our time? Know what I said in my Gospel-the devil was a liar from the beginning; because it was with lies he betrayed; and this they will all find in the end, that it was the devil that spoke in the serpent, to betray the woman; and then worked upon Cain to destroy his brother; because he was at enmity against God, and worked enmity in Cain against his brother, that feared the Lord; and so he hath went on to this day.. But let men consider, though Satan's reign hath been long, to prove my justice in the end, to cast him out of heaven, and cut off his power in the end; yet men who sought my favour and obeyed my commands had not long in this life to bear with his temptations, nor the persecution that sin hath caused; but those that were hardened, and joined with their master, let them not lament that they must suffer with him. Now come to his other observations." Hann says in his book," Joanna and the "sealed are to chain down Satan, when the millennium commences." He likewise brings forward the words of the Spirit" I am in the woman's form." From this he says, "Christ has changed his sex, and "is made a woman.' I shall here insert the passage he hath drawn this judgment from. "But all shall see the mystery: The WOMAN here I'm made, That Heirs of God you all may be Oh men, be not misled! When first I came it was as MAN, And of a WOMAN born; But as the sword went through her soul, I NOW AM IN HER FORM, For to fulfil my Father's will, And make your bliss complete; I am the HELPMATE HE did mean- THE ANSWER OF THE SPIRIT. "Now I will shew thee the folly that is in mankind, where they give themselves up to Satan's will and working; by him they are led away captive and blinded, that, in seeing, they cannot see, and, in hearing, they cannot understand; therefore, as I said by the prophet, they stumble at the noon-day sun; so at the noon-day sun he is stumbling here. For now I ask thee, where is the man, that can explain the words which he hath mentioned? Doth he not say, that thou and the sealed people are to chain down Satan? This is the judgment he hath drawn from thy writings, and the manner that he hath understood them. Now, from his judgment, the whole power must be in thee and the sealed people, to accomplish this great work, which he hath said of man's redemption; then now, from a judgment like this, what need of my power, or my visitation, or my saying I was made the helpmate to accomplish the whole, if he gives the power to thee and the sealed? A power thou hadst never a thought of; but a power I have told thee that I shall do for them in the end; therefore I said it was my power, not thine, that must be the helpmate in the end, to fulfil the promise made in the fall. But had I not spoken in that manner, then, I tell thee, as weak and as foolish a judgment, as Hann hath drawn, might be drawn by the sons of men; but when I have told them it was ME and not thee, they can ascribe no power to thee; and therefore out of his own mouth is he now condemned. How will he answer, to prove the thing is to be done by thee, when he hath brought forward my words and my saying, that it is to be done by ME? Now, if he cannot understand the meaning of words, that are so plain before him, he can never under stand the meaning of the scriptures. Now come to the scriptures: 1 Corinthians, vi chap. "Know ye not, that your bodies are the members of Christ? Know ye not, that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's." Ezekiel iii. iv. chapters. "Where is the man who can answer, in a temporal sense, how my body can be divided, and placed into so many members? Yet, in a spiritual sense, all are members of Christ, that are in Christ; now perfectly so is my saying, I am made the WOMAN, and come in her form: not in a temporal sense am I EITHER, but in a spiritual sense I am BOTH. In the Spirit I have visited thee, and in the Spirit I have spoken within thee; and I now tell thee, it was my Spirit speaking so powerfully at Bristol in thee; it was I that gave strength within thee, when thou feltest power and strength beyond thyself: but where was thy strength when my Spirit left thee? In thy heart thou answerest, none. Then now I ask, where is thy accuser, that can prove my sex was altered, by my visiting thee in the Spirit? My Spirit is one, my power is one, whether it be to a man or a woman; but the reasons I have told thee of the end, why all my powerful visitation shall be in the WOMAN, to make known my coming in glory, that no man may be placed as the MESSIAH, for the redemption of man; and, as the promise was made to the WOMAN, in the WOMAN it must be pleaded. But however great is the folly of this man, and however foolish is his discernment, I have brought it to the scriptures, to confound such reasoning in others; for in like manner is the reasoning of the atheists: all that is spiritual is made temporal by them; for which reason the scriptures are turned to ridicule; therefore I directed thy hand to scriptures where the mockery of man is great, and where no man can understand the meaning, why it should be said to a prophet, "Eat the roll, and go and speak to the house of Israel."-"Of what use," say they, "could eating a roll be to a man? or what knowledge could he derive from that?" Here are reasonings strong in men, to mock the prophets, without having any knowledge of my ways, or my decrees, that, by my commanding him to eat the roll signified, that my Spirit should be within him, my words should be within him, my directions should be within him, when I sent him to the rebellious house of Israel, to warn them to repent, or I should destroy them. And all the signs I set by the prophet, were signs to the house of Israel, what should befal them hereafter." Son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem, and lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mountain against it." Here were types and shadows, that I commanded the prophet to set signs to the Jews, to shew them plainly what should follow them and their city, if they went on hardened and were rebellious: and let men discern, how they went on rebellious, and what followed them: and now let them look to the present time, and discern the standard in the Jews, that however greatly men mock the scriptures, and do not believe, in the days that are past, that things happened as recorded therein,— of the miracles I wrought in Egypt, and all the miracles I wrought by the prophets; yet, now let them look to the Jews, and discern the prophet's words, how the siege was laid against them, and what mountains were cast against them, that they have never yet had power to surmount and get over. Let them discern, how the siege was laid with - trifling things, by the prophet, of an iron pan,-"And set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city; and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it: this shall be a sign to the house of Israel." Now, as men mock my ways and my directions to the prophet, in dealing with men after the manner of men, and setting signs according to the wisdom of men, to place them plain before them; let these despisers and mockers look and wonder, how these signs, that were set by the prophet are now made manifest, and fulfilled in the Jews: and let them answer, what words, or what signs could be set plainer before them, to compare the likeness together, how they were besieged by their enemies, as strong as the strength of iron, that when made strong no man can break; and a mountain cast so high, that they could never get over. But, as the prophet, for types and shadows, was ordered to bear the iniquity of the house of Israel and of Judah, so was the iniquity and transgression of men cast upon ME, when I gave up my life for their transgression. So, what was done as a type and shadow, in the prophet, was afterwards fulfilled in ME, when I suffered, the just for the unjust; and died, the innocent for the guilty. Now, perfectly as I was made the PROPHET, to suffer the whole, to bear the iniquity and transgression of man, that by my stripes they may be healed in the end, perfectly so I must be made the WOMAN, to avenge you of the adversary, that betrayed in the beginning. And men may as well say, that I was the PROPHET EZEKIEL, as to say, that I am the WOMAN. All are but types and shadows. And let men answer, where is the woman, that hath strength and power to destroy her adversary? Where is the man, or where is the woman, that had a knowledge of the promise, how it was made, or how it would be fulfilled? 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