THE ANGER OF THE LORD AGAINST SATAN. 247
For Satan's arts before my view
Do strongly work in all;
He in a flame doth wish MY NAME
In every thing to cast,
But he shall see the TRUTH in ME,
For on him I shall burst.
So now from thee I'll answer he
Of Pomeroy thou didst say,
If he'd ne'er acted well to thee,
In anger thou should'st lay
For to go on against the man,
Because thy rage would burn ;
But as he acts two different ways,
Thy bowels now do yearn
Over the man, if he will turn;
And mine do yearn the same,
I say, o'er men, if they will turn
They'll know MY every NAME!
For just like thee my heart they'll see,
My passions here are two;
But where is ONE I now shall come,
And hell shall find it so ;
Because that there no love appears
My anger to abate;
For him, like man, I cannot clear,
He now shall feel his fate!
For just like thee, all men shall see,
My heart for all is come:
pen the words were spoke by thee, I'll answer thee again."
The words spoken by me this day were, heart was wounded with the two different conducts of Mr. Pomeroy; because he had spoken well of me, as well as ill; and he had used me with kindness, as well as ill-nature. But I said, if his con duct had been all of a-piece, like a preacher at Hal lifax, in Yorkshire, that would listen to no reason from his Bible, and would neither point out any thing from the books to shew wherein he condemn ed them, but aggravatingly and provokingly say I was a strumpet, without saying why or wherefore. Against such a man as that, I said I could come forward with the greatest pleasure; because I could justly lay to his charge what he had laid to mine; for he is an impostor, that condemns a thing he knows nothing about; and will persuade others to be as blind as himself. So as I had never received any thing from that man, but impudent ridicule, it
would give me pleasure to come against him. Now though Mr. Pomeroy has ridiculed it the same at the last, yet he shews some excuse for his anger; because his name is put in print, which he thinks I have disgraced him thereby; and he is pleading his former kindness; but forgetting what unkindness unbelief has brought in him. Therefore I pity a man that judges he has room for his anger; but I cannot pity a man that has got no room at all for his spite and malice against me.
THE ANSWER OF THE LORD.
"Now, Joanna, I shall answer thee. As thy different feelings are between these two men, soare my different feelings between men and devils; for Satan cannot appear to say I have injured him; for I tried his reign in Heaven, and I have tried it here upon Earth; and his malice is against ME, as the man's was against thee, without allowing any justice, oš
Therefore against him I shall come,
As thou dost say, against the man'
That thou in anger could'st appear
To meet thy bold accuser there;
Because he nothing had to plead
Why he such unjust charge had laid
Unto a person he did not know,
Whether the thing was false or true;
Or yet no reason would he see,
That he'd unjustly blamed thee,
A character he did not know,
And no offence to him didst shew,
Which justly made thy anger burn,
And so against him thou could'st come
In nought but anger to appear;
And I shall fully answer here,
My anger men shall find like thee,
The truth they all shall hear and see;
And Satan he shall find the same,
Though he's despis'd my every Name,
And he no more has got to plead
Than had the man from what he said.
So now let Satan to appear,
He'll find my auger kindled here;
Because, I tell him, like that man,
Without bis reasons, did condemn
REASONS FOR LOVE AND ANGER.
But Pomeroy hath condemn'd the same;
But know, he judg'd thou'dst spoil'd his name
And made it odious to appear,
Wherefore his anger's kindled here.
So he hath some excuse to plead,
As thou hast cast it on his head
That he did support thy hand at first,
And afterwards against thee burst,
Which is no honour to the man ;
So he'th reason for to come,
While he in unbelief appears;
He may be angry and may fear
His character will now be lost,
To see his judgment all is plac'd
So many years to lead thee on,
And then against thee for to come.
Now here's a Type stands deep for all;
I tell you, deeply from the Fall,
It was of ADAM at the first,
When with the WOMAN he was plac'd;
He never did condemn her hand'
Till he the Trial could not stand,
And then he did condemn the Two;
His MAKER strong before his view
He with the WOMAN did condemn.
And so like thee, in Love I came
To bear the Blame that was cast at first
That on the Serpent it might burst;
For just like thee have I went on,
To feel compassion still for Man;
Because I knew he was betray'd,
As Pomeroy's blame thou'st often laid
On other Shepherds that were near ;
Thou know'st they made the man to fear,
And so the pity came in thee,
And so I tell thee it came in ME;
But now 'tis drawing to the end,
In Love and anger I'll descend,
I tell you, on the sons of men.
