I'll raise thee up, so do not droop,
But hear what I do say--
In power strong to thee I'll come,
My friends shall thee support.
The water-floods are hastening on,
At first thy mind they'll hurt,
For to fall down to hear the sound,
What shortly will appear;
But all thy foes I'll soon confound
By friends that I have near.
For to come in some will begin,
And wish the truth to see;
And now tell thee many men
Will wish to know of thee
If all be true before their view,

My friends have written here;

But from thy heart thou dost begin

To say, can men appear

To judge it wrong what they have done,
If it did not come from thee,

A history they could ne'er command,
Invent such things to be?

If 'twas not so, thou well dost know,
No one could this invent;

But now I'll tell thee why 'tis so,
Men's minds will be so bent,
To talk with thee the truth to see,
Or every truth to know;

Why thou in Wills's house did stay,
And now to publish so
Against thyself, some men will swell,
And women swell the same-

"It is no honour unto her

To let these things be known."

But I'll appear to answer here,

If it be known to thee,

It is to make my honour clear,
And let the nation see,

That I with them the same have done,
And long have tarried here;

Though with the sinful sons of men,
That did like Wills appear,.

And like his wife that brought the strife,
I so have staid with man;

But now, I say, like Wills's wife,

The end to all is come.

The man at first, the Devil last,

Is so upholded here,

And I, like thee, on all shall burst,

So let the land take care!

And Wills the same, if he condemns

I plac'd him with mankind,

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That do profess my lovers here,
And that you all shall find.

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So blame no more, I've made it clear
To bring it to the land,

In Wills's house I did ordain,

That thou so long should stand.

And now I shall answer thee in plain words. If they blame thy pity and compassion for staying inWills's house, because he tried to draw thee by cords of love, that might appear to the world unjust; then they must blame my pity and compassion, so long to bear with a sinful nation, trying if time will bring them to repentance. Now mark: thou triedst to persuade Wills to forgive his wife all her adultery with every man but Sanderson, as I told thee he was the false prophet mentioned in the Revelations; and it was I commanded thee to contend with Wills to rid him from his house. So it was not thy Spirit, but it was MY Spirit they were, persecuting of then, about the man; and now I tell them it was not thy Spirit, but it is MY SPIRIT that they are contending against, to support the devil, as she did to support Sanderson; and Wills's pretended love to thee is like the world's pretended' love to ME. But how could I shew this clear to mankind, if I had not placed the type and shadow in you three? So who is he that condemneth? It is ME that justifieth thy stay in that house. And now I tell thee, I am like thee, that persuaded Wills to forgive his wife all her adultery with every man but Sanderson; for now I tell thee, I will forgive every returning sinner, that is now against Satan's reign, and longing for MY KINGDOM to be established. But they that are against MY PEACEABLE REIGN, and longing to have all things remain as they are, and do not wish to have Satan chained down, they will soon find shame and confusion of face, with sorrow and misery to fall upon them, as this is now fallen upon Wills--and yet this is but the shadow of what the substance will be upon this ungrateful nation."

PART OF A LETTER FROM JOANNA TO MRS. TAYLOR. Bristol, August 13, 1804.

As the Methodists may say, How can Joanna's calling be of God-to be ordered to make public, to the world, every weakness and folly that has been in herself, and the sins of those that she has lived with? To this Joanna is commanded, by the Lord, to make this answer: Tell her, why all David's Sins were put in print, who was a King; and his Adultery with Bathsheba; his murder of Uriah; and whose secret sins were made public by the Lord, through Nathan being sent to reprove him, otherwise it would not have been known that he designed to slay Uriah? Another thing they are to answer, Why all the Sins that Jacob's Sons committed were ordered to be penned in the Bible? Why all the Sins of Solomon were penned in the Bible? Why all the Sins of the Kings were penned in the Bible? Why all the Sins of Lot's Daughters were penned in the Bible? And why was it penned in the Gospel, that our Saviour was a Friend to the Sinners; that he, who was the Son of God, went to eat and drink with them; and that he forgave the greatest Adulterers, if they repented; and yet their Sins were all mentioned, and what they had. done? Why were the Sins of Paul all mentioned, when he turned to be so zealous an advocate for the Lord? Now' let them read their Bibles through and answer, Why every man's Sins were mentioned in the Bible? And then I will answer them, Why these things were ordered to be made public now; and why the Shepherds were blamed through out the Bible, from the Old to the New Testament; and then I will answer, Why they were blamed now-because there is nothing done but has been done, 1st. Chap. of Ecclesiastes, 9th verse: the thing that hath been is it, that which shall be, and that which is done, is that which shall be done, and there is no new thing under the Sun. Is there any thing whereof it might be said, see, this is new? It' hath been already of old times, which was before us. The explanation of this you have seen in my Book The Warning to the World, 52 page. For now all the Bible must be fulfilled; and remember what our Saviour said in St. Matthew's Gospel, 5th Chap. 17th and 18th verses: Think not that I am come to destroy the Law, or the Prophets : I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil: For verily, I say unto you, till Heaven and Earth pass away, one jot or one tittle, shall in no wise pass from the Law till all be fulfilled. And now is coming the fulfilment of the Law and the Gospel, Now I shall come to Mr. Eastlake. I do not deny but Mr. Eastlake is a religious man, and I al

