As 'tis the cry of every heart, THE SPIRIT. Yes, I will stoop to such as thee; But all shall come upon the lands, As I myself decreed; But those that call upon my Son, And those that do him fear, And that I am the Lord alone JOANNA. Is this thy just decree, O Lord, Judgments are thy strange works, O Lord, Dear Saviour intercede, And pierce the sinners' hearts to turn Thy dying love to plead ; And cast their eyes to Calvary, ་་་་་ That made their Saviour bleed; 83 For who can plead the sinners' cause But thy beloved SON? Then now what shall I say, dear Lord? And may they daily flock to thee As doves to windows fly! And may they hear thy pardoning voice → Cry out their Saviour's nigh. THE SPIRIT. I'm nigh to save all who believe, In judgment to this LAND; JOANNA. Then now, dear Lord, what shall I say? Thy heavenly will be done; And may the sinners daily cry To thy beloved SON ! And now, O ye inhabitants Of England be ye wise, And the long sufferings of the Lord, Return without delay; Appease the SON; with due respect And his long-sufferings, and his love, Now quickly call to mind; In humbleness appease his wrath, But humbly come, with broken hearts, But can you think your backs are brass, That you can dwell in endless flames, But Oh, the trembling of my heart! And therefore I must once more cry, THE SPIRIT. But Oh, far short dost thou now come Than I who suffer'd on the cross, And so long with them bore!" came The first time that the Rev. Mr. ** to me, in 1796, I read to him the threatenings in the above, which made him ask, why I did not publish, to warn of the rod before these things came upon us? He did not at that time seem to be staggered at my petitions, or of the Spirit's answering me; but after some person told him that I had prophesied of things that did not come to pass, he then went to Mrs. ****** and said he feared I was trifling with the Holy Ghost, by what I had read to him, in this Communication; therefore he said to Mrs. ****** "She will be out of her mind soon; I should not wonder if it were in a few weeks:" but that he should be very happy, if he could do any thing for me; and now I hope he will enjoy that Happiness; and then I shall be very happy to sec 85 him happy for this calls to my remembrance what is said in my writings: Strange Effects of Faith, page 90. "For though my sons they are fast bound, But Satan's doom must so come round The walls which Satan made so strong I shall throw down, and now build up, But when the mysteries are reveal'd, "Now let men look to the Communication, the year that it was given, and let them call to their remembrance at what time thou didst read it to him; and let them remember; because from the feelings of thy heart, trembling to hear the judgments pronounced, thy pleading was in verse; as Abraham contended in words to my threatenings, so were thy answers and petitions in verse, which he judged trifling, that could not be from the Lord. But now let them discern what hath been fulfilled; what hath taken place upon all nations; compare the words with the events, and see what hath followed since 1796. Then they will know that the preparation of the heart, and the answer of the tongue, are both from the Lord; for ye know not, when my Spirit is strong in power and love, moving upon the heart-ye know not which way the words proceed, or how the working of the Spirit is, to plead with the Lord, in the manner he pleads with his creatures, where the heart and soul be united to the Lord. "The further meaning of this Communication I shall answer for the next book, when greater mysteries will be made known, and a greater light given, from thy works and writings, that came from ME, will be unfolded in the next; and then they will find the truth of ***** ****'s words-The Bible is like a flower, that is opening in its bud;" and now the bud and blossom shall appear. "And now come to thy observation on *******'s words." He said the ministers were like a rope of sand, that would neither join together, nor bind together. From his observation, I thought the different opinions of men made the Scriptures the same; for it is written-"The wisdom of God is foolishness to man; and the wisdom of man is foolishness with God:" and this truth is plain and easy to be understood, as men so foolishly pretend to explain the hidden mysteries of the Bible, by their own wisdom; and they have explained it so many ways, that the Bible can have no meaning or explanation at all, by the wisdom of men for the wise men, the learned, and the good men, have drawn so many judgments different from each other, that they have made the Bible like a rope of sand, that cannot join together; and so they make their own wisdom, that will soon break in sunder; but the wisdom of God is wiser than all the wisdom of men, like a three-fold cord that cannot be broken. As soon as I had written these words, from my own observation, I was answered in the following lines: |