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so she judged it was like to remain. The rev. gentleman answered, she had erred in her judgment there; and I answered him, I believed she erred as much now, to judge my visitation was from the Devil, as she did in 1792. This conversation was in 1801, after I had begun to publish to the world, as she thought to stop me, fearing I should bring myself to a prison, by running into expences that I could not afford; though I was truly convinced she did it out of a mistaken love to me, yet her conceit of her own opinion, to think she could be a better judge for me than I was for myself, hath lessened my love for her, and though I wish every blessing to attend her, both spiritual and temporal; yet, I could not be happy to live with her, nor enjoy any pleasure in her company, and my anger is mixed with love, as I know she hath a mistaken love for me; but her persuasions would make me of all women the most wretched and miserable, should I attend to them; for then I must begin in the spirit and end in the flesh and, my last error must be worse than the first, if I was in an error in 1792, to obey my call, that I might know if my visitation was from the Lord; but now I am clearly convinced it is of God; then I must have begun in the spirit, and now to end in the flesh if I give it up, and bring myself to a fatal end; for I would sooner suffer death than so to do. The glory of God and the good of mankind is all I have had in view, and have suffered all the sorrows I have passed through. These ponderings of my heart I was ordered to put in print, and shall now give the answer of the Spirit, how it has compared the Kingdom of Heaven with these parables.

"Now I shall answer the ponderings of thy heart : know, I compared the Kingdom of Heaven to the likeness of men here upon earth. As thou hast drawn thy judgment from a father and a child, just so it is with ME and MY children, that look to ME as their

FATHER which is in HEAVEN yet as thou sayest, a father is offended to hear a child blame his fathers wisdom, just so am I ashamed of my children that now blame my wisdom; so let father's of children judge from this parable, and let those Christians, who look to the LORD as their FATHER, judge for themselves, how they will appear before ME, that have judged MY WISDOM foolishness; and thought themselves more wise than their TEACHER: and they as Creatures more wise than their CREATOR. How will they appear before me, let them judge from a child, that has disgraced its father's wisdom, and counted it foolishness; how will it blush to come before its father to be reproved? Let this parable sink deep in the hearts of the readers. For in like manner they must be ashamed to approach that GOD they have despised. But thou sayest in thy heart, they do not know they are despising the w1SDOM of the LORD. To this I answer, as they are despising the wisdom revealed to thee from the LORD, then how will they appear, when they know it is the LORD's Wisdom? Will not this as much shame the Gentiles as the Jews? Is it not as much to the one as to the other? For though hand join in hand, I tell thee the wicked shall not go unpunished who despise the ways of the Lord; therefore, let all men judge for themselves, lest they are judged, of the Lord; and let all men know, the saints in glory would not be compared to the stars in the firmament, if the difference was not great. Now I shall come to thee and thy sister; for there the type goes deep. Thou once loved thy sister as thy life, before she blamed thy conduct in listening to the VOICE of the LORD, which she judged was not the LORD's; and though thou art convinced in thy mind that it is in love to thee, that she persecutes the Spirit that visits thee; yet, this mistaken love in her, lessens thy love for her, and draws thy love to others, who are not after the flesh as brothers and

sisters, but after thy spirit. Now I tell thee, this parable of thee and thy sister goes deep for all mankind; for I now tell thee, I have many professed Christians who believe in ME after the manner of my Coming in the Flesh; and they, like thy sister's love to thee, they love ME after the manner of my first Coming; and I love them; and so they were joined with me in the flesh, because I suffered in the flesh for them; and I loved them as my life, to die for them: but now I am come in the SPIRIT, they have departed from ME, as thy sister is from thee; and they are blaming ME as thy sister blames thee; then they must know, as thy sister's unbelief hath lessened thy love for her, their unbelief hath lessened mine also; because they have judged my wisdom foolishness. Then how can I have any more delight to dwell with them, than thou hast to dwell with thy sister? I tell thee no: the parable is deep for all men. But thou sayest in thy heart, thou hast still a love for thy sister, and wishest her to be happy both in time and eternity; yet thou canst find no comfort with her, because of her blaming thee through her unbelief. Just so it is with ME and these Christians that are now full of unbelief, calling all my visitation to thee foolishness. I tell thee, like thy sister, they have lessened my esteem for them; and I have no more delight with them, than thou hast with thy sister, and thy sister with thee; yet like thy love for thy sister, I wish them to be happy, though apart from ME: and for their sakes, I shall not kill and destroy the nation at once! that the judgments coming one after the other may give them time to turn unto ME, and be joined with ME: for know, I told thee in the beginning, THY SISTER

