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That I'll confess he cannot steal.-
The Mysteries now I shall reveal:
They're innocent, by my command;
And there the tempter bold may stand
To say their hearts he could not steal.-
For deeper Mysteries I'll reveal:
"Twas I that made my FLOCK to go
So strong before him, he shall know,
That let him turn which way he will
They'll find a way to baffle still,
That they before him still will stand,
And so the Trial they'll command,
To make him stand and hear the sound
That he in all is guilty found;

That first the HUSBAND he did slay,
And then the WIFE he did betray
To make her judge her LORD was dead,
And then by arts he her betray'd
To make her think her LORD was gone,
And he her Lover was become,
To lead her faithful heart astray.
I know he has seduc'd this way,
To make thy fervent love grow cold
For now the mysteries I'll unfold:
He slew thy SAVIOUR at the first,
And then in power he strong did burst,
To take possession of the whole.
And now I'll prove how this did fall:
My Christian Friends he first did slay,
And so his arts come round that way;
Because they judg'd it could never be
My faithful Friends were slain by he."

June the 15th, 1804.

pages at the

begin

Saturday June 16 read before this, the blank Here I shall give the verse in continuation of the ing Flock of Sheep. After I had arisen from a bed of he began,

sorrow, I was ordered. to take my pen in hand, and the Lord would answer me further of the Parable.

"Now Joanna, thee I'll answer:
From the Parable appears,

I that am thy Lord and Master
Know the Thief hath enter'd here,
After he had arts to murder
My alarming Love to thee,
Well I know his arts went further,
And that way inflamed thee;
Because in all he strong did fall

Their sorrow to express;
For he, like Judas, work'd in all

And brought on thy distress.
The Man the Husband did allow,
That was pronounced dead;

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But by what arts he did not know
The death on him was laid;
And then by arts he did contrive
Unto her close to lay.

But now from thee the cause I'll free,
As it thou canst not bear,

To think the WIFE was plac'd in THEE,

The murderer's guilt to share.

No, 'tis not thee, they all shall see,

That did the wretch caress.

No: thou art with the FLOCK OF SHEEP,
That did before them burst;

So thee I'll clear; thou canst not bear
To have the thing brought home.
Then I shall come another way,
And bring it to the Groom.
In foreign Land where it doth stand
A prince in power to reign:
A Bethsheba for to command
The Groom was surely slain;
And then her love did never prove,
To seek her vengeance there;
Because that she, by gold from he,
Ne'er let the cause appear,
But all let die: I'll tell thee why-
The great would all conceal,
And sooner let their gold to fly
Than have their deeds reveal'd.
And where's not love the cause to prove
I know the dead must lie
Without their blood to be aveng'd-
And wilt THOU act like she?

Thou answerest, No: the truth is so-
No Black Prince here shall reign,
That prov'd thy HUSBAND'S overthrow;
But now he shall be slain.

Then do not fear, for thou art here
Amongst the SHEEP that burst;
For when the GAP I had made clear
I know thou wert the first,
That from the GAP began to hope

That there was room to burst,
And go before and make it clear
The way the murder came.

The Day of Vengeance now is near
The Devil to condemn.-

And here's the BRIDE now by my side

That shall in fury break;

For I shall place the Parable

To bring thee to the SHEEP,

Where thou didst burst, I tell thee, first

And let my SEALED come

And in the FIELD with thee appear,

Satan shall fall like him.

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For now I say to thee this day
The TRIAL so must come.

MY SHEEP have been turn'd every way
By Satan's artful hand;

But still before, I tell thee here,
My SHEEP did surely go;
And now I'll let the JUDGE appear,
And prove the world is so.
When I was cast the Judges burst
My Murderer then to free;
And my FIRST JURY then was cast,
That boldly stood for ME.
But now again, the second time,
MY JURY do appear

My every KINGDOM for to claim,

And cast the Murderer here.
But now the same the Judges came→
That is, the world I mean;
They'll try to free the infamy,
The JURIES to condemn;
But I'll appear to make it clear
That of the SHEEP he's free.

