S.
 
 nigh. But as this Book will treat mostly of the ex- 
 planations of visions, I shall beg my Re-aders to weigh 
 deeply the 2d chapter of Joel, and compare ir with the 
 present times. The visions which I shall now treat 
 of are those of Joseph Prescott, of Bermondsey, who 
 hath been in the habit of seeing visions from 1?C)3 to 
 the present day; but unknown to me, and I to him, 
 till February 28. 1303, after my Writings had been 
 proved in January, by fifty-eight persons, then pre- 
 sent and who all ligned their names of approbation. 
 S -> \ after, the above youth was tak- ! \ into the house 
 of a friend, where the visions where (hewn to him, in 
 tL anner, and according to the dares which will be 
 hereafter mentioned. The viiions were brought to 
 rne. and explained as you will see in thisbook. Now, 
 judge for yourselves, my brethren, that ye be not 
 judged of the Lord ; and trace his footfteps back- 
 ward : for no man living can trace them forward, as 
 thewl-dom of the Lord is hid in the great deep, and 
 his paths past man's finding out. Here I might enter 
 into a field large enough for a volume, was I to ex- 
 plain the strange dealings of the Lord with Joseph in 
 Egypt, Moses, and Pharaoh, with Noah, Daniel, and 
 with Job in all his afflictions. None could trace the 
 wisdom of the Lord till they saw the end : and so 
 it is at this moment ; none can trace the wisdom of 
 God forward, in all his directions to me, till they see 
 
 the end/ 
 
 JOANNA SOUTHCOTT. 
 
 High-House, Paddington, 
 May 4, 1803. 
 
 As I am ordered to put in print Joseph Prescott's 
 visions, that were fhewn to him since the begin- 
 ning of march, J803, which confirm the Bible and 
 my prophecies, I must call my readers to mark the 
 dates in my books how many years ago the promises 
 were made to me, that the Lord would cut off the
 
 powers of darkness from the face of the earth. . But 
 man must raise my hand ; which you will see in a let- 
 ter sent to a dignitary, in my sixth book, and A hich 
 is now fulfilled. Now I must observe, thar I v\as 
 ordered to publish in 1SO1 ; and, at the end of rhat 
 year, three ministers came from different parts ot the 
 kingdom, with four other gentlemen, to search out 
 the truth of my writings. The ministers waited upon 
 the bishor> of Exeter, and I wrote him a letter, which 
 was delivered" to him, offering to give up to his judg- 
 ment, or any other ministers he should appoint, if 
 they would only examine' my writings, and prove 
 they were not from the Lord ; but I said,. if they de- 
 clined this offer, I should resign to thejudgment of 
 those gentlemen who came to search out the truth. 
 The bishop declined ; as did all the others ministers, in 
 and near Exeter, to whom I had written. I was then 
 ordered-to give my writings, sealed up, into the hands 
 of the gentlemen whom the Lord had chosen to search 
 out the truth, and to have them^ro^^/in London, as 
 the ministers in Exeter had refused to examine them. 
 So I delivered my writings, sealed up, to the gentle- 
 men, on Tuesday morning the 5th of January 1&O2. 
 The May following 1 was ordered to go to London, 
 and was told I should never return till my writings 
 were proved. The latter end of July, I was inform- 
 ed by the Spirit, that Satan had complained against 
 my sealing the people that wished for his destruction, 
 and that the Lord would give him liberty to come to 
 me, and I should contend with him* (but he was not 
 permitted to appear visible;) and if I stood out with 
 strong faith in Christ, and overcame him with argu- 
 ments, and did not suffer him to speak without my 
 answer, I should overcome the devil at last, as he did 
 the woman at first ; and that the Lord, in his rich 
 mercy, would cast the woman's guilt on Satan's head, 
 aud he should fall by the power of Christ, who 
 
 t See the Book of Disputes with the Powers of Darkness. 
 A2
 
 'would now fulfil the promis he made me. I obeyed, 
 as I was ordered, knowing if the promise was from 
 the Lord, he would protect me; if not, I had rather 
 die than live, to be deceiving, and being deceived. 
 So I ran the hazard of my life to contend with the 
 powers of darkness : but the Lord protected me, ac- 
 cording to his promise, and then gave me an answer 
 to Satan's words, which may be seen in a late publi- 
 cation, entitled '* The Lord's Answer to the Powers of 
 Darkness " In November I was ordered to advertise 
 in the different Newspapers, that my sealed writings 
 would be brought forward, and proved, on the 12th 
 of January, 18O3. The Clergy were invited thus 
 publicly, and also many of them privately by letters, 
 to attend and investigate the truth; but every invita- 
 tion was disregarded. During the seven days of the 
 trial, there was open house for any to come and pass 
 his judgment; and none who applied AT THE HOUSE 
 were refused admittance. On the last day there were 
 fifty-eight people present, who joined with me for Sa- 
 tan's destruction, believing the calling to be of God, 
 and who with one heart and mind joined with me in 
 the following petition. 
 
 " I, Joanna Southcott, am clearly convinced my 
 calling is of God, and my writings are indited by 
 his Spirit : as it is impossible for any spirit but anal- 
 wise God, that is wondrous in working, wondrous in 
 wisdom, wondrous in power, and wondrous in truth, 
 could have brought round such mysteries, so full of 
 truth, as is in my writings ; so I am clear in whom I 
 have believed, that all my writings came from the 
 Spirit of the most high God. 
 
 JOANNA SOUTHCOTT. 
 
 After I had written my own faith, as I was ordered, 
 I was asked by the Spirit" what was my claim ? or what 
 was my petition to the Lord ? O my God, thou 
 knowest To cut off all the power of Satan from
 
 the face of the earth, as the head of John the Baptist 
 was cut off, and bury him down, as John was buried 
 down. This I read to the fifty-eight persons who 
 were present, and they figned their names with me in 
 faith and prayer, for the fulfilment of the above pe- 
 tition. After the trial was finished on the 18th of 
 January, in the evening, these words of the xviiith 
 Psalm were sung by the company it having been 
 explained in my sealed writings. 
 
 " The Lord descended from above, 
 And bow'd the heavens most high, 
 And underneath his feet he cast 
 The darkness of the sky : 
 On cherubs and on cherublms 
 Full royally he rode, 
 And on the wings of mighty winds 
 Came Hying all abroad. &c. &c. &c. 
 
 Then was sung by the company the civth Psalm, 
 a few verses of which I shall give. 
 
 O Lord our great God, how dost thou appear ! 
 So passing in glory, that great is thy fame, 
 Honour and majesty in thee shine most clear. 
 Thou makest thy spirits as heralds to go, 
 And Lightnings to serve we see also prest j 
 Thy will to accomplish they run to and fro, 
 To are or consume things, as seemeth thee best, Src. 
 
 Thus ended the seventh day of proving my wri- 
 tings, and the casting of Satan. On the fourth of 
 March, I had the following vision of Joseph Pres- 
 cott read to me, by a friend who that day had re- 
 ceived an account of it from the gentleman with 
 whom the youth now lives ; and on the fixth I had 
 a communication concerning the vifion of rhe crowns, 
 now given to the public ; but I must inform my 
 readers, before I proceed, that in July JSO2, I was 
 at the house of the gentleman near London, where I 
 saw a furnace perfectly like one that I saw in my 
 dream in 1794; where I saw a pig cast alive into 
 the furnace ; which I was told was a type of the 
 devil, because .he entered into the herd of swine,
 
 and they ran violently down the steep and wer e 
 choaked ; and so shall the devil. The latter end of 
 February, 1803, the same gentleman took into his 
 house this youth, who had been in the habit of 
 seeing visions from 1793 to the present day, and had 
 drawn many hundreds of them, and had sent some 
 to ministers, who judgedhis vifions came from the 
 devil. Some ministers prayed in his father's house, 
 that the Spirit might leave him. Their prayers did 
 not prevail ; for the vifions stili followed him. On 
 March the 4th the youth had the following vision, 
 at the house were he now lives. 
 
 JOSEPH PRESCOTT'S VISION, March 4, 1803. 
 
 An Angel appeared, in fize like a grown person, 
 in a loose blue rol.e, with a star on her head, 
 like a cap, a square box under her arm, about 
 a foot each way, apparently of gold. She opened 
 the box, in which wa<; a crown. To look at it 
 all together, it looked like a star of diamonds. 
 Four large arches came from the ball In the cen- 
 tre, at the top Between each of the four arches 
 there was a small crown like the large one. Un- 
 derneath the ball was another small crown, hang- 
 ing to the ball. At tiie top of the ball was ano- 
 ther crown. The an^el said, the four arches fig- 
 nified the four quarters of the world, and the 
 crowns between the four arches, CROWNS of WIS- 
 DOM, that the people of the world arc to be crowned 
 with, and the crown under the ball, the CROWN 
 of LIGHT, that was to be in the hearts of the 
 people. The BALL was the JVorld the crown 
 at the top, the CROWN of GLORY and HAPPI- 
 NESS, given them at their going out of the world. 
 The reason .the box first appeared shut, was, because 
 it is not yet *******. And if any one that was a
 
 y 
 
 believer in GOD, desired a picture, it should ap- 
 pear again; 'but not without. The reason the an-" 
 gel appeared in blue, was because he came with 
 TRUTH." The vision lasted about two or three 
 minutes ; and was seen soon after two o'clock this 
 afternoon . 
 
 A VISION seen at Medina, in Arabia, on September' 
 IQthy \6lQ,from Krniuhs s History of the Turks. 
 
 Mr. Knowles, in his Turkish History, relates, that 
 in 1620, there 'was a strange apparition, or vision, 
 seen by the Turks at Medina, where their prophet 
 lies buried, which continued three weeks, and terri- 
 fied the whole country. For on September 20, 
 1620, was a great tempest about midnight, attended 
 with dreadful thunder : but when the clouds were 
 dispersed, and the sky clear, the people might read 
 in Arabic characters these words in the firmament, 
 
 "O WHY WILL YE BELIEVE IN LIES ?" And be- 
 
 tween two and three in the morning appeared a wo- 
 man in white, encompassed with the sun, of a cheer- 
 ful countenance, and a book in her hand. Over 
 against her were armies of Turks, Perfians, Arabians, 
 and other Mahometans, in battle array, ready to fight 
 with her; but she keeping her station, only opened 
 the book; at the sight whereof the armies fled, and 
 presently all the la^ps about Mahomet's tomb weje 
 put out : for Vvhcn the vision vanished, which was 
 commonly an hour before sun-rising, a niurmuring 
 wind was heard, unto which they imputed the extin- 
 guishing of the lamps. The ancient pilgrims of 
 Mahomet's race (who after they visit this place ne- 
 v v er cut their hair) were much amazed to conceive 
 the. meaning of this vision ; only one of the dervises, 
 or priests (which is a strict order among the Turks, 
 like the capuchins among the papists, and live in 
 contemplation) stepped up boldly, and ma<ie the fol- 
 lowing speech to the company :
 
 8 
 
 " That the world never had but three true reli- 
 jions, every one of which had a prophet. First., 
 God chose the Jews, and did wonders for them in 
 Egypt, and brought them forth by their prophet 
 Moset, who prescribed them a law, wherein he would 
 have maintained them, if they had not been obsti- 
 nate ind rebellious, and fallen to idolatry ; where- 
 upon he gave them over, and scattered them upon 
 the face of the earth. Then presently after, God 
 raised a new prophet, who taught the Christian 
 religion. This good Man the Jews condemned, and 
 crucified for a seducer of the people, being not 
 moved with the piety of his life, his great miracles, 
 nor his doctrines ; yet, after his death, the preach- 
 ing of a few fishermen did so move the hearts of 
 men, that the great monarchs of the world bowed to 
 his very title, and yielded to the commands of his 
 ministers. But it seems, they in process of time grew 
 as corrupt as the Jews : their church being disjointed 
 with the title of Eastern and Western, committing 
 idolatry again, by setting up images, with many 
 other idle ceremonies, besides the corruption of their 
 lives ; so that God was weary of them too, and not 
 only sent divisions among them, but forsook them 
 and dispossessed them, of their chiefest cities, Jerusa- 
 lem and Constantinople. Yet, God is still governor 
 of the world, and to himself hath raised up another 
 prophet and people, even our great Mahomet, giving 
 him to our nation, so as no doubt we shall be happy 
 for ever, if we can serve this God aright, and take 
 warning by the fall of others. But, alas ! I tremble 
 to speak it, we have erred in every point, and wil- 
 fully broke our first institutions ; so that God hath 
 manifested his wrath by evident figns and tokens, 
 keeping our prophet from us, who prefixed a time 
 to return with all happiness to his people, so as there 
 are now forty years past by our account. This 
 strange and fearful vision is a prediction of some 
 great troubles and alterations. For, either the open
 
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 ing of the book in the woman's hand, doth foretel 
 our falling off from the first intent of our laws, 
 whereat these armed men depart, as confounded 
 with guilt of their consciences, or else it signifies 
 some other book, wherein we have not yet read, and 
 against which no power shall prevail ; so that,. I fear, 
 our religion will b proved corrupt, and our prophet 
 an impostor, and then this Christ whom they talk of, 
 shall shine like the sun, and set 'up his name ever- 
 lastingly." 
 
 Hitherto the company was silent, but hearing him 
 speak so boldly, they were much incensed, charging 
 him with blasphemy, which their law makes a capital 
 crime ; so they condemned him. and having obtained 
 the beglerbeg's warrant, put him to death. This 
 relation was confirmed by Isuf Chaons, a converted 
 Turk, who came to London, in 1650: which vision, 
 he said, did much affect him, but he added, that the 
 grand seignior commanded none should speak of it 
 upon pain of death. 
 
 A farther Explanation of the Vision of the Seven Crowns, 
 given March 'IS, 18O3. Continued from page 1'20, 
 of the first Book of sealed Prophecies. 
 
 " As my eye appears in the vision, so is my eye 
 every where present, beholding the evil and the 
 good this has been from age to age ; but mark now 
 what is under my eye the glory of my kingdom, 
 which I created man for rand now man shall enjoy 
 that kingdom in peace and happiness. 
 
 As in that vision icdoth ?.\\ ap tar ; 
 ^lurk well the vision, f\;r no cr c s rs there. 
 I said, the crosses I would turn from man ; 
 And every cr ss shall n.nv a cn>\vn become. 
 And from the top, the crown I'll IH>\V l -rg:;i .- 
 For as u:y eye is fixed o'er the C:\MVII, 
 With iparkliKg jfcweje I wi 1 make them up, 
 And cro\vn with w^dom n:an hath never gut ; 
 Pecnnse from man it ever was conceal'd. 
 Sataii would :ob them if I had reveal 'd 
 
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 My mind and will what I'd laid up in store> 
 
 I say, for man I need to say no more , 
 
 Because the thief is always at the door, 
 
 Where treasure's great, if he can go and steal : 
 
 Therefore in wisdom men do all conceal 
 
 Then choicest treasures, fearing of a foe j 
 
 And Satan's like a thief, I well do know. 
 
 When the first treasure I to manreveal'd, 
 
 You all do know, the thief went there to steal ; 
 
 Theref ,re the other I did all conceal 
 
 The knowledge of the good did not reveal. 
 
 But now I AM come to purchase every land; 
 
 I'll shew my crowns ; my jewels may command. 
 
 The first is Wisdom, I have said before ; 
 
 And Solomon he did great wisdom share ; 
 
 But Satan robb'd him at that very time ; 
 
 Then I conceal'd that wisdom from mankind. 
 
 But now the bolt is strong upon the door, 
 
 I'll catch the thief, if he should enter there. 
 
 To break the bolts that 1 have made for man : 
 
 You little know how strong your seals do stand 
 
 Against the tempter if he breaks the door, 
 
 To rob the heart, when I have seal'd it here. 
 
 For here's the hand that you do give to ME, 
 
 And here is mine, as I said ofter'd free, 
 
 That J shall place to man the second crown ; 
 
 For here's the union now it shall be found. 
 
 I died the world for to reconcile ; 
 
 And where's the man will dare my wisdom foil ? 
 
 I died the iall of man for to redeem ; 
 
 And where's the man shail dare to put a seam ? 
 
 Because my coat was interwoven through, 
 
 Without a seam so now no seam shail do j 
 
 But perfect as the picture doth appear, 
 
 J tell you all, my kingdom's coming here. 
 
 As for my kingdom I did bid you pray, 
 
 That earth like heaven should my will obey ; 
 
 And now on earth my will shall sure be done. 
 
 They may cast t Lots to whom it now shall come 
 
 They who believe according to the call, 
 
 Or unto them that don't believe at all ; 
 
 Because my kingdom you cannot dividd 
 
 And mark the clouds, how they're encircled here, 
 
 With pointed branches, pointing like a spear, 
 
 As though the thorns were with u,y crown come d nvn, 
 
 As man and J alike receiv'd a wound j 
 
 t Alluding to the lots which the Jews cast for our blessed Lord's ves- 
 ture after his crucifixion : so does M/s allude to the casting of lots for 
 Christ's kingdom: The one according to thepiomiscs in tlie. scriptures; 
 theotheraccoi ding tomen's vusdom and self-interpretation of the scrip- 
 tures.
 
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 So on both stems the pointed darts you see, 
 And now I'll dart them to the enemy ; 
 For all these darts, I say, shall run through all 
 That do reject MI now I loudly call. 
 By dreams and visions I have called you here, 
 And now my kingdom 1 have shewn you clear. 
 That all my jewels they may enter in : 
 The pointed tops foretel the sons of men 
 That I shall guard my jewels with my care j 
 But all my foes shall feel my pointed spear. 
 For here's the crown of thorns held out to all, 
 To shew the way that I for man did fall j 
 But here's the jewels, sparkling all within, 
 And so mv kingdom you with joy may win j 
 Because you see my eye fix'd o'er the crown, 
 "Wherein man's happiness you see is found, 
 Without a cross for to destroy your bliss, 
 To those that for my kingdom now do thirst. 
 Because, I said, I did die once for all, 
 And now's the time that it to man shall fall. 
 I died for Satan, and I died for man j 
 But here's a mystery thou dost not understand, 
 How for the devil I myself did die j 
 It was for him to share the cross that way : 
 And now I'll (ell thee how I died for man 
 To bear the blame that Satan cast by him. 
 But as the love of man then died for me, 
 It ii by man I've fix'd my just decrees, 
 That to their sentence Satan now shall fall; 
 And that's the way I'll bring the crowns for all. 
 I said, thefrst was wisdom for to know ; 
 The pearl now of great price to you I show ; 
 And all your wisdom you must now weigh deep, 
 To gain the prize, and find the pearl is great: 
 And then I say you'll see the starry crown, 
 That now to man on earth is coming down. 
 The second must an union now be found 
 Between your Maker and I say the man ; 
 Or else the starry crown can never come. 
 But now I say, I'll come unto the, third -. 
 In the beginning you know'twas my word, 
 That man and woman they must both appear : 
 I've made an helpmate, and I'll crown it here, 
 That in the end I'll make your bliss complete ; 
 For now my Father's will I'll finish it, 
 As in thy writings I did say before ; 
 Therefore I made these visions to appear, 
 To prove the truth of all that thou hast penn'd. 
 And now theffth crovr. she%s you of the end
 
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 That all believers 1 shall crown them here 
 
 With every premise that in thy books appear, 
 
 And all my Bible as it there 'is plac'd. 
 
 I t< 11 thee now I'll crown the human race 
 
 With rays of glory, and with je,\vels bright, 
 
 That how do stand like princes in the fight j 
 
 For all my armour you must now put on. 
 
 And to the sixth crown I do bid thee come 5 
 
 For there's the crown that now shall crown the whole, 
 
 And bring the seventh crmun in peace to all,' 
 
 When men with MK have fought the fight of faith, 
 
 Believe my gospel, as the scripture saith, 
 
 That I shall reconcile the world to God, 
 
 Fulfil the prayer I taught them to be said, 
 
 When to my Father they should ever pray ; 
 
 And will men answer I did mock that way, 
 
 To pray for what they never should obtain ? 
 
 Then my command to man was all in vain ; 
 
 As by your wisdom you do place your God 
 
 I must mock man, or now fulfil my word. 
 
 But now, I say, my word I will fulfil ; 
 
 For like my eye, my heart is fixed still 
 
 To bring a glorious kingdom down below, 
 
 Without a cross, that every soul shall know ; 
 
 Satan shall know it, when he's chained down ; 
 
 And every sinner that doth mock the sound, 
 
 They then will know these visions all are true : 
 
 When Satan's chain'd the truth they all will kn^ ; 
 
 And saints above will see the heavenly sight, 
 
 And saints below, with them I shall delight ; 
 
 For then I'll crown them with humility ; 
 
 A heavenly loVe in every heart shall be ; 
 
 A heavenly union then with God and man. 
 
 And now I'll tell you how I'll crown your land, 
 
 With peace and plenty, and with every store, 
 
 As in thy writings I have named before ; 
 
 Because these visions I to thee did send, 
 
 I shew'd the youth that all might know the end. 
 
 For perfect as tkese pictures do appear, 
 
 Thou know'st I told thee my kingdom it was near; 
 
 For when the flowers did a; pear on earth, 
 
 I told thee then they'd know their Saviour's birth ; 
 
 And now my birth I'll make it to appear : 
 
 When I was born the star was then seen clear 
 
 Unto the shepherds, who were in the field j 
 
 To follow it the wise men they did yield : 
 
 Gifts, gold and myrrh, and frankincense, they brought, 
 
 And here's a mystery deep beyond your thought ;
 
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 For now the angel doth to you appear, 
 To shew the jewels they did present to her. 
 In heavenly odour they were sealed up, 
 Within a box, which no man ever thought 
 How all men's conduct is enroll'd in heaven ; 
 (That in the end to man it might be given :) 
 And all to your remembrance I shall bring. 
 And now these visions they do shew you plain 
 How every thing is laid before your view 
 You judged my mother, and your judgment's true ; 
 Because the wise men they do now appear 
 To search the truth, as did the shepherds there j 
 And from the wise men I will not conceal : 
 What's right for them to know, I will reveal. 
 No bloody Herods they have now to fear 
 Within are jewels, and without 's the spear; 
 And so my Ibes shall feel the deadly spear, 
 If they begin in anger to appear. 
 No more in Bethlehem doth the infant lay. 
 I said in heaven my wonders I'd display ; 
 And from these visions I have shown thee here* 
 The heavenly visions do to all appear : 
 Read back thy writings, and the truth see dear. 
 When that these visions landed on the earth. 
 The horses fought (mark what the Spirit saith) 
 And now the horses must begin to fight, 
 And then, I say, I'll make them men of might} 
 For I'm the rider, every soul shall see, 
 And strong my Spirit now in man shall be, 
 That now will tight my kingdom to obtain : 
 It is the Spirit's sword that must it gain. 
 Conquering, to conquer I shall now go on ; 
 And now from Paul this vision must be known 
 'Tis hard for man to kick against these pricks ; 
 For every soul shall know my eye is fix'd, 
 To bring my glorious kingdom down to man, 
 Without a cross : for there no seam shall come; 
 No seam of sorrow, and no seam of sin, 
 But interwoven through, I'll now begin 
 To make my kingdom as it doth appear. 
 And from the dead I now will answer here, 
 That as the vision to the youth was seen, 
 So the departed spirit now is gone, 
 Guarded by angels, all his journey through ; 
 It was with joy he bid the world adieu ; 
 And in the mansions oi eternal bliss 
 His soul is now arriv'd in happiness, 
 Where Satan's malice never can molest, 
 And with his Saviour he's in glory blest; 
 * See Strange Effects of Faith, page 86.
 
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 But know, his son, that doth remain below, 
 
 A different labour he hath now'to do 
 
 The one in heaven, praising of my name, 
 
 With rapturous joys, that do his tongue inflame, 
 
 And to my praises he does sing above, 
 
 In happiness that time can, never move, 
 
 And in like manner all my saints are gone. 
 
 I shew'd the vision of this single man, 
 
 To let you know how all the saints depart, 
 
 And how they are guarded from the tempter's dart, 
 
 That I have said is hovering in the way; 
 
 Therefore my angels must his soul convey. 
 
 In the like manner all do leave this earth 
 
 Who die in ME, with upright hearts and faith'. 
 
 And so I've shew'd yon how the worlds unite, 
 
 And how the angels always take their flight, 
 
 To guard my jewels to their heavenly bliss j 
 
 Then now I ask you how they e'er shall miss 
 
 To bring my.glorieus kingdom down to man, 
 
 When I have told you that the time's at hand 
 
 That my true kingdom must come down below ? 
 
 How shall they miss these visions for to show, 
 
 Which all my prophets warn'd you of before ? 
 
 Ezekiel's visions must to all. appear; 
 
 Because the dry bones must begin to live 
 
 I'll raise the dead, and will my Spirit give, 
 
 With heavenly music sounding in the ear, 
 
 More sweet than any music thou dost hear. 
 
 And so in harmony shall all unite 
 
 I've shew'd the visions of the every sight, 
 
 And how my kingdom shall come down to all : 
 
 For as the spikes you place upon the wall, 
 
 To prick a thief, if he should enter in ; 
 
 I say, to rob you should he dare to come, 
 
 You place the spike to tear his every hand ; 
 
 And now I tell you mine is placed the same } 
 
 If you begin to rob ME of my fame j 
 
 Then every spike shall run your hands all through : 
 
 Deep is the vision, but you'll rind it true. 
 
 I'll save my jewels that within nppeir; 
 
 And those that kick against, shah ft-el my spear ; 
 
 Therefore 'tis hard to kick against these pricks 
 
 The vision now of Paul for ajl is fix'd ; 
 
 And he that will not now like Paul become, 
 
 He'll feel the spear go through his every hand : 
 
 Because my jewels now I'll make them up, 
 
 And like the wise men now one heart did drop, 
 
 Who from the East did go the truth to know : 
 
 And here's the je.vels I'll preserve below.
 
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 .And as the fishermen did then appear, 
 These are my jewels, that prove fishers here, 
 To fish for men, 1 say, on the right side; 
 For there the net must now by aL be laid : 
 Or else your labour will be all in vain ; 
 You all may toil, but you no fish will gain j 
 Because, I tell you, all the fish are gone, 
 And nought but itching ears appear in men, 
 With different doctrine in their every mind j 
 But to the Law and Gospel none do bind ; 
 And so your Bibles you put out of doors. 
 By your inventions you destroy my store, 
 And so your houses build upon the sand 
 Then now awake, thou dark benighted land) 
 Discern my Gospel, see the end's at hand; 
 Or else the storms and tempests fast will rise, 
 And great you'll see the fall before your eyes. 
 Your labovir's lost, and all your fish are gone, 
 Unless your nets on th' other side you turn ; 
 And then, I say, your nets will so-jn be full ; 
 For then your wounded nation I shall heal: 
 And so my fishermen must now appear ; 
 And these are jewels I shall make up here. 
 And next unto the prophets I shall come : 
 They were my jewels, that were faithful men, 
 And did with patience bear with ME the cross r 
 These are my jewels, and they are not lost. 
 And now these jewels shall again appear, 
 With the same spirit I shall make them here; 
 Because that now I've plac'd them in the land : 
 Like my first coming cloth the second stand. 
 The Virgin wrun'd before I did appear, 
 And now the Virgin's come to warn you here, 
 That in the Spirit I am come again j 
 And now, proud Herods, it is all in vain 
 To slay her children ; for not one shall fall ' 
 It is the Spirit's sword must conquer all : 
 And now the Spirit's sword they'll find is-come, 
 To bring the day ot vengeance fast on man, 
 That now arise to nail MK to the tree: 
 I've tix'd my spt-ar, that every soul shall see : 
 And mark my eye, and now behold the spear, 
 And weigh the vision dee;- that's placed th'vre; 
 And how the crowns within they ail do ^iand 
 And every Peter may these crowns command j 
 And so I say of persecuting Saul : 
 lear ye the pricks, and I'll preserve ynu all. 
 For so my jewels now I 11 make them up ; 
 And as my eye is fix'd the globe shall dr> p
 
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 With heavenly beauties I design'd at first ; 
 
 And now's the time my kingdom so shall burst. 
 
 For if my kingdom I ne'er bring to ye, 
 
 I ask of men, what judge they e'er could be, 
 
 What Paradise they lost by Adam's fall ? 
 
 Or of the tree ot knowledge ? tell me all 
 
 What good fruit on it man hath ever gain'd? 
 
 The best of men have liv'd in grief ind pain, 
 
 Oppress'd with sorrow, and oppress'd with sin j 
 
 If one be good, another does condemn : 
 
 So that the good fruit man could never taste, 
 
 To spend his days in happiness and peace. 
 
 But- know, at first I did pronounce all good, 
 
 And now's the time I will fulfil my word j 
 
 That all the nations of the earih may see, 
 
 How I created man to live with ME, 
 
 In heavenly union I have plac'd below : 
 
 The justice of my sentence now I'll show, 
 
 Why I confin'd the rebel down below, 
 
 With all his angels, and the fallen host, 
 
 That did rebel I'll rid them off the coast, 
 
 And let them see the sad effects of sin : 
 
 I'll conquer death, and hell, and every sting, 
 
 I say, of poison I will take away ; 
 
 And man with ME shall see a glorious day. 
 
 For as the vision * Young did bring thee here-, 
 
 It was my Mother, hovering in the air, 
 
 To shew them plainly that her Son should come, 
 
 And be the Prophet : they must worship Him; 
 
 Or all that City\ it shall surely fall : 
 
 The books are open now, I tell you all j 
 
 And fast the ruin on the Turks will come, 
 
 If they don't worship now my onlp Son. 
 
 But those that worship, as the books are here, 
 
 I say, their city and their land shall share 5 
 
 For I'll not stop until I've made all good ; 
 
 For now my eye is fix'd to crown my -word. 
 
 So now your Bibles witb these visions weigh : 
 
 I ask what man of sense will dare to say 
 
 That from the devil did this, likeness come ? 
 
 Then your Creator you must all condemn 
 
 For want of wisdom Satan here must shine, 
 
 I say, in wisdom, and in words divine. 
 
 Or will you say, these /u-^J were so agreed. 
 
 From the invention ol their simple heads, 
 
 The one to draw, (he other to explain 
 
 Such wisdom bright, beyond the heads of men ? 
 
 " Alluding to the vision out of Knowles's History of the Turks. 
 t Medina. } Joanna and Joseph.
 
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 By words and visions make my Bible true, > 
 And bring these wondrous visions to your view ? 
 1 say, 'tis more than e'er was done by man : 
 You don't discern the way you lay your plan, 
 To turn my Bible by your judgment here, 
 Till there's no man caa prove my Bible clear: 
 And so you wrest It, till to nought it comes. 
 Therefore my B;ble I have took in hand, 
 And now my Bible I will make it true j 
 But that is more than any man can do, 
 By all the judgment you from it do draw : 
 You are but men, I tell you, plac'd below, 
 Who eat of knowledge I pronounced dead, 
 And perfect so is all your knowledge fled. 
 And 'tis by faith you knowledge must obtain, 
 And by charity you must perfection gain } 
 Faith to believe, my Bible I'll fulfil, 
 And charity in yjur Creator's skill, 
 That he hath wisdom all for to perform, 
 In his own likeness God and man to join, 
 As in my likeness I have made them here j 
 And for their sakes Satan must disappear j 
 Because his sentence is already cast. 
 But here's a wondrous mystery in the last : 
 The world has stood nearly 6000 years, 
 And never was an age that past before, 
 That e'er a woman did the promise claim, 
 That Satan's curse it must be worse than man's, 
 And plead my promise for to bruise his head ; 
 And on the serpent she the fault hath laid, 
 And pleads my promise now for to redeem, 
 That I will come and conquer hell and sin, 
 And conquer Satan, as she hath begun : 
 I ask you when such things were done before ? 
 No, all must own that something new appears; 
 Yet on the earth, you say, there's nothing new : 
 The words you must affirm them false, or true; 
 For on the earth there's something new appears. 
 Since earth's foundation plac'd I tell you here, 
 Such wondrous woman never was below, 
 (Bring all before you, and the truth you'll know) 
 To seal the people in her Maker's name, 
 To prove my Bible true and it explain j 
 To speak of dangers, and say they are near, 
 And then the truth to mak for to appear; 
 And with the Tempter then for to dispute, 
 Till by her arguments she made him mut j 
 
 c
 
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 And then by cbanee a vision * one did see, 
 
 That came from Heaven, and was shewn to be 
 
 The power of Satan breaking off from man, 
 
 -And >n her writings she had laid her plan. 
 
 Now if you judge this all a woman's wit, 
 
 I ask you how the mystery came so great, 
 
 That she was forc'd to leave her native home 
 
 Before these visions to her could be shewn ? 
 
 And how the visions did not so appear 
 
 Till men had sigrid to free the -woman here, 
 
 And in her stead to have the serpent cast, 
 
 And then such wondrous visions for to burst, 
 
 To shew them plain their words I would fulfil, 
 
 And their desire, the serpent's power should chill ; 
 
 Thai is, his power I would so tread down ; 
 
 And ail shall know I listen'd to their sound. 
 
 Now on this earth you must confess it ne-Ji ; 
 
 But know, in heaven these wonders John did shew ; 
 
 And now to earth they all are coming down : 
 
 Therefore, ye husbands, tremble at the sound ; 
 
 Your wives in bondage you do make to be, 
 
 The masters of them, you'll not Jet them free, 
 
 To have a power o'er their every will : 
 
 The married woman doth your power feel ; 
 
 Then know the single woman is to ME 
 
 As much in bondage, every soul shall see, 
 
 By my command, for to obey my word } 
 
 And like a husband now I'll draw my sword, 
 
 If man, like Satan, dare lor to assume 
 
 To threaten her, now I have shewn so plain, 
 
 From types and shadows, and from visions here, 
 
 And from my Bible every line is clear; 
 
 And from the prophecies how all do stand: 
 
 And now, I say, if you deny her hand, 
 
 1 tell you plain you must deny your Cod, 
 
 And then, I tell you, you shall feel my rod; 
 
 For such a chance did nevt-r come below, 
 
 Without my Spirit, every soul sharll know. 
 
 Think how this woman left her native home, 
 
 And in what manner did these visions come. 
 
 The way they came must all in print appear, 
 
 And tell the time the visions were brought here. 
 
 And in what manner all did sign their names, 
 
 To free the woman and the serpent blame. 
 
 Now then appear, ye leained sons of men, 
 
 And tell what chance made all these things so plain, 
 
 That aie beyond the learned to confound ? 
 
 When they begin they all must judge the sound. 
 
 - 
 Joseph Prescott'i Vision.
 
 Another VISION of JOSEPH PRKSCOTT, seen 
 March jth, 1903. 
 
 " The part of the mill at the Neckinger, Bermond- 
 sey, where his eye was directed to, just about ten 
 o'clock, all at once was obscured, and exhibited the 
 appearance of a dark night with the sky full of stars; 
 the moon appeared very low ; the principal parts of 
 a dark red colour, interspersed with some marbled 
 part of light, like its natural colour; on the right 
 hand of the moon, and higher up from the horizon, 
 was the sun, which appeared of a dark, grey, gloomy 
 colour, about half as large again as the moon, with 
 some faint rays of light around it. Above the moon 
 and sun were rolling light clouds, in form of a semi- 
 circle, or rainbow reversed ; the underneath parts 
 dark, the upper parts light, from the glory that was 
 over it. Above those clouds, and on some fainter 
 clouds, that seemed at a further distance, was a large 
 grey horse, exceeding in size all he had ever seen. 
 On it was a Person, whom he believes, from what 
 followed, to be the Lord, dressed in a large loose 
 flowing robe, of a red colour; underneath which he 
 had a close garment, of bright purple, a broad sash 
 over the right shoulder, and under the left arm, of 
 the same colour. Upon, his head was a crown of 
 twelve stars, and four arches with a star between each 
 arch, and one on the top of each arch, and four 
 stars in a cluster, on the top of the ball ; and in his 
 right hand a sword, large and broad, which he held 
 perpendicularly ; with the other hand he appeared 
 to guide the horse. The light extended itself above 
 in a semi-circle, or arch, which with the clouds below 
 formed a complete circle. In the circle, above und 
 on each side the horse, were an immense number of 
 angelic faces, of various sizes, at various distances, 
 and apparently of different ages, All as with one 
 voice shouted, '* Glory to fhee, Lord. Ridr forth, 
 mighty God, conquering and to conquer,"
 
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 " From a voice behind him it was said, if a repre- 
 sentation, or drawing, was coveted by any one that 
 was a Believer in these things, it should again appear ; 
 but there was no command for drawing it." 
 
 The ANSWER to the VISION, from the SPIRIT. 
 
 The sword of the Spirit is drawn by ME. I am 
 the Captain of their salvation, that am now going 
 on conquering and to conquer. The horse repre- 
 sents men that my Spirit resteth on ; and as the 
 bridle is in- my hand, so will I hold, guide, and 
 direct them who now trust in ME, and rely on the 
 words given to thee for direction arid for protection. 
 And as one leg is broken and turned round under 
 my heel, that was bruised by the powers of darkness 
 working in the hearts of men to bruise it, when they 
 nailed me to the tree ! so shall my heel tread down 
 that power, to break his legs, and all his footing here. 
 Satan hath but one power I have three powers, viz. 
 I have power to give life, and power to take it away ; 
 I have power to send blessings on the earth, or to 
 withhold them. Satan hath but one power, and that 
 is to tempt men to sin, and now that power shall be 
 taken away, and God shall be all in all. 
 
 For the one power, I say, shall fall. 
 
 Just as that leg is now turn'd round, 
 
 Just so his power shall now be found 
 
 To twist and turn beneath my heel j 
 And true believers now I'll fill 
 With power I made them for at first ; 
 ^ And now's the time that power shall burst. 
 
 For know (hat horse resembles man, 
 
 That I am holding in my hand : 
 
 By the piercing eye that doth appear, 
 
 They all shall know my Spirit's here, 
 
 With such a quick discerning eye 
 
 I know my jewels where they He j 
 
 And they the mystery shall discern, 
 
 And all their hearts with love I'll warm.
 
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 That every foe they shall pierce through. 
 I have the sword, they all shall know, 
 And now to conquer I'll go on ; 
 And they shall trust in MB alone j 
 For Satan's power is broke for man, 
 That gives the reins into my hand, 
 To be directed now by ME ; 
 That piercing eye let mortals see : 
 It is the eye of faith so bright ; 
 And they shall see the every sight, 
 Which in the picture doth ap: e:ir ; 
 Thou know'st, before I told thee there. 
 Your pictures did some likeness bring, 
 And now I've show'd the likeness plain, 
 That from the vision doth appear, 
 And a true p cture now is h re. 
 The angels that surrounded ME, 
 (My sealed people) all shall see, 
 Are those who sign to see my crown, 
 And have my kingdom to come down, 
 And have the power of Satan broke ; , 
 For they in triumph, man knovv^ not, 
 Shall come with ME then 'n the air, 
 When I'vefulfil'd this vision here. 
 Whoe'er do die before the time, 
 If for my kingdom they do sign, 
 My kingdom then they shall enjoy, 
 And Satan's power I'll destroy, 
 And break it off from every man 
 That wish my kingdom for to come. 
 So if they die, they're seal'd above, 
 
 And they shall t.nste my perfect love ; 
 And they that live are seal'd below, 
 And strong my Spirit here shall go 
 On those that wish to see my reign ; 
 And now my Bible all see plain, 
 How ye are seal'd in heaven and earth, 
 So perfect as the Scripture sairh. 
 The eleventh hour doth appear, 
 
 And now my vineyard I shall clear, 
 That every one may enter in, 
 And all your \vagesyou may gain, 
 That now are workers here with ME 
 
 One single hour makes you free : 
 Because the kingdom is my o\vn 
 The righteous labourers inny complain, 
 That man's desires should heaven gain, 
 If they do wish to conquer sin,
 
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 And have my glorious kingdom come. 
 But now to man I'll this impart ; 
 You all must wish it from your hearts 
 For MB to reign, and Satan fall, 
 Or else, I now do tell you all, 
 Your signing then is of no use, 
 And can no merit here produce j 
 Because the angels will destroy 
 Your every bliss and every joy, 
 Unless you wish lor to be free 
 From Satan's power, and live in MI : 
 And if in MI you wish to live, 
 And so your names you freely give, 
 Then all your names I'll seal above, 
 And you shall taste my perfect love. 
 When I in triumph do appear 
 To conquer hell j I tell you here, 
 That as the angels here you see, 
 You all shall triumph then with MX ; 
 Because your names shall ever stand 
 Upon the palms of both my hands. 
 For when the sun doth dark appear, 
 And comes like night, none can see clear 
 The things that are before their view j 
 And now I tell you, so I'll do: 
 "" I will not see your sins below, 
 But from your names your joys shall flow. 
 For when the moon is turn'd to blood, 
 I'll cast your sins on Satan's head, 
 If he does tempt you then to sin, 
 When you do wish him to be gone, 
 To live in ME and sin no more : 
 But know your hearts must sure be there, 
 To wish that I in you may reign : 
 And so my kingdom you must gain, 
 I tell you all, in heaven or earth : 
 Remember what the Scripture saith 
 My judgment never was like man's : 
 Tis from the heart my judgment comes, 
 And from the heart I'll now judge all 
 That wish for Satan now to fall, 
 And wish my kingdom to appear ; 
 For I'm the judge, and at the door 
 Of every heart that here doth sign. 
 So now I've told you all my mind 
 And to the other picture come. 
 The stars from heaven shall be known, 
 Though they are fallen from the earth j 
 And they shall taste a heavenly birth ;
 
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 But then they will come down below, 
 
 These wondrous visions they will shew, 
 
 That I am coming to fulfil : 
 
 Or else your hearts I know't would chill, 
 
 To see my wonders to appear, 
 
 And rolling thunder in the air; 
 
 For every house and heart will shake, 
 
 When I the powers of darkness break, 
 
 I say to come and chain him down, 
 
 None but believers will be found, 
 
 I say, to live and bear the sight j 
 
 For men will perish in the fright, 
 
 Thai do not know these things before. 
 
 The other picture must appear." 
 
 The Third VISION of JOSEPH PRESCOT T, of the 
 Crowns and Crosses. Bermondsey, March Q, 1803. 
 
 About half after seven o'clock, Joseph was sitting 
 
 in the kitchen, at the Neckinger, in company with 
 
 ******, his eyes fixed on the ceiling. From seeing 
 
 some rays of light from thence, he saw a crimson 
 
 velvet cushion, four 'square, with gold tassels and 
 
 fringe, letters formed by diamonds on it, and the 
 
 word " CHRIST." Above that were ribbons of 
 
 blue and white, plaited together in form of a basket. 
 
 In it, and about it, were red roses and hearts-ease, 
 
 and upon the cushion, by the basket, was " a star'' 
 
 and a cross in the middle. Two sceptres across each 
 
 other like the letter ^ were laid on the flowers, 
 
 and a crown of diamonds on the sceptres. On the 
 
 basket was written, in diamonds, the word " SPIRIT." 
 
 On the crown was written " GOD," with diamonds. 
 
 The crown had seven arches, and a cross, with red 
 
 diamonds, on the top of the ball ; and over that was 
 
 a representation of glory. In that glory were two 
 
 stars, three points to each, one in another ; and over 
 
 that, in printing characters, these words : " BEHOLD 
 
 THE GLORY OF THE TRINITY.''
 
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 At eight o'clock it made its second appearance, 
 exactly in the same manner, only with the addition 
 of an angel in the middle of the room; who ut- 
 tered distinctly these words : 
 
 " Speak not of this till these be gone And that the 
 star of glory, which was ori the cushion, was * 
 temporal representation of the spiritual glory to, be 
 inherited hereafter, through the merits of the eross 
 of Christ. The stars are a representation of the 
 Trinity: Three- in- One and One-in-Three. A fur- 
 ther, explanation of which shall be given hereafter; 
 and if a drawing is wished, it shall appear again." 
 
 A drawing was coveted, and it is executed. 
 
 March Ifj, 1803. The following Explanation of 
 the above Vision was given by the Spirit, to Joanna 
 Southcott. 
 
 " I am the root and offspring of David, the bright 
 and morning Star, that am now coming in all my 
 Father's glory 
 
 To triumph o'er the cross men nail'd ME to, 
 And every arch I'll bring before thy view ; 
 For in the globe the crown is fasten M there, 
 And everyoow that's round it I shall clear ; 
 For on one stem thou seest that both do stand : 
 The cross and globe were drawn by my command ; 
 And underneath the stem the cushion stands, 
 With the. two crosses that do now appear, 
 And in the middle now the cross see deai 5 
 And under that you may behold the crown, 
 Wherein's the name of GOD, that now is found 
 To have a power all for to fulfil ; 
 And b^ each arch you see the cross stand still. 
 But yet their turning it doth now appear; 
 You cannot say these crosses now stand fair. 
 No, no, I tell thee they are bowing down, 
 And by the arch they both are circled round >
 
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 Aad interwoven these two arches be, 
 And joined 'o the globe you plain do see. 
 But now come to the crosses that do stand : 
 They every one are conquer'ng'cruwns for man. 
 Because the crosses you received at first ; 
 And in the end your every crown shall burst ; 
 And then your crosses they will all falLdown. 
 And now I'll tell how every cro-s was found : 
 The tirsr c.x>ss came when I created man j 
 For Satan hasty brought the cross on them ; 
 And then my cross it instant was decreed 
 Therefore these crosses were so curious laid ; 
 For on the globe Mere's one that doth appear, 
 And underneath the other jou see clear ; 
 So both together did the^e crosses come ; 
 Mine was decreed when it was brought on man. 
 But as the other two they so are found : 
 The cross went through when I the world did drown ; 
 But when the fire did from heaven fall, 
 You cannot say that cros, then went through all ; 
 Because a 1 nations I d d n t destroy 
 A little city Lot did thtn enjoy ; 
 Because my heavy hand was not si retch 'd out, 
 To feel that awiul cross ; and so 'tis shut : 
 Because that cross it did not then go through, 
 As did the deluge, every one doth know. 
 But still mankind do feel the general cross ; 
 As by the fall their happiness was lost. 
 But as to th' other two, the crosses turn,'' 
 And on the top they both go through the stem j 
 And on the globe the outside stem appears j 
 Within the other it's incirci'd there ; 
 That is the second stem appear'd to be ; 
 And now the mystery I'll reveal to thee : 
 The outside stem it must resemble man ; 
 And they without, that now bow to my hand, 
 And will subm't to bow to ME btlow, 
 And judge, my o-jtstretch'd ar<n will guide them through, 
 I say, my outstretch'd arm they all shall see: 
 I'll surely bow to man, that bows to ME. 
 And as the stems are interwoven there, 
 So man and I are interwoven here ; 
 Because they bow to come within the veil : 
 They'll find the sec .ml branch can never fail 
 To gain the victory for the sons of men ; 
 They'll find my arm go through as there 'tissesn : 
 For I'll go through, and now encircle all 
 That to my Spirit now will bow and tall. 
 
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 For as that second branch comes out toman, 
 
 I --11 you, in the end, the globe must stand, 
 
 Under uie shadow of my wings appear 
 
 The mystery's plain if roan can see it clear 
 
 For with my Bible it doth all agree : 
 
 This heavenly vision, eve-y soul shall see, 
 
 Is like my Bible ; you may&^e it plain. 
 
 1 said the Heavens should shew you oi the sign* J 
 
 A;id so the sig s and visions do ap:x-ar, 
 
 And tiie t\fro standing b \\sthat now are clear, 
 
 It shews you all how (.'very one will st nd, 
 
 When on the globe I'v conquer'd all for man. 
 
 For a theb >ws did to you all appear, 
 
 Just so my kingdom's interwoven here. 
 
 Man must come in My aim it must come out; 
 
 And t:<en you'll find the cross from man to drop ; 
 
 Eecc-use my hand tor man shall interfere, 
 
 Ad -\om together as the b >ws appear ; 
 
 And tlv.'n y.- u ;;11 will see the reign of God. 
 
 The rose of Sharon now is in the word, 
 
 And there' are three, now operi'd to y jurview ; 
 
 It is my shepherds, you shall find it true, 
 
 Whose eyes areopen'd, and they more shall see, 
 
 Ad ev:- iy bud in bloss in soon shall be. 
 
 But seven, and thou see'st no more, 
 
 T : iou |udg's: eleven should in all appear; 
 
 Because thou seest that ti:c-y are but ten j 
 
 And thou hast plac'd them to my chosen men : 
 
 And ro my chosen men they surely be ; 
 
 But one is wanting now is said by thee : 
 
 Bu. as ano;her flower uorh a; pear, 
 
 I tell thee plain, they are not wanting there ; 
 
 Because the two will make the twelve complete ; 
 
 Though they are fainter, thou discern'st them not $ 
 
 And they themselves so clearly don't discern, 
 
 Jor in what manner I to thee do warn, 
 
 As d the re ses which in buds appear ; 
 
 I tt-11 thee plainly they will see m-jre clear. 
 
 And as the violet gives a fragrant smell, 
 
 Join'd with th - roses, or the hearts-ease well, 
 
 Thou well dost know, that they do bear both names ; 
 
 Just -o I tell t'nee, when men's hearts inflam'd, 
 
 I say, with anger, and do violent burn, 
 
 You'll find it hearts-ease unto every one 
 
 That doth this calling now believe atjirst : 
 
 1 know that v.ount passions now will burst 
 
 On those that see their wisdom all betray'd 
 
 Vet they mu.,t own that sweet the words aie laid
 
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 Unto believers, to enjoy their God : 
 The fl.>\vers shew how all b' arts will be led. 
 Thon now I'll come to answer of the pole 
 The crown and sceptre are held out to all 
 That now will come rny kingdom to embrace,: 
 Mark every stem and flower how they are plac'd } 
 For in my crown you see the rose appear, 
 And four different staffs arej. ined tuere. : 
 On one are join'd the sceptre and the crown 
 On th' other side, the sign for man is found, 
 With four dirf-. ent branches on the po.e> 
 Ar>d much like wings within th-j three do fall. 
 But yet you see, the other it doth join, 
 Though it doth differ now I'll coma to man : 
 I said before, the GLORIOUS TRINITY 
 Agreed to join with man in unity j 
 But yet inferior 1 had placed man ; 
 And now I tell thee mark the eve y kand. 
 It is the wings tl.at make it differ here ; 
 And now from w>ngs I'll make the p ow, r more clear : 
 A bird hath power to mount up and fly, 
 And shun his foes, when he does see them, nigh ; 
 From place tp place a bird hath wings to go, 
 You may confine all beast;, you well d< "now, 
 But where's your buildings can confine oird ? 
 And so their wings I'll liken to ray w< rds , 
 For no man living can my word confine 
 But well I know what's in thy hear' and mind; 
 That cage and houses may confine i .'em here, 
 And take the power from the floating air, 
 Where they in no ways can mount up to fly, 
 And so their wings can be confined that way. 
 But this thou say'st can never be in God ; 
 For there's no man that can confin,e n:y word. 
 To this I answer : he v i>> thy mistake, 
 When you confine a bird you trouble take, 
 To have your cages and your house prepared, 
 Or else you know you can't confine them there; 
 Because the o^.en wal'.s, though e'er so high, 
 Yon know the birds will s:-on m unt up and fly 
 Out o: your power; you can r.o m re command ; 
 And perfect like the birds my word doth stand. 
 You may confine ME by your eve 'y prayer, 
 For t;> -prevent the judgments that a;;e near 
 As Nineveh at first confined ME so : 
 They made their hearts 1 ke cages : all did go 
 For to confine ME by their every prayer; 
 I could not fly from them when they came near
 
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 In dust and ashes bow'd before my throne, 
 Mercy confm'd ME all their prayers to own. 
 That I the judgments to them did not send, 
 .Although my word was gone: mark what is penn'd:- 
 Jt was by prayer they then confm'd my word, 
 That I should act with mercy like a God ; 
 And so with mercy I did then appear, 
 While every heart to ME a cage was there. 
 But when their cages they were all br, ke down, 
 Aud open houses unto ME were f und, 
 Then like the birds from them I flew away, 
 And brought the ru'n I before did say. 
 At'd so to Eli I did prove the same : 
 He made a cage for to confine my name ; 
 I say, in honour he did it confine, 
 Br ,ke down the altar perfect with my mind, 
 And then my promise 1 did make to he, 
 That like the birds I in hig house would be ; 
 But ma.k how soon this cage was instant broke, 
 When all my honour he had quite Ibrgot 5 
 Then sure horn Eli I did fly away, 
 And brought his fatal ruin in one day. 
 And all my Bible you will see the same ; 
 And 1 ke the birds you'll find my every name ; 
 So, like the birds, with havering wings, I'm come, 
 I say, in love, to make my cage with man j 
 And so my Spirit you may all confine, 
 And to your hearts I will my Spirit bind : 
 If now you'll act according to my will, 
 Firm as the heavenly pillars, I'll fulfil 
 The every promise 1 have made to man- 
 The budding roses shew tl.j time's at hand ; 
 Because 'tis said the flowers shall appear, 
 When in the land the turtle's voice you hear j 
 And all shall find the turtle's voice is come, 
 To bring tfie news of fence to every land j 
 That like the flowers they will now appear; 
 And maik the roses, how t'ley are placed tlierc ; 
 So that the stem, or staff, they do go through ; 
 And here's a mystery deep before veor view. 
 For so, I tell thee, many will begin 
 To claim my promise, and my kingdom win ; 
 Therefore the staff that doth to thce appear, 
 Join'd to my crown, that is so placed there, 
 1 tell thee plain, it is my outstretch'd arm, 
 To keep believers now from every harm, 
 That shoot their branches interwove with ME 
 Thou know'st I told thee my delight should b: 
 
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 Now plac'd with men, when I come down below, 
 And do the glories of rry kingdom show ; 
 And as the flowers and the leaves plac'd there, 
 So men with ME they now must interfere, 
 For to affirm the words that I have spoke j 
 And in such beauty God and man shall drop, 
 As do the flowers on the bank appear. 
 Now mark the compass how 't ; s placed there; 
 And at the bottom thou dost see the ball, 
 And to each side the tassels hang for all, 
 To shew the compass I have nnde for man, 
 And at the top tlie rainbow now does stand : 
 And mark the rainb >w, what I said before j 
 I said the ra'.nbow all your g ief should clear ; 
 Because I said, that I myself woa Id reign, 
 And, in this vision, I have shew'd thee plain 
 The glory of the TRINITY is there ; 
 And on the top thbu seest the second star. 
 But in thy heart thou say'st the top is first ; 
 And now's the time that star shall surely burst, 
 With every power in the bows appear, 
 And I am the rainbow, and I will reign here. 
 For as the tassels under these are found, 
 I tell thee plain that men will now pull down 
 My every power on them as a God j 
 Some will, by fury, now pull my word, 
 With every stripe that in it now appears 
 But mark the roses interwoven there : 
 So they'll prevent t/w strokes on them to fall, 
 And share the glory of my kingdom all. 
 For as the other side it doth appear, 
 And man with ME is interwoven there, 
 As I did tell thee from my cross should be, 
 And like my coat, I said, for man and ME, 
 And like my coat, is interwoven through, 
 A mystery deep ; but all shall find it true, 
 For every vision, they have brought thee here. 
 Fulfils thy prophecies, that they are near ; 
 And every vision I shall now fulfil, 
 And ail s-hallknow the Spirit d : d thee tell 
 The very things that I shall do below: 
 From Gc.dand Christ the Spirit it doth go, 
 To corne to thee, and ttll thee all my mind ; 
 And now I tell thee, man inu^t sure be blind, 
 When all together they do but compare, 
 If they can't see, and know my Spirit's here : 
 And yet ihou marvel'st how thou art so dead, 
 That like a pleasing -dream the words are la d.
 
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 Thou say'st before thee ; but thy heart should bum 
 
 If vhou didst know and feel the days a. e come. 
 
 And this I kncnv would be thy every mind, 
 
 If I had not ihy senses str ng c ;nfin'd, 
 
 And put a seal upon thy yery heart, 
 
 Too well I know the words I do impart 
 
 Would kindle flames, soon rising in thy breast, 
 
 And like a fountain would thy eyes now burst ; 
 
 And all my labour thou c u d'st not go through, 
 
 If thou didst see and feel, and all didst know, 
 
 What lies before thec j , even at the door ; 
 
 I've shew'd my 'eason, and I'll say no more, 
 
 Why I have put a bolt so strong- on thee, 
 
 That like thy eyes thou dost but partly see, 
 
 And many things thou dost not see at all ; 
 
 For like the shadow does the substance fall. 
 
 And to the starry cross I bid thee come j 
 
 For there's the star that now is come to man, 
 
 To shew my hands and feet were nailed there.- 
 
 Ihou know'st I told thee I should so appear j 
 
 And like my words Itell thee all is plac'd : 
 
 I've shew'd this vision to the human race, 
 
 That all together they might clearly see, 
 
 And be assur'd these things came all from ME : 
 
 For JAM Jehovah is my every name j 
 
 The Lord of lords and King of kings I am. 
 
 And now my kingdom it shall surely come, 
 
 As the six spots foretel you who I am j 
 
 And the six spots you now may see them clear : 
 
 But in the seventh there's no spot appears : 
 
 And I'll go on till there's no spot in man, 
 
 But like the standard every soul shall come, 
 
 And man shall own there is no spot in ME 
 
 A heavenly union now in both shall be j 
 
 Though man hath often spotted here my name, 
 
 And by y<~>ui judgment you your Maker blame ; 
 
 For perfect as the spots do there appear, 
 
 Just so you always spot your Maker here ; 
 
 Because I tell you, you do spot my name, 
 
 And much like Adam, men, 1 say, do blame, 
 
 The Lord, of Glory, by their different thoughts, 
 
 And men'sdisputes in s ots nre often wrought; 
 
 That as the judgment they do draw oi'God, 
 
 They sj;0t my name, but don't regard my word. 
 
 So this, I say, hath been throughout thesix ; 
 
 But in the seventh, there no s: ot is fix'd : 
 
 And 1'!! go on till every spot I'll clear, 
 
 And like the standard all shall BOW appear :
 
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 For no more spots will I now bear for man. 
 
 jAnd now I'll tell thee how they spot ray name : 
 
 One spot by Adam it was cast at first j 
 
 He blam'd the woman that my hand had placfd j 
 
 But now that spot shall sure be dune away. 
 
 And bring the knowledge of the glorious day f 
 
 That like a jewel shall that spot appear. 
 
 And now the second spot, I tell you here, 
 
 It came from N ;ah cursing of his son, 
 
 And instantly it brought a spot on man j 
 
 And on his Maker it d.d bring the same, 
 
 To shew my chosen man what folly came, 
 
 Whom I bt-fore pronounced to be good, 
 
 And would nut let him perish in the flood. 
 
 But Oh ! that goodness, it did hasty tura, 
 
 When he in anger did so cuise his son, 
 
 Because his nakedness he soon did see } 
 
 But n -W his spot a jewel is to ME, 
 
 If that tb Jews will all behold the same, 
 
 And see their fathers, as 'twas seen by him ; 
 
 That they were naked, drunken with the wine, 
 
 And d d not know the Saviour of mankind, 
 
 When I came down a vine to them below, 
 
 And, drunk with anger, did in fury go 
 
 To bring a curse, 1 say, on every son, 
 
 They slew their brethren j and they still go on, 
 
 I tell you, backward, to this very day ; 
 
 But now these spots from them I'll take away, 
 
 If, like the former, they will now begin 
 
 To see their fathers' folly, and will turn 
 
 To ME, I say, that spot shall nc?w appeal 
 
 To be a jewel so I'll make them here: 
 
 Because the spot of sin I'll take away, 
 
 And place them jewels as the crown doth lay. 
 
 But now the third spot must from man appear-: 
 
 It was in David when he murder'd there, 
 
 I say, Uriah, for.to have his wife; 
 
 And so rhat snot went through his life; 
 
 And en Ins Maker it is cast the same; 
 
 Because you know I highly spoke of him. 
 
 And said he was a man of my own heart ; 
 
 But now the truth I'll to you all impart. 
 
 If you like David will but now appear, 
 
 To save the woman, put her tempter there 
 
 Into the battle, that betrayed at first 
 
 But here thou marvel'st how that can be plac'd, 
 
 To make the husband ever to agree, 
 
 A type f)f Satan now is said by thee. 
 
 To til is, I answer, it is by her hand 
 
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 That first the tempter did by arts command -, 
 But in the husband thou dost say were none, 
 When he in love possess'd her every hand. 
 No ; here I own the likeness don't agree : 
 It is the shad-nv I haire said to thee, 
 And all the shad.jw it is from the hand, 
 That he in different manner did command. 
 So no.v in different manner I'll appear, 
 For I'm the David, and the whole will clear. 
 The hand from Saran now, I say, I'll take, 
 And strong the battle I for man will make : 
 And in the front the tempter shall be slain, 
 And now like D '.vid I'll the woman gain ; 
 And so the spot shall all to jewels turn : 
 I'll slay the rebel, but I'll save the man. 
 For here, like Dav d, I cannot agree 
 T- slay the innocent no ; them I'll free ; 
 It u the shadow only from the hand ; 
 Satan did gain it, and by arts command; 
 And so that hand from him I'll take away. 
 You al! must spot my name, if you .do say 
 There was no mystery laid in David's reign, 
 To like MYSELF to one that yqu complain 
 The worst of crimes was in his murder there, 
 Vvfai-n Satan's arts so powerful did appear, 
 To tempt to murder for adu!tery. 
 And now on Satan shall that ruin be j 
 For 1'ii avenge on h;m Uriah's blood : 
 Now I'm the David, and I'll iiiakc it good, 
 That every sp >t on Satan now shall fallj 
 When I do came, like man, to conquer all, 
 Then every spot I'll turn the other way: 
 Invisible these mysteries all do lay ; 
 And when on Satan every one I turn, 
 I will make up my jewels then in man. 
 Because that David did so sore repent ; 
 And now, I tell you all, my mind is bent 
 To act like David, as he did appear j 
 I'll slay the serp nt that her hand did share: 
 To take it from him Day d shall appear, 
 And 1 kc Uriah s, Sa an's doom is near j 
 Because he tern, ted David to that sin ; 
 And his- repentance I'll like David's bring; 
 For now the sword from him shall not depart. 
 As both were guilty both shall feel rny dart. 
 Dav ; d already hath the sword receiv'd j 
 And Absalom's death did make him sorely grieve. 
 So here's a spot was deeply cast on man ; 
 But now to a jewel I that spot will turn 5
 
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 Because a jewel always sparkles bright ; 
 
 And now to man I've brought the truth to light, 
 
 Why I did let the tempter to go on 
 
 To work his will upon a righteous man: 
 
 Because in him the truth it must all appear, 
 
 It was the devil did his heart ensnare. 
 
 So now of David you may all w; igh deep. 
 
 And now the fourth spot 1 will speak of i't : 
 
 It was Isaiah, every soul shall ^ee ; 
 
 Th'-y spotted my name, as 'twas foretold by he. 
 
 For Satan always finds an artful way 
 
 To work in men, their judgment to betray; 
 
 And so my jewels they were spotted there, 
 
 As wrong the judgment did in man appear; 
 
 Because that Satan works an arrfn; way 
 
 From his disputes, see how his footsteps lay : 
 
 I tell you all his footsteps do appear, 
 
 As in thy book to thee he spoke them there : 
 
 And out his footsteps man could never find, 
 
 Had I not let him come and tell his mind, 
 
 What arguments with mankind he. hath us'd ; 
 
 And so he work 'd upon the stubborn Jews, 
 
 That from his judgment they would never turn : 
 
 The arguments seem'd right he us'd with tt:em ; 
 
 Because his influence o'er their m'nds ;:ppear'd, - 
 
 .Move strong in man than in his words spoke there. 
 
 And now, I tell thee, it was thy dispute 
 
 That broke his legs, and turn'd beneath my foot : 
 
 Because I said, if thou in faith stood s; out, 
 
 To trust in me, thou nothing hadst to doubt; 
 
 For 1 would conquer, and for thee appear ; 
 
 And so the vUion I have shew'd thee here, 
 
 As by my anvwer I did say to tfue, 
 
 And so the vision does in all agree. 
 
 So if the learned men can this confound,, 
 
 I tell thee plain, from hell must come the sound ; 
 
 And Satan strong in man u.ust now appear, 
 
 If they the vision and the words will clear; 
 
 For no such judgment can efe be in m;m, 
 
 Unless the devil strong in them does come. 
 
 For when the whole t< -gCiher we compare, 
 
 A Peter's vision never was so clear ; 
 
 Nor yet by man so ctearfy understood, 
 
 And plain iny Bible doth the whole make good; 
 
 And ail these things I've shew'd them i.o a chi'd, 
 
 That ail mankind might know they are nt foil'd: 
 
 And different gifts do to these boys appear, 
 
 That every soul might know my kingdom's near j 
 
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 And all these spots shall now to jewels turn j 
 For now,like Satan's words t G-man Til come- 
 That all rny Bible you cannot fulfil, 
 Unless I br.ng the vision by my heel, 
 I tell yop all, to tread his ^ower down. 
 The mighty counsellor I cannot be found, 
 The prince or glory, nor the prince of peace, 
 Unless I make your jarring passi ns cease. 
 By Satan's reasoning you cannot agree j 
 Because he work'd in man, you all may see, 
 To stir up anger, and to stir up itrife j 
 But now I'll clear frtfm Ahasuerus' wife, 
 As his command the queen she disobey'd, 
 And shotted his honour, as his nobles said, 
 She in his presence sh uld not e'er come more| 
 But still h s love for women did appear; 
 And so the virgins unto him were brought, 
 And Estber gain'd his favour as 'tis wrote ; 
 Who say'd her peo, le, and destroy'd her foes : 
 But now the spot in one you all do know: 
 She spotted her honour and her husband's fame, 
 When she refused at his command to come. 
 And so the woman brought the spot at first. 
 But now from Esther shali the mystery-burst : 
 She gain'd his fav >ur, which the other lost} 
 She sav'd her [>e >ple, and her foes she cast. 
 Son%w let Esther's banquet to appear, 
 And my demand let it be answer'd here. 
 From thy disputes, ONE OF THE Two must fall } 
 And now an answer I demand of all ; 
 What shall be done to one who did blaspheme ? 
 As in thy printed book thou may'st see plain : 
 And from thy foes they must the sentence pass, 
 And then the mysteries unto all shall burst. 
 Because thy iiiend> have passed their judgment here, 
 And now thy foe > I bid them to appear, 
 And all their answers 1 do bid them bring, 
 What shall be done to one that did blaspheme? 
 As blasphemy from one tnere must appear, 
 It is thy foes that must the mystery clear : 
 And so their judgment 1 do bid them pass, 
 'Tis from thy foes the mysteries all must burtt ; 
 And from that book the cause must now be tried, 
 And let the sentence 1'rom thy foes be laid j 
 And so in public let these words appear, 
 And then the Royal Sceptre you'll see clear : 
 For here's a spot that shall to a jewel turn 
 J'il save thy friends, and all thy foes shall mourn,, 
 And every spot shall to a jewel turn :
 
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 And so the fifth spot thou hast ended here. 
 
 And now the sixth I'll make it to appear : 
 
 It was my mother, I shall make it clear; 
 
 Because they did then spot my mother's name 
 
 To say that I from her a bastard came ? 
 
 And so that spot it instant fell on ME, ^ 
 
 When lafHrmed the words were spoke b> sh< 
 
 And so that spot then at that time went deep 
 
 But now's the time when every spot shall break, 
 
 1 say, with fury, and within shall * turn' 
 
 Invisible shall all turn back again : 
 
 For with the world invisible it shall be; 
 
 And every spot in man, they now shall see 
 
 That I will act like all the sons of men, 
 
 And now I say I will come to the fall 
 
 The blood of Abel now I say to all, 
 
 That I'm the Abel, Satan is the Cain, 
 
 And my avenging Blood he now shall find: 
 
 And next to Noah, I will so go on, 
 
 I'll build the ark, and so I'll save the man. 
 
 Bui as he curs'd the son that laughed at him, 
 
 So' Satan now shall feel that curse from MS. 
 
 And now like David I will so appear, 
 
 And place the serpent like Uriah there : 
 
 And to Isaiah now 1 say I'll come: 
 
 I'll saw in sunder Satan's power from man j 
 
 And io like Ahasuerus I'll appear, 
 
 And Satan now the gallows he shall share? 
 
 Because like Herod I'll my oath fulfil, 
 
 And turn the spots by my avenging heel." 
 
 The FOURTH VISION of JOSEPH, which he saw of 
 the Flags, Trumpets, &t. at the High House, Pad- 
 ding ton, March 23, 1803. 
 
 Sitting on one side of the fire place, and Mrs. D. 
 on the other, he heard a voice distinctly say, "Joseph, 
 speak not of this till you arrive at home, mention 
 not a word to any one." Turning his eyes to the 
 spot where the voice appeared to come from, he saw 
 four flags, with a regular space between each, all 
 nearly of a size. The first was red and white stripes, 
 
 ' Back upon the invisible world.
 
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 with a square of blue in one corner, with thirteen 
 stars brilliant, v as if of diamonds. The next was a 
 white fi ;ig with a broad black's face on it. The 
 thirc 1 w';ts a white flag with half moons, swords, stars, 
 and svi.'ike'Or-^ serpents, all in variegated colours. 
 The fo.'irtrTVas a blue flag, with white and red stripes 
 or crosses, .somewhat like the English colours. To 
 the flags were four persons ; one standing by each. 
 One of the persons was a black, by the flag which 
 had a black's face on it. By the flag with variegated 
 colours was a man neither fair nor black, but about 
 a copper colour. By the flag with a square of blue 
 and stars was a dark person, like one of us, with 
 whiskers ; and by the other flag, like English co- 
 lo'irs, was a fair man. In the hand of the man with 
 whiskers was a harp. In the hand of the fair man 
 was another instrument of music, like a lyre. The 
 other two had trumpets all playing on their instru- 
 ments. There appeared at a distance, beyond them, 
 millions of people to each of them, of the same kind 
 as they were. In the middle of them was a person 
 that looked .like our Saviour, with a great number 
 of stars surrounding his head, and his body, orna- 
 mented with diamonds in all parts, with his arms ex- 
 tended, as if ready to embrace, who said in a power- 
 ful voice, " I will be known in all hearts, throughout 
 the whole world* front the emperor on tht throne, lo the 
 meanest subject, on the earth" and then disappeared. 
 
 The following was given to Joanna by the Spirit, 
 March 2,8th, 1803, being an explanation of this vi- 
 sion ; and also an explanation of an angel's writing 
 down Mr. Carpenter's words, that he w r as reading 
 and speaking, to a few friends, at Little Zoar, near 
 INcrkinger, on Sunday morning, March 27th, 1SO3;* 
 ant; also an explanation of the beforementioned vi- 
 sion, that he had at the High House, in Paddington, 
 
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 * See account of the vision.
 
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 on "Wednesday, March 23d, and which was brought 
 to Joanna on Sunday, March 27th. 
 
 " Now from the visions I'll appear, 
 
 The youth did see, but did not draw; 
 
 Because he naid, * the truth was so 
 
 Thai ;t already was fulfill'd : 
 
 The h veriiig angels, roirid you still, 
 
 D.) in h s 1 >wer w rid appear ; 
 
 Thou kn.nv'st I told thee so before, 
 
 That n .w the angels were come down, 
 
 And hell alann'd to hear the sound, 
 
 As when I first created man 
 
 They were alarrn'd, and hasty came 
 
 To see theinan that I had made, 
 
 And soon their happiness betray'd. 
 
 By arts they worked in every wheel, 
 
 The han ;.i'iess o! man to foil j 
 
 And now again he'd work the same, 
 
 If he did kn w my ev- ry plan ; 
 
 There ore my plan I do c nceal, 
 
 The arts of Satan for to foil 
 
 As did + the letter then a pear, 
 
 That Sharp did read ; I tell you here, 
 
 He saw his foe was in the way, 
 
 Lurking in ambush to betray; 
 
 And then he took a diffe - ent road ; 
 
 And perfect so are the ways of God. 
 
 He sees the devil how he siands 
 
 Waiting in ambush strong for man, 
 
 Their every virtue to betray ; 
 
 Therefore I've taken a different way, 
 
 That Satan's arts could ne'er find oat - 
 
 Such wisdom there's n:> man could doubt 
 
 If all the mysteries they \veigh deep, 
 
 They must confess the Lord doth s r eak, 
 
 In wondrous wisdom to appear, 
 
 1o shew his kingdom now is near; 
 
 Because my Bible is made plain 
 
 For all the learned sons of men. 
 
 The books are open'd, as it doth appear, 
 
 And in remembrance all is written tiiere, 
 
 The angels penn'd, and all's enr Jl'd in Heaven 
 
 Of what was read, and what advice was given : 
 
 * It being a reality. 
 
 f A letter read by Mr. Sharp, of a boy in America, whose spiritual 
 bight was opened, and he saw his enemy way-lay him, and went ano- 
 ther
 
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 And so I tell thee, all's before the throne, 
 And now my jewels, it must to all be known, 
 Are those that do together so converse 
 To bring my kingdon ; they can never miss 
 Of all these blessings in my Bible penn'd, 
 And in thy writings I have shew'd the end. 
 These are th^ jewels I shall now make up ' ~ 
 For as the vision to the youth did drop, 
 To shew them plain * the book was written there, 
 When that my friend in love he did appear, 
 To read my mind, and will, and tell them there 
 That I was coming, perfect like my word, 
 I shew'd the vision, as my prophet said, 
 And as before I shew'd thee, in thy dream, 
 The angel of the Lord was throwing down 
 The sheets of paper then upon the corn, 
 Which I allude to man, it must be known ; 
 And as thou didst dream that it was like thy hand* 
 I tell thee, so the end for all shall stand: 
 Because to rob the Lord they have begun, 
 And the whole nation robs me of my fame, 
 And of my honour : they do not discern, 
 To say, that from the devil it does come : 
 And perfect so the Jews did say before, 
 That from the devil all my wonders were : 
 And now the Gentiles they do say the same} 
 Therefqre the devil 1 will now destroy, 
 And man in innocence T will enjoy, 
 That don't my wonders to the devil place, 
 And by their wisdom don't their Lord disgrace, 
 To say my ways are folly frorrTthe devil : 
 I plainly tell you that your hearts are evil j 
 Because that sin you oft do cast on ME, 
 And say that I ordain'd it so to be ; 
 / But when I warn in any thing that's good, 
 Unto the devil you do all allude,' 
 So now, I bid thee, answer MBf vain man, 
 If like the devil you're not laidjyour plan ? 
 But like the Devil you shall lay no more 
 After my harvest ends, that1|ow is near; 
 Because that all I'll rid them-off'the coast s 
 No more oiUSatan's wisdom men shall boast, 
 Nor of his power all I'll take away ; 
 As to his po\ver you do wonders lay, 
 And to his wisdom you do all confine j 
 But where t'nere's evil, you do call it mine j 
 And say tha 1 1, these things did all ordain i 
 But now your folly I shall shew it plain 3 
 
 * Mr. Carpenter read Joanna's prophecies to a few friends.
 
