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For I shall put him sure to shame,
And shew how men do err.
As he began I say of men,

They place the Spirit wrong,
As from the chapter this is seen,
I now to man shall come;
For all the same, I say, my name
They've surely plac'd it wrong;
And blasphemy in Man I see,
Against ME now they're come;
And their mistake they'll find it great,
As in the chapter penn'd.

I told thee, men were but deceit,
But I shall stand thy friend;

They all shall see thou writ'st from ME;
Thy heart and soul I know,

And unto heaven thou may'st appeal ;
For I well know 'tis true,

Thy written hand would never stand
In print for to appear,

If I had not commanded thee,
And made the truth so clear,
That it was I who dwell on high

Direct thy every hand;

But know the words that I did say,

Satan would come in Man,

And so he's come, I tell thee, strong-
And now the chapter see:

Vile as the Man is mention'd there,

So vile is the heart of he;

Against his Lord he'th drawn his sword,
And artfully goes on,

Thinking for to destroy my word,
But his mistake will come.

I tell you plain, you sons of men,
Like him you all mistake,
And for the Serpent do contend,
Though you discern it not.
Had he discern'd how he did warn
To name the chapter there,
He would have righted that mistake
It might not so appear;

So many men to ME are seen,

If they the right did know,

Then their mistakes would not go on
Such madness for to shew.

The chapter through I bid thee read,
That thou may'st see more plain
How in it there he was misled,
Though he did never mean
The thing to do, I well do know,
And thousands are the same;
'Tis by mistake inen do go on,
And do not know my Name.

But now the chapter I shall name,

To whom thou dost allude
Must be the chapter he did mean,
As wrong the I then stood
The other side, be not misled,
Would brought it to the nine;
And now, I say, 'tis so by ME-
Thy writings are divine:
From his mistake see how did break
The vile person appear;
But turn the I the other way,

The nine must now appear,
Wherein you see the words of ME,
What he don't understand,

The way

I'll make an end of sin,

And finish all for Man.

But in my bosom 'twas seal'd up
What in the end I'll do ;

Then let men's wisdom now to drop';
Can they pretend to shew
The mind of ME? it can never be,
I tell thee, done by Man.
Wrong as the chapter he did place,
So wrong his judgment came;
Out of his mouth I'll him condemn,
As I have said before;

For if in ME it was seal'd up,
Can Man so bold appear,
For they to say another way,
This knowledge is in Man?
No; wrong as he did put the I
The judgment is of men,
To think my Bible they do know,
When 'tis seal'd up in ME.
His wisdom doth him overthrow-
Men's folly let them see.

Now mark the prayer that Daniel made,

Before the answer came,

How much he wish'd to know my mind
If Israel I'd redeem.

He for the people did intercede,

I tell thee, in his prayer;

But know the angel, it is said
The man that did appear,

Like Gabriel come, the vision place,
Was shewn unto his view;
The words were given for the end,
What I for them should do:
But of the number of the weeks,
No man can understand
When from the time I first begin,

In my great work to man,

To finish sin I must begin,
The vision doth appear

REMARKS ON TEXTS QUOTED BY Garrett. 337

To tell them I shall make an end,
And righteousness bring here;
But how it could be no man could see,
'Tis all seal'd up from man;
And this is here allow'd by he
Then can they boldly stand
To say they know how things will go,
The way I'll end the whole?
Now to another chapter come,
And see how it will fall."

Romans xiv. 17. quoted by Garrett-The kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness and peace. But I shall observe verse 11-For it is written, as I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to ME, and every tongue shall confess to God. This chapter I wish my readers to weigh deep; it is not reading of one verse you can dra your judgment from; you must weigh the chapter through. 1 Corinthians iv. 20 quoted by Garrett-The kgdom of God is not in word, but in power. Ver. 15. remarked by me-Though ye have ten thousand instructers in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the Gospel. Hebrews xii. 28. quoted by Garrett. But I must refer my readers from verse 25 to the end, then they will see the meaning of verse 28. as it is written in the 26th-Whose voice then shook the earth but now HE hath promised, saying, yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. Then nothing remaineth but the things that cannot be shaken to receive a kingdom which cannot be moved. Romans v. 21. quoted by Garrett.-That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto ciernal life by Jesus Christ our Lord. Here he adds, the subjects of this kingdom are principally now among the Gentiles, who under the Law were set forth by the similitude of a barren woman, Isaiah liv. 1. Now I must refer my readers from verse 13 to the end; as Garrett has made out this chapter fulfilled by the U u

Gospel, when Christ called in the Gentiles: now it is said, in verse 13-And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord; and great shall be the peace of thy children. This is promised to the barren womb that never bore. Now as I once understood the chapter the same, that it was fulfilled in that manner, before it was explained to me, I will not con. demn his judgment here; but when the enquiry was put to me, by the Spirit, to know if all the Gentiles were taught of the Lord, and when this great peace was to them, I was struck silent, as I considered amongst the Gentiles in past ages, as well as the present, sin had abounded with a high hand, and the Gospel wrested by the different opinions of mankind, which hath brought in many religions, and opinions; so that the past ages as well as the present seem more to be taught of man, than of the Lord; and when I reflect on the persecution of the martyrs, and what they suffered in their days, and the persecution I have read of in other ages, I cannot see this great peace was ever yet established in any past ages; and I am certain it is far from being established in the present: for the preachers of the Gospel themselves seem at war in their spirits one against another, and every man's way seems clean in his own eyes and Garrett himself hath condemned all religions but his own; and other religions have condemned his to come from the bottomless pit, for making God the author of every cruelty, to ordain one part of the world

go to hell, if they live ever such just and upright lives; on the other hand, there is a set of people, they say, are ordained to go to heaven, if they are as wicked as the devil can make them. Of this Garrett boasts: but I may say, my soul come not thou into their secrets! This convinceth me, the truth of the chapter is not yet fullled: but the mysteries I leave to the Lord, that were explained to me, some years past, and are in print.

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THE ANSWER OF THE LORD.

66 Now, Joanna, I shall answer thee, as I said I should answer thee again when thou hadst seen the judgment that was drawn by man; and the judgment of Garrett is the judgment of thousands. I have told thee, the barren womb alluded to the Gene tiles, as I came from the house and lineage of David to the Jews; but did my coming then bring the re demption to the Jews? though many of the Jews were converted and became my Disciples, and went through much tribulation for my sake, and were put to death; and so were the Gentiles brought into the Gospel, that were a barren people before; for which reason the wisdom of men judged that chapter to be fulfilled, without discerning what is said in the chapter before: Isaiah liii. 11-He shall see the travail of HIS soul and shall be satisfied. Now thou knowest what I have already told thee, the cruelty that my Disciples were put to death with did not satisfy ME, nor did the suffering of the martyrs satisfy ME, nor hath all the persecution that hath been satisfied ME; but what will satisfy ME I have already told thee, and now I tell thee again, is to see men in heart and mind longing for Satan's destruction, as the Jews clamoured for mine; and as eager to have Satan's head bruised as they were to bruise my heel for this was the day of vengeance that I had in my heart, and this it was written by the prophet I should see and be satisfied; but how could I see it before it was revealed and mark what is said in Daniel ix. 24-When I make an end of sin, and bring in everlasting righteousness, the visions should be fulfilled, that were to be sealed up till the time to anoint the Most High; then what is sealed by man, and from man, must be revealed by the Most High. Now by the Most High it is revealed to thee, that the Promise made in the Fall bringeth in the Redemption to Man. Now I shall place this chapter, with the Revelation-Be