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ON

THE PRAYERS

FOR THE

FAST DAY, MAY, 1804.

LONDON: PRINTED BY S. ROUSSEAU, WOOD STREET, SPA FIELDS, AND SOLD BY E. J. FIELD, NO. 2, HIGH STREET, ST. GILES's, TWO DOORS FROM THE ANGEL INN; THE MISS EVELEIGH'S EXETER; AND W. SIMMONS, GANDY LANE, EXETER.

DEAR MISS TOWNLEY,

1804.

I Shall give you the communication that is given to me this day, the 24th of May, after you sent me the Form of Prayer for the Fast Day. I was 1 ordered to call all things to my remembrance in 1796, in answer to the Prayers for the Fast" I then ordered thee to write to Pomeroy, and in that year to put in his hand of the Bishop's death*. But now I have ordered thee to warn the Bishops and the Clergy in May; and now in May the Fast is; and out of their own mouths will I condemn them all, if they are neither hot nor cold, but lukewarm; for the Letters were written to warn the Clergy before the Fast came; therefore I ordered one to be hastily. sent to the Bishop, and to have the Letters hastily printed. So if they are now lukewarm, they are condemned from the very Scriptures they have placed. If they say they have wisdom and want nothing, then I tell them they are blind and naked. I have counselled them to buy of me true gold; that they may be clothed, that the shame of their nakedness may not appear; and to anoint their eyes with eye-salve that they may see; for as many as I love I rebuke; and this Nation I have rebuked, as there are many in it whom I love; but let them not think the French are sinners above all men, because they have done these things. I tell them nay, but unless they repent they shall all likewise perish. Now let them *This took place at the end of the year.

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mark the lesson in Isaiah, the 38th chapter,-In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death, and a Sign was given him from the Lord. Now let the learned answer what the Sign was for? Could I not have restored him without giving him a Sign, and do the thing I had promised him? Could he not take my word without a bond? Yet I gave a Sign to Hezekiah. And now I have given Signs unto the Nation : If they turn unto ME, as Hezekiah did, my threatenings shall go backwards; and I will save this Nation, that is condemned to die by judgments; but if they will not lay it to heart, as Hezekiah did, they shall fall by the Signs of the convulsions placed in the Child. So here is the Sign set before them; and the Signs of the Gospel are now come, from the many false Christs that have appeared. Two false Christs have written to thee; therefore I ordered thee to keep their letters, to prove that false Christs were come; and two others have told thee they were the Christs, and wanted thee to trust to them for Redemption. Yet they confess they never were visited by the Spirit of Prophecy, or had any power given them of working of Miracles. So the Sign of false Christs hath appeared unto thee, as well as the Signs of Tumults and War. But I should act like men, to come to one part of the chapter and not go through the whole. For I tell thee, that chapter is like thy writings.-The shadow fulfilled in the destruction of Jerusalem, and what followed after to my disciples; but the end was not then; for men have stopped where I shall begin-When ye see Jerusalem compassed with armies, know the desolation is nigh; and that desolation followed Jerusalem. But can man say the end followed then-to see ME come in a cloud with great, PowER and GLORY? I tell thee no-But now the time is at hand, that all these things shall be fulfilled-and man's Redemption draws nigh: For the Kingdom of GoD is nigh at hand. But the fulfillment of the chapter is as

• The xxxviiith of Isaiah.

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