(95) One of the two he now must do- Confess in sin his life has been, "And if I live can I retrieve My honour that is lost? "And this she told me of before, "When I did proudly boast "My heart I know would never go "To act in things so wrong: She said my heart I could not trust; "And true her words are come. "Had I relied on all she said, "This guilt I should not bear; "She told me for to be afraid, "For Satan's arts were near "Ah, wretched man am I now come!" I sav, of all, now judge the call- That bold with ME will stand.- Your vice to shun, to ME to come, Then you shall know before 'tis long To say you hate the course of sin, To free you all from Adam's Fall, A light no man can see, That sparkles bright before your sight, And shepherds hearts grew cold, When in the dark they miss'd the mark Of this high calling great— "We little thought so simple a spark To make it shine in words divine, Then they will see, as well as thee, With garments red all stain'd in blood, My blood to crave, mankind to save, This is the way to man, I say, For so the end must burst. To cast on Satan's head A guilt that he from him did free, And on the Woman laid; And ME to blame, and ME to shame, He equally cast it there? Then how can man to Satan come, Against him to appear? No, no, I say to thee this day, And so his curse must come. ( 97 ) Ah! simple men, for to contend "Tis with the WOMEN you must join, Without a WOMAN, you see clear, Her promise for to plead; Made at the first, it now must burst, As I have said before. So by her hand you all must stand, So I'll end here and say no more; And tell him he hath nought to fear Thursday Morning, August 2d, 1804. Joanna awaked very faint in the morning, being hurried with a dream in the night. She dreamt she was upon a hedge, and in going down, her foot slipped and she fell along in the lane, and the water-floods were running down the lane, and ran very fast over her. She groaned in her sleep; and thought the water ran over her; that she creeped through the lane upon her hands and knees, and thought she should have been drowned before she got out of the lane. Many other troubles and dreams she had in the night. One was, she thought Mr. Channon, that is dead, was living, and intreated her to marry him, which she refused; another man intreated her the same, and she refused them both. After she got up she was so faint that she thought she should be forced to go to bed again, but was a little refreshed by drinking a drop of wine. "Now, Joanna, I shall answer thy dream. Some things that are given thee are hastily to be fulfilled, and some things are for times and seasons. But now N I tell thee, the water-floods are coming upon thee.But thou hast forgot to mention thou heardest a man this morning intreating thee to be let in, as though he was under thy window. And now thou feelest thyself faint and dying, as though thou couldest not stand the day; the second day of thy rising is worse than the first; because My Spirit arose with thee the first day, to strengthen and comfort thee; but now I have left thee to the weakness of thy own nature; and see what thou art in thy own self. But this is to shew thee the shadow of what the substance will be; when I raise thee to take thy Trial, MY Spirit shall arise with thee, to strengthen and comfort thee; but as soon as I leave thee to thyself, thou wilt not be able to stand the day. Therefore I ordered thee to rise three days to shew the types and shadows of what is to come; and without MY Spirit to strengthen and support thee, it is impossible for thee to go through thy Trial Because the floods of man will now come on, For I shall swell the tide, And over thee the floods will run, The truth I will not hide; What's coming on will soon be known: In malice some will burn,'" And others' conscience be awak'd, To make their hearts to inourn., With jealousy and misery Some will be compass'd round; The bullocks men will see, Το echo back their every sound, In different voices be. But how can men dare to contend In sin to swell to burn in hell? For there my mind is bent, That Wills's wife shall ever dwell If she doth not repent. The crimes that's here there's none can clear (99) And let her husband to appear, And he must own 'tis so, Then surely he as well as she, Must hasty now repent: But i do tell you, just like thee, His heart will soon grow faint"My sins appear against me here, "My conscience doth condemn, "And how my guilt shall I now clear?” May be the cry of him. But will they say another way? "Our father shan't repent; "We now will try to harden he, "He never may relent; "But still go on in futy strong, "As he did at the first, "False witness now in him shall come"- That now is hastening on: The water-foods may come to thee, But call to mind how thou didst find In wedlock strong to join with them, If I'd not hold thee by the hand, So I'll appear thy husband here, That every soul shall see. I'll wound the heart, I'll strike the dart So do not fear thy danger here, Though fast the floods may go, I say, to run much like a stream, And thou-mavest fear the dangers near, The water-floods that are so near They never shall thee burt; If thou'st fall down to hear the sound, As thou didst fall this day, |