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 As from this picture * it doth now appear : 
 With outstretch 'd arms you see a likeness there, 
 More like a Turkish Emperor than a God, 
 With [ eygs so dim that scarce can see a word } 
 Because that dim the eyes do both appear, 
 And all around the head there's p'aced hair : 
 And yet you see it's drawn in royal state, 
 With outstretch 'd arms and sparkling diamonds bright, 
 In such a p cture no one can discern 
 What it doth represent, nor judge the form, 
 Whether a man or woman doth appear ; 
 And mark the clothing how 'tis placed there j 
 And mark the rider on the horse you see, 
 I tell you plain these pictures don't agree ' 
 Then here thou'rt puzzled, can this be a God 
 For to resemble, as the youth then said ? 
 To this I answer as I said before, 
 I show'd the vision for to make it clear, 
 That in the manner you have judg'd your God, 
 There's no man living that can judge his wordj 
 Because that vision must them all confound, 
 To say the Lord like that can e'er be crown'd, 
 Array'd in glory and in majesty, 
 In heavenly splendour, and no eyes to seofc 
 As in that vision doth to thee appear j 
 But that's the likeness men have drawn ME here : 
 I tell you plain they've drawn ME in such form, 
 That no man living can a G.xl discern j 
 Because that darkly some have drawn my eye, 
 And judge that nothing I below espy ; 
 And others draw me as they judge a God, 
 Most like a Turkish emperor now is spread, 
 With arms of cruelty held out to all- 
 You don't discern this vision how't does fall j 
 Nor in what manner it does now appear : 
 I shew'd the vision, as the men came here 
 For to dispute, and so to place their God, 
 As no man livingcan discern his word, 
 By all the different judgments they do draw, 
 Just like this vision, every soul shall know, 
 That in this manner men have judged their God, 
 Wherein no meaning in it can be draw'd; 
 For some are Aria us, and they do deny 
 The perfect union of the Trinity, 
 Then now I ask them what ot it they make ? 
 They cannot say a man died for their sakesj 
 
 * The figure that was drawn for the Lord appeared in such a con- 
 fused form and dress, that you could not tell what it was designed for. 
 
 t Almost blind.
 
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 Or that a man could e'er for man atone j 
 Or an impostor, or the greatest born, 
 That iu the world ever came bdow 
 My mother lie ? and 1 affirm it to > ! 
 Then both together you do give the Hej 
 I ask you. where's the knowledge fiom on Ligh, 
 If an imposto I let this j.rocred, 
 For men to worship, as it is decreed, 
 The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost? These Three, 
 You know, is worship'd in the Trinity : 
 And by the gospel you have plac'd it so, 
 And now the meaning I demand to know, 
 What kind of figure I must now appear ? 
 I tell you plain my likeness it is here, 
 That I am likened to by the sons of men, 
 A God that cannot see, and now become 
 A Jew, a Turk, or Infidel, to be, 
 No shape, or form, that any man can see, 
 Now by that picture I am liken 'd here; 
 For so the judgment in mankind appears, 
 And in such manner they have likened God j 
 And now I'll prove it by their every w,rd. 
 You say that Satan guides this woman 's hand; 
 Then where's your God, I do oi all demand ? 
 Whose flaming eye doth o'er the world appear. 
 Surveys the hearts and thoughts, I tell you here 
 Before they spring they a 1 are known to ME ; 
 And from my knowledge none conceal'd can be ; 
 Then if by knowledge I know all before, 
 I ask mankind how this did all appear, 
 That every vision is brought to your view ? 
 I shew'd a perfect man you all do know, 
 Plac'd on the horse, with such discerning eye, 
 And broke the leg that differ'd from the three, 
 And by my heel I'll tread that power doxvn, 
 That man and I alike may now be found. 
 So here yon may behold a perfect man ; 
 For in his likeness is the picture drawn ; 
 And so the horse in likeness doth appear 
 So perfect to the words were spoken there, 
 That Satan's power I said that I would break, 
 I shew'd the likeness, and the likeness great. 
 But well I know what folly will appear > 
 These wondrous visions men will turn them here, 
 As though invention by some curious head, 
 And by some curious arts the whole was laid. 
 There-ore the mystery I said I would clear, 
 And shew thee plainer when the youth carne here. 
 For in t this house the vision it was seen, 
 And like the vision do the sons of men. 
 t High House Paddinjjton.
 
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 Draw all such likeness of divinity :, 
 But when you weigh the whole, you all will sec, 
 You do not draw your judgment tor a God 
 Who is in mercy, and whose aims are spread 
 With outstretch'd arms still to the utmost saves 
 All who return to him, and now believe. 
 Then now unto the black I bid thee come, 
 And mark the trumpet that is in his hanci'j 
 And as the other has the trumpet too 
 A mystery deep t but all shall find -,i true. 
 For the last trumpet must to all a; pc-ar : 
 I've shew'd the trumpets, and I'll make them clear 
 For now the trumpets shall be blown to all, 
 And every nation now shall kn >w their call : 
 And from the blacks the trumpets shall begin- 
 Thou know'st "the blush' that I did put on Cain j 
 And now the Cains I bid them all appear, 
 And blow the trumpet n w in every ear ; 
 For like their brothers every soul shall fly, 
 It you don't sound the trumpet now this way, 
 To say your grief is more than you can bear, 
 If I avenge your Abel's blood now here, 
 I tell you all, upon your guil y heads ; 
 Swiftly repent, or you mus r fly .v.th speed. 
 So now the trumpet it mu- 1 gxmd for all, 
 That Satan now may b<?the CM%, and fail 
 Into the share that he did lay tcr Cain. 
 Blow up this trumpet, if you'll mercy find ; 
 Then by this trumpet, ye shall rind my arm, 
 I say, in mercy as to you I warn. 
 And mark the serpent how he's twisted tfcer 
 Over the head, much like a moon appears ; 
 Because, I tell you all, the moon is round, 
 ' And perfect so the serpent there is found ; 
 And on the head thou seest there's fix'd the pole, 
 And through the other d;;th the trumpet hold, 
 Where a bright figure doth to thee appear, 
 Much like a man in royal r^beshe appears, 
 For to be covered, when his gown is on, 
 And in his hand the music may be shewn, 
 And well thou know'st it easy m;:y he seen. 
 And now to reason I \vil! strung begin : ^* 
 For on the other side the r jhts are blue, 
 With different music there, you all do know ; 
 And different music must to all appear : 
 Thou know'st the music sounded in th) ear. 
 When that the pig corjfin'd to thee was brought ; 
 
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 And to thy prayer remember what was wrote, 
 From John the baptist how thy prayer did fall, 
 He losihis head ; and now, I tell you all, 
 That there's a black, whose head appears the same : 
 There's not a vision brought, but 1 shall name 
 It is to prove thy writings came from ME : 
 And by these visions every soul shal sae 
 That. I'll fulfil thy every fervent pnyer ; 
 And tny petition I have sh>: wed thee here, 
 That Satan's head shall 1 ke the black's com? off, 
 As John the baptist's did I've said enough. 
 For in his hand the blood djes now appear, 
 To shew the murder he committed there, 
 When he in malice did his brother kill ; 
 And n >\v I tel! you, Cain rim blood shall feel, 
 If he don't cast the whole on Saran's head, 
 And at the thr.-ne of grace for mercy plead, ' 
 To have the dev 1 now to flee like Cain, 
 And blow the trumpet : he may mercy find, 
 And the Redeemer, to avenge the Wood, . 
 And cast the vengeance on the serpent's head. 
 For deep's the vision, that is shew'd thee here, 
 And deep they'll see the whole, when I shall clear 
 The evtry mystery in the vision here. 
 And with the heavenly music I'll begin : 
 Thou know'st this morning how thou here didst sing 
 The Psaim* of David, as it doth appear, 
 And now I tell thee David's harp is here j 
 For eveiy music it will so come round : 
 A heavenly joy will in each heart be found, 
 That do'h believe, as thou'st believ'd this day ; 
 You all will sing as doth the music play; 
 Upon the har,> of music, you will sing ; 
 A 'd from the lyre now behold the string : 
 Thou seest but. five ; for six do no; appear : 
 Then sure the liar must be vanquish 'd here, 
 Before the six do e'er appear to man, 
 And then in triumph sing that he is gone. 
 For now the 1 ar, must to all lx* known, 
 It is the Devil, tint I now shall lay ; 
 And man. shall sing it to eternity ; 
 And through eternity he sure shall sing, 
 That Satan';, lies no more are cast on men, 
 Foi: them to suffer for the lies he spoke. 
 When he with ^arts does always fill them up : 
 And so with arts he on men's minds does break, 
 To fill their heads for to imagine lies. 
 A'nd now ye simple sons of men, grow wise, 
 Who say these visions never did appear 
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 It was a vision that \\efancied there ; 
 But such a fancy never came before ; 
 Weigh all together, and you'll see more cleat, 
 How every vision, that is drawn by him, 
 Doth with thy former visions all agree, 
 And with the promise I to thee did make, 
 And how the caus'j of man I'd undertake, f 
 And how my kingdom I would now bring in ; 
 Fur every vis on th-re does "shew you plain, 
 That in one likeness this doth all agree. 
 The,n now app-ar vain man, and answer ME, 
 How both together did the.-e things invent, 
 Or e'er imagine how rny m'nd was bent, 
 To make these vi.ivnt , erfect so agree, 
 For to fulfil these words i s oke by thee ? 
 For when the>e visions they d ; all appear, 
 They're in such chain, that there's no man can clear ; 
 For in one 1 keness they do all agree, 
 Then now an; e r, v.i.n man, and answer ME, 
 Jr t all kn wledge you must not be 1 dead ? 
 As f ora imagination a'l you've laid j 
 Then your imagination must be here, 
 To make t/iae two as earthly 'gods aj pear, 
 A''n;y'd in wisd n>, to imag'ne bright, 
 First speak these w ;rds, and then produce the sight, 
 That as 'twas spoke before it doth a, pear: 
 For every vision doth thy writings clear ; 
 For as the words were spoke the vision's here. 
 J said in Heaven my wonders I'd display ; 
 And s.i my angels I've sent down this way, 
 To shew the heavenly visions do appear, 
 That as I said, my chariot wheels are near, 
 And that my hand w.as now held out to all ; 
 That bastard nations they might hear their Call, 
 Thar 1 was ready all men to receive 
 Whoe'er would turn Co ME and rght believe j 
 And nov/ .ill nations you see to appear, 
 "W'it'-i d ftVr ..:: c< ! ,urs, as the nations are ; 
 And so you see my hand stretch'd out to all, 
 Ami like the Bible doth the" vision fall : 
 And yet you call j,t fancy i;f a child, 
 \\ hoin Nitan's arts have in this manner foil'd; 
 The first to fancy, ard the next tolie, 
 lor to affirm these visi, n ; , c;-mio from ME ; 
 And in that manner you judg'e all a'p; ear, 
 As he hath drawn tht-m, and hath p'ac'd themjiere; 
 Then try your fancy, and y^urfuliy see, 
 li'such a vision will appear to y.m ; 
 And in like m .'Miner you the vi-'u,ns draw, 
 And t!;cin explain them plain, the truth to -shew 
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 That your invention all was right before : 
 
 The world with you in judgment right appears, 
 
 Whose wild inventions d^ your Bibles turn, 
 
 And make the God .truth to be a form 
 
 That a' 1 the karned world can never clear 
 
 By man's invention, now I tell you here : 
 
 But by invention ufthfse single two, 
 
 As ff'. m tlieir fan.;y n w io said by you 
 
 That their imag-nation doth appear, 
 
 They've so imagined for to make all clear. 
 
 If by imaginat'on this is done, 
 
 Without a God to bring a regular form ; 
 
 Then every soul must give their God the He, 
 
 And say to knowledge man did never die ; 
 
 Becaue some wondrous knowledge doth appear, 
 
 To prophesy and shew the mystery clear, 
 
 With dif^rnt gifts, that unto them are given ; 
 
 And will you say these gifts ne'er came from heaven ? 
 
 Then sure like Satan you must all appear, 
 
 And give your Gnd the lie : I tell you here 
 
 That unto knowledge man did never die, 
 
 When the|forbidden fruit was eat that day ; 
 
 Because of knowledge you say you can boast, 
 
 With wisdom brighter than the Lord of hosts, 
 
 And knowledge greater, for to make all good, 
 
 I say my Bible, and fulfil their word. 
 
 If by their own invention this is done, 
 
 I tell you plain, you shame both God and man, 
 
 By the invention of your foolish heads : 
 
 And now to knowledge I'll pronounce you dead. 
 
 'Tisyour invention duth from Satan come j 
 
 What he suggests you in your minds d form, 
 
 That it is real, as it comes from he : 
 
 Once more I tell yu, you eat of the tree 
 
 That was of knowledge I pronounced dead ; 
 
 And so by Satan's arts your knowledge fled. 
 
 Abel knew not his brother would him kill, 
 
 And Cain knew not the daggers he should feel ; 
 
 Some wild imagination fill'd his brain, 
 
 That he should be at peace when he had Abel slain ;. 
 
 So He imagin'd and his scheme went on ; 
 
 Imaginat'on doth from Satan come, 
 
 Whc n you imagine what will never do 
 
 To make you^ happy j bring before your view 
 
 All the imaginations that did appear 
 
 When Noah built the a;k ; 1 tell you here, 
 
 They all imagin'd Noah was a fool ; 
 
 And Satan's arts possess'd their every soul,
 
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 Until the deluge wash'd them all away, 
 Then where must their imagination lay 
 But in the knowledge I pronounced dead, 
 And so the watery graves fill'd every bed ? 
 And hereof knowledge I say they had none, 
 And their imagination all was gone, 
 To be but t lly, as i said before. 
 Imagination never can be good : 
 I tell you, ail must perish in the flood, 
 When I do come to sweep the whole away 
 You may imagine I shall longer stay j 
 But your imagination all will fall, 
 As did the d luge, now I tell you all, 
 And so you know I told you of the end : 
 You may imagine I shall ne'er descend, 
 
 As on the city of Gomorrah fell, 
 
 ^ Or Sodom's .ot j you may imagine all 
 Will never come, if you do mock my word, 
 > And judge like them'tis fools believe, and flee, 
 
 As Let did flee when I did warn him there : 
 He had the knowledge did from ME appear; 
 
 But they imagin'd every thing was vain 
 Imagination n^'er did knowledge gain : 
 Pharaoh imagin'd, Haman did the same, 
 And both despis'd the knowledge of my name. 
 But see imagination where it did end ; 
 I tell you all it never prov'd a friend j 
 Because imagination comes from hell, 
 To mock the warnings that from heaven fell : 
 And so the Jews imagin'd all the same, 
 That Satan gave me power to become 
 The son of God, and be exalted high 
 A Prince, and Sai ionr, is your every cry, 
 Whom you do worship in the Trinity : 
 The Jews imagined hell exalted ME ; 
 And now the Gentiles thousands are the same : 
 They do imagine hell exalts my name 
 \Vith arts, and lies, and wonders, that were wrought, 
 And all my Father's words they were forgot, 
 That he atfirai'd he had one only Son, 
 Whom all the nations of the world should claim : 
 And now 1 say I'm come to claim them all, 
 And your imagination down shall fall : 
 *- Because 1 said the Gentiles they would rise 
 In rage and tumult, and madly would devise 
 Against the Lord, and his anointed Son j 
 And now 1 see your folly's going on)
 
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 Because against ME you do madly rage ; 
 
 Against my Spirit you do- SD engage, 
 
 By your imagination that is here : 
 
 Much like the Jews of old, you now appear , 
 
 And like the Jews of old will be your lot, 
 
 If you imagine things which you know not. 
 
 Can you invent by your weak foolish heads 
 
 The wondrous visions now before you laid ? 
 
 Or can you answer, and these things explain 5 
 
 How all together came in a straight line ? 
 
 Or how the likeness should in all agree ? 
 
 The four pillars are. the poles you see, 
 
 Which these two Indians they have got in hand ; 
 
 For like wild Indians do the colours stand, 
 
 As partly naked they do both appear ; 
 
 But mark the covering how it is cast there. 
 
 So now to cover I shall sure begin ; 
 
 They have the pole, the trumpet plain is seen ; 
 
 And now the trumpet I shall blow to all, 
 
 And every nation now shall know their call. 
 
 For there I tell thee stands the Gospel pole, 
 
 And free salvation's now held out to all, 
 
 And every land shall .see my arms appear : 
 
 As they are lifted, so I'll lift them up : ( 
 
 If they'll return to ME, they all may hope. 
 
 For as the bloody hand does now appear, 
 
 To shew the blood ol Cain, the murderer- there, 
 
 And by such hands they nail'd ME to the tree. 
 
 But mark the hand and now the mystery see : 
 
 Two spots of red do on the hand appear, 
 
 With blue and white, 'tis all encircl'd there; 
 
 That hand is fallen now without the pole, 
 
 The other's lifted up the trumpet holds*; 
 
 So now I tell thee they will bow to MI 
 
 Throw down the hand that nail'd ME to the tree ; 
 
 That is, rcbell 0:1 they will all throw down ; 
 Lift up their hands to hear the gospel sound, 
 v And glad'y, gladly, will these nations come 
 -^ To sound the trumpet when they hear j our land, 
 ^. That ye are ca'k-d by the heavenly sound. 
 Over all nations will this call resound ; 
 From shore to shore, from cast to west 'twill fly, 
 And evr ry star foretels the time is nigh ; 
 
 Or else the si ots that there do now appear ; 
 
 And by the stripes the nations healed are ; 
 - Because my outstretch'd arm is joined there ; 
 
 Ben> ath my feet the beast doth now appear : 
 
 Black is his colour, but thou can'st net form 
 
 What is the shape; it is to tbee unknown ;
 
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 But it's a beast thpu dost not understand : 
 
 And mark he's trodden down, and see my hand 
 
 Is n.nv in mercy open'd wide to all ; 
 
 And see the angel, underneath the -xbole, 
 
 With the two trumpets, now plac'd on both sides. 
 
 Mark ye the vision ; for the fiel.l is wide ; 
 
 As on the right, and left, the trumpets stand, 
 
 And on the top you may behold my/hand, 
 
 To call my sons and daughters from afar, 
 
 And save the remnant leaved in the war 5 
 
 And as the colour in the hand appear-;, 
 
 I'll change the skin when I have ended here; 
 
 And every nation shall in triumph sing : 
 
 The harp of David to you all I 11 bring j 
 
 And every lyre he shall now confound, 
 
 With heavenly music in their every sound. 
 
 For as the buds are fixed on the poles, 
 
 The bud is budding out I say for all j 
 
 And as they're parted, so will every land ; 
 
 Some will believe, and stedfast they will stand ; 
 
 But as the poles don't of o.ie length appear, 
 
 I plainly tell thee, so they will appear 
 
 In different links, before the whole do join. 
 
 Here stands the globe that I shall make all mine ; 
 
 But as the brightest figures d > appear, 
 
 That have the music, and encircl'd here, 
 
 "Within the poles thou ^eest the music stand; 
 
 So now, O England, thou enlighten 'd land, 
 
 That hath been guarded by the Gospel pole, 
 
 You may rejoice and sing while others tall ; 
 
 Because the trumpet you'll \iearjirstfor iuar; 
 
 That foreign nations they will fast appear, 
 
 I say for battle : you wiil hear the sound ; 
 
 A dreadful war will in all land abound, 
 
 While you may stand within the Gospel's pole 
 
 And let thrs music now awaken all. 
 
 You need not follow to the trumpet there 5 
 
 For now I teH thee it is first for war ; 
 
 And fat'il wars wH soon bj o'er the lands ; 
 
 The Reyeiation- tell y >u :iow it stands, 
 
 That first a t>owe r t tie bea^t is s ven : 
 
 And o' r the h id thou seest the s rpent plac'd ; 
 
 And a t e oih.r sid*.- th u see->t ;i face, 
 
 Or else the he ,d, is from the body plac'd ; 
 
 S will the hr.'ds uf a 1 ih-se nati ns fall ; 
 
 And ,h j n 'hei leader, 1 do tell you -ill, 
 
 That I shall tread him d wn b -neath ;.y feet 
 
 Gre t is the mystery, and ybu'i! fiiid it. deep : 
 
 And deep you'll find that all is hastening on."
 
 Wednesday , April 6M, 1803. 
 
 Joseph Prescott was sitting alone at work in the 
 mill, and saw the appearance of a grove presented to 
 his view. On the one side of the grove was a person 
 kneeling- down, ip robes, his left hand on his breast, 
 and the appearance of fire kindling on or in his breast. 
 Over his hand, at a distance before him, was an angel 
 with a cup in his left hand, pointing upwards with his 
 right hand. Over the angel's head was the sun, with 
 the figure of a man's head ; one large ray of light 
 from which passed through the glass held by the an- 
 gel, to the breast of the man, which appeared to kin- 
 dle on or in his breast. A voice uttered these words, 
 " Come, sinner, get thy pencil ; mingle thy richest 
 colours; paint thy whore with all her decorations. 
 On the other side I will draw a grove, and a sinner 
 kneeling down, who is ready to resolve with the pub- 
 lican in the Gospel " God be mertiful to me a sinner!" 
 On the other side a view of Heaven, and Grace and 
 Mercy descending down, in the foi'm of an angel." 
 
 Two days after, when Joseph was drawing the 
 above vision, a dove, with an olive-branch in its 
 mouth, appeared as if flying to the kneeling sinner. 
 
 May 23, 1803, the following communication was 
 given to Joanna, concerning her having been in 
 London one year and one day. 
 
 The Answer of the Spirit. 
 
 f< One year and one day thou hast left thy home, 
 to give light to a dark benighted world ; and where 
 there is a large body of people ; but they have re- 
 fused the light, and darkness is come upon them. 
 For, now is coming, as I told thee, the end of every
 
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 vision ; and happy, thrice happy, shall these men be, 
 who have begun, and will go on, till every curtain is 
 drawn back. Manas man meaneth men, where it is 
 spoken in these things. One man can do nothing of 
 himself; so where I speak of man, I mean men 
 and this hath hastened on ; and these who obeyed the 
 call came unto thee : for now I tell thee, an'd all man- 
 kind, now is coming the end of every vision : and as 
 I kept nothing from Abraham, so will I keep nothing 
 from thee, that I will do upon the earth. 
 
 The sword is drawn and shall go on , 
 The shadow d;>th appear : 
 And here's a fatal May fbr man, 
 Who now do mock thee here. 
 I said in Spring it wou'd begin, 
 And it you'd see in May ; 
 And now land back your every thought, 
 And all togetherrweigh. 
 
 Because judgments are not speedily executed, the 
 hearts of the sons of men are set to do evil. 
 
 So evil here in man appears, 
 Which did not hasty come ; 
 Bnt now I bid them all take care, 
 , This is a May for man, 
 Wherein they'll see such destiny 
 "Will from this May ap;;car ; 
 And let the newspapers be kept, 
 And all may n w see clear 
 V- hat hath b en done since May began, 
 A:v.l what is to the end, 
 Uii.il th't o!t v.?nth day of June, 
 And then b--h Id your friend. 
 Who came t > wain be'ore the stcrrn, 
 If they would warning take ; 
 If they wou'd not, now see their lot, 
 The}' a!f will see too late. 
 Ft r ;:o\v I'm come ;o shew them plain 
 My Bib'e al> is clear - 
 The v.'OTii.m's pr mi:-:e y.u must cla'm, 
 O: all ;i;us>t pcT sh here. 
 
 G
 
 50 
 
 I will not, stop ; the time is up, 
 
 My Bible to fulfil : 
 
 The day of judgment now must drop 
 
 And my avenging heel 
 
 Must now tread down the powers of man, 
 
 Thar nail'd ME to the tree, 
 
 Unless 'tis cast on Satan's head, 
 
 To have it fall on him. 
 
 If they will not, I'll tell their lot j 
 
 In justice they must fall, 
 
 And they shall find the fatal Cup 
 
 Is now held out to all. 
 
 The cup, you see, was given to MI j 
 
 And know 'twas mingled there 
 
 With vinegar, and gad, tor ME ; 
 
 Then now let <*//take care j 
 
 For I shall mingle it again, 
 
 I tel! y u all, the same, 
 
 And point you to the prophet's head, 
 
 And tel! you all my name. 
 
 I now am come the second time, 
 
 In Spirit to appear ; 
 
 And as my miracles were wrought, 
 
 So are the visions here j 
 
 To shew you plain, from every sign, 
 The prophet's words are come ; 
 
 And now I'll tell you all my mind 
 
 I'll make a final end. 
 
 The root of Jesse doth appear ; 
 
 And now the branches see : 
 
 The top you know is parted there, 
 
 And so the end will be. 
 
 Out of the stem the branches come } 
 
 And there the stem is two : 
 
 The man and woman now must join, 
 
 My labour for to do. 
 
 Then you shall see your destiny ; 
 
 Because the cup I'll turn : 
 
 And true salvation, you shall see, 
 
 Is now held out to man. 
 
 B-'h ,ld the dove, then judge my love, 
 
 The wat j is to abate, 
 
 That will be h'gh, you all will see 
 
 The deluge, now will break 
 
 O'er every land, you may command ; 
 
 The sword will hasten fast ; 
 
 And as the deluge did appear, 
 
 Just so will men now burst,
 
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 I tell you all, now judge your call, 
 And see the tree of life : 
 If you stand there you need not fear; 
 The dove will end the strife. 
 The news shall come from Heaven's high throne, 
 I say, to warn yeu all ; 
 And if you flee in fnith to ME, 
 You need not fear the fal!, 
 That will c'.me on in ev; ry land j 
 For there the cup stands deep- 
 It is ialva'ion now to man, 
 That il th my Gospel keep, 
 And lo )k to ME redeem'd to be, 
 As I did promise first ; 
 And now your heads you may lift up ; 
 For row it so shall burst, 
 I say, on men thar now begin 
 To see i, y promis. clear ; 
 A paradise t^ey now shall win j 
 The tree of lite is there : 
 I say, for men the tree does stand, 
 And Abels it shall gain : 
 The cup is fury nowto men, 
 If they will act like Cain, 
 For to go on as he began j 
 The fatal sword they'll see : 
 The Spirit's sword it is my word, 
 And it is drawn by ME. 
 And men began, their words were drawn, 
 I say, against my word ; 
 Then down the other sword must come, 
 And perish in the flood. 
 For now I say to thee this day, 
 Your war is not begun, 
 That in the heavens was seen by thee, 
 But now is hastening on. 
 The sword of war shall now appear 5 
 My anger fast will smoke, 
 Now I have shew'd you all so clear, 
 If men do longer mock 
 The calling here that doth appear 
 Ye blind, begin to see, 
 And with your Bibles all compare ; 
 For all these things must be. 
 
 For marvtiious-things 1 said I'd bring, ^ mean 
 
 And you may marvel all, , , 
 
 To see the likeness so agree, f n 
 
 And man refuse his call, -S that ran with 
 
 . nghtened, are two
 
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 To cast his guilt on Satan's head, 
 
 That he did cast on m^n : 
 
 The promises you will not plead ; 
 
 Then now beheld the hand 
 
 The cup of trembling must appear; 
 
 So drink which way you will : 
 
 I tell you that my kingdom's near ; 
 
 My friends shall dr:nk their fill, 
 
 I say, in peace, when wars do cease, 
 
 And ali my foes are g me : , 
 
 I it'll you plain, ye sons of men, 
 
 The cup for all is come. 
 
 But I'll < nd here, and say no more : 
 
 The vision there is plain : 
 
 -But as the cup to thee appear'd, 
 
 I'll answer now of wine. 
 
 You all may fi'l which way you will, 
 
 And drink as there it stands : 
 
 If you do fill it up with wine, 
 
 Then wine you may command ; 
 
 But ii you say another way, 
 
 Let vinegar appear, 
 
 To fill for man it so must stand; 
 
 Th n you may drink it here. 
 
 So as you fill, judge as youwill, 
 
 I tell you, all must drink ; 
 
 Because to man the cup is come, 
 
 And all stands on the brink. 
 
 1 tell you plain, ye sons of men, 
 
 I've offVr'd mercy free, 
 
 And told. you how I'd you redeem 
 
 From sin and misery, 
 
 From Adam's fall, I've told you all, 
 
 If you obey my word, 
 
 To plead the pronrvse in the fall, 
 
 To come on Satan's head. 
 
 But mockers here must now lake care,' 
 
 It is not on your own : 
 
 The lukewarm spirits I'll not clear ; 
 
 For now their hearts I'll warm 
 
 With jealousy or misery, 
 
 For all I'll now awake: : 
 
 The sword is drawn by my command, 
 
 My fury fast will break. 
 
 A fatal war shall now appear, 
 
 Since men's hearts arc so cold, 
 
 That for my love they do not care 
 
 ^he mysteries I'll ucfold,
 
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 To shew them plain from everjr sign, 
 
 "And how my Bible stands 
 
 The woman's promise you must claim, 
 
 A .d paradise command. 
 
 If you will not, now see your lot, 
 
 Tin- Haming sword is near j 
 
 The tree of ife must end the strife 
 
 My frien < hay nought to Tear : 
 
 The Spirit's sword by the it is drawn, 
 And they shall conquer all; 
 
 Because they'll see the power's in ME, 
 
 To make my foes to fa I. 
 
 So now blame none, whate'er doth come, 
 
 1 did you all invite, 
 
 To b:ing the serpent's ruin on, 
 
 And make you sons of light. 
 
 But you refuse, my love abus'd, 
 
 And judg'd my friends unwise : 
 
 Another year you will see dear. 
 
 That darkness blinds your eyes ; 
 
 Then wise you'll find my friends to be, 
 
 This calang to embrace; 
 
 And you to > late will see your fate, 
 
 That do my friends disgrace, 
 
 Who do appear to see all clear, 
 
 And glad'y hear the sound: 
 
 They shall posess the proniis'd rest, 
 When Satan's chained down." 
 
 A DREAM. 
 
 Monday, May 23, 1803, Joanna dreamt that she 
 was caried through the air, and saw a dark cloud, 
 like the shadow of trees. When she came near it, 
 she saw two gre.y. horses, that sprung out with fury, 
 and ran with s \iftness through the air. 
 
 The Answer of the Spirit. 
 
 " Now I will answer thee concerniog the mean 
 ing of the two horses. Grey horses denote death, 
 -that is hastening on fast. The horses that ran with 
 swiftness, and started as though frightened, are two
 
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 great monarchs, who will start out on a sudden, with 
 great fury, to the battle ; and they will cause much 
 death. I will not tell thee who they are : but try 
 your own judgment, and know they were in the 
 shade, and started on a sudden. 
 
 So will two great monarchs start out, 
 
 And wars will fast abound , 
 
 for all my bible i'll make good, 
 
 That men may judge the sound. 
 
 And all thy writings I'll make true, 
 
 And fa^t will ail come on ; 
 
 Because rny Spirit, a:l shall know, 
 
 Is surely to thee come. 
 
 I'll make it plain to every man, 
 
 That I have visited here, 
 
 And they shall know the end is come, 
 
 My kingdum must appear ; 
 
 For Satan's come to call his own, 
 
 And I shall now call mine : 
 
 Ihe sealed number, it must be known, 
 
 Foretelsyou all the same. 
 
 For now to man I bo'd will come, 
 
 And let them answer here, 
 
 If such a thing was ever done, 
 
 To make my Gos, el plain j 
 
 And now I am come to make it true, 
 
 And al! shall know the end, 
 
 It now is come to everv land, 
 
 And fast it shall appear. 
 
 But now if England will awake, 
 
 I '11 .make the foes to yield : 
 
 Sennacherib here shall not appear, 
 
 With all his boasted 'pride: 
 
 If England will awaken here 
 
 You know what name's applied, 
 
 That I compare, I tell you here, 
 
 VV ith all Sennacherib'-; host ; 
 
 But now if England will take caie 
 
 I'll rid him from this coast. 
 
 But to take care thou'st ask'd ME here, 
 
 What caie it is I mean ? 
 
 I've told thee, that he is ' THE BEAST" 
 
 'Tis Buonaparte I mean : 
 
 And if his death ycu will bring forth, 
 
 You must take care, and see, 
 
 That yon do sign for Satan's death. 
 
 Whoe power is given to he.
 
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 I lell you plain, ye sons of men. 
 The mystery there goes deep j 
 And if you wish hiai for to reign. 
 And have his pnwvr to break 
 Upon your land, as now it stands, 
 
 He will dtslroy you all, 
 That now do wish for Satan's reign ; 
 But I MY OWN slia^l call, 
 For to get free, if misery 
 Doth in this and abound ; 
 MY SEALED PEOPLE, all shall see, 
 Who listen to my sound, 
 IT: surely call, I tell ym all, 
 W!- n do ap: ear j 
 
 A'.id th: -y shall make the foe to fall, 
 If e'er he ventures th.-re, 
 "Where they are call'd ; I tell you all 
 My scaltd now I'll tree : 
 
 But I must k'low them by their names, 
 
 Or this cou'd never be. 
 
 n 
 
 For now I tell thee, there is a mystery inthe sealed 
 number, and the sealed people, that no man know- 
 eth. But what thou knowest not now, thou wilt 
 know hereafter. $o take with thee every list, FOR 
 ENDS thou wilt knovv hereafter, No more than thou 
 knewest the manner the people would be sealed, when 
 I told thee to seal up the king, and half the nation, 
 in 1794, no more dost thou know the mystery of their 
 being sealed, and of their names being given unto 
 thee Neither do ye know what is hastening on : 
 But thou shalt be warned when dangers are near ; 
 and all the sealed people shall be warned. But this I 
 shall explain more fully another time." 
 
 Here I am come to the end of this book, being 
 one part of Joseph Prescott's Visions. The other 
 visions and explanations will be continued in ano- 
 ther book, and some remarkable prophecies taken 
 out of my sealed writings, opened January l'2th, 
 J803. And now I must entreat my readers to weigh 
 deep the past and the. present, and remember, what 
 was said of May ; for let it be known unto all men, 
 that this -n'ar broke on/ in Ma\\ perfectly as I s.uci it
 
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 would last May, when they signed the ratification of 
 the articles of peace on 2Qth of April, at Amiens. I 
 was then informed it was what would brin^; on a war. 
 
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 For, as the 1802, was like the 1792 ; so would the 
 1803 be like the 17Q3. Now, tell me, >e worldly 
 wise-men, which ofmy writings have your unbtlief, or 
 self -confidence prevented ? I must answer you. NOT 
 ONE. Then as I *ee you err in judgment, and stnm- 
 blein visions, and all your judgment is WRONG : but 
 the Spirit o God is TRUE), whom then \\ill men 
 persuade me torely on, God or man? Judge ye. 
 
 When every truth's before your eyes, 
 O simp'e people, and unwise, 
 To stumble at the noon-day sun ; 
 For so my writings now are come, 
 So perfect as. the sun appears, 
 i And will you longer ^.tumble here, 
 When every t: uth is now so plain ? 
 You've tred to baffle, but in vain, 
 To prove my calling's not from heaven, 
 When every truth to me is given : 
 And so the truth doth all appear ; 
 And now 'tis time to stand in fear, 
 If unbelief cl ;th still abound ; 
 Then like the Jews you must be found. 
 T heie was sent to warn you all ; 
 But you've refund the heavenly call j 
 So (fyrui selves you may tdke care,, 
 KttnMitfcan bani h fear : 
 As faith bath banisl.'d fear in me, 
 My reck, and anchor strong, I see'. 
 
 JOANNA SOUTHCOTT. 
 
 High-House, Padd:ngton,June 2, 1803. 
 
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 THE 
 
 SECOND BOOK of VISIONS. 
 
 THE Continuation of Jofeph Prefcott's Vifions, 
 and the Explanation of them, given by the 
 Spirit to Joanna Southcott; to fhew you all the 
 night is far fpent, and the day is at hand., that all 
 the Prophet Joel's words fhall be fulfilled : For I 
 now warn the whole world, by thee, and by him,, that 
 My Bible is near to the end, and all mall be as the 
 Prophet Joel tells you. The end will come by 
 vifions feen by young men,, and prophecies given 
 by My handmaids. Now they are both before you ; 
 and all I {aid in My Gofpel is now like the green 
 leaves in the fpring. Then know that your re- 
 demption is, like your fummer, nigh at hand ; and 
 like your hufbandmen are My difciples, preparing 
 for the fummer fruit, to bring forth the increaie, 
 and to try the ground of every heart: 
 
 For every heart I know : 
 
 In him that's little in his own eyes 
 The feed will furely grow : 
 
 But he that's great will find deceit 
 From his ewn heart appear, 
 
 And as 'tis drawing to the night, 
 That night will foil him here. 
 
 E Sp:agg, Printer, 
 .iw-Urect, Covent-gsrder..
 
 I'v ftiewn you plain, from every 11 gn, 
 That all My Bible's clear, 
 
 I've (hewed the branches and the vine, 
 And told you I AM here: 
 
 The fhldow firft on you did burft, 
 To prove My prophet true ; 
 
 But now the fubftance in the laft : 
 That every foul fhall know. 
 
 April 4th, 1803. 
 
 The following was given to Joanna in anfwer to 
 people's faying that Jofeph Prefcott's vifions, and 
 her explanations of them, were " 'witty inventions," 
 and Joanna was anfvvered by the Spirit from the 8th 
 chapter of Proverbs. 
 
 Now I'll appear, to anfwer here, 
 My mind I will unfold : 
 
 As dead to knowledge man appears, 
 The truth from all is told; 
 
 And dead in fin do all begin 
 To moulder into duft ; 
 
 Their undcrflanding all is gone, 
 Jn every age 'twas caft. 
 
 Then Satan here cannot appear, 
 A o prove man was not dead ; 
 
 And fo the liar I'll condemn, 
 Men's fenfes all are fled. 
 
 So I'll begin from Solomon, 
 Who wifdom had of Me : 
 
 The charmer's voice to all is come, 
 Yet there's but few do fee. 
 
 His wifdom muft in all appear 
 Unto the fons of men ; 
 
 And from the Proverbs I mall clear, 
 And will mankind condemn. 
 
 Wil'dom'in Me they ail (hall fee, 
 It doth with prudence dwclj ; 
 
 A'-d "wit's invention" all is here, 
 To (hake the powers of hell.
 
 For there's no man on earth can come 
 To prove no wit is here : 
 
 The wife and learned I'll condemn, 
 If they do now appear, 
 
 To fay from man this wit did come, 
 And all together weigh: 
 
 Then wit's invention 'tmuft.be known, 
 Is in that youth and thee. 
 
 So here's the fhe, let all men fee, 
 Hath wit's invention found ; 
 
 And 'tis not your divinity, 
 Can all her wit confound. 
 
 Wifer than man the woman's come, 
 Ifyou give her this praife, 
 
 That her invention this hath done, 
 Then now difcern her ways. 
 
 She thought a thin?, and made it plain; 
 Like Sheba's queen came here, 
 
 And then (he found a Solomon ; 
 To make her wifdom clear. 
 
 For foyou fee that youth muft be, 
 If he invent the whole, 
 
 And m one likenefs all agree: 
 You mult confefs no fool 
 
 Could this invent^as all is fent ; 
 So wildom muft be here, 
 
 Before the earth's foundation laid 
 My wifdom bright appear'd ; 
 
 But you complain, ye fons of men, 
 That wifdom fpeaks too'low, 
 
 To be from God, as you have faid, 
 Then now your wifdom (hew. 
 
 My Bible's high, you all do cry, 
 As none do underftand ; 
 
 And fo you give it all the lie, 
 As it is plac'd by man : 
 
 For every way 'tis plac'd by you, 
 Ye fimple fons of men ; 
 
 In judgment you do not agree, 
 Then how can you contend 
 
 That you are right, when to your fight 
 You one the other blame, 
 
 And like the fand your wifdom ftands, 
 That you can never join? 
 
 But here are two, before your view, 
 That now have join'd the whole; 
 
 And will you fay in them't did lie, 
 And make yourfelves fuch fools,
 
 That you can't be as wife as they, 
 To make your Biblesjoin, 
 
 As thefe have done from prophecies, 
 And made the whole to bind ? 
 
 Together ftand : behold the fand, 
 How it ran every hour, 
 
 Until the whole they both command, 
 And bound beyond your power, 
 
 That none can break, for great's the weight, 
 And great ihe end they'll fee, 
 
 For to confound in every found, 
 And own it came from Me, 
 
 Whofe wifdom high did ever lie 
 Out of the reach of man ; 
 
 And when ihe woman I created 
 This was my every plan, 
 
 For so bring in My ways to man, 
 My wifdom and My power, 
 
 But if to man I fo fhould come 
 He would the whole devour. 
 
 As man. alone a God becomes 
 Above the human race ; - ,_ 
 
 If I had fo exalted man, 
 
 His Lord he'd foon difgracer 
 
 Above My Son man foon would come, 
 If he had wifdom all : 
 
 Becaufe you fee a Solomon 
 From grace did quickly fall. 
 
 So wifdom here, in man t'appear, 
 I fay 'twill never do, 
 
 Till Satan is defiroyed here ; 
 And bring all to thy view. 
 
 The woman, fee, was made by me, 
 And man did Me condemn ; 
 
 So now I'll tell the myftery 
 All ftiall come back again: 
 
 And firft on man it back muft come, 
 For man to anfwer here, 
 
 Why he condemn'd the woman's hand, 
 And never did appear 
 
 To tell her plain, her thoughts were vain, 
 To think a worm like Ihe 
 
 Should ever know what I would do, 
 And prove the mind of Me 
 
 A different way than I did fay, 
 If they would thus prevent : 
 
 But as they did not fo agree, 
 I fay My mind is bent
 
 For to condemn the fons of men 
 Like Adam I'll appear, 
 
 The woman, I nave given you, 
 Hath offer'd good fruit here : 
 
 Which you refufe, and will not choofe, 
 Then I'll refufe you all : 
 
 The woman, fee, is giv'n by Me, 
 And now behold your call. 
 
 Or elfe, I fay, like him, that day 
 You're out of Eden caft : 
 
 If men with Satan now agree, 
 Then both alike {hall burn 1 . 
 
 For I'll fpeak plain, ye fons of men. 
 Your Maker now is come 
 
 To call you to a drift account : 
 Look back at what you've done. 
 
 The woman's hand againft you Hands, 
 If you her Lord deny: 
 
 The fhepherds I will never clear 
 The letters all muft fee, 
 
 That in My name to them were fent, 
 If filent they appear'd, 
 
 To tell them 'twas thy full intent 
 To publifh for the Lord. 
 
 That in My name the writings came 
 Their filence gave confent: 
 
 And they {hall know My every name; 
 And now My mind is bent 
 
 For to condemn the fons of men, 
 If they do now agree 
 
 To fay thy writings came from hell : 
 Then where's their love for me? 
 
 Againft the king had this been dene, 
 Your fury would appear, 
 
 And feek to know if it was fo - 
 No poverty would clear, 
 
 I fay, a thing againft the king, 
 If file had forg'd his name : 
 
 For all to jufiice men would bring, 
 And put them all to fhame. 
 
 But for your God no love you've {hewn, 
 If you jdg'd this from hell ; 
 
 And fo you let it fly abroad; 
 By filence he compell'd 
 
 My fhepherds there not 'to appear: 
 Then he their hearts muft gain, 
 
 ' Never to fee th" myftery, 
 Till it was all in vaie
 
 To flop her hand, or to condemn 
 Vain men, I tell you here, 
 
 Her guilt I'll caft on every man, 
 If wrong (he doth appear ; 
 
 Becaufe to all, both great and froalf, 
 She warning fent to all ; 
 
 And there's no man that ftaid her hand, 
 Or told her wrong's the call, 
 
 Or came to know if it was fo, 
 To have the truth be tried, 
 
 What prophecies (he'd written true, 
 But all was thrown afide, 
 
 As tho' My name (he might blafpheme ; 
 And fo I'll come to man : 
 
 For as My eye the youth did fee, 
 'Tis hovering o'er your land : 
 
 And all I fee I now tell thee, 
 My eye is every where ; 
 
 But like the dove they'll find My love, 
 For thofe who do appear, 
 
 The truth to know, and prove it fo 
 They'll- find the dove appear 
 
 To bring them peace, that fhall encreafe 
 No man can foil them here ; 
 
 Becaufe My eye fo clofe fhall fly, 
 What man doth not difcern, 
 
 They foon will fee a myftery, 
 To keep my friends from harm. 
 
 The dove is peace, your fears may ceafe ; 
 If floods in man do fwell, 
 
 I'll fo appear, My doves I'll clear, 
 To triumph over hell, 
 
 And over men, if they contend 
 The harmlefs dove they'll fee, 
 
 How much fhe condefcends to men, 
 That they her judge ftiould be. 
 
 But they would not, now fee their lot ; 
 To fpeak is all in vain : 
 
 For if they now do caft a blot 
 I will her caufe maintain 
 
 Againit all men who do contend ; 
 And fo the doves I'll clear ; 
 
 And all My doves (hall fee My love : 
 For I am hovering here.
 
 On Friday, 15th of April 1803, Jofeph Prefcott 
 fa\v this vifion as he was going to bed. 
 
 He faw a hand which held a box with the lid 
 open, wherein was a quantity of pieces of gold, as 
 large as half crowns, with reading on fome of therft, 
 which he could not diftinguiih ; and a voice uttered 
 thefe words. (( This is a cabinet of graces, which I, 
 the Lord, have to be flow on My people: and let the 
 Jinner take care that he Jinneth not again/I me, left I 
 lock it up from hi?n. It is the reprefentation of the 
 Bible, and its contents" 
 
 The following was given to Joanna in anfwer to 
 the vifion fhewn to Jofeph Prefcott of the box of 
 gold and grapes, &c. &c. 
 
 The box which is opened before you, mews what 
 is in ftore for My friends, that are longing for my 
 coming, and are workers with Me to bring in My 
 kingdom. There is your reward, fpiritual and tem- 
 poral. There are the grapes hanging in cinders 
 without any interruption, and fo is the vifion, 
 though nothing appears to blaft your happinefs: 
 Neither will there be any interruption to your hap- 
 pinefs when My kingdom comes down below. All 
 will be handed down to you, as that vifion ap- 
 peareth. But as the two diiputed about the box; fo 
 will men difpute about the coming of My kingdom. 
 Some will fay one way, and fome will lay another 
 way : and fo men will place it to their own judg- 
 ment which wav it will come. 
 
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 But now to reafon I'll begin. 
 The box and till do now appear ; 
 For fo the parting it is there, 
 Wherein at firft ihou putt'ft the feal : 
 And every myllery I'll reveal. 
 For in the box is feal'd My word ; 
 Man fhall be happy with his Lord : 
 And My delight lhall be with man ; 
 For fo at full I laid My plan ;
 
 And now that plan I will complete, 
 
 And all (hall find there's no deceit. 
 
 For as the box to you appears, 
 
 It is thy fealed writings there, 
 
 That men did open to their view ; 
 
 And all did judge their God was trut t 
 
 That He his word would now fulfil, 
 
 And I (hall bruife the Serpent's heel, 
 
 Or by my heel (hall bruife his head ; 
 
 For fo the promifes are laid ; 
 
 And fo the box does now appear : 
 
 Thou know'ft the circle it is there, 
 
 Wherein the four ftars are found : 
 
 If ye have wifdom, judge the found : 
 
 For in the middle (lands the feal, 
 
 That unto man I (hall reveal. 
 
 It is the feal ; and 'tis My word. 
 
 For to avenge My dying blood 
 
 Upon the Serpent, as 'tis plac'd, 
 
 "When I redeem the fall'n race ; 
 
 Arid now this race I will redeem. 
 
 As I have faid, without a feam. 
 
 For as the box does now appear, 
 
 So full of fplendor you fee there, 
 
 Juft fo the box is now fcal'd up, 
 
 And fo the end to man will drop, 
 
 That now in faith do tlrong appear, 
 
 They'll find the key for all is there : 
 
 But as thou fay'ft 'tis up and down, 
 
 Juft fo the end will now be found. 
 
 For I have open'd it to man, 
 
 To {hew you how the box does (land : 
 
 You fee the top it now is red, 
 
 And fo the feals thereon are laid : 
 
 But when the infide does appear 
 
 You all will find that vifion's near ; 
 
 Becattfe My word (hall ever ftand : 
 
 When men thy writings ail command 
 
 They'll own the box docs fo appear, 
 
 And perfect like this vi'.ion here, 
 
 I told thee I had gold in (lore, 
 
 To build Jerufalem's ruins here : 
 
 1 faid my kingdom mould come down, 
 
 With every fplendor man 'to crown, 
 
 I fj.id My vrnes (hould clutters bring, 
 
 And every happinefs (hould fpring, 
 
 To thofe whofe hearts were warm'd with love j 
 
 And now's the time men's hearts I'll prove,
 
 And bring them all to fee My death ; 
 
 And let them fee their living faith, 
 
 Which way they judge My blood will fall : 
 
 The day of vengeance known to all, 
 
 Was in My heart for to appear : 
 
 The law and gofpel you fee clear. 
 
 So now appear ye righteous men, 
 
 If you like me have laid your plan, 
 
 The finners you muft wifh to free : 
 
 Think on My words at Calvary. 
 
 " Father, they know not what they do:" 
 
 I craved their pardon, fo muft you : 
 
 If that My fpirit you have got, 
 
 Ihe fins of men you'd wifh to blot, 
 
 And caft all on the Tempter's head, 
 
 And fo like Me would be your plead, 
 
 Which every foul will find is near. 
 
 But man knows not what he doth do : 
 
 The vifions open'd to their view, 
 
 Do with my Bible all agree ; 
 
 And every word I've fpoke to thee 
 
 Doth in thefe vifions all appear ; 
 
 And yet I fee that man doth err. 
 
 So le: the other vifion come ; 
 
 And then I'll anfwer thee again. 
 
 SIXTH VISION. 
 
 On St. George's Day, April 23, 1803, Jofeph Pref- 
 cott faw the following vifion, at four o'clock in the 
 afternoon/ of a crown compofed of diamonds, of a 
 rich and curious form ; the bottom part of which was 
 four fquare, on which were four mort pillars, four 
 large arches, and feveral fmall ones adjoining, in a 
 ferpentine form. At the top of them was a ball 
 formed with diamonds, branches of diamonds fpread- 
 ing from the ball, top and bottom, different ways, 
 
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 in the form of fix cornucopias, encircled m a circle 
 of glory. 
 
 Being at a lofs how to defcribe the vifion, and 
 paufing over it, he heard thefe words: ^" Jofeph, 
 tell Myfervant to jlih it a crown : for it is a repre- 
 fentation of the complete fulnefs of the Godhead 
 todtiy" 
 
 B
 
 10 
 
 SEVENTH VISION. 
 
 May 8th,, (Sunday) 1803, Jofeph Prefcott faw 
 the following vifion. At the further end of the room 
 where he fat, he beheld feven angels as large as 
 middling fized men, drefled in white robes. They 
 ftood very clofe together. At the right of them was 
 placed a fmall angel, with a piece of green plant in 
 his hand. At the left of them flood a garden pot 
 full of mould or earth. The laft angel of the feveri 
 on the left hand fide,, beckoned to the fmall angel, to 
 come to him. The fmall angel went and took the 
 garden pot, and placed it on the table before Mr. 
 Carpenter, on which his books, vifions, &c. lay, and 
 planted the green plant he held in his hand in the 
 pot, and then went to the place he was before in. 
 It immediately began to grow, and although only a 
 a fmall branch in the hand of the angel, foon grew 
 up until it nearly reached the deling, in a fpiral 
 form : On the top of which mot forth a red flower 
 of a large fize, or a great duller of fmall ones, from 
 one and the fame ftalk. This vifion continued up- 
 wards of two hours. 
 
 An explanation, given by the Spirit to Joanna, in 
 anfwer to the vifion of Jofeph, of the Crown repre- 
 lenting " The Julnefs of the Godhead bodily ;" and 
 alfo of the vifion of the feven Angels, and the little 
 4/rge/, green plant, fyc. &\c. 
 
 > Weigh deep the vifion now, and fee 
 What judgment can be form'd by thee. 
 But, in thy heart thou anfwereft none, 
 Juft like the reft to all 'tis known : 
 And fo alike you all do fee: 
 Then give the wifdom unto Me, 
 This wond'rotis vifion to explain. 
 You fay the tomb therein is found. 
 As on the tomb the crown does ilnnd, 
 And fo I'll give it out to man : 
 I'll place the bottom to My tomb. 
 And fo I'll fhew you all Mv doom,
 
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 And what the prophets did foretel : 
 The guilt of all men on Me fell, 
 Until they brought Me to the tomb, 
 To fuffer in the Tinner's room : 
 But how their fins did I then free? 
 Appear vain men, and anfwer Me, 
 From any judgment you can draw : 
 Now bring the gofpel and the law ; 
 And then you'll iee the gofpel's pole 
 Go from the tomb -afcend to all, 
 With the fix thoufand falling down: 
 But on the top behold the crown, 
 With theux thoufand riling up, 
 Much like the horns you {ee at top ; 
 And like the horns it doth appear, 
 A myltery deep no man can clear: 
 But yet the myftery I'll make plain. 
 When Abraham offer'd up his fon. 
 The youth was freed, the ram was there, 
 And on the altar offer'd was ; 
 And on the altar all {hall fee, 
 The horns are plac'd, and man I'll free, 
 That now in Abraham's faith appears, 
 And all mail find the horns are near, 
 To make the tow'ring walls to fall, 
 Which Satan flrong ha'h built for all. 
 The Tempter, he hath had his time ; 
 And now you'll fee, I will have mine, 
 And all thefe horns I'll give to man, 
 And in the thicket catch the ram, 
 That now mult perifh in man's {lead: 
 If they like Abraham will proceed, 
 They'll find that Abraham's feed is 
 And all the earth I will blefs here : 
 Becaufe that Ifaacs you muft come, 
 Unbind your fons and caft the ram, 
 That 1 have faid defiles My {heep : 
 For in that form he often creeps, 
 I tell you plain, amongft My flock ; 
 Therefore I told thee man know'th not 
 What they are doing, *o condemn ; 
 For Satan in diiguile is come 
 To lead My wandering flock aftray, 
 And fo they perifli in the way, 
 If that no Abrahams could be found, 
 Wiih faith like his, their fons to bind 
 Upon the altar of My word, 
 And judge Me as a faithful God,
 
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 That I (hall raife you from the duft ; 
 
 And fo like Abraham is your truft, 
 
 And folike him your Cons I'll free; 
 
 And then the horns, you all (hall fee, 
 
 Shall gam the victory in the end : 
 
 Mark the two rams by thee were penn'd, 
 
 A iype of Satan, and of Me, 
 
 And fothe brazen ferpent fee, 
 
 How I the likenefs did compare : 
 
 A myftery deep to man I'll clear, 
 
 What xhey could never underftand: 
 
 But mark the crown, and then command 
 
 How in and out it doth appear, 
 
 And fo My Bible's placed here: 
 
 For in and out it muft go oh, 
 
 Before the ftrait paihs they can come ; 
 
 And then you'll fee, a perfeft line 
 
 From every crooked path you'll find. 
 
 For fo My Bible now I'll clear : 
 
 'Tis perfect like the vifion here, 
 
 And in and out it all went through; 
 
 As none can prove My prophet's true, 
 
 To bring it all ii\ a ftrait line: 
 
 For like that vilibn all will find, 
 
 My Bible's in and out to man, 
 
 I tell thee. crooked like thy chain, 
 
 That in one link cannot appear 
 
 To prove it ftrait the truth I'll clear. 
 
 In crooked paths I came to man; 
 
 My footfteps they did not difcern, 
 
 Nor could they fee My footfteps clear: 
 
 They judg'd Ifaiah he muft err, 
 
 If I the Saviour then could be, 
 
 Defpis'd by man in poverty, 
 
 The Prince and Saviour to affiime, 
 
 The mighty Counfellor to become, 
 
 And tht dtfire of nations be, 
 
 And all the earth poffefs'd by Me, 
 
 When all the earth did Me defpife : 
 
 My followers then were judg'd unwife, 
 
 Then how could I to man appear, 
 
 As by Ifaiah fpoken there, 
 
 The wondrous Counfellor to be ? 
 
 No, here the crooked paths, you fee, 
 
 Did not appear in a Hrait line ; 
 
 The myftenes out they could not find, 
 
 A man of forrows to appear, 
 
 Woundedand griev'd, their guilt to bear,
 
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 Whom they efteemed not at all ; 
 And fo My death appear'd to all, 
 I tell you, crooked from the tomb; 
 The bye-paths were unknown to man: 
 Yet in that path did FAITH appear, 
 And all My defciples follow'd there r 
 To join the path clofe to the tomb, 
 Affirm the crooked paths were known, 
 That mfuch path I muft appear, 
 And they went on, like Me before. 
 To let them know that no ftrait line 
 Could prove My Bible all divine. 
 It is in bye-paths you muft fee 
 The wondrous working all of Me ; 
 And fo in bye-paths they did come, 
 In crooked paihs, unknown to man : 
 They made My death for to appear 
 A ilrait path, as you fee it there : 
 Becaufe the Hem goes thro' the whole, 
 And fo they piac'd the gofpePs pole j 
 And fo the gofpel doth appear 
 To every true believer here: 
 For they in crooked paths go on, 
 Until the ending near is come: 
 But they can point out no llrait line 
 How that My kingdom you may find. 
 The outward court doth all appear 
 In crooked paths, as heretofore: 
 Then fure the inward court muft come, 
 To make the law and gofpel join, 
 How in one chain they do agree ; 
 And, from this vifion, all mall fee 
 How it is like the funs' of men ; 
 You'll find the inner court, mull come. 
 So let the inner court appear ; 
 And now I'll tell thee who they are. 
 But from thy heait, I well do know, 
 The inner court, thou jugd'it them fo, 
 'Tis thefe thai wait My voice to hear, 
 That I will anfwer all their prayers, 
 And they do wait to hear within ; 
 The inner court tney mull be feen : 
 And fo the inner court they be. 
 But here's a myitery none do fee : 
 /The inner court is now without, 
 ;Becaufe the Spjrit ihey do doubt, 
 What to another may be given ; 
 And fo the judg'd the God of Heaven,
 
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 That all His creatures He'll deceive j. 
 
 None but themfelves will they believe. 
 
 Then they no inner court can be : 
 
 They draw their judgement not from Mel 
 
 Becaufe I bid them' judge no man : 
 
 For different gifts, I faid, would com*, 
 
 As different as your members are : 
 
 Then fure the outward court is there, 
 
 That is, I mean the outward man : 
 
 They place My gofpel by their plan ; 
 
 And by their plan they all appear, 
 
 And fo the outward court is here, 
 
 I tell you, in a crooked line. 
 
 From fuch profeffors can you find 
 
 A path that's flraight, wherein to go? 
 
 And from within thou anfwereft no : 
 
 Their paths are crooked all to the ; 
 
 And fo I fay, they are to Me. 
 
 Then they are but the outward man, 
 
 That from their judgement form their plan. 
 
 Which in My gofpel I forbid ; 
 
 For different gifts, to man is faid, 
 
 That in the end thefe muft, appear, 
 
 To make My church ONE BODY here. 
 
 The gift of wifdom, it muft come, 
 
 And different fpiriis to difcern,. 
 
 And divers gifts, I faid would be, 
 
 Ajid prophecies, I faid, you'd fee, 
 
 Amongft the different gifts appear: 
 
 Then fure the inner court is here : 
 
 Which hangs together in this chain : 
 
 The inner court I'll now explain'. 
 
 Like My difciples 't muft appear, 
 
 And judge of Me as they judge there, 
 
 Such miracles could never come 
 
 From none, but GOD'S ANOINTED SON : 
 
 Becaufe the power muft come from Heav'n, 
 
 That unto Me that time was given : 
 
 And as I faid I was His SON, 
 
 They faw the wonders I had done ; 
 
 And fo within they did appear, 
 
 To judge from faith the truth was clear. 
 
 From miracles that they did fee, 
 
 The judged the the truth did come from Me ; 
 
 And fo the ftandard did appear : 
 
 It was by faith they walked there; 
 
 And fo by faith they all went through, 
 
 And brought the golpel to your view.
 
 15 
 
 So this by faith, I fay, was done, 
 And charity in them did come, 
 That as a God I'd not deceive 
 Thofe that by faith fo right believed, 
 A thing was never done before 
 Without a God 't could not appear ; 
 And tho' they faw a crooked line, 
 They judg'd My wifdom laid behind, 
 That all My words I would fulfil 
 Faith was their anchor; wifdom ftill 
 Was fixed in them at the time ; 
 They judged the miracles divine 
 Could never come from any hand, 
 Without a God for to command, 
 The wind and weather to obey; 
 They pondered all before them lay, 
 And then the judg'd the WHOLE divine; 
 And now their off-spring bright fliall ihine: 
 For 'tis by faith you walk the fame- 
 You've feen the truth how faft it came. 
 You've feen how all did haften on : 
 Then to My Bible you did come, 
 Like My difciples then of old, 
 You've feen the truth, how all was told, 
 You fee My bible, how't doth ftand, 
 And fo, like them, you all command 
 That there's no power but a God 
 Could in.fuch wondrous manner lead, 
 To have the myfteries fo come round, 
 The wife and learned to confound : 
 Becaufe the truth confounds them all, 
 If they rejeft the heavenly call. 
 They can't rejeft the truth is here, 
 Unlefs. from Satan, they appear 
 For to affirm it all a lie 
 In Satan's words they muft deny, 
 And fo in Satan's words appear, 
 For to deny a prophet here. 
 So this is now the outward man ; 
 For to the truth they never came : 
 Then how can they be placed within ? 
 And now to reafon I'll begin. 
 The inward men did fo appear, 
 To look within, and fee it clear ; 
 And then My Bible they did fe?, 
 Thefe promifes were made by Me, 
 To bring it all in a ftrait line, 
 And prove My Bible all divine,
 
 16 
 
 That every word therein is true : 
 My Bible's open to their view, 
 And I am bringing round the chain, 
 As I have faid, for to redeem 
 My fons and daughters from the fall ; 
 That now in Me you may live all : 
 Becaufe the falnefs now is come 
 THE GODHEAD BODILY with man. 
 It muft in union now agree : 
 The inner court of men do fee, 
 That Joel's prophecies are here : 
 The vifion to the youth appear'd, 
 The woman gave the prophecy, 
 And mark the manner how they lie, 
 That both together near did come, 
 And to each other were unknown, 
 Until I brought the myft'ry round, 
 That both together fhould be fouud, 
 To prove My prophet Joel true; 
 And now My Spirit, all (hall know, 
 I'll pour upon the fons of men, 
 And Satan hath not long to reign ; 
 Tho' he in power will now appear, 
 Becaufe he knows his end is near ; 
 And the Philiftineshe will make- 
 Like Sampfon's ftrength will Satan's break, 
 I tell you now, on every man 
 That in their ftreagth and wifdom ftand. 
 So in their ftrength let man appear ; 
 They'll find a Sampfon's ftrength is near: 
 Becaufe that Satan's flrength will come, 
 And pull their fatal ruin on. 
 But here I fee thy heart within ; 
 To ponder deep thou doft begin, 
 Becaufe to Sampfon 't cannot be 
 A type of hell is judg'd by thee ; 
 I cannot make the myftery clear : 
 For Sampfon's foes deftroyed were. 
 Then 'tis the Devil's foesTnuft fall, 
 And bring the ruin on them all : 
 And fo I fay the end will barft ; 
 For Satan's friends like foes are plac'd ; 
 Becaufe they all defpifed thee, 
 And fay that Satan nils thee up-, 
 Therefore they fay that ihev do hue 
 The writings, for the Devil's fake: 
 Becaufe to him they all do place, 
 And fo the Devil they difgrace,
 
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 And in their malice prove his foe ; 
 For there they place thy writings fo; 
 And fo I fay they make the found, 
 And the Philiftines they are found, 
 And Satan's malice will abound, 
 I fay, to fall upon their heads : 
 
 Becaufe they fay their anger^fpread 
 A^g^jft thejwri tings which "came 
 Then S'atan's malice there will fail, 
 
 gs which came from Hell 
 :e then 
 on their 
 
 _ toj>lead, 
 
 ToTay I dieoTo^tjhem Free,J^_. 
 AnHbiTng NTy ven ge a naTall orT he ; 
 ThatTs 'he Devil f do m 
 And faith, the promifes 
 Butjhey have goTlioTaTth a 
 They place My vengeance for to fall, 
 
 *" - Til - ~ ' - 1 - -*? ... !. J ' ' 
 
 I tell thee, on the tinner's header 
 AiTd^fo for HelF is all their plead. 
 For there t-he Tempter they do freej^^ 
 And Satan's words "^Tike Mine" will be! 
 
 '^WKaThypocrites do youj*ppea7T " 
 *' Y3uT fay y^iTTiaT^'tK?wo^^there i __ ^ 
 ' ; BecauJener^w^rHT^ame^aTrTrorrr Hell^; 
 * You faij~fnnn Mejier heart~dl3j^eTl, 
 ;t To tell you alTwhatjnaft appear, 
 " Ar73~foyotrhate tTjewornan there, 
 *' Becaufe you faid (he wrote from Me, 
 *' And fo your malice, now I fee. 
 (i Was all againft the power of Hell ; 
 " And now My power you (hall feel, 
 " Becaufe your love was not for Me, 
 *' You hated the woman I did fee, 
 " Not for her virtue, as 'twas there, 
 '' But her with Me you did compare, 
 " And fo your malice you did (how :' f 
 Likejhe Philiftines fuch will know 
 Like Samp fen's fury ^twilTappear, 
 
 Bccatlfe^trietr' BuTldIngls~ot fl rongj 
 They have uo church to build upon^'_ 
 TThat I (hall make their builJin^ fjTe, 
 \\ here SaTaTTT^malic^e^ari't appear^.. 
 T_^Yi tODull their Duild ings down 
 It is IvTy word tlie walls are foung^ 
 1 hat batan's Qy^er ca'iri'ot inake^. 
 
 1 hat batan's ^Qy^er ca 
 jjut on the other he wi . 
 
 And ^Ifrhe building he'll pulldown : 
 Thefe churches mult fall to the ground. 
 C
 
 18 
 
 Who judge his ftrength I did cut off, 
 When I expired upon the crofs: 
 But now they'll find like Sampfon's hair, 
 His ftrength in fury will appear, 
 To pull down vengeance now on man, 
 Tho' he muft perifh now with them : 
 For all together they muft fall, 
 The fix foretell'th the end of all, 
 How the fix thoufand they muft drop : 
 But I fhall build the others up, 
 That like the inner court appear, 
 The chain is faften'd, you fee clear ; 
 And fo I'll faften every word, 
 And bring My Bible as I faid : 
 The law and gofpel now (hall join, 
 A Joel's words are to mankind, 
 That all the inner court may fee, 
 I mean of men that judges be, 
 In what a manner this came round, 
 To have the chain fo perfeft found, 
 That like My Bible does appear; 
 And all My prophets now I'll clear, 
 And bring Ifaiah to their view- 
 The Mighty Gounfellor they {hall know, 
 Doth in this counfel now appear, 
 To (hew the vifions as they are, 
 And in the fpirit doth explain 
 The every vifion, what they mean. 
 For by thefe vifions all may fee 
 One link of chain without to be, 
 Without another to come round; 
 And fo My Bible all is found, 
 That in one link it doth appear : 
 Then who can make My Bible clear, 
 Before the other link doth come, 
 That God and man they both muft join, 
 So perfed in the TRINITY ? 
 The Godhead muft with man agree, 
 To make your happinefs complete, 
 As I at firft did him create; 
 In My own image, and My form, 
 I faid, I firft created man, 
 To be in favour then with Me : 
 I afk what fulnefs there can be, 
 If I do not fulfil the whole, 
 And fo the chain bring round to all ? 
 That God and man alike muft join, 
 To bring My glorious kingdom down,
 
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 As in that chain it doth appear : 
 
 The fulnefs of the whole is there ; 
 
 Becaufe it is the gofpel's chain : 
 
 The ftandard unto man is plain. 
 
 As from the tomb I did appear ; 
 
 I did not die to periJJi there, 
 
 But left My coffin then behind; 
 
 The linen cloth they there did find, 
 
 Which I have (hew'd you all in red -, 
 
 And fo I'll purchafe with My blood, 
 
 The nations that do join with Me: 
 
 Behold the branches on the tree. - 
 
 The tree is now the Tree of Life . 
 
 As I arofe to end the ftrife, 
 
 So all the ftrife I now {hall end, 
 
 And every land (hall bow or bend 
 
 Unto the circle of the tomb ; 
 
 As fome are fliort, I'll tell their doom. 
 
 The crooked paths, that are for man, 
 
 They muft be fhorten'd by My hand, 
 
 As to My tomb they do appear : 
 
 But mark the top, the chain is there 
 
 I tell you they are circled round, 
 
 And fo they both mall now be found : 
 
 For near the top I fay you're come ; 
 
 And mark the centre from the tomb: 
 
 Then from the tomb the my fiery fee: 
 
 It is the Spirit judg'd by you, 
 
 That comes to vifit from the tomb ; 
 
 And fo to you I fay I'm come, 
 
 To make My law and gofpel join. 
 
 The MIGHTY COUNSELLOR is here, 
 
 The PRINCE of PEACE you'll find is near j 
 
 Whom all the prophets did foretel; 
 
 And now the whole I will fulfil. 
 
 For as the box does now appear, 
 
 You fee My eye is faften'd there ; 
 
 And fo 'tis faften'd to My word, 
 
 And all mankind fhall find their Lord 
 
 Will now fulfil the promife all ; 
 
 For like the inner chain 't mall fall : 
 
 For fo the whole I will bring round, 
 
 And like * a heart" two chains are found, 
 
 With every viftory on the top, 
 
 And fo the end for man fhall drop, 
 
 That doth in heart unite with Me, 
 
 And longs My kingdom for to fee, 
 
 And prays that Satan now may fall : 
 
 This vifion fhews the crown's for all,
 
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 That fa My Bible will come round ; 
 For in one chain muft both be found, 
 1 now do tell you, God and man ; 
 For fo I've laid My every plan, 
 For men and angels to unite : 
 The angels bring the heavenly fight ; 
 And men muft join with them below ; 
 And fo * the Tree of Life (hall grow, 
 That on My fer\ ant's table flood ; 
 A little branch afcends to God : 
 That meant, it upward then did fpring, 
 And at the top the flowers came, 
 And fo the branches they will grow: 
 They now are planted, all fhall know; 
 Though fmall in body 't now appears, 
 1 fay, My friends have nought to fear, 
 Tho' few believers ate at firft, 
 And theyfeem levell'd with the duft; 
 Becaufe ihe duft doth fo appear 
 To judge they all muft perifh here, 
 Becaufe the branches do not grow: 
 To man at prefent it is low ; 
 But faft I fay the root will fpring, 
 And foon the flowers will be feen, 
 Upon the top for to appear : 
 The feven angels I (hall clear, 
 'Myje.i'fn f*>irits now are come. 
 The fpirit of prophecy is one : 
 Thefpiritual eye isopen'd here, 
 In Webfter^ fon doth now appear, 
 That he the fpirits can dilcern, 
 As in the room to him are fecn, 
 To fhew My fpirit it is here, 
 The law and gofpel both to clear. 
 For Mofes' wonders faft will come 
 Upon the fallen fons of men ; 
 And their deliverance they will fee 
 That now in truth do trufl in Me. 
 The promis'd Land is now before, 
 And they fhall fee the Canaan's fhorc, 
 That do rely upon My word, 
 Believe the promifes are made, 
 Throughout My Bible now for man; 
 For theie My words fhall ever ftand ; 
 And fo the law (hall now appear; 
 The fealed people that are here, 
 
 * This alludes to the Vifion Jofeph faw on the 8th of May at the Is 7 eckenger.
 
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 Are like the words to Mofes giv'n, 
 
 How he the people then (hould leaven, 
 
 By ail ihe blood upon the door: 
 
 Look deep, I need, now fay no more. 
 
 For fo the law to all will end, 
 
 As it to Ifrael then did bend : 
 
 The promis'd land they all will fee, 
 
 That now in faith rely on Me. 
 
 Tojndge Mv fpirii now is come, 
 
 To make the law and gofpel join. 
 
 So now from Mofes Ice the end ; 
 
 And now to Paul i? My intent 
 
 To make the myfteries out more clear : 
 
 It was the vifioris warn'd him there, 
 
 From perfecniion for to turn. 
 
 And fo ihe end will be to man : 
 
 For many Pauls will now appear 
 
 To fee the vifions, marvel here, 
 
 And true believe rs will become 
 
 You 11 fee the branches like the ftem, 
 
 "Which when 'twas planted faft did grow : 
 
 The bud and bloffom men will know, 
 
 From many perfecuiing Pauls ; 
 
 The vifions will awaken all 
 
 That I have planted by My hand ; 
 
 But the felf-righteous ftill will ftand 
 
 Like the felf righteous Jews before. 
 
 Another vifion will appear, 
 
 To make the myftery more plain. 
 
 So, now I've fhew'd thee what it means 
 
 From the " * three Jpirit s hejhzv^here," 
 
 That in the room with thee appear'd : 
 
 You'll find My fpmt ir is come, 
 
 And Mofes' wonders haftening on; 
 
 And fo you now will fee from Paul ; 
 
 Thefe vifions will awaken all. 
 
 That in his ipirit now are found : 
 
 Becaufe the root I'll plant it fo, 
 
 And all (hall find the branches grow, 
 
 Until the flowers do appear ; 
 
 And fo of fpirits I'll end here, 
 
 That of difctrnmem 1 did name; 
 
 And now to Joel I fhall come, 
 
 * Jofeph Webfter, when at the High Houfeat Paddington, at the proving of 
 the writings, in January, 1803, law our Lord, St. Paul, and Mofes, walking to 
 and fro in the room, which was confirmed by a viiion given to Mr. G. Turner, 
 of Leeds, and communicated to the company.
 
 And the third fpirit hcw from Me; 
 
 I fent the v ifions all (hall fee, 
 
 And gave him fight for to difcern 
 
 Thefe heavenly vifions coming down, 
 
 To fhew yon what is haftening on ; 
 
 And My delight's begun with men, 
 
 That now delight to work with Me ; 
 
 You'll find throughout eternity, 
 
 That in My kingdom bright they'll fliine . 
 
 Who now are joined to the vine : 
 
 For I "THE VINE,,' muftfure appear. 
 
 To make the law and gofpel clear. 
 
 Then ye the branches muft become, 
 
 In fpirit with your Lord to join ; 
 
 And fo you're made joint heirs with Mer 
 
 This is My kingdom, all (hall fee, 
 
 That I did die for to redeem, 
 
 From every power of hell and fin ; 
 
 And fo My kingom I'll make free ; 
 
 And then My heirs, you all (hall fee, 
 
 That they joint heirs fliall fo become. 
 
 To claim My kingdom as their own ; 
 
 Becaufe 'tispromis'd you before : 
 
 Look in My Bible, and be clear : 
 
 I {aid, " Fear not My little flock, 
 
 "It was My Fathers will 
 
 w To give His kingdom unto you" 
 
 And now, My friends ftand ftill. 
 
 To judge above ; can man now love 
 
 And wifli Me to refign, 
 
 And give My glorious kingdom up ? 
 
 No all the Heavens are Mine ; 
 
 Andmanfions there I {hall prepare, 
 
 My friends for to receive ; 
 
 But Lord of all, you know, I'm there ; 
 
 That kingdom ne'er I'll give 
 
 To any man that there doth come, 
 
 Yet there they fliall abide ; 
 
 And angels they will join with them,; 
 
 The Heavens for all are wide. 
 
 So enter there, you may appear 
 
 In My eternal reft; 
 
 But'can you judge I'll give it up, 
 
 Tho* you in Heaven ar6 blefs'd ? 
 
