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The sunshine at the end;
Then shining days I'll bring to pass,

And stand your every friend.
So now 'tis time for to awake.”

Word in Season, page 54, given in 1803.

"It now is come to every land,
And fast it shall appear;
But now if England will awake,
I'll make the foes to yield."
Sennacherib here shall not appear,
With all his boasted pride,
If England will awaken here-
You know what name's applied,
That I compare, I tell you here,
With all Sennacharib's host:
But now if England will take care,
I'll rid him from this coast.

But to take care, thou'st ask'd me here,
What care it is I mean?

I've told thee that he is the Beast-
"Tis Bonaparte I mean."

First Book of Sealed Prophecies, page 12, given

in 1796.

"Christ's Kingdom come, be every sound

I hear thee say, Amen!

Then first this nation I shall clear,

If they like thee go on.

What I shall clear I'll tell thee here:

Their loads I'll take away;

My yoke is easy they shall bear,

My goodness they shall sec;

My burden's light; I'll clear the fight,

And make all foes to fly."

But on the other hand, I am answered, that the Lord will act according to what is said in the 18th page of the Strange Effects of Faith.

"If by the wise men I am mocked now,

Like Herod's fury I'll fulfil my vow :

Who my anger shall appease?

If all deny my will,

My thunderbolts shall loudly roar,

And men's poud hearts shall chill."

"I shall answer thee from these words. If men go on to mock, now I have made all so plain before them, then I shall bring on my threatened judgments, that stand in thy writings: and if they say, that this book is a mystery they cannot understand; they will find the next to be plain, so that a wayfaring man, though a fool, need not err therein. And let them see, from the following lines, why my judgments shall come on. As men mock that there is no God, I will now make myself known amongst mankind, in such a way and manner, that they shall know that there is a God, and a faithful rewarder of them that diligently seek him; and they that honour ME, I will honour; and they that despise ME shall be lightly esteemed. Now let their blasphemy appear.

First Book of Scaled Prophecies, page 2.

"Survey your land, see how all stands,

And how all men appear:

Then you must know, a God must go

For to reclaim all here.

For there's no man on earth can stand,
If he in fury break:

They've burnt the Bible in this land,
Where must the ashes sink?
If Abel's blood for vengeance stood,
And CHRIST's doth stand the same,
A day of vengeance in his heart,
Then tremble at the flames.

When men begin the whole to burn,
Shall not the LORD awake?
His vengeance on the Tempter turn,
Or, your Land stands at stake,

To suffer men for to go on

And burn the WORD OF GOD;

Against your Land, their guilt must stand,
And fear His flaming Rod.

The world by water once was drown'd,

But fire it now must come ;

The way the Bible men destroy'd,

Must all turn back again.

So all weigh deep, the LORD doth speak→→→

For all's before HIS THRONE:
And for to know, that it is so,

His Spirit is come down.

So I'll end here, and say no more;
Let Solomon be found,

For to appear and try all here~
It is the Law of God:

And if you now refuse to hear,
Then tremble at His Rod."

Second Book of Sealed Prophecies, page 106.

The following communication was given to Joanna in 1797, after she had been into Exeter, and was informed that a dissenting minister had said, the Virgin Mary was a whore, and our Saviour was a bastard; and this pernicious idea he tried to instil into the minds of some young men that went to school to him. When I heard it, my soul trembled, my heart shook, and anger and indignation rose within me against him; as I was going, I thought to myself I might say with Peter, I wish to have him destroyed; and wondered the ministers did not warmly reprove him; but was answered in the following manner :

"Now Joanna thee I'll answer :

These blasphemers must appear;
For though Satan is their master,
It is what was said before.
Now if I find men hot nor cold,
When thou'st these things to them unfold,
But dead, and sickly, and lukewarm,

I'll bring on all a dreadful storm ;
If they my honour won't maintain,
Like Eli, they shall sure be slain;

For though thou fear'st to write the word,
I'll let them know, with one accord,
That I no Bastard did appear,
MY MOTHER пo Adulterer;
My Gospel they shall find is true-
And they have made it good;
I'll bring the mysteries to their view:

They've open'd all my side;

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The meaning of the words, of bringing fifty men, who will awake like Paul, was in answer to a sermon that I heard preached by a reverend divine, from Genesis xviii. 23, 24. "And Abraham drew near, and said, wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked? Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city; wilt thou also destroy, and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?" He began his discourse with Abraham's pleading for Sodom; and then he brought in these words, "And the Lord said, if I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes." After he had explained Abraham's pleading with the Lord, that it was far from him to slay the righteous with the wicked, to destroy the whole city for the great sins committed in Sodom, he then brought it to our nation, and lamented of the increasing sins in our nation; yet he pleaded strongly from Abraham's words, and the answer the Lord gave to Abraham, that the Lord would spare the city for the sake of fifty righteous; and therefore he trusted that our nation would be spared for the sake of the righteous: for he was certain there was not one wanting of the fifty; and it was to his words I was answered concerning the blasphemy spoken by the other against the Gospel.

Let him

"Now I shall answer thee further. come to Abraham's faith; and let him bring his fifty men, who will come forward to prove the Gospel true, from what I have revealed to thee:

because I tell thee, it is by the Holy Ghost proving the knowledge of the Lord, by the visitation of his Spirit, that these blasphemers must be destroyed. I do not tell thee, by cutting them off by death; but by destroying the works of the devil in them; to bring them out of darkness into my marvellous light; and to prove the truth of my Gospel, by the visitation of my Spirit.

Now call to thy remembrance how ***** told thee, that, after seeing thy books, he burnt all his books that he had of the Unitarian Doctrine, though he had many neatly bound; and know how the Deists and Atheists have been convinced by thy writings, who had before been stumbled by the ministers, who had told them all was finished; and thus they could not see my Gospel true, if it was no more to be fulfilled. And know what ****** told thee of a minister's saying that the bible would be no more fulfilled than it was already; then remember his answer: "then we are hoodwinked in our bibles, if there is no more to be fulfilled." And now I tell thee, from such men, who say the whole is finished, it gives room for Satan's working, that there is no truth in the Gospel, no truth in the Prophets; so that the Scriptures could never proceed from the God of truth. Then now I ask him, where are his fifty men, that awake like Paul, to convince these blasphemous writers, that thou hast trembled to see. Call to thy remembrance how thou hast been shocked to see the blasphemy that men have written against the Scriptures, against the Gospel; and the ways of the Lord every way, thou knowest, are blasphemed and where are his righteous men, who can turn one of them from the evil of their ways, to prevent these increasing sins? For I have already told thee, and I tell thee again, these righteous men, who boast of their religion; yet, by saying all is finished,

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