Now if their Errors they'll see clear,
And own in judgment they did err,
They'll find my Love for to return,
As thine for Pomeroy now will come,
If he appears to clear the whole;
Thou'lt free the man, and cast his fall
I know, upon another's head,
Because the blame will so be laid;
And so I tell thee now of men,
If they to clear the Truth will come
To clain the Promise at the first,
On Satan's head it must now be cast;
So here's a Type stands deep for Man:
And Pomeroy must the Trial stand,
Or else the Trial, all will see,
Will be brought round to judge of he
Then how can ever he appear?
His honour he can never clear;
I tell thee, if he now stands mute,
That he must perish with the root
That did the Woman first betray;
Because on him the guilt must lay,
For know he tempted thee to fall-
This Type is deep, I now tell all,
And therefore Pomeroy must repent
That e'er his mind with man was bent
Thy Innocence for to betray;
For close to him the Serpent lay,
So he did tempt the Man to fall.
The Woman's hand, I now tell all,
Against the tempter must appear,
And man must come his guilt to clear,
That he was tempted to the thing;
I know, through ignorance all was done,
And so I tell thee of the Fall,
(It was through ignorance, I tell all,
The Man and Woman were betray'd)
That now I'll cast on Satan's head-
But now thy pondering thoughts I see:
If ignorance first in both there be,
And I that ignorance cast on all,
Then sure for pity Man must call,
That all through ignorance were betray'd,
And cast the whole on Satan's head.
But to thy thoughts I'll answer here,
That my commands men ought to fear;
And I shall come to Adam's guilt
By every one it was not felt
For they to die in Adam's Fall,
Because in ME they now live whole,
Whose Sins by death I've took away ;
And for the tempter now I say,
Did he not tempt Men to the Fall,
He'd fempt them worse, I tell you all,
Like fallen angels to appear,
And then their guilt I could not clear;
But as his arts came round this way,
The simple Woman to betray,
Then I shall bring it on his head,
As in the Fall it then was laid.
So from the Shadow all must see
The Type is deep. of him and thee;
Because thou tempt'dst him at the first
To take the good fruit as 'twas plac'd,
And bid him judge thy written hand,
Whether 'twas good as it did stand;
And so the fruit he did receive,
And at the first he did believe
That good fruit in it night appear,
Before the world it mock'd him here.
Now this was Adam's case at first,
He took the evil as 'twas plac'd,
When Eve had given it to his hand;
At first he did not her condemn,
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Before that I condemn'd the whole,
And then thou knowest the Man did fall;
And so by Pomeroy doth appear,
When men condeinn'd thy writings here,
He did begin to fall the same,
And all thy Innocence did blame.
So now the Trial let him stand,
As he the woman so condemn'd,
Against her he doth strong appear,
Though he the fruit received there;
Then by the fruit I bid him stand,
And let the truth be shewn to Man.
But this thou sayest he cannot do;
(The fruit's destroy'd, I well do know)
Then let him answer from the word,
Whether he judge a thing of God,
That he so easy could destroy,
Or whether hell could this enjoy
To make his folly to appear,
If he in judginent did not err?
Could Satan's wisdom brighter go,
Than I by wisdom e'er could shew?
If he by ME was guided here
In wisdom strong and spirit clear,
Then he in wisdom should go on,
Satan should ne'er condemn the man,
This very way to have him cast,
And prove his wisdom cannot last:
No; here I tell thee it must fall,
And Pomeroy stands a Type for all,
Because his character is gone;
And so I'll prove by every man,
Their characters are gone the same
That now thy written hand do blame;
And so like Pomeroy they will fall---
The Type is deep I tell you all;
Though I've a heart to feel like thee,
My Shepherds' folly I do see,
How much like Pomeroy they are come,
Yet I, like thee, shall all condemn;
As for thy writings thou dost cry
So for my Bible now I say,
Let all my Bible to appear,
And ask if they the whole can clear,
When all is laid before their view?
I know like Pomeroy they must do,
To say that they have burnt the whole;
Or yet deny it from the Fall:
The Woman's guilt was never cast
Upon the Serpcut so to burst;
So men like Pomeroy must appear,
To say our Bibles we'll not clear;
"Because we wish to keep them back,
"The woman's promise may not break
"With every truth surrounded here"-
I ask which way can men appear
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