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One of the two he now must do-
A penitent become;

Confess in sin his life has been,
The virtuous to condemn;
Then let him say another way—
"The I'll condemn no more;
"No longer virtue I'll betray:
"I see she's happy here,
"While I in grief do seek relief,
"Know not which way to fly;
"My sins appear before me here,
"I tremble for to die!

"And if I live can I retrieve

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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!"
Let this be Wills's cry,
Before he feels his final doom---
The sentences are nigh,

I sav, of all, now judge the call-
The Judgment Day's at hand;
And happy now shall be for all

That bold with ME will stand.-
So I'll end here and say no more:
But bid him to repent.--
Unto my friends I'll now appear,
For there my mind is bent,
To turn to them that now will come
Like soldiers in the fight,
And all my armour now put on,
I'll make you men of might;
My soldiers here I'll surely clear,
My Blood's not shed in vain.
If crimson dye in you do lie,
I'll wash away the stain;
If scarlet here your sins appear,
I'll make them white as snow,
If for my honour you appear
To wound the deadly foe,
That did begin to tempt to sin-
Your lives look back to sce,
And if you say to ME this day
Much happier now you be,

Your vice to shun, to ME to come,
And wish MY KINGDOM here;

Then you shall know before 'tis long
Your joys shall bright appear:
No enemy shall conquer ye,
If you this way go on,

To say you hate the course of sin,
And long for ME to come

To free you all from Adam's Fall,
Then from his Fall I'll free.-
This is a vision for you all,

A light no man can see,

That sparkles bright before your sight,
Like diamonds to appear;
But when I bring the day to light,
With every truth appear,
Then you will say that very day,
"Such light we ne'er did see;
These all were mysteries hid from man,
But diamonds bright they be;
The pearl here doth now appear,
And the great prize is come;
Our Bibles all we now see clear,
What we could ne'er discern.
No day-light here could make it clear,
No moon-light we behold;
Philosophers deceived were,

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
Should bring all things to light!"-

To make it shine in words divine,
And make my Bible clear,
And wonders great that are behind
Will unto them appear;

Then they will see, as well as thee,
"Twas I that held thy hand.

With garments red all stain'd in blood,
And thou the TRIAL stand,

My blood to crave, mankind to save,
And Satan to be cast.

This is the way to man, I say,

For so the end must burst.
Can man appear, I ask you here,

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,
The Woman must condemn;
Because at first 'twas him she cast,

And so his curse must come.

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Ah! simple men, for to contend
In things you do not know;

"Tis with the WOMEN you must join,
If you'll destroy your foe;
Because that here I can't appear
In justice to proceed,

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,
And wear my armour here;
That is of love, the cause to prove,
And then your guilt I'll free.
The WOMAN's hand you must command,
My promise stands this way.-

So I'll end here and say no more;
But this to Foley send,

And tell him he hath nought to fear
To read it to a friend.

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

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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;
And some from hell in rage will swell,
For so 'twill now be found.
What pass'd before will now appear,-

The bullocks men will see,

Το echo back their every sound,

In different voices be.

But how can men dare to contend
When all things I do know ?
And will they call themselves a friend
To let their parents go,

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
She must confess them true;

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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"-
If they this way should burst,
I tell them all their every fall,
Like Garrick they shall die;
The Day of Judgment is for all,
And Wills's judgment's nigh.
The die is cast for him at last
To bring the judgment here;
And so on earth the thing is burst,
So let men now take care.
'Tis time to flee from misery

That now is hastening on:

The water-foods may come to thee,
And over thee to run-

But call to mind how thou didst find
That way thy passage through;
And after that thou find'st mankind,
And wish'd thee for to go

In wedlock strong to join with them,
And so the end would break,

If I'd not hold thee by the hand,
The way thou dream'st to speak,
All to refuse, no man thou'lt chuse,
I know, to wed but ME;

So I'll appear thy husband here,

That every soul shall see.

I'll wound the heart, I'll strike the dart
Against thy every foe;

So do not fear thy danger here,

Though fast the floods may go,

I say, to run much like a stream,
And over thee to come,

And thou-mavest fear the dangers near,
But I shall thee support;

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,

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