and the promises stand on record, which we are now taught by the Spirit of Truth, from my visitation, that it is at hand to be fulfilled.

And now I wish to come to reason with all mankind; and let them tell me, how this hath happened at such a time as this, when the six thousand years are so nearly expired, which our Saviour said, if the days were not shortened no flesh could be saved; but for the elect's sake they should be shortened: and now it is come so near to the end of the six thousand, that a woman should be visited and warned of what was coming upon the whole earth, before any shadow of its appearance was in this land; and at the same time she should be warned that the fulfilment of the Scriptures was now at hand, and the Promise made in the Fall to the Woman, should now be fulfilled, if she was obedient to every command of the LORD and pleaded that PROMISE. A mystery that never entered into the head or heart or thoughts of any one that ever I heard mentioned by any writers, whether learned or unlearned; whether the philosopher or the divine, I never heard the Promise mentioned, that it was to be to be pleaded, or fulfilled, before it was revealed to me by an invisible Spirit, which has hitherto been proved the Spirit of Truth by what has followed of the prophecies. And with it I wish to observe to the readers all the things that our Saviour spoke of, prior to his second Coming, of the wars and tumults, the distresses and perplexities of nations, the divisions in families one against the other, the false prophets, and false Christs that are now risen together, perfectly as our Saviour foretold. Then now I ask mankind, how all these things come together according to the Gospel, and such revelation come to a woman, that never entered the thoughts of any one before, of the way our Redemption would be brought in? But this we must mark from the Gospel, that our Saviour telleth us, the Spirit of Truth must come from the God of Truth and bring all things to our remembrance; and here,

are all things brought to our remembrance, from the Creation of the world to this day. And will men presumptuously say this is not the Comforter to mankind, to hear these evils of sin will be destroyed, and the Redemption of Man take place, by the promise which was made to the woman? But how can man, that is born of a woman, be freed from the fall, while the woman stands under the condemnation of the fall? Here let men call reason to their assistance, and thus judge for theirselves: The woman was taken from the bone of man, formed and fashioned from him;. when our dear Redeemer came into the world, HE was conceived in the womb of the Woman, and of her HE was born to be our Saviour and Redeemer. Then now let all men judge for theirselves, from what Womb of Providence our Redemption must take place, from the promise, as it was made in the fall to the Woman and her seed; but know this promise must be obtained by faith, according to the promise that was made to Abraham and Sarah : for it is by faith the promise was made to be obtained. Now those who condemn my faith, in believing my visitation to be from the Lord, let them answer, as to all those things spoken in the Scriptures, from the fall of man to the words of our Saviour, mentioned in his Gospel, of what should take place, when his Kingdom would be at hand-that we should lift up our heads; for our Redemption drew near. So let them answer, how these things stand together. The enmity that was said would be kindled between the woman and the serpent, between her seed and his seed, is now visible in the world, at the time when the other prophecies are fulfilling, that our Saviour told us brought in our Redemption, and the Kingdom of our God. This is brought together by wisdom, which no man upon earth could accomplish; neither was it in the power of man to foretel; therefore it is wisdom which no man can answer, how the first and the last should join so together: and this

