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End of the Seventh day Tuesday 19 June

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wished to spoil them. Then how can a King appear in such a War? Would not his Enemies dispise him, when he could shew no just cause for what he had done? Would not his Subjects be ready to forsake him, and say, that he had called them out to battle against an enemy which had not offended them? Where was their love and courage to fight for their King, whom they found all the Fault in, and saw none in the enemy they were going to war against, but their lives were slaughtered for nought? Judge the cause ye learned; open your eyes, ye prudent, and see that I cannot cast down your adversary, the devil, that is as a roaring Lion seeking whom he may devour. (But how could I keep him from his prey, before I had made the Partition Wall strong against him?)-Before I had proved My cause to be just; that I had said unto him, as unto the proud waves of the Sea, "hitherto shalt thou go, and no further." Then as a KING I can contain My honor. I sat bounds for man in the Creation, and thou Temptest man to break them. And now I have sat bounds for thee, the same. Now see the Creation stand before thee dead to knowledge, as had pronounced them. See the Woman I created for man's good stand before me in perfect obedience.-Tuesday 19, of June, kere ends the seventh day.

Joanna was now too weak, faint, and trembling to stay up longer. She could taste nothing for supper but a small piece of tart: her appetite is quite gone from tea, and she can drink nothing but camomile tea. She was often sick as death, on Tuesday; bringing up water. The Tuesday night she awoke at midnight, full of the strength of the power of the Lord, in her pleading all his

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sufferings for man, and all the mockery that he bore for man. Townley and Underwood slept in the next room. Underwood awoke; and heard Joanna very loud, talking and thumping the bed. She called Townley, and then went directly into her room, and Townley followed as quick as she could, and found her full of the spirit of the Lord: it continued till one o'clock, expressing the agonies which he bore for man, and the shameful reproach he had been treated with by man. The names they had called him, were then repeated by her; and so she said the mid-night hour would break for man, when HE came in fury to his enemiesin Love to his friends. The heavenly words flowed too fast to be penned, or to be recollected, all of them: but she said, "Tell My disciples, "the women visited me first; and here the women appear. Mary, do not weep; rejoice in "in the GoD of your salvation; enter into the joy of your LORD: I will call My Sons and "Daughters from afar; I will enlarge my borders: "I will strengthen my stakes; I will break out ་ upon the Right, and on the Left: ALL NA"TIONS shall drink the cup of My Fury."Repeating these words, she said, she felt full of. Power and Strength of the LORD. You my friends have nought to fear; but England, Oh! England how have you slighted my warnings? How have you despised my Invitations? How have you set at nought all my Counsels? But turn unto ME, and I will turn unto You. This is the shadow of the mid-night hour? for in that manner HE will break with power and fury upon His Enemies, and set all THEIR MOCKERY before them. Tremble, ye Jews" Mourn, ye Gentiles; for the

day of the LORD is at hand:-the day of the LORD is nigh at hand."

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"For so the midnight hour will burst for all,
And men and devils tremble at the call.
For, now, the mystery I'll explain to thee-
I brought then on the War for men to see:
And then I left thee at that very time,

And made the weak; and weak they all will find
The trembling Nations to before me stand;
When I du come to conquer Sea and Land:
I'll lay before them ALL that I did bear;
I'll make the Jews to tremble, and to fear;
For all their mock'ry I will then turn back,
And they shall know the way they all did mock:
Because my hand shall not be shorten'd then;
I'll conquer devils, and I'll plead with men:
For in the Vallies now I'll bring them low,
And weak as thee, the Nations all shall know
They shall in weakness, and in trembling stand';
But mark the Spirit-and thy strength command-
How full of Strength THAT HOUR thou didst appear,
No Men or devils, thou THAT TIME Coulds't fear :-
Then here's the warning to My Brethren dear,
That by the Woman I so bid them send,
To My Disciples to tell them in the end,
They'll find My Spirit so strong in them to burst-
For hell I'll conquer; and I have conquer'd First,
To build a Wall I told you for the war ;

I know the roaring Lion does appear

Against My Friends, that wish My Kingdom here-
Therefore THE WALL I made it BY THE SEAL

Against the devil, now for to prevail

Against his fury, I shall now go on:

Because My Wall he now is breaking down.
Then here's A WAR I tell you all IS JUST;

For I shall conquer as I told you first.