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ways believed him so; but I believe Mr. Eastlake is somewhat like my Aunt; that when she went to School to learn to make lace, upon account of my Grandmother, who was very good to the Schoolmistress, she was indulged in every thing, and if she made the worst of work she was never corrected, whilst other Scholars were beat, who made their work much better, and found fault with that it was not made better. This my Aunt had observed for a long time, and at last she thought herself such a favourite with her Mistress that do what she would she would not fall out with her. So she put her Mistress to the trial: one day when her Mistress was gone out of the room, she went and took the soot of the chimney and put it upon the top of the lace to spoil it, to prove to the rest of the Scholars that she was such a favourite; but here she carried her jest too far, and found herself severely beat. And I wish Mr. Eastlake's self-confidence may not bring a like sorrow upon him; for a man may live ever so religious, yet if he be so self-confident, that he cannot do wrong, and think the Lord would never be angry with him, that man would find himself deceived. I can assure Mr. Eastlake, that I have feared sin more than death, from my youth up to this day, and the ways of the Lord has been my delight; yet I have had ten thousand fears that I might might do wrong, and ten thousand fears that a wrong spirit might deceive me, and that my own heart might deceive me, that I might not have a right judgment in all things; but if I had been of Mr. Eastlake's make, to be self-confident, that I could never do wrong, I should never have been so clear that my calling is of God, as I now am; for by iny doubts, fears, and jealousies, the Lord hath made them much clearer before me. You are a living witness of my fears and jealousies, as well as your own, when things have not come to our judgment, fearing a wrong spirit might have deceived me; and it will be well for Mr. Eastlake to let these jealousies alarm his breast, fearing a wrong spirit, or a wrong judgment, might deceive him; for the Methodists affirm, there is no knowing one spirit from another, and Satan will come as an angel of light to deceive them; so let them be not high-minded, but fear. I judge of the Spirit that visits me, by the truth of his words, and by the wisdom, in the manner he is bringing every thing round to fulfil his words in all things; and by the clear and wondrous manner that he is explaining the Bible, to make it all true. But you will hear more mysteries hereafter.

The following IMPORTANT COMMUNICATION was given MAY 27, 1800 *.

It was in answer to a dispute between Joanna and her Sister, who told Joanna she was spoiling the paper upon which she was writing, and was answered by the SPIRIT, That the paper, which she said was spoiled, should be the means, by the writing upon it, to awaken thousands.

As I indite for thee to write,
And all shall fly abroad;
For in the end 'tis my intend

The truth shall all be know'd;

For 't must appear, the valley's near,
And Satan laid the plan,

And men did suck the poison deep→→
And deep I'll go with all:

I'll first try man, how he will stand
When I have shew'd his fall.

In colours fair I'll paint it here,
And sinners I'll awake,

To shew from hell what arts do swell;
And men's hearts I shall shake,
Till I mete out the valley quite-
Then Succoth I'll divide;
And men shall see their destiny,
When I bring back the tide
On Pharaoh's host-my honour's lost

While he doth this pursue:

For at the sea my people be,

And know not what to do.

The sea is red with streams of blood,

And Pharaoh's pride does swell;

This Communication relates particularly to the Harvests of the FOUR following years from 1800.