 No 'tis not- there, let men fee clear, 
 
 The kingdom I did mean, 
 
 It is the earthly kingdom here, 
 
 When I do it redeem, 
 
 From hell and fin, the viftory win,
 
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 And triumph over all; 
 
 Then fure this kingdom I ftall claim, 
 
 And then My friends I'll call, 
 
 For to poflefs the promis'd reft, 
 
 That I created you for : 
 
 But here are the fpirits that muft burft 
 
 This kingdom for to {hare 
 
 The fpint of wifdom to difcern 
 
 My Bible how it ftands, 
 
 And how thefe myft'ries all come round 
 
 That you do now command. 
 
 Behold the line, and judge the time ; 
 
 Then wifdom muft appear; 
 
 And 'tis a fpirit come from Me, 
 
 The fourth fpirit here. 
 
 But I'll go on, for faith muft come, 
 
 To be your anchor fure, 
 
 And fee what rock you'll build upon, 
 
 To judge your God is near. 
 
 Your Bible fee, the chain to be, 
 
 And fee the chain comes round, 
 
 How with My Bible all agree; 
 
 Then faith muft judge the found. 
 
 It could not come, be't known to man, 
 
 By any curious art : 
 
 BecaufeiHEY THREE,* you all do fee, 
 
 Were vifited apart, 
 
 Till I brought on the anchor ftrong, 
 
 To make your building fure ; 
 
 Then you may hope I (hall not ftop, 
 
 Till every path is clear, 
 
 That I am come to vifit man, 
 
 From Heaven's high courts above, 
 
 And man I'll free from mifery, 
 
 Andlhew My perfeft love, 
 
 That I did come for to redeem 
 
 From all the forrows here, 
 
 That now you feel from hell and fin. 
 
 By every pain you bear. 
 
 But pain (hall drop, and man {hail hope, 
 
 But (hall not hope in vain ; 
 
 For charity, the end you'll fee, 
 
 Will every promife gain. 
 
 For charity men have for Me 
 
 Who judge Me as a God, 
 
 That would not let all this agree, 
 
 Had Satan laid the road. 
 
 ' * Joanna, Jofeph Prefcott, and Jofcph Wcbftef-
 
 Out of the way you foon would ftray, 
 
 And be benighted here : 
 
 Thefe fpirits never could agree, 
 
 Led ou by Satan's care. 
 
 No they'd confound in every found ; 
 
 For I'd confound them all: 
 
 In likenefs they conld not agree, 
 
 To prove from Heaven's the call. 
 
 In fuch a line no man could find 
 
 To be without a God, 
 
 To make His witneffes fo clear- 
 
 THEY IN ONE PATH have trod ; 
 
 And all alike to every fight, 
 
 And *.all alike unknown 
 
 Before I brought the truth to light , 
 
 And bid thee hither come : 
 
 Thefe witriejfes before thy view 
 
 I furely here did bring. 
 
 Now I will anfwer thee, and all mankind, that 
 difpute by what fpirit them art led. Let them tell 
 how thefe things came to pafs, that f ordered thee 
 to bring thy writings and have them proved in 
 London; where I have vifited two boysf one by 
 opening his fpiritual eyes; and I gave him the .gift 
 of difcerning fpirits, to the other I have fent My 
 angel, to mew him the vifions of what is ( coming 
 on the Earth. The one (Jofeph Webfter) hath 
 told you, three fpirits attend you; which he is 
 informed are the fpirits of CHRIST, of MOSES, and 
 of PAUL. You will allow thefe three to be hea- 
 venly meflengers, to affirm I am come in the fpirit; 
 and the truth of the prophecies is the teftimony 
 that I am come. Every vifion that is (hewed to 
 the other youth, tells you all, that as ye fay, ap- 
 paritions, or appearances of things, mew you fame 
 death is near, either of yourfelves or of fome 
 near friend, fo now be alTured, thefe heavenly vi- 
 fions are a fign to you all that My kingdom is 
 nigh at hand ; and thefe lico are thy witnelfes 
 
 * The Three before ipoken of. 
 i Jofeph Prefcott, and Jofeph Webfter.
 
 from the difcernment of the fpirit in the one, and 
 from the vifions fhewn to the other,, who prove thy 
 calling to be of God; and My kingdom to be nigh 
 at hand. For., as the angels warned the fhepherds 
 of My birth; fo have they now warned you in the 
 vifions giyen to the youth. Yet, they err in judg- 
 ment, and ftumble in vifions. Then to whom (hall I 
 teach knowledge? Or whom mall I make to learn 
 
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 inftrucuons? For line hath been upon line, and 
 precept hath been upon precept, here a little, and 
 there a little, yet all have gone back.vards, and 
 made themfelves crooked paths; and they mall fall 
 therein. For if I have condefcended fo much to 
 vifit this lower world, by prophecies, and by vifions, 
 and 'have worked on My fervants, whom I have 
 chofen, to be obedient to the heavenly calling, to 
 make it known, and manifeft unto all men Now^ 
 if all thefe things are flighted, and ye refufe to 
 walk in the light while ye have $he light, dark- 
 nefs mall come upon you, and pain as upon a 
 wctoian in labour. For judgment mail follow the 
 line, and righteoufneis lhall be laid to 'the plum- 
 met: for the line is (Ira it before you all, and all 
 men, who have eyes to fee, or ears to hear, or 
 hearts to underftand, they mult know and undcr- 
 Itand, that it was by MY ORDER thou camcfr 
 hither; and it was I who brought ihej'e three to- 
 gether; and there is none who mail put them a- 
 f under. That is, they fhall not be able to fepa- 
 rate the words from coming to pafs, as I have 
 fpoken. 
 
 VISION of the CAR and SEALED LETTERS. 
 
 My chariot wheels (hall fail appear, 
 As in the vifion arc feen there: 
 Juft fo My chariot wheels lhall fly : 
 And every name mull come on h 1 
 
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 That now are fea^d by My word ; 
 
 They all muft come before the Lord, 
 
 And every l<ft mull now appear 
 
 Before THE THRONE, a< in thy prayer, 
 
 And every name ihat here do fign. 
 
 And join with ihee in hea't and mind, 
 
 They fo will come before the throne, 
 
 And every name fhall then be known, 
 
 That I have feal'd them with My blood ; 
 
 And ihey (hall all afcend to God; 
 
 And like the corn they mall appear: 
 
 For :hem 1'il pluck from every tare, 
 
 And like the wheat I'll gather in : 
 
 And now to reafon I'll begin. 
 
 For every vifion (hewn you here, 
 
 Shews how My kingdom. fhaH appear. 
 
 \\ hen I My kingdom do bring down, 
 
 Like all ihtfe vilions 'twill be found, 
 
 The names bcf re My throne mult iiand, 
 
 That wifh My kins-;., >m now a: hand, 
 
 And wifh for Satan to be caO : 
 
 I tt-li you thc-.re the end mnn* burft. 
 
 You know they clamour'd for My blood : 
 
 So I far man the viftim ft od ; 
 
 And to their words I did fubmit, 
 
 And fo they na'l'.l My hands and feet: 
 
 Becaufe 1 gave it up to man ; 
 
 And now the fame I've laid_My plan, 
 
 That I fhall g've it up the lame; 
 
 And man fhail know My every name, 
 
 I fay, throughout eternity, 
 
 That now in heart do vsifh for Me : 
 
 They fhall not wifh for Me in vain : 
 
 The holy war I will maintain. 
 
 Until the deluge down fhall fall 
 
 On them that now reject the call. 
 
 I'll tnlle now with man no more ; 
 
 J'll fend My fwoH from fhore to fliore, 
 
 Till every nation do comply,' 
 
 And wifh My kingdom to be nigh. 
 
 For now I'll make .hem SICK of fin 
 
 I'll {hew the evil it doth bring ; 
 
 And then I know, they'll wilh for Me, 
 
 "When Satan's fury they do fee, 
 
 That he is pomin^ out on man 
 
 They foon will feel his heavy hand ; 
 
 Bccaule My offers they rcfufe: 
 
 And nuw, 1 fay, worie than the jew
 
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 Their ruin they a'e bringing on- 
 My offers are defpis'd by mnn ; 
 Ard fo their fufferings 1 defpifc : 
 You all muft judge your God unwife, 
 To let fuch wondrous figh;s appear, 
 As in 'My Bibl? fpoken are, 
 And all together now to bring, 
 To (hew you plain, fiom every ficm. 
 
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 Ine end ot all things now is come: 
 The heavenly v.fions here are fhewn. 
 Then fure My kingdom it is near, 
 As in thefe vifions doth appear : 
 For fo My prophet did foretel, 
 It in the latter days mould fall; 
 And now the latter days are come 
 The woman clothed with the fun, 
 Doth in that manner now appear, 
 As in My Bible's fpoken there ; 
 And floods againft her men do caft, 
 Becaufe the rage of hell does burft 
 With fury on her, as 'tis fpoke; 
 And fo My Bible they do mock, 
 And add it all another way ; 
 For like the Jews, the Gentiles be. 
 For tho' the truth is now made plain, 
 The Bible they do not difcern, 
 That as 'tis fpoke it doth appear, 
 And fo they help the woman here. 
 As in My Bible it is penn'd ; 
 And fo 1 tell you all the end. 
 . For now the end to ail is come : 
 The Revelations they are plain ; 
 And like the Jews do men appear ; 
 Ifaiah's words were fpoken mere, 
 Wherein the Jews did it fulfil ; 
 And fo they iland THE PROVERBS Hill, 
 A fcatter'd people for to be ; 
 And now the Gemiles all fhall flee, 
 If like the Jews they now go on, 
 When I have made My Bible plain, 
 That as 'tis fpoke doth all appear: 
 The law and gofpel now are clear 
 The day of vengeance now is come : 
 And will you bring that day on man? 
 Then fure on man it fhall appear: 
 I will no longer trifle here : 
 For he that digs that pit fhall fall. 
 So now I tell you one and all,
 
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 That as the letters do appear 
 Before THE THRONE, they all are there ; 
 And fo I fay they all muft come. 
 And every name, before My throne, 
 That in thy lift doth now appear, 
 If theydoiign with thee in prayer, 
 Then they may all receive the crownt, 
 That to (land before their names are found, 
 I fay. to gather in like wheat, 
 And all will find the mylleries great. 
 For as the circle doth appear. 
 With faces, (none dilcern them there) 
 So will the fealed number come ; 
 And every promife is for them, 
 Whofe hands and hearts do now appear. 
 Anei wifii My kingdom to be here; 
 That is on earth for to come* down, 
 And Satan penfh in the found. 
 But as th* hearts of men I know, 
 Thoufands will fay they wifli it fo, 
 Bat will not let their names appear : 
 To fuch I now do anfwer here, 
 Their names muft come before the throne, 
 If by their names they will be known, 
 When I the bridegroom do appear, 
 It is the names the whole muft clear, 
 To prove they are the woman's feed, 
 That fign'd to bruife the Serpent's head; 
 And they THE WHEAT muft then become, 
 That {hail poflefs the holy land; 
 When I have brought it down below, 
 Where the green pafture then mall grow ; 
 And all My kingdom {hall appear 
 So perfect like thefe vifions here : 
 For every vifion here is found, 
 For Me to blefs this earthly ground ; 
 And here's a vifion (hews you plain, 
 The fealed people muft it gain : 
 Tho' I know NUMBERS will appear 
 From different lands thefe things they'll hear. 
 And with this nation with to iign, 
 And from their hearts I'll make them Mine. 
 When the laft trumpet doth appear- 
 The feven angels you fee there, 
 The feventh tnoufand (hall bring in ; 
 Bccaufe to fhorten now I'm come- 
 To fhonen the two hundred years; ~ 
 As I the fixth day did appear
 
 For to be nailed to the crofs, 
 And then the fevemh laid ccmpos'd, 
 Urtil il.e firfl day did appeal : 
 Then My difciples met Me .here, 
 I now do ieil you, in the way, 
 But I was quite unknown tp them; 
 And fo to man I'm now unknown, 
 The manner I to you am come, 
 In fuch a Orange difguife appear/ 
 The eye of .faith difcern? Me near, 
 But now. I fay. no other eye, 
 D'fcerns My footfteps, how they lie: 
 Becaufe I'm come to all unknown, 
 And all the fcrip;ures to you have (hewn, 
 And altogether bid you weigh: 
 Then jurige the dawning of the day, 
 And mark what date I fo appear 
 I'vi fan: I'd (horten the fixth year; 
 And the fix thoufand ' lis I mean: 
 Then from My death behold the fign ; 
 And mark the day they took Me firft, 
 And mark the fixth how it did burft. 
 Before the day was ended there 
 They nailed My hands, and pirced the fpear. 
 Then all ALL WAS FINISH'D I did cry : 
 And now look back to Calvary, 
 And every day call you to mind, 
 And then ihe myftenes out you'll find. 
 For the laft century muft appear, 
 When thou alone did alk in prayer, 
 That I would fhonen Satan's reign, 
 But the new century now begin, 
 I fay, for man to do the fame ; 
 And well I know from every name, 
 What hearts wuhm they all have got, 
 Whether they wifh My reign or not : 
 And as I judge all from the heart, 
 A fecret now 1 will impart: 
 The names that are not given FREE, 
 In heart and hand, 1 fay, to Me, 
 Their jealoufy will foon alarm, 
 Satan will every one unarm, 
 With unbelief they will appear, 
 And ill their feals deftroy them here : 
 Then ail their figning is in vain ; 
 For no admittance they can gain, 
 T have My kingdom here belo\v; 
 Or how to Heav'n can any go
 
 so 
 
 That do deflroy My perfecT: word ? 
 
 I've faid the fealed of the Lord 
 
 Are the cleft, \vho now muO ftand, 
 
 And they My kin<fd im muft conmancf, 
 
 For them to gain. the Tree of Life ; 
 
 Becaufe for them I'll end the ftrife, 
 
 A^ I did end in grief for rmn : 
 
 For fo the Tempter laid his plan ; 
 
 And Satan nou fha'l fail the f-nns : 
 
 It is from man his rnd m-.ift come. 
 
 So now if fifty do appear, 
 
 That join with thee in heart and prayer, 
 
 To have the Tempter to be cart. 
 
 And wifti My kingdom for to burft, 
 
 Then they My kingdom (hall obtain ; 
 
 I laid I'd fave for fifty men, 
 
 The utter ruin of the place, 
 
 Another way deilrny the r?ft. 
 
 So now that way to man I'll come ; 
 
 I'vefent My angels, 't (ball be known, 
 
 To warn you all that I am near : 
 
 From dreams and vifions you fee clear, 
 
 And from the fpirit of prophecy 
 
 The law and gofpel do not lie : 
 
 But all together now they're come ; 
 
 From the ei^ht hundred you difcern 
 
 How the firft date muft. now appear, 
 
 To make My law and gofp.-l clear : 
 
 Beraufe the feven you go through, 
 
 And then the firU, before your view. 
 
 It is a day of rejl for man : 
 
 Then now I'll tell you all My plan* 
 
 No refpite man did give to Me, 
 
 Remember, in Gethfemane : 
 
 With fwords and flavcs they met Me there, 
 
 And then My trial foon brought near: 
 
 For then they nail'd Me to the tree, 
 
 No other week allowed for Me, . , 
 
 That I a refpite then could gain ; 
 
 And now I'll tell you all the end.^ ^_^- 
 
 As I that zaeek did not go through, 
 
 I fa/ like man I now will do, " 
 
 And cut the century fhort thefatnc. 
 The fwords and Raves are found, by man, 
 To meet the Tempter in the way ; 
 With fwords and (laves. I n <-.v do fay 
 Becaufe the SWORD it is My word - 
 The promife full was made by (iod.
 
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 That you fhou'd bruife the Serpent's head 
 Thefe are the promifes were made : 
 Then fure it is a ftaff to man . 
 My word you all muft refl upon ; 
 And then My prpmife you can fee; 
 The Serpent bruifed as well as Me. 
 But when that blow comes on his head, 
 Then al' his power I will flrike dead, 
 Thai he ha; h now got over man : 
 As I've begun I'll now goon ; 
 And no more refpite will I give 
 Than man d-d ih~n,fur M<? 10 live. 
 So if the depih you can difcern. 
 You all may judge how I 10 warn; 
 Becaufe the f'vords do all appear. 
 From every name that's given hf>re. 
 That they do givt in heart and mind, 
 Wiflling ihe Srpmt for to bind. 
 As on the crof^ they then bound Me : 
 One day, " a 'h u'fand years fliall be," 
 That I in r.jl laid in the tomb, 
 Ere I by man a r -ain was feen ; 
 And then the firft I did appear, 
 And My difciples f.iw Me there ; 
 And fo the Devil will arife 
 Again toman, in ftrange difguife, 
 That hath by wonders been brought in ; 
 I know what power he'll gain o'er them: 
 But then My faints wil! iirong appear, 
 And know the judgment day is near. 
 That now are workers here with Me: 
 My fealed number all will fee, 
 'How they in faith wdl boldly {land, 
 And fay the whole we now command : 
 For every prophecy is ckar; 
 Our enemies we need not fear; 
 Becaufe ihe truth we faw at firft, 
 And now we fee the end to buril, 
 As all the Bible did foretel 
 And as exphiin'd a fo did fall ; 
 And now %ve all d.i fee the end; 
 We know our (iod will be our friend ; 
 And we in tnumon fhai' appear, 
 \Vith fain'ts and atrgels n, ,11; air : 
 Therefore mir death we doii't regard; 
 We know our dod will us reward ; 
 And fo the'll Hand umo the end, 
 And with their God they will defcend :
 
 When, the laft trumpet doth appear, 
 They'll come with joy then in the air. 
 But now ih'is fibjett I (hall end : 
 For at thf prejent I intend 
 To make the mvftery out more plain; 
 The fword and ftaves are drawn by men : 
 The flaffis now the power of God, 
 "Whofe ftrength will now fulfil His word. 
 For fo the fpint's fword is come : 
 Becaufe My fpirit doth appear, 
 In every foul that now fees clear: 
 For they have drawn the fpirit's fword, 
 And all mankind mall find v'ly word, 
 That I am come for to fulfil, v 
 And tread with My avenging heel, 
 All that againft Me draw the fword ; 
 And: ail mankind (hall find the Lord 
 Did make thefe vifions to appear. 
 And in the fpirit anfwers here, 
 The every vifion what it means: 
 Ihe fword is drawn, I tell you plain, 
 And he that draw'th it 'gainft My word, 
 f They all fhaU perim in the flood, 
 I fay, of forrow and of fin: 
 For now to reafon I'll begin. 
 I fufferM for the fall of man," 
 As he his Maker did condemn : 
 But if the Tempter now you fKv, 
 You all muft perifli now with he. 
 That is, your lives muft end with grief : 
 I a(k you, who can give relief, 
 If you the murderer now will free? 
 1 he woman's guilt muft fall 011 lie : 
 That is the Devil I do mean; 
 And then the Earth I mall redeem : 
 But you can point no other way, 
 That in My Bible I did fay, 
 That e'er the Earth I mould redeem, 
 But by the promife made to them, 
 I now do tell you inthe fall : 
 lor there the promife (lands for all ; 
 And there the enmity is placed, 
 I tell you all, ye fallen race, 
 Confcience condemns you every one ; 
 Againft the woman you are come ; 
 With enmity you do appear, 
 Againft the trords arc fpoken here ; 
 And fo your God you muft condemn, 
 To let fhe woman thus go on.
 
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 And let fuch vifions to appear, 
 I fay, My Bible for to clear : 
 But well your anfwers I do know 
 "Ihefe vifions I did never fhow : 
 That is the language of their heart : 
 Then now thefe words I will impart. 
 You muft My Bible all deny, 
 If you do fay, unknown to Me 
 That all thefe things would fo appear; 
 And now, vain mortals, anfwer here, 
 Why I ne'er ftopt the woman's hand? 
 Not four men could I command, 
 To join together, and appear, 
 For to prevent her coming here, 
 To make thefe vilions out fo plain, 
 When ail had been defpis'd by men : 
 And Co, by men. they'd dill appear 
 To be defpis'd, as heretofore, 
 Had not the woman hither come, 
 To fiiew the vifions what they mean ; 
 And fo boch hands are ilrengthened here : 
 Unknown to Me can nought appear ; 
 Becaufe your thoughts I doefpy, 
 And tell you, My difcerning eye 
 To every place doth go before ; 
 And well I know what will appear ; 
 And fo all this is known to Me, 
 Before My throne, you all may fee 
 That every thing is placed there j 
 And as thefe vifions do appear, 
 So all is brought before the throne, 
 And every name to Me is known ; 
 And every hand and heart the fame ; 
 And now, I fay, from every name, 
 The books muft all be brought to Me ; 
 And now My jewels all (hall fee, 
 How from the books I'll make them up, 
 And how the Tempter there fhall drop. 
 For I the judge fhall now appear, 
 And man's petition I will hear, 
 \Vhen all is brought before My throne- 
 Like the hand-writing 't fhall be known, 
 That PUate wrote upon the crofs: 
 Then fure your names cannot be loft. 
 When I, the King of Kings appear, 
 My foldiers muft My kingdom (hare, 
 That draw the fword and win the field ; 
 For there the foe he now muft. yield. 
 When \ the King do but appear, 
 And men's petition I do hear, 
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 And all is laid before My throne, 
 
 And their petitions mult be known 
 
 In therr hand-writing to appear, 
 
 Or by their wifh be enter'd there ; 
 
 And then 1 will fum up the whole, 
 
 And be the Pilate for you all, 
 
 To give confent, I fay, like him, 
 
 And fo the Tempter falls, like Me, 
 
 I tell you. by the power of man : 
 
 By their defire I've laid My plan : 
 
 Then fure the Tempter can't complain, 
 
 If I refign'd MyJife to men, 
 
 Then now to them he (hall refign, 
 
 And fo I've told you all My mind. 
 
 The fwords are drawn, the ftaffs appear 
 
 *Tis time for Satan to take care ;. 
 
 And you may judge how near the end, 
 
 As from My death 'twas My intent 
 
 To fhew you all how this mnft burfl ; 
 
 And mark Gethfemane was firft, 
 
 Before I came to Calvary ; 
 
 And fo My foes (hall fall like Me: 
 
 Becaufe no refpite I did gain ; 
 
 For in one week the whole did end. 
 
 The feventh they'd not let Me fee 
 
 They fhorten'd then that week for Me, 
 
 And fo I'll fhorten now the whole, 
 
 And you may judge how near's the fall^ 
 
 If you can judge from \that is pult : 
 
 1 faid the fwords and flaves were fir/t, 
 
 And now I fay thqy do appear, 
 
 Againft the Tempter they are here. 
 
 Then furely all will batten on: 
 
 Two out of feven then 'twas known 
 
 Were nearly (horten'd then for Me ; 
 
 And fo the end of all you'll fee : 
 
 For ihefe two centuries, that are here. 
 
 With the two'days I will compare : 
 
 So if you've wifdom todifcern, 
 
 You all may judge how I do warn, 
 
 And ho"w the tumult muft come on, 
 
 To make a final end for man : 
 
 Becaufe for man 1 will appear; 
 
 And all fhall find Me Pilate here : 
 
 A he did give it up to man, 
 
 1 tell you now, I'll do the fame. 
 
 So here this vifion I fhall end : 
 
 For deep are all the lines thou'/l [>enn*d.
 
 FRIDAY, 3d June, 18-03. 
 
 About eight o'clock,, Jofeph Prefcott being engaged 
 pounding allum, \vith other workmen., who were 
 preparing fize for paper, he faw the following 
 vifion; the whole of which was then in motion. He 
 faw a Celeftial Being in human form, with rays of 
 glory iifuing from his body, attended by a number 
 >f angels, the faces only vifible. They were cluf- 
 tering together, and advancing towards the Celeflial 
 Being. Two angels were placed clofe to the Celef- 
 tial Being, one on the right hand, and the other on 
 the left ; each of which had one hand to a book, 
 which they held open right before the Celeftial 
 Being. Underneath thofe, laid another angel, in a 
 reclined pofture, with a long roll in his hand, opened, 
 with feme reading apparently on it. They were 
 vfurrounded by a great number of angels. Under- 
 neath this fcene, at a diiiance, was a very confufed 
 appearance of the earth, on which he faw a number 
 .mb 1 tones; and out of the earth a great number 
 <>[' pcrf.ns were arifing. Some were walking, who 
 apparently had rifen. They looked like ghofts, as 
 he had heard them defcribed. There were two dc- 
 fcriptions of perfons thus r ; fir g, and they moved diffe- 
 rent ways ibme in a kind d ,' ; : ;ht mantle, were going 
 towards a hill, which was lig : -.t and mining; made fa, 
 from the rays of light, which ifTued from the Celef- 
 tial Being, paffing under or behind the clouds. 
 Several of.' ihefe perfons in the mantles had afcended 
 the hill, and mixed with a number who were ga 
 thered together 'in a body, upon the hill fo il- 
 lumined, which was on the right hand of the Celef- 
 tial Being. The other defcription of perfons looked 
 like moving bodies formed of clay, afcending from 
 amongft the tombs. Some had arifen and were 
 waking, others in the acl of rifing: they gathered 
 together on the left hand of the Celeitial Being.
 
 The place where they were aflembled was dark and 
 gloomv. By their fide was a large body of fire, af- 
 cending from, or burfting out of the earth: by 
 which was a very ugly figure,, which Jofeph flip- 
 pofed to be the Devil. Behind him was a pile of 
 arrows, aiid in his hand a bow with an arrow applied 
 to it; which he feemed to ftretch a~ainft the firing 
 with great force,, as if to ihoot; pointing at the 
 people in while. At a very great diilance was a' 
 number of rough hills,, with gloomy black clouds, 
 from which ifTued flames of lightening in different 
 places. Some of the hills were on fire, apparently 
 kindled by the lightening; fome on fire, in other 
 parts, where he faw no lightening. Another infer- 
 nal figure was Handing on a cloud, at a confiderable 
 diflance from the one which had the bow in his 
 hand. He was holding up a paper, with great ear- 
 neftnefs, to one of the angels on the left hand fide 
 of the Celeflial Being; which angel had his eye 
 fixed on him with great compofure. On the other 1 
 fide flood a wretched being in human form, in ap- 
 pearance miferable, ragged, and dirty. He alfo was 
 holding a paper in his hand, with much apparent 
 trouble in his countenance, to another angel on the 
 right hand fide of the Celeflial Being; who looked 
 at him, as the other did, with compofure. The Ce- 
 leftial Being, whom Jofeph fuppofcd to be the Lord 
 had his hands and eyes uplifted, as if going 1 to de- 
 clare fomething. Near to the infernal figure on the 
 cloud, was a perfon in human form, with an angelic 
 countenance, clothed in a garment apparently of flee], 
 having a chain with long links in his hand, one end 
 of which was fattened round the body of the infer- 
 nal perfon. A voice then uttered, 
 
 " Beh 
 " Wi 
 
 hold, yonder, in a heavenly croud, 
 
 ith giujy and fplendor our Ciod is ador'd." 
 
 If defired to be drawn, it mail appear ngain.
 
 FRIDAY, June loth, 1803, 
 
 About half paft four this afternoon, Jofeph being 
 engaged in parting paper, after fizing, had the fol- 
 lowing vifion. There were prefented to his view 
 fields and trees, &c. in different parts. About the 
 centre was a tent or marquee, with fringe, or fomc 
 kind of ornament about it. The entrance of the 
 tent was facing him; on each fide of which was an 
 angel holding back the curtain with one hand, and 
 in the other each had a iword, compofed of diamonds, 
 with the point touching the ground; Behind them, 
 without the tent, \vere two other angels with trum- 
 pets, which they blew in loud and fhrill founds. 
 Behind one of thofe "which had the trumpets, on the 
 right hand fide, flood a perfon wifh a ipear in his 
 hand, which he held firait up. Within the tent, 
 which was very datk, was a very brilliant crown, 
 raifed fome diflance from the ground. On all parts 
 that furrounded the tent, the fun fhone with un- 
 common fplendor. A voice faid, " If defired to be 
 drawn, it mall appear again;" and further added, "I 
 the Lord will be a light in a dark place." 
 
 " Now you (hall fee the Son 
 
 " With millions of ins ions, blood bought. 
 
 July 5th, ISO';, 
 
 A communication concerning the vifions given to 
 Joanna, in anfwer to her friends, w r ho wifhed her 
 not to fpend fo much time in fhewing the vifions, 
 during her flay in Devonshire, to fuch numbers of 
 people. She was anfwered, by the Spirit, in the fol- 
 lowing manner. I ordered the vifions to be drawn 
 for thee, to be made public, and fhewn to all who 
 wifhed to fee them; for I now tell thee and all man- 
 kind, the vifions arc the fhadow of what is haflening 
 on: and now call to thy remembrance., I faid, Avhen 
 the ten years were ended, that after I had fhewn My
 
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 vifitation to th?e, in the world, greater myfteries 
 imifl Appear to their view; and remember, I told 
 thv ; 1792, 1 would mew thee in dreams, and 
 iii v , s, how it (hould come on. The firft ten 
 years wve paffed in dreams: but now, when thofc 
 ten years were gone, that My visitation had appeared 
 to the world, from wars, from dearth, from fcarcity, 
 and difcord, in the hearts of the people, I began to 
 ihew thee, from vifions appearing to the youth, 
 "whom I vifited iri an earl >g^, and permitted Satan to 
 work on the minds of men to defpife his vifions, that all 
 men might know he was vifited by God, and not fet 
 up by man: but when My appointed time was 
 come, that they had gone through thy writings, the 
 vifions were made known : but now I will make it 
 plain to thee, and all mankind, there was no ap- 
 pearance in the world, that 1, the Lord, had vifited 
 thee, till the wars broke out in 1793, and that it 
 went on every year, to make it appear to the world, 
 i?iore and more, till the ten years were up. So, if 
 men look deep, they will fee the truth of thy 
 wntmgs has appeared vifible. to the world, for ten 
 years before the youth was made known; whom I 
 had vifited, but had concealed from thy knowledge; 
 and at M appointed time, revealed it to thee, and 
 them; and ordered it to be made public, that thy 
 yifitatifcn appeared to the world in the beginning of 
 179.5; and the vifions were made known, and pub- 
 1-iflied in the beginning of 1803. Now weigh deep 
 the whole togetlier ; then in feeing ye may fee, 
 and in Hearing ye may underfland, that it is I, tho 
 Lord, who have brought all theic flrange things to 
 pafsj. and remember the dream I flicwed thee in 
 in ] 79C, that I arofe from a bed, as one awoke out 
 of deep;, and now he hath lent thee a vifion of a 
 Titxi whh white furniture, and the curtains drawn 
 back; and thxm kivoweft I told thee,
 
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 Thrice 'nappy was the man, 
 That did begin, and would go on. 
 Till every curtain was drawn back, 
 To know, and prove, if I did fpeak ; 
 And now the curtains do appear, 
 And mark, this came in the tenth year, 
 Or elfc. I fay, when it was up ; 
 The curtains, they are now drawn back ; 
 And as this vifion doth appear 
 You all fhall find your God is near. 
 The light in darknefs it doth fhine : 
 1 fee the dark benighted minds : 
 For though the truth is now fo- clear, 
 And perfect like .this vifion here, 
 That I (hall pitch my tent with man, 
 And bring My kingdom down to them. 
 And make My angels to appear, 
 To fliew My kingdom, it is near, 
 For all to come in robes of wh'tc 
 I brought that vifion to his light, 
 To {hew the end how it will fall, 
 "When I appear to conquer all ; 
 That is to conquer he!!, and fin. 
 As you may lee it by the chain : 
 The man in armour fir 14 appear 'd, 
 And Satan's chain is-faften'd there: 
 And fo hi power I (hall chain down, 
 So perfccl as the vifiofl came : 
 For as the fight appear'd to he 
 So perfect now the end {hall be. 
 And mark that vifion was feen firft. 
 Where Satan's ruin fo is plac'd ; 
 As by the chain he can't get free, 
 And fo he chained down mall be. 
 The graves are open'd of the juft; 
 And To the end it now will burft : 
 Eecaufe the juft will now appear, 
 To fee My promifes are clear, 
 Inat Satan muft his doom receive, 
 Ere man with Me in peace fhall live. 
 And own My fentence to be juft ; 
 And tot My kingdom they will thirft, 
 And they My k:ngdn;n {hall obtain, 
 In heaven and eiri.n v .vith Me mall reign 
 For in the end th-v'llail .mite, 
 And I will make hem io-i of li rht, 
 As i; ti:i vifion do'h appear: 
 The angel of tue Lord u tftere.
 
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 1 tell you all, in robes of white. 
 
 And i'o on eaj-th I'll make the fight ; 
 
 For ev'ry beauty {hall appear; 
 
 And from the tent I tell you here, 
 
 That I {hall pitch My tent with man ; 
 
 And then you may .behold your land 
 
 "With every beauty to appear : 
 
 The trees of Lebanon are fair, 
 
 And fair, I fay, I'll make the whole, 
 
 And from thefe vifions {hew you all, 
 
 That Satan muft be conquer'd firft ; 
 
 And as thefc vifions both are plac'd, 
 
 I tell you that the end will fall, 
 
 And the five angels warn you all : 
 
 The trumpets they have in their hands, 
 
 To warn you of the promis'd land. 
 
 As in the grove they do appear; 
 
 And fo the trumpets they have there, 
 
 To found the coming of the Lord, 
 
 That he with man will now abide, 
 
 That is in fpirit dwell with he, 
 
 And nia-n in peace fliall dwell with Me; 
 
 That is, by man, I mean the whole, 
 
 Who now do wifli for Satan's fall, 
 
 To have My kingdom to appear : 
 
 I tell you, like thefe vifions here 
 
 My glorious kingdom wiii come in: 
 
 The robes ef "white with blue are feer>; 
 
 A I'd robes of white (hall now appear 
 
 To every true believer here ; 
 
 And as the mixture is with blue. 
 
 So all lliall find My words are trie~ 
 
 Mark every angel how they're plac'd, 
 
 A likenefs of the human race: 
 
 The one hath got the fpear in hand ; 
 
 But mark, the others how they (land: 
 
 With the two fwords they do appear, 
 
 And to the earth they're pointed there, 
 
 As tho' the fwords were drawn to fall; 
 
 And perfect fo, I tell you all, 
 
 That every fword will fall from man, 
 
 When they ivly kingdom do difcern, 
 
 That they on earth ihall it obtain: 
 
 And there behold, there {lands the crown ' r 
 
 The curtains they have in one hand. 
 
 And fo the crown they do commind ; 
 
 And there you fee the fword to fall - 
 
 So here's a warning to you all}
 
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 The curtains you muft all draw back, 
 
 To prove and know that I do fpeak, 
 
 And then the daiknefs all will fee, 
 
 Wherein is fixed the crown of Me. 
 
 I faid in darknefs it would come, 
 
 Grofs darknefs in the fons of men; 
 
 And fo grofs darknefs doth appear : 
 
 But all (hall know My crown is near. 
 
 Unto this dark benighted land ; 
 
 And now the wife may it command : 
 
 For back the curtain they will draw, 
 
 And then My crown they'll fee and know, 
 
 How it is fix'd in this dark place, 
 
 So perfeft like the human race : 
 
 For dark indeed their minds muft be, 
 
 If they My kingdom cannot fee, 
 
 That it is haftening on to man, 
 
 And in the dark My crown doth ftand: 
 
 But if the truth you wilh to fee, 
 
 The curtain now drawn back muft be, 
 
 And then the crown you may behold, 
 
 And fee the TRUTH from all is told; 
 
 As in My Bible 't doth appear : 
 
 There's not a thing hath happen'd here, 
 
 But in My Bible all ispenn'd; 
 
 And mark, 1 told you. in the end, 
 
 None but eye of faith would fee, 
 
 The vifitation here of Me. 
 
 Therefore your hearts would fail you all, 
 
 To fee the end when I do call, 
 
 To make a final end for man : 
 
 None but the juft in faith would ftand ; 
 
 And now I'll tell you of the juft : 
 
 All thofe who for My kingdom thirft, 
 
 And fee My juftice to appear, 
 
 For to confine the Tempter there 
 
 Down to his den, as he is plac'd, 
 
 Becaufe My fide by him was pierc'd, 
 
 And 'twas by him I was betray 'd 
 
 I faidj that Satan Judas led : 
 
 But he repented as a man, 
 
 When Satan's power from him was gone: 
 
 Then fure the rage muft come from hell, 
 
 And fo again his rage doth fwell, 
 
 In every dark benighted mind, 
 
 That they My kingdom cannot find, 
 
 How I {hall place My crown below, 
 
 Nor how My angel's 1 let go, 
 
 F
 
 To draw the curtain back for man, 
 That in the dark they may difcern. 
 My crown of glory it is near, 
 And the two trumpets do appear : 
 The one I liken'd to My word, 
 That's giv'n to thee now from the Lord : 
 The other trumpet all {hall fee, 
 It is the vifion {hewn to he : 
 And fo the trumpets do appear. 
 To {hew you all the end is near : 
 For dark muft be the minds of men, 
 If they the truth cannot difcern, 
 When all the curtains are drawn back : 
 They all muft know the Lord hath fpoke, 
 By figns and vifions that are here, 
 And from the words that do appear, 
 Now all is come in a ftraigru line : 
 They muft confefs the work is Mine, 
 And Mine I'll make it to appear: 
 Thou know'ft I told thee, heretofore, 
 Thefe vifions would be in your land; 
 And now the whole you may command ; 
 And fo My Friends may caft off fear : 
 Thefe vifions plain do {hew you here, 
 That I {hall draw the curtains back, 
 And then you'll fee My crown to break, 
 With every luflre bright to {hine: 
 The other hand foretell'th My mind, 
 That it is fa-len'd to the earth : 
 I tell you all to judge your birth ; 
 That to the earth you muft return, 
 If you do judge you ftand in man ; 
 That is in man, as he was made, 
 I fay of duft, and fo betray'd; 
 And fo to duft he muft return : _. 
 But know the woman never came^_ 
 Out of the duft, nor made that way ,-- 
 She came from man, where life did lay : 
 That way her body did appear ; ' '_^HH 
 And now, vain man, I anfwer here, 
 He$ fpirit it rnuft come the fame, 
 Where life doth fpring: the end I'll name 
 But this you do not underftand : 
 The body firft was formed from man ; 
 But when My fpirit doth appear, 
 For to bring in My fpiritual heirs, 
 The fpirit then mull come from Me, 
 That man and I alike may be ;
 
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 Becaufe her life came firft from man, 
 
 And fo return'd to duft again, 
 
 As did .he man return at firft : 
 
 Then here themyfteries now mujl burft. 
 
 If My delight mould be with man, 
 
 And to Myfelf I've liken'd them, 
 
 Then fure My fpirit muft appear; 
 
 The woman muft be taken here 
 
 To have a fpirit like My own, 
 
 The Powers of Darknefs to unthrone;' 
 
 And fo you 're made joint heirs with Me, 
 
 That heirs of God you all might be. 
 
 The flefli and blood came firft from man ; 
 
 And fo the earthly kingdom came: 
 
 But when My kingdom doth appear, 
 
 It is My fpirit muft be here; 
 
 And fo her fpirit came from Me: 
 
 Then now, ye blind, begin to fee 
 
 A myftery deep, but it is plain 
 
 I've faid her life was took from man ; 
 
 And know, as man I did appear; 
 
 Then now like man I'll end it here,_ 
 
 And prove her fpirit came from Me ; 
 And now My kingdom all {hall fee, 
 That of her fpirit will be born,"^. 
 And pray the Serpent to unthrone \~^~ 
 That is the Tempter to be caft, 
 And foher children all muft burft; 
 And great peace on earth the they'll fee, 
 And own her fpirit came from Me, 
 As did her body firft from man : 
 Mark the creation how it {lands, 
 A likeneis of Divinity : . 
 So I created man to be, 
 In My own likenefs to appear, 
 And perfeft fo I've liken'd him here ; 
 And fo I've liken'd Myfelf to man, 
 To fay from Me her fpirit came, 
 So different from the human race; 
 And yet My fpirit men difgrace ; 
 Becaufe My ways are hid from all, 
 In the dark myfteries of the fall : 
 But there, I fay, I fix'd My crown, 
 When I the man and woman found 
 For to lament their fatal fall : 
 I drew the curtains then for all, 
 That they the crown could never fee, 
 How I mould bring it round that way,
 
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 To have My glittering fword to fall, 
 
 And for the woman conquer all, 
 
 As for the woman he was caft ; 
 
 And NOW'S the time THAT TRUTH ftiall bnrft. 
 
 I afked him what then he had done, 
 
 And faid the curfe (hould fall on him, 
 
 Much greater than the human race : 
 
 I fix'd on him the woman's curfe, 
 
 Or elfe, I fay, the woman's fall ; 
 
 And now'sthe time, I tell you all, 
 
 That as the vifions do appear, 
 
 You all will find the end is near. 
 
 Now mark thefe vifions, how they are plac'd. 
 
 And then awake, ye fallen race, 
 
 You fee the chain is in one hand : 
 
 I died to conquer hell for man ; 
 
 And now you fee the man appear, 
 
 With all the ARMOUR man mud wear, 
 
 If he will conquer hell with Me ; 
 
 And now, ye blind, begin to fee : 
 
 The dart is in the woman's hand, 
 
 That o'er his head you may command ; 
 
 And unto Heaven (he's looking there, 
 
 As tho' opprefs'd with grief and fear. 
 
 As Satan's dart is fix'd"behind: 
 
 The twifted ferpent then you'll find, 
 
 How much like it her clothing's plac'd, 
 
 You cannot fay 'tis like the reft : 
 
 In different robes lhe doth appear ; 
 
 Becaufe her clothing is drawn there 
 
 Much like a ferpent for to be, 
 
 As in and out the ftripes you fee ; 
 
 And fo in grief (he's compafs'd round : 
 
 The dart in Satan's hand is found, 
 
 How he in rage would keep her back, 
 
 From every blotting I create, 
 
 I tell you all, when at the firfl : 
 
 And fo the end it now is plac'd, 
 
 As the creation did appear, 
 
 When Eve from him receiv'd the fpcar : 
 
 But know, the dart is in her hand, 
 
 That o'er his head you may command ; 
 
 And fo the chain is faften'd there : 
 
 I faid, I'd die her guilt to clear : 
 
 And fo the guilt was caft on Me, 
 
 As Satan's dart you all may fee, 
 
 How it is pointed at the man, 
 
 That hath the chain now in his hand,
 
 *5 
 
 Which now is ftamp'dberveath his foot; 
 And fo, I fay, I'll make him mute: 
 For all the graves {hall open here, 
 And all the martyrs (hall appear, 
 To join in fpirit with the juft, 
 That pray for Satan to be caA : 
 For now the books I'll open all, 
 And fo begin from Adam's fall, 
 And to all ages I'll go on, 
 To prove that death was pafs^d on man ; 
 As to perfeftion he was dead, 
 And fo from him is knowledge hid, 
 As one that's buried in the grave, 
 And in the earth no knowledge hath,. 
 So man no knowledge hath of Me : 
 Bring forth the age that right did fee ; 
 And then I'll give up to man, 
 If knowledge you can prove in them, 
 In any age that now is paft : 
 The books are open'J in the laft, 
 And every age does {hew you plain, 
 That man no knowledge did obtain, 
 But when the fpirit carne from M.e ' 
 And now My fpirit, all {hall fee, 
 Is come to draw the curtains back, 
 And {hew My crown how itmuft break 
 From the dark myfteries of the fall : 
 It is the woman (judge your call) 
 Muft claim the promife there was made, 
 Who caft the guilt on Satan's head ; 
 And now upon his head't {hall fall: 
 For they three figures tell you all 
 To faints and angels you may place: 
 But now awake, ye fallen race : 
 The firft to Eve I {hall campare 
 Her combat with the Devil there ; 
 A he the dart hath in his hand ; 
 And fo her clothing you command, 
 Is like a twitted ferpent round ; 
 And fo by him her fall was found: 
 but then with grief {he did appear, 
 And. unto Heav'n did lift her prayers, 
 And great her forrow it did burft ; 
 But on the Serpent it was call, 
 Whofe fubtile arts had her beray'd: 
 But mark, the promife there was made, 
 I tell you of her feed to come, 
 As {he the Serpent did condemn,
 
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 That it fhould bruife the Serpent's head,. 
 
 And fo the dart by her was laid ; 
 
 And fo the dart mall now appear : 
 
 The woman is fupported there, 
 
 With other guardians Rill behind", 
 
 To cornfon her diftrefled mind. 
 
 Now, from, the fecond. all fhall fee r 
 
 It was the in the r then of Me, 
 
 Who did fo clofely after come, 
 
 To have him chained by her Son, 
 
 The fecond Abel to appear, 
 
 To Verge the blood wasmurder'd there, 
 
 I fay. by Satan's artful hand ; 
 
 And now the chain you may command, 
 
 To fee it ftampt beneath his foot : 
 
 You know I faid I'd bind the root 
 
 Of every evil, that did fpring 
 
 I faid I'd conquer hell and fin ; 
 
 And fo to conquer I'll appear : 
 
 The fecond woman you fee there, 
 
 With -all her clothing drawn in red, 
 
 And fol'll conquer by My blood. 
 
 Now mark the angel that's behind ; 
 
 Then the new covenant you'll find, 
 
 That I am making now with man ; 
 
 You fee " THESE THREE" are joind as one 
 
 Then fure My angel muft appear, 
 
 I fay, to join the women here; 
 
 And now I tell you, from the laft, 
 
 It is the woman that is firft, 
 
 To place them all another way, 
 
 And from the angel, now I fay, 
 
 Of the NEW COVENANT who appears, 
 
 To Ihew the fall how it was there, 
 
 That I have told you firft was Eve, 
 
 And mark the promife I did give ; 
 
 Which I did never yet fulfil ; 
 
 The firft is laft. I tell you ft ill : 
 
 Thou fetf'ft die angel he is firft; 
 
 What I call Eve, {he is the laft, 
 
 And fo the laft (he doth appear; 
 
 And now the my flcf ies I'll make clear : 
 
 Becaufe the laft, you all (hall fee, 
 
 Is chang'd form Eve and come to thee. 
 
 For all her forrows thou'ft gone through : 
 
 Think of the paft, the truth thou'lt know, 
 
 How Satan's darts have wounded thee, 
 
 And. in thy prayers, thy griefs to Me.
 
 With uplift eyes, were fix'd to Heaven. 
 In deep defpair thy heart was driven, 
 When every voice was compafs'd round, 
 From Heaven, faid they, was not the found; 
 And perfect like the figure there. 
 I've often feen thee drown'd in tears; 
 Which all thy writings plain will pro\'e. 
 When Satan's arts thy heart did move, 
 So full of jealoufy to grow: 
 Thy bleeding heart, I well did know, 
 And oft I've feen thee in fuch grief. 
 When thou'dfl no friend to give relief: 
 But in fuch forrow didft complain, 
 And thy difpute doth it maintain, 
 How Satan ftrove to keep thee back, 
 And fo thy heart was on the rack : 
 But, from the vifion all {hall fee 
 The chain is faften'd there that way ; 
 And fo the dart is o'er his head ; 
 And now remember what I faid, 
 When I the chain did bid thee draw ; 
 And here's the chain they all fhall know, 
 Shall chain the Tempter to his den ; 
 And now the cuts you may fee plain, 
 That on the Tempter's back appear; 
 And from the eight I'll anfwer here : 
 lft f Becaufe in Eden was the firft : 
 
 A cut on Satan then was caft : 
 2d, But when the Deluge did appear, 
 
 The cut went deep for Satan there : 
 Becaufe I then went through the whole ; 
 And fo the cut on him (hall fall, 
 As by his arts he cut off man, 
 And ftrongly then he work'd on them, 
 Till he had work'd their final doom ; 
 But now I'll place him in man's room : 
 For he fhall now be fwept away, 
 As was the deluge in that day ; 
 Becaufe thefe cues he brought on man : 
 3 <J 4 The fire from Heaven on Sodom came, 
 
 As Satan's arts had fwell'd them up; 
 And now the flames on him fhall drop. 
 Another cut that did appear, 
 4th. I f ' s tne wildernefs I'll clear, 
 
 How Satan's arts work'd then in man, 
 Not to enjoy the promis'd land ; 
 And now that cut mall fo appear ; 
 Satan My kingdom fliall not fhare,
 
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 Tfiat M My peace he fhall not fee, 
 
 JHo-w man and I in peace fliall be;. 
 
 For now I'll cut him off the fame : 
 
 Another cut I now (hall name. 
 
 My Prophets he did cut them off; 
 
 And now he'll find I've faid enough: 
 
 Becaufe the cuts ftdl fall on he ; 
 
 And fo again they cut off Me, 
 
 By Satan's arts that ftrong were lat<J, 
 
 And fo I'll now cut off his head, 
 
 From all the power he hath here ; 
 
 For all thefe cuts {hall now appear, 
 
 I fay, to fall on his own back ; 
 
 And man (hall find I am not flack 
 
 To any promife I have made : 
 
 The- Jews by Satan were betray'd ; 
 
 And fo that way I cut them off, 
 
 My chofen flock; I've faid enough. 
 
 Then Satan muft receive the fame ; 
 
 Thefe cuts on him they back muft come ; 
 
 And now the eighth it muft appear, 
 
 From My difciples ; they were here 
 
 Cut off, I fay, from off the earth ; 
 
 Then now let Satan judge his death : 
 
 For fo the cuts on him fliall fall ; 
 
 Therefore the graves, I tell you all, 
 
 They all are open'd of the juft ; 
 
 And mark above, the books are plac'd; 
 
 lou fee them open'd to your view. 
 
 And all (hall find My words are true : 
 
 For every book I'll now unfold,. 
 
 And every book muft now be told, 
 
 That I fliall open to your view; 
 
 Ic i* My friends, what they went through. 
 
 For to obey My perfect will ; 
 
 And now the tyrant's heart I'll chili : 
 
 For he fli-all now receive the fame: 
 
 Yen fee thefe cuts they double came ; 
 
 And. know at firfl they fell on man : 
 
 Then fure the Tempter now muft {land 
 
 Faft bounded, by his iron chain; 
 
 He hath not long on earth to reign : 
 
 JJeeaufe 't muft all fall back on he ; 
 
 And' like that chain, he chain'd fliall br, 
 
 1 tell you all, unto his den: 
 
 The flames afcendmg, fhew you plain 
 
 What fmoke and fury fliall appear, 
 
 \Vithall the forked lightening there :
 
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 But as the flames are feen above, 
 So fome will burn in flames of love, 
 When they that fight begin to fee, 
 And praife their God, that died to free 
 Them from the fmoking pit below ; 
 For then My love they'll tafte and know, 
 And like the regions then above, 
 They'll all unite in heavenly love. 
 For as the flreams of light appear, 
 So will the light to aH come here, 
 When every book I do unfold, 
 And every truth is known and told, 
 Am 1 every myftery doth come down, 
 Much like a heaven will earth be found, 
 I tell you, like the juft you fee, 
 Who feem enthron'd in light to be ; 
 And fo the light will come to man, 
 When I My kingdom do bring down, 
 With ttreams of light, and ftreams of love- 
 Your Saviour's merit then you'll prove, 
 That I did die to fet you free ;^__^ 
 
 And then look back to Calvary, _ - 
 
 And there behold, your bleeding Lord 
 The rage of men and devils bore, ~^- 
 I fay, to fet the nations free ; 
 That man and I in peace might be : 
 But fure My blood was fhed in vain, 
 If I for man do not contend, 
 To have the Tempter to be caft, 
 And on them let My fpirit burfl; 
 That the good fruit they all may know; 
 The tree of knowledge it was fo ; 
 And as (lie eat it at the firft, 
 When Satan's malice it did burft, 
 And by his arts (he was betray'd, 
 And fo on Me the guilt was laid, 
 Becaufe 1 gave the woman there, 
 So now let men and devils fear : 
 For I (hall caft it back on all, 
 That now refufe this heavenly call : 
 Becaufe the evil fruit they tafte, 
 And on their Maker it was caft, 
 For giving of the woman there : 
 The travail of My foul is here, 
 That I am fatisfied to fee, 
 In all the words (he pleads for Me, 
 And with the Devil did contend ^ 
 I tell you now I'll make an end , 
 
 G
 
 so 
 
 For now before Me all is plac'd ; 
 Awake, ye dork benighted race; 
 You took the evil from her hand, 
 And now the good you may command, 
 ^To take -'THE SEALS" from her the fame, 
 If you do wifh to know My name, 
 And have 'he good fruit for to come : 
 For 1 (hall make the woman's hand, 
 1 tell you now, go through the whole ; 
 And fo you men may ftand or fall. 
 For Satan fhall his dart receive, 
 From the fame hand that he deceiv'd ; 
 Or i like man muft now appear, 
 And be to blame to make her here, 
 For to bring in the fall of man, 
 If Satan now fhould mifs her hand, 
 Not to bring in his final fall : 
 High as the heavens, I tell you all, 
 Are ail My ways beyond your view : 
 The end will prove My Bible true. 
 I made the woman, at the firft, /,^, i^~j 
 
 To be your helpmate at the lafl ; a3 c*i+* A*-** fa t** 1 * 
 And fo the fecond Adam here, 
 Will by her hand your lofs repair ; 
 Or how like Adam can I be ? 
 Appear, vain men, and anfvver Me, 
 Why I the woman did create ? 
 I faid to make your blifs complete. 
 And will you anfwer this is done ? 
 No, no, I know the hearts of men, 
 It never was completed here, 
 Since Adam's fall : for grief and care, 
 Have run throughout in every age ~~~^1^ 
 But now's the time, I will engage ^- - 
 
 The fecond Adam (hall appear, 
 
 And fo deflroy the Tempter there ; 
 And all I'll make alive in Me, 
 That now in faith begin to fee, 
 That I have got the woman's hand, 
 And all is done by My command; 
 And My command is given here, 
 That (he (hall feal you fons and heirs; 
 If you do wifh for Satan's fall ; 
 That I may come and reign in all. 
 This is the knowledge of the good, 
 That muft by man be underftood : 
 She pluck'd the firft, and gave to man, 
 And he receiv'd it from her hand ;
 
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 But now flic's come to pluck again, 
 As I command, to pluck off fin ; 
 That all the evil fruit may fall, 
 And f;> preferve the good for all, 
 To put the feal in every hand ; 
 That all may gain the promis'd land," 
 \\ hich I have now for man in ftore : 
 The woman's hand the whole fhall clear. 
 So thofe wlio will turn back and live, 
 Receive the' feal the woman gives : 
 For I have made the myflery clear, 
 To prove that I have fpoken here : 
 But if the truth you cannot fee, 
 From every truth fpoken by me, 
 Then I will make the truth more clear^ 
 By every judg-nent mentioned here, 
 That in her writings I do name, 
 And then the blind will fee more plain, 
 That they have brought My judgments on, 
 By unbelief, I fay, to man, 
 As Adam brought it at the firfl: 
 For unbelief in them did burft, 
 And unbelief is now the fame ; 
 My voice is not belie v'd by man, 
 Until you fee your final fall : 
 But know I've warn'd you one and all, 
 That every nation I'll go through, 
 Till men do own My iSible true ; 
 Which men at prefent don't believe : 
 1 hey judge, that Satan Me deceives, 
 To make the woman at the firf} : 
 Then I'll deceive him at the lafl : 
 For by her hand he'll furely fall ; 
 She'll pluck the evil through for all ; 
 Until, I fay, 'twill all fall down, 
 And then the good fiuit will be found : 
 As they have ta'en it from her hand. 
 The knowledge they will all command, 
 That the good fruit doth now appear, 
 Wherein I've feal'd Mv fons and heirs, 
 That now in heart do wifh for Me : 
 The woman's hand, .hey all will fee, 
 Hath pluck'd the evil down for all : 
 The fealed number judge their call, 
 That they are feal'd the good to tafte ; 
 And by their hands the evil's caft : 
 Becaufe they.ftgn'd to have him fall: 
 Let every book be known to all,
 
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 In every date how't did come on ; 
 
 Thpn thy accufers let them come, 
 
 And tell Me \\hobronght round this chain, 
 
 And now you fee the vifion plain : 
 
 B;it as the hearts of men I know, 
 
 They'll fay invention brought it fo. 
 
 Then from invention let them fee 
 
 If e'er a woman aft like thee. 
 
 JULY 28, 1803. 
 
 Joanna dreamt fhe was in a place -where there 
 were two furnaces. When fhe opened the cover of 
 the fecond furnace there appeared a man feated in 
 the furnace of water; at which fhe was alarmed ; 
 and the man faid he was to (it there for a time to 
 recover his health. At lafl the furnace was drawn 
 away by horfes. Joanna was ordered to pen this 
 dream and fhe was anfwercd, fimple as it might 
 appear,, the meaning of it alluded to the whole 
 race of mankind. The furnace is the furnace of 
 affliction, that ye are now put in until you re- 
 ceive the health of your fenfes, and are recovered 
 from the diforder of your unbelieving minds. For 
 I told you plainly in My Gofpel, that wars, and ru- 
 mours of wars would appear, with diftrefles and per- 
 plexities of nations. Now put down the chapters 
 that I mall mention., and I will explain them unto 
 thee. 
 
 LUKE, ch. xviii. v. s. I tell you., that He will 
 avenge them fpeedily. Neverthelefs, when the Son 
 of Man cometh, mail He find faith on the earth ? 
 
 Ch. xxl. v. 25. There mall be figns in the fun, 
 moon, and liars ; upon the earth diftrefles of na- 
 .tions with perplexities. 
 
 r>'8. When thcfe things begin to come to pafs, 
 then look up, and lift up your head's: for, your re- 
 demption draweth nigh.
 
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 29, SO, When the fig-tree and all the trees Ihoot 
 forth,, ye fee and know of your ownfelves, that 
 fummer is nigh at hand. 
 
 s i . So likewife ye, when ye fee thefe things come 
 to pafs, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at 
 hand. 
 
 35. For as a fnare (hall it come on all them 
 that dwell on the face of the whole earth. 
 
 36. Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye 
 may be accounted worthy to efcape all thefe things 
 that mall come to pafs, and to ftand before the Son 
 of Man. 
 
 For thefe are the days of vengeance, that all 
 things which are written may come to pals. 
 
 ISAIAH, ch. Ixiii. v. 4. For the day of vengeance 
 is in Mine heart, and the year of My redeemed 
 is come. 
 
 Ch. Ixv. v. 17. For behold I create a new heaven 
 and a new earth: and the former mail not be re- 
 membered, nor come into mind. 
 
 18. But be glad and rejoice for ever in that 
 which I create : for behold, I create Jerufalem a 
 rejoicing, and her people a joy. 
 
 19. And I will rejoice in Jerufalem, and joy in 
 My people ; and the voice of weeping ihall be no 
 more heard in her, nor the voice of crying. 
 
 Ch. Ixvi. v. 23. And it mall come to pafs, that 
 from one new moon to another, and from one 
 fabbath to another, mail all flefti come and wor- 
 fliip before Me, iaith the Lord. 
 
 JEREMIAH, ch. xxx. v. 22. And ye ihall be My 
 people, and I will be your God. 
 
 23 . Behold the whirl-wind of the Lord goeth forth 
 with fury, a cutting whirl-wind; it ihall fall with 
 pain on the head of the wicked. 
 
 24. The fierce anger of the Lord ihall not re- 
 turn until He have done it, until He have per-
 
 fonned the intent of His heart : in the latter days 
 ye (hall confider it -perfe6lly. 
 
 ROMANS, ch. xi. r. 25. For I would not, brethren, 
 that ye fhould be ignorant of this myflery, that 
 blindnefs in part hath happened to Ifrael, until the 
 ful/iefs of the Gentiles be come in, 
 
 26. And ib all Ifreal mall be laved: as it is writ- 
 ten, There fhall come out of Sion the Deliverer, 
 and fhall turn away ungodlinefs from Jacob. 
 
 27. For this is My covenant with them, when 
 I take away their fins. 
 
 The ANSWER of the SPIRIT to the foregoing 
 TEXTS and VERSES. 
 
 Now I fhall anfwer thefe pafTages of Scripture. 
 The Lord will avenge them that cry unto him. Now 
 believers are crying unto 'Me, by their petitions, 
 and names, figned for Satan's deftruclion. They are 
 crying to be avenged of the injuries that Satan 
 hath done them, by caufing their fall, and by bring- 
 ing fin, forrow, and mifery into the world, upon 
 the whole race of Mankind. Thus they are daily 
 coming unto Me, by their daily figning for Sa- 
 tan's deuru6lion, ami for the coming of My king 
 dom. But, neverthelcfs, is there faith on the earth ? 
 Is there faith to believe that I mail avenge you 
 of your adverfary, the Devil? Is there faith to 
 believe I fhall redeem you from the fall of 
 Adam, according to My promife made in Holy 
 Writ? Is- their faith to 'believe I fliall reconcile 
 the whole world unto God ? Is there faith to be- 
 lieve the Bible is written by infpiration from God ; 
 and that My words ftand as firm as the pillars of 
 heaven, which cannot be fhaken by man, neither 
 can My word be changed by the judgment of man ? 
 Is there faith to believe there mall be a new heaven
 
 mid a new earth,, wherein dwelleth righteoufnefs ? 
 Is there faith to believe I am already come in the 
 fpirit? Thou anfwereft they who truly believe the 
 words given to thee, do believe ft all. lanfwer, thofe 
 who thus believe : I (hall avenge them of their ad- 
 verfary the Devil. Therefore the words ftand fo 
 clofely joined together, that I will avenge them that 
 tints believe : for this is the faith required to be be- 
 lieved, when I come in the fpirit to redeem you 
 from the fall : or what redemption do you fuppofe 
 1 told you would draw near ? Or what kingdom of 
 God do you fuppofe I meant was at hand, that 
 mould come as a fnare upon all who dwelt upon the 
 earth ? Here is a myftery beyond the learned, why 
 it mould come as a fnare upon the earth. The true 
 meaning of a fnare is a trap to enfnare the minds of 
 mankind, to draw them into a fnare, which proves to 
 their hurt, when they are enfnared by any arts to 
 fall therein ; or the minds of men may be a fnare 
 unto themielves to draw them into dangers : for a 
 fnare is a delufion or being deceived. Here thou 
 art at a lofs how this can be made good, that a fnare, 
 explained in this manner, can come upon the whole 
 earth, /'/ one part believe unto rightcoujhefs for tlieir 
 redemption. To this I anfwer They who thus be- 
 lieve in their redemption, are already judged to be 
 drawn into a fnare for their hurt And they that do 
 not believe in their redemption, nor judge it is nigh 
 at hand, will be drawn, into a fnare by the arts of the 
 Devil, through unbelief. Therefore watch ye, that ye 
 may be counted worthy to efcape all thefe things 
 that mail come upon the .earth. Watch the times. 
 Watch the feafons-. W r atch the fpirit, whether it be 
 true, or not. Watch the fcriptures; weigh the 
 whole together, draw the link ; lengthen the chain ; 
 fee, if one link will join with another compare the 
 whole together fee, if it adds link to link, chain to 
 chain, like the dawning morning, higher and higher, 
 brighter and brighter, to the perfect day : or like a
 
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 flower In the bud,, opening more and more until the 
 full blown flower appears. In this manner ye mud 
 weigh the works of God, like the hufbandman's feed, 
 firft thrown into the earth, and buried down without 
 any appearance of the feed, till you fee the blade ap- 
 pear. Then cometh the flalk, next the ear, then the 
 bloifom, then the grain is fit for harveft. Juft fo you 
 mufl mark the rifing of all things which come from 
 God. So it was with Mofes in Egypt with Jofeph 
 in the Land of Pharoah. Juil fo are My ways 
 throughout My Bible. Then fo ye muft watch if ye 
 will efcape all thofe things that fhall come upon the 
 earth. And now I will tell thee why they will come 
 upon the earth. Becaufe of the hardnel's of men's 
 hearts through unbelief: for thefe are the days of 
 vengeance on men and devils. The fpirits that 
 perfecuted Me, and My difciples, and My pro- 
 phets, will now perfecute Me in the fpirit, and 
 bring vengeance on their own heads. But thofe 
 who watch the moving of the fpirit, the truth 
 of the words, and believe that I died for their re- 
 demption, will efcape all thefe evils, and they will 
 not bring it on themfelves; for they will be the 
 people that I fhall redeem. For a new heaven, and a 
 new earth, mean that old things fhall be done away, 
 and all things mail become new. For new it will ap- 
 pear to all men, when the church militant joins the 
 church triumphant, when forrow and fin are done 
 away, and joy andgladnefs are in every heart. It will 
 be a new heaven to the faints, when they have free 
 liberty to come down and converfe with faints below: 
 It will be a new earth to man, when fin and forrow, 
 pain and mifery, are all clone away ; when joy. and 
 gladnefs are in every heart, love and peace in every 
 breaft. Now ye are furrounded with enemies fpiri- 
 tual and temporal : but then ye will be furrounded 
 with faints and angels, and brotherly love in every 
 heart one towards another. This will be a new 
 earth to man : and heaven will be new to faints and
 
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 angels,, when ye have a free intercourse one with 
 another,, without the infernal hoft that is now ho- 
 vering in the way. But when they are chained 
 down,, it will be a new heaven to faints above,, and a 
 new earth to faints below,, and fo they will praife 
 the name of the Lord from one new moon to ano- 
 ther, from one fabbath to another,, and they fhall be 
 My people, and I will be their God ; for now the 
 whirl-wind is gone out with fury, and it mail fall 
 with pain on the head of the wicked. The root 
 of wickednefs is the Devil, and they that are led 
 by him will be pained with him. But when it comes 
 to the end they will confider it perfectly ; that it 
 is neither Jews nor Gentiles can boaft of wifdom 
 or knowledge. For if the natural branches fell 
 through unbelief, let not them which are grafted 
 in boaji, feeing they err in judgment and Hum- 
 ble in vifions, as they (the Jews) did. Ye turn 
 the Scriptures, and wreft them to your own con- 
 demnation, as they did. Ye wreft the Gofpel of 
 your Lord and Saviour, as they wrefted the words 
 of the prophets. Ye are as full of unbelief of your 
 redemption, as they were of their falvation through 
 My blood. But was this to continue how then fhall 
 the " fulnefs of the Gentiles come?" The fulnefs 
 of the Gentiles is the redemption of man : for then 
 ye come to the fulnefs of My merit to the fulnefs 
 of what I died to purchafe for you the fulnefs of 
 what I created you for the fulnefs of all happinefs., 
 when your Deliverer fhall come out of Sion, and 
 turn away ungodlinefs from Jacob. Your Deliverer 
 is the Lord of Hofts the Mighty One of Ifreal 
 is His Name, who mall now perform the intent 
 of His heart in the redemption of mankind, ac- 
 cording to the intent of My heart, when I made 
 man at firft According to the intent of My mind, 
 when I faid My delight mould be with the fons of 
 men. But where is the age that My delight could 
 be with them ? Could My delight be with man 
 
 H
 
 58 
 
 when they flew the prophets, killed My difciples, 
 and put the martyrs *to death ? Trace back all 
 ages,, and fee when My delight could be with 
 man Could I delight to fee their f offerings ? 
 
 o O 
 
 Or could My delight be with them that put them 
 to death for My fake ? Tell Me, where was a 
 perfect race of mankind, that My delight mould 
 be with them ? But now is the time approaching 
 that My delight fhalj be with man, from the fealed 
 number. For now is coming the fulnefs of the 
 Gentiles. They fir ft believed in Me for fahation, 
 and .now they believe in Me for redemption. 
 They are clamouring for Satan's definition as the 
 Jews clamoured for My deftruftion. Therefore My 
 delight mail be with them., as their delight is to 
 fee My kingdom come, My will be done, and all the 
 evil fruit to fall : and it mall fall from you, and 
 they fliall tread down the wicked as afhes under 
 their feet. And now I will anfwer thofe that fay 
 the defire of the heart is like the figning of their 
 names. I anfwer no. It is like Daniel's prayers 
 being in public and private. He might have come 
 to Me in private prayer, with the fame words 
 and fame heart : but then he could not have, 
 brought any honor to My name : neither could he 
 have convinced an heathen nation, king, or coun- 
 try : neither could My 'wondrous works have flood 
 on record for mankind. The three Jews (Sadrach, 
 Mefhach, and Abednego) were the fame: and now 
 the end will prove the fame by the public fealed 
 people, whole names will hereafter appear to an 
 aftonifhed and affrighted world. They will bring 
 glory to God, and a convincing proof to mankind : 
 children unborn wi^ praile their doings, and their 
 names will be had "In everlafting remembrance till 
 time is no more. Then will it be had in remem- 
 brance throughout the countlefs ages of eternity : for 
 their names muft iiand for ever in the Lamb's 
 Book of Life : as they will bring glory to God, and
 
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 a convincing proof to men, that they believed in 
 their redemption., that I was able to cleanfe the 
 blood that I had not cleanfed, and lave to the 
 uttermoft all who look to Me for redemption, 
 trufting in My mercy, merits, and power, that I 
 am able and willing to conquer death, hell, and 
 fin, and make a final atonement for man to re- 
 concile the whole world unto God. This recon- 
 ciliation cannot be made known unto mankind, 
 and convince an unbelieving world, by any but 
 The fealed Number, whofe names will appear like 
 Daniel's prayers, public unto all "men ; and like 
 Shadrach, Mefhach, and Abednego, who publicly 
 mewed their worfhip to God ; and public miracles 
 were wrought for them ; but had their prayers been 
 the fame in private, and their hearts and minds had 
 been the fame to Me, without fhewing it in pub- 
 lic, thefe wondrous works could not have been 
 wrought. And now it is the fame by figning of 
 their names. However great may be the defire 
 of the hearts and minds of believers in Me, and 
 My Gofpel, they cannot bring any honor to My 
 name, nor any convincing proof to mankind, that 
 I have deftroyed the enemy for their fakes ; and 
 that I have avenged them on their adverfary, the 
 Devil, who cried day and night unto Me. 
 
 " As prayer hath been through every age, 
 
 And from My prayer I'll now engage 
 
 To prove it hath been us'd by man, 
 
 To have ;Vly kingdom for to come: 
 
 But how could I that prayer fulfil, 
 
 To prove I gave them up their will, 
 
 And fo avenge them of their foe, 
 
 And bring My kingdom down below, 
 
 To prove I'll anfwer now your prayers, 
 
 Should not My fpirit firft appear, 
 
 To prove the fealed of the Lord 
 
 Have no%v relied upon My word ? 
 
 And fo My word I'll now fulfil. 
 
 And 'tis their names their foe ihall chill ;
 
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 Becaufe I'll now give up to man : 
 
 And fo their names muft ever ftand, 
 
 As thefe have ftood who fign'd My blood : 
 
 At Pilate's bar yoknow I flood. 
 
 Condemned by the fons of men ; 
 
 And fo I gave it up. to them, 
 
 For to be nail'd to the tree, 
 
 And fo the names of men you fee, 
 
 Who fign'd My death and fo it came: 
 
 By their defire I laid it down : 
 
 Then now by man's defire the fame, 
 
 I fay the earth {hall know by name, 
 
 Until the knowledge of the Lord 
 
 In every land {hall fly abroad, 
 
 The diftant nations to call in: 
 
 The fealed number now {hall win 
 
 The every word that's in My prayer: 
 
 My kingdom they (hall find i* near. 
 
 As they began My will on earth, 
 
 Like the wife Shepherd's, at My birth, 
 
 Who firft were guided by the flar, 
 
 And fo they then came from afar, 
 
 And now from far they came the fame, 
 
 And {hew their love by every name, 
 
 That wifh My kingdom for to fee, 
 
 Confefs the pow r is now in Me, 
 
 For to avenge them of the foe, 
 
 And, in the end, their names they'll know 
 
 Are all enroll'd in heaven above, 
 
 And they {hall know My perfect love, 
 
 And fee the power I have got, 
 
 When Satan doth receive his lot, 
 
 That firft in Bonaparte you'll fee, 
 
 How I'll deftroy that enemy, 
 
 And fo avenge you of that foe - 
 
 From types and {hadows all muft go : 
 
 As John the Baptift. was the firft, 
 
 And after him My death did burft, 
 
 So Bonaparte muft fall the fame, 
 
 Ere Satan doth receive his doom ; 
 
 And then together all compare ; 
 
 You'll fee the nations then to fear: 
 
 For then thy writings men will fee, 
 
 And own the fptrit came from Me. 
 
 The figns and vifions do appear: 
 
 But all will find the fubftance near, 
 
 That in the heavens thefe figris you'll fee, 
 
 So j erf eci as they 're ftiewn to him :
 
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 Perplexities are battening on : 
 You'll find diftrefs in every land, 
 Will in a fliort time to all appear; 
 For on this earth 'tis haftening near - 
 Tumults and wars that will abound : 
 I faid, you foon would hear, the found, 
 That there would be a dreadful war, 
 And now the ihadow doth appear : 
 For all is coming on the earth, 
 So perfefl as the Scripture faith; 
 And yet thefe things would no one fer, 
 Had I not come to vifit thee, 
 And brought My Bible to their view, 
 To let them know My words were true, 
 That all I faid I'll now fulfil ; 
 So men may judge it as they will. 
 If worthy you will now appear, 
 For to efcape the dangers here, 
 Then you the whole muft now difcern, 
 And weigh the manner I did warn, 
 And weigh the words. I here do fpeak, 
 And in what manner all doth break. 
 I faid I'd face the foe once more, 
 Tho' for a time defer it here, 
 And for a time, you know 'twas done : 
 One fingle year 'tis known to man, 
 That you in peace did fo appear ; 
 And mark the time ; I faid the war 
 Would be but fhipwreck in your land, 
 When.that the peace you did command, 
 And out of danger feem'd to be, 
 That (nearer to it) all would fee 
 That dangers then were haftening on ; 
 And now the truth to you is come. 
 I faid the year began in grief, 
 But in the end they'd judge relief ; 
 Becaufe that joy would fo abound: 
 You judg'd that peace was in the found ; 
 And know that plenty did appear : 
 Then judge what change did happen here, 
 To make thy writings all come true : 
 Let all be brought before their view ; 
 And then their Bible's let them fee, 
 If any faith in man can be, 
 To judge a knowledge of a God 
 Can be with man in all that's faid : 
 And know, what will hereafter fpring^ 
 And thetvent of every thing
 
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 Is known to Me before it comes. 
 
 If men do know My every name, 
 
 Or have a lively faith in Me, 
 
 They mufl confefs My eye doth fee 
 
 From the beginning to the end, 
 
 And from the truths that thou haft penn'd 
 
 J knew the prcgrefs thou wouldft make. 
 
 The fealed number for to take : 
 
 Before I hurt the earth or fea 
 
 I knew that all would come this way. 
 
 Now if in this mankind fhould err, 
 
 Before their judge they may appear, 
 
 And fay that I have man milled, 
 
 For to fulfil the words wqfe faid ; 
 
 For if the paft had not come true, 
 
 I know the prefent, in My view, 
 
 Would ne'er been carried on by thee : 
 
 Becaufe thy heart was known to Me. 
 
 When I let Satan to appear, 
 
 And tell thee lies, to foil you here, 
 
 Then to the flames thou'dft all commit; 
 
 As in thy heart the words thou'dfl fpeak, 
 
 And in thy heart condemn the whole, 
 
 Arid fo thy writings they would fall, 
 
 If I had not fulfill'd My word, 
 
 By fending harvefts as I faid. 
 
