I tell

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you No: it is not so;

No wedlock could be there.

When every oath and vow were broke,
What altar can you clear,

To say you stand in wedlock's band?
Where wives are so prophane;
And roving after every man

You can no marriage claim.
This thing you see ordain'd by ME;
For I did it permit,

To shew the harlots every where,
They double sin commit;
Because at first the oath doth burst,

Unto my altar come;

And after that they do disgrace

Their husbands and my name;

They mock their God, they mock my word, They mock my altar too,

They mock the oath that they have spokeBring all before your view:

Such harlots here, can they appear

To say that they are tied,

In wedlock's band that they do stand?
But here they re all denied;

My Gospel see your Law to be;

They are no wives at all.

Therefore let no man now blame thee,

And say it was from hell,

That sent thee there all things to clear:

No, no: they'll find 'twas I,

The God of Heaven whose Laws were given

The harlots to defy.

No greater sin on earth is done

Than such adultery;

The first be bound by marriage vows

And then to others flee.

Then can you stand in wedlock's bands?

No, no, I tell you no:

Whoe'er do break their marriage vows,

And do a whoring go,

They are surely free, I now tell thee,
That innocence possess.

Whoe er do break their marriage vows
My Gospel doth express,

To free them all; and now I call
No woman married here,

That goes a whoring from her Lord,
Or husband to appear;
And just the same I say

If he a whoring go

of man,

He cannot say the wife is tied,

Bound to an oath by law;

When he hath broke the words he spoke,

Where's then his marriage band?

I tell you plain I did ordain
To bring this to the land,
That every one may see their sins
They daily do commit,
Before my altars to repair

And break the oath they make.
Then by your law they're freed
And so they're freed by MINE.
And now I say no married men

you know,

E'er sought the heart was thine;
Because the word was broke, of God,
Her vows she'd broken there→→→
And let them tremble at my rod,
For I shall soon appear,

To tell them plain: ye sons of men,
Your sins the deepest dye,
Before my altar to appear

And then your oath deny.

You will not stand, nor give your hand,
As you did promise there:
The greatest harlots in the land

Are those so false do swear,

Then whoring go, you all shall know,

And still to claim the word,

That you are bound unto the law-
No: tremble at your God,
That will appear, I tell you here,
Consuming fire to be!

Such marriages I will never own

As was with Wills and she.
No: I will clear thy honour there;

He was no married man;

Though in his house thou could'st not bear

To hear him to condemn

His wife so great, full of deceit;

And thou in grief didst mourn; His words to hear thou could'st not bear,' And made thy heart to burn

In jealousy, 'twas known to ME,

And fear'd to tarry there. But it was I that lei thee on

The end of all to clear,

That thou mayest see the infamy

Of what should follow next.
When Sanderson in the house appear'd,

Thou sawest her heart was fixt

Upon the man, thou sawest it strong,

"And Wills he did abuse,

And all his ways he did condemn,

And bid her him refuse.

This thou didst see as well as ME,
And trembled all to hear:

But well I knew the heart of tace,
The anger thou didst fear

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That thou should'st make if thou didst speak,
To stop her every hand,
Forgetting that there was a God
Who did the whole discern.
So by thy folly thou didst stand
Silent the whole to see;

But here the mystery now command:
She cat the whole on thee;
Guilty there did then appear,
The innocent was cast,

And thou in trembling didst appear,
To see her fury burst;
Upon thy head it all was laid,
Her every guilt to free-

Oh England, now mark what is said,
This is the Type of thee!
Thou dost appear, I tell thee here,
So much like Wills's wife,
Thy infamy this way to clear,
And so bring on thy strife
Now against one, to ME is known,
From all adulteries free;

And yet the harlots do condemn,

Like Wills's wife they be.

But you may stop, your time's near up,
For I shall answer here;

The harlots every one shall drop

I'll not like Wills appear,

To own the brides are by my side,
That do a whoring go.

My Law and Gospel all 's denied,
And that they all shall know;
My Law is broke, my Gospel mock'd,
My Bible you deny;

Then how can you so boldly speak,
To say you're brides to ME?
I tell you No; you all shall know,
You're just like Wills's wife;
And just like he, you shepherds be,
This way you'd end the strife;
Like him appear, I tell you here,
For just like him you're come;
You do profess to love ME here,
And just like Wills you've done.
He did pretend to be thy friend,
And lov'd thy every name;
And then the harlot to defend,
He did my honour shame.
So just like he my shepherds be-

The harlots you support,

Though you pretend to love MY NAME,
You do my honour hurt.

Wednesday, July 25th. Joanna was told that the Day of Judgment was begun, for the Saints to judge the Earth and they must judge between men and Joanna; and between the devil and Joanna.

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fore her life is ordered to be in print.

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Continued, Wednesday, the 25th of July, 1804. "The Type is deep, Oh! shepherds weep,

Like Wills you're all become;

And from his love I now will prove,

Like Wills you all have done.

For I'll appear, I tell you here,

To place myself the VINE;

And she's the BRANCH I now shall clear,

To bring it to mankind.

His love to thee, let all men see,
For virtue it was plac'd;

From thy religion, he did say,

He wish'd for to embrace

So noble a mind, as he did find

Was plac'd in thee below;

And therefore wish'd thee to prove kind,

To let his folly go

Till it might run, to sin become,

But that prov'd Wills's end;

And by the harlot this was done;

And this was my intend,

To bring it round: the world might find,
The Type of Wills goes deep;

For just like he ten thousands be,

And so their end will break.
They do appear as Wills did there,
Profess to love MY NAME,

My virtues in their minds to bear,
And set their hearts in flame.
For I know some, like Wills, become
So great in love with ME;

And perfect true, I well do know,

Their perfect love to be;

Until I come, as thou didst then,

His rival to destroy;

And perfect so I now tell men,

You may your wives enjoy;

I'm come to cast, I'm come to burst

Upon your rival foe.

So thou to Sanders did appear,

Thy fury let them know;

When thou didst come to see the man,

That did in rage appear,

Thou told'st him of his every hand

In Wills's absence there."

• He is otherwise called Sanderson, which is his right name.

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Here I am ordered to pen what I told him in Wills's absence. Having seen the conduct of Sanderson, whilst he was in Wills's house, trying to set Mrs. Wills against her husband; and to seduce the wife and daughters to himself, at the same time Mr. Wills maintained him in a most extravagant manner. This was a thing that wounded my heart and conscience. I knew not how to act. I thought if I told Wills of it, that it would make him more wretched and miserable than he was before as he told me of many men his wife had been caught with in adultery; and Garrick told me of many more. This made me wish to get Sanderson out of the house, without letting Wills know his conduct towards his wife and his daughters; but as I was gone from Exeter to Musberry, which is twenty-five miles distant, and had sent private letters to her to no purpose; and to Sanderson also, that I should discover his conduct to Mr. Wills, if he did not leave the house; but all to no purpose. I then put myself to the expence of a journey to go from Musberry to Exeter. When I came to Wills's house, she was not up. I waited in the house some time, when she came down in fury, and said, "You impudent wench! what do you do here, before I am up? What hast thou told thy master? Thou hast told him all thou knowest; and thou wantest to cut my throat." I said, I had told him nothing;

and both Wills and his children assured her I had told them nothing. But Wills asked what it was, that he was not to know? They then said they would send for Sanderson, for him to punish me, which they did. When he came into the house he looked like fury, and swore by the eternal God, he would punish me. He had forgiven many; but me, he said, he would punish. He called the Three-one God to swear to those lies in one, which was that he had never touched me or kissed me in his life. I said, I had nothing to lay to his charge concerning my