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this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son.

10. He that believeth on the Son of God, hath the witness in himself; he that believeth not God, hath made him a liar: because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.

11. And this is the record, That God hath given to us eternal life: and this life is in his Soa.

12. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.

13. These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

Psalm ii. ver. 7. I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, thou art my son; this day have I begotten thee.

8. Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thize nheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.

9. Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. 10. Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.

11. Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

12. Kiss the son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put th. ir trust in him.

Isaiah, chap. x. ver. 1. Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.

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Isaiah, chap. Ixi. ver. 1. The Spirit of the Lord God upon me because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings to the meek.

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2. To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn."

THE ANSWER OF THE SPIRIT.

Now mark these Scriptures; see in what manner they are spoken; and judge for yourselves how they are to be fulfilled. Therefore, Therefore, I told thee in the beginning, they must mark how the things came first to thee, and how they followed one thing after another, or no man can be a clear judge. Let a man see thee full of the fury of the Lord, and know nothing before or after, then he might judge that thou wert mad, or had a devil; it was not the words could convince them that they were spoken from the Lord in fury. Let them see thee in thy sick bed, ready to die with sickness when thou receivedst Pomeroy's answer, that thou wert a liar, and out of thy senses; would they not judge that the judgments of God was upon thee, and the judgments of men were true? And hadst thou died in that sickness, would not men have said it was a judgment from heaven upon thee, to. cut thee off from troubling the man, that thou mightest never trouble him more? Had a stranger been in the room that knew nothing of thee from the beginning, and knew nothing of the types and shadows I had placed in thee before, but seen thee like one mad, when the answer came, and as one dying the following day; would they not sooner have said the devil was working in thee for revenge, while the hand of the Lord was cutting thee off, than have believed how thy sickness was to shew how sick the Lord was of such ministers, and thou must warn him again if ever the Lord raised thee from a sick bed. Let this appear to an unbelieving world, and ask them which judgment they would draw? Would they A 2 not have said, as the people said of Paul, when they saw the viper on his hand; that he was a murderer,

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or had done some black crime before the viper was shook from his hand, when they changed their minds? Just so would the world judge of thee, if they had seen thee in all the appearance of death, sickness, and agonies, which thou couldest not bear; and at the same time to tell them the Lord would never remove his afflicting hand from thee, before thou hadst published to the world the cruelty, the ingratitude, and the unjust dealings of the clergy; and then he would take thy sufferings from thee, and lay it on the clergy. Now let the ministers answer for themselves, if they had been in thy room attending thee, as my handmaids were, whether they would not have persuaded thee, that a wrong spirit visited thee, and that the hand of God was heavy upon thee, and that he would soon take thee out of the world? Therefore, instead of writing against the ministers, thy duty was to forget and forgive all the injuries that were done to thee; and thou oughtest to try to make thy peace with God, that he might pardon all thy sins; and if thou didst not forgive thy enemies, the Lord would never forgive thee: and conscience must condemn them. Just so would have been their mistaken zeal, which the devil, as an angel of light, would have worked strong in their hearts to do, and so havè kept thee a martyr in sufferings; and the greater they saw thy sufferings increase, the greater they would have thought the judgments of God upon thee; therefore, under a false and mistaken notion of religion, they would have been thy murderers; for the words. were gone out of MY MOUTH, that I would never restore thee to health, before thou hadst published the unjust dealings of the clergy. So the wisdom of men would have tried to make their God the liar! And now I shall come to my Bible, concerning the Second Psalm: "Ask and receive thy full demands, and I will give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession: Thou shalt break them with a rod of

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iron, and dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.” Now let them tell me, who is my Son? or to whom that promise was made? Or whom that Spirit of the Lord was to be upon, to bind up the brokenhearted; to proclaim liberty to the captive, and the opening of the prisons to them that are bound; to proclaim the acceptable YEAR OF THE LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn? When was this done is my demand of the shepherds? Will you answer, when I came in the flesh? When the priests, judges, and rulers put me to death, were the mourners then comforted? Were the broken-hearted then healed? Will you dare to say the vengeance of God was then upon ME? For 1 tell you, it is I AM THE SPIRIT that am speaking now through the Woman. You hear her voice, but I am the Spirit that was crucified for man in the body, but am now come again in the SPIRIT, to fulfil the TRUTH OF MY GOSPEL, and what was promised in the beginning. And he that bel eveth not in MY GOSPEL, nor in the Promise God made in the Son, hath made God a liar, because he believes not the record God gave of his Son: and this is the record, God gave to us ETERNAL LIFE, and this LIFE is in HIS SON. Then now bring forward your arguments, and prove that Eternal Life is come to man— prove the record God gave of his Son,-prove the promise that HE made in the beginning-and tell ME, whose heel was to be bru sed, and whose head was to be broken? In whom and by whom was this to be done? Now I shall come to my Gospel. What did I say of the Shepherds? Did I not say they were dumb dogs, that could not bark? Did I not say they were blind leaders of the blind, and all would fall into the ditch together? Did I not say they were hirelings, that cared not for the sheep, because they were hirelings? But I was the GOOD SHEPHERD, that careth for MY sheep.-Now see what this Woman has published to the world against

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the shepherds; and let every cause be fairly tried.They must stand guilty before GOD and Man, and say, we are hirelings, we care not for the sheep; if they fell by thousands on the right hand, or tens of thousands on the left, we cared not. We care not what become, of the sheep." This their conduct has proved by the manner they turned back the letters: it was to try them, that I ordered the letters to be sent out; and to try them again I ordered the other letters-that men might find no excuse for themselves, only guilty

And guilty all they now shall fall,
As Adam fell at first.

But where's the Woman they can call,--
To say their guilt did burst

From her weak hand; can they now stand
To plead before MY BAR,

"It was the Woman us betray'd ?"

No man I'll answer here.

You cannot free your infamy,
To cast it on her head;

For by her hand you will not stand,
Then what have you to plead ?
No Adams here can you appear,
For ME to free your fall.

And from the Psalin I'll answer here,
I now do tell you all,

I had design'd assuredly

As GODS to make you here,

Priests and Prophets for to be,

And join'd you Sons and Heirs.
For Heirs of God, you know 'tis said,
That men I'd surely make;

Joint Heirs with ME, my Bible see,

My words I'll ne'er forsake,

Because that some this way are come,
As Adam came at first:

"We took it from the Woman's haud,.
"That told us came from CHRIST;
"And so from He, the words we see
"In likeness do appear.

It is our Saviour we've obe 'd,
"From all our judgment here."
Then surely I that dwells on high,
Must free thein of the Fall;
My words I never will deny,
But now I'll conquer hell,
My Father's will for to fulfil '
In all Ill now go through;