 I ne'er let batan to appear, 
 
 But when I'd many truth* were near ; 
 
 That Satan might not make thee fall : 
 
 For now 1 tell you one and all, 
 
 Jt was thy faitnfulnefs to fee, __ 
 
 That I let Satan come to thee, 
 
 With any arts for to deceive, ' 
 
 To prove that right thou didft believe, 
 
 And from the truth thou judg'dft the whole 
 
 It was of God if truth did fall ; 
 
 But if thar lies to thee appear'd, 
 
 Thou judg'dft from Satan what thou'dft heard, 
 
 And in thy heart condemn 'd the whole, 
 
 RefolvM, his lies fhould never call 
 
 A fall'n nation for to turn 
 
 Thou judg'dft. it mocking God, and man, 
 
 To publifti lies which came from hell : 
 
 Thy bleeding heart I knew did fwell : 
 
 Thou didft grow jealous of the found -, 
 
 And in the flames would all be found, 
 
 If 1 had not kept back thy hand, 
 
 And made an unbelieving land
 
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 Tafte of the farrows thou didft feel, 
 
 And fo thy wounded heart did heal, 
 
 By making of thy words come true : 
 
 Bring both the harvefts to thy view, 
 
 The one by fun, and one by rain, 
 
 And fo thou ftrength of faith didft gain, 
 
 To make it public fly abroad, 
 
 And prove thy writings came from God : 
 
 And now, I fay, I'll prove the whole: 
 
 Like thefe two harvefts all fhall fall, 
 
 That do in mockery now appear: 
 
 I aflc how man can judge Me here. 
 
 If I have never fpoke by thee, 
 
 I afk them how thefe things can be, 
 
 That all the truths have fo come round ? 
 
 If from thy felf they judge the found, 
 
 Then from thy felf muft all appear, 
 
 The power to fend thefe harvefts here, 
 
 Or I muft be as much to blame, 
 
 To make them come and mock My namCj 
 
 If I had never fpoke the word, 
 
 And fo fulfill'd it as I faid. 
 
 And now the whole I (hall fulfil : 
 
 Judge of this calling as you will, 
 
 You all fhail find it came from heaven ; 
 
 The fpint from the Lord is given, 
 
 To tell you all that he is near, 
 
 And as a bridegroom will appear ; 
 
 But like a bridegroom cannot be 
 
 Without a woman all mail fee: 
 
 And all as brides I'll make the fame 
 
 \Vhen all like her believe My name, 
 
 JOANNA'S ANSWER to the FALSE REPORTS concerning 
 
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 the SEALING of the PEOPLE. 
 
 As fome fay I have one guinea for a feal, and 
 others fay that I have five guineas for it, and the 
 fame report they have fpread about my friends, 
 that they have taken money alfo ; and feveral have 
 declared, that they wifhed to have figned for the 
 deftruction of Satan, and for the coming of ChrluYs
 
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 glorious and peaceable kingdom to be eftablifhed ; 
 but could not afford fo much money, I now anfwer 
 to all. I never took one penny for fealing the 
 people in my life; neither have any of my friends. 
 Such an idea never entered my thoughts, heart or 
 mind, or the thoughts, heart, or mind of any who 
 are joined with me. All I defire of any is to mew 
 their love and defire for Chrift's kingdom to appear, 
 and Satan's power to be deftroyed, by putting their 
 hands to what they fay in their hearts they wifh for: 
 but thofe who do not wifh it, are not to fign it; for 
 the Lord judgelhfrom the heart; and the hand and 
 the heart muft go together. Was I not aflured it was 
 the command of the Lord, that all thofe who wifhed 
 for Chrift's kingdom to come, and the Powers of 
 Darknefs to be deftroyed, mould join their hands 
 with their hearts, byjtgning their najms, I would not 
 fufler it myfelf, for the world to fed the people in 
 Ihe name of the Lord, as knowing it to be a fin of the 
 cleepefl die, if He had not commanded it. But all 
 who fign for Chrift's kingdom to be eftablifhed,, and 
 Satan's to be deftroyed, fhall be fealed to the day of 
 redemption, to inherit the Tree of Life ; and this 
 feal is given "without money, and wilhoiit price." 
 All that is defired, is, men's love to God, and a de- 
 fire for his kingdom; and there muft be a willing 
 mind, and defire in the heart, that God may be all 
 in all, and the Powers of Darknefs utterly deftroyed. 
 Here I have publicly made known to mankind 
 what malicious, falfe reports are made, to fay that I 
 received money for my trouble ; which I pofitively
 
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 deny ; and I can fay the fame of my friends. Now 
 I mall give the anfwer of the Spirit, that is given to 
 nte, in anfwer to men's being ftumbled that this 
 command mould have been given to a woman ; and 
 then judge for yourfelves. I believe the Bible as 
 it is revealed to me by the fpirit; but I cannot rely 
 on the judgment of any man ; as the beft of men 
 differ fo much in opinions and judgment. On 
 whom then (hall I rely ? The judgment of men 
 contradicts one the other. Therefore, I rely on th e 
 revelation given unto me from the Spirit of the 
 Lord : which you will fee in the following words, 
 given to me in anfwer to the controverfies of men. 
 
 " Let reafon take pofTefTion of every heart. Then 
 in feeing they muft fee, and in hearing they muft 
 undcrftand, that a plan fixed for man's redemption, 
 in fo clear a manner, would no more have entered 
 thy head and heart, than it did in all the ages that 
 have paffed before you, from true prophets or falfe 
 prophets, from My difciples, or the vagabond Jews, 
 or from all the importers that have arifen fmce, or 
 from any true prophet, or from any learned divine, 
 who have ever pointed out any way or manner that 
 man's redemption mould take place, till it was 
 plainly (hewn to thee /// what manner it muft take 
 place, from the promife mack; in the fall between 
 the woman and the ferpent: and from every pro_ 
 mife through the Bible, where it fpeaks of man's 
 redemption, it is fpoken to the woman. In Ifaiah, 
 ch, 54, it is written, the Lord of Hofts is her huf- 
 
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 band., and all her children mall be taught of the Lord. 
 In the Revelations, ch. 19, v. 7, is mentioned the 
 Lamb's wife; where the marriage of the Lamb is 
 fet forth. as uniting all nations together. In My 
 Gofpel me is called blefjed that never bore; and the 
 the kingdom of heaven is compared to a woman 
 having a little leaven, till me leavens the whole. 
 In the Revelations, ch. l 2, me is faid to have the 
 moon under her feet, treading down the light that 
 fhineth in darknefs, and being clothed with the 
 fun, which mineth bright to the perfect day. Now, 
 . all thefe Scriptures were never applied to a woman, 
 nor even underftood till now, that they are efta- 
 blifhed by a cloud of witnefTes of true prophecies, 
 that hath followed them. Then now anfwer Me, O 
 vain men, how this came to pafs in the latter days, 
 which never entered the heart or mind of any one 
 before, and applied by one who would not believe 
 them, had not the Spirit fupported her faith and 
 belief, by telling her future events, which none but 
 God knew, and none but God could fulfil. He 
 hath given her knowledge above the learned : for 
 no man living could fortel the events that have 
 taken place, but me only. If you point out in one 
 thing that (lie has flumbled, it is I, the Lord, that 
 have ordained it, to convince mankind me was 
 faithful to pen what was revealed unto her, and 
 leave the event unto time, to prove the truth. If 
 deceived me was as jealous for herfelf as any man 
 was for her : but had me never been foiled the 
 .fincerity of her heart copld never be proved, that 
 fhe wifhed not to prophecy by any but the Lord
 
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 alone. Now let her enemies point out wherein fhe 
 hath acted with art or deceit, or wherein fhe hath 
 lied unto God or man. Hath fhe profeffed a belief 
 contrary to My Gofpel, hearing a voice as you 
 hear the milling of the wind ? But hath fhe not 
 affirmed unto you all, fhe knoweth not from whence 
 it comes, nor whither it goes ; but judges of the 
 Spirit by the truth that followeth, and the fruit 
 which it bears ? It muft be good ; as all tends to 
 the glory of God, and the good of mankind, to 
 the pulling down of all the ftrong holds of fin 
 (! and every good and perfect gift cometh down 
 from the father of lights." Now anfwer Me, ye men 
 of the world, who defpiie her prophecies and 
 mock the coming of the Lord, from whence came 
 all your. lies? Came they not from your father, 
 the Devil, who was a liar from the beginning ? Is 
 there a word in your mouths, or a thought in 
 your hearts, unknown to Me? By whole fpirit is 
 your malice kindled? Will you anfwer by the 
 Spirit of God? Then fpeak the truth every mart 
 by his neighbour : but the truth is not in her ene- 
 mies. Therefore, out of your own mouths will I 
 condemn you, and will be a fwift witnefs againfl 
 you, that your lies prove your malice is kindled 
 from hell, who is cafting out floods a'gainft the 
 woman floods of malice, floods of oaths, and floods 
 of lies: making lies their refuge; and under falf- 
 hood they are hiding themfelves : but their refuge 
 of lies mall be done away, and their falfhood fhall 
 r.ot hide them in the day of My wrath, when I 
 come to mew My jufl difpleafure againft mankind,
 
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 for refiifing to fhew their love to Me, by Jigning 
 for the coming of their Lord, to fhew their wifli 
 for Satan's kingdom to be deflroyed, and for MINE 
 to be eftablifhed amongft them. But thofe who 
 judge the fealing is from the heart, and the heart 
 only, let them live to God, and God only ; and fles 
 from every appearance of evil, and follow all the 
 commandments in My Gofpel, and keep My com- 
 mandments ye mall not bear falfe witnefs againil 
 your neighbour. But where is the man upon 
 earth can fay, all this have I obferved to do ? I 
 anfwer, not a man upon earth can appeal to God 
 and his own concience, and fay he hath obferved 
 to keep the whole. Is it not written, judge no man 
 but by his fruit? For I faid, by their fruits ye 
 mall know them. Now let them that judge thee, 
 tell what fruits in thy writings they condemn. 
 But I know the thoughts of thy heart. Thou fayeft 
 they condemn thee for faying thou art C( THE BRIDE" 
 mentioned in the Revelations. Then they mult 
 condemn Me for ftyling Myfelf as coming as a 
 bridegroom, if I do not come to make the church 
 
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 the bride. To acl like David, I muft begin with one 
 and end with mcmij: therefore, I faid unto thee in 
 years pall, 
 
 No more in thee they all will fee 
 
 Then in thy friends abound ; 
 And all that are thy helpers here 
 
 \Vill in the end be crown'd, 
 In glory bright, in robes of white, 
 
 For brides I'll make you all : 
 One ftar ca t ne.'er giv.e ' e li^lr, 
 
 If ail the reu. fhou.d fail.
 
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 So as to pride, throw all afide ; 
 
 'Tis time for all to fliine ; 
 Nor can you fay if (he's " THE BRIDE,' 
 
 She's higher than mankind. 
 'Tis but a mark, 'tis growing dark? 
 
 She's not above the reft ; 
 Obferve the glittering of the ftars, 
 
 And fee how all is placed, 
 What ftars in glory will appear, 
 
 In fplendor bright to mine, 
 Before that midnight doth came near; 
 
 And fo the end you'll find, 
 That ftars of light will fparkle bright, 
 
 Ere midnight doth come on ; 
 And they will give a heavenly light ; 
 
 For fo My brides will come. 
 Then brides to all alike I call, 
 
 (For every ftar is Mine) 
 To point the Bridegroom out to all, 
 
 That you His words may find. 
 His kingdom here it muft appear, 
 
 And be in every heart; 
 For your redemption now draws near*. 
 
 Satan muft feel hi dart. 
 As you do pray, I now do fay, 
 
 I {hall deliver all, 
 And bring My kingdom down this way : 
 
 The fealed fo will fall.' 
 For your redemption you are feal'd, 
 
 If right you now believe 
 (Amyftery never was reveal'd) 
 
 That from the fall of Eve 
 The promife there d>>th Mrong appear, 
 
 If you diicorn the firft; 
 The Revelations {hew you clear 
 
 The promife at the Utt. 
 The Spirit, and ihe Bride, fay come, 
 
 And do you all invite ;
 
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 I do not' mean to caft out one 
 
 The love of none Pirflight, 
 Who wifli My kingdom for to come, 
 
 And Satan for to fall ; 
 And every name that's enter'd here, 
 
 I now do tell you all, 
 In- Heaven they'll be inroll'd by Me, 
 
 Where hand and heart do join. 
 To wifh from Satan to be free : 
 So now I've told My mind : 
 And now in print let this appear, 
 
 Beginning from the firft, 
 And {hew the lies that now are told, 
 
 Which from thy foes do burft : 
 For, like a man, I now am come 
 
 To take thy every part : 
 J know how Satan leads men on, 
 
 To bring on them the dart, 
 To have My vengeance fall on man, 
 
 Thinking himfelf to free ; 
 But for the fake of fifty men 
 I'll bring the guilt on him. 
 Tho' I have more, it will appear, 
 
 Whofe hands and hearts do join ; 
 And Satan (hall not triumph here, 
 His number's more than Mine. 
 When I appear to chain him here, 
 
 And mew his final doom, 
 The woman's hand muft: then appear 
 
 He perifli'd in her room. 
 So for the firft he fure was caft, 
 
 And now the end you fee; 
 'Tis for the woman, in the laft, 
 
 He chained down muft be. 
 She pluck'd the fruit, and gave to man., 
 
 And he did eat the fame : 
 That way, you fay, the evil came, 
 ' And man knows not My name.
 
 71 
 
 So now at laft the good is burft, 
 
 And fo me pluck'd it here, 
 And offer'd it for man to tafle, 
 
 That he with her might (hare, 
 I fay the knowledge of the Lord, 
 
 And Me they all fhall know : 
 So let thefe words to fly abroad, 
 
 And fee what man will do. 
 If they go on as man began, 
 
 I tell you at the firft, 
 It is of Adam I do mean, 
 
 Then the good fruit mall burft 
 Upon you all (for fo's the call) 
 
 Then take it from her hand, 
 And Ihew you wifh for Satan's fall, 
 
 My kingdom to command. 
 No other way, to you I fay, 
 
 I ever fhall redeem : 
 It is the changing of the tide, 
 
 That always brings the ftream. 
 For when the tide keeps back the waves 
 
 They cannot hafty flow; 
 But foon they overflow the banks 
 
 When I the tide let go. 
 So 'tis the fame, the woman's hand. 
 
 You fay, kept back the tide, 
 That man in all true happinefs 
 
 He did not long abide : 
 But now you fee amyftery, 
 
 How I the tide let go, 
 To overflow your every bank 
 
 And living waters flow. 
 They now will run like Jordan's dreams. 
 
 And all your lepers cure : 
 No other way, to you I fay, 
 
 Will heal your lepers here. 
 All other waters are in vain 
 
 I fay they will not do :
 
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 I tell you r t mull be Jordan's ftreair, 
 
 The woman rauft go through 
 The firft and laft, the die is caft. 
 
 (I tell you now) for all : 
 The woman's hand fiiall everftarcf, 
 
 For to bring back the fall. 
 So 'tis the fealed number here 
 
 Will feek his overthrow : 
 When I begin to finite the tidei. 
 
 And all the waves let go, 
 Upon the Serpent ii {hall fall, 
 
 To drov/n him in the deep ; 
 But I will be a wall to all 
 
 That now this law do keep 
 The law of reafon, and love: 
 
 The reafonings here are juft : 
 For I (hall fooivknow every name 
 
 That is upon the lift : 
 But now this calling is the laft ; 
 
 For I fliall call no more : 
 But let thefe words be put in print, 
 
 That all may now fee clear. 
 The woman brought Me to the 
 
 As 'twas fuppos'd by man : 
 The Serpent fo muft lick the duft, 
 
 And all come from her hand." 
 
 Auguft, 1803. 
 
 printed (verbatim) by E. SPRAGG, 27, Bow-Street, Covent-Garden, London. 
 
 Sold by E. I. FIELU, N T o. 2, High Street, St. Giles'-, nearhe Church, (Price 
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 THE 
 
 ANSWER OF THE LORD 
 
 TO THE 
 
 POWERS OF DARKNESS. 
 
 JOB, CHAPTER 1, VERSE 7. 
 
 "AND the LORD said unto Satan, whence comest 
 thou ? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, 
 From going to and fro in the earth, and from 
 walking up and down in it." 
 
 8. " And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou 
 considered my servant Job, that there is none like 
 him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, 
 one that feareth GOD, and escheweth evil?" 
 
 9. " Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, 
 Doth Job fear GOD for nought?" 
 
 10. *' Hast thou not made an hedge about him, 
 and about his house, and about all that he hath 
 on every side ? Thou hast blessed the work of his 
 hands, and his substance is increased in the land." 
 
 11. " But put forth thine hand now, and touch 
 all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face." 
 
 The Second Edition printed in January, 1813, by Marchant and Galabin, 
 from the First Edition, printed in November, 1802.
 
 12. " And the Lord 1 said unto Satan, Behold* 
 all that he hath is in thy power ; only upon himself 
 put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from 
 the presence of the Lord." 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 Part of verse 3. " And still he holdeth fast his- 
 integrity, although thou rnovedst me against him, 
 to destroy him without cause." 
 
 4. " And Satan answered the Lord, and said, 
 Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath, will he 
 give for his life." 
 
 5. " But put forth thine hand now, and touch 
 his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to 
 thy face," 
 
 6. " And the Lord said unto Satan, Behold, he- 
 is in thy hand ; but save his life." 
 
 7. " So went Satan forth Jrom the presence 
 of the Lord, and smote Job with sore boils from 
 the sole of his foot unto his crown." 
 
 CHAPTER XXXVIII. 
 
 [This whole chapter I must desire to be read 
 through; for the words that the Lord said unto 
 Job, He meant for the devil.] 
 
 Verse \\. ''Hitherto shalt thou come, but no 
 farther : and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.'" 
 
 CHAPTER XL. 
 
 2. " Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty 
 instruct him ? He that reproveth God, let him 
 answer it." 
 
 REVELATION, CHAPTER XII. 
 10. " And I heard a loud voice, saying in hea- 
 ven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the 
 kingdom of our GOD, and the power of his CHRIST; 
 for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which 
 accused them before our God day and night."
 
 11. " And they overcame him by the blood of 
 the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony : and 
 they loved not their lives untqjhe death." 
 
 12. " Therefore rejoice, ye heavens and ye that 
 dwell in them. WOE to the inhabiters of the earth, 
 and of the sea : for the devil is come down unto you 
 having great wrath, because he knoweth that he 
 hath but a short time." 
 
 13. " And when the dragon saw that he was cast 
 unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which 
 brought forth the man child." 
 
 Here I was answered from the Book of Job 
 c< That as Satan disputed against Job, so he hath 
 against all men, and brought sore boils of affliction 
 upon all mankind. But there stands the type of 
 Satan's fall ; for I said, there should his proud waves 
 be stayed. When the woman cometh to be tried 
 like the man, which you have in the Revelation of 
 St. John. The answer I gave Job was meant for 
 Satan: for I said, he that reproveth ME, let him 
 answer it. Job did not reprove ME, nor his friends; 
 for they simply thought they were pleading for their 
 God. So I was not reproved by man, but by Sa- 
 tan j who, after, spoke in Job's wife, and Job re- 
 proved the devil in her. "Now, in the woman I 
 am come to reprove Satan, and here shall his proud 
 waves be stayed; for hitherto hath been my permis- 
 sion ; but further is my restraint ; (that meaneth, 
 he was restrained from coming any further than 
 by temptations) for as I told thee in the beginning, 
 I now tell thee again, thy friends have been like 
 Job's friends : because they could not account for 
 the manner of my strange directions to thee. 
 They are sometimes silent, and when they have 
 spoken, they have spoken wrong ; because they could 
 not find out the council of the Lord , nor the 
 depth of Satan's arts. But now be it known un- 
 
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 to thee and unto all men, with as many words 
 and ways as he came against Job, with so many 
 more he hath come against the ; therefore, I let 
 him try thee to the utmost : I let him tell thee 
 lies, to show him the sincerity of thy heart, that 
 thou wouldest not prophesy in my name, if thou 
 judgedst I had not spoken. But when thou wast 
 resolved to burn thy writings, as judging them not 
 to be of God, I convinced thee then, it was the 
 devil that told thee lies to try thee, and what thou 
 u rotest at thy father's house shall shame both men 
 and devils. For now I am clear in judging and 
 will be just in condemning the unjust words of 
 men and devils; and whether men will judge for 
 themselves or not, the truth shall be proved ; the 
 seals shall be broken, and what thou hast written 
 at thy father's house shall be made known, before 
 this year is ended by the Old Stile. I let it stand one 
 year, from the time thy friends \vent to Exeter to 
 search out the truth, to see if the barren minds 
 will bear fruit or not : and if they do not, within this 
 year, then will I cut down. If the thorn blossoms 
 at Christmas, at Christmas my blossom shall appear. 
 And every letter thou hast sent to Pomeroy, Moore, 
 and Nutcombe, and other ministers, must be made 
 public, and put in print \vith their names : and let 
 them be warned, that they may answer for them- 
 selves if thev will : and let them know it is the God 
 
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 of the whole earth has commanded them ; and let 
 those that reprove the Lord answer it ; for now, 
 they shall know that I have spoken out of Zion, 
 and I will utter my voice in the midst of Jerusalem. 
 For I am the Lord God, ready for battle, and my 
 arm shall be strong in the midst of my people, and 
 a tM'o-edged su-ord in my baud, the one to cut 
 down the powers of darkness and the workers 
 thereof in high places ; the other to cut down those 
 who deny the fulfilment of my Bible ; therefore if 
 they will nothezTy and will not lay it to heart, to give
 
 glory to my name, then I will send a curse amongst 
 them ; but where two or three are gathered together 
 in my name, there will I be in the midst of them, 
 and bless them. The words I gave thee, in answer 
 to those scriptures, were partly the answer of what 
 I said to Job, and meant to the devil; and all shall 
 be answered him before I have ended here. 
 
 So now let men and devils love or fear, 
 l-'or now comes \\-\efulJilment of the law* 
 And 'tis men's love to ME, they now must show, 
 That when I come, 1 may find every name, 
 Written for ME their Master, to proclaim. 
 And then Hosanna they may cheerful sing : 
 This is the way my Kingdom must come in. 
 But if these mysteries had been known before, 
 The Powers of Darkness would not so appear, 
 As in the manner he to thee hath spoke ; 
 Just like his words of Job, he thee did mock : 
 That over thee lie surely could prevail, 
 And he could make thee to break every seal ; 
 And then I told him instantly to go, 
 Exert his power, that he in words could show ; 
 But not in person unto thee appear, 
 Without my chosen shepherds being there: 
 .And in their presence he refused to come, 
 Because he said thy GOD he dare condemn. 
 Then now thy God in power shall appear, 
 And in a voice of thunder answer here; 
 That it was I the strong foundation laid, 
 And I shall make him know from what he said, 
 That all his jesting he hath carried too far, 
 And he shall find the God of truth is here, 
 That made a promise men for to redeem, 
 And bring the Revelation unto him. 
 I-'or every mystery I will there reveal, 
 Why I command her 10 put every seal, 
 Which Satan boasted they should all bebrol.e. 
 But further on he'll feel the coming stroke : 
 But for the present I .shall end it here, 
 And let the Scripture now to all appear ; 
 And let my answer then to follow next, 
 And thou go on, as all to thee is fix'd." 
 
 The texts from the Scripture I was ordered to 
 
 * Lore is the fulfilment of tlie law, which caro by the woman, Matt. xi 
 S7-10 Rom. ziii. 8-10.
 
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 introduce I heard from a minister, on the G2d of 
 this inonth, August, 1802, who quoted them in his 
 sermon; the text he began with was from Mat- 
 thew xviii. 20. 
 
 " For where two or three are gathered together 
 in my name, there am I in the midst of them." 
 
 He quoted in his sermon the following Scrip- 
 tures. 
 
 Malacld iii. 16. "Then they that feared the 
 LORD spoke often one to another : and the Lord 
 hearkened, and heard it, and a hook of remem- 
 brance was written before him for them that feared 
 the LORD, and that thought upon his name." 
 
 17. " And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of 
 hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels ; 
 and I \vill. spare them as a man s,pareth his own 
 son that serveth him/' 
 
 Revelation viii. 3. " And another angel came 
 and stood at the altar, having the golden censer : 
 and there was given unto him much incense, that 
 he should offer it with the prayers of all saints 
 upon the golden altar which was before the 
 throne/' 
 
 4. " And the smoke of the incense, which came 
 with the prayers of the saints, ascended up be- 
 fore God, out of rhe angel's hand." 
 
 These texts of Scripture, chat he quoted, were 
 deeply explained to me, that they alluded to the 
 last days, though he did not apply them in any such 
 manner. And I was answered in the following 
 words : 
 
 " Blind guides I see my shepherd* be, 
 
 The days they don'l discern ; 
 The Scriptures that were spoke by he, 
 
 Show how you ought to warn : 
 The Prophets' wonis I soon shall clear ; 
 
 For fast they're hastening on." 
 
 I shall not go through this explanation, for the 
 present ; but I shall come to the purpose, when I 
 was answered in the following manner.
 
 ** Now, Joanna, thee I'll answer 
 
 Satan's followers will pursue; 
 But I'll make them know thy Master; 
 
 Like the chapters all will do.t 
 The onethou seest stand out for ME, 
 
 With resolution strong; 
 The prayers of saints I know will be 
 
 Unto my Kingdom come. 
 For hasty here will all appear ; 
 
 My work is all in haste. 
 The Sealed Number first I'll clear, 
 
 And then my foes shall taste 
 The threatenings there that will appear, 
 
 And fast is hastening on : 
 You little think the day's so near, 
 
 That all these things will come. 
 I have begun with seven men, 
 
 As I began at first, 
 When I began in seven days, 
 
 And form'd him from the dust ; 
 A helpmate there for him appear/d, 
 
 And so it must go on. 
 But now I'll answer Satan here, 
 
 And then I'll answer man. 
 Did he begin for to condemn, 
 
 That I was not thy God ? f 
 Then to his word I bid him stand, 
 
 And tremble at his rod. 
 Did he declare his spirit there 
 
 To be a whit like thine ? 
 For so I bid him to appear, 
 
 And own my power divine : 
 My favours seek, in tears to weep. 
 
 As thou hast always done ; 
 The practice of his hellish arts, 
 
 Like thee, I bid him shun, 
 And prove it so ; then he may go 
 
 Where'er his mind doth lead ; 
 If he'll hate sin, as thou hast done, 
 
 Repent of all he said ; 
 And bring a mind, like thee, to find 
 
 The ways of sin to hate; 
 Confess me God, and fear my rod, 
 
 He'll find my MERCY'S GREAT! 
 So now like thee let Satan be, 
 
 And he shall never fall ; 
 
 * Mul.v. 16. 17. Rev. viii. 3, 4. Matt, xvii'u 
 
 t Page 6, Dispote between the Woman and the Powers of Darkness. Th 
 deader Is desired to refer to the pages alluded to in that book. 
 

 
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 His past offences I'll forgive, 
 
 And bring in peace for all ; 
 But if he'll not, I'll tell his lot; 
 
 My threatenings shall appear : 
 My anger, if he mind it not, 
 
 My vengeance he shall bear. 
 Did I come down from heaven's high throne, 
 
 And make a world below ? 
 Out of confusion all was made; 
 
 The Earth you do not know, 
 In what disorder all was found, 
 
 And darkness did appear: 
 I say there was no solid ground, 
 
 But all a chaos here. 
 But this to men I'll now explain, 
 
 As thou dost not understand : 
 But near unto thy sister's house,* 
 
 Thou may'st the whole command. 
 A likeness there doth so appear, 
 
 Thou know'st the ground doth shake; 
 And so did all the globe appear, 
 
 When I began to take 
 The cause in hand, and formed man, 
 
 Out of the native dust ; 
 Then solid ground I made the land, 
 
 And Earth in order plac'd. 
 The grass to grow, you all shall know, 
 
 Was quickly form'd by me ; 
 : Then I created living beasts, 
 
 And form'd the lofty trees. 
 As men began to multiply, 
 
 Their talents I improv'd ; 
 And so I made the raging sea, 
 
 And bounds I set of love. 
 The dry land here that doth appear 
 
 Must perish with its drought, 
 If I the clouds had not prepar'd 
 
 To come from heaven's height 
 The sea to draw, you all shall know, 
 
 To wet the barren ground : 
 For barren soon must be all below 
 
 If that no rain was found. 
 For all shall see the rain's from ME ; 
 
 And when I don't appear, 
 Your scorching fields you soon do see, 
 How all do wither here. 
 
 * A piece of ground at the foot of a hill, near a spring of water, which was 
 called a sodciy place, or bog. When any person puts his foot upon the edge, 
 the whole ground shakes lor a quarter of an acre. ID wet weather it is not 
 passable.
 
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 So barren ground to man was found, 
 
 When I kept back my rain ; 
 A famine in the land was found 
 
 Be wise, ye sons of men ; 
 Survey, survey your every land, 
 
 And see how all do grow ; 
 Without my rain there's none can stand; 
 
 The scorching sun, you know, 
 Would soon burn up your every hope, 
 
 And barren ground appear. 
 The pride of men must surely drop, 
 
 If Satan conquers here. 
 I ask, what earth can he bring forth, 
 
 With all his boasted pride ? 
 For the foundation of the earth 
 
 By ME was surely laid ; 
 The foaming billows I did place, 
 
 And they their bounds do know; 
 But soon they must destroy this earth, 
 
 If I their bounds let go. 
 For in my hand they all do stand, 
 
 And I've set bounds for all ; 
 And the proud waves I can command, 
 
 That backward they must fall. 
 Wave after wave do often come, 
 
 And the rude seas appear ; 
 But 'tis by my powerful hand 
 
 That they the shore do fear ; 
 Because my bounds to them are found, 
 
 They can no further go ; 
 And perfect so shall hell be bound, 
 
 And that they all shall know. 
 Wave after wave may hasten on, 
 
 Like raging seas appear; 
 But know, the shore is fix'd for MAN, 
 
 And the proud Tyrant there 
 Must surely stop his every hope, 
 
 I made a shore for MAN; 
 And by the raging of the seas, 
 
 I've show'd you Satan's plan ; 
 How he will swell in rage from hell^ 
 
 But shall not break the tide ; 
 Like foaming billows he will swell, 
 
 Like angry seas applied. 
 So now see plain, ye sons of men, 
 
 What lies before your view 
 Can the proud seas your lives contain, 
 
 If I their bounds let go ?
 
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 Can they keep up your every hope, 
 
 If I destroy the land ? 
 Without my rain can you contain ? 
 
 Be wise, and understand, 
 There's not a thing on earth is seen 
 
 But I created all ; 
 And if I do give up my reign, 
 
 Just like the seas must fall. 
 Then how can ye preserved be, 
 
 What pleasures are there there ? 
 No more from Satan can there be 
 
 Than in the seas appear. 
 No corn nor wine you there can find, 
 
 No solid place of rest; 
 I form'd the seas, I form'd the land, 
 
 To show how both were plac'd. 
 The rain's from ME, you all may see, 
 
 Survey your every land ; 
 The cedars and the lofty trees 
 
 Were planted by my hand ; 
 Your gardens and your gallant walks 
 
 Were surely plac'd by ME; 
 Talents I have given to men, 
 
 That all iraprov'd might be. 
 There's not a worm on earth below, 
 
 But I did create at first ; 
 There is no wisdom men can show, 
 
 But all from ME doth burst. 
 So now see clear, my hand is here; 
 
 Survey this earthly ground ; 
 If ought like Satan doth appear, 
 
 It must in the seas be found: 
 That is to swell in rage from hell, 
 
 Like angry seas applied ; 
 Like foaming billows he doth swell, 
 
 That's rolling like the tide ; 
 Unto the shore ht would appear 
 
 To show his raging pride. 
 But now see plain, ye sons of men, 
 
 His power can be no more 
 Than is the raging of the seas, 
 
 If you stand safe on shore: 
 But if you come to vote for him, 
 
 Then launch into the deep : 
 And if you footing there can find, 
 
 Tlien Satan's kingdom keep."
 
 11 
 
 An Answer to what is written in the Seventh, Eighth, 
 and Ninth Pages : Satan's Friend having said, 
 they were cast out of Heaven for being of a 
 cheerful spirit. Answered by the LORD in the 
 following manner: 
 
 " Thou lying fool, before thy God appear, 
 
 And boldly answer, if I cast thee there 
 
 To have a spirit ever like my Son ? 
 
 For here's the likeness thou dost now condemn. 
 
 Proud Lucifer, I tell thee 'twas not so ; 
 
 And of thy lies I'll make thee feel and know : 
 
 For no such reason did I cast thee there, 
 
 But for thy pride and envy thou show'dst here;* 
 
 When I familiar with thee did begin, 
 
 Then too much freedom instantly was seen ; 
 
 Above thy MAKER thou didst then appear, 
 
 And swell'd with pride, thou could'st not conquer there. 
 
 The heavenly host, thou soon didst draw away, 
 
 And all my angels thou thoughtest to betray: 
 
 And so thou thought'st to sit supreme, a king 
 
 Above thy God, and didst comdemn my Son, 
 
 As one inferior to thy haughty pride : 
 
 And to the woman thou hast all belied. 
 
 Like Jezebel, did all ihy ways appear,^ 
 
 Who stole the Seal, the angels to ensnare; 
 
 And then my Son thou thought'st to steal on high, 
 
 And make the rebel angels him defy. 
 
 Like Naboth's vineyard was thy every claim, 
 
 And sons of Belial with thre thou didst gain, 
 
 To steal my vineyard, and claim all thy own ; 
 
 And that's the way I did them all unthrone ; 
 
 And that's the way from heaven thou wast cast, * 
 
 Because, like Jezebel, thy rage did burst, 
 
 That thou could'st not unthrone my only Son, 
 
 That, like myself, in Spirit both was one. 
 
 But, further on, I'll show thee now the way, 
 
 How all thy hellish arts in heaven did lie ; 
 
 And then I'll tell ihee why I rais'd thee up, 
 
 And now I'll tell thee why I'll make thee drop. 
 
 As nought but lies in thee did first appear, 
 
 And nought but lies, I say, thou'st spoken here: 
 
 And from thy mouth I now condemn thee there. 
 
 . 
 
 * He had the same pride and mischief in heaven, which is proved by his con- 
 duct on earth. 
 
 $ Forged lies when in heaven, to delude the angel* to forsake their God.
 
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 Thou canst not say the thing came e'er from ME : 
 
 Twas thy own heart that first enticed thee, 
 
 To pride and malice, and to every ill, 
 
 And in rebellion thou the heavens didst fill. 
 
 So, foolishly thou canst not charge thy God ; 
 
 But now I'll make thee tremble at my rod, 
 
 And thou shall surely find thou art undone : 
 
 And to thy very words I now shall come,* 
 
 And ask what evil spirit loved thee, 
 
 That thou with Satan didst so much agree, 
 
 By every art that thou to her hast spoke ? 
 
 And now I'll make thee tremble at the stroke; 
 
 For all thy jesting thou hast carried too far ; 
 
 And all thy power I'll make it to appear; 
 
 And all thy arts to men are no \ made known, 
 
 And all thy hellish lies before them shown ; 
 
 Forward and backward thou in lies didst go ; 
 
 And now I'll make the tremble at the blow. 
 
 Unless to ME thou humbly now submit, 
 
 Confess thy guilt, and now repent of it ; 
 
 And all thy witchcraft thou wilt throw aside, 
 
 That by thy hellish arts are here applied: 
 
 For, as thou'st spoke into the woman's ear,f 
 
 I know in man thou daily dost appear, 
 
 With every subtle art to lead astray; 
 
 As in this page tby subtle arts do lie; 
 
 And tempt them daily for to leave their God, 
 
 And full as many ways before them show'd 
 
 How they in earthly grandeur all may shine, 
 
 And so thou com'st and robb'st the souls that' re mine, 
 
 That I at first created from the dust: 
 
 And from thy very words, I say, thou'rt cast ; 
 
 Unless thou'lt promise to renounce them all, 
 
 And a new life thou instantly wilt call. 
 
 For, as thou say'st, thou art but Satan's friend, 
 
 To vindicate thy master thou art sent ; 
 
 And with thy master I do bid thee go. 
 
 Art thou his friend ? then now his friendship know; 
 
 For, as thou'st threatened, thou shall feel the blow j 
 
 Unless thou instant turn'st another way, 
 
 And act thyself, as thou to her didst say. 
 
 Confess thyself, thai all thou'st done is wrong ; 
 
 Renounce thy master", and break every bond, 
 
 That thou in union with thy friend hast made; 
 
 Confess, by Satan, thou hast been betray'd ; 
 
 * Read page 9, Dispute with the Powers of Darkness. 
 
 ' 
 t The ear of Eve in the beginning, and Joanna's at the ending.
 
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 And that his ways thou dost them all despise, 
 
 Thou seest thy folly, and thou'rt grown more wise ; 
 
 And all thy friends persuade them now the same, 
 
 And say, thy guilt and folly thou dost blame ; 
 
 Because thou now dost see that all is wrong. 
 
 I've show'd thee mercy, and I've show'd it long; 
 
 But now, I tell thee, I'll show it no more; 
 
 I tell thee that thy shipwreck's near the shore. 
 
 For here thy foaming did toss mountains high ; 
 
 Close to the woman thou didst surely lie ; 
 
 And now, I tell thee, 1'il lie close to thee ; 
 
 LOOK back to Pharaoh, there thy ruin see, 
 
 And from thy mouth condemned thou shall be. 
 
 Thou sayest, be still and know that I am God ; 
 
 Then thou shoutd'st stop, and never one pursu'd, 
 
 When that my chosen vessels I did seal ; 
 
 And to the woman did my mind reveal, 
 
 That whosoever would with her should come. 
 
 I've seen the afflictions of my people long ; 
 
 Heavier and heavier is the burden made, 
 
 The tale of bricks, but straw is now denied. 
 
 Then now their burden I will surely free ; 
 
 The blood upon the door-posts now shall be 
 
 Of every house, whereon I put my seal 
 
 And now the mysteries I to all reveal : 
 
 Where'er the Second Star it doth appear, 
 
 Sealed \v\t\i the woman's hand, I tell thee here, 
 
 If e'er thou aimest one for to molest, 
 
 I tell thee, Satan's Friend, thou'rt surely cast, 
 
 Thou sayest, my wisdom it was in the deep 
 
 And there, like Pharaoh, thou wilt find the pit; 
 
 If thou, like Pharaoh, ever dost pursue, 
 
 I say, like Pharaoh, that shall be thy dooir. 
 
 So now be still, and know that I am God, 
 
 Or else I'll make thee tremble at my rod ; 
 
 For all thy chariot wheels I'll now take off'; 
 
 I'll be a wall to them that do not scoff, 
 
 To gain protection from the woman's hand, 
 
 Who did so boldly for her Master stand. 
 
 As Moses did with Pharaoh, to contend, 
 
 You'll find a Moses, and you'll find a Friend, 
 
 As Miriam did with Moses then appear : 
 
 You'll find a Moses and a Miriam here. 
 
 For, I'm the MOSES, every soul shall see, 
 
 And here's the MIRIAM testifies of ME : 
 
 And now before you lies the promis'd Land. 
 
 It was but shadows Moses did command ; 
 
 Because the stronger Pharaoh he was there ; 
 
 But now the substance I'll betnn t<> clear:
 
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 For Satan is the Pharaoh that now is tried, 
 
 By whom my children they arc ail denied. 
 
 As a free people he'll nol let them go ; 
 
 But now a MOSES he shall surely know 
 
 Doth in the camp of Israel appear ; 
 
 And all shall know a PROPHETESS is here, 
 
 I say, like Miriam now shall be applied. 
 
 And mark that Moses said his tongue was tied, 
 
 That he a spokesman could not be at all 
 
 Miriam and Aaron, now behold your call. 
 
 But this I'm speaking to the sons of men, 
 
 That ye may now awake and see it plain ; 
 
 For now, like Moses, I will sure go on ; 
 
 And now a spokesman I have found in man,* 
 
 For to deliver all that I do speak : 
 
 'Twas but a shadow at that time did break ; 
 
 But now the substance every one shall see ; 
 
 For I'm the MOSES, and conceal'd from ye ; 
 
 And Satan is the Pharaoh now become ; 
 
 And here's the spokesman I shall make of man. 
 
 Because a Miriam doth in thee appear, 
 
 And now my pleading every soul shall hear, 
 
 How I with Satan shortly shall begin. 
 
 But know, as yet thou art not come to him; 
 
 But then, I say, thou'lt hear a different sound ; 
 
 Like Pharaoh's witchcraft will his friends- abound. 
 
 For now, I tell thee, he will follow on, 
 
 And on many he will be working strong ; 
 
 Because their wisdom they pretend to boast; 
 
 And there, I tell thee, every soul is lost, 
 
 That on their wisdom they will now rely ; 
 
 Like Pharaoh's witchcrafts, Satan's arts will fly ; 
 
 For hasty after he will now pursue, 
 
 And miracles, I tell thee, now he'll do. 
 
 To work by witchcraft in the sinner's heart, 
 
 Thou little know'st the way he'll fix his dart. 
 
 Wave after wave, I tell thee, will come on, 
 
 The raging seas will now be known to man ; 
 
 But, Oil, my friends ! if you stand safe on shore, 
 
 The raging of the seas you need not fear ; 
 
 Because the seas I surely shall divide, 
 
 And, in the Pillar now myself I'll hide. 
 
 A Light before my people now I'll go, 
 
 And be a Wall to them, they all shall know ; 
 
 Alluding to her friends copying the communications, which she reads from 
 her own writing, and which no other person whatever can read.
 
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 That now like Israel if they do appear, 
 
 They'll find a MOSES and a SAVIOUR here, 
 
 That now is come my people to redeem : 
 
 I am the FOUNTAIN, and the living STREAM j 
 
 I am the ROD that shall the Seas divide ; 
 
 I am the PILLAR that from you is hid : 
 
 And, 'tis by Faith the Light you all must see ; 
 
 For unbelief in thousands now will be, 
 
 And will pursue, like Pharaoh's haughty host, 
 
 And of their knowledge they'll pretend to boast. 
 
 And so with Pharaoh they will now pursue ; 
 
 But in the deep their madness they will know ; 
 
 Because their wheels, I say, will run too fast ; 
 
 I mean their wisdom will like fury burst, 
 
 To judge the Seas I never can divide 
 
 " O, where' s the Moses, to bring back the tide ? 
 
 " The fall of man," they'll say, " for to redeem ? 
 
 " The Promis'd Land," they'll say, " how can we gain ?'' 
 
 And so men's faith they'll try for to keep back, 
 
 With all the rage of hell that now can break. 
 
 But this, thou say'st, is madness to believe, 
 
 That men will wish ever to sit and grieve, 
 
 Oppressed wsth burdens so, by Satan's power ; 
 
 Thou judg'st that all with joy should see the hour, 
 
 To have their burdens all be took away ; 
 
 Men should rejoice to see the glorious day, 
 
 That Man's Redemption nearly now is come, 
 
 And the fulfilling of the Promise made to Man. 
 
 Now I shall answer in plain words. The deliver- 
 ance of the Children of Israel, bringing them out 
 of Egypt into the Promised Land, was a type of 
 the Last Days Pharaoh was a type of the Devi!. 
 Now as Pharaoh's magicians used witchcraft to 
 blind the eyes of the Egyptians, that they might 
 not believe that the miracles Moses wrought were 
 
 ^j 
 
 from the Lord ; so Satan will work in the hearts of 
 men, to prophesy the same as the True Prophets 
 of GOD; and some of their prophecies will come 
 true, as the Magicians' miracles came some of them 
 like the miracles of Moses. For Satan has worked 
 in men, who have prophesied out of their own 
 hearts, and have seen nothing ; yet some things 
 may come true without the spirit of prophecy ; 
 and many false Prophets are gone out in the world, 
 by the arts of Satan, working in men, that the true
 
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 Prophets may not be believed. But let them trace 
 the manner of Prophecies, they will find that the 
 Prophecies of the LORD, like Moses's Rod, will 
 swallow up the rest. For, it is not all the Pro- 
 phecies Satan can invent, nor all the arts of earth 
 and hell, can bring their Prophecies to the Bible, 
 as this is ; and men who have a right and true 
 faith in God, and weigh the whole together, they 
 will see it is like Moses's Rod, that swallowed up 
 all the others ; and confess, that none but a GOD 
 could prophesy in such a manner ; and they will 
 be like the children of Israel, who dipped the 
 hysop in the Blood of the Larnb, and struck the 
 lintels of their door-posts, when the destroying 
 Angel went through their land : that meaneth, they 
 will be led by faith to believe, that their being 
 sealed will be as great a protection to them, as stri- 
 king the door-posts was to the children of Israel. 
 But now I shall come to the purpose. When 
 Moses disputed with Pharaoh, it was man dispu- 
 ting with man, visible to each other; and now 
 the shadow is brought to the substance : it is Sa- 
 tan, instead of Pharaoh, that is now to be cast ; 
 then it must be a SPIRITUAL MOSES, and not a 
 temporal one, to cast him. But, as Satan's words 
 are on record, so shall my answer, which is the 
 answer of the Lord. ,It begins at the twenty-first 
 page, answered backward.* 
 
 Now, Satan, here thy God his silence breaks ; 
 From heaven's high courts to thee 1 now do speak, 
 As all thy words are laid before my view, 
 And in this page thou sayest, 'tis God thou'stknow, 
 That guides my servant, and directs her hand ; 
 Then now I bid thee trembling for to stand. 
 If in one word thou answer's! ME again, 
 Thou wilt see my power to increase thy pain : 
 And backward now to all thy arts I'll come.f 
 Didst thou not tell her, hell was sure her doom, 
 
 * See page 21, Dispute between the Woman and the Powers of Darkness; t 
 which book the Reader is desired to refer, whenever the page is quoted. 
 
 t From the Fall.
 
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 If my command she dar'd for to obey. 
 
 Looi^ back and see how all thy arts do He : , 
 
 Yet in these threater.ings thou the same shalt see; 
 
 In thy own manner now I'll answer thee : 
 
 Thou say'st, my servant that thou would'st compel, 
 
 With all the armies thou hast got in hell, 
 
 To take her life, if she would not comply ; 
 
 Then, Saian, stand and hear what I do say: 
 
 With all the armies I have got above, 
 
 I'll now defend all those that ME do love ; 
 
 And thou shalt shortly see my mighty power, 
 
 And all thy host I shortly will devour ; 
 
 And see, if thou canst be a king supreme, 
 
 By all thy hellish 'host that thou didst gain, 
 
 First by temptations, that were full of lies. 
 
 Look back and see vvhe n thou in heaven didst rise, 
 
 With pride and envy, and in rage didst swell, 
 
 Because the heavens thou could'st not all compel 
 
 To worship thee, that thou might'st be supreme. 
 
 Look back and see how here thou hast laid thy train : 
 
 And know, in heaven thou laid'st it just the same, 
 
 And said'st, thy wisdom was supreme to mine ; 
 
 And so, thou said'st thou hadst the greatest power, 
 
 And by thy arts the angels didst devour, 
 
 To draw from glory and the highest bljss ; 
 
 Thou promzsed'st happiness. that now they'll miss. 
 
 For as they judg'd thou wast the wisest king, 
 
 And thought in wisdom thou didst ME outshine; 
 
 For, as thou'st pleaded with the woman here , 
 
 Thou know'st in heaven thou surely didst appear ; 
 
 In all that manner did thy fury go, 
 
 Thou swell'dst the angels with deceit, I know, 
 
 To tell them plainly thou hadst power supreme, 
 
 And falsely told them they should pleasures gain, 
 
 Jf in their hearts they would but worship thee : 
 
 And so my angels thou didst draw away. 
 
 And, by thy aits, thou sayest I was unjust, 
 
 When out of heaven thou by M E wast cast ; 
 
 For, like thy pleading with the woman here, 
 
 Thou and thy angels daily did appear, 
 
 Until to threaten thou didst then begin, 
 
 And well thou know'st I cast thee for that thing; 
 
 And then together you did all agree 
 
 To plead against the just decrees of ME.* 
 
 In the same manner thou hast spoken here, 
 
 Thou, and thy angels they did so appear, 
 
 * When cast out of heaven, the same sentiments prevailed *ni >ng the fallen 
 angels, that Cod was unjust, as at this day.
 
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 To say, no mercy, nor no truth's in ME ; 
 
 Then now their rock 1 bid them for to see. 
 
 For as the seventeenth page it doth appear, 
 
 I tell thee, Satan, was thy pleading there, 
 
 That thou hast wisdom greater than their God ; 
 
 And now thy wisdom shall to all be know'd ; 
 
 For, by thy wisdom I did raise thee up, 
 
 And by thy wisdom now I'll make thee drop. 
 
 Because together you did all agree, 
 
 That Satan was a wiser king than ME ; 
 
 And of my mercies you did all condemn ; 
 
 Because I would not let the eavens become 
 
 In thy confusion, and a perfect hell ; 
 
 As in thy heart thy malice it did swell, 
 
 To make the heavens in confusion there. 
 
 And now the mysteries I to man shall clear : 
 
 To gain my honour, then I rais'd him up, 
 
 And as a king on earth I let him drop ; 
 
 And from the dust I then created MAN; 
 
 And gave him power for to lay his 1 plan, 
 
 To be a king in power for to rcign ; 
 
 I gave him subjects he by arts could gain ; 
 
 To shew his power I let him to go on, 
 
 To see what heaven he would make for man. 
 
 As they all judg'd the fittest king he'd be, 
 
 And thought the greatest pleasure was in he ; 
 
 Then to their wisdom I did give all up ; 
 
 And to their wisdom now they all shall drop ; 
 
 Because my honour I will gain it here ; 
 
 To Satan's justice now shall all appear. 
 
 If he's a king in power now supreme, 
 
 Let him create an Earth, and subjects gain ; 
 
 For now my justice shall be tried by man ; 
 
 He hath had his power, and he hath had 
 
 And of his power men do still complain, 
 
 And say he is a king not fit to reign. 
 
 For such a king they do not want him here; 
 
 And men like angels they do now appear, 
 
 To have this prince be banish'd from hN throne. 
 
 For Reprobation is begun by Man ; 
 
 Then now Election you shall surely see ; 
 
 And to hisjustice I will now agree. 
 
 For to hisjustice now the fool shall stand ; 
 
 I rais'd him up ; they all had ME condemn'd: 
 
 As in these writings he'th condemn'd ME here. 
 
 And now the mysteries I to man shall clear : 
 
 A Hell for Satan I did make at first ; 
 
 For in themselves nothing but hell did burst ;
 
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 For priele and malice, envy and debate, 
 
 For Satan's fury did the others heat ; 
 
 And to themselves I banish'd them alone.* 
 
 But from t liese pages must their words be known ; 
 
 The twenty-second must be seen by man. 
 
 And there my mercies they did all comdemn : 
 
 And said, a Devil now he'd surely be, 
 
 And all the angels they should join with he, 
 
 In blasphemy, he said, against their God, 
 
 And dar'd the angels for to say one word 
 
 In praise of heaven, or lament their fall. 
 
 For now the mysteries must be known to all, 
 
 How he the fallen angels did compel 
 
 To worship him, as they from heaven fell, 
 
 And dar'd them ever murmur in a word, 
 
 And boldly told them they should feel his rod ; 
 
 Which made the fallen angels to submit, 
 
 And they did tremble at their leader's feet. 
 
 For, as the twenty-third page doth appear, 
 
 And whining Devils he did call them there; 
 
 Because their folly they did so lament : 
 
 And some, 1 know, thf,y surely did repent, 
 
 That heavenly pleasures they did ever leave, 
 
 And said, the devil did them all deceive. 
 
 But then he boldly answer'd them again, 
 
 That my protection they could never gain, 
 
 And that in pieces them he'd surely tear, 
 
 And by his threatenings made them for to fear ; 
 
 And told them heroes they would surely be. 
 
 If they in spirit then would join with he, 
 
 And all the power of their God defy ; 
 
 Then he would praise them for their company. 
 
 For as the twenty-fourth page appears ; 
 
 He asked what greater power they could fear. 
 
 If he was wiih them, always to protect, 
 
 He asked, what greater power did they expect ? 
 
 And so his merits he would make them plead, 
 
 As thou dost Christ's. Remember what he said. 
 
 For as the twenty-fifth page doth appear, 
 
 God was wtjust, he surely told them there ; 
 
 And that their tongues they should not run so fast, 
 
 Because a discord in them ajl did burst ; 
 
 When from the heavens they were hurried down, 
 
 1 say, confusion in them all was found. 
 
 * Here is easily understood the origin of Hell. The arm of Divine Power, 
 to secure the society of the just in wisdom and happiness, cast out the infernals, 
 and compels them to be coiifined in their own hellish union. And when the 
 kingdom of heaven comes on earth, the infernal host must be cast and- chained* 
 that Man may be in heavenly union with God and his Angels. 
 
 B 2
 
 N 20 
 
 And as the twenty 'Sixth page doth appear 
 
 Was Satan's pleadings with his angels there. 
 
 When out of heaven they at first were cast, 
 
 He, in that manner, on the angels burst, 
 
 And told them plainly God did act unjust, 
 
 " To have so great a king as he was cast, 
 
 " Whose mighty power from lot own orb did come ; 
 
 " And by his power he had created them ; 
 
 " And therefore, they should worship him supreme." 
 
 Like all his pleadings here he did contend 
 
 With all the angels that did then repent, 
 
 That they to join with him did e'er consent ; 
 
 Then of his power he as much did boast, 
 
 And made them all confess, "GoD was unjust, 
 
 " Not for to let him reign upon his throne, 
 
 " With all the angels he did call his own." 
 
 So he by threatenings got all on his side, 
 
 And all the justice of their God denied ; 
 
 And all together said, 1 was unjust; 
 
 And all condemned their God for being cast. 
 
 But as the Devil thou throughout didst blame,* 
 
 Just so my heavenly angels did the same. 
 
 But further on I shall direct the way, 
 
 And tell thee how his subtle arts did lie. 
 
 For as the Fourtk Day it doth appear, 
 
 I tell thee so was Satan's pleading there, 
 
 With every blasphemy against his God, 
 
 That by the angels he was overthrow'd : 
 
 They and their MAKER he did so blaspheme, 
 
 When that the fallen angels he did gain, 
 
 By all his threatenings to stand by his side. 
 
 And here's the bill that now must be applied, 
 
 That he brought in against the Saviour there ; 
 
 Because with ME the Crown he so did share: 
 
 And Satan said, " that I did cast him down ; 
 
 " From his ozw orb he said his power was found ; 
 
 " For never was it given him by ME."| 
 
 And so together they did all agree, 
 
 That sure unjustly I had cast him there; 
 
 In heaven with ME he ought for to appear. 
 
 And in my heaven to reign supreme a king ; 
 
 And so his wisdom unto all was seen, 
 
 To judge their Maker he was all unjust ; 
 
 And so the bill against me it was cast. 
 
 So by their bill, 1 surely rais'd them up ; 
 
 And by their bill the leader now shall drop. 
 
 * Joanna. t Satan denies boiif* formed of God.
 
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 As to the Angels he did then appeal, 
 
 If I in justice to them did not fail 
 
 His mighty power for to overthrow ; 
 
 And now my justice he shall feel and know. 
 
 If he began u mighty king in heaven 
 
 For to oppose the laws that I had given, 
 
 And as a fiery serpent did appear, 
 
 I ask him how his " Golden Orb" came there ? 
 
 Or how he breath* d in it the BREATH of LIFE ? 
 
 I soon CREATED MAN to end the strife j 
 
 And of this world I made him lord below, 
 
 And all to Adam I did surely show, 
 
 That every thing 1 had given unto n an. 
 
 And now unto the Serpent I shall come, 
 
 And ask him, how he came a Prince below, 
 
 If I no justice unto him did show ? 
 
 To give him power for to try his reign, 
 
 How he would act, where he could subjects gain ? 
 
 And where his power I let him to show, 
 
 From Cain and Abel, I shall let him know, 
 
 That he a murderer instant did begin ; 
 
 Because his power o'er man in Cain was seen ; 
 
 And so hjs brother he did instant slay : 
 
 But Abel's blood for Vengeance now doth lie, 
 
 To show the power of the boasted king. 
 
 And do they think such murderer I shall screen, 
 
 To have the heavens in murder to appear? 
 
 Like Cain and Abel must it all been there, 
 
 If I in heaven had e'er given him a seat, 
 
 After his pride and malice swelled so great: 
 
 No ; as the earth he surely did make mourn, 
 
 Just so the heavens he'd in disorder turn. 
 
 But as the angels, that with him did fall, 
 
 Judg'd ME unjust and so they judg'd ME all ; 
 
 Then, to convince them I did raise him up ; 
 
 To gain my honour, let the fool to stop, 
 
 'Till I a heavier bill had brought them here ; 
 
 And so my justice I that way shall clear, 
 
 To gain my honour over Satan's host, 
 
 And show their king, that they so much did boast; 
 
 And now their king I'll show his reign in men, 
 
 Where I let Satan guide their every hand. 
 
 But first a king I liken'd him to Saul, 
 
 When free from pride, I now do tell you all ; 
 
 Or little in his eyes he did appear, 
 
 I gave him power he could never bear, 
 
 To see a DAVID after him to come, 
 
 With his ten thousands ; this brought on his doom,
 
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 To havq the kingdom then be rent from he. 
 
 And so in heaven, he then was cast from ME,. 
 
 As he a humble DAVID did despise. 
 
 Weigh deep your Bibles now and grow more wise : 
 
 Because from kings and queens you now shall see 
 
 The very way the end of all will be. 
 
 And now from Pharaoh I will here begin ; 
 
 And now like Pharaoh Satan's host shall end ; 
 
 Because, like Pharaoh's host, they all are tried ; 
 
 And here's a mystery now must be applied : 
 
 Like Pharaoh's task masters he does appear, 
 
 To burden men with sins they cannot bear. 
 
 One on the other now do lay the load, 
 
 By Satan's arts is every footstep trod ; 
 
 And yet, like Pharaoh, Satan does complain, 
 
 And daily doth accuse the sons of men, 
 
 That my command by man is not obey'd 
 
 Like Pharaoh's words are Satan's witchcrafts laid : 
 
 For all his arts he so does work in men, 
 
 To have the perfect truth took all from them. 
 
 For by their shepherds now I well do know, 
 
 They give them stubble, and deny them straw.* 
 
 Because the day of vengeance they've applied 
 
 To be to man ; but Satan they've denitd 
 
 To be the author of their every guilt ; 
 
 That he has laid the burden all have felt, 
 
 By every art to tempt mankind to sin ; 
 
 And close upon them daily he hath been ; 
 
 And this, I said, should fall upon his head. 
 
 But, O, my shepherds ! how is't now you'll plead ? 
 
 These promises for man you take away, 
 
 And every burden you on man do lay, 
 
 Which I, by Satan's arts have here applied; 
 
 And if the truth by you is now denied, 
 
 Then now I'll call you to a strict account, 
 
 And tell your sins, and how they all amount; 
 
 That ye as idle shepherds do appear ; 
 
 My Laws or Gospel you don't seek to clear ; 
 
 But say, your sheep are going all astray, 
 
 And judge they are wandering in a crooked way ; 
 
 And yet, you say you will not call them back ; 
 
 I ask you, bow you'll answer for your flock ? 
 
 As many shepherds 1 by her have tried, 
 
 And yet by every one I am denied ! 
 
 * The preachers denounce (he punishment of God upon their flock, but omit 
 his promised blessings, that are now at hand, and must come on with the de* 
 struction of Satan's power.
 
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 Because, of Shepherds I have got but Three, 
 
 And neither one of them was warn'd by she. 
 
 No ; they themselves as shepherds did begin 
 
 To hear their Master's voice, andcopy him 
 
 " To know the truth, we will go down and see 
 
 " Whether it prov'd as it is come to we." 
 
 Then now in ME you may see these Three Men, 
 
 To know they're Three, and they agree in One. 
 
 Then here you'll find is the True Shepherd's voice, 
 
 Whom all mankind shall know, I've made my choice, 
 
 To be the Rock to build my Church upon. 
 
 And to my shepherds first I mean to come, 
 
 And then with Satan I shall next go on. 
 
 For now, you all shall find a MOSES here; 
 
 My children's burden now I'm come to clear ; 
 
 And their task-masters, I do daily see, 
 
 Increase their load ; but now their load I'll free : 
 
 And they shall now possess the promis'd land. 
 
 When I made Adam in my LIKENESS stand, 
 
 Lord of this earth I made him here below; 
 
 This earth I promised him, you all do know; 
 
 But then a Pharaoh hasty did arise, 
 
 Who all my chosen people did despise ; 
 
 He daily tried to take their grace away ; 
 
 And yet against them was his sore complaint, 
 
 That they were sinners all with one consent. 
 
 So he to tempt them all his mind was bent, 
 
 And so by sin he did increase their load; 
 
 Yet all the blame on them was surely throw'd : 
 
 As in my Bible you do plainly see, 
 
 "The great accuser of mankind was HE. 
 
 So now, ye shepherds, 'wake, and see it clear, 
 
 Satan like Pharaoh he did first appear, 
 
 With every art of sin, to burden men, 
 
 And robb'd them of the grace was given them ; 
 
 And yet, against them he doth still complain, 
 
 That they are sinners. Judge, ye sons of men, 
 
 How many ways with Job he did appear, 
 
 And every w r ay he did condemn him there ; 
 
 And every way he always does the same, 
 
 And much like Pharaoh all his ways I'll name ; 
 
 And now like Pharaoh he shall sure be cast. 
 
 And will you, shepherds, be like Pharagh's host? 
 
 And ot' your goodness will you proudly boast ? 
 
 That all the fault lies surely in your sheep? 
 
 From his temptations you yourselves don't keep ; 
 
 Then now I'll answer you, ye sons of men, 
 
 I've sought for shepherds, but Pie not found one
 
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 That act according to my Gospel here, 
 As I commanded Peter to appear, 
 And as I bid you copy after ME. 
 But now, ye Shepherds, you your folly see j 
 You have no: acted atcor^h to my law. 
 Task you where I I T; _, our likenesi show ? 
 If any onedici e'er appeal ir. MK, 
 Diu 1 refuse to hear what they should say ? 
 Or did I empty turn them once away, 
 Before I granted tiiem their lull request, 
 That came to ME and any favour ask'd ? 
 Weigh well my Gospel and my Bible deep ; 
 You'll see, you shepherds, you are like your sheep, 
 Oppress'a togetner in Egyptian load; 
 And i>y it /notations, all forsake their God ; 
 For all the grace froiu you is took away ; 
 And nought but stumble doth before you lie ; 
 And all my alter you have broken down; + 
 
 Refus'd my servant tremble at the sound!* 
 And so you're under the Egyptian's load 
 And now let Pharaoh tremble at his r^d ; 
 Since he so boldly now hath tempted man, 
 That sheep nor shepherds by his arts can stand : 
 . For here, like Jezebel, he stole the seal. 
 And now another mystery I'll reveal : 
 J Twas Satan's arts that work'd on Pomeroy's mind 
 To seal the letter Bruce's death did bind ; 
 As by the letter Bruce's faith drew back ;t 
 And justice then must make him feel the rack; 
 Because his death that way it must appear, 
 He could not be tit tor my kingdom here. 
 
 * Joanna was refused the sacrament, by a clegyman at Exeter, because 
 she would be faithful to her vistation. 
 
 t A letter was sent by a Minister of Exeter to the late Mr. Basil Bruce, which 
 was one of t\ ^ vat ious causes of his sjcriticing his faitli of the divine authority 
 of Joanna's writings. That letter, with the united efforts of persons who call 
 themselves friends to Mr. Brothers, one of whom, in particular, destroyed his 
 own character as a ^entleman, without considering his duty ns a Christian, went 
 so fnr as to tell the ailhcted widow, that the death ot her husband was from 
 the judgment ol God, on account of his belief in these writings. (This person, 
 who is a man ot good property, has however done honour to himself, by his 
 steady, unshaken friendship to Mr. Brothers.) Others also were instigated by. all 
 the arts of Satan to do the same, and made no scruple to wound her feelings, 
 by letters and other means, that her faith and peace might be destroyed toge- 
 ther. They have not even stopped here; Cor they conveyed lies to Mr. Brothers 
 to cause himio attack her. These sons of Belial have exercised every means 
 for Satan to possess the whole vineyard, and their success has been *too fatal. 
 Mr. Brothers has also been much injuried by such friend* : and were these hell- 
 ish arts to succeed, his life must terminate in a mad-house. But God is just.
 
 And so his vineyard Satan soon did gain, 
 And sons of Belial did the same maintain. 
 And so 1 tell thee he did rob all there ; 
 And now to take possession thou seest clear, 
 By unbelief he does possess the wliole ; 
 And now, like Jeiebcl, shall be his fall; 
 As every vineyard he hath tried to gain, 
 And every grace he's taking now from men ; 
 That all is under the Egyptian's yoke : 
 And now, like Pharaoh, he shall feel the stroke. 
 These evil spirits shall come out of man, 
 And, like the swine, be choakcd in the sand ; 
 For now I am not come before my time, 
 And that the Tempter he shall surely find ; 
 Because my shepherds he has so betray'd 
 To be dumb dogs, as I before have said ; 
 Like hirelings, that car'cl not for the sheep ; 
 They saw the wolf, and so they fled from it ; 
 Because the wolf did to them all appear, 
 
 With every art, ashehath spoken here; 
 And so my shepherds he hath all betray'd ; 
 
 I have but tin ee where / restraint ha-'e laid ; 
 That is, to keep them from the tempter's power: 
 And they with ME shall see the glorious hour ; 
 
 Because their spirits I before did know; 
 Salt KOS in them, and salt they now do show. 
 
 But now with Sal an I shall here begin : 
 
 I've seen the burdens of the sons of men ; 
 
 In every age I've seen it, that was past; 
 
 And now my fury shall upon him burst. 
 
 For as a king, I let him to appear ; 
 
 And now his reign lot men and devils fear; 
 
 Because his reign I'll show it now in kings; 
 
 And like their ruin I his now shall bring. 
 
 And from the thirtieth page 1 shall appear, 
 
 And to men's conscience let them answer here, 
 
 If I in justice do not him condemn : 
 
 And unto men of sense I now shall come, 
 
 And ask them, If 1 have not tried his reign ? 
 
 He hath pour'd out fury on the sons of men. 
 
 And now the thirty-Jirst page let them see ; 
 
 How he hath condemn'd the just decrees of ME, 
 
 To let my SON (o suffer for Man's sake ! 
 
 But hoyv their cause could I so undertake, 
 
 Had I not come and been a j u D G E below 
 
 Of all the sufferings they did undergo?
 
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 And their temptations I did all go through, 
 
 That all the arts of Satan I might know; 
 
 And how in Herod he did so appear, 
 
 And all the children he destroy'd them there; 
 
 Because he would destroy the SON OF GOD. 
 
 But now, O Satan, tremble at his rod ; 
 
 The rod of Herod now on thee shall fall : 
 
 And now thy children I'll destroy them all ; 
 
 A Herod's murder now shall fall on thee, 
 
 And all thy angels now destroy'd shall be: 
 
 And all that flee to ME I will enjoy. 
 
 Ye simple shepherds, now you must appear 
 
 And prove my .Gospel you can never clear, 
 
 That 1 did then fulfil it at that time : 
 
 No, no; the mysteries they are yet behind. 
 
 I ask, what fan did in my hand appear ? 
 
 I ask, what wheat I thtn did gather there ? 
 
 I ask, what chaff that I did then destroy ? 
 
 Or how my kingdom they did then enjoy, 
 
 That John did tell them it was nigh at hand ? 
 
 Be wise, my shepherds now, and understand 
 
 That all my Gospel I must now fulfil. 
 
 And now let Satan judge this as he will; 
 
 As my Disciples they did die with ME, 
 
 And Satan's triumph he did surely see, 
 
 To see the children murder'd for my sake ; 
 
 And in Herodias he did strongly break, 
 
 To have my Prophet John beheaded there. 
 
 But now MY SECOND COMING let him fear; 
 
 For I will as much fulfil my oath to thee, 
 
 As ever Herod did fulfil to she. 
 
 So now, ye simple shepherds and unwise, 
 
 Let all my Gospel lie before your eyes : 
 
 And judge if you do think I came below 
 
 To let the devil all his malice show, 
 
 And as he said, " a fool for to submit," 
 
 To lay my life and brethren at his feet, 
 
 Had I not had the vengeance in my heart, 
 
 Back on the tempter then to turn the dart. 
 
 For how could I in tiiumphever come, 
 
 To turn the day of vengeance back on men, ' 
 
 When every one of tliem is surely dead ? 
 
 And so my vengeance on them then was laid. 
 
 But did I die for to destroy man ? 
 
 Ye simple shepherds, how you've laid your plan ! 
 
 Know, if I came, as Satan said, a. fool, 
 
 To give him power in men's hearts to rule, 
 
 That he in envy triumph'd over ME ; 
 
 I tell you all, I'm come to conquer he.
 
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 But as he said he never made the bonds, 
 
 And therefore to them he will never stand; 
 
 Then to his wisdom I will now submit, 
 
 And the Fifth Day's Dispute shall finish it. 
 
 So now to judge him, let the world appear. 
 
 Hesaith, already they have judg'd him here; 
 
 And of his ways, he saith, they do approve; 
 
 Then look to Herod ; who his ways did Love, 
 
 When all the children he did there destroy, 
 
 His hellish malice then for to enjoy ? 
 
 And next unto Herods I shall come, 
 
 And ask what pleasure then he brought to man, 
 
 To have the damsel dance before the king, 
 
 And John the Baptist's head the music bring? 
 
 Then now his HKAD shall music bring to all ; 
 
 For perfect so shall Satan feel the fall; 
 
 And thy petition the world will now approve, 
 
 And say, " that this is music we do love ; 
 ' 'Tis heavenly music sounding in our ears, 
 ' For Death and //e/Zhave always been our fears* 
 ' That made us gloomy and in sorrow go ; 
 ' In Satan's fetters he had bound us so, 
 ' That we sat moping, and our hearts were sad, 
 ' Butnow's the time our KING will make us gladv, 
 ' No bloody Herod we have now to fear ; 
 ' But now a Hero in our Saviour dear^ 
 ' Because the rod of sin he'll now destroy, 
 ' And we in peace our KING shall now enjoy." 
 
 So Satan now thy friends I'd have thee see ; 
 
 Because in order placed now they be. 
 
 But first thy friend thou makest it was Cain; 
 
 I ask thee who approved it at that time ? 
 
 And see their vices, how thou led'st them on, 
 
 Until the Deluge over them did come. 
 
 But now to Kings 1 mean to show thy reign, 
 
 And show their end ; like them thou shall be slain. 
 
 Pharaoh and Jezebel I'll place in thee; 
 
 And all the bloody Kings before them see ; 
 
 And then thy ways I aslc if men approve ? 
 
 Let men of learning all their conduct move ; 
 
 And all their reigns and actions let them show ; 
 
 For they were govcrn'd all by thee I know. 
 
 For on this Earth there never was a King 
 
 Of bloody hands, but doth thy Likeness bring } 
 
 And like their ruin now shall be thy fall. 
 
 And now from Judges I shall judge the whole ; 
 
 And now from Judges men must stand or fall : 
 
 For like Abimelech, Satan, thou hast done 5 
 
 Thou didst rob the Father, and destroy the Sons ;
 
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 For on the stone 'twas by thy arts they died 
 One uasptesepi'd, that here shall be applied : 
 It was my SON, that hid himself in death ; 
 Because his body never turned to earth , 
 Nor ever did it perish in the dust, 
 But'it arose for to instruct the just 
 And as his LIFE in death ho then did hide, 
 The mysteries of it here shall be applied : 
 For boldly after he did then appear, 
 And warn'd his people and his followers here, 
 How all the arts of Satan were set up ; 
 And as they chose him, what had they to hope? 
 For like the Bramble Satan did appear, 
 And so he drew his followers in a snare, 
 Until the fenced cities were destroy 'd ; 
 Jerusalem no longer was enjoy 'd, 
 A fenced city as it was before ; 
 And their strong towers he destroyed them there. 
 For people like him they did after come,* 
 And so destroy'd the whole as he had done. 
 But now, Abimelech I'll name him here 
 A type of Satan ; so he did appear ; 
 And Satan now is like Abimelech come, 
 To ask the people for to crown him King, 
 That all my brethren he may now destroy, 
 ^ And now, by murder he may all enjoy. 
 
 And so together, will you crown him King ? 
 
 Through unbelief, in silence vote for him ? 
 
 Then now, like Jotham, I do answer here ; 
 
 And from this parable \ shall appear : 
 
 The Trees t are now sent out to get a king 
 
 CHRIST or the Devil must the victory win : 
 
 And to the OLIVE-TREE I'll firstappeal ; 
 
 He is the BRANCH of PEACE, and therefore he must fail, 
 
 To leave his glory, and come down below, 
 
 To leave the heavenly joys that there do flow ; 
 
 For 'tis by ME they honour GOD and Man ; 
 
 And so the kingdom I give to your hands. 
 
 If in your hearts you do appeal to ME, 
 
 To be your Ki N G, J'llgive my Kingdom free 
 
 Unto my friends, that now appear to ME : 
 
 I'll give my Kingdom, and I'll give it free ; 
 
 For on this Earth I shall not come to reign, 
 
 But send my PEACE to all the sons of men, 
 
 * The Turks. t Judges, chap. ix. ver. 8. 
 
 N. B The Reader is requested to refer to the chapters alluded to.
 
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 That firm as heaven it was made at first ; 
 
 It cannot move: and so the end will burst, 
 
 And, like the Olive-tree, must steady stand, 
 
 And its decrees can ne'er be mov'd by man. 
 
 So here you see the OLIVE would not move; 
 
 And here you see your GOD, in perfect love. 
 
 To bring his kingdom, and Satan not at all; 
 
 For perfect like that chapter all must fall. 
 
 For as the FIG-TREE did deny the same, 
 
 I tell you all, such heavenly joys will come, 
 
 That no promotion men will wish to see, 
 
 But what in sweetness all do flow from ME : 
 
 For when the heavenly joys to you do burst, 
 
 And you the sweetness of the fruit do taste, 
 
 Within its sweetness you'll say you will abide 
 
 CHRIST is your KING, and Satan is denied. 
 
 So now unto the VIXE I say you're come; 
 
 I am the ROOT from whence the branches sprang; 
 
 And they I know will stick close to the VINE ; 
 
 And man's promotion they will never mind, 
 
 But close unto the VINE they'll surely cleave, 
 
 And say, " all other pleasures now we'll leave : 
 
 " For in the Vine, it we do now appear, 
 
 tc We know the TREE OF LIFE is promised there; 
 
 " And Christ has promis'd to protect his Vine ; 
 
 " And there we'll stand, and in his vineyard shine." 
 
 So thus 1 know will be the minds of men, 
 
 For to stand still and see my kingdom come : 
 
 The Olive-branch they'll now expect in Peace ; 
 
 The sweetest joys from Heaven will now increase 
 
 " And this in faith we now expect to see : 
 
 " CHRIST is the VINE, and we the BRANCHES be. 
 
 " Then how can we promote Satan a King ? 
 
