Fir ding only an old woman in the house, they asked her what was beco e of the men. She said she could not tell. They then took their horses and rode away to a town, and gave information to a magistrate of what had happened; and they proceeded with soldiers to the house; and finding many dead bodies in it, confirmed the truth of the information. They levelled the house down to the ground, and thus put an end to the infamous practices that had been carried on in that house; the men were afterwards taken and hanged.

Now from this divine interference, men's reasoning might argue, if the angels of the Lord are sent as ministering spirits, and that one acted as an inward guide to him, to direct him, why had not this spiritual guide given him the same warning, not to stop at that house, as the temporal guide had advised him, and then he would not have been exposed to that danger and scene of sorrow that he passed through the night? This may be the reasoning of men, before they discern the wisdom of the Lord, to permit them to fall into the danger, to have the villainy brought to light. Had he went on according to the persuasions of the man, and not have stopped at this inn, he could not have found out the murder; and others that had no inward guide to direct them might have been murdered like the former; as the readers must observe, it was not their barely escaping from the inn that saved their lives; for this others might have done as well as them; tried to escape when they found they were in danger; but they must discern, had he not had an inward guide, to warn them not to go over the bridge, but to go down by the side of the river, and pass through the water, which broke off the scent from the dog, they must have been taken, as the dog would have followed them the way he began. So, by the Lord's permitting him to go into the house, it shews the wondrous working of the Lord, in what manner he directs to bring evil to light, when men's

sins are fully ripe for destruction; and therefore we see the wisdom of the Lord is not according to the wisdom of man; because the wisdom of man persuaded them not to go into the house, as it was a house of ill fame. And here we may see there was a simplicity in them to go into that house, after the caution was given them; and yet we see the Lord worked in their hearts to go in, and worked their marvellous deliverance, to shew mankind there is a day of vengeance, that will overtake such hardened and wicked sinners. But here we may see the strength of faith in the man, the following day to return back to the house; this plainly sheweth us, where the Lord is the guide, he gives power, strength, and faith, with his words, to bring light out of darkness, and good out of evil; and so, to bring their dark designs to light, the Lord permitted the darkness in their minds, not to listen to the guide that give them the caution; and yet he soon gave a light to them how to deliver them by his wisdom; and so good came out of the evil that they fell into, and put a stop to the practice of the murderers, and brought on them the punishment they deserved. In this we may clearly discern how the Lord, in this present age, permits them that have a knowledge of him to fall into dangers, to bring dan→ gerous designs to light; and so we have nothing to marvel, that those who follow the Lord for their guide should be permitted to fall into dangers, to bring these evil deeds to light. These observations I am making in answer to the reasonings of men, as some marvel that the believers in my visitation should be permitted to fall into the hands of these iner, without considering it was only men whose strength of faith was like the quakers I have before mentioned, that would follow the directions of the Lord, regarding not their own honour to cover it over, that it might not be known they had applied to these moneylenders, as the false honour of others hath done; and by so doing have strengthened their hands to

go on; and as it was not brought to light by them the Lord permitted men to fall into the danger that would reveal it to the world, in obedience to his commands. And now I ask, where is the christian, amongst all the boasters of religion, who would have run the hazard of his honour and property, for the glory of God and the good of mankind, as these have done? For it is for the glory of God, to shew such men as Mr. King, who judges the Lord does not concern himself about the evil deeds that are doneby man; because he hath so long went on unpu nished, he thinks the Lord hath not discerned the evil practice he hath lived in ; but now the Lord by his wisdom permitted men that would obey his commands to fall into the dangers, as he permitted the quakers to go into the house where the murder was, that it might be discovered.

And now I shall come to the Scriptures. We find in the 3rd chapter of Daniel, how the Lord permitted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, to be cast into the burning fiery furnace, to convince a heathen king there was a God who governed all things in the heavens, whom he ought to worship, instead of the golden image that he had set up; and we may discern from the 2nd chapter, how the king had made a decree to destroy all the wise men of Babylon, because they could not shew him his dream, and the interpretation thereof; and we see from the prophet Daniel, that it was him who saved the lives of the wise men of Babylon, by his telling the king his dream, and the interpretat on thereof;, and then in the 3rd chapter we see the ungrateful return in the Chaldeans, whose lives Daniel bad saved: these Chaldeans came and accused the Jews to have them cast into the fiery furnace, and provoked the king to anger, to have the furnace heated more hot than it was wont to be heated; and the furnace being exceeding hot the flames of the fire slew those men that cast them in. Now here from the Scriptures

we may discern how ingratitude met with its just reward and punishment; now the like ingratitude. I clearly saw in the beginning was in Mr. King, and those joined with him, when it was laid before me the great usury Mr. King had taken of Mr.. Wil-son for discounting his bills, as from the loss he and his partners sustained by fire, they wanted to have their bills discounted; and from the advertisementMr. Wilson, with the consent of his partners, applied to Mr. John King to discount their bills, but could not get the money advanced under the enormous sum of falter cent. per month, and one per cent. for Mris's commission; and as he wrote

me in his letter that he had discounted some thousands for Mr. Wilson, I leave the reader to judge. what have been his gains from them. When I heard this and found the usury they required on the other bills, and put them to the expense of three arrests upon one bill, when one arrest would have been. sufficient, and two arrests on every other bill, as they became due, I said they were like the Chaldeans who heated the furnace seven times more than it was wont to be heated, and had the flames turned back upon their own heads; perfectly so I told my friends, though they were cast into this furnace of affliction, like the children of Israel by the Chaldeans, who judged, like Mr. King, that there was no divine interference ; yet they would find divine interference, to turn back the flames on those that cast them in, as it was turned back upon the Chaldeans. So, from the Scriptures and from Parables, I told my friend what would be the end; and now if men clearly discern, they must see the truth before them; but the end is not yet with Mr. King; for though he thinks he hath missed the flames, by their being compelled to pay the bills he swindled Mr. Sharp out of; yet he will surely find that the hand of divine vengeance bangs over his head.

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And now I shall make a remark on his swearing by the Prophets and not the Gospel. In the newspapers, Thursday, June 25, are the following words:

Mr John King being called for the plaintiff, underwent a long examination. Having been sworn upon the Old Testament, Mr. Garrow put to him several interrogatories as to his profession of religion. The witness acknowledged that fifteen years ago he had taken the oath upon the Gospels; but now he was a Jew, and performed this solemnity according to the Mosaic creed, although he not observe all the ceremonies of the modern Isracow He added, that he was no Deist; and taking h, whether on the Old or New Testament, with the appeal of "So help me God," he deemed to be as obligatory upon him as any other form in which the ceremony could be complied with.

Here from his oath I shall first observe, that he mocks the religion of our nation, for believing in the Gospel, that Christ was the Messiah spoken of by the prophets, whom David mentions in the Second Psalm, and through the Psalms, and whom the prophet Isaiah in the 53rd chapter prophesied of. This is as much mocked by him, as the believers in my visitation were mocked in the court, for believing the Lord would visit by his Spirit, as he had visited in ages past, when he visited the prophets of old. But as Mr. John King denieth the Gospel, and acknowledges the Prophets, from the Prophets I shall condemn him. In the 3rd chapter of Amos the prophet speaks in these words: "Surely the Lord God will do nothing but he revealeth his secrets unto his servants the prophets. The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord God hath spoken, who can but prophesy?" Now, from the words of the prophets, we are assured that no extraordinary event will take place upon the earth but the Lord will revcal it unto his servants, whether man or woman; as