worked by instruments, and the instruments he had worked by, the Lord would cut off as the branches; therefore, she feared for all that did not now stand firm to their faith--and then the Lord would cut off the devil as the root. She complained of being very faint, and said she was ordered to call for beer instead of wine, as the six days were over She kept lamenting to Townley how many wavered in their faith, and when she had emptied her glass, she cried out with hasty words, "The Lord would break all those, who went from their faith in pieces, like this glass." With these words, she flung away the rummer, and it was dashed into shivers, and some of it almost as small as if it had been pounded. Townley was then standing close to the bed-side, and though looking at her, it went with such swiftness, that she July 15 did not perceive it till the noise alarmed her. When 1804 Miss Taylor came from church, she was astonished

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at seeing the glass broke into such small pieces. Joanna then asked for another rummer to shew Miss Taylor how she did it; and without any design of breaking it, she suddenly felt her arm lifted with fury, and flung it like the former, and broke the last much nearer the foot. On Monday morning en she received a letter from Exeter, which informed her she would have Mr. Jones's answer about Mr. Pomeroy in the evening and her fears for him flung her into a violent agitation; every nerve in her shook, and she felt sick, as though she would have fainted away. She could not keep in ber bed, but laid herself on the floor in agonies, and said she knew not whether to pity or condemn him; but at last got up in a rage against the devil, and said her revenge. would be sweet, to see the devil chained down, and she should like, with a sharp sword, to cut him in pieces. She then got into bed, exclaiming against the clergy, and asked for a glass of wine; but she brought it up immediately. Soon after the bason was set upon the bed, she took it up and dashed it

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violently across the room, and broke it to pieces. After that she had some lamb brought up for her dinner; she tried to swallow a mouthful, but could not, but spit it into another bason; and said "she could neither swallow the wine nor the lamb, but found the fury of the Lord break in upon her." and she dashed the second bason on the floor. She then said, "she felt herself happier and easier since she had broke both the basons; for so would the Lord, in his anger, break the clergy." In the evening she received the letter from Mr. Jones, informing her that Mr. Pomeroy would not listen to him, but called Joanna a liar, and said she was deranged, and was as mad as a March hare; and that he had burnt the stuff she put into his hands, and would not hear Mr. Jones. When this letter was read to Joanna, the fury of the Lord broke in immediately, and lasted upon her near an hour, exclaiming, that as her fury was against Pomeroy, so would the Lord's anger and fury burn against him and the clergy. She had a miserable, restless night. This morning she waked very sick and ill, and could not take any thing; but had such dreadful reachings and convulsions in her stomach, that she thought every hour would be her last, and that it was impossible for her to live through the day in such agonics; but was answered, her sickness was not unto' death but as sick as she was, the Lord was as sick of the clergy; and HE would not remove her sickness till she had promised to make the conduct of the clergy and Pomeroy public to the world, and till her Brother had written to Pomeroy; then her sickness should be removed. About one o'clock she called for some wine, but her sickness returned; and in the midst of it she cried out, "Their feast days, I hate them, and will not smell in their solemn assemblies-take away from me the noise of their mu sie, for I will not hear the melody of their voice

for as sick as Joanna was of the wine she had drank and brought up, so sick is the Lord of the clergy's taking the Sacrament in memory of him, when they are crucifying him daily." This sickness continued all the day, and about eight o'clock she was taken with a violent shivering, which alarmed us all. We covered her up as warm as we could, and sent for some warm mulled wine. She looked on the floor, and said she saw a Vision, and the most beautiful one she had ever seen. She first told us, she saw a circle of fire before her eyes, and then said the fire seemed to extend with large rims as of gold, and candles burning in the midst, and placed along the side of the wall; and one large candle appeared at the door, which burnt with sparkling light. The beauty of it, she says, is impossible to describe. After seeing this Vision, she had another shivering fit, which alarmed both her and us. She then took a little mulled wine, which threw her into a yiolent perspiration and took away her pain. We sat wiping the perspiration off her face, which continued almost the whole night. About eleven o'clock Townley thought she fell asleep, and was afraid of moving about the room, lest she should awake her; at last Joanna spoke, and told Townley she had not been asleep, but felt perfectly happy and comfortable, and had been communing with. the Spirit. At twelve o'clock the watchman sprang his rattle under our window, and heard the firebell. The watchman said, the fire was towards Milk-street. Underwood looked out at the back window, and saw a fire, which appeared at some distance from us. We then heard the alarm drum,. that beat for a considerable time. This morning, Wednesday, July 18, upon enquiry, we find the fire was in St. Philip's, and had broke out in a building for distilling turpentine for the spirits; and the fire was owing to a flaw in the still. This is. the account we have heard of the fire.

