him; so that he stood stedfast alone by himself; all his weakness in his last; as I was sorry he did not live to clear his honour, by acknowledging he had acted wrong, in not returning the letters committed to his care, or acknowledge the truth they contained. I was answered concerning my own feelings for him, of love and pity; though I could not help blaming his conduct; yet still in my heart I felt a love for the man, which I was answered, that the Lord's feelings were the same -to pity his weakness, and have mercy upon him. I can only give the letter in part, as I did not keep a copy of the whole, not knowing it would ever go in print; but I was ordered to point out the following pages from the Explanations of the Bible, for them to draw their judgment: from page 174-page 249 to 256-page 266 to 272pages 280 and 281---and page 244. And the following passages: Page 249. Here's a type stands deep for man, Page 254. Page 270. Or else the Trial, all will see, Will be brought round to judge of he; "In justice he must now appear If he his honour now will free. He's compass'd round, I now tell thee, Therefore the Trial he must stand." "Some will believe, and will not grieve To see the end appear; While others flee like *** With trembling and with fear. They'll hear the end, mark how't doth bend; The ending now is come, And ******* in security Thought all from him was gone. But now he sees the end of thee, They'll find, like he, they cannot flee; Page 263. —" He must appear the whole to clear; His honour I can never clear, If now I let him drop. So he must stand as I command, Page 269." They mock my Bible as 'tis plac'd, Then they must fear when I am near, As fears will be. From types and shadow I shall clear Page 254.-"And this is done by my command, j.. And will not justify the man, Deep are the lines that thou hast penn'd; And so from judge the call; He stands a type to every man; The reason I am ordered to put the above in print is, to shew how much they were stumbled at receiving this letter, as they could not reconcile what was said in these pages, that I had pointed out to them, concerning him; neither could they understand my letter, of my feelings, and the Lord's having love and pity for the man, as he was taken off in that manner, and had not lived to clear up the truth; but my spirits were too much agitated at that time to discern the judgment they drew; but from the judgment they had drawn from the pages, I had the following communication given me, to send them; as they had not discerned that the pages pointed out to them were in answer to his letters. Sept. 3d, 1813. "Let men discern the first letter I ordered thee in 1804, to call him forward te send to * to answer for the letters I ordered thee to put in his hands; then they must discern what was his answer calling thee a deluded woman; denied having any letters of thine in his hands; or having any writings, or papers of thine. Here let men discern how he tried to shun giving any answer to the truth that I ordered thee to demand of him; let them discern how he tried to shun having any knowledge of thee, but from the insulting letters he said he received, and wherein he complained thou hadst abused him; how strongly he desired ***** to prevail on thee to desist from troubling him. Here men must discern, from his letters, how much he tried to shun the truth's being brought to light, that was put in his hands; and this they must compare with the answer I gave thee, that it was in vain for ******* to shun the truth, or to prevail upon man to persuade thee to keep silence; because their honour as well as thine were both brought into disgrace by him; for if they were vindicating thy character, and thy visitation as being from the Lord, and thus publishing to the world; if they did not demand of him to come forward with the truth, I ask thee, how could they appear? Could they prove they had acted with justice, or with honour, as upright men, that stood between God and men? For, as they believed thy visitation to be from the Lord, they must disobey the command of the Lord, if they desisted from troubling him with letters, to find out the truth; and therefore I said it was in vain for ******* to try to flee, to shun the call that was of men; if he would clear his honour, he must come forward to acknowledge every truth; for there was no other way, that his honour could be cleared. "Therefore men must deeply discern his letters, |