 " We've sign'd the bond, Christ's vineyard now to bring ; 
 
 " And we'll not stir one step to break the Ian" ; 
 
 " CHRIST is the Vine, and we the Branches too, 
 
 " In every thing supported by his hand, 
 
 " And in his Vineyard we will steady stand." 
 
 So here the TRLES I know they cannot move, 
 
 That stand in ME, and wait the tiuth to prove; 
 
 They'll not regard the honours done by man, 
 
 But in my Vineyard stedfast they will stand ; 
 
 And 'tis in vain for Earth or Hell to move 
 
 The stedfast hearts that now do stand in love : 
 
 Because the joys of Heaven they fast will flow ; 
 
 Sweet are the pleasures you will taste below, 
 
 If now you say you'll stick close to the VINE, 
 
 And let the world in their promotion shine.
 
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 That, like the Trees, will come your faith to move; 
 
 You'll tell them plain, their ways you don't approve. 
 
 But now unto the Bramble I shall come ; 
 
 And will you now bow down to worship him ? 
 
 Then know, your stately Cedars they must tall j 
 
 For Satan now is come the King to call ; 
 
 And like the Bramble he doth now appear ; 
 
 Will you bow down, vain men, and worship here, 
 
 As now a King himself he'd now set up ? 
 
 Then to the Earth you know you all must drop; 
 
 As from this parable it is applied : 
 
 And in the Bramble was the fire hid, 
 
 Which in Abimelech it did so appear ; 
 
 He did cut down the boughs, you may see clear ; 
 
 And so their towers he did surely burn, 
 
 And lull of fire was the Bramble come ; 
 
 Tor as they first did choose such wretched king. 
 
 Then their destruction I did let him bring : 
 
 And here of Satan stands a perfect sign ; 
 
 And like Abimelech is now his mind ; 
 
 But mark Abimelech, how he did go on 
 
 Till to the stronger tower he did come j 
 
 And when in fury he attempted there, 
 
 1 plac'd the WOMAN for to shew you clear, 
 
 As by the Woman did Abimelech fall, 
 
 And by the Woman nozv, I tell you all, 
 
 The stone is thrown upon the Serpent's head 
 
 Though like Abimelech now may be his plead> 
 
 That if he falls, it sure shall be by Man ; 
 
 It never shall be said a Woman's hand 
 
 Was e'er the cause to make his pride to fall. 
 
 So both together now, I tell you all, 
 
 That like Abimelech he will surely die ; 
 
 That is, his power cut off from you, I say : 
 
 But yet, I tell thee, some will choose him king, 
 
 As by their silence they' II prolong his reign; 
 
 And so, I say, they'll bring their ruin on ; 
 
 Because the Boughs and Branches they'll cut down; 
 
 A fire they'll kindle and his friends confound, 
 
 And many thousand lives they'll take away, 
 
 And fast their ruin doth before them lie. 
 
 But now with Satan I'll go further on, 
 
 And in the end my thundering voice shall come. 
 
 And now the fortieth page I'll answer here : 
 
 His gold and silver should it all appear,* 
 
 I ask the fool, if men can live by gold, 
 
 When every truth before them it is told, 
 
 * N.B. The Reader is again requested to refer'to the chapters alluded to, and 
 abo to the Pages in the Dispute with the Towers
 
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 That every blessing I should take away, 
 And soon destroy your fields of corn and hay ? 
 The cattle on a thousand hills are mine ; 
 Doth Satan think that I shall them resign, 
 Ever to give these blessings to his hand ? 
 I ask what po\ver he can now command, 
 To send one grain of wheat to make it grow ? 
 No, all the Earth is mine, the fool shall know ; 
 And so they all may live then as they list, 
 If Satan should this kingdom now possess : 
 Because no churches there would be at all, 
 To ask for blessings, for there none shall fall ; 
 So " moping" in their churches none would be ; 
 But soon for hunger butchers you would see ; 
 Then one the other men would surely kill, 
 And as they listed, so men's blood they'd spill. 
 And so the truth, the fool, he did speak there ; 
 For, as they listed, men would soon appear; 
 And so their hearts, I know, he'd not confine ; 
 Because a hell is all that's in his mind. 
 But to the forty-second, I shall come 
 And his provoking words I let go on ; 
 From age to age I did his words endure ; 
 But now I tell him his destruction's sure : 
 He that advanc'd himself in heaven so high, 
 And made the rebel angels to comply 
 In every thing for to provoke their GOD, 
 And make me lay on them a heavier rod ; 
 With indignation banish 'd them to hell, 
 With their provoking words that now do swell 
 But yet, with patience, I did longer bear, 
 And his provoking speeches I did hear, 
 And so, I say, I let him to go on: 
 I did not hasty cast him from my throne, 
 Until 1 saw his pride would not submit, 
 Confess his errors, that they had been great. 
 For perfect as he did contend with thee, 
 And spoke against thy God in blasphemy, 
 1 say, in heaven he surely did the same, 
 And a superior power he there did claim, 
 Until to cast him he did ME compel; 
 But then I did not chain him down to hell, 
 'Till his provoking ways were fully up ; 
 And now I'll tell the fool that he shall drop ; 
 For in the mortar I have bray'd him here, 
 And still his pride and folly do appear: 
 He sees what ruin he hath brought on man., 
 By every art he hath laid his plan ; 
 He sees the prisons and the jails appear; 
 He sees the gallows, and the sinners' fears;
 
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 He sees the sorrows he hath brought men to : 
 
 He sees their sufferings now before his view ; 
 
 He sees the conscience of the sinner swell ; 
 
 He sees the trembling jailors now in hell, 
 
 In agonies they know not how to bear ; 
 
 And yet his heart no love nor pity shares, 
 
 That he hath been the author or their guilt, 
 
 But still with pleasure all their sufferings felt: 
 
 That is, to hear them daily to complain, 
 
 He doth rejoice for to increase their pain ; 
 
 And now he would rejoice the world to see 
 
 Lost in confusion, and in ruin be, 
 
 And in his hellish power gain them all ! 
 
 Then now, Proud Lucifer, I tell thy fall: 
 
 The measure of thy sins is fully up ; 
 
 And like thy words, I tell thee, tliou shalt drop ; 
 
 Thou that advanc'd thyself in heaven's high throne, 
 
 And there didst wish to have the power thy own, 
 
 And by thy pride and malice there to stay. 
 
 Look back, O Satan ! think upon the day, 
 
 When all in heavenly splendour did appear, 
 
 And all in harmony my voice did hear, 
 
 And heavenly music was throughout the sound; 
 
 Till thy malicious heart did there abound, 
 
 With pride, with envy, and with malice swell, 
 
 And want the heavenly armies to compel 
 
 To have these praises all turn'd back on thee ; 
 
 And told the angels they should all agree, 
 
 In the like manner, for to praise thy name, 
 
 With equal power thou wasi like ME become. 
 
 And so thy lies in Heaven did begin ; 
 
 Thou knovv'st the way thou drew'st the angels in ; 
 
 But now thy power shall fall like one of them; 
 
 For though in heaven thou didst swell so high, 
 
 Low as thy angels thou shalt surely lie, 
 
 If e'er thou answer'st in one boasting word, 
 
 And dost not now confess the power of God 
 
 To be superior, and in justice shine, 
 
 To have compassion on the souls that're mine : 
 
 That as I did create them all at first, 
 
 Then like a Father now my pity bursts 
 
 To every prodigal that will return ; 
 
 For over them, I say, my heart doth yearn. 
 
 I see a famine in my land appear ; 
 
 1 see my Gospel there's no man can clear j 
 
 I see the Husk to man is now denied : 
 
 But here thou marvel'st how it can be applied ; 
 
 Because the husk thou judgest is given free, 
 
 And so the swine may feed, 1 now tell thee ;
 
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 But here the Httsk* I'll prove it is denied; 
 And now I'll tell thee how it is applied: 
 Because the day of vengeance, all may see, 
 Is for the Devil now designed by ME ; 
 Which is the husk now given from my hand- 
 But sure these things are now denied by men, 
 That they may eat the words their minds to fill; 
 There is no other food, judge as you will; 
 And since by man this food is now denied, 
 Then to the following words must be applied - 
 Unto your FATHER you must all return, 
 Humbly confess that all your store is gone; 
 And now as hir'd servants you will be, 
 If I'll accept the names that' re given ME. 
 To be a servant of your Lord become ; 
 This is the way the prodigals must turn^ 
 And joy in Heaven there will surely be; 
 For ninety-nine just persons now I see, 
 That in such manner will not come at all, 
 And so I say that death on them must fall. 
 Then what rejoicing can in heaven be, 
 To see the souls that will not sign for ME, 
 To make your calling and election sure, 
 That Christ has chosen for you to appear 
 For to confound the haughty pride of hell, 
 Who boasts of armies he could now compel. 
 So here, 1 tell you all, the lines go, deep - 
 The prodigals will make some Saints to weep ; 
 To see the fatted calves for to appear, 
 And the new clothing and the ring see clear, 
 While they in unbelief did so stand out. 
 For now I tell thee, many Saints will doubt; 
 And so I tell them they shall come with ME, 
 If they cannot rejoice the truth to see, 
 That every prodigal may now return, 
 And over them their Father's heart will yearn ; 
 If now they come my favour to implore, 
 I'll give them clothing they did never wear; 
 Because the dead shall now be made alive. 
 My Ring is ready all for to receive 
 But will the Saints say, they are now TOO JUST 
 For to rejoice with such unwelcome guests., 
 To see the prodigals for to return ? 
 And say, with sinners they can never join, 
 Because too righteous they themselves now be ? 
 Then in my Kingdom let them come with ME ; 
 
 "The only consolation man has for his fallen state, is the fulfilling of the 
 Divine Word, to bring the Day of Vengeance on the Devil ; this is the Husk, 
 that only remains for Man j and this the Freachers at this day d?ny.
 
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 For now I'm come the sinners for to call 
 To the lost sheep, and tiou redeem you all. 
 Now to [he Jorty -fourth page appear 
 The words of Satan I shall answer there: 
 " What hath provoked me now," I'll let him know- 
 Let him look back and see how all did go; 
 In every age what evil he hath done : 
 And was my anger never shewn to men, 
 "When on their heads I did the evil turn, 
 And in my heart the anger it did burn, 
 To see thee, Satan, lead them all astray f 
 And in my heart I've always borne the day, 
 That on thy head I shall the whole return ; 
 'Twas only lent thee all that thou hast done^ 
 That I the debt of ihee did not demand, 
 Avenge my murder on thy bloody hand ; 
 When Judas, as a man he did appear, 
 And hang'd himself for guilt he could not bear! 
 So at that time thou killed'st both God and Man : 
 Did I not know which way thou laid'st thy plan, 
 And how by arts thou workedst then on men? 
 And my disciples how thou didst betray, 
 And how their blood was surely shed by thee ? 
 But mark, the sixth day, I did sure appear 
 To die for man the-sw thousandth year 
 Is nearly ended, it must now be known; 
 Rut mark, the sixth day was but partly gone, 
 When on the cross they surely nail'd me up ; 
 And ttivsix thousandth now it cannot drop, 
 'Till on the cross they hang thee up the same ; 
 So now I let thee know thy time is come. 
 Though darkness then was over all the land 
 From the sixth hour, men may understand, 
 That three yearn' darkness will in man appear, 
 Though on the cross I've shewn you Satan here, 
 How that by man he surely shall be cast ; 
 And yet I know the darkness it will last; 
 Over 'all lands, I know it will appear 
 Gross darkness in the minds of men three years: 
 For one already is in darkness past; 
 And now the second it is hastening fast. 
 And nought but darkness in the sons of men ; 
 Therefore the mysteries they do not see plain. 
 But the ninth hour when it did appear, 
 Mark well the shock that all the earth did bear : 
 'Or else, remember what they then did see, 
 And then the ghost was given up by M E ; 
 That is, my life I did for man resign. 
 And now, O Satan, thou shall know my mind:
 
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 For all thy friends thou'lt know them in three years, 
 
 From the new date that this did first appear; 
 
 And then the temple's veil from thee I'll rend, 
 
 And something new to thee I'll surely send ; 
 
 Then Satan and Apollyon both will see 
 
 The anger of the Lord's inflam'd with thee. 
 
 So now my anger if thou'lt pacify, 
 
 Consent to let my SEALED PEOPLE lie 
 
 In peace and safety, and not one molest: 
 
 For fatal vengeance on thy head is cast, 
 
 If e'er my Sealed People thou molest, 
 
 Or ever temptest them, then thy doom is cast ; 
 
 Because my heated fury shall appear 
 
 Seven times hotter now, 1 tell thee here, 
 
 Than ever it was poured out on man ; 
 
 Because their blood upon thy head shall come ; 
 
 And thou shalt find her GOD does not deceive ; 
 
 I'll be a GOD to her as she believes; 
 
 And then her paper thou with grief wilt see ; 
 
 Thy fatal end, Satan, will follow thee. 
 
 So now, I tell thee, 'tis high time to fear; 
 
 For thy destruction now is drawing near ; 
 
 For thy own ruin now thou'rt bringing on. 
 
 And to the forty -sixth page now I'll come. 
 
 And they shall find Satan deceiv'd them all, 
 
 When out of Heaven he his host did call 
 
 For to stand out in words against their God ; 
 
 He did deceive them all in what he said : 
 
 That he had power, as he said, supreme: 
 
 And now his power I have shewn in men. 
 
 And now in Danielhe may see it clear; 
 
 And from Belshazzar I shall answer here ; 
 
 When he the gods of gold began to praise, 
 
 Of brass, of iron, and ador'd their ways, 
 
 And did begin to praise the wood and stone, 
 
 Then the ha/id-writing unto him was shewn, 
 
 That all his idol-gods must surely fall. 
 
 And his astrologers he then did call, 
 
 To give the meaning of my every hand. 
 
 But neither one the mysteries could command, 
 
 Until the Prophet Daniel did appear. 
 
 And now the mysteries I'll begin to clear; 
 
 The fallen gods of gold are now become 
 
 For to set up the honour of their king; 
 
 That is, of Satan, and the fallen host; 
 
 And of his praises they begin to boast, 
 
 And all his worship they have brought forth here. 
 
 Unto his gods the words I'll now compare;
 
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 For no more power is in Satan's hand, 
 
 Than the proud king could from his gods command,* 
 
 Which in his heart he did set up and praise, 
 
 And all joined with him- now behold my ways, 
 
 How the hand-vriting instant did appear ; 
 
 And now, like him, O Satan, thou must fear. 
 
 It was but shadows then brought to the king, 
 
 But now on Satan I'll the ruin bring. 
 
 For now the Prophet Daniel's words are come, 
 
 And Satan's gods of gold are now made known, 
 
 And my hand-writing doth to him appear ; 
 
 He saw the hand, but could not make it clear, 
 
 What were the words that did him so reprove ; 
 
 Nor could interpret how the Sprit mov'd ; 
 
 The hand of God their blindness could not see, 
 
 Nor the hand-writing, how reprov'd was he. 
 
 But now a DANIEL shall to them appear, 
 
 And the hand-writing I will now make clear. 
 
 Thou hast seen the judgments all were past on man ; 
 
 When I did threaten, so their ruin came ; 
 
 For out of Eden they were cast at first, 
 
 And on the World did the Deluge burst; 
 
 When I did threaten it, I did fulfil; 
 
 And in the deep I Pharaoh's heart did chill ; 
 
 And Ahab's house I surely did cut off, 
 
 And Jezebel did feel my equal wrath : 
 
 Though she adorn'd herself for to tempt man, 
 
 But see her beauty, what it soon became : 
 
 Cast from her grandeur for the dogs to tear ! 
 
 And now, O Satan ! this shall make thee fear 
 
 To see my word I always kept with men ; 
 
 And where's the power that did escape my hand ? 
 
 When Sodom and Gomorrah did appear, 
 
 Against my angels they attempted there ; 
 
 Then fire from heaven did them soon destroy ; 
 
 But know, that Lot protection did enjoy; 
 
 Because the angels he went for to free, 
 
 So nought but men appeared unto he ; 
 
 They being angels, Lot he did not know, 
 
 And to protect them did his kindness shew ; 
 
 And now the same mankind have shew'd it hers 
 
 Nought but a -woman doth to them appear, 
 
 In every manner perfect in her form ; 
 
 But of her Spirit is to man unknown : 
 
 I tell you all, as much conceal' d from man. 
 
 As -were the angels, that to Lot did come. 
 
 But now a mystery must to all appear: 
 
 Just like the angels came the woman hore> 
 
 * Belsbuzar. 

 
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 To warn you all of what was hastening on, 
 
 But sure protection she did find in man: 
 
 When Satan's host did press upon the door, 
 
 With every threatening did to her appear ; 
 
 Then now, like Sodom, thou thy doom shall see; 
 
 The men that press'd upon the door was he. 
 
 I tell thee, Satan, and thy hellish host, 4 
 
 Man must be freed like Lot, and thou art cast ; 
 
 Because upon her thou didst now press hard ; 
 
 The weakness of her sex thou didst not regard ; 
 
 And now thy greatness I'll regard no more; 
 
 Thou'lt find my angers they were at the door. 
 
 And did the woman's innocence protect; 
 
 And now, like Sodom, thou thy doom expect ; 
 
 Unless that my desire thou'lt now obey. 
 
 I do not want thee to come back to ME ; 
 
 Only, I tell thee to obey my will; 
 
 Or else, my fury thou wilt surely feel 
 
 If thou wilt trifle with the laws of God. 
 
 Jerusalem did feel the fatal rod ; 
 
 Then, if I always kept my word with Man, 
 
 Canst thou expect my judgments for to shun. 
 
 When now against thee they are fix'd severe ? 
 
 If e'er thou aim'st to tempt my chosen here, 
 
 Then the hand-writing thou shalt surely see; 
 
 And now I'll tell thee plain thy destiny : 
 
 For now, O Satan, I do tell thee here, 
 
 The meaning of the vision that was there: 
 
 Thy kingdom it is number'd now by GOD, 
 
 And he will finish it as ho, has said ; 
 
 Because thy kingdom thou hast all run through; 
 
 Thy reign is short, and that thou'lt shortly know : 
 
 Because the Lord will shortly finish it, 
 
 If to his laws thou dost not now submit. 
 
 For in the balance thou art suroly weigh'd, 
 
 And wanting found, from all that thou hast said : 
 
 Wanting in wisdom now thou dost appear : 
 
 Wanting in truth, thy lies thou canst not clear; 
 
 Wanting in power to support thy word ; 
 
 And soon thou'lt see that all the power's of God. 
 
 And so thy kingdom I shall n6\v divide ; 
 
 From Mccles and Persians now shall be applied ;* 
 
 ThejF.vvs and GENTILES soon shall take the whole; 
 
 And to the Law and Gospel it shall fall. 
 
 So now, like Belshazzar is thy lot ; 
 
 For thy destruction's in my Bible wrote; 
 
 * See Daniel v,*latt<r part*
 
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 And now the wprds of Daniel do appear, 
 
 Thy very destiny is written there; 
 
 Because that like Belshazzar thou shall fall, 
 
 And of this kingdom have no power at all. 
 
 But how could I destroy him as a man, 
 
 Had it not stood a type for days to^ome, 
 
 To take the kingdom perfectly from thee, 
 
 As with my Bible it might all agree ? 
 
 But know, that king my Prophet did approve, 
 
 Who did array him for to shew his love; 
 
 Then now my love I'll surely shew to Men; 
 
 And the third person in my Kingdom's them : 
 
 But as that Man shall be the ruler here, 
 
 Yet I before him surely must appear; 
 
 That is, in power, to chain the serpent down, 
 
 I and my angels then must first be found ; 
 
 I and my angels to destroy the foe, 
 
 And the third Ruler then you all will know : 
 
 The LORD will give his Kingdom unto Men ; 
 
 And the third Rulers then will be in them. 
 
 But now the other Rulers do appear, 
 
 That are your foes : and now you'll see it clear; 
 
 That is, to throw a Daniel in the den ; 
 
 And that's the way your foes will all be slain : 
 
 And then Darius' just decrees you'll see 
 
 Throughout the world establish'd they will be; 
 
 The Kingdom of the LORD will ever stand, 
 
 And his Dominion be in every land, 
 
 Which all the arts of Satan can't destroy; 
 
 And my Dominion then shall all enjoy ; 
 
 For so it shall be establish'd in the end, 
 
 And like Darius, now I'll be Man's Friend. 
 
 But further on with Satan now I'll go. 
 
 The jifty- seventh page he now shall know; 
 
 But I'll go backward, and turn back the blow : 
 
 And to my WORD I bid mankind to trust ; 
 
 But as to Satan, there he well may jest ; 
 
 Because my threatenings they have all been long, 
 
 That my fierce anger should upon him come: 
 
 And as my judgment I on him do lay, 
 
 The fool may laugh, and think they all will die ; 
 
 But now look back, O Satan ! and appear; 
 
 Thou dost confess thyself a murderer here ; 
 
 The Man and Woman thou thought's! both to kill, 
 
 And with thy hellish hosts their hearts to chill, 
 
 And my Creation instant to destroy ; 
 
 And yet thou say'st, " that God should thee enjoy, 
 
 " A fit companion for his heavenly seat ; 
 
 " Because," thou say'st, " thy Golden Orb wasreat!"
 
 3.9 
 
 Then now thy Golden Orb let it appear; 
 
 And with the dust dost them thy gold compare ? 
 
 And see what fruit thy Golden Orb will bring ; 
 
 Can food or raiment from thy Orb now spring ? 
 
 Can any beauty in thy Gold appear? 
 
 Without the dust, vain fool, I tell thee here, 
 
 That all the beauties of thy gold must die; 
 
 And so the dust is much more worth than thee ; 
 
 The beauteous flowers from the dust do spring ; 
 
 The lofty cedars all do come from them ; 
 
 And every grain of wheat from dust doth grow; 
 
 And every root is nourish'dso below. 
 
 So now surrey, and see the native dust, 
 
 And see what beauties now from it do burst; 
 
 Survey the statoly palaces, how they stand ; 
 
 'Twas from the dust their buildings they command ; 
 
 Survey the gardens, how they all do spring ; 
 
 The beauteous flowers that appear in them ; 
 
 The shrubs and trees that make the walks appear, 
 
 Are by the dust, vain fool, now nourish'd here. 
 
 The finest flowers from the dust do come ; 
 
 And every grain it from the dust doth spring; 
 
 And from the dust do all the fruits appear ; 
 
 And from the dust men's lives preserved are; 
 
 And from the dust the beauties all do flow ; 
 
 And can thy Golden Orb such beauties shew ? 
 
 There's not a grain of wheat on it can grow ; 
 
 There's not a tree that can its root take there; 
 
 And if thou build a house with all thy care, 
 
 To have it standing, all built with gold, 
 
 Then see thy fabric, how long 'twill hold, 
 
 When thieves do plunder, and the house pull down, 
 
 And lay thy stately fabric to the ground ; 
 
 Then see thy grandeur, how thy house doth stand, 
 
 To tempt mankind to plunder by thy hand. 
 
 But if that food it should be wanted there, 
 
 I ask, if gold one single grain will bear? 
 
 I ask what life from it mankind could draw ? 
 
 Or from thy Golden Orb if aught could flow, 
 
 For to give comfort to the sons of men ? 
 
 Without the dust thy gold is all but vain; 
 
 So thou, vain fool, thy ignorant pride now see ; 
 
 The dust is much superior now to thee ; 
 
 And so is Man superior now the same; 
 
 And all may judge it by the different name. 
 
 But as thou boastest that thou wast in heaven, 
 
 And there thy grandeur thou say 'st 'twas given; 
 
 .Then thy last stale is now worse than the first* 
 
 Because thy pride and malice there did bar^t ;
 
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 And like the King, when seated on his throne, 
 
 And judged himself a god and lice became. 
 
 So by the heavens no honour thou canst sain ; 
 
 For there thou didst discover all thy shame ; 
 
 And there thou'st prov'd thyself much worse than manj 
 
 Because the heavens thou didst make unclean ; 
 
 And by thy Golden Orb didst swell so high, 
 
 An fill'd the angels with thy majesty: 
 
 Or with thy worthless pride thou swcll'dst them up, 
 
 And to thy greatness thought that all must stoop ; 
 
 Then I CREATED MAN out of the dust, 
 
 To shew the greatest things that then must burst, 
 
 To be companions in thy vacant seat ; 
 
 And now I've shew'd thee that the Dust is great : 
 
 Because all beauties from the dust do come ; 
 
 But know, proud Lucifer, in thee there's none. 
 
 So now thy Golden Orbs may shine in Hell ; 
 
 The Heavens were never made tor thee to swell, 
 
 In pride and envy, and above thy God ; 
 
 But MAN is thy superior, I have shew'd : 
 
 As from the dust all beauties here do spring, 
 
 And of the DUST the HEAD OF ALL is MAN ; 
 
 And of the Dust the Head shall now appear, 
 
 To have my KINGDOM and my HONOUR share ; 
 
 When all this Earth I've made it now anew 
 
 The barren Minds and barren Mountains too, 
 
 I now shall turn them to a fruitful field ; 
 
 And every beast to Man shall humbly yield ; 
 
 Because the Dvst I now do mean to try, 
 
 What fruit they'll bring uhen Satan is not nigh. 
 
 But know, O Satan, though I speak from God, 
 
 The thundering of his Voice thou hast not heard; 
 
 No; all thy words must come before his throne; 
 
 And all his answers they will then be known. 
 
 Tis but thy folly here that I reprove; 
 
 The anger of the Lord thou now hast mov'd 
 
 With indignation, at what thou hast said ; 
 
 For every page is now before him laid ; 
 
 And thou wilt shortly find thy bill to come. 
 
 And mark the Jifiy-sixth page, what is seen ; 
 
 Thou say'st, " a liar God did then appear:" 
 
 But Man is dead, and now I'll prove it clear; 
 
 Had he been living always in his GOD, 
 
 Then like the heavenly angels be had stood, 
 
 In full perfection with them all to shine ; 
 
 And from the Dn*t they all must know the VINE ; 
 
 That like the Vineyard they must all appear 
 
 Is CHRIST the VINE? Then they're the Branches here,-
 
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 As every thing is nourished by the Dust, 
 
 And so Man's likeness is in all things plac'd ; 
 
 And in GOD'S likeness this they'd all enjoy, 
 
 But death was pass'd this Likeness to destroy; 
 
 For to this Knowledge Man came instant dead; 
 
 His sense and feeling ofthese joys were fled ; 
 
 And as a corpse thou surely lead'st them on, 
 
 Till to the grave, in sorrow, they did come. 
 
 But when the Life I do renew again, 
 
 And free Men of that death and of that pain; 
 
 Then a NEW WOULD to them will surely burst, 
 
 As Men do find when risen from the Dust ; 
 
 And then they'll all confess that they were dead 
 
 To every Knowledge that was before them laid: 
 
 Dead to Perfection, they have surely been ; 
 
 Dead to the Happiness 1 made for Idem ; 
 
 Dead to the Knowledge they had of their GOD ; 
 
 Dead to the Footsteps they themselves have trod; 
 
 Dead to their Sorrows ; though they them do feel, 
 
 And yet they're dead so now My Friends standstill* 
 
 When I begin to bring you all to life, 
 
 And come to conquer death, and end the strife, 
 
 And make the glory of my Kingdom burst, 
 
 And bring a perfect Paradise at last, 
 
 With love and harmony in every sound ; 
 And every barren mountain shall be found 
 To drop down fatness on the sons of men. 
 Enrich your borders, and bring to a plain 
 
 The rugged rocks and mountains that are here 
 
 Unto to a plain ; for man shall all appear. 
 
 Because a Paradise I'll make below, 
 
 And 1 have Thousands living now, 1 know, 
 
 That when these changes do to them appear. 
 
 They'll say, " we all were dead, ue now see clear : 
 
 " Though we were living, but like trees appear'd, 
 
 " That had no knowledge of the fruit they bear'd; 
 
 " Nor of the HUSBANDMAN that did plant them ther."- 
 
 For no more knowledge Man hath got of ME, 
 
 Than thy blind Friends they now have got of thee; 
 
 And by their Blindness, thee they do not know; 
 
 I ask what living Man could judge thee so, 
 
 To think that ten Years thou woulc'st first go on, 
 
 Till all thy substance it was spent and gone, 
 
 And then to run all hazards for my sake ? 
 
 And poverty fojr ME tliou diclst undertake 
 
 Because thy Labour it lies by thee dead, 
 
 Thou work'st for ME, tut dost not cam thy 
 
 Then how can men so void of reason be ; 
 
 Were they not dead, they would begin to see,
 
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 That THOtr no ends in this could have at all ; 
 
 Unless from heaven thou judg'st the every call. 
 
 So man I'll prove that he is totally dead 
 
 To ever^ knowledge that's before him laid, 
 
 And Satan he shall find the Words are true. 
 
 When I bring Man to Life, the fool shall know, 
 
 That he, like Man, is then pronounced dead, 
 
 And every knowledge then from him is fled: 
 
 And then he'll see the Truth tor to appear, 
 
 His head is bruised by tht Woman here ; 
 
 And Man is freed and he receives his Curse 
 
 Above all living, must the fool confess : 
 
 And then he'll grieve to see that GOD is TRUE 
 
 ** And on my Head he now hath cast my doom" 
 
 Or else, in agony, he may blaspheme, 
 
 And curse his God, and gnaw his tongue for pain,* 
 
 That he is conquer'd by the sons of men ; 
 
 To see the fatal die for him is cast, 
 
 The Woman conquer'd, and his doom must burst; 
 
 Because the Stone is cast upon his Head ; 
 
 For here the stronger Tower it was laid :f 
 
 The Faith of others he did soon burn down; 
 
 He cut the Branches and did their Faith confound ; 
 
 And to this fenced House he did appear; 
 
 But know, the Woman cast the mill-stone here ; 
 
 That I did say was broken at that time, 
 
 When Campion's funeral did resemble mine;$ 
 
 For near together it did then appear. 
 
 And now this answer I give Satan here-: 
 
 Guarded. by soldiers now he'll surely be, 
 
 And share his dying fate as well as ME ; 
 
 For to all knowledge I shall make him dead. 
 
 And now go backward ; so the fool I lead, jj 
 
 And to \\iefifty-fourth page appear : 
 
 Suppose thy strength should now deceive thec here, 
 
 And thou begin to find that GOD is TRUE, 
 
 And, like his word, in all things now he'll do. 
 
 Wilt thou not tremble at the wrath of God, 
 
 Begin to Fear, and tremble at his Rod ? 
 
 For now remember, thou hast been deceiv'd 
 
 In all thy words to her, what thou'st believ'd ; 
 
 That thou could'st conquer, and should make her fall; 
 
 Her death thou threaten'dst ; see thy lies in all ! 
 
 For she a living Witness now doth stand 
 
 Against thy lies, that dust thou may'st command, 
 
 * See Revelation, chap. 16. t Judges, chap. 9. 
 
 $ See Strange Effects of Faith, page 87. II Alluding to the Fall. 

 
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 For to creep on it, as she does appear 
 
 To be no corpse; so now must thou take care; 
 
 Because no mercy I to thee will shew, 
 
 If thou goest on to tempt my Chosen so. 
 
 For as ihz fifty-third page here is seen, 
 
 Thou hast mock'd thy God, and thou condemn'st the Son ; 
 
 And now to murder both thou dost appear ; 
 
 For the Old Sheep thou murder'dst long before ; 
 
 And now, I say, thou'rt come to the Eue Lamb, 
 
 And here with murder was thy every plan, 
 
 By every threatening thou to her hast made; 
 
 And here thou'rt cast, the Stone is on thy Head ; 
 
 Because the Woman was the Corner Stone, 
 
 Wherein I said Man's happiness should come, 
 
 And as his Helpmate she should so appear; 
 
 Then sure the Corner Stone it must be here; 
 
 And on thy head thou knowest it did fall. 
 
 I said, which e'er stood out should conquer all ; 
 
 And knov. , O Satan, that she did stand out ; 
 
 And of thy power she did surely doubt, 
 
 That it was not so great as thou didst boast : 
 
 And in her SAVIOUR then was all her Trust. 
 
 More than a hero she stood out for ME, 
 
 And more than woman, every soul shall see; 
 
 With faith and courage she did sure stand out ; 
 
 The POWER, of her GOD she did not doubt, 
 
 And of his FAITHFULNESS she did not fear; 
 
 And as her faith, she now shall conquer here; 
 
 Because she did stand out in Faith so strong, 
 
 When close upon her thou didst surely come. 
 
 Now on thy Head is lallcn the Corner Stone: 
 
 For her last words to all must be made known 
 
 Her hatred unto thee was very gieat ; 
 
 And so I told thee that the end would break ; 
 
 But then, she told thee that her GOD was GOOD, 
 
 And in his LOVE and MERCY then she stood ; 
 
 For his Protection she did seek to gain ; 
 
 And know, O Satan, she hath not seek'd in vain; 
 
 For misery, she said, she did refuse ; 
 
 But happiness, thou say'st, thou didst not choose. 
 
 For thy last words, O Satan, must appear : 
 
 God's Protection thou despisedst there, 
 
 As much as she thy favours did despise 
 
 Here ends the Seven Days; let all be wiset 
 
 She told thee, great her hatred did appear, 
 
 Against such wretched Being as thou wert : 
 
 But then she told thee, that her GOD WAS GOOD, 
 
 And thou wast Evil, must be understood.
 
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 And mark in print how this last page doth stand, 
 
 Wherein the SffStn Days Dispute did end ; 
 
 Three different manners doth the print appear, 
 
 And now three different answers shall men hear; 
 
 For in large Letters, plain for to behold, 
 
 You'll see the truth from what the woman told 
 
 Over the Earth MY KINGDOM sow SHALL COME ; 
 
 The GLOKV of the LOUD shall clear be seen 
 
 As perfect as the letters do appear 
 
 As different from the rest, you all shall see clear ; 
 
 And great you shall find the change to be; 
 
 I'll gain my footing here, you all shall sec ; 
 
 And GOD over all the Earth I'll now become 
 
 Three different Prints, must unto all be known, 
 
 Do in this last Dispute with both appear ; 
 
 I say the Woman, and the Devil there; 
 
 And so the same when I gave up the Ghost, 
 
 Three different LANGUAGES ortrmy Head was placd, 
 
 Of Greek, and Latin, and of Hebrew too. 
 
 Now let them both be laid before your view ; 
 
 For this I'm speaking to the sons of men; 
 
 And now's the time you all shall find ME KING. 
 
 So now rejoice, ye fallen sons of men ; 
 
 Because your standing I'll make more secure, 
 
 And much more firm for to endure ; 
 
 Than ever it could be before you fell * 
 
 For now's the time I'm come to conquer Hell. 
 
 So here's my Answer to the sons of men ; 
 
 If Paradise was lost, you may regain, 
 
 If by the WOMAN you in Faith do stand, 
 
 And take the GOOD FRUIT from the Woman's Hand. 
 
 For now the Woman, I will answer here ; 
 
 If from herself her works do all appear, 
 
 Then something more than Human if on earth, 
 
 For to bring in to MAN a second L>irt/i ! 
 
 And in this world there must be- something new. 
 
 'Tis more than all the learned jm-n could do, 
 
 To act like her, such mysteries to bring round ; 
 
 More than a Woman ! is in (very sound ; 
 
 And if she vainly boast 'tis from herself, 
 
 J say, her pride must equal that of hell, 
 
 * The Reader will observe, that if Satan had never tempted Man to fall, 
 M.ui would still be Jiablc to his temptations, whenever he chose to begin, du- 
 ring the (iOOO years ; therefore infinite Wisdom permitted the Fall, and secure4 
 Han from eternal ruin, by preserving the Tree of Life from bis reach, until the 
 fulness ot time came, when Man is a;-ain rcMorcd to the image and likeness of 
 liis Maker ; secured from the power ot' Satan, who wilt be so bound and chained 
 sts to have no access to deceive Man any more. Then may he take of the Tree 
 of Life and live! Can this all-wisu and merciful plan originate from the weak 
 brain f a simple Woman, or in any wisdom of Man, either natural or acquired?
 
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 And judge herself superior to this race, 
 
 And all tin; learned men she must disgrace. 
 
 For now I'll challenge, none with her shall plead, 
 
 To say my Bible's true, and she's misled ; 
 
 And all the learned world I will defy, 
 
 To prove their Bibles, and give her the lie, 
 
 To say my Spirit doth not lead her on; 
 
 Then she must be a WONDER born to man. 
 
 But if such boasting fool she did appear, 
 
 I'd drown her senses and send wise men here, 
 
 That they should soon confound her haughty pride, 
 
 But know, vain men, your wisdom all is tried; 
 
 For there's none that can confound her hand ; 
 
 Because in FAITH she humbly now doth stand., 
 
 And doth confess the Spirit came from ME, 
 
 Or some Invisible, is said by she; 
 
 So to her Wisdom she hath ascribed none: 
 
 But fools, in folly, have their folly shewn, 
 
 To judge that Man, who is pronounced dead, 
 
 Could in such wondrous manner ever lead: 
 
 Then they in Wisdom must be all Divine, 
 
 And with their Maker must pretend to shine. 
 
 So now, vain fools, I'd have you to appear, 
 
 And lower your pride, or fully answer here, 
 
 That all such wondrous Mysteries you'd bring round; 
 
 Then soon Pd come and every sound confound. 
 
 So here are the different answers now for man, 
 
 To those who do deny her written hand ; 
 
 That like the "Serpent you must now appear, 
 
 To speak in lies that you can never clear : 
 
 And, like the Serpent, all your pride must falL 
 
 Because your GOD you rob him now of all, 
 
 Of every honour due unto his name, 
 
 And so your pride I'll surely put to shame. 
 
 So here of Men you hear a different sound ; 
 
 But now to Satan see the end is crown'd : 
 
 Because the Enmity see how it doth stand, 
 
 The Seventh Day, and now the whole coramaad ; 
 
 For there the Enmity in both is plac'cl ; 
 
 Satan against the Lord he doth confess ; 
 
 And she against the Devil doth appear , 
 
 And boldly told him that she did hate him there. 
 
 Then back to the Creation you are come: 
 
 He kill'd the SHEEP but I preserved the LAMB j 
 
 Because MYSELF I was the LAMB that was slain j 
 
 But for my own Death I did not contend, 
 
 To bring my Murder then upon his head ; 
 
 It is th Murder OTJ my Followers laid !
 
 46 
 
 The Martyr's blood upon his head shall fall : 
 
 The Death of LEWIS must forewarn yeu all, 
 
 That Satan now must like the Roman fall; 
 
 For as he saith, " He never will Repent," 
 
 He'll find my anger and my mind is bent. 
 
 With every threatening he did come to thee, 
 
 With equal threatening^ now I'll come on he. 
 
 But what I've answered is with him and Man ; 
 
 But now unto the purpose I whall come; 
 
 And all his words thou'lt read then unto ME, 
 
 And now I tell thee I shall answer thee: 
 
 For now the first, as thou hast read them here, 
 
 Is like the Serpent, when he did appear 
 
 In the Beginning, for to work on Man, 
 
 And there the Marriage of the Lamb did come. 
 
 Wisely thou answer'dst, Man was counted dead, 
 
 And so the Serpent, perfect as thou saidst. 
 
 But here's a folly thou didst not discern; 
 
 I did not then convince thee, at that time, 
 
 To see if man could ever find it out; 
 
 But thou'rt entangled, and thou now dost doubt 
 
 Of thy own judgment, that it is not clear: 
 
 Because three Marriages thou makest there, 
 
 Before thou say'st the Marriageof the Lamb ; 
 
 So 'tis the fourth Marriage thou dost join; 
 
 For the first Marriage thou didst not discern, 
 
 It was an Union with your GOD to join ; 
 
 The second Union was between the Two, 
 
 And Man and Woman were within my view, 
 
 That they in marriage then should be complete, 
 
 In happy Union, and in Blessings great. 
 
 So here the Union it stood at the first : 
 
 With God, with Man, the Union it did burst : 
 
 And then the second it did sure appear; 
 
 I gave the Woman to complete it there ; 
 
 And then the Marrifige did appear but one; 
 
 For I a Father to them both did come ; 
 
 But then the Serpent he soon struck them dead ;* 
 
 As with the Woman he did intercede 
 
 To bring in Death, you say, upon the Man : 
 
 And there the Marriage of the Lamb did come ; 
 
 Because I said that I'd die in his room, 
 
 And make the Serpent tremble at his doom : 
 
 * The Reader is requested to read with particular attention, and compare 
 with Page 75 of the Dispute with the Powers of Darkness, where the DcviJ 
 laid, "by Maniage now abide ;" for he imposed on Joanna, and called hisfatal 
 Divorce a Marriage which he produced between Man and Woman and their 
 Maker; but Divine Lore, at ihe same time, provided the remedy by the Mar- 
 riage of the Lamb.
 
 47 
 
 As on his head the Woman cast the blame, 
 
 I instant told her I'd her HUSBAND come; 
 
 And over her in power I said I'd rule; 
 
 And so preserve the TREE of LITE for all, 
 
 That in the end you all might lire in ME, 
 
 When I fulfil the promise given to SHE. 
 
 So, as thou say'st, the third Marriage shall stand; 
 
 The first a Union was with GOD and Man, 
 
 That in my LIKENESS I said he should stand ; 
 
 And so my LIKES ESS I did join in Two; 
 
 The Man and Woman they were joined so; 
 
 The Man was One, and soon became as Two : 
 
 Then know, as Man I surely did appear, 
 
 When I did die, the guilt of Man to clear; 
 
 Because the Woman's Ignorance was betray'd, 
 
 And perfect so the Serpent now did lead ; 
 
 That as a Husband he did sure become, 
 
 And said to Marriage he would hold thy hand ; 
 
 And thou for want of judgment didst not see,* 
 
 Satan was never nam'd a Husband once to be. 
 
 Then how the fool could he the marriage claim ? 
 
 And to his words to marriage now I'll bind : 
 
 I said, a whoring they went all from ME, 
 
 When unto Satan they were wandering free ; 
 
 And nought but bastards did their children call. 
 
 Because strange gods had drawn the hearls of all, 
 
 That they as bondsmen surely did appear: 
 
 But know, a bastard never was an Heir; 
 
 Though Satan's arts had thousands so ensnar'd, 
 
 That all a whoring they went from their God. 
 
 But now the fool shall tremble at my rod ; 
 
 Because a Husband he cannot assume, 
 
 And now the fool shall tremble at his doom. 
 
 For now to Marriage every soul I'll bind 
 
 And, Satan, where's thy Altar now to find ? 
 
 Produce thy License; who thy Banns will call? 
 
 Produce thy Ring for to encircle all j 
 
 And now thy Marriage Deeds, let them appear; 
 
 I ask thee, how a Husband thou canst clear 
 
 That thou wast ever to the sons of men? 
 
 Or where's the Woman thou'st put on the Ring ? 
 
 Or where's the Priest that did the Marriage join ? 
 
 The roving heart is an adulterous mind, 
 
 That I pronounc'd was whoring from their God, 
 
 And so the Harlots they are public shew'd, 
 
 That they are prostitutes to men become; 
 
 But where's the Marriage doth the Harlots join ? 
 
 * See the bottom of the preceding page
 
 48 
 
 No, if they're married, (hen they are made free, 
 
 If they no longer live in adultery. 
 
 So 'tis not Sin that Marriage can proclavn ; 
 
 Because that Marriage bears the sacred name; 
 
 (But nothing sacred, Satan, is in thee; 
 
 So by thy own Bonds bound thou now shall be.) 
 
 For that's the way I made the Bonds at first ; 
 
 And that's the way I said the Heirs must burst. 
 
 So now a Husband wilt thou dare assume? 
 
 Then now I'll make thee tremble at thy doom. 
 
 And bring thy sacred altar; tell ME where 
 
 That as a Husband thou didst once appear? 
 
 Bring ME the priest that ever join'd thy hand: 
 
 I tell thee MARRIAGE was design' d for man. 
 
 But make the Crosses,* see how all do stand, 
 
 In every page where Satan threaten'd there, 
 
 And all these Crosses shall on him appear ; 
 
 For on his head his threatenings all shall fall. 
 
 The fourteenth page the Crosses do appear ; 
 
 And like the fourteenth page my words he'll hear. 
 
 So if in pieces I do tear the fool, 
 
 He now shall know he brought it on himself. 
 
 So, if his Back be Brass, he can appear, 
 
 And made of Iron that he doth not fear 
 
 For to contend so boldly wjth his God : 
 
 He now shall find and feel my iron rod, 
 
 If he is come my Subjects to compel, 
 
 And boldly triumph of his host in hell. 
 
 Then now, his hellish host, they may appear 
 
 And meet their awful JUDGE now in the air, 
 
 And see if they can Le match for heaven. 
 
 For now the Challenge is by Satan given ; 
 
 As in the fifteenth page it doth appear; 
 
 And the mad fool shall know my Power's there; 
 
 For he shall know that I have seal'd his doom ; 
 
 And now his matchless power, let it be known ; 
 
 Foi there I tell him, his proud waves are stay'd. 
 
 When I the Earth a strong foundation laid, 
 
 I plac'd for man a double flivmwg sword; 
 
 And now I'll use it perfect like my word: 
 
 For every way I've sa\'d the TRKE of LIFE; 
 
 And now I'll use the sword to end the strife. 
 
 The Breath of LIFE in Man I sure did breathe; 
 
 And Man shall find I will not him deceive. 
 
 But as the Devil saith that I'm unjust ; 
 
 Then like his faith I bid him now to trust - r 
 
 If they ho mercy ever found in ME, 
 
 Then now they never shall, they all shall see. 
 
 * The Hoadei will see the reason of the Crosses in a subsequent page.
 
 49, 
 
 So now their power let it to appear, 
 
 And rreet their awful JUDGE now in the air, 
 
 Whose just ilisplcasure they have now provok'd ; 
 
 And now I bid them fear the coming stroke : 
 
 And then their power they'll begin to see, 
 
 The limits of their space were given by ME : 
 
 And that their boasting I shall soon destroy, 
 
 And then their wisdom let them all enjoy. 
 
 As in the seventeenth page it doth appear, 
 
 I'll now go on, till I the whole do clear. 
 
 And to the eighteenth page I now shall come: 
 
 There stands the Cross, and so it shall fall on ihem ; 
 
 For as he said the fish did jump on thee, 
 
 I tell him now, it so shall fall on he ; 
 
 So now the fool I'd have him to take care, 
 
 If he is hardened now he'th all to fear; 
 
 For to my word he'll find that I will stand. 
 
 I want not armies now for to command, 
 
 But want to see if he's a King supreme, 
 
 And by his power can all my subjects gain ; 
 
 But to attempt it now, I say they dare 
 
 The twentieth page, like him, I'll answer here : 
 
 Unto men's peril let them join him here ; 
 
 For all his Votes must meet him in the air; 
 
 For there> I tell you all, will be the sight, 
 
 And you, my Friends, below will see the fight; 
 
 And then with pleasure you may stand and gaze, 
 
 And say we're lost in wonder and amaze, 
 
 To see our God stand out a Man of War, 
 
 And all his heavenly armies to appear ! 
 
 For as the Shadow unto thee was seen, 
 
 I tell thee plain the Substance will begin ; 
 
 Shot after shot, I tell thee, fast will fly, 
 
 And fiery serpents be seen in the sky ; 
 
 And for a Type my Thunder it doth stand ; 
 
 Flashes of lightning are seen in your land,* 
 
 And so the lightning will to all appear, 
 
 And rolling thunder bursting in the air: 
 
 With great confusioo fast it will be hurl'd, ' 
 
 Wave after wave, and world confus'd with world. 
 
 For as the Vision it did first appear, f 
 
 I tell thee plain, the End will be seen clear; 
 
 For all the swords will be seen in the sky, 
 
 And fast the shot on every side will fly. 
 
 So Satan thou habt challeng'd for a War, 
 
 Mar k, how the twenty-second page appears ; 
 
 For in thy own words I shall answer here : 
 
 * See Dispute with the Powers of Darkness, page 96. 
 t See grange Effects of Faith, page 29.
 
 > If thou art a devil, so thou say'st thou'It be, 
 
 And in like manner, now I'll answer thee t 
 As in my ways thou say'st I've been unjust, 
 Then now I tell thee perfect so't shall burst; 
 In fury on thee I will now appear ; 
 And unto Man my justice I shall clear, 
 Who doth confess that JUSTICE is in GOD j 
 And unto Man my Justice shall be show'd. 
 But as the fallen angels all agree, 
 To say that God is nought but cruelty, 
 And with their Leader they do all combine, 
 To say in wisdom brightest he doth shine, 
 In words, in merit, and in every praise, 
 And altogether they adore his ways ; 
 Then all together they with him shall go; 
 Ingratitude shall all its vengeance know : 
 The worst of witchcraft it doth now appear, 
 When I have tried his reign Five Thousand Years, 
 And now Eight Hundred added to the Sixth ; 
 Then now he'H find that my Decrees are rix'd. 
 For as the Cross for him it doth appear, 
 Drawn with the Circle, so I tell thee here, 
 In all thy words I have so encircled thee, 
 And now, O Satan, thou thy ruin see ; 
 For on thy head the threalenings they shall fall, 
 And like the King I'll act, I tell you all, 
 That made the man his poisonous coat to wear,* 
 That he had brought the king to poison there ; 
 So on the man he did his guilt turn back, 
 And perfect so shall Satan feel the rack ; 
 For his low cunning arts I all despise ; 
 And all thy ways are now before mine eyes j 
 For as thou say'st that GOD is now unjust, 
 And all thy fury doth against MF burst ; 
 Then all my fury thou shalt surely see 
 Prepare for battle, meet thy match in ME ! 
 If thou dost judge thou hast a powerful hand, 
 Call forth thy legions, and the challenge stand, 
 To meet thy awful JUDGE now in the air. 
 I ask what armies there need to appear 
 One single "woman's life for to destroy? 
 And see what brittle thread man's life enjoyi; 
 And if that brittle thread of life be cut, 
 ' There need no armies for to make it break. 
 So all thy hellish host thou call'st in vain, 
 And thy destruction no\v ihou'lt surely gain ; 
 
 * A poisoned Coat that was niutif for a Km^, wliii h, when on, the wanntfc 
 of the body caused the poison to intuse its buneiul uhvcls. This Prince, being 
 ecretlv apprized of the plot, desired the man to put it on himself, to see how 
 it looked. Thin the person endeavoured to avoid ; the king insisted being 
 obeyed ; and in a short tin< he felt iu effects, and expired.
 
 Before the Woman thou'st begun to fall : 
 
 And now, O Satan, I do tell you all,* 
 
 Thy powerful reign make hast for to prepare, 
 
 As in the twenty -ninth page it is here. s^ 
 
 No more for honour I'll contend with thee, 
 
 But in thy weapon now cut down tliou'lt be ; 
 
 Because of honour in thee there is none ; 
 
 No love, no pity, or mercy hast thou shown j 
 
 And now of mercy I'll show none to thee, 
 
 Bring ifi thy bill ; and all thy debts now pay J 
 
 And now I tell thee I will sure pay mine : 
 
 The Curse I did pronounce thou now shalt find ; 
 
 For all t/iy Legs I now shall t*ke azi-ay^ 
 
 I ask thee how thou'lt stand the Judgment Day,. 
 
 When I in thunder do to ihee appear, 
 
 And show the murders thou'st committed here, 
 
 And show what traitor thou hast been to man ? 
 
 For like a thief, in ambush, is thy plan ; 
 
 Because the thief in ambush thou dost prepare ; 
 
 And now thou'lt find the gallows it is near, 
 
 That thou so often didst prepare for man. 
 
 To rob and murder w;is thy every plan : 
 
 But yet of man thou daily dost complain ! 
 
 I tell thee now I'll try the sons of men^ 
 
 For all thy power now I'll take away 
 
 If I'm unjust, Satan, it shall be to thee: 
 
 Because my Justice thou'st allow'd there's none ; 
 
 Then now I tell thee, it shall not be shown, 
 
 For any justice now to come to thee ; 
 
 What thou call'st Justice can't agree with ME. 
 
 But to my JUSTICE justly thou art cast> 
 
 And now I'll come to be thy JUDGE at last : 
 
 That I in RIGHTEOUSNESS may surely sit, 
 
 When I pronounce on sinners then their fate, 
 
 That to eternity it must endure, 
 
 Firm as the Heavens, and nwer alter more. 
 
 Then clear in Judgment I will sure begin ; 
 
 And now, without thy arts, I will try Man ; 
 
 And then in Justice I'll to Man appear ; 
 
 If all the Fault be thine, the Fault thou'lt bear : 
 
 But as thou say'st, " the Fault is so in Men ; 
 
 " 'Tis their own hearts that first enticed them.'* 
 
 Then now the TRUTH cf this I'll surely know ; 
 
 To prove the Truth I'll chain thee down below ; 
 
 And then a JUDGE of MAN I'll surely be, 
 
 Whether the fault do lie in Man or thee. 
 
 But as to Man, his ways I sure do blame ; 
 
 I gave him Reason, to exert the same ; 
 
 His whole host, t See Genesii, iii. 14. Upon thj bell; halt tbon go, &c. 
 
 D 2
 
 And plain before them I have set my law ; 
 
 They have not kept it, that I well do know : 
 
 And of their ways if they do not repent, 
 
 They'll feel my anger ; for my mind is bent, 
 
 I will not always be wearied out by men ; 
 
 Nor shall my angels always strive with them, 
 
 To guard and keep them from the tempter's povverU 
 
 I'll make a Peace ; and Satan shan't devour 
 
 The peace of angels, and the peace of men ; 
 
 For now in Union I them both will join. 
 
 Then my delight with men will surely be, 
 
 To see that men and angels do agree. 
 
 Because a Heaven I'll surely make below : 
 
 This is my KINGDOM, and I'll make it so. 
 
 For as the thirty-first page doth appear, 
 
 If I am a fool, my folly now I'll clear. 
 
 I bear'd the Cross to conquer Death and Hell, 
 
 And now the second Crow, for thte I tell, 
 
 Shall surely fall on thee, as mine did at first, 
 
 If I am a fool, my folly now shall burst. 
 
 But dost tliou say, Satan, thou wilt not submit? 
 
 From thy own words, Satan, I'll finish it. 
 
 Thou say'st the Laws that thou didst never make, 
 
 And from thy words the whole I now will break ; 
 
 Because, I tell thee, thou didst ne'er make Men ; 
 
 And now I'll break them off from all thy hand, 
 
 And all thy power now I'll take away ; 
 
 For over Man thou shalt not always sway ; 
 
 And as this Earth was never made by thee, 
 
 I tell thee, in it thou shalt never be. 
 
 When I've tried Man, and so secured my wheat, 
 
 Thou'lt find the truth of all these words are great; 
 
 As thou didst never make the Man at first, 
 
 Thou never shalt stand with him at the last; 
 
 And as the world was never made by thee, 
 
 1 tell thee, in it thou shalt never be ; 
 
 And upon it, I say, thou shalt not stand, 
 
 To have a footing, but to be condemn'dj 
 
 And so like Jezebel must be thy fall ; 
 
 In vain thy hellish host thou now wilt call} 
 
 Because unto thy word I'll hold thee here : 
 
 Thou never mad'st this world by thy care ; 
 
 And now the world thou never shalt destroy; 
 
 Thou mak'st no laws, nor none shalt thou enjojT, 
 
 But what do from thy own words now appear ; 
 
 And in the thirty-fourth page see clear : 
 
 For Man, 1 tell thee, shall not want a guard j 
 
 And death and hell shall soon be thy reward. 
 
 If thou goest on to answer ME again, 
 
 Oc dost presume to tempt my chosen men ;
 
 i 53 
 
 Thou'U see the wonders I shall surely do, 
 
 And to thy sorrow find, that GOD is true. 
 
 For unto thy appointment thou shall come ; 
 
 I will not be thy Keeper 't shall be known, 
 
 I say to keep thee on the earth I made ; 
 
 And by thy own words thou art now betray'd ; 
 
 Because no longer thou hast tooting here, 
 
 Than in the thirty-fijth page doth appear ; 
 
 That is, thy JUDGES to be found by Man; 
 
 And so I tell thee to call in thy own : 
 
 To thy own Kingdom call them to appear ; 
 
 But know, the SEALED must my Kingdom share; 
 
 Because this Kingdom thou didst never make, 
 
 And here my Laws, I say, thou shalt not break. 
 
 But if Che greatest part thou say'st are thine. 
 
 Then in thy Kingdom let them go and shine. 
 
 l^or now I tell thee, I shall answer here, 
 
 That perfect like my Gospel I'll appear: 
 
 And my Appearance will be in this land, 
 
 And here my Sealed Number they must stand ; 
 
 Because the Seals must in their hands appear r 
 
 These are the Lamps that will the Mysteries clear; 
 
 And with the Bridegroom they may enter in ; 
 
 That is, my Kingdom they will surely win. 
 
 But all the rest, I say, I know them not; 
 
 And if they're thine, then Death must be their lot. 
 
 But if that MINE stand out through unbelief, 
 
 I'll tell them plain that Death must end their grief; 
 
 Because that like my Gospel Til appear 
 
 It is the SEALS that every Lamp must clear : 
 
 The SEAL'S the LAMP they must have in their Hand, 
 
 And they, and they alone, I say will stand, 
 
 Who will go out witli joy to meet their LORD, 
 
 And say they're seal'd according to my word. 
 
 Then it's too late for any to appear, 
 
 To :*sk to have their Names now sealed here ; 
 
 Because the Seal there's no one can command, 
 
 But what is sealed by the Woman's Hand ; 
 
 Because her Hand, I tell you all, is mine, 
 
 And to her Hand I will MY Hand resign. 
 
 So now I tell thee, Satan, to leave all, 
 
 And thy own friends to thy own kingdom call; 
 
 And there I bid thee for to call them home, 
 
 And leave ME and my Kingdom then alone. 
 
 Thou shalt net stand on what thou didst it<>t make ; 
 
 Go from thy words I tell thee now't shall break ; 
 
 And all thy friends thou now may'st call them home, 
 
 WHEN I HXVE HAD ONE YEAR TO SEAL MY OWN: 
 
 An. I if thy pleasures thev do all approve, 
 
 Then Let them go and join the king they love ;
 
 54 
 
 For Fm not come to rob thee of thy ow i : ; 
 
 But all ihy Power I'm come for to unthrone, 
 
 And take thee from a world thou hast never made ; 
 
 And from thy own words now the -whole shall break. 
 
 So now thy subjects I shall shortly try ; 
 
 I 'know a Famine in them all doth lie, 
 
 That are thy faithful subjects to appear ; 
 
 Through unbelief they'll starve and perish here ; 
 
 And so the Famine now the Rich shall see ; 
 
 Through unbelief they'll surely starve and die. 
 
 For here's the BRF.AD that must preserve your Life: 
 
 The BREAD of HEAVEN now must end the striie. 
 
 For men's provoking words shall soon be o'er, 
 
 As in the Jorty-secnud page appears, 
 
 By Satan's arts, provoking words arc spoke ; 
 
 And now, O Satan, tremble at the stroke ; 
 
 For as the Cross doth on this page appear, 
 
 And circled round, just so thy doom is near; 
 
 For thy provoking words are fully up, 
 
 And now, proud Lucifer, thou'lt surelv drop. 
 
 Though-ihou'st advanc'd thyself to heaven's high throne, 
 
 By boasting ot a power that's not thy own ; 
 
 This mighty power I surely shall chain down, 
 
 And let thy legions tremble at the sound. 
 
 For as the forty-fourth page appears 
 
 And mark the Crosses, strcn are placed there; 
 
 So Seven Crosses now are on thy Head, 
 
 From every word thou'st in that sentence said : 
 
 Seven ttr/ies hotter shall my wrath appear, 
 
 Than ever it was kindled here before ; 
 
 If thou to tempt my SKALED do go on, 
 
 Thou'lt feel the fury of my wrath to come. 
 
 So in thy Power 1 not put such trust 
 
 APOLLXOS am! the DEVIL both are cast. 
 
 For if already I've deceived MAN, 
 
 And better than my promise I have been; 
 
 Then now I tell thee, Satan, I'll appear 
 
 No better unto thee, but be severe ; 
 
 The worst of torments thou must now endure; 
 
 That is, thy haughty pride must now stoop here, 
 
 To havp thy Sentence from a WOMAN'S hand, 
 
 IVhom thou'st betray'd see how the Cross doth stand ; 
 
 For two togetJicr they do now appear, 
 
 And two thou hast bet ray M Satan, take care ! 
 
 The First the Woman thou didst sure betray ; 
 
 The Second thou in Judas then didst lay, 
 
 And so thou didst betray the SON of GOD ; 
 
 But now the Woman's hand brings on thy rod. 
 
 And so thy ruin thou hast now brought on, 
 
 As in the fbrty-tiftkptgc it is seen.
 
 56 
 
 For nunv, Apottyon, I'll turn back on thee 
 
 The very words that thou didst say to she, 
 
 And thou wilt find Satan deceiv'd thee there; 
 
 His power is not so great ; so now take care. 
 
 As he hath told his angels that did fall, 
 
 And soon thon'h find Satan deceived you all : 
 
 And the two Crosses will tall on thy head. 
 
 As in the forty-sixth page they are laid. 
 
 And now unto the jSjfltirtA page I'll come t 
 
 The Power of Satan thou say'st is known 
 
 To be superior to the Power of God ; 
 
 Then now HIS Power shall sure be tried 
 
 So now the fiftieth page let all weigh deep ; 
 
 There stands the Cross, and there the Cross shall break : 
 
 So, Satan, now the hazard thou wilt run 
 
 To try thy GOD, if he hath Power supreme; 
 
 And his superior Power thou shalt see 
 
 I freed the WOMAN, and I'll conquer THEE/* 
 
 THURSDAY, SEPT. 16, 180B, 
 
 " But no*v, Joanna, \'\\ to thee appear, 
 
 Satan hath held ME to my promise here, 
 
 That if thy Body I in pain afflict, 
 
 He knows thou'lt curse ME, if I lay the stroke; 
 
 So now the stroke 1 gave into his hand, 
 
 When fwty dctys are past, as I command, 
 
 He, seren days may lay the stroke on thee, 
 
 To suffer pain as 'tis judgM fit by he: 
 
 Only, thy Life, I say, is in my hand, 
 
 And that he cannot touch, is my command ; 
 
 But as the pain in Wilson's head appear'd; 
 
 Just so he holds ME, thou the same must bear. 
 
 And this already thou didst sure resign, 
 
 To bear for Wilson ; but mark, this is mine; 
 
 'Tis for my honour thou the pain must bear ; 
 
 And dost thou answer, thou'lt my honour clear, 
 
 With much more pleasure than thou would'st for Man? 
 
 Then now's the time }he trial must come on; 
 
 Because that Satan holds ME to my word, 
 
 And then with power thou'lt hear the Voice of GOD/' 
 
 This was written four days Itfore licr Jllness, of the 21 */ </ this 
 month, Sept. 1802.
 
 56 
 
 Joanna, while reading the book of -her Disputes 
 with the Powers of Darkness, was ordered to put 
 Crosses with her pen at particular places. One 
 cross was to the answer of Apollyon, near the top 
 of page 46; another cross to his next answer, in 
 same page; and in page 50, another cross against 
 Apolly on's answer, near the top of that page. 
 At the beginning of the Sixth Day's Dispute, 
 she was ordered to put a Circle to Satan's words; 
 then to divide it into four parts, by a cross ; and 
 in each division to put a cross, making in the* 
 whole five Crosses, thus 
 
 And there she was ordered to stop until the 27th 
 clay of the month ; as the Power of Darkness was 
 permitted to afflict her seven days, as he thought 
 proper; but not to have power over her life. It is 
 to be observed, that the week before this took place, 
 she was afflicted with a pain in her head ; and on 
 the 18th day of the same month, she had the fol- 
 lowing directions : " Set thy house in order ; for 
 thy sick bed is sure; give one of thy keys to a friend, 
 to come in on the %\}>t day, as it will be dangerous 
 Jor thee to come out of thy bed" On the 20th she 
 went to bed, and dreamt she was laid on a bank 
 or stone; some people went by and asked why she 
 laid there : she said, to view the planets, and the 
 clouds,- that appeared working in a strange manner. 
 She then awoke, with a violent pain in her bones 
 and bowels, as though shehad laid according to her 
 dream. After laying awake a long time she again 
 went to sleep, and dreamt she was laid on the same 
 bank, when some reapers passed by; they asked her 
 if she would go with them : she said yes, and arose 
 and followed them, till she came to another bank, 
 having in her hand a goad, like that which is 
 
 It may perhaps be of use to the Reader, if he were to maik the Crosses iu 
 thC' r jiruj IT places iu his own book of the Disputes.
 
 57 
 
 used to drive oxen, &c. She then threw the goad 
 over the bank, and it instantly sprang back to her 
 again; she threw it a second time over the same bank, 
 and it sprang- back as before ; then she thought to 
 throw it gently, and to her astonishment, it returned 
 to her gently back. This she marvelled at, particu- 
 larly, as the two former throws, she thought when 
 they returned to her, it was from their force repelled 
 back. Here she awoke, and found herself full of 
 pain as before ; she was then ordered to go out of 
 bed, and take some wine, that Mr. Sharp had sent 
 her, as he was warned of the certainty of her illness. 
 On drinking the wine she found her inside relieved 
 with a comfortable warmth ; she returned to her bed, 
 and lay composed until her friend, Mrs. Field, came, 
 who had the key to let herself in. Her pains then 
 returned, with a fever; when she was answered, that 
 as her sickness was left for the Power of Darkness to 
 afflict, he had not afflicted her in the head, because 
 she should not say she was afflicted like Wilson; so 
 the pain of her head that she had the last week was 
 turned; which was the reason the Lord ordered her 
 to keep her bed ; as he knew which way Satan meant 
 to cast the blow. The second day she was seized with 
 a choaking, which seemed to rise from her stomach, 
 accompanied with laughing fits, which lasted more 
 than an hour. An apothecary being sent for, he arrived 
 at eight o'clock at night, who wrote a prescription, 
 which was to be taken, but was omit ted; she wassome^ 
 thing better when he came , but at midnight she was 
 in a delirium, that she knew not what took place ; for 
 she was invisibly forced out of bed, sick as death, and 
 lay in a senseless state on the floor, which awoke her 
 friend. After the sickness was a little over, her triend, 
 with much trouble, got her into bed, being astonished 
 at the senseless, stupid state she was in. She laid in her 
 bed a little while, and was again forced out with the 
 same effects, which much alarmed her friend, to see 
 her so deadly sick, without the least appearance of 
 sense. After her sickness was abated her friend helped 
 her into bed a second time 5 when, after lading a short
 
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 **tne, she rose up in the bed, and began fighting and 
 talking; all this so much terrified her friend, that 
 she said she would not undergo such another ni^ht 
 
 . o .o 
 
 for a large sum. At last, having returned a little 
 to her senses, she saw her distressed friend, sitting 
 out of bed, ancl dressed ; she asked her, seeing her 
 clothes on. why she did not come to bed, and what 
 *made her sit up ? and told her she had a most won- 
 derful dream, for she thought she was out of bed, 
 down- in a dark passage, where she lay for some time, 
 and after that she thought she was upon the bed 
 lighting with the devil. Her friend answered, '* I 
 think you have been fighting \vi-th the devil; and I 
 shall tell you to-morrow." So she persuaded her 
 friend to come to bed, and they lay composed unti! 
 the morning, although she continued in this state from 
 between 1 1 and \*2 at nrght, until near 4 in the morn- 
 ing. Her friend then convinced her, by proofs, of 
 her horrid sickness, which she said she could not have 
 believed, had she not seen it ; for she had no other 
 knowledge than by her dream. All this lime she had 
 lafren no medicine whatever. The fever continued dur- 
 ing this day, when another apothecary* was brought 
 by Mr. Sharp, about three o'clock, who told her that 
 the fever would last twenty-one days ; she answered, 
 cc then I shall not. live so long.''' He replied, "you may 
 not be so bad as you are now all the time/' Hethen 
 prescribed medicines to be taken. But in the midst 
 of all her violent pains and illness, she was assured 
 by the Lord, that he would raise her up on the se- 
 venth day, which she repeatedly told all her friends, 
 when she lay in the most dangerous situation ; but 
 none believed that the Lord would raise her up, in the 
 manner she was, but Mr. Sharp. During her illness 
 she had many remarkable and wonderful dreams ; 
 one of which was, "that she was in a corn-field with 
 standing corn, except some that was cut down ; she 
 
 * This pentleman was desired to attend, he being a man of much professional 
 knowledge and practice (and of an upright character, like the former) but having 
 no belief in visitations out of the course of nature,, was judged to be the most 
 proper person to relate the fact*, without being partial, in order to guard against 
 every idea of imposture, that many persona might wish (o believe.
 
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 rhought the Lord threw down from heaven three 
 sheets of paper, that fell upon the standing corn. 
 It was in print, much like her mode of writing. She 
 thought she read them, and that they were the de- 
 crees of the Lord for men and devils ; she thought the 
 writings were full of the most heavenly and beauti- 
 ful language ; she remembered a few of the words 
 when she awoke, but soon forgot them. She thought 
 there was a large quantity of birds in the convfield, 
 pigeons and partridges, which she was ordered to 
 catch, when a large covey came to her, and flew on 
 her arms and on her breast, which she caught and 
 put in her apron ; there were other flocks in the field, 
 and she told all her friends, who were in the field 
 with her, they must also catch them ; she saw the 
 birds gathered round them in coveys to be caught, 
 so they gathered them without trouble." The mean- 
 ing of this dream will be known hereafter. She had 
 strange dreams every night, but they are not all to 
 be penned at present. The fourth day her fever be- 
 gan to abate, and for two or three hours in the even- 
 ing she seemed quite recovered, and talked much to 
 her friends, very cheerfully ;. but the next day, her 
 pains returned with double force, and her faith, like 
 Peter's, began to sink; she thought it impossible to 
 be recovered from such illness in two days; and she 
 was again assured, that the Lord would fulfil his 
 promise ; but she wished to conceal from her friends 
 the dangerous state she felt herself in; knowing how 
 they rejoiced the night before, she did not love to 
 sink their hopes ; but she was so ill that it could not 
 be concealed from them, and they were sunk in fear, 
 except Mr. Sharp, who declared his faith was as 
 firm as ever, as he judged him faithful that promised 
 and all must bejulfilled, which in the end proved 
 true;* for, although she had such a fever, accom- 
 panied with such tormenting pains in the bowels and 
 bones, and was not from her bed until the end of 
 
 * The Header is desired to refer to the five first pages of this Book ; particu- 
 larly the second page, which was wtitten from Joanna on the 3d of September, 
 and the writing continued until the 17tb ; when shff was to stop, and receiw 
 instructions preparatory to her iilues*,
 
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 the seven days. On the seventh day In the morning 
 she was told she was to arise from her bed at four 
 o'clock, "the very same hour that the temptations left 
 her by words, on the seventh day j then so it should leave 
 her by sickness now; and she should be perfectly 
 restored and raised up at four o'clock on that day/* 
 which, although at that time ill, she mentioned to 
 Mrs. Field ; who, being filled with joy, said she had 
 a desire to surprise Mr. Sharp, who was always con- 
 fident of her recovery; and also to have a laugh at 
 the person who came with him, and who was always 
 doubtful of her recovery, and often said, " We will 
 wait and see/' So she would make up an image in 
 Joanna's likeness, and place it in the bed, to see how 
 Mr. Sharp would look, seeing his faith disappointed; 
 and the other to cry out that her faith was right: this 
 she said she would do, if Joanna did not think it a sin; 
 but Joanna answered, she was afraid it was carrying 
 a jest too far, as the Lord, in his mercy and goodness, 
 had raised her up, she thought it their most serious 
 duty to return him thanks. . She said if she thought it 
 was wrong, she would decline ; but Joanna was im- 
 mediately answered, she might return thanks, and per- 
 mit the other to be done also ; for the thing was sim- 
 ple, but not sinful. So it was put into execution ; 
 and a perfect image, made up of clothes, was put in 
 the bed that she had risen from, and had retired into 
 another room, most miraculously restored, as though 
 she had never b' en ill, so as to tell her friend she was 
 doubtfcl whether she was in her senses or not; for 
 she felt no effects from her illness. But when Mr. S. 
 came in the evening, with the doubting person, he 
 still believed Joanna to be perfectly restored, but in a 
 sweet sleep, after her recovery; so his faith was not 
 altered; but the other soon discovered the innocent 
 cheat, turned away offended, thinking it presumptu- 
 ous, and done with an intention to cause fear. But 
 Mr. Sharp soon found his faith was on a true founda- 
 tion, and laughed at the innocent invention. This 
 simple thing would never have been put in print, it it 
 had not been commanded. It was explained to her,
 
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 that they had judged the Lord as dumb an image zp 
 that which was put into the bed she rose from ; to try 
 to baffle the faith of those that did believe, and to 
 strengthen the unbelief of mockers : as this must be 
 done, if the deceit was not found out. Here begins 
 the manner the Lord spake to her after her illness: 
 
 " Now, Joanna, thee I'll answer, 
 
 And with Satan next begin ; 
 From the sixth day I'd not answer, 
 
 Till I did fulfil the thing. 
 Jn Wilson's room, behold thy doom 5 
 
 He held me to my word j 
 And now let Satan dare presume 
 
 For to condemn his Lord. 
 Because you see the mystery, 
 
 The truth doth now appear ; 
 The Shadow first did come to thee, 
 
 And now the Substance here 
 Did surely come ; so all was seen, 
 
 Thy sick bed did appear, 
 .And thou hast suffer 'd Wilson's pain ; 
 ' But Satan's arts were near ; 
 For to afflict a different stroke, 
 
 He surely laid his hand ; 
 Because his God he thought to mock 
 
 Be wise and understand : 
 Because, like Job, it must be known, 
 
 I said he would appear. 
 Can Satan be a powerful god, 
 
 His wisdom cannot clear? 
 Did I not say, to thee that day, 
 
 Satan should lay his hand 
 Where'er it was judg'd fit by hei 
 
 Be wise and understand. 
 And so by he, you all do see, 
 
 Thy body he did afflict, 
 As I before had said of Job; 
 
 So Satan now expect 
 The coming stroke ; for I'll not mock 
 
 Those that believe in me ; 
 For as the faith in Sharp was seen, 
 
 The end you all shall see ; 
 He did believe I'd not deceive, 
 
 But raise the seventh day ; 
 And though she went to foil the man, 
 
 The truth he then did see, 
 That an Impostor in the bed 
 
 Was placed in thy room, 
 To make him judge thee almost cad, 
 
 And mock the faith of ma.
 
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 But I'll appear to answer here, 
 
 There's no one I do blame ; 
 But to the shadow I shall come, 
 
 And put mankind to shame : 
 Such fools appear, I tell you here, 
 
 To mock you all with lies ; 
 And as the shadow she plac'd there, 
 
 So fools do all disguise, 
 To tell you plain, ye sons of men, 
 
 Your faith is on the sand ; 
 And plac'd a shadow in ray room, 
 
 To wound the faith of man ; 
 But when you come to see it plain, 
 
 The shadow doth appear ; 
 But now the substance I'll maintain, 
 
 Is what I said before. 
 He that believ'd was not deceiv'd; 
 
 But laugh'd the truth to see ; 
 But she that stood in unbelief 
 
 Offended seem'd to be, 
 That she was mock'd, the other jok'd ; 
 
 But here the lines go deep ; 
 For as the shadow then did come, 
 
 The end of all will break : 
 Those that believe won't be deceived, 
 
 By any artful hand ; 
 And they wiri laugh at every way 
 
 They've baffled been by man ; 
 But those that doubt, when they find out 
 
 How they were mocked there, 
 May then in anger all stand out, 
 
 To see what fools they were, 
 To judge that I, who dwell on high, 
 
 Will not fulfil my word ! 
 A boasted zeal they may begin, 
 
 And say " wfe judg'd our Lord 
 " Would never come in such a form, 
 
 " In jesting to appear. " 
 But how my Gospel do you scorn ? 
 
