"Now I shall answer thee the meaning of these words:

"I'll take her from the fowler's hand,
And put mankind to shame."

"It is thy being unmarried, having no earthly husband, make men mock the greater, to judge that thou lookest upon thyself the Lamb's wife, after the manner of earthly marriages; for know I said, in heaven they neither married, nor were given in marriage; but were like the angels in heaven. So that the Marriage spoken of in the Revelation, is spoken of an earthly marriage to take place, which is brought round by the Lord, to shew the sign of the end. Now I know the thoughts of thy heart, thou never judgedst it any other: for if thou hadst judged as the world judged, because I have visited thee by the spirit of prophecy, as I have visited the prophets before, and as I visited my disciples, and called them my friends and followers, and said, he that did my will was my brother and my sister and my mother, which were but names given; and so in like manner thou hast looked upon the Revelation without any marriage. But hadst thou judged it another way, and believed, as others have, that thou wast in reality the Bride, the Lamb's wife, joined together, as a Bride and Bridegroom are here upon earth; thou couldest

in no ways enter into a marriage union with man; but know, when I told thee how the devil had been working upon thee to make thee miserable, and for wise ends I permitted it, to shame and confound him; then I told thee that no union of marriage should take place with thee, to join your hands, before I had joined your hearts, and brought it back to Noah's love and thine. And, as men say thou art too high, let them know I have now ordered to bring thee low, not above the rest, before nor after it cannot be, but with thy followers blest; and if thou goest beyond the bounds I have set for thee, thou wilt have no wings to fly; but if thou obeyest my commands, in every direction I have given thee, then a heart that I took from thee in thy youthful days I will return a likeness of in thy old. age.

"So now thy youthful days I'll call them back,
Thou knowest how Noah did thy heart affect:
When that in anger thou stood'st with the man,
Thou heard'st his sorrows, how in love he mourn'd
And thou repent'dst; thy folly thou dost know;
But still no power hadst thou thy will to do;
Because that heaven had so secur'd thy hand,
That thou in wedlock with him could'st not stand.
Because thy hand I've kept it for this day:
Mark all thy lovers; I hedg'd up the way

So much with thorns, thou never could'st go through
To gain a husband; bring all to thy view:
Now mark the age thy love did first begin;
The eighteenth year it unto thee is known.-

"And now I tell thee it is for such a time as this that I ordered all the history of thy life to go in print, that all men might know thou hast been kept by my power; and clearly see from thy history, that thou couldest not act in a spirit of thy own; neither couldest thou have a will

of thy own; for I have kept thee under the influence of my Spirit, to guide and guard thee to this day; and I have tried thee every way: I have tried thee by jealousies; I have permitted Satan to deceive thee, to see if thou wouldest go on by a wrong spirit; and when I found thou wouldest not, but saw thou wast wounded and cut to the heart, fearing what step to take; knowing my threatenings, if thou hadst gone back, that they were great; this made thee fear what to do, when Satan assaulted thee; but when thou hast begun to sink like Peter, like Peter I have held thy hand."

Here I ended, Wednesday night, Oct. 6th,

1813.

Thursday morning, as I was sitting up in my bed, about five o'clock, a flash of light came into my room, which I thought was the candle that blazed as it was going out; but immediately a loud clap of thunder followed; and then the lightning came flash after flash, and the thunder seemed to roll at a distance.

I was answered that, now the light should burst upon man; for his thunder they should hear one way or the other. For the meaning of preserving the Tree of Life was to bring the woman to perfect obedience, as all that are born into the world are born of the woman, and in her is life created.

"And now I shall answer thee, to make it plain to mankind what is meant by being in my form.

"For now I tell them it is in the heart,

I've made like mine; and thou hast felt the dart,

In love and pity so to feel for man;

And thy petitions let them read again,

And then my likeness every soul may see,
very way I've form'd the heart of thee;

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And by the Holy Ghost, I'll not conceal,
That all these mysteries I to thee reveal'd,
What's for man's good and happiness below;
And in the end they'll surely find it so.
Beyond men's wisdom doth my bible stand,
When the new heaven and earth do come to man.

"And now I shall come to the believers, as well as the unbelieving world; for all must come back to what I told thee before, that is sealed up in thy writings: know the vision I shewed thee of an immensely large room, and a large place filled up with beautiful caps for children, with a large rose in each of them, and beautiful robes for christening robes; and know I told thee

"The children's robes they all must wear,
The christening caps put on."

"And this I said all must come to, like little children, to be born again. Know what I told thee of the believers, that they stood but as water-pots filled with water; they saw things but as trees walking; and in the end they would see, from their own wrong judgment, how wrong was the judgment that men drew of the scriptures; and therefore I told thee

"Back the footsteps all must trace,
And marvel what they've done,
And wonder how they could not go
In things that were so plain."

"And know I told thee of thy own wisdom, when Taylor and thee were contending about thy prophecies, and she proved her judgment clearer than thine. Know my answer

"Is Taylor clear? I tell thee here,
Thou art no judge at all,

How things will go thou dost not know,
Thy senses I've drown'd all.

For all thy jewels I have seal'd them mine,

As men would steal them, if they brighter shin'd;
Because that knowledge they would have from thee,
Did I not blind thine eyes, thou could'st not see
The way thy writings must come in the end.
A marriage union was my full intent;

Or how thy writings could they e'er come true?
And bring the pages now before my view."

Strange Effects of Faith, page 225.

"I said thou'dst see the glittering stars appear to shine; Thy travail pains no longer then thou'lt mind, When righteousness and truth together meet, And love and peace will then each other greet ; And such a joyful day 'twill be for man, As Adam found when I the woman form'd; And more than Adam men will stand amaz'd, And more than Adam every one will gaze, To see the knowledge from the woman's hand, That by their wisdom they cannot command. Because thy hand there is no man can read; But soon they'll find the truth of all thou'st said: "O heavenly wonder!" will mankind begin, "Is this the bone was taken once from man, "That now so closely sticks unto his side? "One heart and soul together's now applied; "How could the man upon her cast the blame? "Was she deceiv'd; then he was just the same; "And like the woman he might then reply, "And never cast the blame on God most high. "But now like Adam we must copy here, "And give the glory to our Saviour dear; "For if on God the man did cast the blame, "Then now from God doth all our glory come. "So on our Maker we the praise will cast; "For 'tis from him that all our glory bursts; "Since now the good fruit he hath handed down, "That on the tree of knowledge then was found. "And now the knowledge it is in her hand,

By such writings, as we cannot command;