They patch my people up with lies
For to keep out the sun.

For as thou sayest thou can'st not see,
Because the place is dark;

Just so, I say, my people be→
But now come to the mark:
Take all the rags and stuff away,
And thou wilt see more clear;
Nor through a glass 'twont darkly be,
Because they are broken there;
And then the sunshine thou must see,
Or feel the piercing wind.
I tell thee plain's the mystery;
"Tis perfect like mankind:

For by my House they've done the same,
And darken'd every mind;

Patch'd up the Law and Gospel too,

To beggar all mankind;

For as thy Father's house appear'd
So beggarly to man,

Just so my honour must appear,

The way that they go on."

The former words I could not understand, and I was answered in the following manner;

"What, is thy head so very weak

In things that are so plain?
I'll tell thee all the mystery,

And all the rags I mean;

The quarrels broke you well do know,
To every nation come;

The way they mend it all with rags
It must to thee be known;
They've patch'd it up with broken laws,
That from their garments come ;
And weak as paper all hath been,
To bring my land to shame.
Are not the windows all broke down,
As those do now appear?

And where's the glazier that is found

To mend the glass that's here?

But in thy heart thou say'st there's none;
And I may say the same;

For who my Gospel now doth mend,

To say my words are come;

And that the truth is verified
My Gospel to fulfil ?

No; this the wise men have denied ;

Their ragged garments still

Are all the wise men here;
And if this way they do go on,
My anger fast will smoke;
For I shall to the purpose come,
And down the rags shall drop;
I'll pull them out as thou hast done,
My floors for to make dry;

In every step I'll act like thee

Now in this house of clay;
My Father's laws I'll now maintain,
And vindicate his cause;

My anger it shall rise like thine,
To vindicate his laws.

I'm wearied out, as thou hast been,
To hear their foolish tales;

But to the purpose let them come,
If I their wounds do heal.
Wrong in their work do all men go,
And every man doth err;
They cut the fuel high, I know,
And spoil the vineyards here;
Close to the root doth no man go-
To reason I'll begin;

But as their weakness I do know,
I shall explain the thing:

For like thy Father all have done,

To cut my Bible high,

So that the stubble still doth stand

And here's the mystery:

Another after him did come
To cut the fuel low,

Because thy Father's labour's gone,
And all did own 'twas so;
Then own your labour all is gone,
And now your weakness see;
Then to my Holy Hills I'll come,
And cut the stumps away;
Close to the root I'll surely go,
Till I have made it plains
The barren wilderness you'll see,
That man could never prune;

Week as thy Father all are come;
For here my words go deep

The branch cut off and stumps remain,
If I like man should sleep."/

The Valley of Jehoshaphat, a communication

given in 1796.

For to the valley all must come
That will be sons of light;
A valley's low, you all shall know,
And lowly all must come,

When that I do begin to plead,

And rescue every man ;

For when the battles I have fought,

And every victory won,

I'll bring them in the valley low,

And reason then with men..
The vallies low, I'll let them know,
It must be in the heart;
Together every man shall come
And know how I did smart,

And what I suffer'd to this day,

As I for man do feel;

The marks can ne'er be done away.../

My side is open still

A doubting Thomas to receive,

A persecuting Paul;

The trembling jailors I will free,

And men shall know ME all,
That in the valley now will come,

As doves begin to fly.

The valley must be in the heart→→
The battle's drawing nigh;
Imperfect is thy Father's house;
Imperfect's every land ;
Then trust to ME for victory,
If ye are imperfect men.
As to perfection I see none-
The perfect ones are gone;
Sickly and wounded all by sin,

I

see, is

every one.

I said thy Father's house, like mine,

Was now to ruin come;

Therefore I see 'tis time for ME

To come and make an end.

"Tis deeper than philosophy

The lines that thou hast penn'd.

Now let the learned men appear
Their Bibles to explain,

And tell me how they think 'twill be
That I shall call them in;

What signs or wonders will they see,
That I have not foretold;

Or how do they expect 'twill be,
My Bible all unfold?

If they will say they can explain,

And shew their judgment clear;
I say that they are more than men―
A Peter must be here;

For flesh and blood can never know,
The way I shall proceed.

"Tis words must try the hearts of meň,
Or they will never bleed;

For signs or wonders will not do,

'Tis words do try the heart:

And words shall bring all to their view
Why I for man did smart.

So now if man will humbly come
Thy written hand to see,

And own thou art a simple worm,

My Spirit sure 't must be,
And from the Spirit wish to know,
And honour the Most High;
Then sure my Spirit they shall know,
And so may prophesy."

"Know what I told thee of thy father's house, which I compared to the Shepherds, and the likeness of your nation; and this I ordered thee to bring forward to join together, that they may see how many years are past and gone, since I told thee all went wrong in their labour; that they cut my Bible high; that they cut off the branches, and let the stumps remain; that men were come as weak as thy father; because their labour is gone, that they have neither power to cut off the stumps; neither have they wisdom to discern my Bible how it stands, or how my Gospel stands; neither do they understand the Revelations, that when they break, the end is at hand: therefore I said unto thee

"The Woman clothed with the Sun shall make all nations shake;
Because the mystery I'll explain, the Revelations break.-
Then wonders here will fast appear,

And wonders will come on;
But now this land I'll surely spare,
If ABRAHAM How do come,
To plead at last, as thou didst first-
Thy pleading let men see:

And let him bring his FIFTY MEN
To join as Sheep with thee.

"Then they will find I shall fulfil the words that I have said in thy writings.

"On my holy hill

I'll come to cut the stumps away:
The barren wilderness I'll prune,
Where men can never go."

But know I have told thee

"A Canan's wonder must begin,
To make the water wine;
And greater wonders shall be seen
Than was wrought at that time."

"And now let men see what I said of thy father's house; and compare it with your land." Here I am ordered to bring forward my own pleading and petitions to the Lord, in 1794.

I was deeply wounded with the conduct of the Methodists, who said that my writings were not from the Lord. I was ordered to pen my feelings, and was answered that the preparation of the heart, and the answer of the tongue, were both from the Lord. I was to pen my feelings in verse, and it should be answered to me. I wished to forgive all injuries; but said, to my shame, I could not forget them, though I wished them to be buried in oblivion, never to be remembered any more.

But, Oh, the follies of my heart!
Why do these thoughts arise?

And every injury done to me

Lie spread before my eyes;