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Just so I am come in love to man,
To wipe their tears away.

If you in love to me will turn,
My Trumpet's sound obey :

My Shepherds here do now appear,
A shadow of the first.

For they in Judgment shall be clear,
And others so shall burst.

In Judgment clear, I'll make them here,
For fast shall all come on;

For I will answer now your prayers,

That so are form'd by man.

I'll answer all, and prove the call,

'Tis perfect as you pray;

For now I will fulfil them all,

Till you can boldly say,

That all the Church doth worship ME,

Throughout this Kingdom here.

Then all the Nations of the world

Will then begin to fear;

Because the Prophet's fellowship

In union shall agree,

To say I'm to visit man,
And now to set them free.-

So write thy dream, and I'll explain,

I say, of Foley's Prayer;

And then I'll answer thee again;

Why he was so stopped there,
Not to go on (to thee is known)
In beauty for to pray;

For so the Ministers must come-
For what can Shepherds say?"

September the 29th, 1803, Joanna dreamed, that in the night, she heard the Rev. T. P. Foley, very loud and powerful in prayer, using most beautiful words; but all on a sudden he stopped, though in the midst of a prayer. Joanna thought she listened with attention, but heard him no more;

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so she concluded he was out of breath, or at a loss for words to proceed, and then she awoke.

This dream I had a short time after I was told

a clergyman had said, " They know enough already, they wanted to know no more."—

"Now I will answer thee this dream. As Foley is a minister of the Gospel, I brought this Dream to thee of him, concerning Prayer. For though the Prayers of the Church are as well pleasing in my sight, as his words sounded in my ears; yet if the ministers were to read their Common Prayer Books throughout, and weigh one prayer with another, they would be as inuch at a loss to explain them, as he was for words to go on in prayer. There is not a minister upon earth, can affirm that all the Prayers are consistent one with another, as things now stand. So here they have formed their prayers like my Bible: one thing contradicts another as things now stand"

"And man like Foley must appear,

As thou didst dream he stopp'd in Prayer;
So all the Clergy must the same,
If they their prayers do now discern.
I say they cannot now go on
To contradict as heretofore:
They pray my Spirit to appear,
To warn them all again the same,
As I did warn when first I came;
Then sure MY SPIRIT must descend,
I say upon some faithful Friend,
That will the tidings all declare-
And will they blame My Friend that's here?

Then now I bid them not to pray
To have my Spirit come this way,
As it did come to man before;

And so I bid them to stop there, As Foley's voice was stopp'd to thee. Another Prayer I bid them seeYour darkness to enlighten here, If they have light enough now clear, I bid them use that Prayer no more, But stop, as Foley thou didst hear. For in the midst they may stop all; For many Prayers to man I call, That they can never pray to ME, If light and life in man there be ;Light of my Gospel and my Word, And live in me the Living LORD. Then tied and bound you cannot be By Satan's chain of Sin in ye. Therefore I need not tread him down, If all the world in ME is found, With light, and life, and liberty. But this I say can never be, Until the temper I have trod down, That in all Nations strong is found. Now if you'll prove 'tis not so here, Then now I bid you stop that Prayer; And come to me no more with liesFrom your own words I now chastize; Because in lies you must come all, If you're not tainted by the Fall, And have that chain of Sin remain, Then stop your prayers; you pray in vain, If now you're freed from Satan's chain. And if you wish not to be free,

It is in vain you pray to ME.

And now I'll bring another Prayer-
You say, like sheep you've erred here,
And stray'd and wander'd so from ME
As though lost sheep yourselves you see.
But how come you like sheep are lost,
If I have paid the every cost?
But I the cost must pay once more,
If your petition I do hear;
Or else, your prayers are all in vain,
And like lost sheep you may remain;

For so you're wandering now from ME, Like sheep are lost; and lost you'll be, Should not My Spirit come again,

To save my flock that do remain.

To have their hearts join'd with the word,
And trust in ME the Living LORD,
That I will answer all your prayers,
That daily in my Church I hear.
Therefore the Church I said I'd call;
For there's the standard for you all:
Unto your prayers the Church shall come.
As I've begun I'll now go on,
Because that many I do know

They will confess the Truth is so,
That they must now stop in their prayers,
If they no more do know and hear,
Than what they now do see and know,
In darkness they must ever go,
Bound with the chain of Satan's Sin,

If I do not deliver them.

Then they as well may stop their prayer,
If they this claim must ever bear;

If I will never tread him down;

Then fruitless all your prayers are found,
So in the midst you all may stop,

If
you do pray, and you know not
What in your prayers you

do pray

Like Foley's voice, I tell you here,

for.

That many men may say the same;
We all may stop the Prayers of Men,
If they so boldly all deny—

"We want no knowledge from on High; "No Holy Spirit enter here;

"No arm of God our guilt to clear.' '
So here's the meaning of the Dream:
Let Foley hear and see it plain.
Then he will see men must stop here,
And so be lost, in all their prayers,

If I do never answer man,
As now they pray to do for them.
And if they say it do so appear,

← We have all knowledge; we see clear,

That ever we on earth shall gain." Then he may say, 66 we pray in vain; "For I no further there will go

"To prove I'm dark, when light I know. "And when I'm freed from Satan's chain,

"I'll stop to say it doth remain;
"And when I know in all I'm right,
"I'll stop to say I've erred quite.
"And like lost sheep am gone astray,
"When I am brought in the right way.
"But till this way I plain do know,
"No boasted wisdom will I shew,
"To say I want to know no more,
"And say my knowledge all is clear.
"No! No! I say, I must stop here,
"And listen to my Saviour's sound,
"If I in Him have favour found,
"My darkness to enlighten here-
"His answers I will stop to hear;"
And this in prayer thou hast often done
And so let Foley still go on.

Mark well his prayers, and stop to see
The things for which they all do pray,
And then I say, he may stop all,
That now reject this heavenly call;
For as this knowledge all do pray,
But like you all refuse to see.
So this by Foley may be said-
Point out the prayers that all do read;
And tell them they must stop to pray,
If they this light do all deny,
That they do never pray to gain-
Once more, I say, they pray in vain,
If they can prove their knowledge plain;
That they in darkness cannot be,
In vain they pray for light to see,
That I may so enlighten them,
And have the Holy Ghost to come

To cleanse their heart and every thought

If all be right, as he hath spoke,

That prayer must now be used in vain,
I tell you all, ye sons of men,

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