Now from the Fall, I tell you
They've erred to this hour,

all,

And now I'm come to prove the Fall,
And shew my every power,

If in my Gospel all was right,
I need not come again

To bring the mysteries all to light,
If errors none remain'd.
So all must see the mystery,
Why I must come again
In Spirit strong to make all plain
Unto the sons of men;

And from the Fall to shew you all
My DEATH alone won't do,
If don't bruise the serpent's head,
And prove my Bible true.
But if that right before my sight
Did every one go on,

The Gospel had brought all to light,
And errors none in man;

The

serpent's head, as I have said, . I need to bruise no more,

If that my Cross had made him fled,
Never to tempt men here.

So now see plain, ye sons of men,
My CROSS will never do

The FALL of MAN for to regain,
Till I've the whole gone through.
Mark every man, how things do stand,
Enlighten'd land, now see

What different doctrines are in man,
Then can you say you're free?
Enlighten'd here in Christ all clear,
And errors to have none?
I tell you, like the Jews before,
You differ every one ;

And now I'm come to make an end,

And shew your folly clear,

1 ask on whom you can depend,

To prove they do not err?

There is not one, to ME 'tis known,
That is from errors free;

And some men's errors I have shewn,
How far they go from ME.
Then I'll appear as heretofore,
And prove they all are wrong;
For though my Gospel it is clear,
They're like the Jews become,
To differ here, I've shew'd it clear;
Then now I'll make an end:
In unbelief I see them err,

And judgment wrong in men.
So if my Gospel you weigh deep
You'll see the truth appear,
That men, like Adam, are asleep.
And every age doth err:

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Now where's the man can boldly come

And prove it is not so,

That men in errors do go on,

And stumble like the Jews?
The type from Moses, I have said,
Was plac'd by God at first;
But in it were the Jews all led?
No; there the dye was cast:
Had they gone on as he did command,
They'd all stood to this day
For to possess the promis'd land,
And ME they'd not deny.
Now of my Gospel 'tis the same;
If right they'd all went on,
Then in one path they'd surely trod,
Waiting for ME to come

For to fulfil my Father's will,

The nations all to free:

But while the tempter doth remain,
I know this cannot be;
Therefore I'll come and make an end,
As I have said before-

The Jews and Gentiles may contend,
But both I see do err

The Gospel sound that doth abound,
Wherein you say you're right.
But when your errors all are found,
And laid before your sight,
Then silent here must all appear,
And guilty all must stand,"

And say, "Our Lord we want to hear,

For to direct our hands:

From different men, we now see plain
"What errors do appear."—

I ask how men can now contend,
When I have shewn them clear,
That like the first I've prov'd the last,
What errors are in man?
Therefore the Serpent must be cast,
As I first laid my plan.

So I'll end here and say no more;
Those that have eyes may see,
Men stumble like the Jews before,

That say they are in ME."

The following Explanation of the Bible was given er I had written a Letter to the Jews, pointing out them, that, as judgments had followed them ever ce they had crucified the Lord of Life and Glory, y must know themselves that there was some ise, or these judgments would have been removand which was clearly pointed out to me, as the son of their judgments, in the letter I sent them; I then followed this communication:

"I have shewed thee from the shadow of the children of Israel, wherein they may see the shadow of their promise given to them that believed my word and obeyed my command; and how the kings were all destroyed that were heathen kings and had no knowledge of ME. This stands for a shadow and a type of the end, how these heathen kings will be destroyed, and all their nations and people, when I come to bring in my Kingdom of Peace, and give to all my believers their different places and nations, as I distributed them amongst the Jews: This is but a shadow of what is to come. But now I shall turn to the Jews: From the places I pointed out to thee, see what I did for them, when they obeyed my command, and served ME as the true and living God; and how I destroyed them when they departed from my ways. Now if the Jews would let the eyes of their understanding be opened, and not be blinded through unbelief, as their forefathers were, they would soon grow jealous of theirselves, by the clear manner I have pointed out all things to them; they would be jealous, that the accursed thing that is amongst them is their unbelief; for there I tell thee stands their evil; and till that evil be done away their deliverance will never come. But had I been what they supposed ME to be, an Impostor amongst mankind, the Jews' zeal for my destruction would have been much greater than the zeal of Phinehas and brought peace and happiness to them; for reason must tell them and all mankind, if I was an Impostor I was worse than him that stole the golden wedge; therefore if the destruction to him brought deliverance to the Jews, and made so many kings fall before them, their destruction of ME must have brought greater victory to the Jews after: but mark, their destruction it fell upon them after I was crucified, and my disciples put to death; then they must know they have sinned in what they have done, and their deliverance can never come, till they have put

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the evil thing away, which is their unbelief. But do men vainly imagine, if it had not been for types and shadows, to shew men the parable in the end, that I should so deeply afflict the children of Israel, as to make them fall before their enemies, because one man had sinned in the camp, that I said I would no more go with them, before that accursed thing was destroyed? and when the man had confessed his guilt and owned that he had sinned, that I would not have pardoned his sins, but ordered him to be put to death Do men think I would act thus with a man, if it had not stood for a deep type for the end? I tell thee, No his sins were not greater than the sins of the others that I pardoned; neither were they more offensive to ME; but I will tell thee why they were punished, because of his covetous eye to the gold, to shew all men, when I come to bring in my Kingdom of Peace, and to destroy every root of evil, as I destroyed the heathen nations, men's eyes must be to the Glory of my Kingdom, and to the Peace and Happiness they shall possess, when I come to establish them in Peace, and rule over them; but those whose eye is to the gold, I know the gold is all the god they will desire; and therefore I tell thee, like Achan *, they will be destroyed; and this is the accursed thing that is now in the hearts of the people; therefore they have no desire to have my Kingdom established; neither have they any desire for my honour and glory, to see the root of evil destroyed; but their eyes, like Achan's, are to the gold; and while this accursed thing remains in the hearts of the people, I tell you all, they will not prevail against their enemies, but be confounded before them, as the Jews were; but let these evils be put from their hearts, and let the desire of their hearts be for the coming of their Lord, then they will see their enemies fall before them; when their eye is to my Kingdom, and for my Honour and for my Glory,

Joshua vii. 24.

then my delight shall be with the sons of men, to shew my victory, as I did to the Jews. These things stand for types and shadows, to shew men the end, where their eye must be to possess the promise I have made to man, as the Jews possessed the promise I had made to them. So here are types that stand deep for the end; and in the end every man will see them clear, how in every nation they will be destroyed, whose eye is to the gold, and have no desire for my Kingdom; for I now tell thee, all these types will be clear to man in the end. I know the pondering of thy heart: thou thoughest I should have shewn mercy to the man, when he had confessed his crime and owned he had sinned; but I tell thee, that type stands for the end, to shew how those whose eye is to the gold, will be destroyed; for there is no man whose heart is truly set upon the world, and makes gold his god, that will be desirous for my Honour and Glory, or for my Kingdom to be established; then how can they prevail against their enemy? In a spiritual sense it is impossible, because the enemy of my Kingdom is concealed in their hearts; but that enemy must be destroyed; for that is the accursed thing, that he works in the hearts of people to be desirous after, in all ages of the world; but now it is come to the end, it must be destroyed: and know that thousands have been destroyed for the love of gold; then how canst thou marvel in thy heart, that the lover of gold must be destroyed, before I get the victory for my people, to give them the lands I have promised them? But now to answer the pondering of thy heart, of my cutting off all these nations to give them to the Jews-this I know thou ponderest in thy heart, and art afraid of thy own thoughts: but now I shall answer thee of the Turkish nation: the nations I cut off were like them, or I should not have cut them off. Now what comfort is it to the Turks, that their life is prolonged to suffer cruelty? I tell thee,