 When I arose, see clear, 
 I did go on to jest with man, 
 
 And ME they did not know, 
 Until they had constrained me, 
 
 That I with them should go. 
 So men must come and noi-j constrain 
 
 And hold me to my word;* 
 And then you all shall know my name, 
 
 And then behold your LORD. 
 
 This alludes to the Disciples of Christ at Emmau
 
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 S> 1'fl end here, and say no niore, - 
 
 But to the purpose come ; 
 Men's jesting, I have answered here, 
 
 Is like the women done: 
 To mock the faith of prudent meii, 
 
 Like her you place the sign ; 
 To mock the fools, and ignorant 1114:11, 
 
 I'll own the j-cst is miuc*. 
 So let the Table to appear, 
 
 As 'in a type of man ; 
 For fools do mock my followers here, 
 
 Ky Safari's aunt! land. 
 So it was I that work'd on she. 
 
 To shew the mystery plain ; 
 The very thing that sfye had done, 
 
 Was like tlie -sons oi inco 
 
 Who would make men believe the word of God 
 wasasdeady and like the image she put in thy room^ 
 for just so have the ministers placed my Bible, that 
 could neither sec, hear, or speak ; and so they have 
 judged their God! for I must be like the image she 
 placed in thy stead, if nil these wondrous writing's 
 and truths had come round in such order without 
 my Spirit and direction , but as thou wast in the 
 inner room, perfectly risen in health and strength, 
 according to Sharp's faith ; perfectly so shall he find 
 his God, not as the ignorant world, who say, "Since 
 the fathers fell asleep, ail things remained as they 
 were" judging there is no more knowledge in the 
 Most High than there was in the image she made up. 
 But let all men know, the substance was a living wit- 
 ness, close by ; and so close am I to all your faith and 
 unbelief. Those that have believed will find the world 
 have imposed upon them to raock their faith; but 
 the unbelievers will be hurt to find I have mocked 
 their unbelief; so now let the living lay it to heart; 
 for they have placed me and my Bible perfectly like 
 the image they placed of thee, to mock the faith of 
 believers, and strengthen tlie unbeliefof fopls. Sim- 
 ple as this may appear to the world, let it go in print; 
 for it is perfectly like what men have likened ME to. 
 
 So now to men I've shcw'd the plan, 
 
 How you your Bibles place; 
 And now to Satan I sltall come. 
 
 Who did hi* Lrd disgrace',
 
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 To judge that I, who dwell on high, * 
 
 Have done with Satan here ; 
 No, no, the fool will find me nigh, 
 
 And the sixth day appear : 
 He'll surely know the truth is so, 
 
 I kept him for this day ; 
 His punishment he now shall know. 
 
 And like his word, I say, 
 Such harden'd being he appear'd ; 
 
 He held me to my word, 
 That I with pain should visit thee, 
 
 But now he'll feel the rod. 
 For I'll appear, in anger here, 
 
 Just like the words he spoke ; 
 For the sixth day I now shall clear, 
 
 And there the fool shall drop ; 
 And then I'll rest, and man possess, 
 
 As I have said before. 
 Just like the Circle now he's plac'd, 
 
 And let the sign appear ; 
 He's circled round with every sound, 
 
 The Cross throughout doth stand : 
 The four Crosses do appear, 
 
 He fatally brought on man. 
 You see the first when man was cast ; 
 
 What Cross did then appear ! 
 And when the World I all condemn'd, 
 
 And brought the Deluge here, 
 What Cross for Man there then did covne, 
 
 And Satan brought on all! 
 Now Sodom and Gomorrah see, 
 
 What Cross on them did fall ! 
 When fire from heaven did appear, 
 
 The flames they could not miss ; 
 For they were so encircled there 
 
 And Satan's doom is cast 
 To be like them ; it now must come j 
 
 For 1 went through the whole .'* 
 And then you see the Cross to be, 
 
 Jerusalem did fall ! 
 Encompass'd round with every sound, 
 
 The Heathen took the place. 
 So, Satan, see thy destiny; 
 
 For this is now thy case. 
 The WOMAN she did stand my friend 
 
 Let Pilate's Wife appear ; 
 And now I'll be a Friend to she, 
 
 And thou thy Judge shalt fear. 
 
 * The great Cross within the Circle, is the Cross of Christ, who suffered for 
 the whole. The four Crosses which fell on Man ; viz. his fall from the Divine 
 Image at first; the Deluge; Sodom and Gomorrah; the Des:ruction of Jeru- 
 salem, in consequence of the Death of our Lord, who bore all it Man. This 
 Ifote is only made 4pr the Reader to attend to the Figure in Page 56.
 
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 Thy MASTER here I'll now appear, 
 
 And that thou'lt surely find ; 
 Thy Trial now is hastening near 
 
 Thy fetters I shall bind, 
 I tell thee, strong before 'tis long 
 
 Both Sheep do now appear, 
 That thou art murdering by thy hand,. 
 
 And now I'll Answer here. 
 
 Satan, Satan! how wilt thou appear? 
 
 And in \hejifty-fourthpage see clear, 
 
 Where thou condemn'dst the Lord is now come true; 
 
 And Wilson's illness bring before thy view ; 
 
 For she hath suffered all of Wilson's pain, 
 
 Her head afflicted did one week remain; 
 
 And after that in arts thou didst appear 
 
 To wound with pain her body most severe. 
 
 So as one truth so hasty now has come, 
 
 I tell thee plain, the other will come on; 
 
 And so already thou'st begun to fall ; 
 
 And from thy words I now shall answer all. 
 
 If she had forg'd my Narre she'd been undone, 
 
 And never liv'd to see the morning sun. 
 
 When on her sick bed thou didst so appear, 
 
 To pull her lifeless from it on the floor: 
 
 Dead to all feeling was my Handmaid plac'd ; 
 
 Dead to all knowledge of the death she did taste; 
 
 And there advantage thou didst surely gain; 
 
 She neither felt her sufferings or her pain, 
 
 When on the floor she gasping there did lie 
 
 Tremble, O Satan, I WAS STANDING BY, 
 
 When thou didst go to pull her from the bed, 
 
 And on the floor her body there thou'st laid ; 
 
 And sick I know thou mad'st her to the heart ; 
 
 And thou, O Satan, now shalt feel my dart. 
 
 Weigh thou her answers, speaking for her LORD; 
 
 Weigh thou her life what she hath all gone through ; 
 
 No Woman like her on the earth I know, 
 
 In upright dealings now with GOD and man; 
 
 Then now, O Satan, trembling thou shalt stand: 
 
 For here, I say, shall thy proud waves be stay'd 
 
 It is not she hath room to be afraid: 
 
 For I must act unworthy of a God, 
 
 If on thy head I do not cast the rod. 
 
 To see my friend so wounded for my sake, . 
 
 Her Love to ME shall now make mine to break 
 
 With fury on thee, as thou didst appear 
 
 With all thy threatening;?, thou thyself shalt bear.
 
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 For now her Character I'll give to men, 
 
 What is staVd vp t and then behold her hand. 
 
 If such a Woman ever did draw breath, 
 
 Since I created man, and fornVd the earth ; 
 
 For of her virtues I'll begin to boast, 
 
 And show you plain when all her Seals do burst, 
 
 That more than Woman she must then appear, 
 
 If you do not confess her Lout) is there. 
 
 For Men and Devils she has strong withstood, 
 
 And all her conduct I'll pronounce is good : 
 
 For as her Judge I surely do appear; 
 
 If from herself alone her virtues are; 
 
 Then I may blush to view the human race, 
 
 That in their conduct do their LORD disgrace; 
 
 Who do profess to praise my holy name, 
 
 And yet they often put their Lord to shame, 
 
 By many follies I do see in men ; 
 
 But in this Woman, form'd by nature's plan 
 
 That you, vain fools, do judge her for to be; 
 
 Then how can GRACE and Nature now agree, 
 
 If she in virtue do outshine you all, 
 
 Without my Spirit? judge her every call 
 
 And see if Nature brings you better fruit 
 
 Than Grace can render; O ! ye fools, stand mute. 
 
 When all her life is laid before your view, 
 
 You must confess her character is true: 
 
 Beyond all women doth in virtue shine ; 
 
 And tell afE if this Spirit is not mine? 
 
 Or will you answer, No; she is too good 
 
 To have a Spirit ever like her God ; 
 
 Then sure like Satan you must all appear, 
 
 Condemn your GOD, the Creature now to clear, 
 
 To shine in virtue brighter than mankind ; 
 
 And say that Nature all these virtues binds, 
 
 Without a spirit ever come from heaven. 
 
 I ask you, who this Spirit to her hath given ? 
 
 And will you answer, " why it came from hell" 
 
 Where the- infernal host in ragi- do dwell, 
 
 In pride and envy, and in malice great, 
 
 With every subtle art, and all deceit; 
 
 With lies and murder, and of every ill, 
 
 And with all evil he men's hearts doth fill ? 
 
 But here is a heart from every vice is free;* 
 
 Vain fools, appear and instant answer ME, 
 
 If unto Satan you will give such praise, 
 
 To say h-c's chang'd, and hath refoim'd his ways J 
 
 * It is to be remarked, that Joanna was prepared from her birth by the Divine 
 Spirit, which makes hrr by no means assume any superiority above others, but 
 she leels it her ciutj to be huuibie.
 
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 Then all the vices you must say is in Man, 
 And so the World at once you all condemn, 
 If you \\ill say this Woman came from hell, 
 That doth in virtue all her sex excel. 
 Because her Life I'll bring before your view, 
 And you shall own MY words are perfect true : 
 That she in virtue doth you all outshine, 
 When you do Know the Mysteries lie behind; 
 Because her Life hath all been hid with God ; 
 And all her foes shall tremble at my rod ; 
 Because my fury they will surely heat ; 
 For in this Woman there is no Deceit. 
 And this I bid thee publish now to man, 
 And soon I'll prove it by thy written hand ; 
 Which men will see when all thy Seals are broke, 
 And then let Satan tremble at the stroke : 
 For if my murder I did him forgive, 
 I never will the injuries done to THEE ; 
 Because my love thou didst prefer to man's, 
 When in thy youth thy passions they were strong; 
 And now, MY love I will return to thee, 
 Much greater love than e'er in man could be ; 
 As for my sake thou hast renounced all; 
 And from thy mother's Womb I thee did call ; 
 And from the Name was given unto {hee, 
 So MARY and JOANNA let them see, 
 Whose names were mention'd when I did arise; 
 And now, ye sons of men, you must grow wise; 
 Because it was my MOTHER and my BRIDE, 
 To whom these Names to all must be applied. 
 Now see Joanna, how she doth appear ; 
 In every volume you her Name see clear, 
 That she is come to testify of ME ; 
 And now TWO MARYS* let the public see ; 
 That at the first thou didst these things reveal, 
 And let them know, thy Name is in the Seal ; 
 And show the SECOND STAR doth now appear ; 
 And mark the C, and let the Seal appear, 
 I tell thee, to be printed in this book ; 
 And in my Bible k-t the public look ; 
 For as my Resurrection did appear, 
 The stone was roll'd, and the Seals broke there; 
 So when thy Seals by Man is surely broke, 
 Then, Satan, thou shah tremble at the stroke: 
 
 * The two persons to whom Joanna first communicated this knowledge, in 
 1792, were two female friends, both of whose Christian names were Mary. 
 
 See St. Luke, chap. 24, the 10th and following verses to the end of the chap- 
 ter. Also St. John, chap, 19, verse 25. 
 
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 Because the stone shall now be roll'd on Hell, 
 
 And seal thy doom, where thou sbalt surely dwell. 
 
 For now such Mysteries 1 will open here 
 
 And let ihefiie and fiftieth page appear : 
 
 And then, like Satan, I shall now begin, 
 
 To open mysteries man hath never seen : 
 
 And all the truth to man I now will prove, 
 
 Of all my words, and man shall know my love; 
 
 And plain I'll make the whole before your eyes, 
 
 And open mysteries will you all surprise. 
 
 You know my COAT it was without a Seam, 
 
 And so I tell you, Man I'll now redeem : 
 
 No seam of sorrow will I leave for Man, 
 
 But interwoven now you'll find my plan ; 
 
 That is, my friends I'll interweave them through. 
 
 And the Creation bring before their view ; 
 
 Because I come to do my Father's Will; 
 
 And now is. the time I will the whole fulfil. 
 
 Man's happiness HE did pronounce at first, 
 
 And now is the time Man's happiness shall burst; 
 
 Lord of this Earth I surely did him make, 
 
 And now is the time that promise it shall break. 
 
 But how can Man be call'd the lord below, 
 
 While Satm, as a god, his power doth show ? 
 
 But now his Power I will all destroy, 
 
 And Man and I together will enjoy 
 
 The whole Creation now wit/tout a seam. 
 
 I'll cut oft' sorrow, and I'll cut off sin ; 
 
 And like my garment all the Earth shall be, 
 
 And interwdvenin ONE VINE with ME; 
 
 And my Delight shall surely be with Man; 
 
 And now, my brethren, see my every plan ; 
 
 To open mysteries deep before your eyes, 
 
 I've seal'd the tomb that soon shall make you wise: 
 
 And mark Joanna that doth to you appear, 
 
 And tell you mysteries I shall shortly clear. 
 
 And to the Jifty-sixth page now I'll come. 
 
 In Satan's words I'll answer back again : 
 
 Because a liar 1 will never fear; 
 
 In the beginning now his lies I'll clear; 
 
 He really thought to mock the God oi Heaven, 
 
 When the Creation unto Man was given ; 
 
 He really thought for to destroy them all, 
 
 And the creation as his own to call; 
 
 Because if Man did disobey like he, 
 
 He thought the Earth for him must then be free. 
 
 But here likehim Man never disobey'd 
 
 But they, through Ignorance, artj'ully vere betray' d :
 
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 1 hat Good from Evil they might surely know, 
 
 And be as gods in goodness here below; 
 
 Then now as gods I'll make them to appear ; 
 
 And unto Satan's words I'll hold him here. 
 
 For Men as Gods they now shall be below, 
 
 And Good from Evil now thoy all shall know: 
 
 And those that join close to the Woman's hand, 
 
 In knowledge of the good fndt they shall stand ; 
 
 But those that do refuse for to appear 
 
 To sign their hands, and will not join with her, 
 
 Then by the evil fruit they all must fall, 
 
 In Eve's transgressions, now I tell you all. 
 
 For the Bonds-women I shall all cast out, 
 
 And all their sons that with them now do doubt ; 
 
 Because the Woman here I've made her free, 
 
 And all my Heirs I know will join with she ; 
 
 Because the good fruit they will wish to know, 
 
 And have the knowledge of their God below ; 
 
 And all my words they then shall find them true. 
 
 I'll bring another mystery to your view: 
 
 To clear my honour I cannot free Man, 
 
 But by the Woman, as I've laid my plan ; 
 
 Because I said Man's bliss she should complete; 
 
 Another way Satan would prove deceit. 
 
 So if he's freed according! to my word, 
 
 Let Satan now appear and answer God, 
 
 Why did he tell her that they should not die, 
 
 But be as gods, and now give MR the lie, 
 
 To say that I did then go from my word ? 
 
 I tell him now he'll feel my glittering sword. 
 
 Two different ways he to the Woman came: 
 
 At first he said NO DEATH was in the name; 
 
 That is, I say, if she did eat the l-'ruit ; 
 
 And now the serpent Jie shall sure stand mute; 
 
 Because his God he now hath given the lie, 
 
 And said the Woman was pronounc'd to die. 
 
 Then for his murder let him to appear; 
 
 A liar and a murderer I'll not clear ; 
 
 So if I did forgive him for the first, 
 
 I never will forgive him for the la'-t : 
 
 And he shall know and feel I am a God, 
 
 That will not bear the words from what he said , 
 
 No, no; my honour I'll begin to clear; 
 
 One way or other thou the guilt shalt bear. 
 
 Thou say'st thou aim'dft at murder at the first, 
 
 And here thou threatcncst murder at the last; 
 
 And such companions I had got in heaven ; 
 
 And by such arts from thence they all were driven : 

 
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 And such companions men have got on earth ! 
 And 'tis for gold ! it often brings on death ; 
 To rob, to murder, and to every ill, 
 I see the golden orbs men's hearts do fill ; 
 Therefore the golden orbs I'll all destroy, 
 And all the DUST in harmony enjoy; 
 In heavenly splendour I the earth will place, 
 And like a paradise I'll make this race; 
 In every heavenly beauty they shall surely shine, 
 And love and harmony shall be in every mind, 
 When all thy golden orbs I've took away. 
 And now, O Satan, hear what I do say : 
 Before thy God thou'rt summon'd to appear, 
 And answer for thyself the question here. 
 Thou say'st that God did tell the lie at first; 
 Then here my fury shall upon thee burst: 
 Not like the Woman will I answer here, 
 But like thy own words I shall now appear, 
 And in plain words I shall with thee begin, 
 An'd see if I such wretch shall ever screen. 
 
 Now, Joanna, hitherto the Lord hath been echo- 
 ing back his lines in verse to Satan, as he hath to 
 men ; but now he is come to plain terms with the 
 Devil, and to answer the fool according to his folly. 
 Begin at the mark made for him at the sixth day's dis- 
 pute. Satan said he preserved thee for the last day's 
 punishment; and for the last day's punishment the 
 Lord hath preserved him : seeing what a hardened 
 wretch he is, the Lord will deal with him accordingly; 
 for he shall not have the last word of his Master, but 
 find the LORD is his MASTER. And so sure as the 
 Lord hath made thee ill in Wilson's room, so sure 
 shall Satan fall in my room : and he shall /iHOit' and/re/ 
 that I, JESUS, the Son of the MOST HIGH GOD, will 
 fulfil my promise made to Man for his REDEMPTION, 
 and to Satan for his Destruction. Now let his faith 
 be shaken ! For on thy sick bed I shewed thee how I 
 would gather in my people, as a hen gathereth her 
 brood under her wings ; and as the birds flew on thy 
 arms ; so let them trust to the arms of my mercy:* 
 for now will men be flocking unto Jesus, as doves 
 
 * See the Dream of catching Pigeons and Partridges, page 58.
 
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 to the windows. Iniquity will abound, and grace 
 will abound ; out he that holds out to the end shall 
 be saved, and have his part in the Tree of LIFE ; for 
 now the murderer shall be destroyed. I said if these 
 things was done in theGree/z Tree, what shall be done 
 in the Dry Tree? If I, that knew no sin, was cruci- 
 fied for man, what shall Satan suffer, that was the au- 
 thor of all sin? If thou didst lie lifeless or senseless 
 on the floor, for my honour and great name, to ma- 
 nifest the truth to mankind ; how lifeless and sense- 
 less shall Satan become to all men ! I now tell thee, 
 O Satan, I will make thee as senseless of the know- 
 ledge of men, as thou madest my handmaid to the 
 knowledge of herself, when she lay sick on the floor; 
 and so will I now make thee ; for I will "make thee 
 sick with smiting thee, and make thee desolate, be- 
 cause of thy sins, that are more in number than the 
 sands on the sea shore. And so thou hast provoked 
 the wrath of the Lord against thee, and now I an- 
 swer from thy own words " Hell is thy portion ;" 
 for thou shalt not continue on earth to boast of power 
 superior to thy Lord. Thou foundest thyself deceiv- 
 ed already in Heaven, and now thou wilt find thy- 
 self as surely deceived again here upon earth. For 
 the heavens be God's throne, and he cast thee from 
 thence ; the earth is his footstool, and thou canst not 
 have any seat here with the Lord. When he comes 
 to fill the earth with his goodness, he will then fill 
 hell with his terrors. Now, Satan, thy terrors shall 
 come upon thee, as thou threatenedst this handmaid 
 of mine; for here is a sin 1 will never forgive thee 
 in this world, nor that which is to come. Has she 
 not only ventured her life, and left all she had in 
 this world to follow ME ? Friends, interest, and all 
 dependence, she left to obey my commands ; and, 
 as thou sayest, " brought herself to poverty for my 
 sake." All this she hath done at first; and when 
 she was separated from her friends at home, and 
 surrounded by faithless friends, and malicious foes 3
 
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 yet in this trying hour, alone and by herself, ran the 
 hazard of being accursed for my sake, sooner than 
 submit to lose my honour as a God : she said in her 
 heart, she would sooner judge there was no God, 
 than judge there was a faithless God : she judged 
 JIE all good, and all good she shall find ME. Thou 
 sayest, Satan, I am all that was bad, and so thou 
 shalt find ME : I will not contend with thee for my 
 Honour, but for JUSTICE, that now demands thy 
 guilty crimes to fall on thy head ! Look back on thy 
 words, and tremble, as a murderer when he looks on 
 the person he hath murdered, and sees the judge ap- 
 pear to condemn him ; for now I tell thee > every 
 threatening thou hast breathed out against this Hand- 
 maid of mine, shall now fall back upon thy own head. 
 Dost thou say God is a liar ? Then now 1 will be the 
 God of truth : thy head shall now be bruised, and thy 
 curse above every living creature ; thy footing here on 
 earth shall be taken from thee; and as thou didst 
 cause a pain in her bowels, to cause her to lie sen s.eless 
 on the floor, so shall the pain in thy bowels be ; on thy 
 belly thou shalt go, and fall headlong down to thy fine 
 palace ; there set up thy golden orbs in hell ; and build 
 thy palace with thy gold ; and I will draw forth a glo- 
 rious Earth with the Dust. So now thou shalt not tear 
 a liar, but fear the God of truth, who made man in 
 my own likeness; and in MY oivn likeness be was be- 
 trayed and crucified ; and as thou didst set the angels 
 in heaven at variance, so thou settest men on earth 
 at variance; and now the earth is in the same confused 
 state the heavens were in ; some on my side, and some 
 on thine, through unbelief. As the angel?, that fell, 
 did not judge I should cast them out of heaven, that 
 joined thee Satan, so thou temptest men to believe I 
 never shall cast thee from the earth, nor ever bring in 
 a heaven here for man ; but now I tell thee and all 
 mankind, this Earth shal! be renewed to a Paradise 
 and a place of rest for men that trust in ME. So now, 
 Satan, this is thy doom, as thou thoughtest to rob me
 
 of the creation at once, so will I rob thee of all at 
 once; and as thou sowest discord amongst mankind, 
 so will I sow discord amongst thee and those thou hast 
 betrayed ; for thy destruction now is sure. Thou say- 
 estjthougoesttothe woman with murder in thy heart; 
 and now her blood is on thy head; thousayest, I ought 
 not to cast them out of Eden, knowing what a wretch 
 betrayed them ; then now I will show mercy to man 
 thattrustethto ME for mercy; I will show pity toman 
 that Jooketh to ME for pity. As I knew what a wretch 
 betrayed them, so now, Satan, thy reign is short, and 
 thou hast but a little space before thou shalt find ME 
 the God of truth; and I will send my angel to chain 
 thee down for a thousand years, and set a seal on thee, 
 as I have begun to set the seal on my people; for as 
 thou sayest thou despisestmy mercy, my mercy thou 
 shalt never rind. Thou hast spoken what was in thy 
 heart, and Jet men bear witness against thee : thou 
 sayest thou art betrayed by a WOMAN ; then know, a 
 WOMAN was betrayed by thee ; for now I tell thee, 
 Satan, I will bring on thy head every threatening thou 
 breathedst out against my Handmaid. Thou sayest, 
 thou hast showed thy self a complete devil thou hast 
 done a thing that will never be forgiven in this world, 
 nor in that which is to come : thy violence in assault- 
 ing so faithful a servant. And as she stood out in such 
 faith and courage,it shall for ever rest as a blessing on 
 all women that believe in her ; for as Eve's disobedi- 
 ence rested on the one hand, so shall her obedience 
 rest on the other, from generation to generation, until 
 time is on more. So say not that she only is blessed ; 
 tor all are blessed that believe in her; for they that 
 believe in her must believe in ME ; for it is my word, 
 not her words; it is my SP IRI r,not her spirit, whom 
 ye believe in and whom men persecute also ; for they 
 have opened all my wounds afresh, and put ME again 
 to an open shame. Now answer for thyself to the 
 public, the manner of thy life and faith, and then 1 
 will answer thee again."
 
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 Now I shall begin to answer for myself thus pub- 
 licly to the unbelief of ignorant people. Some say my 
 writings are from myself,of a spirit possessed of a devil ; 
 others judge it really from the devil, coming in 
 every character, both good and bad. So they judge 
 the devil has come to me like an actor on the stage, 
 who changes his clothes,and acts many different cha- 
 racters ; and sometimes the man comes in the charac- 
 ter of a woman, and the woman in the character of a 
 man; so one person acts many different characters; 
 and just so the ignorant and unlearned have judged 
 the devil comes to me. O simple and unwise ! here is 
 the truth of my writings and the Bible together; for 
 it is written by the prophet, " that in the latter days 
 darkness will cover the earth and gross darkness the 
 eyes of the people" For the book of God is like a 
 book that is sealed, that neither the learned nor the 
 unlearned could read; for the Lord saith by the pro- 
 phet, ' In the latter days I shall do marvellous things 
 amongst them ; for the wisdom of the wise men shall 
 perish, and the understanding of the prudent man shall 
 be hid ; the bows of the mighty men shall be broken." 
 So ye have all drawn out your bows against me in 
 vain ; for all your bows will be broken, and all 
 your spears will be snapped asunder; for ye have no 
 knowledge of God or his ways; for ye have judged 
 God is like the dumb image made in my likeness, 
 that could neither see nor hear ; perfectly so you judge 
 the LORD; and ye have judged me another such as 
 yourselves, that can mock God, and trifle with eter- 
 nity. Such is your judgment of me. But now I 
 shall answer for myself: The fear of the Lord was 
 placed in me from a child, and I was fearfully made : 
 my heart was tender within me, and my conscience 
 also. I not only feared sin, but hated z7, and found 
 no pleasure in any thing, but in the service of the 
 Lord; my character will bear the strictest scrutiny; 
 and so bright did it appear in my early age, that many 
 that I lived with said, I had not my fellow or like
 
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 amongst women ; as my temper was mild and hea- 
 venly ; my principles honest and upright in all things. 
 Such was my character in my earlier days ; but I 
 found'myself as a sheep amongst wolves j I was sur- 
 rounded with people that were artful, deceitful, 
 proud and malicious, with every headstrong and un- 
 governed passion, more like lions than like chris- 
 tians ; and I was hated for being of a different spirit ; 
 as their characters were bad, and mine good ; so I 
 was hated when I never gave offence ; and finding 
 myself surrounded with such people, who made 
 their own lives unhappy, and all around them ; I 
 began to determine to shake off the world, and to 
 Jive to God, and to God only; and to have my con- 
 versation in heaven, and all my hopes of happiness 
 to be centred in the Lord ; wishing, with Job, I 
 could go down to the cold chambers of the grave, 
 where the wicked cease from troubling, and where 
 the weary be at rest. I saw no happiness in this world 
 nor any did I expect ; for I have been weary of the 
 world for more than twenty years ; nay, I may say, 
 forty years long have I been grieved with a crooked 
 and perverse generation ; for when I was a child I 
 was weary of the tempers and dispositions of sinful 
 people ; my discernment was deep in my earliest 
 age j and now let any candid reader judge, if a heart 
 and mind like mine would run themselves into the 
 grossest sins, to dwell with devils and wicked spi- 
 rits in another world, when I was sick of their vices 
 in this. It was a hell to me to be confined with 
 wicked people here ; then how wretched and miser- 
 able must I feel my case to be confined with nothing 
 but wicked people hereafter ! The Lord is my judge 
 and is witness against you ; the Lord is my law-giver 
 of whom shall 1 be afraid! So singular hath my life 
 been in this world, and so many remarkable things 
 have happened in it, that it was nineteen years ago 
 I was ordered to write my life, for it should go in 
 print, and thousands should be convinced by it ; I 
 then wrote it, but I had no thought that the spirit of
 
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 prophecy would ever be given me ; and I was 
 strongly persuaded by my friends not to put it in 
 print then, as they could not see that many thou- 
 sands could be convinced by it. I gave up to 
 their persuasions, not being- strongly pressed by 
 the Spirit to put it in print at that time, after I had 
 written it ; but when the visitation of the Lord 
 came so powerfully to me, in 1792, I began to 
 think of my former writings, and was at war with 
 myself, whether this last might not be like the first, 
 to write, but not to print ; so my jealousy made me 
 spend my time in tears and prayers, that the Lord 
 would not permit a wrong spirit to deceive. I will 
 not say I had no doubts arise in my mind, as every 
 thing I was told appeared very unlikely to come to 
 pass; yet the manner of my visitation sometimes 
 made my faith as strong as the mountains ; at other 
 times jealousy alarmed my breast, fearing the de- 
 vil might come as an angel of light to deceive me ; 
 as I am not unacquainted with the devices of Sa- 
 tan ; for he hath as much power to speak to the 
 hearing of the ear, as he hath to have an influence 
 over the heart. So my faith was mixed with fear, 
 which made me to be in fervent prayer to the Lord 
 that he would not suffer me to be deceived by a 
 wrong spirit; repeated signs of truth were set before 
 me, to assure me my calling was of God; butmany 
 of my writings were hard to beunderstood, and full 
 as hard to be believed: but the severe threatenings 
 pronounced against me, if I drew back through un- 
 belief, made me persevere, as I \vas injuring none 
 but myself, if my writings were not of God ; but 
 if they were of God, I knew they were for the 
 good of all who believed in them ; and the strict- 
 est of justice I found in the Spirit that directed 
 me. I was ordered to seal up my writings in 
 1792 ; but not to keep them in my possession ; 
 and my writings after, I was ordered to seal up 
 every year, and to have witnesses to sign them ; 
 and I was ordered to send letters to ministers, of
 
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 events, before they came to pass, every year, from 
 1 796 to 1 800. But the standard for men to be clear 
 judges, that they could not be deceived, was fixed 
 by the wonderful vision I saw in 1794;* when I was 
 told, that when twelve chosen men should meet toge- 
 ther to break the Seals, then the Lord would make 
 every crooked path straight before them, and the 
 truth be as clear as the noon day sun ; and such signs 
 were then given me that should happen at that time, 
 that no man could err. Now such justice and equity 
 I have never yet found in man; and! can never believe 
 it is in the devil, though some worldly-wise men are 
 led to believe it ; for he must have risen against him- 
 self ; then how will his kingdom stand : Is Satan come 
 to tell me that his whole nature is like the serpent when 
 he appeared to Eve at first ? For such he is represented 
 throughout my writings; though some of my readers 
 do not believe him so bad, but judge men are their 
 own devil O, madmen and fools, how hath Satan 
 bewitched you ! what rnad judgment have ye drawn ! 
 I grant the wind bloweth where it listeth,ye hear the 
 sound thereof, but cannot tell from whence it cometh, 
 or whither it goeth; so is every one that is born of 
 the Spirit; and so it is to me ;and I judge of the spirit 
 by its truth, that it came from the Lord, as he saith. 
 But some are so ignorant to judge my writings are of 
 myself; I must be bold to say that they are both proud, 
 vain and conceited, to think that dit.it and ashes could 
 invent such writings as mine are ; and bring all so 
 close to the Bible, and so full of truths ; which is more 
 than all men on earth could do, if they had all So- 
 lomon's wisdom. So let no man give such merit or 
 wisdom to me ; for as distant as the heavens are from 
 the earth, so distant are my writings from any know- 
 ledge, wisdom, or understanding of my own : and 
 were I so proud and vain a fool to say it was of myselt, 
 I should judge the Lord would take my senses from 
 me ; so men of wisdom must see they come from a su- 
 perior power to man, and placed by j u itice more than I 
 
 * See Strange Effects of Faith, paj;e 17,
 
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 find in man. They have j udged me without knowledge, 
 according to the deceitfulness of their own hearts; 
 but I have not so learned of Christ, as to mock God, 
 and deal deceitfully with men ; and I should not have 
 penned the mannerof my life, if I had nut been ordcr- 
 ed, to convince mankind / was born for- what 1 am. 
 So a religious life I do not consider as any merit due 
 to myself, but give unto the Lord the glory due unto 
 his name, who gave me a heart to hate sin jrommy child- 
 hood: and yet to my shame, I have one ruling sin I 
 cannot conquer; and that isaresenting spirit, where I 
 have been used ill ; but can venture my life for those 
 who use me well. My readers may say, if I am a 
 true Christian I ought to forgive every one. I an- 
 swer, our Saviour said, if thy brother offend seven 
 times a day, and seven times a day say he repents, 
 thou shah forgive him ; and so can I freely. We are 
 commanded to pray to the Lord to forgive us our 
 trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against 
 us : now we cannot expect the Lord will forgive us 
 our trespasses unless we repent; and by repentance I 
 can forgive the greatest enemy. But though I bring 
 scripture to clear myself, I do not justify myself in so 
 strongly resentinga spirit; it is a sin that has mortified 
 me ever since I began to write; I have often been 
 compelled^ act contrary to my own natural evil, and 
 fight against myself; so I have nothing to boast of: it 
 was the unbounded love of God who drew my heart 
 to run after him, before I had any knowledge of him; 
 so it is the Lord's goodness that hath made me what 
 I am; but let no one say I am self-iighteous; for I 
 may say, blessed be the rod of the Lord, that crossed 
 me in every tiling in this world, that I might not set 
 my heart upon it, but seek for happiness in him 
 alone: it is the crosses, disappointments, and cruelties 
 of this world, that made me seek all my happiness in 
 the Lord; and I always found him a God hearing 
 and answering prayer; and I have found the truth of 
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 never did deceive me, and he never will. But do 
 my readers judge if I had not been acquainted with the 
 ways of the Lord, before the Spirit of Prophecy was 
 given me, that my faith would lead me to leave my 
 work, spend my time and money,to write things that 
 then seemed to me as unlikely to come true as the 
 most distant thing ? But I have found the truth of the 
 Lord, concerning myself, for near twenty years be- 
 fore ; so I judged concerning the nations, and the 
 truths have followed for eleven years, as I have fre- 
 quently observed in my writings j and as the past 
 have come true, 1 judge the future all will take place, 
 however unlikely it may appear; and the wondrous 
 manner I have lately been restored from a sick bed 
 confirms mv faith. Here I have given a short ac- 
 
 j O 
 
 count of the manner of my life, and find the world 
 perfectly like the judgmentlhad foundfor years past. 
 
 Now the world 1 bid farewell, 
 
 For now I plainly see 
 The hearts of men, in chequer'd lines, 
 
 Lie open unto me ; 
 For now the world I plainly see 
 
 In colours black and white ; > 
 
 Farewell, vain world, adieu to me, 
 For God is my delight ! 
 
 Here I shall mention two particular instances that 
 happened to me \vhen a child, as they are explained 
 by the Spirit. One was my reading about Peter's de- 
 nying of Christ, which made me often go into a gar- 
 den of my father's, that was like a grove shaded by 
 trees, at a small distance from the house ; where I 
 went in prayer that I might never do as Peter did, to 
 deny Christ. The other instance was from an acci- 
 dent ; I was sliding upon the ice on a large pond belon- 
 ging to my father,when I came to the further end the 
 ice broke and I fell in and went under,and must have 
 been drowned, had not my father, who was in his 
 barn threshing, seen me, and immediately ran to my
 
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 relief, and he was obliged to break the ice to get 
 me out. This simple thing I should not mention had 
 it not been explained to me by the Spirit ; and I have 
 been \ronderrully preserved from being drowned 
 three times. Now I shall <nve the answer of the 
 
 O ^ 
 
 Spirit to what I have written of myself. 
 
 " Now thou hast ended, I'll begin 
 
 Awake, ve fallen sons of men ! 
 
 For now I see you are all asleep ; 
 
 Awake, awake, or soon you'll weep. 
 
 All she hath written here is true ; 
 
 Her Life and Faith no man doth know ; 
 
 Biit I, that am enthron'd on high, 
 
 Do tell you all she does not lie ; 
 
 Because I tell you she was born 
 
 My GOSPEL TRUTHS for to perform ; 
 
 Because a Spirit she hath got 
 
 That Man by Nature knoweth not ; 
 
 No vice to conquer it is true, 
 
 A Child that's born my Work to do. 
 
 The voice of nature must be free : 
 
 Satan could never dwell in thee j 
 Because my Spirit I plac'd there : 
 Ere thou wast born, thy mother's prayer 
 
 I surely promis'd so should be ; 
 Like Samuel I have brought up thee 
 Ever to wait upon the Lord ; 
 And great they'll find is thy reward. 
 So as thy Life is written here, 
 I say in print it mutit appear; 
 And half the truth is now not told, 
 What I hereafter shall unfold ; 
 Because my Spirit was in thee, 
 When from a child, they all shall see, 
 Which made thee to the Garden go ; 
 And allthy Life I'll let them know : 
 When thou a child didst go in prayer, 
 And all shall know that I was there : 
 I saw thy tears, I heard thy tongue, 
 What from thy infant lips did spring; 
 And this they'll find is Foley's Child, 
 That he did dream, and so was foil'd ; 
 Because thou'rt come of riper age, 
 And short thy life is on the stage ; 
 Therefore thy Writings they must prove, 
 And then they '11 find the harmless Dove,
 
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 To bring the Olive Branch of Peace. 
 Believers' joy will then increase; 
 For then they'll know, that from a child, 
 Thy Spirit was by ME beguil'd; 
 And so thy life they'll then trace back, 
 And know I kept thee from the rack, 
 When to be drowned thou wast near; 
 But then thy Father did appear, 
 And quickly sav'd thee by his hand. 
 So here's the Dove in Foley's dream; 
 Thou brok'st the ice, 'tis broke for MAX, 
 That on the bason it was seen, 
 That then may rest on Foley's head. 
 So wash your hands, you need not fear, 
 And quench the thirst that will be laid 
 On every thirsty soul that's there. 
 " The Robes of Innocence are found," 
 Will be the voice in every sound ; 
 " We see the DOTE, we see the Child, 
 " How Innocence was always foil'd !" 
 And it hath been throughout thy life; 
 Thou'st found a world of sin and strife, 
 So different from the make of thee, 
 Which always spoil'd thy harmony. 
 But when my Kingdom doth appear, 
 Such spirits will be plenty here; 
 And then your bliss will be complete ; 
 For I shall surely fioish it. 
 So now men's mockery do not fear ; 
 I know the truth is written here: 
 And for my honour it must go 
 In public print, that all might know 
 That thou hast scro'd ME from a child. 
 Thy heart was tender, temper mild, 
 And from all vice thou sure wast free : 
 I know the Cains will envy thee; 
 Because like ABEL thou dost appear; 
 Thy Innocence I'll surely clear ; 
 Because the whole I know is true; 
 And many things before my view, 
 That make thy virtues bright to shine. 
 I'll answer man as I did Cain: 
 If they in virtue act like thee, 
 Then so accepted they shall be ; 
 But if that Sin lies at the door, 
 Let all their pondering wrath be o'er; 
 Or else I'll prove they act like hell, 
 Where the infernal host do dwell ; 
 Who envymerit where 'tis good, 
 But in their vices still they stood : 
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 And yet they want to have a praise, 
 Like those that fear'd and lov'd my ways-; 
 But this I tell them cannot be; 
 For God and Belial can't agree: 
 And Saints and Sinners are the same : 
 Those that do love and fear my name 
 Are hated by the sons of men, 
 Whose ways from hell, and act like Cain. 
 But now the Cains, let them take care; 
 I tell them now 'tis they must fear ; 
 Because a change they now shall see; 
 "Tis hell must tremble, and not ME; 
 'Tis there the cross shall then be found ; 
 I soon shall shake this earthly ground, 
 And chain the Rebel to his doom, 
 And seal him as they seal'd my TOMB. 
 Therefore, ye shepherds now awake; 
 I say your flocks stand all at stake ; 
 If you so blindly lead them on, 
 Like sheep for slaughter soon they'll come ; 
 And this I told you of before 
 Dumb dogs my shepherds would appear; 
 Blind leaders of the blind are come, 
 And so the ditch is hastening on ; 
 For Hirelings, I say, you are, 
 And for your sheep you do not care : 
 If you the fleece from them can find,. 
 The naked sheep you do not mind. 
 What storms and tempests do come on, 
 You make my Bible but a song, 
 Full of invention and not true; 
 What I have spoke I shall not do 
 Is judged by the sons of men : 
 You wrest the Scriptures, and contend 
 That all us fable doth appear; 
 The voice of wisdom you do hear 
 Charming in every different sound ; 
 Yet still the Adder doth abound, 
 I plainly see, to stop your ears; 
 But soon I'll fill your hearts with fear* ; 
 And all my Bible I demand, 
 An answer from the shepherds' hands, 
 If they will prove 'twas ever true? 
 If I no other work shall do, 
 Than what I have already done, 
 My Bible up and down must come,* 
 
 * In order for the reader to understand these lines, Joanna had, as it were by 
 accident, written in her book from the opposite ends , one part she began where 
 the bottom of the otkcr was, and when she came to these last lines, half was writ- 
 ten one way, and the other half the opposite way, meetip g in the middle of the 
 page ; so she had to turn her book to read one half different from the other. 
 Thus will the Lord turn HIS Bible to fulfil it.
 
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 Just as thy Writings do appear, 
 And thou thyself the words can't clear, 
 Unless thou turn'sta different way, 
 And perfect so my. Bible lay." 
 
 Here I shall insert the dream of the Rev. T. P. 
 Foley, as it is alluded to in the preceding poetry, 
 which was on the 24th September ; it was given at 
 the very time I lay on my sick bed. The dream is as 
 follows: " I thought I was in my bed-room with 
 the sash open ; there came in a most beautifully-co- 
 loured Dove, and which seemed to be remarkably 
 tame. It flew to the wash hand bason, and drank 
 twice with much eagerness, as if it had been very 
 thirsty. I then thought it remained upon the table, 
 and stretched out its neck, as if it was satisfied and 
 delighted. Soon after, to my wonderful surprise, 
 the bird turned into a most beautiful girl, about 
 twelve years old, and had on a most elegant and 
 handsome white crape dress; and I thought I salu- 
 ted her, and then awoke." 
 
 I shall also insert another dream of my own, on 
 the 6th October; having received a letter from the 
 Rev. Stanhope Bruce the day before, wherein he 
 writes, that the Rev. Mr. Mossop complained of the 
 rubbish, that he said was in my writings; which 
 ought to be parted. In the night I dreamt I was near 
 a shelving bank; there was a large square board 
 that stood against the bank, within something like a 
 tray, about four yards each way; the upper part was 
 filled with meal, that seemed to stick to the board; 
 for although it was nearly upright, none of the 
 meal fell, which was covered all over with dustj 
 there was a lady who wanted some of the meal, or, 
 flour, but none of the dust. I thought I struck the 
 board with a stick, and all the dust rolled off like a 
 cloud by itself. I then took a broom and swept it 
 away ; next the bran came down, which I threw 
 out for the pigs ; lastly, the fine flour came down 
 by itself. I said to the lady, this is the way I have 
 
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 parted it ; for you now see the fine flour come dowa 
 by itself. Oh, she said, you have a very good way, 
 for I should have never thought of doing that; it is 
 nicely parted; the dust is blown away; the bran is 
 given to the pigs; and I should now like to have 
 some of the fine flour, which is left behind. Here I 
 give the answer of the Spirit to this dream. 
 
 " Now this Dream to thee I'll answer, 
 
 And let Mossop to appear, 
 He shall find I am thy Master, 
 
 And the mysteries will make clear. 
 Both, thou didst see. were placed by ME 
 
 To shew the perfect sign; 
 And close to it the whole did stick, 
 
 But here the truth they'll find. 
 When I begin to shew you plain 
 
 The Flour it is here ; 
 I'll strike my rod, it shall be known, 
 
 And all the Dust I'll clear 
 To fly away, you all shall see ; 
 
 For so my broom shall come ; 
 And then the Bran, that's judged by man, 
 
 The Pigs may feed thereon : 
 And then behind, you all shall find, 
 
 The Flour will appear ; 
 And then my wisdom all will see, 
 
 That no man now can clear. 
 My Bible's true, bring to your view, 
 
 But like the dust become; 
 The mysteries there's no man doth know, 
 
 What faith they hang upon. 
 But in the Dust is all their trust. 
 
 The mysteries don't discern, 
 That all these things must fly away, 
 
 To make the Flour come. 
 Gross darkness here doth now appear, 
 
 My Prophet did foretel ; 
 And darkness I have told thee here, 
 
 It in men's hearts would swell. 
 Where I speak plain to simple men, 
 
 The truth they cannot see; 
 Where I speak high they give the liej 
 
 And now the dust you'll see 
 Is all in Men; for I'll speak plain, 
 
 They like the dust appear. 

 
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 Some foolish fancies fill their heads, 
 
 My Bible none can clear. 
 It is too high for men I see ; 
 
 They do not understand 
 That all the dust must fly away, 
 
 And then I'll show the Bran 
 That doth appear; I now shall clear, ; 
 
 The pigs may eat the bran ; 
 But those that do believe thee here, 
 
 They'll find the flour to come; 
 And then they'll say to thee that day, 
 
 That wisely thou hast done ; 
 They never could have thought such way 
 
 To try what was in man ; 
 And shew them plain, from every sign, 
 
 Their senses they were fled; 
 Wrong was the judgment in mankind, 
 
 And proves that they were dead 
 To every knowledge of their GOD, 
 
 And all Perfection here; 
 Dead to the footsteps they have trod, 
 
 As I have said before." 
 
 Here I shall give in plain words, as it was an- 
 swered in prose and verse. " The board is my bible ; 
 the flour that stuck close to it are thy writings ; for 
 though it stood almost upright, it did not fall ; the 
 dust that covered it was the unbelief of mankind; the 
 bran that was with it is the husk for the devil to 
 eat ; for he hath been feeding man with husk, from 
 his fall until this day ; as no one hath been without 
 his sorrows. The fine flour, that is behind, is what 
 is in store for believers. When I come to part the 
 whole, the unbelievers will roll down as a cloud, 
 and pass away as a thick cloud ; then cometh the 
 husk for the devil to feed on ; and then cometh the 
 fine flour, that is left behind for those that believe. 
 And now cometh my Gospel : those that hear these 
 sayings of mine, and believe them, are like a wise 
 man, who built his house upon a rock, and the winds 
 blew and the storms beat, it fell not, for it was 
 founded on a rock ; but he that heareth these say- 
 ings of mine, and keepeth them not, is like a foolish 
 man, who built his house on the sand, that when
 
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 the storms beat, and the winds blew, it fell, and 
 great was the fall thereof! And so they will fall 
 like the dust, and the wind will carry them away; 
 for they will be swept off with the besom of destruc- 
 tion: then will those that believe in ME and my 
 Gospel, and that I shall redeem them according to 
 my promise, have nothing but fine flour to feed on, 
 both spiritual and temporal; for their peace shall 
 flow as a river, and my Spirit shall descend as a 
 mighty stream. Now I will come to the rubbish 
 in thy writings : let men sweep off the bran when aJl 
 is fulfilled ; then let the fine flour remain. I spoke 
 highly by my prophets, which stumbled the Jews; 
 I have spoke simply by thee, and it stumbles the 
 Gentiles; though I said with the simple I should 
 deal simply ; but none discern the truth of my Bible: 
 for the wisdom of God is foolishness with man ; so 
 they prove the truth ; but the wisdom of man is 
 foolishness with ME ; for they stumble in visions, 
 and err in judgment ; and there is no judgment in 
 their goings. For I said, like the days of Noah 
 and Lot, so will the coming of the SON of MAN 
 be. I said, at my second coming I should scarce 
 find faith on the earth ; and they no more believe 
 I shall fulfil my Bible, than they believe thy wri- 
 tings : for if they believe my sayings, they must be- 
 lieve thy sayings ; but if they believe not thy say- 
 ings, they cannot believe mine. And now let my 
 sayings appear; did I not tell you, the time shall 
 come when your redemption shall draw near? Did 
 I not tell you, all shall grow together until the har- 
 vest ? then I will gather my wheat into the garners, 
 and burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire. Did 
 I not tell you, if the days were not shortened, no 
 flesh would be saved : but for the elect sake they 
 shall be shortened ? Now if you believe ME and my 
 gospel, explain my meaning, \vhy I compared the 
 kingdom of heaven to every thing here on earth 
 Did I not tell you, I came not to destroy the law 
 of God, or the prophets, buttofiifil them; for this
 
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 generation should not pass away till all was fulfil- 
 led ? Now look to the Prophets, and see if ever 
 they were fulfilled. 
 
 ZECHAKIAH, ix. 10. " And he shall speak peace 
 unto the heathen : and his dominion shall be from 
 sea to sea, and from the river even to the ends of 
 the earth." 
 
 MICAH, iv. 4. "They shall sit every man under 
 his vine, and under his fig-tree, and none shall 
 make them afraid : for the mouth of the Lord of 
 hosts hath spoken it." 
 
 5. " For all people will walk every one in the 
 name of his God ; and we will walk in the name of 
 the Lord our God for ever and ever." 
 
 3. "And he shall judge among many people, and 
 rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat 
 their swords in to plough-shares, and their spears into 
 pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against 
 nation, neither shall they learn war any more." 
 
 EZEKIEL, xxxix. 29. "Neither will I hide my 
 face any more from them ; for I have poured out my 
 spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord God." 
 
 xxxvi. <4. '' For I will take you from among the 
 heathen; and gather you out of all countries, and 
 will bring you into your own land." 
 
 25. " Then I will sprinkle clean water upon you ; 
 and ye shall be clean : and a new heart also will I 
 give you ; and a new spirit will I put within you." 
 
 3.5. " And they shall say, this land that was de- 
 solate, is become like the garden of Eden ; and the 
 waste, .and desolate, and ruined cities, are become 
 fenced, and are inhabited." 
 
 36. " I the LORD have spoken it, and I will do it." 
 
 xxxiv. [The shepherds are threatened in this 
 chapter for the carelessness of their flocks ; but the 
 flocks are promised to be saved.] 
 
 28. "And they shall no more be a prey to the 
 heathen, but they shall dwell safely, and none shall 
 make them afraid." 
 
 ISAIAH, xl. 5. " And the glory of the Lord shal
 
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 be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for 
 the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it." 
 
 31. " But they that wait upon the Lord shall re- 
 new their strength ; they shall mount up as with 
 the wings of an eagle; they shall run, and not be 
 weary; and they shall walk, and not be faint." 
 
 xlv. 22. " Look unto me, and be ye saved, all 
 the ends of the earth ; for I am GOD, and there is 
 none else." 
 
 23. " I have sworn by myself, the word is gone 
 out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not 
 return : that unto me every knee shall bow, and 
 every tongue shall swear." 
 
 25. " Iti the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be 
 justified ; and shall glory." 
 
 lii. 1. "Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O 
 Zion, put on-thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, 
 the holy city : for henceforth there shall no more 
 come unto thee the uncircumcised,and the unclean." 
 
 10.x'* The Lord hath made bare his holy arm in 
 the eyes of all the nations ; and all the ends of the 
 earth shall see the salvation of our God." 
 
 14. "As many were astonished at thee; (his vi- 
 sage was so marred, more than any man, and his 
 form more than the sons of men.)" 
 
 15. "So shall he sprinkle many nations; the 
 kings shall shut their mouths at him : for that which 
 had not been told them shall they see ; and that 
 which they had not heard shall they consider." 
 
 Iv. 12. " For ye shall go out with joy, and be 
 led forth with peace : the mountains and the hills 
 shall break forth before you into singing, and all 
 the trees of the field shall clap their hands." 
 
 13. "Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir 
 tree ; and instead of the briar shall come up the 
 myrtle tree; and it shall be to the LOUD for a name, 
 for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off." 
 
 xlii. 4. " He shall not fail nor be discouraged 
 till he have set judgment in the earth : and the 
 isles shall wait for his law."
 
 9- " Behold the former things are come to pass, 
 and new things do I declare: before they spring 
 forth I tell you of them," 
 
 1O. " Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his 
 praise from the end of the earth." 
 
 13. " The LORD shall go forth as a mighty man, 
 lie shall stir up jealousy like a man of war; he shall 
 prevail against his enemies.'' 
 
 14. " I have a long time holden my peace, I 
 have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry 
 like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour 
 at once." 
 
 18. " Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye 
 may see," 
 
 xliii. 6. "I will say to the north, give up; and 
 to the south, keep not back: bring my sons from 
 far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth." 
 
 8. " Bring forth the blind people that have 
 eyes, and the deaf that have ears." 
 
 xliv. 21. " O Israel, thou shalt not be forgotten 
 of me." 
 
 22. " I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy 
 transgressions; and as a cloud, thy sins: return unto 
 me, for 1 have redeemed thee." 
 
 23. " Sing, O heavens, for the LORD hath done 
 it : shout, ye lower parts of the earth : break forth 
 intosinging, ye mountains, O forest and every tree 
 therein; for the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and 
 glorified himself in Israel." 
 
 24. " I am the Lord thatmaketh all things ; that 
 stretcheth forth the heavens alone ; that spreacleth 
 abroad the earth by myself." 
 
 25. " That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and 
 maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men back- 
 ward, and maketh their knowledge foolish." 
 
 xlv. 8. " Drop down, ye heavens, from above, 
 and let the skies pour down righteousness : let the 
 earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and 
 let righteousness spring up together: I, the LORD, 
 have created it."
 
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 17. " But Israel shall be saved in the Lord, with 
 an everlasting salvation ; ye shall not be ashamed 
 nor confounded, world without end." 
 
 22. "Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends 
 of the earth : for I am God, and there is none else." 
 
 23. " I have sworn by myself, the word is gone 
 out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not 
 return; that unto me every knee shall bow, every 
 tongue shall swear." 
 
 25. " In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be 
 justified, and shall glory." 
 
 li. 11. "Therefore the redeemed of the Lord 
 shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; 
 and everlasting joy shall be upon their head : they 
 shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and 
 mourning shall flee away." 
 
 22. "Thus saith thy Lord, the LORD and thy 
 God, that pleadeth the cause of his people, behold, 
 I have taken out of thy hand the cup of trem- 
 bling; even the dregs of the cup of my fury thou 
 shalt no more drink it again." 
 
 23. " But I will put it into the hand of them 
 that afflict thee." 
 
 Ivi. 1. " Thus saith the Lord, keep ye judg- 
 ment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to 
 come, and my righteousness to be revealed." 
 
 8. " The Lord God which o-athereth the out- 
 
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 casts of Israel saith, yet will I gather others to 
 him, besides those that are gathered unto him." 
 
 10. " His watchmen are blind ; they are all ig- 
 norant, they ar all dumb dogs, they cannot bark ; 
 sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber." 
 
 11." Yea, they are greedy dogs, which can ne- 
 ver have enough ; and they are shepherds that 
 cannot understand: they all look to their own 
 way, every one for his gain, from his quarter." 
 
 Ix. 2. " For behold, the darkness shall cover the 
 earth, and gross darkness the people : but the 
 LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall 
 be seen upon thee."
 
 18. " Thou slialt call thy walls salvation, and 
 thy gates praise." 
 
 20. " The Lord sliall he thine everlasting light, 
 and the days of thy mourning shall be ended." 
 
 21. 22. " Thy people also shall be all righteous: 
 they shall inherit the land tor ever; the branch of 
 my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be 
 glorified. A little one shall become a thousand, and 
 a small one a strong nation : I, the Lord, will hasten 
 it in his time." 
 
 Ixv. 17. " For behold I create new heavens, 
 and anew earth; and the former shall not be re- 
 membered nor come into mind." 
 
 18. " For behold I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, 
 and her people a joy." 
 
 22. " And mine elect shall long enjoy the work 
 of their hands." 
 
 Ixvi. 12. " For thus saith the Lord, behold I 
 will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory 
 of the Gentiles like a flowing stream." 
 
 22. " For as the new heavens, and the new earth, 
 which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the 
 Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain." 
 
 " Here is the Sen IPX u RE before you, that is to 
 be fulfilled, but is not told how. But in thy writings 
 I have told how they shall be accomplished. There 
 is first some cause before there is a war; there 
 are first clouds before there is rain; the sun must 
 first be risen before it shines upon you ; and a man 
 must first break the law before he is condemned; 
 there must be a beginning before there is an ending. 
 So it must be with the coming of my Kingdom, and 
 the destruction of Satan's. It is for Man's sake that 
 Satan is cast ; and Man must first sign the articles. of 
 his destruction before he is cast; itis for Man's hap- 
 piness that I shall bring in my peaceable Kingdom, 
 as promised. And Man must first sign the articles 
 of my coming, before I shall come; or how shall the 
 scriptures be fulfilled? How can they say, "this is the
 
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 Lord, wehave waited for him," if they are not warn- 
 ed before? How can you say, " the Bridegroom 
 cometh,goyeout tomeethim," if you are not warned 
 of my coming? How can you say," Satan, the great 
 accuser of the brethren, is cast down,"if'you know it 
 not? How can the days be shortened, if they run 
 until the whole, six thousand years are up ? For I 
 said, My SPIRIT shall not always strive with man, 
 but my delight shall be with the sons of men; and 
 what delight could I have with men, before I have 
 tried their love ? It is no Love to ME, that a man as- 
 pireth to be a bishop^a chancellor, an archdeacon, or 
 a shepherd of thejlock : it is their love to themselves ; 
 for they all preach for hire. But itis in LOVE to ME, 
 that men are striving to convince the world of my 
 COMING; for here they have no present reward; 
 but when I come my reward is with ME; and they 
 shall find I will not tarry: but I must gather my 
 wheat into my garner, before I burn the chaff with 
 unquenchable fire ; for now all my Bible shall be ful- 
 filled." 
 
 All the chapters I have mentioned the Lord hath 
 promised to explain their meaning to me. And now 
 I come to the second Psalm : " Thou art my Son ; 
 this day have I begotten thee: ask of ME, and 
 I will give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, 
 and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy pos- 
 session." 
 
 Here ends the ANSWER of the LORD 
 to the Powers of Darkness 
 
 Directing Men to search the Scriptures; for 
 
 in them ye have eternal Life. 
 October 12, 1802.
 
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 Further COMMUNICATIONS given to me, in 
 
 Answer to Man's Controversies. 
 I was ordered to open the Bible and write : 
 
 NEHEMIAH, vii. 36. "The children of Jericho, 
 three hundred forty and five." 
 
 PSALM, xcix. 6Y " Moses and Aaron among 
 his priests, and Samuel among them that call upon 
 his name : they called upon the Lord, and he an- 
 swered." 
 
 MATTHEW, xxvi. 55. "In that same hour, said 
 Jesus to the multitude, are ye come out as against 
 a thief, with swords and staves for to take me ? I 
 sat daily with you leaching in the temple, and ye 
 laid no hold on me." 
 
 THE AKSWER OF THE SPIRIT. 
 
 " Here is the LAW and the GOSPEL together. 
 What was then done concerning Jerusalem shall 
 be now done again. The city shall be wondrously 
 and gloriously built ; the people shall be num- 
 bered by the Seals, that go to possess it; as they 
 then were numbered by Names, so shall they now 
 be numbered by Seals; for there is the number of 
 the Tribes mentioned in the Revelation ; and so 
 shall the Tribes now be sealed, like that chapter. 
 For as Moses and Aaron were amongst the priests, 
 and Samuel also was with them; and they called upon 
 the Lord, and he answered them ; so shall men 
 call upon ME, and I will answer ; I will be a LIGHT 
 to lighten the Gentiles, and the GLORY of my 
 People Israel ; those that I call my People Israel 
 are they that inquire after ME, to know my ways, 
 and to seek out the truth of my words : they are 
 my People, and I will be their GOD; and my 
 Glory shall rise upon them. They shall take up 
 the stumbling-block out of the way of my People, 
 and make plain my paths before all nations ; for 
 thy WRITINGS must go into all countries. The 
 night is far spent; the day is at hand, that I shall 
 redeem my people, according to my promise, from 
 the fall of Adam ; and the world shall be like the 
 garden of Eden; and man shall enjoy that perfect 
 happiness I created him for ; or how can man
 
 know what happiness I created him for, or what Sa- 
 tan robbed him of? 
 
 HABAKKUK, i. 12. " Art thou not from ever- 
 lasting, O Lord my God, my Holy One? We 
 shall not die : O Lord, thou hast ordained them 
 for judgment, ; and, O mighty God, thou hast es- 
 tablished them for correction." 
 
 ii. 14. " For the earth shall he filled with the 
 glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.'" 
 
 ZEPHANFAH, ii. 11. ' The Lord will be ter- 
 rthle unto them ; for he will famish all the gods of 
 the earth ; and men shall worship him, every one 
 from his place, even all the isles of the heathens." 
 
 iii. 9. " For then I will turn to the people a 
 pure language, that they may all call upon the 
 name of the Lord, to serve him with one consent." 
 
 MALACHI, iii. 16. " They that feared the Lord 
 spake often one to another ; and the Lord hear- 
 kened and heard, and a book of remembrance was 
 written before him, for them that feared the Lord 
 and thought upon his Name ; and they shall be 
 mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in the day that I 
 will make up my jewels, and I will spare them, as 
 a man spareth his own son that serveth him." 
 
 iv. 2. " Unto you that fear my Name, shall the 
 Sun of Righteousness arise with healing in his 
 wings ; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as 
 calves of the stall. And ye shall tread down the 
 wicked ; for they shall be as ashes under the soles 
 of your feet, in the day that I shall do this, saith 
 the Lord of hosts." 
 
 " Now these prophecies of my Bible were neveryet 
 oneof them fulfilled ; hut when I bring in this glori- 
 ous rest for my People that seek i E, and think upon 
 my Name; that the Sun of Righteousness shall arise 
 with healinginhis wings, fo heal the fall O/MAN and 
 he shall be one with M E, and I with him ; then must 
 my fury be poured out upon ah 1 nations that believe 
 not in me. Hitherto I have given them milk ; that 
 meancth I have mildly given the sincere milk of my 
 word, that ye may grow thereby, as new-born babes
 
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 I have spoken as a Father, a Brother, or a Friend : 
 but this love and condescension is despised, and not 
 judged as coming from a merciful Father, and a 
 compassionate God andRedeemer ; but soon they 
 judged it a foolish invention from some spirit, they 
 knew not where or from whom. Now as my love is 
 despised, my condescension abused, and not believ- 
 ed ; I shall come with a voice of thunder to my ene- 
 mies: for with the meek man I will deal meekly, 
 and with the humble man I have dealt humbly; but 
 now with the fro ward man I shall deal frowardly ; 
 and with the proud man I shall deal proudly : for I 
 will bring down the proud hearts of men, and level 
 with the dust the haughty spirits. My fire shall burn 
 like an oven, and the pride of men shall be burnt 
 upas stubble; for if they will not hear, and will not 
 lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, I will 
 send a curse upon them: for if I spared not the na- 
 tural branches, but cut them off through unbelief; 
 let the wild olive, that was grafted in, not be high 
 minded, but fear ; for as I cut off the Jews, from 
 Jerusalem, for their unbelief; so will I now cut off 
 from the face of the earth that mock the coming of 
 the Lord. Now have I shewed you the promises 
 made to my prophets; and now I have shewed you 
 by prophecies they shall be fulfilled ; for as sure as I 
 told thee, nineteen years ago, thy life should go in 
 print, and now it is done ; so sure will I do upon the 
 earth all I have spoken by thee; and it shall be a 
 savour of life to them that believe ; but of death to 
 them that disbelieve: for know by fait h are ye saved, 
 and ye perish through unbelief. The time I told thee 
 thy life must go in print was the year after the 
 American war was ended; and then thou wentest 
 through great persecution from man, and had false 
 witnesses raised up against thee. I warned thee the 
 second time to write it again; it was one year be- 
 fore the war broke out with France: and as sure as 
 the war broke out the following year, so sure shall 
 all break out, that I have said unto thee: for I will
 
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 now break out on the right hand, and on the left; 
 on the right hand, to fulfil all the promises I have 
 made to believers ; on the left, to destroy all the 
 mockers. Therefore the day of the Lord will be 
 terrible; and mine anger and indignation burn with 
 fury ; because I come in meekness and love to draw 
 men with cords of love ; but they judge there is no 
 condescension in their God ; then I will not conde- 
 scend longer to b^ar with their iniquities. If they 
 judge ME as an austere master ; like an austere mas- 
 ter let them fear ME: for now to the merciful man 
 I will show MERCY; and to the pitiful man I will 
 show PITY ; but to the cruel man I will show cru- 
 elty : and as men judge ME, let them fear ME. If 
 I am a Father, where is my honour? If a Master, 
 where is my fear ? They that judge ME as a Father, 
 let them know I have spoken as a Father, to shew 
 my loving kindness to the works of my hands; 
 that I made man and promised to redeem him ; 
 that my delight may be with him. So have I 
 drawn near to men, that they may draw near to 
 ME; but ye have snuffed at it, saith the Lord of 
 hosts; and ye have brought that which was torn 
 the blind and the sick^br an afferitt*; shall I receive 
 this at your hands, saith the Lord of hosts ? Ye call 
 the proud happy ; yea, they that work wickedness 
 are set up, and they that tempt God are even de- 
 livered! But they that think upon my name are 
 despised : and shall I not visit for this, saith the Lord 
 of hosts? The turn are those that break off from 
 my Bible, and make it a broken book ; one part 
 fulfilled, and the other part never to be fulfilled ; then 
 it n.ust be broke asunder; and how will ye join it 
 together? The blind are those, that in seeing, they 
 cannot see; nor in hearing, they cannot understand; 
 yet ye set up such men's judgment to be right. So 
 the evil day will come upon you unaware : for when 
 I bring my blessings on the one hand, to those that 
 are waiting for my coming ; I shall bring the curse 
 on the other ; on all those that say, " where is the
 
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 promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell 
 asleep, all things remain as they were "and so they 
 shall remain to them : for as the deluge destroyed 
 the world of old, and the fire destroyed Sodom and 
 Gomorrah, and the sword destroyed Jerusalem; so 
 shall the sword of my anger go forth and destroy 
 all those that look not for my coming. So now if I 
 am a Master, where is my fear? Have I not told you, 
 a day shall come that shall burn as an oven, and 
 all the proud and the wicked shall be burnt up like 
 stubble ? For I will make a full end of sin ; my 
 whirlwind shall go forth with fury, a cutting whirl- 
 wind, that shall fall grievously on the heads of the 
 wicked. In the latter days, they shall consider it 
 perfectly.* So if ye will not look unto ME, all ye 
 to the ends of the earth and be saved, ye must all 
 perish through unbelief. For I say unto man, as I 
 said unto Satan as you judged ME, so shall ye find 
 ME : as your faith is, it shall happen unto you. If 
 ye believe I came first in the Body and made my- 
 self free and familiar with man; ye must believe I 
 shall come more familiar in the Spirit, when I come 
 to bring in my Kingdom unto Men, and make you 
 joint heirs with ME; and show you my Salvation, 
 that is to be revealed ; which is to save you from 
 death, hell, and sin, and reveal to you the Tree of 
 Life. Salvation being revealed, must, be revealed 
 here on earth. To all that believe, I shall show my 
 salvation unto them. And my righteousness being 
 revealed is, that I have done just arc! right by men, 
 devils, and fallen- angels. This is what I told thee 
 in 1792 "Thou shouldest declare my won- 
 drous works to the children of men; and my faith- 
 fulness and loving kindness, thou shouldest not 
 keep back :" but what wondrous works hadst thou 
 then to declare? or what faithfulness or loving kind- 
 ness hadst thou then to keep back, when thy own 
 life hath been a scene of sorrow and persecution 
 
 * Jeremiah, xsix. 
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 from a deceitful people, laden with iniquity. All 
 the loving kindness jhou couldest then declare, 
 was in being delivered Jrom them, and a strong faith 
 in GOD, and of happiness hereafter, which is placed 
 in every true Christian." 
 
 Now I was ordered to open my Bihle. 
 
 PSALM, cxviii. 10. "They compassed me about; 
 but in the name of the Lord I will destroy them." 
 
 SAMUEL, xiv. 5. *'The fore front of one was 
 situated northward against Michmash ; and the 
 other southward against Giheah." 
 
 EXODUS, iv. 9. "Thou shalt take of the water 
 of the river and pour it upon the dry land j and the 
 water which thou takest out of the river shall be- 
 come blood upon the dry land." 
 
 " Now I shall answer. Strange as these chap- 
 ters may appear to thee; I shall now do as in the 
 days of old. And as I destroyed the Philistines 
 and Egypt, so will I now utterly destroy the Turks; 
 and their land will I give into the hands of Israel. 
 For their land shall become a land of blood. They 
 are a people that Satan hath set up, and worked 
 in their hearts to work wickedness ; and every cru- 
 elty is in their hands : but now the axe is laid to the 
 root, and every branch shall fall ; for I will utterly 
 destroy all the works of the devil. I will not leave 
 root or branch: but unto them that seek after ME, 
 to know my statutes, and keep my judgments, and 
 abide in my law; unto them shall the Sun of Right- 
 eousness arise, with healing in his wings; and I will 
 dwell in the midst of my people Israel. And as it 
 was by faith Abraham obtained the promise; so by 
 faith shall they now be saved, who trust in ME for 
 salvation: for I will throw down, and build up; I 
 will kill, and make alive; I will wound, and I will 
 heal; I will destroy, and I will save. For I, that 
 AM the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and Jacob, 
 will now be the God of all the families upon the 
 ear^h: and man shall know his God; and I will 
 know my people. Am I not present amongst the 
 * Mren of men, and do I not see who is for ME, and
 
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 who is against ME? He that is not with ME, is against 
 ME; he that gatherethnot with me, scattereth. 
 Now I shall come to the purpose with all men : I 
 that am the God of heaven, whose eye is every 
 where present, beholding the evil and the good ; 
 unto ME all hearts are opened, and from ME no se- 
 crets are hid. Do I not see, do not I consider, 
 do I not hear, do I not understand, who is desirous 
 for ME and my Kingdom? and who is like the Lao- 
 diceans, neither hot nor cold, hut luke-warm? 
 and such I shall spew them ont of my mouth. For 
 now I shall come to my Bible: was it to run out 
 the six thousand years, no flesh could be saved ; 
 /or Satan would bring in idolatry in every heart, 
 and condemn every man; then how could man be jus- 
 tified, and Satan condemned, was I not to chain him 
 down before the time, TO TRY MAN, what he is, 
 when he hath no devil to tempt him to evil? Then 
 shall I try man, as I have tried the angels in hea- 
 ven ; and then the thousand years 1 shall be judging 
 the world, by the conduct of mankind. When Satan 
 is sealed up, then will he feel the effects of my anger, 
 as the world did when they were destroyed. But 
 as Noah was preserved in the ark, and suffered to 
 come out and fill the earth again ; so shall Satan 
 be let loose at the end of the thousand years, and go 
 over the earth again : then if he reforms, he may 
 find some MERCY ; but if not he shall find no pity, 
 if he tempts Man to sin again. This shall I do, 
 that I may be clear in judging, and just in con- 
 demning: but how could I be clear, to judge after 
 the manner of men, to let Satan run out the full 
 time first, and then to give him no space of repent- 
 ance, as I have given to man the space of repent- 
 ance? It must be & tried repentance, and a proved 
 repentance: and thus will he be tried and proved, 
 when he has suffered the confinement for his sins; 
 as a man suffers for his crimes in a jail; but if he 
 is freed, and breaks the law again, he must be 
 hanged: and so if Satan tempts man again, he shall 
 be cut off from the society of men for ever. Here is 
 
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 my just dealings with men and devils; and he that 
 denieth the justice of my sentence, let him be an 
 atheist of a barren mind, that is accursed when his 
 Lord cpmeth. For such a man must judge without 
 judgment; and he must condemn without justice: 
 and just so have men judged thee ; and just the same 
 they judge ME. So there is no judgment in their go- 
 ings ; but I am GOD, and not man ; and my thoughts 
 are not like man's thoughts; nor my ways like man's 
 ways : for as high as the heavens are from the earth, 
 so far are my ways from man's ways, and my thoughts 
 from man's thoughts. What must become of the 
 world, was I to judge men as they judge thee, with- 
 out searching out the truth ? Every man must be lost. 
 So let none judge, that they may not be judged; let 
 them not condemn, that they may not be condemned. 
 If thou, by the spirit of Satan, hated every appearance 
 of evil, by what spirit do men drink iniquity, as the 
 ox drinketh water, and sin with a high hand? O, ye 
 simple and unwise, if ye cannot judge your Bibles, 
 how can ye judge the WOMAN? If ye make ME 
 and my prophets false, is it to be marvelled at, that 
 ye condemned the Woman also ? Know ye not, when 
 the Sun of Righteousness arises with healing in his 
 wings, that ye shall tread down the wicked as ashes 
 under your feet ? but how can the Sun of Righteous- 
 ness arise with healing in his wings, if I do not heal 
 them from their sins, arid bring them to that state of 
 innocence and happiness they were first created for? 
 And how can you tread down the wicked, as ashes 
 under your feet, if the author of zvickediiess is not 
 destroyed and trodden down ? No, I have said, ye lay 
 in the wicked one, which is the devil, and when he 
 is destroyed his works will follow, then will ye tread 
 down the wicked one as ashes under your feet: but 
 how will ye tread down the wicked while the root re- 
 mains? The weeds will spring up; and if ye tread 
 them down, they will rise again ; they cannot be as 
 ashes until the root is burnt up. And now I will 
 begin like a HUSBANDMAN, and go on like a man 
 of war.
 
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 Like a HUSBANDMAN I'll now appear; 
 
 I'll plough my Ground, and make my Fallows tare; 
 
 And then to stroiaui* it I will sure begin : 
 
 I'll burn the weeds from whence come every sin, 
 
 And then the ashes you may cast abroad. 
 
 The best of Husbandmen, you'll find is your 
 
 To cleanse my Ground I'll break up Root and 
 
 With a strong Plough I'll now let deep my Sull,* 
 
 Till every Root of Evil I've broke up, 
 
 And made my Ground fit for the Wheat to drop ; 
 
 Because the Stroiaui I'll surely burn to Dust ; 
 
 And here's the Ashes I for Man have plac'd 3 
 
 Under your Feet, I say, they all shall come, 
 
 And then, my Brethren, you may tread them down, 
 
 Just like the ashes that are cast abroad ; 
 
 For by the Husbandman it must be know'd, 
 
 When all the Stroiaui is burned to the Dust, 
 
 The Ashes then abroad by man are cast ; 
 
 And they that walk thereon may tread them down. 
 
 Now like the Husbandman I shall be found ; 
 
 For like these weeds is SATAN in the Earth ; 
 
 Deep are his roots, and so the seeds come forth, 
 
 That he is always sowing in the Ground ; > 
 
 For in the Hearts of Men his Seeds are found. 
 
 But now the Root of Evil I'll destroy. 
 
