You ne'er discern for what you pray ;
But like lost sheep you're gone astray,
As you are gone from every bound,
That in my Gospel now is found.
I told you I should come again,
And in this state the Church should find,
In unbelief-gone far from Me;
False Prophets every where I see,
Who from your hearts do prophesy,
And give my Spirit here the lie,
That I did say should come again;
The Holy Ghost I said should come,
And all to your remembrance bring.
I said I AM with you to the end;
And now the end for all is near,
And so the Holy Ghost is here;
For in the Spirit I am come,
And as I said, I now find man;
For want of faith, gone all from me.-
-I said I died the whole to free;

Then I must come to free the whole;
My Law and Gospel so do fall;

And so your prayers are plac'd by man
Confess them true, or stop your tongue.

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my salvation all don't see;

Nor can you say you worship ME

In heart, or life, for to appear,

And praise your great DELIVERER here;

That

you with songs can now abound,

And meet with joy in every sound.

No! here your tongues they must stop all,

When to the hearts of men I call;

They must confess 'tis not in man

To sing the new and joyful song,
But to your songs they shall end here;
For I'll fulfill your every prayer,
That do these promises believe,
That I am more ready now to give,

Than men to ask, through ignorance here
And by your blindness I see clear,
My Law and Gospel none do see,

Nor yet discern the way you pray.

But sure your Prayers you'll turn them all,
When strong My Spirit here doth fall;
Then all your Prayers I know you'll turn,
When I have answer'd every one;
That is to answer and to give;

From all your chains of Sin to live,

And Satan beat beneath your feet;

Then ye may own your prayers were right,
That more and better I did do,

Than ever man had in his view;

And what your blindness could not see,
I have in mercy given ye.

Though you unworthy now appear
For to receive these blessings here,
That I am waiting to bestow,

You're ignorant of them well I know;
So now weigh deep your every prayer,
Then you must own you all do err.
Therefore the Church I first did name:

Unto that standard all must come;

And if the Clergy all appear,

ON THE CONDUCT OF THE CLERGY.

The following letter was writen to a Clergyman of the Established Church, and of a worthy character, who at times varied in his opinions about Joanna. This person had prejudices in favour of the writings of Emanuel Swedenburg; believing, according to the system of that author, that this world was to be regenerated, without any particular character to come forth. It is to be observed that the above author wrote thirty years before Joanna's Revelations were to be given, which could not take place before an appointed time, sealed up in the

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bosom of the FATHER, to prevent the Powers of Darkness having any fore-knowledge of the Divine Plan of Human Redemption, which in that case, the arts of hell would endeavour to defeat. It must therefore be clear to the rational mind, that no spiritual writer could have any knowledge of what was to take place at a future period, concerning this event.

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It is to be noted, that out of about 20,000 Clergy of the Established Church, only three at first came forward to enquire into these truths, who will be the happy instruments to bring forth, in the Name of the Protestant Church, the glorious Kingdom of Christ.

Copy of a Letter to a Divine of the Church of England,

Rev. SIR,

Paddington, 24th October, 1802. You may be surprised to receive the following letter, indited in a manner I never thought of writ

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*As in every age of the world, when the Lord began to work on the hearts of man, to prophesy in his name, Satun began to work on the hearts of others to prophesy by him, that the prophets of the Lord might not be believed; so now, in the last days, when the Lord intends to do as he spake by the prophet Joel, pouring his Spirit upon all flesh, and upon his handmaids, that they shall prophesy, he well knows Satan will do the same. Therefore it is written, false prophets and false Christs will arise. ̈ And that no man might be deceived in this matter, I say, that the Gospel of Christ, and the Visions of John in the Revelations, (chap. xii. 19. and the last) shew who are the prophets to be believed; but no living man can give an explanation. The Word of God is as a book that is sealed, so that neither the learned nor unlearned, can read, (that is to say, understand it,) for it was sealed up in the bosom of the Father, till he thought proper to break the seals, and reveal it to a woman, as it is written in the Revelations. See Preface to Joanna's 1st Book of Prophecies.

ing you; neither did I know it was designed for you, when I was writing it, till I came to the end.

Wednesday morning, 20th October, 1802, I was ordered to take my pen in hand, and write as I was directed, which was in the following manner:

"Hear, O heavens! and be astonished, O earth! I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against ME; I have called and no man answered; I have stretched out my hand to a disobedient and gainsaying people. Tremble, O earth! at the presence of the Lord, and be afraid of his judgments; for justice is fallen in the streets, and equity cannot enter. I am despised and rejected of men: is my loving kindness despised, and my tender mercies treated with contempt? then now tremble, O ye sinners, and purify your hearts, ye double-minded; for My anger shall burn with fury against the shepherds of MY flock; for they have notfed My flock; but have driven them away; they have broken MY covenant, and trodden down mine altar; the meek man is despised; the humble man is set at nought; but the proud man is exalted in his pride, and the humble man is trodden down in his humility. Ye are full of your own inventions, and walk every man in the imaginations of his owa heart; and every man's way is clean in his own eyes. But I the Lord weigheth the spirits; I the Lord, that searcheth the hearts and trieth the reins of the children of men, whose eye is as a flame of fire round your beds and round your paths, do I not know? do I not consider? I that made the eye, do I not see? I that formed the ear, do I not hear? I that made the heart, do I not understand? Are your

words, your ways, or actions concealed from ME? Search My Bible; weigh мY word: is it not written, the Spirit of Prophecy is the Spirit of Jesus? But how can the Spirit of Jesus be called the Spirit of Prophecy, if no Prophecy is given from ME, and MY Spirit denied by man? But I come as a swift witness against you: ye say false prophets and false Christs are risen, then know now cometh the end. But know, I am not come in the Spirit, as a man, to say I am in the desert, or I am here, or I am there; but many such are gone out in the world; but I am come in the volume of the book as it is written of ME: crying out like a travailing woman, Repentye, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand; whose fan is in his hand, who will thoroughly purge his floor. I will gather MY wheat into my garner, and burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire. But will you I did it when in the body as a man? Were not MY Disciples put to death; the Holy City destroyed; and мy Temple, wherein I was worshipped, trodden down for idolatry? Did not the chaff consume the wheat, till all the wheat was destroyed? Ye judged My Bible as ye judged the Harvest. I said I would send a fatal Harvest;and a fatal Harvest ye shall find to your sorrows*. But I said three good Harvests must first follow, for the sake of those that seeked after ME and searched out the truth. But this ye never discerned, so I give you up to believe a lie; and so ye have believed мY Bible the same, without weighing one thing with another, how it

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*The three good Harvests have happened, as predicted in Joanna's Writings, in 1801, 1802, and this last in 1803.