All ways he 'th tried to turn them here,
But this could never be,
Because before my SPIRIT there
Stood strongly in the men,
That he his guilt can no way clear;
For now the time is come,
That I am here and do appear
Now in the Woman's Form;
For there at first the Thief did burst-
And now I've burst the same,

I tell thee, in the FLOCK OF SHEEP,
Where first the murder came.-

But unto thee the thing, I fee,
In agonies thou'st plac'd,
Because thy heart reproached thee,
And I that way did burst

To say thy heart had felt the dart
Of Satan's artful hand;

Because that thee, through jealousy
The TRIAL Could not stand.
Always to bear, he did ensnare,

I know, thy heart with grief,
Until my SHEEP they did appear
For to give thee relief;

Because alone thou madest thy moan,

Before my SHEEP did come,

And all together did agree

To bring thy TRIAL on.

For I'll reveal and not conceal,
'Tis bringing round this way,

As though my SHEEP he here did steal;

But then the JUDGE will say
No: he is free, we plain do see
He never stole them here,
Because the SHEEP were led by ME
This way for to appear,

That at the last he might be cast—
We see our Bible's plain,
That like the Parable must burst,
And many will maintain

It was from Heaven the Type was given,
A mystery deep to Man,

That e'er a thing like this should come
To make our Bibles clear;

The way the Murderer was found out
By INNOCENCE was here.
Because the SHEEP he could not keep,
That I turn'd every way-

It is a Mystery here lies deep:

"None but a God," they'll say, "Could order so such thing to do, "To make the SHEEP appear; "And now to prove HIS Bible true, "This Parable is clear:

The Thief is cast, we see at last "Where he betray'd at first; And now the GAP is broken down, "Then out the SHEEP may burst. Now every way for to betray "We see his artful hand."It was thy jealousy to try

That first I plac'd the Man, As thou to be the BRIDE of he; But it thou could'st not bear." I used this innocent disguise To black the villain here; And thee to try, I tell thee whyFor so the JEWS will burst: Our HUSBAND he did sure betray, "And murdered at the first; "And in his arms we all do lay"Ah! here the truth doth burst: "CHRIST, we see, must murdered be "And then to come again,

"An Israel's Shepherd to appear,

The SHEEP, we now see plain,

"He plac'd at first, the Type did burst,

We know, by God's Command:

"Or else the Rider would have miss'd,

"So many ways he turn'd,

"Himself to free from infamy,

But ABEL'S FLOCK was there;

"And now the murdering Cains, we see, "In Satan do appear.

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Then as the curse it then was plac'd,
"We now see must come on.
"By Innocence the Guilt was cast,
We must the whole discern;

"That are not blind, we now must find
"GOD'S WISDOM to appear:
"He's TURNING WATER NOW TO WINE,
"Too strong for us to bear.
"For to contend like learned men,
"We cannot here dispute:
"Her Parables are brought so plain,
"It strikes our Learning mute."
This will be seen by learned men,
That now have eyes to see,
That from the Parable was penn'd
'Twas first ordain'd by ME
That way to come and to condemn
The guilty Murderer there,
When for a crime he'd never done,

"But now we do see clear

"The SHEEP are free, not stolen by he;
"He wished them to miss;
“But this we find could never be,

"For God hath brought round this
"Before our sight, to bring to light

"Our Bibles to our view."

Then sure the LAMB'S WIFE must appear,
And her revenge is true;

It was an innocent disguise

To place it in her first;

But when her heart inflam'd did ris

Then in true love to burst,

I chose this innocent disguise

To black the villain's art,

Thy love and goodness to surprize,
The more inflam'd my heart;

Now I have been the HERMIT strong,

And that all men shall know.

To prove thy heart was all my own,
I let my rival foe

In thee to break thy heart to sink
In every horror here;

But yet thy hand I'd not let go,
When he thy heart did tear,
Inflam'd by hell, I do know well,

But I was then behind,

And in thy heart I soon did swell→→→

Thy OSMYN thou shalt find.

June the 16th, 1804.

given in the same

Letter N. 24. in the blank pages at the

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and of this Book

+ This alludes to the Parable of the Hermit in Disguise, in p. 26.

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