already, old and young; so he need not work miracles upon thy age, to add to the number; for these fools must be answered according to their folly.

"But now I shall return to men of wisdom. Let them look to all thy former prophecies, which I ordered thee to bring together, in the First Book of Wonders; and then they may see the day-light begin to dawn; and what I said of thy father's house, from page 68 to page 73; and they will see the truth of my words, that their labour is gone; now the time is come for ME to fulfil the scriptures, that they may see their own weakness, that they had not wisdom, nor understanding, to know how they would be fulfilled"Till on my holy hill I come To cut the stumps away"

-And do the work that is beyond man's power to do, and where man can never go to accomplish. For know I said, they had done by the Bible as thy father had done by the fuel on the hills, and like thy father by the windows.

"They'd patch'd my people up with lies for to keep out the sun."

And by false doctrine, turning the meaning of the Gospel another way, and denying the fulfilment thereof, they have shut out the SUN of RIGHTEOUSNESS, that he may never arise with healing in his wings; then how will they prove the Scriptures true, if he does not arise in the end? Now look to the following words: First Book of Wonders, page 70.

"For as thou sayest thou canst not see,
Because the place is dark,

Just so I say my people be;

But now come to the mark.

Take all the rags and stuff away,

And thou wilt see more clear;

Nor through a glass 'twont darkly be,
Because they are broken there."

"And perfectly so is the truth of my Gospel broken through by men: they have never looked for the mark which I fixed for the end; and therefore they have brought in false doctrine, that was never taught by ME, nor my disciples; for now I have brought the MARK plain before them, how the Scriptures stand for the end. So that the sun-shine will now appear to men of wisdom, knowledge, and understanding; they will now see that the Scriptures cannot be hid; because the truth shines bright amongst them : but if they are hid to any, it must be to those who will shut their eyes against the day-light, and determine to be wilfully blind; then such must be lost. But now I ask mankind, how they will explain Paul's words ?"

2 Corinthians, iv. 3, 4. "But if our Gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them."

"Now I shall answer thee from Paul's words. The true light of the glory of the Gospel, when the end cometh to fulfil it, hath already been hid from all; for where is the man upon earth that can prove his knowledge and judgment clear, to point out a way that the Gospel would be fulfilled. This has been hid, but now is the time this hidden mystery is revealed; then now it is no longer hidden from man, what the glory of the Gospel is to bring in for man, in the end, a full redemption and satisfaction for the sins of the whole world, that now repent and turn to the Gospel for now I shall save MAN, and destroy the works of the devil, who is the god of this world, and hath blinded the minds of men that go on in unbelief: but if they now go on in unbelief, and stumble at the noon-day sun; then,

I tell thee, they are lost, as no more atonement will be made than what is now offered to men. So here let men look at the Gospel, and understand what they read.

"And now come to thy prophecies, which I ordered thee to bring forward of Baonaparte, page 60, that I should rid him from this coast. Now bring thy other prophecies together, what I said in the Warning to the World, page 48, what would be the end of Buonaparte, if they set him up as a king, or in the likeness of a king. Now remember what I told thee in years past, of the FRENCH NATION, "If they set up another king, or the likeness of a king, in FRANCE, his destruction would be sought, like the former; and this destruction Buonaparte will find, if he remaineth long in that place" and this destruction is come upon him, to fly from the people that set him up. For, know, I told thee, that this was the fulfilment of Daniel's vision; and this is the time it will be fulfilled.. Dunict, ii. 44, "In the days of those kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom that shall not be destroyed." And now let men see how this hath happened together, at the time I have warned thee I am preparing my KING, to sit upon my holy hill of Sion; and to raise up the Kingdom that is fallen through unbelief, which will now be established through faith, and given to them that believe."

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