her so falsely and spitefully. This raised her anger to go through any thing; but when she began to ponder on his former conduct, it brought love and pity to her heart; and this causes the distress of her mind. If he had been all one way, she could have been all one way with him; but as he hath acted two ways, that causes two passions, which she can scarcely bear. Oh, that he had been either one thing or the other!

THE ANSWER OF THE LORD.

"Now, Joanna, I shall answer thee: Thy heart is like my heart, and thy feeling is like my feeling for as thou feelest love and anger for Pomeroy, callnig to mind his former preaching and former conduct; just so is my feeling for thousands: for I have thousands like Pomeroy in the Kingdom, whose love and zeal for MEI once regarded, as they shewed their love to my coming in the Flesh; but now I am come in the Spirit, they persecute ME, as Pomeroy persecutes thee; and they wound my heart, and grieve my Spirit, as Pomeroy wounds and grieves thine. I am leath to come against them and destroy them; yet, for my own honour and great Name, I must come against them, as thou must go against Pomeroy: though I do it with reluctance, as thou dost by Pomeroy; therefore I shewed thee the Vision in thy bed. They were wounding ME, as Pomeroy is wounding thee; there is not that man upon earth that hath wounded thy hear like Pomeroy; and now I tell thee, there is no man upon earth grieves my Spirit so much as these that profess a great love for my Name, as dying for them: their words and prayers were as well pleasing to ME, as Pomeroy's preaching was to thee; but now they are turned as spiteful against ME, coming in the Spirit, as Pomeroy is turned against thee. But let thy sorrow cease: this thing of Pomeroy I permitted, to bring it out to the whole nation at large; and therefore I shewed thee the Vision of the Perspiration thou sawest ME in. Remember my cold sweats

A TYPE OF DIVINE LOVE and anger. 243 in the garden of Gethsemane, what I suffered for the unbelief of the Jews, by sweating as it were drops of blood and now I shewed thee, from the unbelief of the Gentiles, my sweats the same, and my hair wet with the dews of the night; because they would not open their doors to let me in; I shewed thee my leg, like thine, the wounds I daily receive from men through unbelief. This I shewed thee, before I had worked in thy heart the like feeling for Pomeroy; for thou canst have that feeling for no man but he, who began in the Spirit and now seems to end in the Flesh; but thy feeling could not be so great for him, if I had not softened thy heart to shew thee what I feel for Man.

So now within thou dost begin

To ask how this can be,

That I can suffer so for Man,

As thou dost grieve for he?
I tell you plain, ye sons of men,
My sorrows are the same;
You make ME grieve, you'll not relieve
My Burden now 'tis come;

My Burden here doth strong appear,
As Man I'm come to free;

My Bible I have made so clear
For every eye to see;

If men will come to be my friends,

As friends they must appear,
To know the Promise in the end

The Woman this must clear.
But see the Land how they do stand,
Like Pomeroy to begin;

When first he saw thy written hand,
Did he condemn the thing,
To say from hell the whole did swell?
Thou knowest it was not so;

But now the truth to all I tell,
When my friends strong did go
To prove the whole, from ME the call,
And so they took it up,

Then mark how Pomeroy he did fall.
In unbelief did drop;

Because that he himself did see

Cast out from being first,

As other men with thee did join
To have the truth to burst.

So thousands here like him appear,
Their pride doth swell the same;
Because that I did visit thee,
And to them did not come.
The pride of men doth thus begin
By Satan's arts to swell,
As every thing to ME is seen;
But this to thee I tell,

My Bible true before their view
Could never come that way.
No: 'tis the SPIRIT and the BRIDE,
As I before did say;

My Bible here I'll now make clear,
The truth I'll now maintain,
Though men like Pomeroy are acting here,
To give ME every pain;

Because my heel no man doth feel
How it was bruis'd at first;

And 'tis the Woman's claim must come
To have the Serpent cast.

But men appear like Pomeroy here→→
"These Prophecies we see ;
But yet they never shall appear,
"Our hearts inflam'd they be,

"To see the call, how men do fall
"To vindicate the WORD"-

And in their hearts they've burnt the whole The PROMISE of their GOD!

