But now I tell you, sooner I will die, They stood before but had no heart of He, 69 Then well the Manger HE may call to mind, Weigh every shadow, and you'll see it plain- And in the hearts of all men he does go, I ask what law would let me then to live- As HE hath said to conquer earth and hell, The truth of all for thou to hear and see.- Here we ended on Thursday night, June 21, 1804 And then a Letter was received from Exeter, that they had sent a Letter to Mr. Pomeroy, which he returned back without answering a word. This set all Joanna's heart on fire; the agonies she felt, no tongue can express-she saw the fatal ruin he was bringing on himself, and called to her remembrance a Letter she was ordered to send him; she thinks it was in 1797. And Judas he shall be to me, If he do me deny; No comfort in this world he'll have, And tremble for to die. He must be found an empty sound, And hollow all within: I asked the Bishop how he'd look Because in his Preaching he professed great Love for Christ; therefore it was said, the LORD would try the man, and now he is weighed in the balance and found wanting, but knowing it is the 71 devil's arts have deceived him, wounds me to the heart in pity for the man; but as for the Devil I hate, my rage and malice grow more and more every day against him; as I receive Letters how believers are daily haunted, for those that are longing for CHRIST and HIS KINGDOM, the devil is pursuing with all his rage and fury, while those that do as a man said at Leeds, that he did give the devil a corner chair to set in his heart that then he said the devil was at rest with him; but if he disturbed him, the devil would plague him-and I heard the same man say, he would die to redeem the devil, which made me tremble to think there could be so wretched a being. I told him his death would not redeem the devil; for that power was in GOD only-and he would find him a cruel devil to him, tho' he professed so much love to him, he would not find that love in return from him :-but I am sorry to say. I see his likeness in many men; they would sooner bring the day of Vengeance on themselves, and free the devil from his just punishment, than let the devil have his due. For they gave him a corner chair to set in their hearts, because he may not disturb them. But I will assure them in the end, they will find the devil to be like a Gentleman's Gardener, who courted the Gentleman's Maid, and made great professions of love to her, till he had brought her with Child and then he ordered her one night to come at mid-night to such a Garden at her Master's, and he would meet her there, and take her to Church to be married early in the morning; but while the bloody wretch was digging the Grave, to bury her when he had murdered her, the Gentleman was warned by a dream, that his Gardener was digging of a Grave, to George Hey, near Leeds, murder his Cook, he told his wife of it, and said he'd go down---she desired him not, and said it was only a dream. He went to sleep and dreamt the same again-he then said, he would rise, but his Wife persuaded him not to listen to dreams. He went to sleep again, and dreamt the same the third time; he then sprung off his bed, and said, he'd lay there no longer, tili he searched out the truth of his dream. He slipped on his Night-gown and went down and met his Cook Maid at the door, dressed to meet her devilish lover. He asked the maid where she was going, she was compelled to tell him she was going to meet his Gardener to go to Church to be married. He told her she should not. The poor innocent maid burst into tears, and said she must go, for she was with Child by him. The Gentleman told her, he was only going to inurder her, and to convince her he would go first to the Garden, which he did, and left the poor maid trembling in the house. When he came, he found the Gardener had dug a very deep Grave; he asked him what he was doing? The wretch answered making of a Cucumber-bed. The Gentleman told him it was the wrong season of the year to make Cucumber-beds-And he knew from the maid that told him she was with Child by him, and he 'had appointed her to meet him there, that he had designed to murder her, and had dug that for her Grave. The wretch finding that he was betrayed fled from his master and left the country.-And 'now I shall insert Joanna's dream of last night. "I dreamt last night, that I was to go to be married with my Brother Page that is dead; my Brother-in-law. He first made love to me, and then married my Sister. But to this I thought I |