AND THEE WAS A DEEP TYPE OF THE NATION.

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For here the type stands deep for all,
And let the land behold this call.

Between thy sister here and thee,

The type goes deep of man and ME.
So let these parables appear,

And let men's conscience answer here,
To see the parables are penn'd,
And then you all may judge the end;
The way that I asham'd shall be,
Of those that now despiseth ME,
Though they like sisters may appear,

To say 66 Our ELDER BROTHER here,

If HE is come to change the sound,
That on this earth HE may be found,
We will not now promote HIS REIGN,
We cannot see HIS WISDOM plain;
To cast the ferpent in His stead,
Though well we know he made HIM bleed,
And now in SPIRIT CHRIST is come,
To cast the serpent in his room;
Which is but folly now to we."
Then how with such can I agree
That in this manner do contend?
No, you two sisters shew the end,
How unto others I shall join,
That now in spirit do combine,
To vindicate my just decrees;

These are my friends, judge as you please,
And shall be with ME in the end,

As thou art How join'd with my friends.→→→
So here I'll end it with the man

That did condemn thy written hand;
And let all your hands appear
For to condemn such folly here,
For I shall cast such Men from ME,
As then they cast the man that day;
It was a Wisdom deep in man,
To tell them to lift up their hands,
That did against the man appear;
And perfect so I tell you here,
I'll cast the serpent by the hand,
As in that day they cast the man;
And by their hands T'll make him go-
The type is deep, you ali shall know.

XII Wisdom of Solomon

And deep is the parable and the ponderings of thy heart that thou drawest of the father and the children; of thyself and thy sister: of the man that was put out of the room by the men's holding up their hands against him-for these three types, or parables, are deep for the end. So put the whole in print together, and let the world judge as they please for when every man's hand is lifted up against Satan, I shall put him out of the society of men, as that man was puz

out of the society of thy friends; and until that is done, my friends cannot enjoy perfect peace and happiness together. For, like that man, Satan gets in aanongst my friends to disturb their peace, as that man got in amongst thy friends to disturb them. Thou sayest in thy heart he was a friend to the Devil : and I now tell thee, the Devil was pleading in him."

Here my readers may judge my senses are weak, or my faith is strong, to put in print the events of years, when I am mocked by the unbelieving world, that the truths do not follow as predicted; and my friends have drawn a wrong judgment, as well as my foes; so that the predictions are looked upon as false, which I am now ordered to publish to the world. As to my own judgment it cannot foil me now, as I never drew a right judgment from my writings in my life; therefore I rely entirely on the explanation given me by the Spirit, and not from my own, as all have come true contrary to any judgment I have formed. Now I shall lay before my readers in what manner all have come, that foiled me at first, and strengthened me at last.

After the war was broke out in 1793, that was foretold in 1792, with many other truths too tedious to mention, I was ordered to write to a methodist preacher; and before he came to me I was ordered to open my Bible: it was at the three first chapters of Ezekiel. I was then answered-as it was in those chapters, so it would be with me, and them. But when he came and told me my writings were from the Devil, as an angel of light; and he said we knew not one Spirit from another; the war was all I had in my favour, and that would be over before Christmas; and not one thing else that I had prophesied would take place; his arguments greatly stumbled me. Tears and prayers were my private companions the following day; I thought if my calling was of God, he would not have directed me to such a man

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