They see the first like Pomeroy burst,

Laid all before thy view;

But I am come the truth to claim,
Like Pomeroy men do do:
Destroy it all, and prove the Fall
Cannot be clear'd this way;

But when my Bible forth I call
I ask what men will say?

Will they appear like Pomeroy here,
In spite against their GoD,

And say the Fall they'll never clear,

The way that I allude?

"No; it shall burn, our hearts we'll turn

Against our SAVIOUR there;

"We'll never own the truth shall come

"To have it so appear;

"The Woman's Fall is cast on all,

"And there it now may stand;

"We'll burn the word that's on record

"And so condemn her hand."

Now I'll appear to answer here,

Like Pomeroy men must do:
Destroy MY WORD that's on record,
And hide it from men's view,

Ere they can come for to condemn
My BIBLE is so plain,

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Of every word that's on record,
Can ne'er be prov'd by man;
No other way, to thee I say,

I

Her Promise must appear.

But men, like Pomeroy, now do lay,
My Bible they burn here,
As they do say another way
My Bible it is plac'd;

The sorrows all must fall on ME,

And Satan never taste

The blame on him, that did begin
To cause her every Fall;

But I do tell you, in the end

The flames on all will fall.

So Pomeroy here doth strong appear
A Type before your view;

And different passions do appear

In thee I well do know;

Thou lov'dst him first when he did burst

In HONOUR to MY NAME;

But when thou seest he all doth cast,
And put thee so to shame,
Then anger see inflam'd in thee,
Thy passions they were strong;
Because he burnt the TRUTH of thee,
As unto ME 'tis known;

Just so my WORD that's on record,
Professing Friends appear,
They burn like he, I plain do see,
And will not see it clear;
My Bible's TRUE, before their view,
And put into their hands,
And yet like Pomeroy they do do,
And will not let it stand.

So ME they grieve, theirselves deceive→
The Type stands deep of he:
Throughout the Land I see them stand
To wound the HEART of ME.
Believers here like him appear,
That once believ'd MY WORD,
A SAVIOUR I did sure appear,
But ne'er believ'd my Blood
Must now be laid, as then I said,
Upon the Serpent's head:

No; this they burn, the words they turn,
For Satan close has laid,

I say, to all; because the Fall

Shall ne'er come back on he,

And so like Pomeroy I see all,

The Truth they will not see

"No: it we'll burn, and CHRIST may mourn

"That he his Life laid down;

Unto him now we will not turn"—

Like Pomeroy men are found!

But thou dost say another way---
"Tis Ignorance blinds their eyes,
Because my Bible they can't see
To make them act more wise.
And this I see as well as thee,
In unbelief they go,

Which now doth work my jealousy,
My Spirit fill with woe!

So thou'st complain'd the ways of men
And I complain the same:
Bring forth my BIBLE, I demand,
Or set it in a flame;

One of the two I bid men da-
Deny ME as a Gop;

Or lay the truth before their view,
And let my words be shew'd,
That all is come, as spoke by man,
And all as spoke by ME;
My Bible must the Trial stand,
Though burning hearts I see
Are now inflam'd, as Satan's come
Strongly to work in all:

And just like Pomeroy men have done,
The Truth they will not call-

"We'll not appear to shew it clear
"The Bible proves her wrong."
No, no; the Truth they there do fear
Doth justify her hand,

Like Pomeroy's word upon record,
That I first gave to he:

He promis'd first the truth should burst,
If so it prov'd to be;

But when it came as in his hand,

He would not see it plain;

Neither the Truth would he let stand,

But hide it all from Man;

Just so your Land it now doth stand;
My Shepherds do agree

To burn my WORD that's on Record,
The truth they will not see.

But here within thou dost begin

To say my Bible stands,

As on record is every word,

It is not burnt by men

That do appear MY SHEPHERDS here

And this I know is true;

Yet know from hell the flames do swell,

And burning hearts I know

He works in men, not to discern

The Truth before them lies;
They will not see how I do warn,
Nor yet the Truth espy.

So they do go, as he did do,
For to deny the whole;