angel on the cloud returned twice to fetch more. There was a stone of irregular shape, some distance from the people, on the nearest side, on which, in large letters, were these words-THE ROCK OF AGES. The explanation of this vision was given to me, with these Scriptures:

2 Esdras, vii. chapter, 26th and 27th verses :Behold the time shall come, that these tokens which I have told thee shall come to pass, and the Bride shall appear, and she coming forth shall be seen, that now is withdrawn from the earth. And whosoever is delivered from the foresaid evils shall see my wonders.

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The cxIxth Psalm, 18th verse ---Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold the wondrous things of thy law.

The Lth chapter of Isaiah, 7th verse ---For the Lord God will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.

The Ligth chapter of Isaiah, 12th verse :--- I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass.

The xvth chapter of 2d Esdras, from the 1st to the end of the 6th verse :---Behold, speak thou in the ears of my people the words of prophecy, &c.

The x vith of 2d Esdras, 73d verse :---Then shall they be known, who are my chosen; and they shall be tried as gold in the fire.

The xvth chapter of 2d Esdras, the 21st verse :-Like as they do yet this day unto my chosen, so will I do also, and recompense in their bosom. Thus saith the Lord God.

Here begins the explanation of the Vision:

"The Rock is the Rock of Ages, that stands firm on the dark cloud for man; on the dark cloud that

came to man in the Fall, that Rock was fixed for man; and that Rock was fixed again for man, in the type of Moses, when he was warned to call the children of Israel from the hand of Pharoah; they were preserved and Pharoah destroyed. Now mark the Scriptures, of the Bride that shall appear, that is now withdrawn from the earth. Now I tell thee, the Bride that is there mentioned, as withdrawn from the earth, but is to appear, is the SPIRIT that shall appear in the last days, to shew the Promise that was made to Eve: for though she is withdrawn from the earth, and no man thought of the Promise that was made to her; yet in the last days they were to appear, and now they shall be seen plain to all TRUE BELIEVERS; for whosoever is delivered from the evil of sin and the power of the Devil will see all the wonders that I promised to the Bride in the Creation; and whether they are living, or whether they die before the time, they will then come forth and be with ME, when I come to execute my decrees. Now mark, the Ship is the token of the Sea; and know how I told thee the type of Moses and the children of Israel, was a type of the last days of Satan's destruction, and man's preservation; then as the type of Moses, see the ship and the sea before thee, and the angel leading them to the ship out of the dark clouds they were in, in the land of Egypt, and my power standing over them in a bright cloud to destroy their enemies, when my servant and angels had called away my people Israel. Now I tell thee, the enemies are those that have heads without bodies, treading down my people as Pharoah trod down the children of Israel. But mark the one hath no feet to stand on, but the other as men all ready to flee, and the ship is ready to receive them. Now thou sayest in thy heart, they had no ships, only the open sea; but the type of the Gos pel must now join with the type of the Law: and, as I worked miracles on the seas, by dividing it

for the children of Israel to pass through, so I worked miracles on the seas to come to the ship, which gave Peter faith to launch into the great deep when he saw me walking on the seas :--

So now the deep for all is near:
A Peter's faith must now appear,
For all to launch into the deep;
And mark the ship stands on the brink;
And on the brink for all 'tis come:
A ship foretells you news unknown,
From distant nations to appear.
And first they launch, I say, for war;
But as my angels guide the way,
The distant nations must not stay
When I do call them from afar,
Behold the angel that stands there,
To have the trumpet in his hand,
The rolling clouds, you there command,
How in the cloud, the angel's plac'd,
And under that the light doth burst,
The every darkness to tread down:
For deep this Vision now is found,
My people first to call away,
A ship foretells you cannot stay;
Because a flight must sure be near,
Mark how the ship stands waiting there,
To have the people for to come,
And launch into the deep by man;
Because the seas you know are deep,
And there you may behold the ship,
And there my footsteps all are hid
On the great ocean wide and deep.
Unfathom'd deep are my decrees,
Wide as the ocean are my ways,
Whose depth and breadth no man doth know.
It is by ships that you must go,
If you will search the ocean wide;
And so my words must be applied;
You see the seas, to stand on shore,
Amazing wide, but see no more;
Because the end you cannot see,
For distant lands conceal'd they be,
That you cannot discern them near,
Till on the seas you do appear,
And venture on the raging deep,
The ocean wide for to find out.
And so are all my ways for man,

The depth and breadth you can't command,
Without you launch into the deep,
My every footsteps to find out;
And then the ship you all may see,
How it is waiting now for ye.
But this thou dost not understand:

Freinds to be

The shadows first you don't discern ;
But these are all outlines to man,
To shew you all, by sea and land
I did my wonders all perform;
And so I shall bring on the storm,
I tell you all, by Land and Sea,
But first my friends I'll call away;
Fun For to the Ship must many come

Lands

To spread the TRUTH in Foreign Lands,
Before I make the final end,

And on the Rocky Hearts descend,
For to dismiss the Clouds for Man-
The Stone is white that there doth stand
And yet that Stone it is but small,
Then now I tell you one and all,
In midst of darkness 'tis but few
That will believe this calling true,
Before my angels call eloud,
over the Land And men begin to see the clouds
in March and To gather darkness o'er the Land;
April-May For first these clouds must come to man,
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Before the Power of Hell I shake,
And then my fury fast shall break;
For, like the seas 'twill ai! come on,
Wave after wave will fall on man,
I tell thee perfect like the seas;
And men must see these evil days,
That in the chapters do appear.
These prophecies for all are near,
As to my chosen they have done,
I tell thee must turn back again;
But my beloved need not fear,
For now I'll fully answer here.
Perfect as man did then to me,
When I expir'd on Calvary;
So perfect now I'll do to them
That caus'd my Death to have it come;
And that is Satan judg'd by thee,
Then so the end to him shall be;
For on the clouds I shall appear,
As perfect as you see ME there
Or yet the likeness that is plac'd,

119 Palm 18 And from the Psalm judge thou the rest.

For wondrous things I now shall do,

And every soul will find it true,

That I in wonder shall appear,

on ten And come with triumph in the air;
To he will downs Though there thou seest but one alone,
A shadow understood by none,
How singly there alone I'm seen,

You know the Type I've said to men;
It was of Moses at the first,

For so the end to all must burst.

And know, to him I came alone,