 And then the Wheat may their clean land enjoy, 
 
 To grow together, and increase their crop, 
 
 When every weed that choaks is burned up. 
 
 So like a Husbandman I'll now go deep, 
 
 Till every Root of Evil I do break ; j 
 
 And all the Roots of Evil now I'll burn, 
 
 And then I'll bring a glorious Crop for Man. 
 
 So like the Husbandman I've ended here, 
 
 And show'd you plain the way I shall appear,. 
 
 To burn the wicked weeds that so do spring, 
 
 By burning every Root, I say, of Sin. 
 
 And now a Man of War I'll surely be, 
 
 And leave no Foe without a Victory ; 
 
 My heavenly Armies 1 shall now prepare, 
 
 To meet the Root of Evil in the air, 
 
 And make the heavenly pillars for to shake. 
 
 And earth's foundation tremble and to quake 
 
 Where as you see your Stroiaui for to burn, 
 
 Just so my tire you will see to come ; 
 
 And as your cannons they do loudly roar, 
 
 Just so my thunder will be in tbe air, 
 
 When 1 the Warrior do begin for Men, 
 
 Who sign their Names to have my Kingdom comr. 
 
 * These words are Terms in Agriculture, n<ed iu ibe cwintry near Ureter., 
 vmd are explajped at the end of the work,
 
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 But first, the LOVE of MEN I'll surely try, 
 And then my arrows shall like fury fly 
 If Men should hasten, as a few begin, 
 The Victory of the LORD would soon be seen ; 
 Because they'll find ME standing in the air, 
 Widithe drawn Swords, that did to thee appear ;* 
 AndWFast my angels they will follow on, 
 Till Satan headlong to his Pit shall come, 
 With all his legions, and his hellish host, 
 That of their power do so proudly boast; 
 And then their power they may set up in hell, 
 With all his host, and let his power swell : 
 For he shall find that I shall gain the war- 
 The Woman conquer'd ; let the fool take care ; 
 Because my honour she did so maintain, 
 And now I'll prove my honour to her friends ; 
 And all shall find her words of ME were true; 
 And as she judg'd ME, I for her did do; 
 And as you judge ME now I'll do for all, 
 And prove to Man, from Heaven hath been her call. 
 But as she's simple, simply now I speak ; 
 But Man will tremble, when my fury breaks, 
 And like a Man of War for to appear, 
 And every foe before ME now I'll clear. 
 So now you see, your Bible's hastening on : 
 As by the Woman Mysteries here are shown ; 
 So by the Woman Mysteries did begin, 
 When first their Nakedness to them was seen ; 
 So by the Woman's hand it shall appear, 
 To show you Cloatlnng every soul shall wear. 
 As from the trees, the leaves in Autumn fall, 
 So in the Spring, I now do tell you all, 
 That the same trees do all bud out again, 
 And so the, green leaves you may then see plain 
 To bud, to blossom, and the fruit appear, 
 And bring the leaves to man another year : 
 Just so's the WOMAN, like the Trees become ; 
 And know, the Fruit came from the Woman's hand ; 
 And so the Fruit <loth from her all appear 
 I ask what man a child did ever bear, 
 More than the elm, or the lofty trees? 
 The Fruit's in Woman, judge this as you please, 
 Who brought to Man the GOOD FRUIT at the first,! 
 And from the Woman shall the good fruit burst ; 
 Though at that time the good fruit it did fall. 
 But now you'll find 'tis budding out for all, 
 To bring the perfect Fruit to Man again-, 
 And here's the Fruit that ever shall remain, 
 
 * Sc Strange Effects of Faith, pag 29. t .This alludes to the Birth of Cbrirt, 

 
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 To bud, to blossom, and bring every year. 
 With my Creation I shall all compare j 
 So now, I tell you to mark ev^ry sign ; 
 The fallen leaves are budding to mankind, 
 That will the perfect fruit unto you bring, 
 . And from the WOMAN must the GOOD FRUIT spring; 
 Because no Fruit did ever come from Man, 
 Though it is often grafted by his hand: 
 But 'tis the trees that must the fruit now bear, 
 That man hath pruned, and grafted with all care j 
 So I have pruned, and grafted the Fruit for Man, 
 And here's the Tree from whence your Knowledge comes ; 
 Twelve manner of Fruit you '11 find this Tree to bear ; 
 So now, all Nations, you may hope and fear ; 
 For he that plucks this Fruit through unbelief, 
 I tell him in the end he'll find his grief; 
 And he that saith, "the Fruit, let it remain 
 ** Until 'tis ripe, and then we shall see plain 
 " What fruit is on it, whether good or bad : 
 " And then the knowledge from it may be had" 
 To such I tell you, you do go too far ; 
 For when the ripen'd Fruit do all appear, 
 The -withered Fruit uillfall before the time ; 
 And so the knowledge you too late will find ; 
 Because no judgment you will draw before, 
 That all the Fruit was ripe, a:id then see clear ; 
 But then your Wisdom it will be too late ; 
 The Fruit's preserv'd, and the door is shut ! 
 And then too late your judgment you will show, 
 When those who judg'd it first, you all \\i!l know, 
 Will take possession of the Tree of Life : 
 It is the HEIRS to it must end the si rife ; 
 But know, an Heir to it no Man can be, 
 But such a* from the LEAVES begin to see." 
 
 Here I shall insert part of a letter, I sent to the 
 Rev. Mr. Foley ; it being the answer of the Lord to 
 me concerning him, when I heard he had launched 
 into the great deep, by making known to the people, 
 where he resides, these communications; for when 
 believers are joined with unbelievers, the latter think 
 the former mad. I wa^ thus answered : 
 
 " Fear not thou worm, Jacob, nor be dismayed, 
 ye men of Israel; for 1 am your GOD, and will be 
 with you, and protect you; and I will shame all that 
 shame you, and confound all that confound yon.
 
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 For as you have begun, the s H E P H E RD s of the flock 
 must follow, or be no shepherds: for the Lord will 
 send faithful labourers into his vineyard, as the har- 
 vest of the Lord is nigh at hand. However confident 
 men may be, that there is no cause for them to judge 
 for themselves, or sign their names; they will rind 
 there is no man that will have part in the Tree of 
 Life, whose NAM sis not found written, and the SEAL 
 given him : for these are the leaves for the healing 
 of the nations. The pure river that proceeded out 
 of the throne of GOD, and the LAMB, is the PURE 
 WORD OF GOD." The TREE in the midst of it you 
 will see explained in the following verses; and what 
 is meant by the leaves of the tree for the healing of 
 the nations. You know it is written, the servants 
 of the Lord shall be sealed, before they hurt the 
 earth or the sea: so they will find it a blessing that 
 the Lord has established you amongst them, if they 
 obey the call : but whether they will hear, or whe- 
 ther they will forbear, speak my words unto them, 
 saith the Lord, by his prophet ; and so you have 
 faithfully done, that you may be clear from the blood 
 of all men. 
 
 "The HEALING of the NATIONS now is come, 
 
 And from the TREE a LEAF I'll give to MAN, 
 
 That he may prove to it he is an Ucir, 
 
 When all the Fruit do unto him appear. 
 
 So by their Leaves the Heirs I all shall see, 
 
 By every Leaf that's given from the Tree : 
 
 And every Leaf that's given I do mean, 
 
 It is the SEALS that must the HEIRSHJP gain : 
 
 Because another cannot stand an Heir ; 
 
 These are the Leaves for healing do appear, 
 
 To heal the Nations as they all do come. 
 
 Thou'lt find the SEAL must go through ci'trif Land ; 
 
 For when thou dost die, the SEAL it must be given 
 
 Unto thy Friend, where I the lump shall leaven ; 
 
 But that, I say, I'll tell thee at the time, 
 
 But here's the Leaves, the Nations all will find, 
 
 That sure must heal them of their every Fall, 
 
 And ign their Names to have my kingdom all. 
 
 And so the Fruit will every Month appear: 
 
 I tell you all you'll see another year ;
 
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 For fast I say it all is hastening on 
 
 The healing of the Nations is begun. 
 
 Although the Fruit it does not yet appear, 
 
 The Balm is laid before the Wound is curd : 
 
 But in the end the Wound it shall be heal'-d; 
 
 And from these Leaves the Nations shall not fail 
 
 To gain my Kingdom, and lo bring it near, 
 
 And Satan's Kingdom it shall disappear: 
 
 And then the Chapter it will hasten on 
 
 They'll find the SpiRiTand the BRIDE are conic ; 
 
 They'll find the ROOT of DAVID to appear, 
 
 And then the MORNING STAR, you may see clear, 
 
 Is with the EVENING STAR arose to shine ; 
 
 The night's approaching, and the day decline, 
 
 For Satan's Kingdom for to govern here ; 
 
 'Tis Man hath all to hope ; but tools shall fear, 
 
 Who judge these things came from a Woman's hand, 
 
 Without the LORD, and in such order stand. 
 
 Then tell ME why such thoughts ne'er came before, 
 
 To prove my Bible, and to make it clear, 
 
 That every word that's written there is true ? 
 
 'Tis more than any learned man can do, 
 
 To make my Bible clear as thou hast done ; 
 
 I ask, what Rock this Nation's built upon, 
 
 If that my Bible they do all deny ? 
 
 And now I'll come lo the weak Faith of thee." 
 
 Here is the answer to Women, as some were tie 
 sirous to know if any may be admitted at the prov- 
 ing of the sealed writings. 
 
 " Now I answer thee of women : They followed 
 ME to my Cross, and stood weeping to see ME cruci- 
 fied; they were the first at my Sepulchre to see my 
 Resurreclion;now I will not lefuse women thatassist 
 thee. Let it be known unto all men, the work at first 
 was carried on by women; the first presents that 
 were made were from thewomenjso they showed theiv 
 love and faith, before man showed any. So now suffer 
 women to be present, and forbid them not. It was 
 by a Woman I came into the world in the form of a 
 Manjand now by a Woman I will reveal myself unto 
 men, in and through the woman, as much in the 
 SPIUIT as I did then in the Flesh make my appear- 
 ance to the world from the woman ; and now from 
 the woman shall my SECOND COMING be revealed,
 
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 that no man may boast, nor be worshipped in my 
 stead;for there it is thatfalseChrists will arise in man; 
 but no Saviour can arise in a woman, for her to be a 
 Christ. For here I AM, all in alt acknowledged by 
 thee, come to heal the fall of the woman, which must 
 Jirst be healed, before man's redemption can come; for 
 how can man that is born of a woman bejreefrom his 
 fall, or from his original guilt, before the original 
 guilt be taken away? However deep men apply their 
 Bibles, the fountain must first be cleared before 
 the vessel can bring-forth clearand living water; can 
 a corrupt fountain bring forth a pure stream? If the 
 fountain be tainted,the water will be tainted also; if 
 the vessel be tainted, the liquor is tainted. Therefore 
 as long as the taint of the fall remains in the woman, 
 all her offspring must be tainted the same ; but first 
 make the vessel good, then the liquor will be good 
 also: therefore I said, the new wine must have new 
 bottles; for the old bottles would burst with the new 
 wine: now I tell thee, every old bottle will burst, 
 that looks for redemption in Christ, before the fall 
 of the woman is freed ; for here is the meaningof the 
 bottles being new when the wine is new also: and 
 now if you put a new piece on an old garment, the 
 rent will be made worse; so the garment must be 
 made new throughout. So he that will not believe 
 the Sun of Righteousness will arise with healing in 
 his wings,/o heal the fall of the woman, will never be 
 healed in this world ; for it is by faith ye are saved, 
 and that not of yourselves; for it is the Lord must 
 heal the fall, but ye must have faith to believe it. 
 So if ye will not have faith to sign your names, to 
 wish for my coming, and Satan to be destroyed, ye 
 shall never live to enjoy it. I will, for this, be in- 
 quired of by the house of Israel; and every man 
 must set to his seal that God is true. He said the wo- 
 man should be the helpmate for man ; "and now as a 
 helpmate we receive her." He said it was not good 
 for man to be alone ; " and now we prove the truth of
 
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 his words:"and this shall be acknowledged by all men 
 who live to see my kingdom established in peace. And 
 now let Satan swell with all his rage in man ; my Spi- 
 rit shall lift up a standard against him, for all that 
 believe in ME and my Gospel; for I died to triumph 
 over death, hell, and the grave. But how could I 
 then triumph over death, hell, and the grave, when 
 death and hell followed close on ME and my follow- 
 ers ? And so they are now pursuing the same : but one 
 man shall now chase a thousand in my Name, and 
 two shall put ten thousand to flight, till they are left 
 as a beacon upon the mountains; for in the strength 
 of the Lord will I destroy them ; but how could one 
 man chase a thousand, or two put ten thousand to 
 flight, if believers were many, and mockers but few? 
 How could my gospel be true ?At my second coming 
 I said I should scarce find faith upon the Earth ;f or as 
 the unbelief of the world of old, and the unbelief of 
 Sodom and Gomorrah, so I said shall the coming of 
 the Son of Man be. But fear not, my little flock ; for 
 it is my Father's good pleasure to give you my king- 
 dom, when I establish it in righteousness and peace ! 
 for I will take away the foxes that hurt my vines, 
 and the singing of birds shall come for all that believe ; 
 for the voice of the turtle is now in your land : there - 
 fore,tremble ye mountains, that build your foundation 
 on the sand of your own wisdom; be afraid,ye tree that 
 have no root in ME; for the north winds will blow you 
 down; the south winds will root you up: for I will 
 come into my garden, and eat my pleasant fruit with 
 those who wait for my coming; therefore now be 
 ashamed,ye husbandmen;and blush,ye vine-dressers, 
 who dress not your ground with the true dressing of 
 my word ; and blush for your vineyards, that do not 
 prune them according to my covenant made with 
 man. But now, ye trees of Lebanon, whose roots are 
 fixed in ME, believing and relying on all the promises 
 I made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that I should 
 fulfil them according to my word, which was made
 
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 through faith, and must be obtained by faith; unto 
 you was the promise to be fulfilled ; so ye may break 
 forth into singing ; for as the birds build their nests 
 on high ; so ye, by faith, build your nests on high; 
 and ye may break forth into singing thereon. And 
 you, O mountains, who build on the ROCK of AGES, 
 whojudge him faithful that hath promised, and who 
 also will do it ; a remedy was instantly promised, and 
 help was laid upon ONE that was MiGHTY,that the 
 SEED of the wo MAN should bruise the Serpent's head ; 
 unto you shall the Sun of Righteousness arise with 
 healing in his wings; and ye shall see the curse of 
 the Serpent above every living creature ; and tread 
 liim down as ashes under the soles of your feet. For 
 as the hills stand round about Jerusalem, so will I 
 stand round my people for evermore; and as firm as 
 Mount Zion,that cannot be moved, so firm shall my 
 covenant stand, that I have made with man ; for my 
 delight shall be with man, the work of my own hands; 
 and my throne shall be established in righteousness 
 and peace : and so in peace possess your souls ; for he 
 that troubleth Israel shall be cut off. 
 
 And now I shall come tathee: thou sayest, thou 
 hadst rather live in sorrow, than die and leave thy 
 friends in sorrow, if thou wast sure of heavenly hap- 
 piness at thy death. Now if this be thy love for men 
 who have got themselves persecuted for thy sake, 
 believing thy writings to be of God; how much grea- 
 ter dost thou think is my loving kindness unto them 
 than thine ! Is thy life to be compared with my love; 
 or thy feelings with my feelings? I tell thee, No : I 
 will not rest until I have filled my friends with joy 
 unspeakable and full of glory; and rewarded every 
 man according to his works! for their labour of love 
 shall not be in vain in the Lprd. For I tell thee, thy 
 love springs form ME; thy gratitude from ME; thy 
 pity from ME ; and the form of thy nature was for- 
 med by ME; and every passion in thy heart springs 
 from ME. Thou mayest wellsay thou wouldest sooner
 
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 judge there was no God, than judge there was a faith- 
 less God: and this judgment I will recommend to 
 all men ; it is better to judge your Bibles false, and 
 never made by the Spirit of God, than to judge they 
 are of God, fullof lies, as the world now judge them: 
 for if men compare thy Writings and my Bible 
 together, they will find there is no shadow nor vari- 
 ableness of turning in them. The prophets prophesied 
 of all I have told thee ; and that 1 shall shew thee 
 plainly from every chapter I have mentioned; but 
 now thou art come to tell them how it shall be ful- 
 filled, and who are the heirs to the promise. For per- 
 fectly as the Woman's hand brought the knowledge 
 of the evil fruit, so perfectly now is the enmity be- 
 tween the Serpent and the Woman; and now thou 
 wilt bring them to the knowledge of the good : how 
 all is applied, and how all shall be possessed ; and as 
 the evil fruit then destroyed the good, so now the 
 good shall destroy the evil. For Eve brought forth 
 her children by a naturalbirth ; and thou art bring- 
 ing them forth by a spiritual birth ; she plucked the 
 evil, and the evil remained, and the good was taken 
 from the evil to come ; but thou bringest the good 
 fruit,and the evil shall be taken from the good to come; 
 for they must be of one mind and heart who live to. 
 possess my Kingdom ; or how shall I establish it in 
 peace? Neither will I shew my loving kindness to 
 men before they have shewn their love to ME. What 
 pleasure couldest thou have to visit a people who do 
 not look for thee, nor wish for thy coming, more than 
 thou hadst in going to Bristol ? Just the same would 
 my coming be received, by a people that did not 
 know ME, nor look for ME: and I should be as de- 
 sirous of leaving them as thou wast to leave Bristol, 
 and returned to thy friends at Exeter. Therefore, I 
 shall not come before men have made known my 
 coming ; then they that look for ME will be like thy 
 friends; after thy writings are proved, every one 
 will be eager to see thee; and thou wilt receive a 
 different welcome when thou goest hence, than ever 
 thou hast received here."
 
 no 
 
 I am now to insert a dream given me on the 10th 
 of October. I dreamt I was in my bed, which was 
 close to a stable, and a toad came from the stable 
 on to my pillow under my head, which I thought 
 I took and threw out against the stable, and told 
 some persons who were present, that it was behind 
 the wall, and would get into the stable amongst the 
 dust; for which reason they threw out all the dirt, 
 and washed the stable clean, when it appeared with 
 red bricks. Here I awoke, and then went to sleep 
 again,and dreamt I was in my own room, and I saw it 
 full of ill-looking men, and was much afraid; I then 
 thought I beared the cracking of a friend's shoes in 
 the adjoining room, when I was filled with joy, and 
 awoke. I then went to sleep again, and dreamt I 
 had a large jar that had been full of ink ; but the ink 
 was out; and I saw a large candle burning in thejar, 
 and then I awoke. My dreams were answered in 
 he following manner: 
 
 " The toad that came close to thee, and that 
 thou threwest away, is the Devil, who laid close 
 to thy ears in all thou hast written of him; and 
 thou hast thrown him away like thy dream. The 
 ill-looking men were evil spirits, that surround- 
 ed thy bed at that time; the cracking of the shoes is 
 my Spirit, that guards thee and keeps thee from all 
 danger, and will awake thee out of all thy fears; the 
 stable being washed and cleaned, and the red bricks 
 appearing, represent my birth and death: that I shall 
 now cleanse the whole ; for my blood shall cleanse 
 from all sin ; but all sin is not yet cleansed. Thejar 
 that was filled with ink, was for thee to write and me 
 to indite, but is now empty ; the candle placed in its 
 room, shews that thy time is nearly run out ; and the 
 candle of the Lord shall fill the place, and prove that 
 I the Lord, who formed the heavens, and laid the 
 foundation of the earth, have spoken by thee, to thee, 
 and through thee. And my candle shall burn bright 
 among mankind; for now shall the stable be cleansed 
 and washed ; that is, all the dirt shall be done away : 
 for I will sprinkle many ntaions ; I will wash and
 
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 make them clean. But first I will come to the pur- 
 pose with thee, and then I will end with the whole. 
 How couldest thou be travailing In birth, and in 
 pain to be delivered, if I had not placed thy writings 
 in such a manner, to confuse thy mind, before the 
 twelve Stars were gathered together, to sit on thy 
 head, to prove the truth of thy words ? It is only thy 
 jealousy makes thy burden ; it is thy jealousy makes 
 thee wish for the time that thy Writings should be 
 proved and the TRUTH made manifest ; it is the signs 
 I have set before thee. make thee so longing for 
 the time; but how could the dragon draw the third 
 part of the stars to the earth, if all thou hart writ- 
 ten to, had believed, and stood steadfast in faith? 
 No ; thou wilt find four out of the twelve, that had 
 the three seals, cast to the earth already. This I 
 will make plain before thee: When they were coming 
 to prove thy writings, Satan stood before the spi- 
 ritual man-child to destroy him, as soon as he was 
 born by faith to believe in thee ; and now thou hast 
 travailed in birth one year, to bring forth the spiri- 
 tual man-child, that shall rule the nations with a 
 rod of iron. Iron is strong, and strong shall be his 
 words ; iron is for the horses feet, and the horses 
 shall run swift, and my word shall run swift. Sa- 
 tan hath pursued thee and cast out floods after thee, 
 to the very place that I prepared for thee ; the floods 
 are cast out by men on the one hand, and the earth 
 helps thee on the other: and so shall they swallow 
 up every flood that is cast out against rhee ; for now 
 I will be a wall of fire round about thee ,* that is, my an- 
 gershall be kindled against all that are against thee : 
 for if thou goest to the true meaning of the word, the 
 SPI R$TU A L MAN thou art bringing forth to the world 
 is the second coming of CHRIST; .for I said Bruce wasa 
 ty pc of ME; and it M ME and my kingdom thou art pro- 
 claiming to the world, the acceptable day of the 
 Lord: and thou hast singed thy paper: so will I singe 
 the sons of men. So fear not Jacob, nor be dismayed O
 
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 Israel for Jews and Gentiles,G reeks and Arabi,ins,are 
 all one in ME, that believe in ME and my Gospel, in 
 GOD and the Prophets ; they are the true Israel of 
 God. It was by faith Abraham obtained the pro- 
 mise ; and it is by faith ye are saved ; for now have I 
 called with an effectual calling ; and now will I save 
 you with an everlasting salvation the Avorks of my 
 hand. Man was the work of my hand; and by the 
 work of my hand, I formed the Woman; and now I 
 will save them in the day of my power; and the woffc 
 of my hands shall prosper in my hands : and man shall 
 praise my name rrom the rising of the sun until jhe 
 going down of the same; and he shall know what 
 happiness I created him for here on earth : for the 
 new Heavens and the new Earth is a heaven here 
 beiow, that they never yet possessed ; the new Earth 
 is making all things new ; and I will so improve the 
 Earth, that it shall be as the Garden of Eden to Man 
 for every barren mountain shall become a fruitful 
 field : and I will throw down and build up, until 
 every house is made pleasant for man : gardens and 
 vineyards shall join to their houses : I will throw 
 down yourtowns and build them anew, with gardens 
 and fruitful vines to every man's dwelling. Such 
 shall Jerusalem and all the borders be new built. The 
 out-houses of this place, that is not within the city, 
 are most like the dwellings I shall make for man. 
 The houses thou admirest are in my heart fixed on 
 for man to dwell in. As to MAN I shall make him 
 anew; that is, his heart shall be enlarged, his wisdom 
 increased, and his understanding enlightened : a new 
 heart will I give him ; and a new spirit will I put 
 within him ; and I will write my laws upon his 
 heart, and put my spirit upon his inner parts ; and 
 he shall walk in the delight of his God, and in the 
 love of his neighbour : righteousness and truth shall 
 meet together ; love and peace shall kiss each 
 other ; for I will cleanse the blood that I have not 
 cleansed j and I will bind up the broken hearted, and
 
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 set the captive prisoners free ; and all the earth shaU 
 praise my name, and walk in the law of the Lord. 
 I the Lord have promised it, and now I will do it. 
 But when was this ever done? or when was it pro- 
 mised to be done ? Not until she that travailed had 
 brought forth her children: then shall her children 
 be taught of the Lord ; and great shall be the peace 
 of her children. Every promise made to the pro- 
 phets, I ordered thee to be put in print, shall now 
 be fulfilled; but no man can prove that any one of 
 them was ever yet fulfilled ; for they extend to the 
 ends of the earth; and a perfectly happy state for all 
 men ; which happiness no man living ever yet ex- 
 perienced in this world. No sooner was man form- 
 ed for happiness, but Satan robbed him of it, by the 
 woman's hand ; and now, by the woman's hand, I will 
 turn back the blow; for Satan's reign hath been too 
 long ; his happiness is increased, to think he shall 
 draw all men to perdition with him. Now I will 
 blast his happiness, as he did the happiness of man; 
 for nothing is so great a happiness to Satan, as to 
 find he can draw away the hearts of men from ME. 
 And now those that judge Satan would not speak 
 such blasphemy, must judge man is worse than the 
 devil; for what blasphemy is spoken by man, and 
 what blasphemy hath been printed by man ! But I, 
 who am the maker of all men, and the judge of all 
 men, knew it 'all came from the influence of the 
 devil; so grieve not at the judgments of men, who 
 judge more favourably of Satan, than they judge 
 one of the other: I, that know all things, know 
 that he has spoken as thou hast written ; and I or- 
 dered it to go in print, with my answer to it, to prove 
 the truth of the Revelations The woman hath trod 
 down Satan under her feet, by strength of argu- 
 ments ; but those who screen the devil, to condemn 
 themselves, let them go with kirn, and then they 
 will know him better. So do not grieve at the 
 judgment of menj all this must be,' to fulfil the 
 
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 114 
 
 scriptures. The Lord hath concluded ail men in 
 unbelief, that all men may be saved. Now here you 
 may ask if unbelief will save a man, when it is writ- 
 ten, " ye perish through unbelief?" I answer, thou- 
 sands and tens of thousands will perish through un- 
 belief; but the meaning of all men being saved 
 through unbelief, is, the Lord tried the Jews, and 
 they stumbled at their prophets; for the very scrip- 
 tures I orderejd thee now to put in print, that shall 
 now be fulfilled, they expected would be at my first 
 coming. Now I am come to try the Gentiles, and 
 they stumble the same ; and I find them as bad as 
 the Jews, and as full of unbelief: so now I will not 
 trifle with man any longer : he that stands out through 
 unbelief shall be cut ofY; and he that believeth shall 
 be saved : for now shall believers be called the chil- 
 dren of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; for now in 
 Isaac shall all the families of the earth be blessed, 
 that abide in faith, and believe that I will fulfil all 
 the promises I have made to man; but the fearful 
 and unbelievers shall be cut off from the face of the 
 earth. So now I tell thee, thy hour draws near ; thy 
 trial must come on ; every seal thou gavest into their 
 hands must be broken, the first month in the twelfth 
 year ; and every cause fairly tried ; then will I spare 
 the nation one year from destruction. So now it is 
 in vain for thee to fly, and it is in vain for any to fly 
 from danger, unless they fly unto ME by faith ; then 
 they may inherit the promise, and possess the pro- 
 mised land: for every land is now promised to be 
 made happy, yea even to the ends of the earth: so 
 now look unto ME, and be ye saved, all ye to the 
 ends of the earth. So let not thy heart be faint 
 within thee; I am thy God and will be with thee; 
 I am thy SAVIOUR and will redeem thee from all 
 the power of men and devils. Thy calling is sure; 
 thy deliverance draws nigh; but I know thy pains 
 will increase, like a travailing woman when her 
 hour draws near."
 
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 To the Rev. T. P.FOLEY. 
 
 REV. SIR, October 24, 1802. 
 
 I RECEIVED the letter, you sent me, that you re- 
 ceived from the Minister, and was astonished at 
 hearing him say that the Sealing in the Revelation 
 meant to he in the Baptism. 
 
 I shall give yon the Answer of the Spirit to his letter : 
 " He that is not for ME is against ME, and he that 
 gathereth not with ME scattereth ; for what is bound 
 oh earth is bound in heaven; and what is sealed on 
 earth is sealed in heaven; but how can baptism seal 
 your redemption ? Are ye not all baptised? The pro- 
 fessors and the prophane, the thief and the murderer, 
 the whoremongers and the adulterers, and the hard- 
 ened sinners that think not on God, nor of his ways ; 
 are they not all baptised? But who amongst them 
 fight manfully under my banners, against the world, 
 the flesh, and the devil ? Then now fulfil your bap- 
 tismal vow, if ye will now become my followers; 
 set to your seals, that you do wish to renounce the 
 devil and all his works, and fight for your LORD'S 
 KINGDOM; or ye are like the man's guests, that 
 when they were invited began to make excuses, and 
 he said that not one of those that were bidden should 
 taste of his supper: and now I say unto all men, he 
 that refuses to sign for my coming, shall never see 
 my Kingdom of Peace here on earth; for every name 
 must be enrolled in heaven, and sealed on earth, 
 that at my coming, I may say, well done, my good 
 and faithful servants, enter into the joy of your LOUD. 
 For here is your calling; here is your election ; and 
 now strive to make it sure. 'Now I will come to 
 another objection to the seals: what use was the 
 blood of bulls or of goats to be offered up for a sin 
 offering? Could their blood, that had committed no 
 sin, make an atonement for the crimes of man ? The 
 ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib ; 
 but Israel do not know; my people do not consider. 
 The beast was offered up as an offering for sin , 
 then how much greater offering do you offer up 
 
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 116 
 
 now to ME, to join your hands with your hearts, to 
 wish the beast to be slain that was the author of 
 sin; and ME and my Kingdom to come, and my 
 will to be done on earth, as it is in heaven ! Let not 
 him that doth not wish it, sign his name for it ; your 
 hands and hearts must join together: for I tell you 
 all, this is a much more acceptable offering unto 
 ME, than the offering up of bulls and goats : for 
 they only stood as types of the beast, that should 
 be slain in the end; for Satan is the beast that 
 must be offered up for tin, as being the author of 
 sin: but the beasts of the field know nothing of 
 sin; they were sent in their kind, and act in their 
 kind. Now I come to another objection: What 
 use was there for the lambs to be slain, and their 
 blood to be sprinkled on the posts of the doors, to 
 prevent the destroying angel to go in? Should the 
 blood of a beast preserve the life of man ? Then how 
 much more, judge ye, the lay ing your hands on the 
 beast, by signing Jor his destruction, will be an ac- 
 ceptable offering to the Lord? that when the de- 
 stroying angel goes through the land, wherever 
 the seals are found, there is the beast found to be 
 slain, and there the man must live, and the beast 
 must die- but where the beast is not found to be 
 slain by man, man must pcrisli ; because /ie preserved 
 the beast, as Saul did, and the kingdom was rent 
 from him. Now what sin, suppose ye, could it be 
 to preserve sheep and oxen, that had not offended ? 
 The sin was in breaking the command of the Lord; 
 for the beast then stood a type of the last day. He 
 that would spare the beast, which is the devil, shall 
 have the kingdom rent from him ; that is, he never 
 shall live to see my Kingdom here on earth. Now 
 I ask, of what use was a piece of brass, in the form 
 of a serpent, that looking to it should cure the 
 sting of a serpent? This only stood as a type of ME, 
 whom they judged as a serpent, that in the end 
 should redeem them from death, hell, and sin ! And 
 vhat use was my spitting on the ground, to make
 
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 a salve to cure the blind ? only to shew you I work 
 by instruments ; and now by instruments I shall 
 tvork ; and as the hand- writing appeared against 
 Belshazzar, so shall the hand- writing- of men appear 
 against the devil; and by their hand-writing he 
 shall fall ; for if I find but fifty righteous men to 
 sign their names, I will destroy Satan for the fifty's 
 sake, and all t/te of here shall be cut off '; for no man 
 shall save his life, that will not sign his name for 
 Satan's death. For if they said of ME, "Crucify 
 him ! crucify him ! and I was crucified by man; 
 so now let them say the same of Satan, and he shall 
 be crucified also; that meaneth, his power shall be 
 cut oft' from the face of the earth. Now I shall 
 come to thee: he saith, thou art not found in Holy 
 Writ; then let him explain the 2d chapter of Joel 
 12th chapter of Revelation, the 19th, and the 
 last 54th chapter of Isaiah : and what my Apostle 
 meant, when he said, " when the fulness of time 
 was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a wo- 
 man, made under the law, to redeem those that 
 were under the law." What fulness will he prove 
 there was when I came in the body, in the form 
 of a man, and sin and iniquity has abounded ever 
 since? The Jews were the only people under the 
 law of the Lord; for I said you only have I known, 
 of all the families on the earth ; and they are still 
 under the law, and not redeemed; but how shall I 
 call them from all nations, where I hav*e scattered 
 them, if the Spirit of Prophecy is not given to call 
 them by? How can I reason with man, or plead 
 with man, without giving the Spirit of Prophecy 
 to plead by? How can I cry out like a travailing 
 woman, if a travailing woman never cry out in my 
 name? Shall I cry out like a woman with child, 
 when she is near to be delivered ? in that language 
 shall I cry out to the nations? O simple and un- 
 wise ! read your Bibles, and weigh them deep; then 
 ye will know my second coming must be in the 
 SPIRIT when few belicre it ; for it is written, "They
 
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 shall crucify the Lord afresh, and put him again to 
 open shame," and this they are doing daily. Let 
 it be known unto all men, I am come already in 
 the Spirit, and I have scarce found faith on the 
 earth : for in a day they little thought of I visited 
 thee ; and in a day little thought of I will come in 
 majesty and great glory ; but as I first went through 
 MY OFFICE, and then expired on the cross, so will 
 I now go through MY OFFICE in the SPIRIT, and 
 bring the cross on Satan, and on every man that 
 preserves the beast; for that is rebellion, like the 
 sin of witchcraft; for Satan must bewitch men's 
 minds, or they would all be glad to sign it. Can 
 the Lord be offended to hear you sing the song of 
 Moses and the Lamb?; that as MOSES destroyed 
 the temporal Pharaoh, so CHRIST will destroy the. 
 Pharaoh which is the devil." Here I shall break off. 
 
 COMMUNICATIONS, Tuesday, 12th October, 1802. 
 
 Joanna was ordered to open her Bible, and write 
 the first verse she opened to; which was 
 
 PSALM, Ixix. 6. " Let not them that seek thee 
 be confounded, for my sake, O God of Israel/' 
 
 7. " Because for thy sake I have borne reproach : 
 shame hath covered my face." 
 
 8. " I am become a stranger unto my brethren, 
 and an alien from my mother's children." 
 
 " Now I shall answer thee. This is thy prayer 
 for thy friends, and this is thy petition for them, 
 that they may not be ashamed for thy sake. I know 
 the reproach thou hast borne for ME, and what thou 
 hast suffered for my sake ; I know thou art become 
 a stranger to thy brethren, and alienated from thy 
 mother's children; but thy throne will I now esta- 
 blish ; thy goings forth shall be as the morning ; 
 and thy truth be as clear as the noon -day sun. 
 Now open thy Bible again and I will answer." 
 
 EZEKIEL, xiv. 16. But the Land shall be deso- 
 late." 
 
 PSALM, cxl. 2. "Their hearts continually are 
 gathering together for war."
 
 119 
 
 " Now I will answer thee. The Land shall be de- 
 solate, where I told thee of desolation ; for they are 
 preparing daily for war, and all the threatenings 
 pronounced in that chapter shall now ccfme upon 
 them.* If Noah, Daniel, and Job, be in it, they 
 shall save none but their own lives ; for I will ut- 
 terly destroy them, and make a full end of them ; 
 and I will give their land to them that seek ME, 
 and think upon my covenant, that I made to 
 Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob : for now I will be 
 known of all the families upon the earth." 
 
 ISAIAH, ii. 2. "And it shall come to pass in the 
 last days, that the mountain of the Lord's house 
 shall be established in the top of the mountains, 
 and shall be exalted above the hills, and all nations 
 shall flow unto zV." 
 
 vi. 3. "And one cried unto another and said, 
 Holy! Holy! Holy! is the Lord of hosts; for the 
 whole earth is full of his Glory." 
 
 ix. 6. " For unto us a CHILD is born ; unto us a 
 SON is given ; and the government shall be upon 
 his shoulder : and his name shall be called Wonder- 
 ful, Counsellor; the mighty God, the everlasting 
 Father, the Prince of Peace; of the increase of his 
 government and peace there shall be no end; upon 
 the throne of David, and upon his kingdom to 
 order it, and to establish it with judgment and 
 with justice from henceforth, even for ever : the 
 zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this." 
 
 xi. 9. "They shall not hurt nor destroy in all 
 my holy mountain : for the earth shall be full of 
 the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the 
 sea; and it shall come to pass in that day, that the 
 Lord shall set his hand a second time to recover 
 the remnant of his people." 
 
 xii. 5. " Sing unto the Lord, for he hath done 
 excellent things; this is known in all the Earth." 
 
 " Now I shall begin to answer thee. These things 
 I spoke by my prophet; and now I will do it; but 
 
 * The Turks,
 
 120 
 
 when was it done ? Thou answerest, never. Neither 
 was it ever done; for sin hath covered the earth, as 
 the waters cover the sea; but the knowledge of the 
 Lord was never yet known to man ; neither was 
 my glory known over the whole earth ; neither have 
 I established the throne of David ; neither have I yet 
 been the wonderful Counsellor, the everlasting Fa- 
 ther, the Prince of Peace: for unto them a CHILD 
 was born, unto them a SON was given, and the go- 
 vernment was on my shoulders upon the Cross 
 " Jesus of Nazareth the King of the Jews;" but 
 when did I establish my reign? The JEWS have no 
 king nor governor, nation nor city ; they are driven, 
 as 1 said, into all countries, and become a prey to 
 their enemies : My APOSTLES were destroyed; the 
 MARTYRS burnt; and my BIBLE is now become 
 like an old worn out coat, that is no more fit for 
 wear: for what is not fulfilled, they judge never will: 
 but now I will make it as a garment to men that is 
 interwoven through, to be fulfilled throughout. For 
 this was my knowledge when I made MAN at first, 
 to take the Man and make him two, the MAN and 
 WOMAN: and here I knew it would begin with the 
 Z)etv7and the IVoman : and so he overcame the Man; 
 by the BONE, that was taken from him, Satan made 
 an instrument to destroy that happiness I promised 
 him. When ] came at first it was like MAN alone, and 
 Satan attacked ME as he did the woman, but I did 
 not avenge it on his head, as I knew I could defend 
 myself; but left it for my second coming in the WO- 
 MAN. But, as the perfect Manwas parted, to make the 
 Woman, to complete MY FATHER'S will; so must I 
 come in the BODY as the perfect man at first; and in 
 the SPIRIT at my second coming, I must come made 
 of a woman made under thelaw to redeem those that 
 were under the Law. Perfectly as they died in Adam, 
 perfectly so they shall be madeali vein ME; for, as the 
 Serpent, that is the Devil, overcame the Woman by 
 arguments atjirst; so, let all men know, thouhast 
 
 overcome him bv arguments at last. And this was the 
 
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 121 
 
 knowledge of the Lord, when he created the MAN: 
 The Lord knew that Satan would lie as close to him 
 as he did to the Angels in Heaven : therefore he 
 parted the Man to make the Woman. Now, as Man 
 fell by the Woman, lie must rise by the Woman, by 
 my power, as he fell by Satan's arts ; and she must 
 overcome the Devil as he overcame her. This must 
 be known throughout the world, how the knowledge 
 of GOT) hath preserved Man at last for now I will 
 preserve all Men that join with the Woman, and 
 ascribe the glory and honour due unto my name. 
 For however ignorant mankind be of thy disputes 
 with the Devil, there is no man living could write 
 or act like thee, without my being with them, to 
 keep and direct them. Let those ignorant fools 
 invent such a book themselves, and say it was a 
 Dispute between the Powers of Darkness and them; 
 and then forge the Answer of the Lord to it; and 
 see how long they would live and reign. I tell 
 thee they could no more do it, than they could 
 work the miracles I worked here upon earth. 
 
 So let Jews and Gentiles stop their mouths. 
 
 Without a murmuring word ; 
 For the whole race of Adam stand 
 
 Guilty before their Lord. 
 The Gentiles here do now appear, 
 
 With all their boasted pride, 
 Elind as the Jeus did ihen appear- 
 
 My Bible's so applied. 
 When I did come, 'twas judg'd by them, 
 
 Allthi.i\ should fulfil ; 
 And then establish David's throne, 
 
 And them with joy should fill. 
 There's not a promise that is made, 
 
 But they did then expect, 
 That Israel I should then redeem, 
 
 And give them David's seat. 
 Tin- Mighty Counsellor become, 
 
 My Prophet did foietel, 
 The Prince of Peace then wars must cease ; 
 
 But mark how wars did swell ; 
 Invasion round their City came, 
 
 And they were forc'd to fly ; 
 And where's the Peace that he did name ? 
 
 The Jews they still do cry.
 
 The increase of my Government 
 J-lt said should be in PEACC; 
 And there's no end should be to it, 
 
 And David's throne increase. 
 With Judgment I should set it forth ; 
 
 For so it shall be done; 
 And from henceforth for evermort . 
 
 The Seed it so shall come ; 
 Even, the Seed shall ever be 
 
 The zeal of God was so! 
 But now 1 say, look back and sec 
 
 If I the things did do? 
 , No ; simple people and unwise, 
 These things are all to come ! 
 I will no longer blind your eyes, 
 
 But call you back to Man ; 
 The Woman here must tirst appear, 
 
 And I her Counsellor be ; 
 And prove to you my Spirit's here. 
 
 And plainly now tell ye, 
 I seethe Gentiles and the Jews, 
 
 How they do both appear ; 
 For many then did hear the news, 
 
 And so my Followers were; 
 And now the same, a few are come 
 
 Who seek the Truth to know, 
 And now I'll give them David's throne ; 
 
 For what I've said I'll do ! 
 A David's Throne must now be known, 
 
 The Keeper of the Sheep ; 
 And so I'll now advance my own, 
 
 That do my Kingdom seek ! 
 That is, I say, to raise you high, 
 
 As David was at first ; 
 And you my Friends that judge ME nigh, 
 
 Will find your crowns to burst. 
 So do not fear what Sauls are here; 
 
 For I shall raise the Throne; 
 As Jesse's Son did then appear, 
 
 Just so I'll raise MY OWN. 
 For David's Throne must now be known, 
 
 It is to raise you high; 
 But if I do exalt but one, 
 
 Then all the rest may lie ; 
 As Subjects here you may appear; 
 Then where is David's Throne ? 
 But as I did advance that Man, 
 
 Just so I'll raise my own, 
 That now will stand like valiant men, 
 
 Like princes in the fight ; 
 For the Goliah he is slain 
 Now by a Womau's might ;
 
 123 
 
 But sure in ME her might must be, 
 
 Or she I know must fall ; 
 So now I'll gain the victory, 
 
 And bring in Peace for all; 
 The Heathen Nations I'll destroy. 
 
 And let my SEALRD come; 
 Because my friends I'll now enjoy, 
 
 And give them DAVID'S THHOXE," 
 
 The ANSWER of the LORD to Page 92, where the 
 
 Seal stands. 
 
 MARK, the second Star stands close to the 
 second Psalm ; and as the I is meant for JESUS and 
 JOANNA; so is my Spirit come to thee; and as 
 the Morning Star is a type of Man, and the Evening 
 Star of the Woman ; so now I am come as the 
 bright and Morning Star, to reveal my coming to 
 the Evening Star : and all men shall know I will 
 set to my seal, and fulfil all that is in thy writings 
 and this book that is now printing. For here are 
 the Prophets that prophesied of ME, what I was to 
 fulfil : and now I will fulfil them ; so put thy Seal 
 to every book in print, with wax by the side of the 
 Seal : let not one go out without being sealed with 
 wax, and all Men shall find the printed Seal 
 
 Is signed and sealed by my Command ; 
 
 And both together let them stand, 
 
 And they shall find I'll now appear. 
 
 And every chapter now I'll clear, 
 
 And every word I'll now make good, 
 
 And to the Woman now allude: 
 
 For Adam said, by her ho died : 
 
 Then here's an ADAM now applied, 
 
 That bids you all to live again 
 
 Obey her voice, I'll not complain: 
 
 She says, the Serpent all must kill, 
 
 As he did bruise HER SAVIOUR'S H EBL: 
 
 And she's begun to bruise his Head, 
 
 By every Word to him she said ; 
 
 And for her MASTER did contend; 
 
 And all shall find I'll stand her frienb, 
 
 So much in power like her word ; 
 
 Her Friends I'll bless, and send my sword 
 
 Her every foe for to destroy; 
 
 And all her FRIKNDS I'll now enjoy. 
 
 So let the Woman's Seed appear 
 
 In Hand and Heart to join with her,
 
 124 
 
 And then the BRIDEGROOM they shall see- 
 Welcome her Friends ; they welcome be ! 
 To see the coming of the J.ORD, 
 And Paradise again restored ; 
 As Adam was cast ouithat way, 
 The Woman's Hand, he then did say 
 Gave him the Fruit, and so he died ; 
 But here's the ADAM now applied, 
 That bids you all turn back this way; 
 Mark ye the Serpent where he lay, 
 And say, you all agree to kill, 
 Because the Woman's blood he'd spill, 
 Which you confess was Part of Man ; 
 Then how can you refuse her Hand, 
 As she was taken from your side? 
 Part of the Man must be applied, 
 And so you must together stand, 
 I tell you all, both heart and hand, 
 If ever you will be redeem'd, 
 Just like my COAT without a Seam. 
 For how can your Redemption come ? 
 The Man and Woman both as ON E 
 Did join together in the Fall; 
 And so again, I tell you all, 
 That both together you must join, 
 In heart as ON E you must combine, 
 Before your Bliss can be complete. 
 My FATHER'S words are no deceit ; 
 And I shall prove it in the end ; 
 / died to be the WOMAN'S FRIEND. 
 My FATHER'S promise to fulfil 
 I said I'd come to do HIS WILL." 
 
 An explanation given to Joanna, in answer to a 
 person's saying that the whole of the 24th Chap- 
 ter of St. Matthew was to be fulfilled at the second 
 coming of Christ. The reader is desired to exa- 
 mine the 24th and 26th chapters together, with 
 great attention ; they may then discover the events 
 that befell the Apostles and Disciples of their 
 Lord, which he told them would happen to them 
 after his death : the destruction of Jerusalem ; 
 the false prophets and impostors of those days, 
 &c. By an attentive reading of the two chapters, 
 any person who searches for the truth, may know 
 how to separate the two chapters, so as to disco- 
 ver the calamities that fell in those days, distinct 
 from the blessings that will attend true and faith-
 
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 ful believers at this time, when the powers of hell 
 can only fall on the wicked and unbelievers, 
 who would wish to perpetuate human misery, and 
 continue the dominion of Satan on the human race 
 without end. 
 
 Here is the answer of the Spirit. 
 " How do men read my Bible, without weigh- 
 ing one thing with another! Let them read both 
 chapters together, and then they may judge for 
 themselves: but how can they judge of one without 
 theother ? In the 24th, I spoke to my disciples of 
 the destruction of Jerusalem, and their persecution, 
 and the false prophets that then arose among them. 
 How did the vagabond Jews try to act like my 
 disciples ! What sorcery and witchcraft were then 
 used amongst the people ! And how they deliver- 
 ed up my disciples to be killed for my sake ! And 
 how were they hated for my sake ! Ye do not dis- 
 cern what is past, or what is to come; what has 
 been already fulfilled ; and what is to be fulfilled. 
 The persecution I spoke of followed my disciples; 
 and now the same spirit is risen against them again : 
 but he that endures to the end shall be saved. For 
 now shall my Gospel be preached in all the world: 
 but this was never yet done. , I have placed thy 
 writings to shew mankind how my Bible stands : 
 and how you must judge it. I told thee oi three 
 good harvests, if men seek to find the truth of thy 
 writings ; in the following year I told thee of a 
 fatal harvest, if unbelief abounded ; so they expect- 
 ed that to follow before the three following har- 
 vests of plenty were fulfilled ; just so the Jews 
 judged my Prophets that I must comejirst in 
 power and great pomp and glory, to establish the 
 throne of David, and have the uttermost parts of 
 the earth for my possession, before I had been 
 wounded for their sins, and bruised for their ini- 
 quities, or that the chastisement of their peace was 
 laid upon ME : for as the words were spoken to- 
 gether, they knew not how to part them asunder ; 
 so both grew together until the harvest of the
 
 Lord, which is approaching. And now I shall se- 
 parate my Bible, and so will I separate the people, 
 one from the other; for if they look for my com- 
 ing, to bring in my Kingdom of Peace, they 
 must look to what is said in the 25th chapter; for 
 there I have told you the perfect end, how ye shall 
 inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the 
 foundation of the world ; which I made as a gar- 
 den for Man, that he might be fruitful and mul- 
 tiply, and replenish the earth, and establish it in 
 righteousness, and bring forth good fruit unto ME. 
 This was the foundation I laid jor you. of this world 
 to be in union and communion with your GOD ; and 
 this I promised throughout my Bible to establish 
 for man. Now, ye simple and unwise, how fool- 
 ishly do ye understand my words or meaning ! If 
 ye judge the death I warned my disciples would cer- 
 tainly come to them, and the destruction of Jerusa- 
 lem, that I said would follow, alluded to the time of 
 my bringinginmy Kingdom ofPeace; then the fol- 
 lowing chapter contradicts it ; and so the fools 
 may burn their Bibles, and perish for want of 
 knowledge, and Israel destroy themselves ; and so 
 may all men destroy themselves, if they judge the 
 death, that fell on my disciples, must fall on my 
 followers in the end : when I said, in the following 
 chapter, what was done unto my brethren was done 
 unto ME, and so would I reward them ; and they 
 that despised my disciples despised ME ; and they 
 shall be cut off. Now, if ye have no discernment 
 of what you read, how it was then fulfilled, and 
 whatwas to follow after: one chapter contradicts the 
 other; for, in the following chapter, it goes well 
 with my disciples, and ail others are cast out with 
 these words I know you not! tor thus I likened 
 my coming, to the coming of the Bridegroom ; 
 and so I likened the Kingdom of Heaven to Man." 
 
 Explanation of die provincial wordsnoted in page 101. STROI A L, signifies the 
 fakir." together of weeds, &c. for burning. MOUI.F., the running rools of couch 
 and mnilat grasses. SULL, is the ploughing-machine itself ; and PLOUGH ftn- 
 plies both the machine and the cattle also that draw it.
 
 TO THE PUBLIC. 
 
 HAVING heard that we, who believe the communications given 
 to Joanna Southcott, and published by her, are from DIVINE au- 
 thority, are considered by many, and by the polite world in par- 
 ticular, as either fools or madmen ; I feel it my duty to answer, for 
 the sake of truth, however contrary it may be to the fashionable 
 opinions of society, whose welfare I ought to respect, that what- 
 ever difference there may be in the talents and abilities of men, it 
 is in every one's power, who will freely exercise the gift of reason, 
 to discover truth from falsehood. I find I have not listened to any 
 cunningly devised fable. For I have found Joanna Southcott, both 
 from my own observation, and the evidence of others, who have 
 known her from ten to twenty years, to be a character that is incapa- 
 ble of uttering or writing a falsehood, knowing it to be such. She 
 foretold of the late war, before there was any appearance of it, as 
 also the dearth and scarcity that followed ; and for nearly eight 
 years past, foretold every harvest, and how the war would go on 
 in this and other nations. Of these things, there can be no doubt. 
 She wrote to two ministers of the established church, in the year 
 1796, how the war would end ; and published to the world at large 
 when that war would end, which it is known it did fora short pe- 
 riod. It is a serious question to know, how she could be wiser 
 than the best informed men, distinguished by learning, and great 
 political foresight. I have found her but a simple woman, inno- 
 cent and without suspicion, who cannot hare any wisdom or foreknow- 
 ledgeqf her own. I am also a witness that she writes from no books, 
 and has none to read; but in her hand is the pen of a ready writer. 
 She writes fast, without blots, or any appearance of error. All 
 her predictions have come true, though no one believed them, 
 when first she read them from her writings ; but as their unbelief 
 did not prevent the truth of the past, 1 find no reason to doubt the 
 truth of what she says is hastening on; which the unbelief of the wuLd 
 cannot prevent. 1 therefore trust and hope, that I and my friends, 
 being counted fools, may make others wise : and my own expe- 
 rience teaches me now to know, that the wisdom of God is foolish- 
 ness with men: and that the wisdom of men \\ill be found foolish- 
 ness in the end. How can any one believe that an industrious 
 woman, always confined to her business, .fond of work, by which 
 she had saved money towards her future support, a stranger to 
 craft or cunning, should wish to deceive ? What motive could she 
 have to leave her work in the )ear 1792, to write from any in- 
 vention or contrivance of her own, about what was coming on the 
 earth ? Yet many of what are called invention.'! have already come 
 true ; and the rest may come true also. In the twelfth chapter of 
 the Revelation, her character is described, which her very enemies 
 now fulfil and prove. Will any candid reader sav, that a woman, 
 who is an impostor, would wait from time to time U>, see the truth 
 fulfilled, that she might know on what foundation she had to rest, 
 and be certain of the truth of the Spirit that spoke within her, so 
 as to know if she spake from divine authority, before she imposed 
 her predictions on the world ? Thus Joanna Southcott has done ; 
 and to all natural appearance became likely to lo>e all the hard 
 earnings of her industrious days ; but though poverty and \\;.r.t 
 were in her view, she firmly trusted that if her visitation was
 
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 from the Divine Spirit, that the hearts of believers would be in- 
 fluenced to assist her. In this manner she continued nine years 
 (injuring no one) and in the tenth year she was ordered to print 
 and publish her mission to the world, believing that if it was of 
 God, he would prove fait//Jul to his premise. All to her expectation 
 has been truly performed, or she no longer could have gone on. 
 Now the Earth may cast its floods against her, where justice is 
 not in the heart, and equity is a stranger. But I cannot condemn 
 a woman, who, with much grief of heart and mind for nine years, 
 is now convinced of the truth of her writings, and has published 
 them to the world : let those who accuse her take care that they 
 do not depart from those principles of justice and upright dealing, 
 which she has so strictly attended to. Thus far, at present, I am 
 not ashamed to take her part ; for I see no cause to the contrary ; 
 and I firmly believe that the truths which are in the Bible are now 
 hastening on to be accomplished. 
 
 London, VMkVctober, 1802. WILLIAM SHARP. 
 
 The reader must keep constantly in mind the 
 following verses, to enable him the better to under- 
 stand the true meaning of this sealed book: 
 REVELATION, 
 
 xii. 4. "And there appeared a great wonder in 
 heaven : a woman clothed with the sun, and the 
 moon under her feet; and upon her head a crown 
 of twelve stars." 
 
 xix. 7. " Let us be glad and rejoice, and give 
 honour to him : for the marriage of the lamb is 
 come, and his wife has made herself ready." 
 
 xxii. 17- "And the Spirit and the Bride say, 
 come: and let him that heareth say, come: and 
 him that is a thirst come : and whoever will, let 
 him take of the Water of Life freely." 
 
 xx. 1. " And I saw an angel come down from 
 Heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit, and 
 a great chain in his hand." 
 
 2. "And he laid hold on the dragon, that old 
 serpent, which is called the Devil, and Satan, and 
 bound him a thousand years." 
 
 3. "And cast him *,vto the bottomless pit, and 
 shut him up, and set a seal upon him/' 
 
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 OR, 
 
 A CALL TO THE NATION, 
 
 That they, may know the days of their Visitation, from the 
 Prophecies that are given to Joanna Southcott, with the 
 Reasons assigned why the Spirit of Prophecy is given to 
 a WomajLj. and which is explained from the Scriptures 
 in the following pages. 
 
 JOANNA SOUTHCOTT. 
 
 Oldswinford, August 31, 1803. 
 
 .IN OW, as my Prophecies are many and extend 
 to large volumes, that the poor cannot buy them, 
 if they should wish to know the meaning of them, 
 I shall here explain them in a small compass for 
 the sake of the poor, that no excuse may be found, 
 that they could not afford to buy to judge for 
 themselves; so that we may be clear from the 
 blood of all men. And now 1 shall come to the 
 meaning of my prophecies, and what they tend to. 
 The purpose of them is to warn the whole world 
 at large, that the second coming of Christ is nigh 
 
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 A
 
 at hand; and how they may stand when he ap- 
 peareth ; and to shew you from the Fall the pro- 
 mise that was made to the Woman at first must 
 be accomplished at last, before Man's Redemption 
 can take place. I shall in the first place give you 
 some passages from the Scriptures, which are ex- 
 plained to me by the Spirit, different from what- 
 ever the learned understood them ; and then I 
 shall give you some of my Prophecies, how they 
 were spoken, and how they were fulfilled ; but I 
 shall take some from my printed Prophecies, as I 
 know the poor cannot afford to buy them, there- 
 fore I shall bring some of the heads into this little 
 volume, that they may judge for themselves, the 
 end is a,t hand, from the truths that are past, judge 
 from the present and for the time to come. But 
 first I shall shew you from the Scriptures, that 
 all these things must come to pass to fulfil them. 
 Here I shall give you the Scriptures which are not 
 yet fulfilled, and how it is explained to me that 
 they will be fulfilled. 
 
 
 
 Isaiah, chap. xlii. v. 1, 2, 3, 4. " Behold my 
 Servant, whom I uphold, my elect in whom my 
 soul delighteth : I have put my Spirit upon him, 
 he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. He 
 shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be 
 heard in the street. A bruised reed shall he not 
 break : and the smoking flax shall he not quench: 
 lie shall bring forth judgment unto truth. He shall 
 not fail, nor be discouraged, till he have set judg- 
 ment in the earth : and the isles shall wait for his 
 law/' 
 
 Isaiah, chap, xliii. v. 19.' "Behold, I will do 
 a new thing: now it shall spring forth, shall ye 
 notknowit? I will make a way in the wilderness 
 and rivers in the desert."
 
 3 
 
 Isaiah t chap. xliv. v. 3. " For I will pour 
 water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon 
 the dry ground : I will pour my Spirit upon thy 
 seed, and my blessing upon thy offspring." One 
 shall say I am the Lord's : and another shall 
 call himself by the name of Jacob: and another 
 shall subscribe with his hand unto the Lord, and 
 surname himself by the name of Israel. Thus 
 saith the Lord, the King of Israel, and his 
 Redeemer the Lord of Hosts. 
 
 Isaiah, chap. xlv. v. 11, 12. " Thus saith the 
 Lord, the holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask 
 of me things to come, concerning my sons ; and 
 concerning the work of my hands command ye me. 
 I have made the earth, and created man upon it; 
 I, even my hands have stretched out the heavens, 
 and all their hosts have I commanded. I have 
 raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct 
 all his ways: He shall build my city, and he shall 
 let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith 
 the Lord of Hosts." 
 
 Ver. 22, 23. " Look unto me, and be ye saved 
 all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there 
 is none else. I have sworn by myself, and the 
 word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, 
 and shall not return, that unto me every knee shall 
 bow, every tongue shall swear. Surely, shall one 
 say, In the Lord have I righteousness and strength : 
 even to him shall men come, and all that arc 
 incensed against him shall be ashamed. In the 
 Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified and 
 shall glory." 
 
 Here I shall give the answer of the Spirit to 
 these Chapters, which I was ordered to pen, to 
 shew you from the Scriptures of the Redemption
 
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 of Man. *' Who is the man that contends with 
 his Maker? or where is the man that boasts of 
 wisdom ? Let him answer these Chapters, how 
 they are to be fulfilled ? or when they ever were 
 fulfilled ? that unto me every knee did bow, and 
 every tongue did swear? or when M-ere all saved 
 to the ends of the Earth ? or when were they 
 ashamed in the Lord, that rose up against my 
 followers ? or those that truly believed in my word ? 
 or when were all the seed of Israel justified and 
 glorified in the Lord ? Here is a question that 
 must make the diviners mad : and turn the wise 
 men backward, and make their knowledge fool- 
 ishness. Isaiah, chap. xliv. v. 25. For this 
 is what I told thee from the vision shewn 
 to Joseph. My Bible stands like this outward 
 chain, full of places to be filled up, and now they 
 shall be filled up, and made like the inward chain: 
 for now will I answer of the work of my hands. 
 I made the earth and created man upon it; and 
 now M'ill I raise him up in righteousness and direct 
 all his ways ; and he shall build my city ; for Israel 
 shall be saved in the Lord, with an everlasting sal- 
 vation. He shall not be ashamed or confounded 
 world without end. Now answer me, ye wise 
 men, and ye that contend against me, when was 
 this accomplished ? have I not said, heaven and 
 earth shall pass away, but my words shall not 
 pass away till all is fulfilled ? Then M'here is my 
 equal to contend with me? Have I not spoken, 
 and shall I not do it? Can I not frustrate the to- 
 kens of the liars, who say in their hearts they have 
 all knowledge given them. But let them know, 
 every good and perfect gift Cometh down from the 
 Father of light, and from me the Creator of all 
 men, and the Preserver of all men. This light 
 and knowledge is come to open the eyes of the 
 blind, and to unstop the ears of the deaf: that in 

 
 seeing they may see, and in hearing they may 
 understand. The wisdom of the wise men is 
 perished : and the understanding of the prudent 
 men is hid. Darkness hath covered the earth, and 
 gross darkness the eyes of the people: for in seeing 
 they do not see : nor in hearing they do not un- 
 derstand : that man, whom I have created, must 
 he raised up in righteousness, and I must direct 
 his goings. But who inquire of me ro direct them? 
 or how do men judge they shall be directed with- 
 out my Spirit visiting them ; to come to me for 
 directions and for protection ? Is not every man 
 directed by his own wisdom ? Do they not ask 
 counsel one of another? But Avho hath asked 
 counsel of the Lord? Then now judge for your- 
 selves, ye men of this world, who is the true Is- 
 rael of God, that I shall redeem to be justified 
 and glorified in me, and shame all that shame them, 
 and confound all that confound them ? The true Is- 
 rael of God, whether Jews or Gentiles, Greeks or 
 Barbarians, or whatsoever religion they profess, 
 they must all come to the standard mentioned in 
 holy writ, as it is spoken by my Prophet. Ask of 
 me things to come concerning my sons and the 
 works of my hands ; for they are the true Israel, 
 that shall be saved, when I come to build up men 
 in righteousness, in the earth that I have created. 
 The former things are come to pass, and new 
 things do I declare ; before they spring forth I tell 
 you of them. Now answer me, O vain men, how 
 the former things did come to pass ? or who in- 
 formed you of them? or who is now declaring: new 
 
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 tilings unto you, before ye have any knowledge of 
 them ? Have I not said, I alone am God, and my 
 glory I will not give to another ? For I and my 
 Son am one, who created you, and suffered to re- 
 deem you ; and where is the power can stand 
 against me, when I come to plead for my elect, in
 
 whom my soul delighteth ? He shall hring forth 
 judgment to the Gentiles : He shall not cry, nor 
 cause his voice to be heard in the streets : neither 
 shall he be discouraged till he hath set judgment 
 in the earth ; and the isles shall wait for his law. 
 Now open your eyes, ye blind ; unstop your ears, 
 ye deaf; when was this prophecy to be fulfilled ? in 
 the spirit? or in the body, when I was wounded for 
 your transgressions, bruised for your iniquities, and 
 the chastisement of your peace was upon me, and 
 with my stripes ye are healed ? Then was my voice 
 heard in the streets ; and over Jerusalem did I cry, 
 weep and mourn. I was discouraged by my own 
 disciples, and forsaken. How did they hide them- 
 selves from me ! When they saw my afflictions they 
 fled smitten of God, and forsaken of man. Tell 
 me, ye learned, if I was not discouraged : and 
 what judgment did I then set in the earth? Or 
 where are the isles, that are waiting for my law? 
 or whom do ye call the house of Israel, that is 
 saved with an everlasting salvation? or who is the 
 house of Jacob, that I have redeemed? and where 
 are all the enemies that the Lord hath shamed? Is 
 it not all prophesied to be done in the Spirit, and 
 not when I came in the Body? Tell me, ye wise 
 men, what travail of my soul I have yet seen to 
 be satisfied? Was it to see my followers put to 
 death ; my name despised ; the martyrs in the 
 flames? Could this satisfy me, to reconcile the 
 whole world unto God? I tell you, No! but their 
 love so far satisfied me, that it shall now rest upon 
 man for a blessing, that copy after them in love to 
 me, and wait for the coming of my Spirit to 
 be poured out upon all flesh, as it is spoken by the 
 mouth of my prophets : and Joel's words are plain 
 before you, that dreams have been heard, and vi- 
 sions have been seen, and my. handmaids do pro- 
 phesy. Now judge for yourselves, all ye children
 
 7 
 
 of men, is it not in the Spirit that your Redemp- 
 tion is spoken of throughout my Bible ? But ye 
 have understood my Gospel, as the Jews did the 
 Prophets : they believed I should come to establish 
 the throne of David, and be the mighty Counsel- 
 lor, conquering and to conquer, and have the go- 
 vernment to be upon my shoulders, and redeem 
 the house of Israel. But they did not believe I 
 should bear the iniquity and transgressions of man, 
 to be wounded for their sins, and to be put to 
 death. So they believed in one, and not in the 
 other ; and perished through their unbelief; and had 
 their holy city destroyed, that they thought I must 
 come to establish, if I was the Son of God. So 
 they believed the one, without weighing the other, 
 what the Prophet had spoken of in another place, 
 that the transgression of man must first be laid 
 upon me. Reason must teach men, it could not 
 come after I had come in all my Father's Glory, 
 to have all nations brought to the knowledge of 
 the Lord, and all the earth to praise the God of 
 their salvation : to have the heathens for my inhe- 
 ritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for 
 my possession. Who then shall lift a hand against 
 me, when every knee shall bow unto me ? So the 
 Prophecies could never be fulfilled to the wisdom 
 of the Jews : and it is the same now by the Gen- 
 tiles; for perfectly so they have understood my 
 Gospel; the first for the last, and the last for the 
 first ; relying on one scripture, and denying ano- 
 ther. Ye say, that false Prophets shall arise in 
 the latter days. On those words ye build your un- 
 belief of the true ones ; for it is written also, Pro- 
 phets shall arise, 1 Thessalonians, chap. v. verses 
 19,20,21. " Quench not the Spirit. Despise not 
 Prophecies. Prove all things, hold fast that which 
 is good." 1 Corinthians, chap. xiv. v. 1. "Fol- 
 low after charity and desire spiritual gifts ; but ra-
 
 ther that ye prophesy. He that prophesieth speak- 
 eth unto men for edification, exhortation, and 
 comfort. He that speaketh in an unknown tongue 
 edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth, edifieth 
 the church. 1 Cor. chap. x. v. 4. " Know, there 
 are divers gifts, but the same Spirit : for to one is 
 given by the Spirit the word of wisdom ; to ano- 
 ther the word of knowledge, by the same Spirit; 
 to another the working of miracles ; to another 
 prophecy; to another the discerning of Spirits. 
 1 Cor. chap. ix. v. 5. It is written, every woman 
 that prayeth, or prophesieth, must have her head 
 covered. Revelation, chap. xix. ver. 10. It is 
 written, " The testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of 
 prophecy." Now let Jews and Gentiles stand to- 
 gether, and let one answer their Prophets, and the 
 other the Gospel : for both alike have erred and 
 strayed from the truth} believing in one Scripture, 
 and denying another. Then how will ye join the 
 Law and the Gospel together ? for both have 
 parted it asunder ; putting the first for the last, 
 and the last for the first : wresting the Scripture to 
 your own condemnation ; taking away the parts 
 that tend to your own salvation and redemption : 
 for both are taking your names out of the book of 
 life ; for the book of life is the word of God, that 
 is left on record for Jews and Gentiles ; and for 
 all men, even to the ends of the earth. But who 
 hath believed aright? Will you answer, those that 
 believe in my Gospel? Then I answer, ye must 
 believe all that is written of me by the Prophets 
 and by my Disciples; that the testimony of my 
 coming must be made known by the Spirit of Pro- 
 phecy. For in the Spirit stands all your Redemp- 
 tion ; or how are ye redeemed, if I do not take 
 away the heart of stone, that is hardened by the 
 devil, and give you hearts of flesh, by pouring out 
 my Spirit upon you ? Or how will the church be
 
 edified by prophecies, if prophecy be not given to 
 edify thereby ? Why should ye desire prophecies 
 rather than spiritual gifts, if prophecies were not 
 to be obtained? Or how shall the church be edi- 
 fied to know and understand all the mysteries of 
 the Bible, which they have never yet understood, 
 without the Spirit of Prophecy is given to explain 
 them ? For there is no good and perfect gift but 
 what cometh down from the Father of light. 
 Now, what perfect gift is there in man ? Though 
 many have spiritual gifts ; but they do not edify 
 the church, nor give grace to the hearers ; but 
 prophecies are for the edifying of all that will hear 
 them. Try and prove them with the written 
 word of God ; for it is by prophecies ye must have 
 the testimony of my coming again in the Spirit, to 
 fulfil all that is written of me, from the Prophets 
 to the Apostles ; and what I told you, the Holy 
 Ghost, that is the Comforter, whom the Father 
 should send in my name, he should bring all things 
 to your remembrance. And now I have brought 
 all to your remembrance, from the Prophets to the 
 Apostles, and confirmed the truth by the truth of 
 prophecies. For new things I have declared unto 
 you, that old things shall be clone away, and all 
 things shall come new : before they spring forth 
 I have told you of them ; as I told you of the 
 wars and dearth, and all other things; before they 
 sprang forth 1 told you of them, that when they 
 came to pass, ye might know it was I the Lord 
 that tokl you of them. 
 
 So now awake, ye sons of men, 
 
 And see your Bibles clear ; 
 The former things are come to pass, 
 
 In all I told you here. 
 And now the new before your view 
 
 They all are hastening on ; 
 My Law and Gospel I'll make clear 
 
 To all the sons of men. 
 For as my body did appear 
 
 Tpon the cursed tree,
 
 And man's transgressions I did bear, 
 
 That he did lay on me ; 
 The past is gone, it must be known, 
 
 My prophets did foretell : 
 But new things I do now declare 
 
 I died to conquer hell : 
 That I the earth might all bring forth, 
 
 As I created man, 
 In righteousness to raise him up, 
 
 And guide him by my hand; 
 That is, for to direct his ways ; 
 
 The Israel now of God 
 Will fly to me, you all will see, 
 
 And now believe my word, 
 That all the whole I shall fulfil, 
 
 As it is spoken here. 
 It is mankind I must raise up 
 
 In righteousness to appear, 
 As I created him for at lirst ; 
 
 And now the end is come, 
 My promises with truth shall burst, 
 
 I say, on every land, 
 Until the Israel now of God 
 
 Shall all my goodness see ; 
 For the true Israel now of God 
 
 They all will trust jn me, 
 That I shall come and now redeem, 
 
 According to my word. 
 It is by faith you now must be 
 
 The true Israels of God ; 
 Faith to believe my Bible true, 
 
 That I shall all fulfil : 
 Have all the prophets in your view, 
 
 And judge them as you will ; 
 They, like the Vision, do appear 
 
 The outward chain to be : 
 Hut now I will not tarry here, 
 
 Till Israel all shall see, 
 That like the inward chain 'tis come, . 
 
 Fulfill' d in every word ; 
 I cannot be dismay' d by man, 
 
 That am a powerful God : 
 Strong to deliver, and to save ; 
 
 Strong to destroy my foe ; 
 Strong to the utmost now I'll save, 
 
 That Israel now shall know. 
 Israel, you'll see, my sons must be, 
 
 That on me do rely, 
 And judge me as a faithful God, 
 
 Whose dwelling is on high ; 
 Who made the earth a bliss for man, 
 
 And it 1 shall complete ;
 
 Who made a promise first for him, 
 
 When I did him create, 
 That blessings here he should enjoy, 
 
 Jf he did me obey: 
 But Satan soon did it destroy, 
 
 And man in grief did lie. 
 Bat mark the curse that was pronounc'd 
 
 Upon the tempter's head ; 
 If e'er my heel was bruis'd that way, 
 
 I should avenge the deed : 
 Upon his head the curse was laid, 
 
 If he should bruise my heel : 
 And for the Woman's fault was laid, 
 
 He must that vengeance feel ; 
 And now that vengeance it shall come, 
 
 That was decreed at iirst ; 
 As he betrayed the woman's hand, 
 
 It on his head was cast. 
 'Twas by her hand, you know he stands 
 
 Condemned by the fall ; 
 Because her guilt was cast on him, 
 
 I now do tell you all. 
 For man's transgressions I did die, 
 
 And for them did atone ; 
 But still the woman's guilt doth He 
 
 Till Satan feels his doom. 
 Then can you not the mystery see ? 
 
 The woman's promise it must come, 
 Who cast her guilt alone on he ; 
 
 Then why do ye- condemn? 
 For when he doe's receive his curse, 
 
 Then Israel's seed must come, 
 That now rely upon my word, 
 
 And build upon my Son : 
 That as he took the curse for man, 
 
 By hanging on the tree ; 
 Satan must so receive his doom, 
 
 That was pronounc'd on he. 
 Then from his fall, I tell you all, 
 
 That man I must redeem ; 
 My promises are so to all, 
 
 When I this earth do claim. 
 Then Israel's glory will abound, 
 And men my praise will sing ; 
 And the true Israel will be found, 
 
 Of Jacob's God and King. 
 But Israels here cannot appear, 
 
 Without a saving faith, 
 That I will make my Bible clear, 
 
 And give the.n saving grace ; 
 As I have promised at the iirst, 
 When I created him from the dust, 
 That I would make his bliss complete, 
 And so I died to finish it ;
 
 12 
 
 Because her foe should fall like me. 
 The woman's prophecies, you see, 
 Are on the serpent all now cast, 
 If men with me in love will burst, 
 To wish my kingdom for to come, 
 That Satan might receive his doom. 
 And doth this marvellous now appear? 
 Then marvellous things I told you here, 
 That I should bring you at the last, 
 When in the end the whole did burst ; 
 To shew you 'twas the woman's hand 
 Must rise in judgment to condemn 
 The very foe that her betray' d ; 
 Therefore the mysteries all were hid, 
 As dead to knowledge man became, 
 And said the Lord the thing had done, 
 By giving him the woman there. 
 And now let all men to take care ; 
 For I the same shall cast on man, 
 That will not now obey her hand ; 
 Because the woman now I give, 
 That you in peace with me might live, 
 And all these blessings now obtain ; 
 If I cast down, I'll raise again ; 
 And if I kill, I'll make alive : 
 And man shall find I ne'er deceive. 
 When I did make the woman first, 
 I said from her the good shall burst ; 
 For man could not be good alone ; 
 The woman must his helpmate come. 
 And now his helpmate doth appear, 
 With prophecies no man can clear, 
 To prove they did not come from God, 
 When all the truth therein is said ; 
 And as my Bible doth appear, 
 The woman's hand hath made it clear, 
 Which all the learned men can't do, 
 To prove my Bible all is true. 
 But yet in truth she makes the whole, 
 And proves her words from Adam's fall, 
 That at the first I did not lie, 
 As in all ages men do say. 
 So now the fall let it appear, 
 And then I'll answer thee once more. 
 
