manded him to go to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring forth the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt. As the Lord appeared in signs and wonders to Moses, in what manner he should deliver the children of Israel, by working of miracles before them, as he shewed him from the rod becoming a serpent, and by putting his hand in his bosom that became as a leper; and afterwards commanding him to put his hand the second time in his bosom, which was turned again like his other flesh. Here the Lord began to shew Moses the Shadow of Miracles, before he sent him to Pharaoh, that he might have assurance of faith to go unto him, and to know that the Lord had spoken to him. And when Moses came to Pharaoh and he refused to let the children of Israel go, saying, "Who is the Lord that I should obey his voice, to let Israel go? I know not the Lord, neither will I let Israel go." Then the Lord went on to work the miracles that he had spoken before, that he would work by the hands of Moses and Aaron. And when Pharaoh asked for a miracle, know, Aaron took the rod as he was commanded and cast it before Pharaoh, and it became a serpent; and when the magicians, by their enchantment, cast down their rods to become serpents, the rod of Aaron swallowed up their rods. Again, the Lord cammanded Moses to go unto Pharaoh and smite the waters of the river, that it should be turned into blood; and the waters were turned into blood, and the fishes died, and the rivers stank. Again, the Lord told them to go unto Pharaoh, and they should bring forth frogs; and the frogs came according to the words, and went into their houses. Again, the Lord commanded them to smite the dust of the land, and it should become lice over all Egypt, and it became lice thoughout all Egypt. And the enchantment of Pharaoh's magicians ceased; they could not bring the lice, as the others had done, therefore the

magicians said unto Pharaoh, "This is the finger of God;" but Pharaoh's heart was hardened. Then the Lord told them to go unto Pharoah, and the Lord would send swarms of flies upon him and his servants. And the Lord fulfilled his words, that there came swarms of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and all the land of Egypt was corrupted by reason of the flies. Now all the things that the Lord spoke unto Moses and Aaron, that he would do in the land of Egypt, he fulfilled in every word; he did not deceive them in one thing; but the Lord gave them power to wound, when Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and power to heal, when Pharaoh repented, and promised to let Israel go; but when he refused, 'and went from his word, the Lord threatened with other plagues, and sent them: he threatened the murrain in the land of Egypt, and upon the cattle; and the murrain came, and all the cattle of Egypt died; but of the cattle of the children of Israel died not one. So the Lord sent upon Egypt the sore boils, the pestilence, and the hail mingled with fire, to smite the herbs of the field, and the locusts, and slew all the first born of Egypt. So if we discern through Moses, there was not one thing that the Lord told Moses and Aaron, he would do by their hands, that he deceived them in; for when they came before Pharaoh with these threatened judgments, what the Lord would do if he was hardened, every one of these threatened judgments took place in the days and hours according to the words the Lord had spoken; he did not deceive them in point of times, and vary from his words, to say he would perform it another time; but the Lord performed it at his promised time. - And the same we may see of Elijah, when the Lord had promised to work miracles by his hand, to confound the prophets of Baal by building the Altars and laying the Bullocks thereon with wood, but to put no fire under, and Elijah said he would do the

same, and they should call upon the name of their gods, and Elijah said he would call upon the name of the Lord his God; and the God that answered by fire should be God: to which the people all agreed, and Baal's prophets cried unto their god till the time of the evening sacrifice; but no fire came to consume the wood or to dress the meat; but when Elijah called upon the Lord God of Heaven, in whom he trusted, then the fire fell from the Lord and consumed the sacrifice, the wood, and the stones, and dried up the water that was in the trenches. So here we see, when the Lord called his prophets to work miracles, to convince the people who was the God that they should serve, he did not deceive the prophets, but fulfilled the miracles he proposed, by them; and the same we may see again by the prophet Elijah, when he answered the messengers that were sent after him by the king of Samaria, because Elijah reproved him for sending to Baal-zebub the god of Ekron to enquire of his recovery; and Elijah said, because he had done it he should surely die; for which reason the king sent after him captains of fifties, to bring Elijah before him; but Elijah called fire from heaven to consume them. So if we discern through these prophets, whose calling was to work miracles, to convince those that worshipped strange gods, their miracles never failed; because the Lord proved by them that HE was the God of the whole earth, in whose hands was all power to save or to destroy; but the gods in whom they trusted were gods of no power. And now let us come to the Gospel. At the birth of Christ signs and wonders were seen by the wise men of the East; for the angels of the Lord came unto them, as they were watching their flocks by night, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them, and said, Behold I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be unto all people; for unto you is born this

day in the city ot David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. From the appearance of angels, and a multitude of the heavenly host praising God in the highest, saying, on earth peace, good will towards men, we must know that this was the Prince of Peace who was born for Salvation and Redemption, to bring in peace to mankind; and as touching of miracles, they are through the Gospel, that our Saviour never failed of working the miracles he proposed; and the power that he gave to his disciples, of working miracles after him, did not fail; so that the Lord never failed in his promises through the records of the Bible; where he promised the working of miracles he always fulfilled his word, by giving the power; neither did he fail in point of times. And no man can take upon himself to say he is a likeness of Moses, Elijah, or a representative of CHRIST, before he can perform all the miracles that they wrought, to prove the truth of what he asserts. Moses had the power of working miracles given him, to shew the power of a God to Pharaoh, whom Pharaoh said he did not know, neither would he obey. Therefore the Lord worked miracles by the hand of Moses, that he might know it was a God in power had ordered him to obey; and by Elijah the Lord worked miracles, to shew them plainly they had forsaken the God that had all Power in his hand, to worship Baal that had none; and so, by the working of miracles, the Lord proved himself to these people, that HE alone was the God in power whom they ought to worship and obey; and the same we may discern in Daniel: it was to convince the heathen kings that the Lord worked miracles to save the Jews in the fiery furnace, and Daniel from the den of lions; but when we come to the Gospel, we must discern, from the miracles our Saviour wrought, it was to convince mankind that HE was the Son of God, prophecied of by all the prophets,

that he should be born for our salvation, and be wounded for man's transgression, to come again in might, majesty, and glory, and bring in our redemption; and it is to him they must look from the ends of the earth, if they wish to be saved.

So here I have proved, from the Scriptures, how false are Mr. Brothers's assertions, that he hath published to the world, to say that the Lord varies from his promised time, and that the Scriptures verify it, which is out of his power to prove; because I have brought forward the Scriptures, to lay before them. who now join with him in casting the blame upon the Lord, as it is shocking to hear that some of his believers do to this day; for which reason I was ordered to bring forward the Scriptures, and prove the falseness of his assertion, that all might know it was not the Lord that had deceived him, but a wrong spirit, when he began to lift himself up, that he was more than man, and placed Scriptures to himself that did not belong to man. But here men maybegin to marvel, how any man could believe in him at first, hearing in what manner he had placed the Scriptures to himself; they may marvel, as I did when I read his books through. After his being freed from prison I marvelled at his believers; yet, at the same time, I saw many of his prophecies, that he foretold in 1791, and 1792, concerning the war, and many things that happened abroad came perfectly true; and I was truly convinced that he had some visitations from the Lord, or he could not have foretold the things he did; and it was from the truth that followed his words in the beginning which caused many to believe in him, thinking the other things that he had predicted might be fulfilled the same; and though the believers in him, whom I have been acquainted with, have all acknowledged that there were many things he placed to himself which appeared a stumbling-block to them, where