Just so I am come in love to man, If you in love to me will turn, My Shepherds here do now appear, For they in Judgment shall be clear, In Judgment clear, I'll make them here, 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, 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, For so the Ministers must come- 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; 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; Then now I bid them not to pray 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- 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, They will confess the Truth is so, If I do not deliver them. Then they as well may stop their prayer, If I will never tread him down; Then fruitless all your prayers are found, If do pray Like Foley's voice, I tell you here, for. That many men may say the same; "We want no knowledge from on High; "No Holy Spirit enter here; "No arm of God our guilt to clear.' ' If I do never answer man, ← 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; Mark well his prayers, and stop to see To cleanse their heart and every thought If all be right, as he hath spoke, That prayer must now be used in vain, D |