 Genesis, chap. iii. v. 15. "1 will put enmity 
 between thee and the woman ; and between thy 
 seed and her seed : it shall bruise thy head, and 
 thou shalt bruise his heel." Genesis, chap. ii. v. 
 18. "And the Lord God said, It is not good 
 that the man should be alone ; I will make him
 
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 an help meet for him." Now answer me, O vain 
 men, from your own judgment, why it was not 
 good for the man to be alone, since you say the 
 woman was his helpmate to cause his fall, and 
 that fall you say is passed on all mankind, which 
 was caused by the woman ? How then will your 
 judgment prove, the man was the better for the wo- 
 man, whom 1 pronounced to be for his good, 
 and to be his helpmate for the better ? Here I 
 have put the question to man. Did I not know 
 the arts of Satan? Did I not know he that had 
 influence over the angels in heaven, would find 
 a way to have influence overman upon earth? 
 Was there no other way, the powers of darkness 
 could find to betray man, if Adam had not tasted 
 of the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge 
 of good and evil ? I answer, yes : who brought 
 the second curse upon the earth ? Was it not man 
 for cursing his son ? And did not that curse rest 
 upon his posterity ? Then how was man good to 
 be alone ? Did not a few years show you how the 
 devil worked upon the man, whom I pronounced 
 to be a just man, and saved in the ark, when the 
 world was drowned, and all flesh was destroyed? 
 Here was man alone with his sons, when he pro- 
 nounced the curse upon one of them. Did he say to 
 his sons, I have sinned to drink of the grapes, and 
 ye have sinned to laugh at my folly, that we 
 ought to be ashamed of Let us repent and do 
 so no more, lest sin enter again into the world, and 
 it be again destroyed? Had this been the admo- 
 nition of Noah, man would have proved himself 
 good to be alone; but it was not : Satan soon found 
 a way to harden the heart of man and bring a 
 curse upon his posterity. Then how can you 
 prove, that man was good to be alone ? But now I 
 will answer man of the fall : The woman -con- 
 tended with the serpent, and answered, " God
 
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 hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye 
 touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent said unto 
 the woman, ye shall not surely die; for God 
 knoweth, in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes 
 shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods knowing 
 good and evil." Now answer me, ye worldly 
 wise men, who was the transgressor, the woman, 
 or the serpent ? Did she not justly cast her guilt 
 on her betrayer, when she said, the serpent be- 
 guiled me and I did eat? Then did I not justly 
 cast the guilt on him, for his subtilty and arts to 
 pronounce him cursed above every beast, as a 
 serpent, and above every created being, as a 
 devil? And know I have said, I am Alpha and 
 Omega, the beginning and the ending, the first 
 and the last ; and the last shall be first, and the 
 first shall be last. Then was it not first pronoun- 
 ced, her seed should bruise his head ; and the last, 
 he should bruise his heel ? And so the last was the 
 first; for my heel was bruised before his head. 
 For know, he worked on man to cast the blame 
 upon his Maker, for which reason I said he should 
 bruise his heel. Now answer me, O ye simple 
 men and unwise, how- can ye plead one promise 
 without the other ? How can ye rely on my heel 
 being bruised, if ye do not rely on the promise 
 I made to bruise the serpent's head? Did I not 
 tell you to pray that my kingdom should come, 
 and my will to be done in earth, as it is done in 
 heaven ? Did I not tell you that I had the power 
 to deliver you from evil, and unto me ye should 
 give the glory ?''Then why do ye mock me by 
 your prayers, when ye neither wish (or my king- 
 dom, nor believe that I have power to deliver 
 you from evil? Neither will ye give me the glory 
 of completing at last what I promised at first, the 
 woman to bea help meet for your good, to claim the 
 promise I made her in the creation, that ye n
 
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 come to your redemption. Is not enmity now 
 placed Between the woman's seed and the ser- 
 pent's seed? Are not your tongues like venemous 
 serpents, full of deadly poison? From whence come 
 all your lies and malice, hatred and revenge ? Come 
 they not from the root of all evil? Examine your 
 own hearts, appeal to your own consciences, whe- 
 ther it be in love to God, or that your hearts are 
 blinded by the devil, that ye do not wish to see my 
 kingdom established, and Satan's power destroyed. 
 O ye Scribes, Pharisees, and Hypocrites, who for 
 a pretence use my prayer, and now I am come 
 to fulfil it, ye will not have me to rule over 
 you. Am I come to teach you any other doctrine, 
 than what I told you to pray for? Am I come to 
 make the woman any other, than what I said I 
 created her for? Have I not said I am God, and 
 there is none beside me ; my honour I will not 
 'give to another? Then how shall I give my ho- 
 nour and power to the devil, to frustrate my 
 designs in the creation, and I not accomplish it 
 in your redemption? Did I alter my decrees by 
 the fall of the woman? Did I not say, her seed 
 should bruise the serpent's head? Then know, O 
 vain man, the promise that was given to the wo- 
 man must be fulfilled by the desire of the woman, 
 and it is I the Lnrd that have pla eel that desire 
 in her heart; and her desire shall never be frus- 
 trated, though in sorrow she bring? forth her chil- 
 dren : but the Lord of Hosts is her husband: the 
 holy One of Israel is his name, (haia/t, chap. 54.) 
 And all her children shall be taught of the Lord, 
 and great shall be the peace of her children: for 
 her desire is for the kingdom of Christ; and he 
 shall rule over her, and in her, to will and to do 
 of his good pleasure: for his power is over all 
 her words to fulfil them ; therefore no weapon 
 that is formed against her shall prosper, and every 
 tongue that is against her shall fall for her sake.
 
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 They have gathered together, but not by me; 
 therefore in judgment I will confound her ene- 
 mies, and all men shall know and see that I 
 the Lord am true; true in the creation, true 
 in preservation, true in my promise throughout 
 my Bible. Have I not promised to make crooked 
 paths straight before you, and work good out of 
 evil, and light out of darkness? And so will I 
 bring the good, I said in creating the woman, out 
 of the evil of the fall, to cast her guilt on Satan's 
 head. This was a crooked path to man, that the 
 woman, who was pronounced for man's good, 
 should turn to his hurt, by bringing evil upon him ; 
 but now I will make that crooked path straight 
 before him, by bringing good out of that evil, to 
 preserve the woman and cast her betrayer. But 
 how could this be accomplished at the beginning, 
 before men and devils were both tried in a fallen 
 state, and by my words spoken to the prophets, 
 to prove that man was dead to knowledge? For 
 though they heard my words delivered to the Pro- 
 phets, they did not understand them ; so they 
 were dead to the knowledge of good and evil ; 
 and dead to the knowledge of their God, who 
 knew how to bring round my wisdom in the cre- 
 ation, and in preservation ; to bring that good I 
 promised out of the evil she was betrayed into, 
 by laying the axe to the root : for the root of the 
 fall was the devil ; and now she hath laid the axe 
 to the root, by her prayers and her name, that 
 is sealed to the day of redemption, to pray for 
 my kingdom to come upon earth, that my will 
 may be done on earth as it is in heaven, and 
 Satan's power to be destroyed. And this prayer is 
 so acceptable to me. and so well pleasing in my 
 sight, that every tongue that is against her shall 
 fall for her sake; no weapon that is formed 
 against her shall prosper ; and every one that is
 
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 against her in judgment she shall condemn. So 
 bring forth your arguments, prove your strong 
 reasons, why I created the woman for your good ; 
 and now you refuse to receive her for your good, 
 when I have shewed the good which shall come 
 out of the evil, and the light that shall come out 
 of the darkness of the fall. I created the tree 
 of good and evil ; so I created the evil and the 
 good. Now the evil shall fall upon the evil, which 
 is the devil ; and the good shall fall on the wo- 
 man, that I said I made for man's good. So if 
 the evil first overcame the good ; then now the 
 good shall overcome the evil ; for as Satan said 
 they should be as gods, knowing good from evil, 
 as gods I will make them that now refuse the 
 evil and choose the good. And now I shall answer 
 those who say in their hearts, they choose the good, 
 but see no use to shew it by their hand-writing; 
 for the Lord judgeth from the heart. And from 
 the heart I judged Job ; but what was Satan's 
 answer? "Let him be tried and he would not be 
 found what I said he was." Therefore I put Job to 
 the trial, to shame Satan that was his accuser. The 
 heart of Job was known to me ; but it was putting 
 him to the trial that shamed the devil, that is the 
 great accuser of mankind. Know it is written, 
 Satan the great accuser of mankind shall be cast 
 down ; but it is by the trial of men's faith, to shew 
 their love to rne, must shame him, and cast him 
 down from pleading against man ; and prove by 
 their hand-writing they do not choose the evil, but 
 the good. So that if Satan tempts them to sin, 
 they do the things they wish not to do ; because they 
 wish God to be all in all, and my kingdom to come, 
 and Satan's power to be destroyed ; and that is 
 the hand-writing that will come against him, as 
 the hand-writing came against Belshazzar; and 
 prove when men's love for him is weighed in the 
 

 
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 balance, their love to him will be found wanting : 
 for men will shew, as well as the angels in heaven, 
 they do not love his ways. The angels were all 
 known to me ; but I put them all to the trial. 
 Abraham's heart was known to me ; yet I put 
 him to the trial. And now I have put all men 
 to the trial, the same, to see who is for me, and 
 who is against me. It must appear from their 
 hand-writing that the hands of men are lifted 
 up against their betrayer, the devil; and lifted 
 up to heaven to pull down my blessings upon 
 them. Was it not the hand that plucked the 
 fruit ? Then why do ye marvel, the axe must be 
 laid to the root before the tree is cut down? If 
 the hand plucked the evil fruit at first, then now 
 the hand must pluck it all down at last : and by 
 the hand he shall fall. Is it not written, they have 
 hands, and handle not : feet have they, and walk 
 not: neither speak they through their throats? 
 Now answer, why they were condemned for hav- 
 ing hands, and handling not, if their hands were 
 of no use ; and why they were blamed for not 
 speaking, if the heart was all I required ? My son 
 give me thy heart, and let thy light shine before 
 men, that others seeing thy good works, may 
 glorify thy Father who is in Heaven. But who 
 can see thy light or belief; or that thou givest 
 thy heart to me, if thy hand refuses to shew it to 
 me ? Will you answer, I have no need of shew- 
 ing my mind and heart before men ; for the 
 Lord knoweth it altogether; and he is my judge? 
 Then now answer me, ho\v I judged Abraham, 
 from his heart, or laying his hand upon his 
 son? Or how I freed the children of Israel ; was 
 it by Moses's heart, or by his hand, when he smote 
 the waves ? Or how did the water gush out of the 
 rock in the wilderness ; was it from the desire 
 of his heart, or from his hand, when he smote the
 
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 rocks? Read your Bibles and you will see the 
 hand and heart must join together. When evil is 
 in the heart the hands join with it. Is not all 
 done by the hand ? Then where good is in the 
 heart, the hand will shew it. Then will you say 
 in your hearts, you wish my kingdom was come 
 on the earth, and my will was clone upon the earth, 
 as it is done in heaven, and all the powers of Sa- 
 tan were destroyed ; but you are ashamed to put 
 your hands to sign it, fearing you should be 
 laughed at by men ? Then I answer, 1 shall be 
 ashamed of you, when I come in all my Father's 
 glory. For Satan the great accuser of man- 
 kind will make me ashamed of such professors. 
 For I now tell you one and all,, what this woman 
 hath written that is the desire of her heart, shall be 
 had in everlasting remembrance till time is no 
 more. And let no man say he joins with her in 
 his heart, that refuses to give her the right hand 
 of fellowship, to join with her by his hand : for 
 that is the reason the angels rejoiced at her birth, 
 knowing she was born for such a time as this ; that 
 she might pluck down all the evil fruit, and bring 
 to man all the good fruit ; that Satan might fall by 
 the hand he betrayed, to his own shame and con- 
 fusion : for if the hand plucked the first, it is the 
 hand must pluck the last, to pull down all the 
 evil and destroy it, and bring clown the good to 
 enjoy it. So if ye weigh well the fall, that it 
 came by the woman's hand ; ye must know that 
 Satan's fall must come by the woman's hand the 
 same. And now is the enmity placed between 
 the woman's seed and the serpent's seed : there- 
 fore is man casting out floods of oaths and lies 
 against her ; but the woman's seed is helping her 
 to destroy all the works of the devil, that they 
 may put on the armour of light, and be clothed 
 
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 with the Sun of Righteousness, that is now risiirg 
 with healing in his wings, to heal the fall of the 
 woman. Therefore I have given her the spirit 
 of prophecy, that all men might know she is- 
 called of God, to avenge the injuries done to- 
 herself upon the head of him that betrayed her. 
 For, as the blood of Abel cried for vengeance 
 against Cain ; so does the woman's fall cry for 
 vengeance against the devil, that betrayed her. 
 But now in her weakness I will be her strength, 
 and her strong tower, and the rock of her de- 
 fence* I never would have been born of a wo- 
 man, if I had never intended to have redeemed 
 the woman ; for as I was born of her, so I was 
 born for her, to make her sons joint-heirs with 
 me." 
 
 Here I shall leave the explanation of the Bible, 
 for the present, and come to some of my Prophe- 
 cies in 1792 ; as I was warned by day and by 
 night of what was coming upon the whole earth, 
 and at the same time I was told of/nany strange 
 and wondrous things that none but a GOD could 
 know, which happened then, to assure me my 
 visitation was from the LOUD, who had begun 
 and would make an end. In 1792 I was warned 
 of a war with France and Spain ; the dearth and 
 scarcity that would be in our land ; the distresses 
 and troubles that were coming upon us ; that the 
 visitation of the LOUD would go from nation to 
 nation ; but in what manner I was warned, a 
 small co'npass cannot contain ; yet it was so 
 powerful, and I had so many clear and convincing 
 proofs set before me, that I judged the calling 
 to be of God, and obeyed the summons to leave 
 my work and go and write it ; knowing, if I 
 was deceived, I should injure no one but myself;
 
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 and if it was of God, I thought it would be fatal 
 for me to disobey : as fatal were the threaten! ngs 
 pronounced against me if I did not obey. The war 
 was the first I was told would take place ; scarcity 
 and dearth would follow ; and discord would rise 
 in the hearts of the people, from the burden that 
 next would come upon our land. All hath come 
 to pass I was warned of; yet I am told it is the 
 shadows that are past , for the substance is to 
 come. And now I must inform my readers that 
 in March 1802, I was ordered to take my first 
 books in hand, which were printed in January 
 1801, and I should be told what pages would be 
 hastening on, from the First Book to the end of 
 the First Book of Letters. The pages that I was 
 ordered to put in print that were hastening on, 
 were the 3th page, the 27, 29, 37, 46, 79, 87, 
 109, 120, 160, 172, 180. In the 8th page are 
 these words 
 
 " But O thrice happy is the man 
 That doth begin and will go on, 
 Till every curtain is drawn back, 
 To know and prove if I do speak ; 
 For happy then shall be the man 
 
 That doth obey his call, 
 
 His talents five shall soon be ten, 
 
 My Spirit so shall fall." 
 
 Here I shall give the explanation that is now 
 given to me from that verse. What is said of man 
 alludes to men ; for one man can do nothing of 
 himself; and this page hath since the printing of 
 it been fulfilled by men ; and the curtains have 
 since been shewn that they are drawn back, from 
 the vision shewn to Joseph, "to shew you 
 from the dark mysteries of the fall, where the
 
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 crown standeth for man's redemption ; and now 
 happy, yea thrice happy are all these that are flock- 
 ing to JESUS, as doves to the windows, looking 
 for and hastening to the coming of the Lord Jesus 
 Christ, for they will find their redemption is draw- 
 ing near, who will enlist themselves under my ban- 
 ner, and thirsting for my kingdom of peace. They 
 shall be the good servants, who shall enter into the 
 joy of their Lord." Now I have given you the 
 words spoken in verse in the 8th page, and the ex- 
 planation to that. 
 
 I shall next come to the 27th page, that was 
 said to be hastening on, and of what was spoken 
 to me in 1792. "As I kept nothing from Abra- 
 ham, so will I keep nothing from thee. Thou 
 shalt prophesy in my name, and I will bear thee 
 witness ; what I put in thy mouth, that will I do 
 upon the earth. The Lord is awaked as one out 
 of sleep : the voice of the Lord shall shake terribly 
 the earth: pestilence and famines shall go through 
 the lands : men's hearts shall fail them for very 
 troubles, because they have not known the visi- 
 tation of the Lord." Here I have given you from 
 the 27th page of what I was told was hastening 
 on, in 1802, from the words spoken to me in 
 1792 ; and now I shall give the answer to the 
 above words, that is now given to me. 
 
 "Give ear, all ye inhabitants of the earth; for 
 I the Lord have spoken it, and I also will do it. 
 If ye will turn unto me, I will turn unto you; but 
 if ye mock my voice, now I have made all so plain 
 before you ; these evils that are written in this 
 book shall come upon you; and none shall deliver 
 you, till judgments are swallowed up in victory ; 
 for I shall kindle a fire in mine anger, and wrath
 
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 in my fury, if men now mock the coming of 1 
 their Lord, when I have made my Bible so plain 
 before you, and made all these Prophecies, that are 
 past, true before you by the shadows. But know, 
 I told you it was the substance that was hastening 
 on; for it was but the shadow of the war that was 
 past; and no more than the shadow that is already 
 fulfilled. But as I bore thee witness in the sha- 
 dow; so I will now in the substance; as I told 
 thee it was hastening on." But here I shall call 
 your attention to the 18th page of my first book, 
 printed in 1801. 
 
 If this publication awakens the ministers to 
 search out the truth of these writings, the three 
 next harvests are promised to be plentiful. 
 " Prove me now, saith the Lord, and try me, if I 
 will not shower down blessings upon you ; but if 
 the many truths laid before you do not awaken 
 them to search out the truth, the Lord will fulfil 
 his words 
 
 " If by the wise-men I am mocked now, 
 Like Herod's fury, I'll fulfil my row. 
 For who my anger shall appease 
 
 If all deny my will ; 
 My thunder-bolts shall loudly roll, 
 
 And men's proud hearts 1 11 chill." 
 
 Here follows the answer given to me to that 
 page. " One part is fulfilled by ministers, and by 
 a few who searched out the truth, and the three 
 harvests have come as I promised; but know what 
 is to follow -If all these truths that are now lafd 
 before you, do not awaken the ministers to search 
 out the truth, to warn their flocks of what is 
 hastening on, I will now fulfil the words spoken 
 in verse. Therefore, be ye not mockers, lest 
 your bands be made strong : For I have heard 
 from the Lord God a consumption, even a deter-
 
 urination upon the whole earth. Therefore weep, 
 ye ministers, mourn, ye priests ; for the day of 
 the Lord is at hand." 
 
 Now I shall come to the 29th page, that I said 
 \yas hastening on. This is the fulfilment of a 
 dream, that I had in 1792, when I was informed 
 I should be shewed in dreams how the things upon 
 the nation should come on : For the night was 
 far spent, and the day was at hand. I dreamed 
 I was upon an high mountain, and saw the sky 
 bright as noon day ; two men came out of the 
 clouds with long robes of purple and scarlet, with 
 crowns of gold on their heads, and swords in their 
 hands, standing in the sky. Two men came out 
 with heavy horses and spoke to them who stood 
 in the air. Soon after 1 saw the men on horseback 
 coming out of the clouds as fast as they could, 
 till the whole sky was covered with men in armour, 
 and spears glittering in the air. I looked down on 
 the earth, and saw the world in a confusion of 
 war; men in armour riding fast. This dream 
 alarmed me ; but I was answered, " Now shall be 
 fulfilled the 2d Psalm- 
 Ask and receive thy full demands ; 
 
 Now shall the heathens be, 
 
 The utmosf limit of the land, 
 
 Shall be possessed by thee. 
 
 I'll crush them every where, 
 
 As massy bars of iron break 
 The potter's brittle ware." 
 
 And now I shall come to the 37th page. 
 
 " And when her writings you have all gone through, 
 Much greater mysteries will come to your view."
 
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 Now I shall give you what is hastening on, in 
 the 46th page. 
 
 " So now, like Eve, let all believe, 
 
 The Bridegroom is at hand ; 
 That all the earth I shall reprieve- 
 The stronger now shall stand : 
 For Satan's reign hath been so strong, 
 
 With thousands he did clear ; 
 'Tis time for David now to come, 
 
 With his ten thousands here. 
 Your Mighty Counsellor I'll begin, 
 
 Your Advocate and Friend ; 
 Then I will come your Priest and King, 
 
 Your Brother in the end ; 
 Your Husband too, you all shall know ; 
 
 For I shall all protect ; 
 Arid if by one you all came down, 
 
 By one then all come back. 
 Then all will be as wise as she, 
 
 Or yet as simple here . 
 Then wives alike you all shall be, 
 
 The Marriage I shall clear." 
 
 I shall now come to the 79th page, which is 
 hastening on. 
 
 " Could they discern how I do warn, 
 
 No learning can appear, 
 To shew I shall bring on the storm, 
 
 And every dangers near." 
 
 Here I shall give you what is hastening on, in 
 8?th page. 
 
 " These heavenly visions shall to all be known, 
 That in my chariot I am coming down : 
 No more in swaddlings doth the infant lay. 
 But now I'll come in glory's bright array ; 
 And a true Saviour now I'll surely be 
 To those that put their trust alone in me. 
 But darkness o'er the earth will sure abound, 
 Yet you enlighten'd land, his praise resound ; 
 The glory of the Lord shall in thee rise, 
 And his salvation shall be in the wise. 
 Conquering to conquer I will now begin ; 
 Rejoice ye lands, with joy and gladness sing.
 
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 Now I shall give you part of the 10<Hli page, 
 which is hastening on. 
 
 " Now thou hast ended I'll begin : 
 
 The second Psalm to all is come. 
 
 I'll trifle now with man no more ; 
 
 My sword I'll send from shore to shore. 
 
 Therefore ye shepherds now awake, 
 
 The helmet of salvation take, 
 
 And the whole armour now put on, 
 
 And shew the corner-stone to man ; 
 
 The temple-gate throw open wide ; 
 
 And shew your flocks where they must hide ; 
 
 The Rock of ages now is come ; 
 
 Such days as these were never known." 
 
 Now I shall give part of the 120th page, which 
 is hastening on. 
 
 " How shall the glory now in Israel shine, 
 If I don't open the benighted mind ? 
 Or the fulfilment of the Gentiles come ? 
 'Twas by a woman first the deed was done ; 
 Because she did the serpent first obey. 
 To bring it back must turn the other way. 
 
 Now I shall give you part of the 160th page, 
 which is hastening on. 
 
 " Then Christ and his flock now together must stand, 
 And prove from this vision my Kingdom's at hand : 
 And white as the wool my flock shall appear, 
 And the light from my lamps you shall all see it clear." 
 
 Here I shall give you part of the 172d page, 
 which is hastening on. 
 
 " For now you'll find will come the midnight hour, 
 
 When all mankind will feel the Bridegroom's power ; 
 
 And ye, whose lamps are ready now prepar'd, 
 
 The midnight-hour will bring your full reward; 
 
 For with the Bridegroom you may enter in, 
 
 That is my Kingdom you shall surely win. 
 
 And you will find a glorious midnight-hour, 
 
 To meet the Bridegroom; and you'll feel my power, 
 
 To shut you in secure from every foe ; 
 
 Your names are written and your names I know ; 
 
 But when the foolish virgins do appear, 
 
 Who mock'd the warning of the Bridegroom here,
 
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 I tell you plain what then will be your fate ; 
 Like foolish virgins you will come too late ; 
 Because your names I say I do not know ; 
 You mock'd the warning and despis'd the blow, 
 That 1 pronounc'd against the mockers here^ 
 And now the midnight-hour to them appears, 
 That back on mockers must my fury fall ; 
 So now take care, I warn you one and all." . 
 
 Now I shall give part of the 180th page, which 
 is hastening on. 
 
 " Of Gideon's sword, and brandish'd it shall be 
 
 And now the mystery I shall shew to thee : 
 
 For Joel's words together all are come 
 
 The dreams and visions have been seen by men. 
 
 If men of learning do but weigh it deep 
 
 The sword was brandish'd, and the powers do weep, 
 
 Which made the sword to brandish all abroad> 
 
 And every nation feel the glittering sword ; 
 
 If not already, it will so come on, 
 
 And every land will find my sword is drawn, 
 
 Till men I've conquer' d and they all submit 
 
 To lay their jewels humbly at my feet; 
 
 That is, their faith to trust in me alone ; 
 
 Then on the other must the sword come on ; 
 
 For it I'll brandish in the enemy 
 
 The powers of darkness shall my fury see ; 
 
 For in the end I'll plunge it in his heart, 
 
 And lie like man shall feel the fatal dart: 
 
 For that's the way that I shall sheath the sword. 
 
 And then all flesh shall know the living Lord." 
 
 Now I will explain those Pages, which are said 
 to be hastening on. The first, that I warned, was 
 the 8th page, that was hastening on ; viz. of mi- 
 nisters searching out the truth, till the curtains 
 were drawn back and now I have shewn you the 
 Vision of the Curtain being drawn back. The 
 27th page is the warning given to the woman ; and 
 now the vision hath appeared of' the woman. The 
 29th page is of the war hastening on ; and now 
 the trumpets of war have appeared in the vision. 
 The 3?th page are great mysteries coming to your 
 view, when they had gone through the writings ; 
 and then came the mysteries of all the visions.
 
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 The 46th page is Satan's reign being too strong 
 and " I am coming, like David, with tens of 
 thousands and now you have seen the Vision of 
 the Horse and Rider, going on conquering and to 
 conquer, with all the heavenly host, and with the 
 sword of victory in my hand and one power that 
 opposed me, twisted and broke under my heel : so 
 that. I appear as I said, the Mighty Counsellor, 
 your Advocate, and the Captain of your Salvation. 
 The 79th page could they discern how I do warn, 
 and did they weigh all with the visions, that I told 
 thee were hastening on it wants no learning to 
 know all was brought round by the wisdom of a 
 God, beyond the wisdom of all ttye men upon 
 earth. Bring me the man that could bring round 
 such mysteries, and make them come to the per- 
 fect truth ; but that is as far from any man to do 
 of himself, as it was for Moses to work the mira- 
 cles he wrought, without my aid and assistance. 
 The 87th page, are the heavenly visions that should 
 be known ; and now they are seen and known. 
 For so they shall all come upon the earth ; and ye 
 shall find redemption in my blood ; and I will be 
 known in all hearts : for I have shewn you, in the 
 visions, how I am coming down, and how my 
 wonders are displayed in visions : therefore they 
 may rejoice in the God of their salvation, who are 
 now enlightened to see and believe in their re- 
 demption, that now .draweth near. The 109th 
 page, is the second Psalm and now I have shewn 
 you in the Vision of the Trumpets for war, and 
 my arm stretched out to all nations, to save the 
 remnant that is leaved in the war ; but if England 
 does not awake, as men out of sleep ; and the 
 shepherds do not warn their flocks this land will 
 come to all, like the explanation of that Psalm, 
 and say they cannot bear the load, that I shall 
 bring upon them. For as I have sent prophecies
 
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 among them, and signs and visions, and have laid 
 a few stripes on them, that they might not receive 
 many ; but if a few will not awaken them, I shall 
 lay rny hand heavy upon them. For if they say 
 they want not the knowledge of the Most High, 
 they shall not have the protection of the Most 
 High. The 120th page How shall the glory shine 
 in Israel, if I do not open the eyes of the blind, 
 and bring the Gentiles to the fulness of the gos- 
 pel, that they have believed ; for if the woman 
 bore the Son, the woman must bear the tidings of 
 his coming again in glory and if the Jews and 
 Gentiles are above other nations ; so their women 
 must be above all other nations : For in the vision 
 I shewed the woman arrayed in glory and the 
 woman must be arrayed in the glory of my Spirit, 
 before man that is born of a woman can be re- 
 deemed. But thou sayest in thy heart, the Jews 
 were not redeemed, though the woman bore the 
 Son of God. I answer; they perished through 
 unbelief and through unbelief, will thousands 
 now perish. The l60th page Christ and his 
 flock must stand together. And now I have shewn 
 in the Vision of the Crown and Crosses, how man 
 must come in under my wings for protection ; and 
 my arm shall come out to man, and then the cros- 
 ses shall fall from man ; for now will I conquer all 
 for men : as they shared with me the cross, so shall 
 they now share with me the crown. For now the 
 flowers appear upon the earth ; and my flock shall 
 appear white, as the five angels appear with the 
 trumpets, &c. in their. hands, and will draw back 
 the curtains to all that wish to judg : e for them- 
 selves in that heavenly beauty that vision ap- 
 pears, my flock shall appear in white: for white as 
 the vision appears to all ; so white shall my flock 
 be made, that use the trumpets to sound the coming 
 of the Lord: and for them the swords shall fall
 
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 in the end. So this is what I told thee was has- 
 tening on for believers ; but first must come on 
 what I said upon unbelievers. For all these visions 
 shew you, that I will fulfil all I have spoken by 
 thee. The 172nd page Your names are written, 
 and your names I know : and so the vision ap- 
 pears, where you see the sealed letters drawn by 
 two white horses ascending upwards, and the earth 
 below in all its glory, and the seven angels coming 
 before the throne. And now you see, men have 
 begun to write their names for the desire of my 
 kingdom, as I said it was hastening on. And now 
 they are fulfilling my words ; and they shall be 
 welcomed in with the Bridegroom, when I come 
 to bring on the midnight hour for man; then they 
 shall be known to me, from their names, who wish 
 for my kingdom ; so all is shewn in the visions, as 
 I told thee. The 188th page The sword of 
 Gideon shall end the war and those who inquired 
 I ordered to enter voluntarily to defend their 
 king and country. But know, in the end, I said 
 I would brand it in the enemy ; the powers of 
 darkness should feel iny fury ; for that is the way 
 I would sheath the sword. And know, the vision 
 was shewn to thee of the Chain round Satan; and 
 the next vision was, the angels in white, with the 
 swords drawn to fall. So here are the visions, 
 like the words I said unto thee were hastening on 
 for all. 
 
 I said the Sword of Gideon should end the war. 
 And Satan's doom must in it then appear; 
 Because that way I said the sword I'd sheath, 
 When I had made all nations for to yield. 
 And from these visions now I warn you here 
 Twelve heavenly visions thou hast seen most clear ; 
 Twelve different pages I did say were near, 
 That to all nations they were hastening on. 
 I said a mystery would to them be known ; 
 When all thy writings they had then gone through, 
 A greater mystery would come to their view. 

 
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 And so the mysteries must to man appear, 
 
 To weigh the visions with the pages here, 
 
 That I did tell thee then were hastening on. 
 
 I said the curtains must come back by man, 
 
 And that thrice happy man would surely be, 
 
 That did go on the naked truth to see ; 
 
 And now the truth it doth to all appear, 
 
 As in the visions every one I'll clear ; 
 
 Because these visions that you now may see, 
 
 They shew you plain the truth was told by me- 
 
 Ten years her words were seen upon the land, 
 
 The wars and tumults, you might all command ; 
 
 Because the shadow in your land appear'd, 
 
 And many men for tumult hanged here; 
 
 That for rebellion they were put to death, 
 
 Then mark my Gospel what the Scripture saith : 
 
 Brethren against their brethren there would rise, 
 
 When I bring on the end, O man, be wise ! 
 
 Brethren and nations, tumults and the war, 
 
 The dearth of bread did in your land appear. 
 
 Mark every shadow in the ten were past ; 
 
 In 1793 you know the wars did burst, 
 
 And after that the shadows all did come ; 
 
 You know the ten years were not past and gone, 
 
 Before believers came the truth to see, 
 
 From different parts, and then believed in me, 
 
 That I had spoken as the Lord on high, 
 
 To warn my coming and my kingdom nigh. 
 
 So every shadow did to you appear, 
 
 And unbelief was seen in the ten years ; 
 
 So every shadow now is gone and past ; 
 
 For so I told thee unbelief would burst, 
 
 And floods against thee would be cast by men, 
 
 The rage of hell in them you would see plain: 
 
 And so the rage of hell it did appear, 
 
 Thou know'st in man within the first ten years : 
 
 And so the love from heaven it did abound, 
 
 The same from men thou heard' st the sound, 
 
 That they in love did hear their coming Lord, 
 
 And did rejoice, to hear the Bridegroom's word, 
 
 That was made public by his servant here. 
 
 All this together was within ten years : 
 
 And they to help the woman did begin, 
 
 As in thy printed books may plain be seen. 
 
 So all these shadows came within ten years ; 
 
 And different nations did in war appear ; 
 
 The dreadful fever in America; 
 
 The tumult then in Ireland men did see. 
 
 All this I told thee, that it would take place 
 
 Mark every shadow in the ten that's past, 
 
 And then the substance every soul shall see; 
 
 For now increasing as I said to thee, 
 
 That all these shadows surely would increase, 
 
 Before I brought to man a lasting peace,
 
 And have my glorious Kingdom for to come j 
 
 For now the substance it is hastening on ; 
 
 The wars increasing every where abound, 
 
 From distant nations you do hear the sound. 
 
 As well as here, the war is in your land, 
 
 And rage and malice do abound in man 
 
 Against the Lord, and his anointed Son : 
 
 Despite against my Spirit now is strong; 
 
 For men in rage and fury do increase, 
 
 Against my Kingdom, and wish not for peace, 
 
 To be delivered from the rage of hell ; 
 
 But sooner with their masters they do swell, 
 
 Against the Lord and his anointed Son, 
 
 Just as I told thee of the second Psalm ; 
 
 And now the second Psalm to all is near, 
 
 And so my friends they are increasing here : 
 
 Because thy friends they daily do increase, 
 
 More strong now than before, the shadow's least, 
 
 That in the first ten years are past and gone 
 
 And, now, I tell you this, O England, 
 
 Fast as thy friends and foes do now increase, 
 
 So fast I tell you I'll bring on the rest, 
 
 Of every shadow that is past before. 
 
 Jf love increase, thy foes to conquer here, 
 
 And every foe doth now become a friend, 
 
 I'll then increase the blessings I did send. 
 
 Since first her friends they did to her appear, 
 
 I sent you peace and plenty that same year ; 
 
 But when the malice did in her foes abound, 
 
 I sent the war, that in her foes was found, 
 
 And all your peace I turned to a war ; 
 
 And now if toes increase, I tell you here, 
 
 That every sorrow they shall fast increase, 
 
 The wars, nor tumults they shall never cease, 
 
 Until the hearts of men will turn to me, 
 
 And leave their rage of persecuting thee. 
 
 For if my coming men did love to hear, 
 
 Such malice in mankind could not appear ; 
 
 So if men's rage and malice do go on, 
 
 They'll find the substance like the shadows come : 
 
 And mark the shadows past in the ten years: 
 
 But now the substance all her foes shall bear; 
 
 If they in rage and malice still go on, 
 
 Then I'll pursue them by the every storm. 
 
 Until her toes I've swept them all away. 
 
 And now I bid thee mark what I do say : 
 
 In public print let all these words appear, 
 
 And from the visions now I tell you here, 
 
 As they were seen it all is hastening on ; 
 
 'Tis like the pages that I said should come; 
 
 And like these visions every soul shall see. 
 
 The end of all things is decreed by me." 

 
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 And now I shall come to the pages that were 
 said to be fulfilled in 1 802, that were printed in 
 1801. The 18th page If the ministers searched 
 out the truth of the prophecies, the three following 
 harvests were promised to be plentiful. The 53d 
 page The wars to be deferred for a while. The 
 60th page The first shall be like the last. The 
 84th page In one harness they will all agree ; 
 my plough is ready for to set them free. The 
 94th page Barren minds like barren soil, mock 
 the cultivator's toil. The 126th page Because 
 the lying spirit is sent out. The 141st page I 
 have begun in the new century, and changed the 
 sences. The 143d page No foreign nation 
 you've to tear will now invade your land. The 
 161st page The wisdom of Satan will appear in 
 man, and point out light to deny the whole. The 
 162d page The living water will gush out of 
 itself. The 174th page Different passions will 
 arise, and some men of learning will chastise. The 
 197th page The one observed the landmarks, 
 and with steady prudence reached his native shore. 
 The 200th page My Spirit is descended, to warn 
 you that I am at hand. Now I shall give the an- 
 swer of the Spirit to these pages, that were said to 
 be fulfilled in 1802. "The J8th page was ful- 
 filled by the three ministers and others, who 
 searched out the truth ; but the fulfilling of the 
 harvests could not be till the time was come to 
 fulfil them ; but my promises were begun to be 
 fulfilled by the first; then all might be assured I 
 should go on to fulfil the others. Another thing 
 was fulfilled by the mocking of the wise men : 
 then judge what must follow in time. For as time 
 brought on the harvests, as promised ; so will time 
 bring on the others. For if men fulfil the one, I 
 shall fulfil the other. The war was deferred for a 
 while, and so were the judgments in your land.
 
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 by sending a plenty instead of a scarcity. This 
 was deferred be me : But know, it is time must 
 fulfil the other. As it hath begun by the war, so 
 shall I face my foes in this laud, that mock the 
 coming of the Lord : for where one thing is ful- 
 filled, time must fulfil the other. Now, the words 
 were fulfilled of my plough being ready to set free 
 the other; but time must make all my plough 
 agree together: for they are not all yoked in to- 
 gether ; though it was fulfilled that all the former 
 were taken out, as bullocks were taken out of the 
 yoke, and others, like a plough yoked in, in their 
 place: but the whole is not completed. Barren 
 minds, like baneu soil, have mocked the cultiva- 
 tor's toil; for so did men mock thee. But though 
 that was fulfilled, yet the whole is not fulfilled ; 
 for like the harvests, there must come time to ful- 
 fil them. Where one is fulfilled, the other shall 
 follow ; because there is a lying spirit in mankind, 
 to try to foil thy heart and mind, that I shall go 
 no farther to fulfil the words that I have given to 
 thee. That truth was then fulfilled by many; but 
 time must fulfil the other part, to prove they are 
 lying spirits that prophesy against thee from their 
 own wisdom, that they are better prophets than 
 thou art, who writest wholly by my Spirit. So 
 where one truth is fulfilled, the other shall fol- 
 low. For as I have begun in this new century to 
 call men from different parts, and have made the 
 truth public, and changed the scenes of their pur- 
 suing to establish the French king upon the throne ; 
 and changed the scenes of the dearth, that was 
 in your land ; for these scenes were all changed in 
 1802, as I told thee; but time must fulfil all that 
 is written in that page ; for where one truth is 
 fulfilled, the other shall be. That truth was ful- 
 filled, that no foreign nation had invaded your 
 land, as I told thee in 1801 ; so shall all be ful-
 
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 filled in that page : therefore, let men be wise and 
 understand all that is there written ; for one truth 
 shall follow to another. It was fulfilled, that Sa- 
 tan appeared to mankind, and pointed out, from 
 their own wisdom, no prophecies could be given 
 to thee; though all the page is not yet fulfilled ; 
 but as sure as the one truth was fulfilled, the other 
 shall follow, till all is fulfilled, that is there writ- 
 ten. The truth was fulfilled, in that page: the li- 
 ving waters gushed out of themselves, without thy 
 seeking after them, or knowing where the living 
 waters were; yet that page is not all fulfilled ; 
 but one truth will bring on the others, till the 
 whole is proved to come from the God of truth. 
 For though that was fulfilled, that different pas- 
 sions arose in mankind, and men of learning re- 
 proved and blamed the judgment of those that 
 believed ; yet that page is not all fulfilled ; but it 
 is hastening on. For as one hour brings on ano- 
 ther, one day another, and one year another ; so 
 shall one truth bring on another, till every truth 
 is fulfilled. For as some have observed the truths 
 which have been fulfilled, and with steady faith 
 believe all will be fulfilled ; so shall their faith 
 bring them to a safe harbour at last. For though 
 they have observed the landmarks, and pursued 
 them with steady faith; yet they are not come to 
 the haven of my rest ; neither are they safely 
 landed to that shore of happiness, which is now in 
 store for them. But as I said it was fulfilled, that 
 some were looking to the landmarks, set before 
 them ; yet the page is not all fulfilled. For.it is 
 like Isaiah's prophecies of my death for man ; but 
 it is not fulfilled, that I have seen the travail of 
 my soul, and am satisfied. So all is fulfilled but 
 in part; yet that part which is fulfilled shal bring 
 on the other, till all be fulfilled, and the \\ hole 
 accomplished. As that trutli is accomplished of 
 
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 the woman's warning all her brethreri that the Spi- 
 rit of the Lord hath visited her. This truth is 
 fulfilled ; but the page is not all fulfilled. Just so 
 stands my Bible: one part fulfilled; the other part 
 not. And the same was my Disciple's saying, in 
 the day of Pentecost, that the Prophet Joel's 
 words were fulfilled. The shadow was, by my 
 Spirit being poured out upon them who were pre- 
 sent, of different religions; but the substance was 
 not fulfilled of my Spirit being poured out upon all 
 flesh : neither did your women then prophesy. 
 Now I have placed these pages to convince man- 
 kind of their folly in judging their Bibles; that 
 one word being fulfilled, is the fulfilment of the 
 whole. But my Bible stands like thy pages, which 
 I ordered thee to print in 1802, being fulfilled ; as 
 many things in them were fulfilled ; but will you 
 say from that, the whole pages throughout were 
 fulfilled ? Then you must argue the three good 
 harvests had then appeared, when there was but 
 one passed. Yet it was fulfilled of the shepherds 
 and others searching out the truth, and one good 
 harvest had followed ; but three years must be 
 passed before the third could be proved. Perfectly 
 so stands all my Bible. I proved myself the Sa- 
 viour of mankind, that I came to die for all men; 
 but 1 have not yet proved that I have saved all 
 men. I died that man might live in me; but I 
 have not yet proved that all men do live in me. 
 I became poor for man, that through my poverty 
 man might become rich; but I have not yet made 
 men rich ; neither in this world, nor in good 
 works. Where is the man that boasts in my sight, 
 that he is rich in grace, rich in faith, rich in the 
 world, and in the knowledge of me ? Now, to 
 fulfil what I died for, men must thus become, 
 when I give them my kingdom that I died to 
 establish for them That as all men lost their
 
 state of happiness and bliss by Ad.am's fall ; sp 
 must all gain it again through me. But bow can 
 all men be the same renewed by me, if I do not 
 bring in a whole race of mankind to that perfect 
 happiness which I created man for at first ? And 
 how could this be clone when I came amongst 
 them in the body ? How then could the Jews be 
 scattered through unbelief throughout all nations? 
 Or how could the words of the prophets be ful- 
 filled, or my gospel be fulfilled, if all the evils 
 had fallen at once ? No, I tell thee, my Bible is 
 like thy pages, one part fulfilled, the other hasten- 
 ing on ; as the three years were to fulfil the truth of 
 the harvests; and the third year in the century 
 proved the wars were deferred for a while. And 
 every page that was said was fulfilled, eveiy year 
 is increasing more and more the fulfilment of them. 
 So what was fulfilled by my death for man, shall 
 now go on more and more, as years increase, till 1 
 fulfil the whole. For it is by thy writings that I 
 have placed in such a manner I shall convince man- 
 kind how my Bible stands and prove that one 
 thing being fulfilled, is not the fulfilment of the 
 whole. If a man gives a bond, and promises to 
 pay one part at any period ; if he be as good as his 
 word, he will fulfil his word ; but that does not 
 prove the bond is cancelled, the debt is paid ; be- 
 cause he fulfilled his word in one payment, that 
 doth not free the whole ; though the man fulfilled 
 his promise in that part, yet the remainder is still 
 behind. Just so stands thy pages and my Bible : 
 One thing fulfilled ; but the other stands like a 
 bond that is not cancelled. But now I will not 
 cease going on from one promise to another, from 
 one fulfilment to another, till every bond is can- 
 celled, and every debt is paid. For, the last ene- 
 my that must be destroyed is death, hell, and sin, 
 and that is the power I died to destroy. And
 
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 though I said in my dying hour, It is finished ; 
 yet, it was but finished like thy pages : my death 
 . was finished ; yet, man's redemption was not fi- 
 nished : nor Satan's curse was not finished, but 
 as the man that is murdered finished the d*eath for 
 his murderer; so my death being finished by Sa- 
 tan's entering into Judas ; so it shall assuredly 
 finish his death, as Judas finished his life. For as 
 Satan finished death for man and me ; so now I 
 will finish death for him. 
 
 And now I'll finish life for man, 
 As from the grave I rose again. 
 And like thy pages, all will see, 
 'Twas finish'cl then no other way. 
 One truth appeared my death to find, 
 Was finish'dthen for all mankind ; 
 But as thy pages do appear, 
 You cannot prove the whole is clear, 
 That all these pages are fulfill'd, 
 Though many truths beyond man's skill 
 Are in these pages that are pass'd ; 
 But in the end the whole will burst. 
 Then with my Bible all compare, 
 And prove that man doth greatly err, 
 To say my Bible is fulfill'd. 
 Let all the learned try their skill, 
 And with thy pages it compare, 
 Then all must prove alike they err: ( 
 Some things fulfill'd and others not, ' 
 In every page that there was wrote ; 
 And all my Bible stands the same ; 
 Therefore these pages I did name ; 
 As some in all was then fulfill'd. 
 The learned men with all their skill, 
 Cannot deny but some were true r 
 Bring every page before their view ; 
 And they must own there's truth in all, 
 That was fulfill' d, when I did call, . 
 To have these pages to appear, 
 And said the truth therein was clear, 
 That was fulfill'd the truth to see j 
 And where's the man that bafiled thee, 
 To say these pages were not true ? 
 Bring all thy friends before thy view : 
 The mysteries they did not discern ; 
 Nor judge the way that I did warn, 
 To say, I had fulfill'd the past, 
 And so the others they would burst ;
 
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 As they for man were hastening on ; 
 The way I warn'd, there's none discern'd. 
 To see wherein the lines were true, 
 And what is not, bring to their view, 
 That all together did not come ; 
 And so my Bible stands the same, 
 Which learned men no more do see, 
 Than those that now believe in thee 
 Discern'd what was not there fulfilled ; 
 And so 'tis faith T tell vou still, 
 From the great truths that did appear, 
 They judg'd the Lord had spoken here, 
 Without the lesser things to see, 
 That all fulfill'd could never be. 
 Now perfect so my Bible stands : 
 The greater truths they all command ; 
 But lesser things they do not see, 
 That all fulfill' d could nevei be. 
 As in my Bible all is plac'd; 
 They judge my Gospel from the past, 
 That as these wonders did appear, 
 They judg'd the Son of God was here, 
 And that I died to save mankind ; 
 But ne'er discern'd what laid behind, 
 To make my death secure for man ; 
 The tempter's death must surely come, 
 Before mankind could e'er be free, 
 For every man to live in me 
 As man was tainted by the fall, 
 Through Satan's arts, 'tis known to all ; 
 Then sure the author he must die, 
 Cut from the earth, as I did lie 
 Cut off from man, and in the tomb : 
 For this must be the tempter's doom, 
 Before that all fulfill'd can be, 
 That all the prophets wrote of me. 
 And yet these things do none discern, 
 Not* judge the way that I do warn 
 Throughout my Bible it doth appear, 
 No more than men discern it here, 
 How all the pages thou hast penn'd 
 Were but in part fulfill'd by men ; 
 Then sure some other must appear. 
 For to fulfil these pages here, 
 Ami so my Bible it is plac'd. 
 And now awake, ye fallen race ; 
 For all together you must weigh, 
 Then judge the dawning of the day, 
 That it is breaking now for all. 
 I tell you plain, since Adam's fall, 
 I never gave my words so plain, 
 Nor ever shew'd so straight a line, 
 As in thy writings I have done, 
 To shew you all the end is come ; 
 And all my Bible to make clear, 
 I've shew'd mankind wherein they err;
 
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 And brought thy writings just the same, 
 To shew you all your folly plain, 
 That you from one must judge the whole, 
 That all together cannot fall, 
 To be fulfilled at one time. 
 I've plac'd these harvests to mankind, 
 To shew you plain the time is come, 
 Before the truth of all is known, 
 And when the time to man appears, 
 I mean to make the mystery clear, 
 Why I these pages did so name, 
 To say they were fulfill' d by man ; 
 For so by man the words were true ; 
 For as I said the truth you know, 
 That friends and foes did so abound, 
 And thou from both did hear the sound, 
 As in the pages that were penn'd ; 
 But can you say you've seen the end, 
 To have these pages all come true ? 
 Bring every page before your view, 
 You'll see it must be a work of time, 
 Ere every truth therein you'll find ; 
 And perfect so my Bible stands 
 Awake, ye dark benighted land, 
 And all together now compare ; 
 Then you must know the Lord is here, 
 Or, such a likeness could not be, 
 To bring my Bible round this way, 
 To shew you all that time must come, 
 Ere I fulfil the whole for man, 
 That man doth say is now fulfill'd. 
 The serpent's head, you say, I chill'd, 
 When that I died to rescue man: 
 To bruise his head was then my plan ; 
 But will you prove it then was done ? 
 Did not his head appear in man, 
 To slay my followers all the same? 
 And so the martyrs I shall name ; 
 And now I tell you. to this day, 
 That Satan's head in men is high, 
 To blind their eyes they may not see, 
 The end is come must fall on he : 
 And it is man must bruise his head, 
 As I by man was surely laid 
 To take my trial all from men, 
 And I was nailed by their hand ; 
 And by their hand it shall appear, 
 That Satan now the same shall share ; 
 Because the nails were drove by men, 
 When they did nail my feet and hands, 
 And they must drive the nail the same ; 
 To bruise his head must be by man. 
 So every name that's entered nere, 
 Satan will find to be a spear, 
 To pierce his heart, as man pierced mine, 
 For on his head the names I'll bind,
 
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 That every name shall bruise his head, 
 Till all his power I shall strike dead, 
 To be as silent buried down, 
 As in the grave I then was found. 
 And this you know was done by man, 
 Then perfect so I've laid my plan, 
 That Satan's doom must come the same; 
 And 'tis from man the hand must come, 
 To join the woman at the last, 
 Till on the serpent all is cast; 
 Then your redemption I shall free, 
 When every hand is join' d for me ; 
 Because I suffered by the hand 
 Awake, ye dark benighted land, 
 And now the mysteries clearly see, 
 The hand that nail'd me to the tree 
 Must nail the serpent's head the same, 
 And wish for me to rise again. 
 And this must all be from the hand ; 
 And so your names shall ever stand, 
 That you repent you murder'd me ; 
 And so your bloody hands I'll free> 
 That like the crimson did appear; 
 But white as wool I'll make them here: 
 For every bloody handJ'll free, 
 That now appears to wish for me, 
 And have the tempter to be cast, 
 Upon his head the whole shall burst 
 And then my travail I shall see, 
 And satisfied with man I'll be : 
 When I do see them change the hand, 
 And wish my kingdom for to come, 
 To have the powers of hell be cast, 
 Then on his head the whole shall burst 
 And he shall perish then like me, 
 When I was nailed to the tree, 
 And had my life took from the earth ; 
 For Satan so shall find his death. 
 So saints and sinners need not fear, 
 If from their hearts they wish it here ; 
 And with their hearts their hands do join, 
 They in the end shall all be mine ; 
 For they will so bruise Satan's head ; 
 And what against them can be said, 
 If they wish every sin to cease, 
 That they with me might dwell in peace; 
 Then I will give this wish to men ; 
 As by their wish I died for them. 
 So now the mysteries all see clear 
 It is the hand that must appear, 
 To bring the tempter's final doom, 
 And me to triumph in his room ." 
 
 Now I must call my readers to the following 
 pages, printed in 1801. The 83d page of the 2d
 
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 book. In the Heavens I say 'tis working high. 
 The 146th page I'll begin in the new century to 
 shew you the doors that were bolted for man 
 when he was cast out of Eden, and will bring to 
 his view the knowledge, that was. kept from him. 
 The 56th page 2d book The wars were said to 
 abound, and the substance was to come ; but in 
 53d page, they were said lo be deferred for a 
 while. The 64th and 65th pages, it is written, 
 Men will join with men, and women will join with 
 women, who do not believe, to persecute those 
 that do believe, till the anger of the Lord is kin- 
 dled against them. In the 7Oth page, it is writ- 
 ten, I should put my writings in print, with the 
 new century ; as the hand of the Lord would be 
 close after to fulfil them. In the 107th page I 
 took man's nature upon me, and bore the blame 
 man cast on me, that Satan might bear the blame 
 the woman cast on him. The 113th page, my 
 writings are to bring all things to your remem- 
 brance. The 114th page, men that are believers 
 are said at first to see things as trees walking, be- 
 fore they are come to see them as men. The 122d 
 page As the past ages, so is the present. They 
 despised my prophets, and were full of their own 
 invention, till destruction came upon them. The 
 fifth Book, page 235, printed December 1801 
 As there is a peace, let there be a peace ; but I 
 may say, what peace, so long as Satan and his 
 witchcrafts are sa many? 
 
 Let it be known, my prophecies are not ended ; 
 yea, they are scarce begun ; for as you say the war 
 is ended, I say it is not begun. Mark deeply the 
 237th page. 251st page I bore the blame for 
 map, but knew my second next must .come, to take 
 the sword and plunge it in the powers of darkness, 
 and so turn back on Satan the mischief he created. 
 The 268th page When they have proved it 
 came from heaven, it will be given to the public;
 
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 and then I shall try the hearts of men, and my 
 arrows shall fly fast, if men mock my word, they 
 soon shall feel my glitteing sword. The 288th 
 page of the Sixth Book, printed January 2d, 
 1802. What God designed at first, he will ac- 
 complish at last; it is not all the powers of earth 
 or hell can frustrate the designs and purposes of 
 the Most High : the Lord made the woman to 
 complete the happiness of man, and by her it must 
 be done.", 
 
 Here I shall give the answer of the Spirit to 
 these pages, that I was ordered to mark to the 
 public. Here begins the explanation from the 
 Sixth Book, on which seven men sat in judgment. 
 <; Three of them were shepherds, whom I had 
 chosen ; and these three agreed in one, though 
 three in person, but one in heart and mind, whom 
 I have told thee are the shadow of the three that 
 beared record on earth, compared with the three 
 that beared record in heaven*. Mark now what 
 is written in the third Book : I had chosen me a 
 shepherd in whom I find no fault. If you chuse 
 him, I will chuse you. Page 124 Now this 
 shepherd is my Son, whom I have chosen ; my be- 
 loved, in whom my soul delighteth. And there 
 are three shepherds that have testified of him, that 
 it is his spirit which has visited thee, to make men 
 heirs of God, and joint heirs with Jesus Christ. 
 I have begun at the ending and shall go back to 
 the beginning. But how could any man or woman 
 complete your happiness by prophecies, seeing they 
 were never completed ? But the way the woman 
 shall complete them are by my words and promises. 
 As I have said the one shepherd is my Son ; and 
 if they now chuse him, as thou hast desired them, 
 by their names to prove they have chosen him, 
 then will I chuse them, and make them, as I said,
 
 heirs of God, and joint heirs with Jesus Christ 
 Those words which were unknown to thee, were 
 meant when I came to try men, whether they would 
 chuse him or not. But it is the three shepherds 
 agreeing in one, that my Spirit is upon, as men 
 who bear witness of me: They are the shadows, I 
 am the substance; therefore I chose three and no 
 more, to prove I am the substance of their choice : 
 for I am the substance there mentioned. Had I 
 chose one shepherd, men might say he was the man 
 they must chuse and not me. Had I chose more 
 than three shepherds to join the twelve; they could 
 not be the three on earth, as is written in my gos- 
 pel: three to bear record of the three in heaven, 
 and these three to agree in one. So I have shewn 
 the meaning of the three shepherds in the one 
 and the three have agreed to chuse me as the one. 
 And now I shall come to the woman's completing 
 the happiness of man. By these three agreeing 
 with me, thou now standest, and by thy petition 
 for the coming of my kingdom and for Satan's de- 
 struction, that thou wilt complete the happiness 
 of all men and women, who join with thee in hand 
 and heart. It is not thy prophecies that complete 
 their happiness, but sealing their names, that they 
 have signed for Satan's destruction, and their de- 
 sire for my Kingdom that must complete their 
 happiness in the end. Thy prophecies shall bring 
 them to the perfect knowledge of the good; but 
 it is the seals that must complete their happiness 
 in the end. So man is an helpmate with thee; 
 and thou with them; for this shall complete the 
 happiness for man. And it is for the sake of 
 these that elect me for their chosen Priest, and 
 King, that Satan's reign shall be shortened. So 
 these are the elect, for whose sake he shall be cast 
 clown. Now I shall go back to the first pages I 
 ordered thee to mention. It is working high in
 
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 heaven ; for all this was working to bring round the 
 mysteries mentioned in thy prophecies, to fulfil all 
 I said should be accomplished. Therefore I 
 brought the double train one of visions with 
 thy prophecies to shew you all the end was at hand, 
 and who were the elect for whom Satan's reign 
 should be shortened. I have brought round by the 
 visions sent to thee, and shewed thee by the let- 
 ters sent to thee, who were false Prophets, and 
 false Christs. All this is now brought round toge- 
 ther, to explain the mysteries ; for I have begun in 
 this new century to open many doors, and shew 
 you the light that was concealed from man: but I 
 shall not cease till I have opened every bolted door 
 to man ; and shew you plainly, from the mystery of 
 the fall, it is the promise, that was made to the 
 woman, which must complete the happiness of 
 man ; and which promise no one before ever yet 
 claimed ; neither did it enter into their hearts and 
 thoughts to claim it, before I revealed the mystery 
 to thee. And this light coming upon weak minds, 
 is like the sun to weak eyes ; they cannot look into 
 it. For those that have a weak faith concerning 
 the fall, that the woman's guilt will never be cast 
 upon her betrayer's head, is like weak eyes sitting 
 in the dark, that can scarcely see when a lighted 
 candle is brought in. And so this lighted candle 
 that must be seated on the table to give light to 
 all, takes away the light of those, that are weak 
 in faith of their redemption. For though they 
 see the light of the candle appear, by the war 
 that was deferred fora while, now break out with 
 more fury than before ; as they have set up a mo- 
 narch to make peace with, whose pride is swelled 
 to the highest pitch and where pride is envy 
 follows : if that pride is in the least mortified, 
 revenge will seek the ruin of that it is mortified 
 by. Therefore, I said the wars would abound
 
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 more dreadful, and you would hear the sound in 
 this land : and though you do hear the sound ; yet, 
 to thousands it appeareth like a sounding-brass, or a, 
 tinkling cymbal: or, like the music in war which 
 takes away the cries of the dead. And so is the 
 music of this world in your ears, that it takes 
 from you the voice and the cry of a crucified Sa- 
 viour and Redeemer, who is now come in the 
 Spirit to invite all men to turn unto me, and I 
 will turn unto you: but ye will not turn unto me, 
 but join in persecution. As I told thee before, I 
 now tell thee again, as Sodom and Gomorrah per- 
 secuted the angels which were sent to Lot; so will 
 men persecute thee, till I shall destroy them in 
 my anger. Therefore it is not thy spirit hut it is 
 my Spirit, whom they are persecuting, and doing 
 all this despite unto; therefore my hand will be 
 close upon them to take vengeance on those that 
 despise my name. For they must know it is my 
 name they despite, if they now continue. Where 
 is the man, where is the woman, where is the 
 power, that could have brought round such truths, 
 in such a manner; first to speak, next to fulfil? 
 For as men fulfil the truth of persecution, I shall 
 fulfil my words of punishing them : for, they must 
 give honour to the devil, for wisdom, knowledge, 
 and truth, if they ascribe thy writings to him ; 
 and they must give thee wisdom above Solomon, 
 if they ascribe the knowledge to thee : first to 
 speak, next to fulfil, and then to explain. Bring 
 me the man that can accomplish all these things, 
 to write and fulfil, aS thou hast done. For, as it 
 was written, Satan should bear the blame the wo- 
 man cast upon him, and this I have shewn in the 
 vision, the woman's dart over his head, and the 
 man with the chain round him, treading him under 
 his feet, with the man's head above Satan's tiart,
 
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 and Satan's bead under the woman's dart ; so man 
 shall raise his head, and Satan shall fall : for mine 
 is past; Satan's is to come. And this is the fulfil- 
 ling of the pages, that I said should bring all things 
 to your remembrance and now I bring to your 
 remembrance, to weigh the past with the present, 
 what was spoken in years that were past, and com- 
 pare them with the manner they are now fulfilling : 
 How it was written of Satan's destruction, and in 
 what manner his destruction was to be accomplish- 
 ed. For though I have made it so plain before 
 you, to open your eyes, yet you do but see things 
 as trees walking, in comparison to what you will 
 see them hereafter. For those that see, see but 
 in part; and those that believe, believe but in 
 part, the perfect happiness that is now in store for 
 true believers, that their labour of love shall not 
 be in vain in the Lord, that are now workers with 
 me, lo bring in my Kingdom of Peace. For as 
 the past ages opposed my Gospel ; so will the 
 present oppose my Kingdom, till they are scat- 
 tered, as the Jews were scattered; and destroyed, 
 as they were destroyed. For I may say with Jehu, 
 what peace, while Satan's witchcrafts are so many, 
 to bewitch men's minds, not to seek his destruc- 
 tion, but their own ; not to claim his curse to be 
 above every man and woman, but to bring your 
 curse above him ? Thus does Satan bewitch the 
 minds of mankind ; and as long as this lasts, 
 there will be no peace in your land, in your 
 hearts, nor in your houses ; therefore, I knew 
 what this peace would be; for the sword of the 
 spirit was not then drawn, as a war against me; 
 but I knew it would soon take place; and so the 
 other sword would follow. These truths are now 
 before you, and all the others are close upon you. 
 There is nothing past but the shadow the sub-
 
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 stance is all to come. The shadow was past in 
 thy petition for Satan's destruction ; but now is 
 coming the substance, of taking the sword and 
 of plunging it in his heart, to avenge the injuries 
 done to the woman, and to me, by the old ser- 
 pent, which is the devil. Now is the sword 
 drawn against him, and it shall not be drawn in 
 vain ; for where she has fixed it, it shall remain. 
 Know, the petition you all sign to, is the petition 
 of the woman, to take the sword out of my hand 
 and slay the enemy, that the kingdom may be 
 mine. For, as Judith slew Holophernes, to free 
 the children of Israel, that they might conquer 
 him ; so hath she drawn the sword, that Satan's 
 power might be destroyed ; and my power to 
 stand Satan's kingdom destroyed, and mine to 
 come, that God may be all in all. And if the 
 sword be found but in the hands of fifty righte- 
 ous men, it shall prevail over all the powers of 
 hell. Though, I know I have more than seven 
 hundred, that will not bow a knee to Baal ; that 
 is, they will not bow to the powers of darkness, 
 if he stirs up persecution in mankind against them. 
 I know they will not fall before them, but fight 
 against them ; and they shall prevail : for they 
 shall fight and overcome, and have their part in 
 the tree of life ; for this is the sword that was 
 left to guard it the promise that was made to the 
 woman ; and now it is drawn, life for life, and 
 death for death. My death is past ; Satan's must 
 come. So all I said I am now fulfilling, for now 
 I shall try what is in man; and my arrows shall fly 
 fast upon them, that will not draw their arrows 
 against the powers of darkness. I shall draw my 
 arrows against them, and my sword shall appear to 
 destroy all that mock the coming of their Lord. 
 For now is every shadow before you, from every
 
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 page ; and as fast as men fulfil the one, I will go 
 on to fulfil the other. 
 
 So now the sleep of Adam see ; 
 You all must be asleep like he, 
 When 1 the woman did first create, 
 If you can't now discern your fate. 
 The Bone that first I took from man 
 Was then a wonder unto him ; 
 And now your wonder may appear, 
 If you can't see the mystery clear, 
 From what I said when at the first 
 It in the end to man must burst ; 
 Because my word cannot be broke, 
 Though hell may rage and men may mock. 
 I first did create her for man's good ; 
 For so my word hath ever stood, 
 And I'll fulfil it in the end ;> 
 The bone of man may break or bend ; 
 But mine's a bone cannot be broke. 
 I said the bone from man I took, 
 To make an helpmate for his good ; 
 And so my word has ever stood ; 
 And now my word I will fulfil ; 
 So men may judge it, as they will. 
 When all together you do weigh, 
 You must confess 'tis break of day : 
 Then sure the sun you know must rise ; 
 'Tis time for all men to grow wise, 
 And see the mystery of the fall ; 
 Or else too late, I tell you all, 
 You'll see the day begin to close ; 
 For Satan's doom too well he knows, 
 That he must now receive his curse, 
 And works in men they may not miss 
 To feel the curse, as well as he 
 Wonders in women have been three : 
 For Eve a wonder was to man ; 
 When I did create her first for him, 
 Adam in wonder did appear 
 Another wonder you see here, 
 How she should e'er bring on his curse: 
 Here stood a wonder at the first 
 Another wonder was to man, 
 When Mary bore the heavenly Son ; 
 That as a wonder did appear, 
 That she from heaven a Son should bear 
 And here's a wonder in the third, 
 That I shall now fulfil my word, 
 To change the scenes as at the first. 
 From good to evil soon they burst ; 
 And now the scenes I'll change the same, 
 And all shall know my every name ; 
 D
 
 I'll turn the evil now to good ; 
 
 For so my promise ever stood. 
 
 So here's a wonder at the last, 
 
 That from the woman all must burst, 
 
 To prove 1 made her not in vain, 
 
 Though man against me did complain. 
 
 But they may all complain too late, 
 
 That now refuse from her their fate ; 
 
 To take from her my sealed word 
 
 'Tis the third wonder of the Lord, 
 
 That in a woman doth appear. 
 
 Weigh deep the whole, and answer herei 
 
 How these three wonders so did come ? 
 
 You must confess, no woman's hand 
 
 Did ever write such things before, 
 
 To prove that I her fall should clear, 
 
 And the creation all make good : 
 
 For so my promises have stood 
 
 Throughout my Bible unto man. 
 
 Though they these things did ne'er discern ; 
 
 Nor in what manner I did warn, 
 
 When I her husband did appear, 
 
 Then all her children I shoufd clear ? 
 
 And great peace on them there should be 
 
 Appear, vain men, and answer me, 
 
 If great peace ever came to man, 
 
 Since Adam's fall, in every land ; 
 
 Or, where's the righteous this can boast ? 
 
 Since Adam's fall, their peace was lost; 
 
 Because from- Cain the strife began ; 
 
 And in all ages this hath been, 
 
 I tell you, to this very day ; 
 
 And where's the man can this deny > 
 
 For, in this age, 'tis now the same ; 
 
 And who can boast he knows my name ; 
 
 That great peace now they do enjoy ; 
 
 And none their peace do e'er destroy ? 
 
 You cannot prove, since Adam's fall, 
 
 That I my children so did call : 
 
 For to enjoy a perfect peace. 
 
 No ! Satan's arts, 1 say, must cease, 
 
 Before my children this can see, 
 
 And I your common Parent be ; 
 
 That is, the Father of you all : 
 
 And then my peace will surely fall, 
 
 And great peace on the earth you'll see : 
 
 Because your Mother I shall free, 
 
 From the transgression of the first ; 
 
 Then man is free, and Satan's cast ; 
 
 For your redemption so must come. 
 
 I've open'd now the doors to man, 
 
 That have been bolted since the fall ; 
 
 And dead to knowledge you are all ; 

 
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 Because these things no man did see, 
 
 That I have now reveal'd to thee. 
 
 But had they all been known before, 
 
 I tell you plain, mankind would err; 
 
 Because a thief would come too soon, 
 
 And plead those promises their own ; 
 
 And men would be deceiv'd thereby. 
 
 Then sure my word must ever lie 
 
 Stolen all from me by Satan's arts ; 
 
 And man would always feel his dart, 
 
 By robbing him of every peace, 
 
 And he that way his fate would miss, 
 
 If I had not conceal'd my word, 
 
 The way I meant to bruise his head, 
 
 That he could ne'er break through or steal ; 
 
 Because it never was reveal'd, 
 
 Till I've reveal'd it now to thee, 
 
 The way I'll bruise the head of he ; 
 
 That is, the serpent I do mean ; 
 
 As Satan did visit in that form, 
 
 And so he gave to Eve a sting, 
 
 That now I'll cure, and him condemn, 
 
 For stinging of her at the first 
 
 To slay your murderers it is just ; 
 
 And so in justice I'll appear. 
 
 The bolted doors are open'd here, 
 
 If men have eyes the sight to see; 
 
 But if they are blind, they blind must be, 
 
 If they can't now see through the whole. 
 
 The woman caus'd the devil's fall ; 
 
 And 'tis for her he must be cast ; 
 
 My Law and Gospel so are plac'd, 
 
 That justice must in all appear. 
 
 For Abel's blood I told them here 
 
 Would be avenged on the Cains. 
 
 Then now let all men call to mind, 
 
 The sword went through my Mother's soul, 
 
 By Satan's arts, I tell you all ; 
 
 And Eve receiv'd it at the first, 
 
 When Cain in fury so did burst, 
 
 To slay in anger then her son, 
 
 The righteous Abel, it was known ; 
 
 But know, 'twas Satan brought the blow 
 
 Upon the woman first, you know ; 
 
 Then sure must all come back on he, 
 
 When justice comes tlie whole to free. 
 
 And so her witness must appear 
 
 The woman cast her murderer here, 
 
 That robb'd her of her every bliss ; 
 
 And 'tis by her he must be cast. 
 
 So now of learning boast no more, 
 
 If you can't see the justice clear, 
 
 That I am just, as God and Man: 
 
 For like your laws I've laid my plan : 

 
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 And if my plan you now do blame, 
 Then all your laws you put to shame. 
 So all together now compare, 
 In every page is mentioned here ; 
 And see how I have brought them round- 
 And will you say from hell's the sound? 
 Or, will you say a woman's head 
 Such curious mysteries ever laid, 
 To bring them all in a straight line 
 And prove my Bible truth divine ? 
 That all your learning cannot do; 
 No man can prove my Bible true 
 By any judgment you do form. 
 From Adam's fall you still go on 
 To prove my judgment wrong at first, 
 And so you judge the end must burst. 
 Then I am wrong throughout the whole, 
 If I don't free the woman's fall, 
 And bring the wonder in the end, 
 That's in the Revelation penn'd, 
 To tread the powers of darkness down- 
 For light in darkness he was found ; 
 And light in darkness he doth shine, 
 In every dark, benighted mind ; 
 But that I'll tread beneath her feet ; 
 And all will find the mystery great, 
 Of this third wonder to appear, 
 That in a woman you see here ; 
 Because a wonder she must be, 
 If you do judge it came all from she ; 
 And if from hell you judge the sound, 
 A wonder then must sure be found, 
 That he should come to prove his fall, 
 The justice now from heaven to call ; 
 To say my promises were there, 
 And now I ought the whole to clear, 
 To bring the curse upon his head, 
 As in the fall it there was laid. 
 So here's a wonder in the first, 
 If either way the words you place, 
 And will not say it came from heaven, 
 That all these wonders now are given, 
 To show you all the bolted door, 
 Wherein are blessings now in store, 
 That must be hastening on for man 
 " The Sun of Righteousness is come, 
 With healing in his wings appears, 
 Satan to cast our guilt to clear: 
 And so the woman now he'll free, 
 That heirs of God we all might be. 
 So here's a wonder in the last, 
 As 'twas to Adam at the first, 
 To see the woman change the stream, 
 Turnback the tide again on him,
 
 That changed the stream for her at first, 
 When she in happiness was plac'd ; 
 And now she'll change the tide the same, 
 Turn back the waves from whence they came j 
 Because her Lord is now her friend : 
 As well he knew she was betray'd. 
 The Mighty Counsellor now doth plead: 
 As an old counsellor at the bar, 
 The innocence of one to clear, 
 That he can prove hath been betray'd, 
 And cast the guilt upon the head 
 Of him that doth deserve the blame." 
 And now I am come to act the same ; 
 The Mighty Counsellor to appear, 
 My Father's wisdom for to clear, 
 In making of the woman first, 
 And prove his wisdom in the last, 
 The way he'll free you from the fall. 
 The woman's words, I tell you all, 
 Must free the fatal fall of man 
 My Father's words shall ever stand, 
 That by her seed I'll bruise his head- 
 Eleven disciples, it is said, 
 Stood firmly by me in the end ; 
 And now I say, eleven men 
 I chose as judges to appear, 
 And plac'd a Child tlie twelve to clear. 
 So all are come now like the child ; 
 You've all to learn ; and man is foiled. 
 In all the knowledge they did learn, 
 My Bible no man did discern, 
 That I should bring it round this way. 
 Learning did all the Jews betray ; 
 Because their learning they plac'd wrong; 
 And so the learning is of man. 
 Therefore one judge I chose a Child, 
 That ne'er in learning can be foil'd ; 
 Because all nations now will see 
 The truth go on fulfiU'd to be, 
 Before that Child can learning gain, 
 To prove his calling was in vain, 
 When he was chosen to stand with man, 
 To have the twelve together stand. 
 That he with them stopd on thy head, 
 They'll find the truth of what thou'st said ; 
 When he in learning doth appear, 
 He'll learn the truth of all to clear ; 
 And then the Jury-men he'll free, 
 And own their judgment true to be. 
 So I am the Counsellor now for man, 
 And the twelve Judges they will stand 
 As stars to shine upon thy head : 
 The twenty-four may be said 
 To worship then before my throne, 
 And all my wondrous counsel own ;
 
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 That justice shone in all was said, 
 From the creation it was laid. 
 So now together weigh the whole, 
 Mark every page what there was told. 
 Before the sealing thou dost know 
 That men must sign to strike the blow, 
 To have the devil to be cast 
 Mark all before, how it was plac'cl. 
 In the sixth book it doth appear ; 
 Mark well the words were spoken there : 
 Before the sealing thou didst know, 
 That thou must seal the people so, 
 The evil fruit for to pull down. 
 I told them then to judge the sound, 
 But never told them how't would be, 
 The evil fruit pull'd down by thee, 
 Until the seeding did appear, 
 That thou'st begin the following year ; 
 And then the mysteries all come round. 
 J ask, what man can judge this sound ? 
 Contrived by a woman's head, 
 Without the Lord her spirit led f 
 No ! if the whole you do compare, 
 You all must know the Lord is here, 
 To try the judgment deep of men, 
 And prove their knowledge dead is come \ 
 Or else the Spirit they would know, 
 None but a God the truth could shew, 
 As it hath been re veal' d by thee. 
 The past and present let them see : 
 As the third harvest doth appear ; 
 You own it good now every where ; 
 The war deferr'd you first did see, 
 And now broke out, as said by thee ; 
 Then both together now compare, 
 You must confess the truth is here ; 
 And so the truth is in the past 
 And now the whole is hastening fast." 
 
 The Child, that is here alluded to, on the 1 2th 
 of January, J803, was not eighteen months old r 
 that now stands as a Type to all Nations, that, 
 like that Child, they have all to learn, if they will 
 come to the full redemption in Christ Jesus. The 
 knowledge of the tree, being good and evil, was 
 never understood by any man ; that as Satan's 
 arts brought them to the knowledge of the evil, 
 so the power and wisdom of God must bring them 
 to the knowledge of the good, through the
 
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 merits of Christ, who was born of the woman to 
 redeem the fall of women. For, as I was born of 
 her, so I was born for her, to seal the doom of 
 her betrayer. But, know, O vain men, the shadow 
 must begin by the woman, and the substance shall 
 follow by me, that am your Redeemer, to accom- 
 plish the will of my Father, in what he created the 
 woman for to be your help meet for your good. 
 Now, answer me, ye worldly-wise men, why ye 
 took from her hand the evil, and now refuse to take 
 the good? 
 
 JOANNA SOUTHCOTT. 
 
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