REMARKS ON TEXTS QUOTED BY B. H. 305 ed his invitation, and despised his threatenings, and are telling men to come unto you, that you will save their souls alive? Does it not plainly appear that you would slay the souls that should not die, and save the souls alive that should not live-by your lying unto my people that hear your lies? Hear what followeth from your own words: Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hand of the wicked that he should not turn from his wicked ways by promising him life. Here are the false prophets, that are cheating and deceiving the hearts of the people: telling them no dangers are near, no evils are threatened, but that they will save their souls alive if they come unto them-by prophesying lies unto them out of their own hearts, when they have seen nothing. Let the writer take a serious view of his own works, and conscious guilt must condemn him, that he hath made kerchiefs to lean upon, that must be torn from him, and that never did support him; but I have a foundation stronger to trust to -my trust is in the Rock of Ages, and not in my own weak judgment; though he pretends to compliment me in the beginning of the book, of having a great deal of head knowledge; but I cannot pay him that compliment; for he has written the book so much against himself, as though he had neither head knowledge, or spiritual grace; and no more understood what he was writing than he understood my books, that he said he had read but little of. But now I shall conclude with his own words-"Let men be careful of the fatal consequence of being found trusting to a refuge of lies." His subtlety exhorts men to flee to Jesus Christ, as the only truc refuge, while at the same time he is using all the arts he is master of, to persuade them not to be looking for and hastening to the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ; which in all my writings I am called to warn men of. He pretends to own Christ as the form of godliness, but denieth the power thereof; yet pro

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fes ess to say, that the Spirit of God may be applied to their hearts; that he would turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto righteousness; and teach them to know the Gospel, which is able to make them wise unto eternal salvation; and yet when this wisdom, this knowledge, and this power of the Spirit of God are given, he concludes with these words, that," you must repent of it all, for it is all wickedness; and pray God to change the thoughts of the heart:" and whereto must they be changed? I must answer, the thoughts of the heart must be changed of him that printed this book: for I perceive, he is in the gall of bitterness, and in the bonds of iniquity.

But here I shall say no further of him, as another book is printed against me by GARRETT, a preacher of Zion Chapel, in Southwark, quoting many of the same passages of Scripture as the former; but with more confidence than him. He has filled his book with lies against me, which the reader will see in its place, as I have quoted his own words, which are entirely false concerning me *: But when the book was brought to me, I was ordered to read it through, and put it in the Bible without knowing where, which I did, and found it in the Maccabees. The book lay on, 2 Maccabees vii. 19. that I was ordered to pen-But think not thou that takest in hand to strive against God, that thou shalt escape unpunished. I was ordered to put my spectacles in my Bible without knowing where, and they were in the first of Revelation and the ending of Jude; but the verse that I am ordered to quote is Revelation i. 11-Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last : and, what thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches. Jude, verse 18-How that they told you there should be mockers in the last times, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. The third

What is said in this book as to Garrett relates chiefly to his wresting of the Bible, as his other falsehoods and presumption, as veli as the unfounded charges of others, are answered in separate books, in order to keep the innocent and unwary from being misled by such men, who make lies their refuge.

REPLY TO GARRETT ON TEXTS QUOTED BY HIM. 307 time I was ordered to open the Bible, and it was in the 2 Esdras xi. 41 to the end-For the earth hast thou rrot judged with truth. For thou hast afflicted the meek, thou hast hurt the peaceable; thou hast loved liars and destroyed the dwellings of them that brought forth fruit; and hast cast down the walls of such as did thee no harm, &c. These were the places I openedto; then I was ordered to quote the chapter that he had mentioned, Jeremiah xxiii. 1-Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture, saith the Lord. Ver. 29 of the same Chapter-The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the Lord. Jeremiah i. 8, 9—Be not afraid of their faces for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord. Then the Lord put forth his hand and touched my mouth. And the Lord said unto me, behold, I have put my words in thy mouth. Ver. 4, 5. -The word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. THE ANSWER OF THE LORD.

"Now, Joanna, I shall answer thee before thou goest any further: For out of his own mouth he bath condemned himself, without he can prove. I have visited him, to be a prophet to all nations; and out of his own mouth he hath justified thee, from the Chapters he mentioned. Now call to thy remembrance the days of thy youth, and the promise I made to thy mother, before thou wast born, and how often I have told thee, no weapon that is formed against thee should prosper. Now mark the words he hath pointed out before thee-Be not afraid of their faces, for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord. Now mark the last verse-And they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against * See the Fifth Book of Prophecies, page 202.

thee, for I am with thee, saith the Lord, to deliver thee. Now here is the wisdom of man, who boasts he is fighting with the weapons of my Spirit, or the sword of my Spirit; but he shall know he is the false prophet, the false priest, that goeth when I have never sent him; that prophesieth in my Name, when I have never commanded him; for he trusteth to a vain vis on of his own imagination, and a lying divination from the truth of my Bible; and greatly hath he erred in visions; for know, throughout my Bible, what visions have been shewed in all ages to the prophets; and are not the Revelations visions? Therefore I ordered thee to open the Bible, to shew thee the visions of John; and there thou findest thine eyes, as thou callest them. Now let them see Ver. 13 of the visions of John-And in the midst of the seven candlesticks, one like unto the Son of Man cloathed with a garment down to the foot, and girded about the paps with a golden girdle. Read through the Chapter, you will find it a vision ; but these visions were seen in heaven by John, in the Spirit; but know it is written by the prophet Jocl, in the latter, days when I come to fulfil the whole, and pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, that your young men shall see visions, and your handmaids shall prophesy. These visions must be seen here below. But how do men take the word of God in their mouths and handle it deceitfully, without knowledge or understanding? Now mark what I told thee of this man in the beginning, and mark particularly where his book was found; and know that he is now striving against his God; he hath drawn the sword against his God; then how shall he escape the punishment any more than the Jews, who persecuted ME in the Body? and he is persecuting ME in the Spirit. Now let this Chapter be marked deep: these words were spoken to the king who was making martyrs of the mother and her children. And I now tell thee, he would niake worse martyrs of thee and thy believers, were you to follow his pernicious doctrine; for though

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his power is not like the king's, yet his malice is stirred up by the devil, as the king's malice was against the mother and her children. Now thou knowest in thy own mind how greatly thou wast stumbled to find the book in the Apocrypha, which thou judgest the least of all the prophecies, and the least spiritual in the Bible; but I now tell thee, there is not a place in the Bible that more clearly points out the destruction such men would bring upon believers than that Chapter of the destruction of the mother and

her sons.

For now to ages back I'll come :
And this is just the same-
For know the mother and the sons
They have always put to shame.
In ages past they so did burst,
My prophets felt the blow;
And when upon this earth I came,
My followers, you do know,
Receiv'd the same when here I came-
The sons were put to death;

My Mother she receiv'd the shame-
Know what the Scripture saith:
The sword appear'd against her there,
And so went through her soul;
The children did their sufferings share--
You see her children all,

Where they did come in Spirit strong,
And visited by ME;

Their lives they wish'd not to prolong,

Their fatal end you see,

What did appear, her children here,
My followers they were cast;
And let the martyrs to appear,
How all alike were plac d.
So thus to men it plain is seen,
Throughout the Bible stands-
Now think upon thy simple dream,

And thou may'st here command,

Thy throat they'd cut-though thou'st not wrote

The dream that did appear

But Satan's arts, I say, are deep,

He'll try to cut it here,

Now from thy tolly Ill begin:

Thou shudder'st at thy dream,

And thought from Satan it was seen,
But now I tell thee plain,

It was to shew what men would do,
If thou wast in their power,