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THE ANSWER OF THE SPIRIT.

Then now I'll answer allEvery shadow weigh together,

And discern from whence the call.
The Vision first to thee was plac'd,
Where the bright Sun was seen,
Like the bright fire encircled round,
Appear'd to thee within;

But clouds around to thee were found,
And clouds thou there didst see,
That then did press thee to thy bed,
And so 'tis known to ME,

In grief thou'rt press'd, the clouds do burst,
The outer rini appears;

And so into thy bed thou'rt cast,
With every suffering here-
That is for man-it will come on,
Their sorrow they will see.
The sickness that in thee did come
Is a shadow deep of ME,
That I am come, it must be known,

So sick of all mankind,

That now my Bible do disown,

The Woman ne'er will find,

Cloth'd with the Sun to have her come

My Shepherds do deny;
Therefore, I shall them all unthrone,
My fury soon shall fly;

Because within the Sun was seen

Like fire for to appear:

Thou'st felt the shadow of thy dream
To have the clouds appear;
And thou should'st die was then thy cry,
Thy sickness so was fix'd.

But know, within the SUN was seen,

Then so it now must burst;

The Fire to burn in thee must come
As it did then appear.

You've seen the shadow of the One,
But ne'er discern'd it here;
Though unto men the Vision came,
But they did ne'er discern

The clouds that over thee did hang,
To make the fire to burn.

So thou didst call in vain to all,
As in thy dream to be;

Thou feel'st the wonders there did fall,
And ask'd if they could see
The shadow first how it was plac'd?
Thou know'st, they answer'd no:
These miracles they could not trace,
Nor ne'er discern'd them so,

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That on thy bed thou must be laid,
A sufferer for mankind;
Because in thee they all must see
My sorrows I do find;
In Spirit here I do appear

Wounded and griev'd for man;
The agonies that are in thee,
They'll find in ME are strong.
With grief oppress'd my heart doth burst,
To see how men must fall;

I cannot screen them at the last,

If now they'll join with hell.
So I'll go on from what thou'st done
With Satan to dispute,

And then I'll send thee out to men

To make them all stand mute.

If they would come with thee to join,
And now my Bible see,

It must be in the WOMAN'S FORM
Your Conqueror I must be.

So I'll go on from man to man:
Unto the glass appear:

"Twas I that threw it from thy hand
In rage and fury there;

Because I knew how things would go,
The way they'd me provoke;
And then my fury they will know,
To bring on them the stroke.
The branches here that do appear
Enrag'd by Satan's hand,

They'll find from ME they all must flee,
And like the glass to stand,

That's broken there, they must appear,

For so I'll break them all,

The second time, you know my mind,
The second glass must fall.
For Satan here the same must share,
And feel his fall like man;

For the Creation now I'll clear,
And bring the Promis'd Land,

I say, to men that do begin
To wish My Kingdom near.
But for the glasses that were seen,
Let men and devils fear;
For I'll go on as thou'st began,

Until the whole I've broke..

Therefore to men, I'll tell them plain,
"Tis now too late to mock.
The basons next I now shall fix:

That Type goes deep for man;
Because that there thou didst appear
To have the wine to come;
For sick within thou didst begin;
And I am sick the same,