charity I must have for mankind, to believe that, if the powers of darkness did not work strongly upon them, to harden their hearts, and to blind their eyes, every reasonable creature would rejoice to hear the news, that the time drew near, when they should be no longer tied and bound with the chain of their sins and which the members of the church every Sunday pray to the Lord to be loosed from: and by the Lord's Prayer they are repeatedly praying for the Lord's Kingdom to come: and yet, when they hear it is at hand, they are filled with malice, as though they prayed for what they did not wish, like Mr. Mayer, who is publishing to the world what he must profess not to believe; for if he believes what he is publishing to the world, that the Kingdom of Christ is at hand; that all the Scriptures will now be fulfilled, which speak of the coming of Christ; and that Buonaparte is the Beast mentioned in the Revelation, who hath power given him for a time, as he hath published to the world, that this is his belief; then he must acknowledge that my Visitation in 1792, was from the Spirit of Truth; because I was then foretold that the Kingdom of Christ was at hand, and that all these Scriptures would be fulfilled, which speak of his Coming, and the second Psalm to be fulfilled. All these things were foretold; as well as the events that have taken place upon all nations; and that the Beast in the Revelation alluded to Buonaparte; and the likeness of Sennacherib was foretold by me, before he had gone on, with the likeness of Sennacherib, to conquer the nations abroad. So he must deny his own belief of what he is publishing to the world, or he must confess I was visited by the Spirit of Truth from the beginning. Thus, one way or other, he must contradict himself, in saying I am led by the devil, who was a liar from the beginning: then he must be publishing lies to the world, if he makes this assertion; for if the Spirit that leads me be

wrong, his belief that the end is at hand must be wrong likewise; and he must be imposing upon the world with writings he doth not believe; but if he says he doth believe them; then he must contradict himself, to deny mine as coming from the God of Truth; because they go to a deeper and clearer explanation of the Scriptures than he by wisdom could find out, in what manner the Scriptures would be fulfilled. He concludes his letter with saying

Though I would not wish to encourage a spirit of persecution, for religious principles; yet, when I reflect on the mischief you have done to thousands, I cannot but lament that government had not investigated into your writings, and confined you long ago, with that great Prophet of the Lord, Mr. Brothers, as you once styled him: although I do not consider you to be deranged in your mind; but firmly believe you are under the strong influence of Satan, who has assumed to you the appearance of an angel of light. An Investigator of the Truth, Lewis Mayer."

(Signed,)

Coleman Street, Bunhill Row,

March 22, 1806.

Now I shall answer to his words. If he says I have done mischief to thousands, by warning them that the Kingdom of Christ is at hand, from a powerful visitation of a Spirit to me, and shewed what grounds I had for such a belief; how must he be doing mischief to thousands, when he hath no clear grounds, only from his own wisdom, which he boasts of, as being superior to mankind, saying, the Kingdom of Christ will be established by the destruction of Buonaparte? And I say it will be established by destroying the power of Satan, as is recorded in the Scriptures of Truth. Let men read the Bible and judge for theirselves, and then they will find that the Wisdom of Man is foolishness with God;

though the Wisdom of God is judged foolishness by men, who boast of their own wisdom.

But now I shall come to an observation on the wisdom of man, concerning Mr. Brothers, whom Mr. Mayer says I once styled as a great prophet; but I never styled him any greater prophet than the prophet Jonah, whom our Saviour said should be the Sign of his Coming. Here I shall observe that, from many of his prophecies, it is plain he was visited like the prophet Jonah, to warn of the wars that would ensue; but his errors came in ascribing to himself Scriptures, which never alluded to man and yet we may discern from the folly of mankind that wrote against him, that they shewed their errors as great as his; as they condemn the Bible more than they condemned him.

On the 22nd of May, 1806, a book was brought to me, of men who had written against Mr. Brothers, wherein I may say, as the Jew said to an Arian, who would have persuaded him to believe in the Gospel of Christ, though he said he did not believe in the miraculous conception of our Saviour's birth, neither did he believe him the Son of God; in this manner he wrote to the Jew, to bring him to the Gospel; and I must own that the Jew wisely answered him thus:-" Judge my surprise on reading your letter, wherein you persuade me to turn to the Gospel; but say yourself you cannot receive him as the Son of God; then I can by no means receive him as a Prophet." This I read in a book myself, that was sent to me by the Jews; and I own the Jew's answer was wiser than the Arian's: for if we do not believe Christ to be the Son of God, foretold by all the prophets, and the true witnesses who gave their testimony of him in the Gospel, as being the Son of God, we cannot believe in him at all. Now like the surprise of the Jew, I may say mine is, of a Free Thinker, as he styles himself, who wrote against Mr. Brothers; and in his writings

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