And now My Warriors let them to go on,
Tho' weak in nature, but they'll find ME strong→→
Strong to deliver I shall now appear,

And strong to conquer you shall find ME here.
And now my foes I'll make them to comply,

And they SHALL know the midnight hour draws nigh,
And now the mystery I shall here explain,
It is to bring the likeness of thy dreamn,

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That I did shew thee then in ninety-two;
When all the Evil Fruit before thy view,
I said 'twas fallen: black the veil within,
Then to thy view a room was surely seen
Where was a bed, and did thy GOD appear,
Who rose and told thee, He was waken'd there;
And thou didst stand His Answers for to hear.
Aud now, My Sisters, you the Likeness see,
How from the Bed My Spirit doth appear,
To warn you all, the Fruit is fallen here.
And now in ranks the goal Fruit they may stand;
'Tis but as trees things have been seen by man:
Because the mysteries you did ne'er discern,
The way or manner I to you did warn;
And all as water you have surely been,

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To think your God would ALWAYS thus contend
With Dust and Ashes, if they'd not comply
Unto thy words, I now will answer here,
I made thee ill, the every truth to clear;
That from the bed I do reveal My will,
And now the stubborn hearts of men I'll chill.
And now the cause in hand I'll surely take,
And all the fabric of the earth I'll shake:
And all the strong men I'll bring weak as thee,
And then their boasting let them for to see-
How by their conduct they insult their God;
Then now unto the Kings I shall allude—
Could I with Satan now in rage begin?
To kindle war with such vain, ignorant-men?
Then, like the King that I did name before,
I tell you all, I must come IN THIS WAR;
For men against Me surely now they're found,
Then how can Satan tremble at My sound
Without a friend My Honor to support?
I tell you plain you do My Honor hurt;
Weak as this woman they do now appear:
So weak are men in judgment, I see clear-
And no more strength have they now got to stand,
Than thou hast got to conquer sea and land,
Without My power for to carry thee through-
Thy trembling nature thou dost feel and know;
Because thy strength and appetite is gone,
And so I tell thee are the sons of men :—
Their strength of wisdom it shall all fall down,
As on the bed thou'rt now in weakness found:

And all their appetites shall go the same,
Unless the GOOD FRUIT do their hearts inflame-
And then, I say, I'll raise them up again.
If for the good fruit they do but complain;
And list'ning wait, "MY STILL VOICE FOR
TO HEAR,"

I'll give them strength, and raise them up once more:
Because I tell thee I shall raise thee up;—

Thou need'st not fear-thout't hear My voice and hope,
That greater wonders now I shall go through;-
And greater Mysteries bring before thy view.
And from thy Father I shall now appear;
'Tis but the Owls that did thee frighten here:
Because their fruit it surely now must fall,
'Twas but a shadow thou didst hear of hell."

The meaning of this is, when I was laid on the floor the seventh day, the horrors of satan came in upon me, and told me if I would not give up my confidence in CHRIST I should see the mid-night hour to burst upon me with his coming in with all his hellish Host, for he had got them at the door. I told him I knew the LORD would not let them come in with him. The devil upbraided me, and said, I was to dispute with him. I said yes, but not before two simple Women, and he was ever a coward; and a coward he wanted to appear. But I knew the Mercies of GOD would not let him appear; and so I got rid of him as before-mentioned. But this morning at nine o'clock I was just got into a Dose, I felt him come upon me almost to stifle me: but I thought to myself, if I must die in these agonies, I have done the Will of the LORD, and I feel a happy and peaceable Conscience. I began to pray that the LORD would deliver me, and I groaned aloud, and he left me, as Townley and Underwood entered my Room, which I was glad to see and I asked them why they did not

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