their pastors, that the believers can apply unto, to explain the meaning of my words, if I do not fulfil them? And, how can I fulfil them, for every one to be taught of the Lord, as it is written by the prophets, without raising up in the last day a LIKENESS of the BODY I laid down for man? But now I tell thee of mankind, they are perfectly what I said in my Gospel: they will not enter in theirselves, nor suffer those that are entering to go in. And this I warned thee of in the beginning, that thou wouldest first hear the mock of fools; and now the mock of fools hath filled thee with anger and indignation; because of their lies, as well as their blasphemy. But now I ask thee, how could it be proved, that it was the mock of fools, if they did not discover their folly, by shewing that it is men void of understanding, void of sense, reason, and religion? For such men would rejoice to come forward in the same manner against the Scriptures, with ridicule, as they are come forward against my visitation to thee, if they were not afraid of the laws of the land. For, if ye discern the manner of the abuse, the Scriptures are mocked in like manner, artfully done, like the devil, to mock them in thy name; and this sheweth plainly what the hearts of men are: and it was to discover the hearts and thoughts of men that I ordered thee to carry thy first book to Brice; for thou didst not know what his religion was, nor why I sent thee to him. But now call to thy remembrance, that he did not mock the prophecies; but said people were eager for them, and therefore willingly took it in hand; but know, as soon as the Gospel was mentioned, and the Holy Ghost was mentioned, then his mockery began; and he soon discovered what he was. Then he began to

abuse the prophecies: so that, from him, ye may judge the hearts of men, what is their belief of the scriptures, what is their belief of a God. It is only fools who thus mock, whose hearts are drawn away by the influence of the devil: but no longer let these madmen deny the existence of a devil; because he hath allowed that there is a devil. But let him know, however idle the devil hath been with thee, finding all his temptations vain and fruitless, that thou hast resisted him, and he must fly from thee; so that he might as well be idle as to tempt in vain; for I have taken his power from thee; yet I now tell thee, he is not idle with the author of these hand-bills; and that the man will find to his sorrow hereafter, and to his everlasting disgrace. So this proves the truth of my words, what I said to thee in the beginning, that thou must first hear the mock of fools; and now they have exposed their folly by their lightness, and their lies, by their ignorance, being void of understanding, brutish men, that I said would appear; but now I shall confound them all in the end, by men of wisdom and understanding; and by fulfilling my words, according to my promise, thou hast felt the LIFE, in May; and, before the harvest is ended, the SON will be born, to the joy of all thy friends, and to the shame and confusion of all such lying inventors, whom Satan leadeth captive at his will; because their hearts are wholly given up to him, and the ways of the Lord they have no desire to know. Now from the lying inventions which he hath published, to mock the truth, marvel not in thy heart if a man like him should say the time was past that the little prince of darkness was to be born, as he hath infamously called it; but now I tell him and all such men, they have

the great prince of darkness to fear, whom I shall cast out with all his branches, that join so closely with the root and therefore I said, in my Gospel, if ye die in your sins, where I am ye cannot come; for such blasphemers were while I dwelt with men in the flesh, and so they continue to persecute in the Spirit. Then now let them judge for themselves, how such men would appear before the Lord, whom they have blasphemed their own conscience must condemn them, and justify my Gospel, to separate them, as tares from the wheat. Here I shall leave thee of these men. "And now come to the minister who preached a sermon against the visitation of my Spirit.*

"I shall begin with his text: Colossians ii. 10. "Ye are complete in him."

"From his text I shall condemn him; and make this inquiry of him: in whom is he made complete? or whom of his hearers is he striving to make complete? Will he answer, in the Gospel of Christ; for in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily? But what fulness of my Gospel, what fulness of the words of the Apostles can there be made complete in Christ, before the fulfilment hath taken place? From his own doctrine I shall condemn the man, as I said in the Gospel, as the blind leading of the blind, till both fall into the ditch together: and therefore I said, woe unto you, blind guides! should the day of the Lord come unaware, how must such pastors appear, who have been deceiving their flock, and leading them astray; denying my second coming, which I told them to look for; denying the Spirit of Truth, which I said should come? And therefore I said before, that these teachers and pastors would no more convince the

* The Rev. James Hearn, curate of Brixham, Devon.

Deists and Atheists of the truth of the scriptures, and to believe in my Gospel, and the fulfilment thereof, than they would believe in my visitation to thee. But now I ask, how it can be believed, while my Gospel is denied and rejected by the teachers and pastors?

"And now I shall come to his observation of Mahomet. He says, "that arch impostor pretended to see visions, and to hold intercourse with angelic beings, and thus miserably deluded half the Christian world; whom God delivered up to their own vain imaginations, "that they should believe a lie;" and thus will perish, in all ages, those unstable souls, unless the mercy of God prevent."

"To his folly I shall answer: for, such as Mahomet have been the impostors in all ages of the world; various inventions have been in mankind: and such as Mahomet, whom he called a vile impostor, they make of ME, by the manner that my Gospel is now looked upon by the Jews, and by thousands and tens of thousands in this nation, which is known by the books which are published. Then now I ask a man like him, how this evil is to be prevented by any mercy of the Lord, without my proving the Gospel true, from the manner I laid the foundation at first, to raise it up in the end; as I said at first, that I should complete it at the last, and bring in the redemption of man? And there is no other way that these vile impostors will be prevented from arising in every age, and every place. But know, I died to destroy the works of the devil; yet, while his power remains, these impostors will always

remain.

"And now come to the words of the Apostles, whom he hath quoted; Paul, Peter, and Jude.

"I shall begin with Peter: 2d Epistle, iii. 3, 4, 5. In this he may see his own likeness, which I have explained to thee already. Verse 9. "The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is long-suffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance." But now I tell thee, all must perish that are in this heathen darkness, which he hath mentioned, if I do not fulfil my Gospel, to bring them to repentance, by the knowledge of the truth; therefore it is written, "The day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements melt with fervent heat."

Were

I to call him forward to explain the words of the Apostle, which he hath quoted, he cannot answer one word of a thousand; because the Apostle warned his hearers to be watching and looking for the day of the Lord, when a great noise would surely be made amongst men, when the varning is given. And now I shall explain to thee the meaning why it is written, "the elements shall melt with fervent heat; because there is a heat of love, which must be strong and powerful towards mankind, who are looking for the day of the Lord to come, to bring in their redemption, and destroy the works of the devil, which I said I died for; but, on the other hand, there must be a heat of anger and indignation against these blasphemers, who give themselves up to Satan's will. Therefore it is written, “the earth also, and the works that are therein, shall be burned up."

"Let not men vainly suppose that this means the works of creation, and all that is in the earth shall be burnt up and destroyed; or all the works