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not have denied ME, in my visitation to thee; had he been clear, he would no more have denied thee, than he denied my Gospel, which thou knowest, from his preaching, he went on powerfully to support.

And now the Prophecies I have given thee concerning ******* must be compared together, the two different ways they were spoken; and two different ways they have been already fulfilled; but the end is not yet. There is a mystery concerning him, as I have told thee; and that mankind will find in the end and as it stood two different ways of him, so two different ways men must discern, from the Prophets, how the words were spoken of ME; first to come and die for the transgression of man; and at that time not to be esteemed by them, but to be forsaken by them. Know what is said by the Prophet: Zechariah, xii. And they shall look upon ME, whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son; and shall be in bitterness for him, as one is in bitterness for his first born;"-and then I shall be the desire of nations; and then the desire of nations will come.

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"And now I shall answer thee of words, when he said unto thee, "Leave me out of the question." This was speaking perfectly like the Jews, who desired to have the Gospel left out of the question; and would not believe in ME or my Gospel. Then they might as well leave all the Prophets out of the question; for no more can they prove the one without the other, than thou canst prove thy Prophecies clear, to leave ******* out of the question; because in his hands were the truths put at first, that were for signs to him, and to thee, and as signs to mankind, that it came from the Lord; that I had made it clear to thee, by the knowledge

of the truth, that thy visitation was from the God of Truth. But how could this be known and proved, if he had been left out of the question, and his name concealed from mankind? And perfectly so, I tell thee now, men have not discerned in what manner he stands upon conditions; and how he hath fulfilled them; therefore I ordered thee to bring the whole together, and put it in print, in the way I have explained it to thee; that in seeing they might see, and in bearing they might understand in what likeness the Scriptures stand with the words I spoke to thee of **

"And now I shall come further to the Scriptures, to shew thee where they stand without conditions, that must be fulfilled to make them true.

Revelation, xxii. 1, 2, 3, 13.-" And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God, and of the Lamb. In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. And there shall be no more curse.-I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, the first

and the last."

"Here let men observe how these words stand without any conditions, but a promise that shall be fulfilled. But now I ask mankind what manner of fruit, or what leaves have already appeared, to heal the nations? Have not the prophets been in ages past? and were the nations healed by them? Hath not my Gospel been near two thousand years? and are the nations healed by it? In thy heart thou answerest, no. Then let them discern the promise that stands on record, I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, the first and the last, is not ful

filled; neither hath the fruit yet appeared; or the leaves of my words, that shall be given to heal the nations. Therefore let them observe, when this promise is fulfilled the Spirit and the Bride say, COME: and this is a promise which stands on record, that my Spirit shall come to warn of the end; and the FRUITS are the fruits of my Spirit; and the LEAVES are the words which I shall give, when the fruits of my Spirit are poured out strongly upon men, to make them fruit fit for their Master's use. Then the LEAVES of their WORDS, which will fly abroad amongst all nations, will be the healing of them, when I have brought round thy Writings to compare with the Scriptures, to shew them plainly how things must be compared together, and brought round, in this present age, to lay all before their view, the way I shall make my Bible true; for I tell thee, the Bible will never convince men who are in unbelief, before I have brought round a mystery in this present age, in some likeness of the Scriptures, to make them know that there is a God, and a faithful rewarder of them that diligently seek him: and they shall know that my Gospel is true.

"But now I ask thee and all mankind, how could I come in honour and justice, as a God, to remove the curse from off the earth, and destroy the works of the devil, to establish peace and righteousness upon the earth? Could I come in justice to do this for men, before I have made it the desire of men? And therefore the fruit must be in men, to have a longing desire for my coming; and the leaves is the word that I have already revealed; and greater things will be revealed, to place the fruit in the hearts of men.

"And now I shall call thee to the professors of religion. Do they not say, if they are in Christ, it is all they have to look for, and all they have to

desire, thinking they shall go to glory when they die? Then, by their desire I can neither come in honour, faithfulness, justice, nor truth, to destroy the works of the devil for their sakes; because they do not desire it; and Satan would have room to plead, that my coming was not in love to man, if the hearts of all were like these professors.

"And now come to the profane, who are hardened on by the devil: do not they cry out and say, they do not want his works to be destroyed, or his power cut off? while others say, there is no devil to destroy? Then I cannot come, according to my Gospel, with justice, or honour, to bring in the redemption of men who have no desire to be redeemed.

"And therefore the fruit must be in the heart, in a different manner than these I have mentioned, for ME to be the desire of nations. And these things stand without conditions, that they shall be fulfilled; and therefore

Earth and hell may rage in vain,
But I shall plant this FRUIT in men ;
As some already doth appear;
Behold the TREE, the fruit is here.
And so I tell thee 'twill abound;
And men may tremble at the sound,
Who now do wish to keep it back,
And say," the LEAVES we wish to pluck,
That they may never now appear,
To shew the ending now draws near."
I'll tell thee more another day:
The heads of men I mean to try,
The way they place the TREE of LIFE;
For that's the way I'll end the strife.
I'll gain the FRUIT if it be in man;
And then the LEAVES I know will come;
For I shall make them fly abroad,
When deeper mysteries here I've shew'd;
And greater judgments will come on,
As I have warn'd of every land,
And so the truth I shall make clear,
And prove that I have spoken here;

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For now the words I'll answer thee;
Because thy heart is known to ME,
To wish to have the fruit abound,
And men rejoice to hear the sound.
But now one thought I'll call thee back→
"Tis not my love that now is slack;
But Satan's arts I know too well,
They every way his rage do swell;
And therefore I must work it round
A way that he cannot be found
To work with power so in man.
Remember,
could not stand,

With all the rage that did appear;
For Satan gain'd his footing there;
And therefore I must work a way
His every arts for to betray;
And then I'll shew the fruit in men,
How altogether they may stand,
To have these leaves to fly abroad.
To other nations 'twill be know'd
What wonders do in England burst.
I said this land I'd free it first
From all the sorrows they are in,
Before my kingdom down I bring,
To have the hearts of all the same;
And they shall know my every name—
I died for man, but not in vain.
And here this subject I shall end:
But all my Bible I'll go through,
And bring the likeness to their view.

"Here I have shewn thee a few scriptures, that stand without conditions to be fulfilled; and now I ask thee, how mankind can come forward and plead their scriptures, who boast of their knowledge and belief in them? how will they pretend to prove them true, who began so soon to mock that thy writings could not be true, if thou wast baffled in one thing; as they boasted so much of *******'s death. But I now tell thee, their boasting is to destroy the Scriptures, that all may appear as a dead letter to man, that never was fulfilled; and therefore they judge it never will, without discerning the Six Days in the Creation, before the day of rest came in-that one day is a

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