"The thing's too high"

"Too wondrous to believe"As he can never find the way

These truths thou didst receive.
Then like the man will he go on,
His cup to throw away;
Because he is outdone by one
Appears so low as thee.

Or in the dark to miss his mark,
No pilot can he see,

now cries,

No rock to climb, his anchor gone;
His shipwreck let him see;

What hazard run, what rock to climb,

When he's benighted here;

And faith, and hope, and all is gone,

And charity despairs.

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 has now become
Just like thy father here;
Wounded like he my people be,
What clothing do you send ?
I ask you where's your charity,
See my imprison'd friend!

With grief oppress'd you wound her breast,
And stones for bread you send.

She does not want your charity,

If gold be what you mean:

The charity wanted by she

Is faith and love to shew;

The feeble knee for to confirm,

With charity below;

And judge your God as Abram did,

He is faithful in the end;

He wont deceive those that believe.-
Now 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.

My Bible's clear; 'tis man doth err;
And trace my Bible back;
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;
What 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 it must appear now clouded here,
Your senses to secure.

Thy father's hand so near doth stand,—
I here can say no more."

"Now I shall answer thee, that they may discern in what manner I spoke on conditions, when I first ordered thee to write to *****; but if they had understood my sayings, they might have understood that he would never stand as a judge with thee. But here thou art puzzled at my saying, if thou clearly canst judge thy master, in it I was surely there; for it was wisdom worked by ME, to discern the folly of the philosopher; but he did not discern the folly in himself, that he was acting in like manner; and therefore I told thee he would go on to throw away his cup because here was an inquiry made to him. And now look further; I asked, what rock had he to climb? and said when his anchor was gone, he would make a shipwreck of his faith. Then I told thee how he would act with thee to send stones, instead of bread; and with what sorrow he would wound thy breast.

"So that if men weighed the Communication, what I answered thee of ***** in 1797; and the manner of his conduct in 1799; with

what indignation***** and joined together against thee; and with what contempt thy letter was returned, when I ordered thee to write to him, that thy writings should go out in the world, as from the Lord, without he came to pass his judgment with others, to say they were not from the Lord; and then I ordered thee to give up to the judgment of seven men, if they judged they were from a wrong spirit. But this, thou knowest, they refused to do; then discern these words:

"For charity he's none for ME,

To see my honour die.

Am I not come to poverty,
Humbly to him t' apply?"

"Here let men look deeply to my inquiry; because I tell thee, two ways it stands between the Lord and thee: for if they judged thou wast writing from a wrong spirit, saying the Lord saith,' when he had not spoken; then where was his regard for my honour, to let it die in that manner, that I could not gain shepherds to stop thy haud from letting mockery go out in the world, when it was offered to be given up to so few as seven men? Then what shipwreck did he make of faith in my Gospel! Here he did the very thing in 1799 that I told thee in 1797. But now these things are brought round, to shew mankind in what manner the truth was foretold, how every man would act, that they might be clear in judging, and just in condemning, if thou wast led by a wrong spirit. But here let them discern further: what I say unto one, I say unto all; these dark things, that I mentioned to thee, of being benighted; to ask what rocks they would climb; or how they would shun the dangers, if faith and hope and all was gone? These things did not happen in his days; because, thou

was

knowest, the man is no more. But now I have ordered thee to bring all these things together, in a straight line, that they might see how all was foretold; and I have ordered thee to send it to the Bishops, that they might all discern what I say of one I say of all, if they act all alike. "This answer which I gave thee of **** never seen by him; but now it is brought out for others to judge what is my answer to those who act like him. And know what I said in my Gospel he that knoweth his master's will and doeth it not, shall be beaten with many stripes; but he that knoweth it not, with few; and therefore those who act now like ***** will find dangers to come upon them, when they know not where to fly; because here I have given light and knowledge to man, and brought the truth plainly before them, which he had not then got such light in his possession; and therefore I do not condemn the man, any further than his wisdom, and that he did not act according to my Gospel, or the commands I gave to my disciples. But as thou sayest in thy heart, he was a man that bore a good character, and thou judgest him a religious man, though he acted wrong through unbelief; to thy judgment I shall leave him; because thou sayest he stumbled in the dark: but those who stumble now, must stumble at the noon-day sun: and then they may grope for the wall, like the blind. It is for the living to lay it to heart, that I ordered thee to write to such men in the beginning, who trusted too much to their own wisdom; and were perfectly like the philosophercould not bear to be outdone by one that they looked upon so much beneath them. But the answer given concerning them, they had got no knowledge of; so that my answer is for the living, and not for the dead. And here I shall conclude with the words I sent to

"So now your parish meetings call,
And quit yourselves like men;
The tree of knowledge comes to all,
And the good fruit must come."

Now I am ordered to bring forward my prophecies, which allude to the nation, to shew how they stand on conditions, like the former; for I am answered, that one way or other, the Lord will fulfil them, accordingly as they are complied with. I shall first bring forward the promises to the nation.

Strange Effects of Faith, page 43.

"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.
Like Jehoshaphat be doing,

Never fight but with my word;
Do you know what I'm pursuing,
To make all men know the Lord.
By the heavens! (I'll swear no greater,)
Mark the words I say to thee,

I've indited every letter

That was sent, they all shall see.
'Tis the wood that next shall kindle,
And I'll make it for to burn:
Plain as thou didst hear the sermon,
Full as plain shall I return.
If the first appear'd a mystery,

Yet the next thou know'st was plain;

Perfect so, I now do tell thee,

I will make it plain to men;

For the truth shall come before them,
And I will tell them who I am."

First Book of Sealed Prophecies, page 41, given

in 1797.

"Fast the storms are hastening on ;

But if England does awake,

And come to perfect day,
'Tis other nations I shall shake-

The sunshine here you'll see ;
For as the clouds this day dismiss'd