her so falsely and spitefully. This raised her anger to go through any thing; but when she began to ponder on his former conduct, it brought love and pity to her heart; and this causes the distress of her mind. If he had been all one way, she could have been all one way with him; but as he hath acted two ways, that causes two passions, which she can scarcely bear. Oh, that he had been either one thing or the other! THE ANSWER OF THE LORD. "Now, Joanna, I shall answer thee: Thy heart is like my heart, and thy feeling is like my feeling for as thou feelest love and anger for Pomeroy, callnig to mind his former preaching and former conduct; just so is my feeling for thousands: for I have thousands like Pomeroy in the Kingdom, whose love and zeal for MEI once regarded, as they shewed their love to my coming in the Flesh; but now I am come in the Spirit, they persecute ME, as Pomeroy persecutes thee; and they wound my heart, and grieve my Spirit, as Pomeroy wounds and grieves thine. I am leath to come against them and destroy them; yet, for my own honour and great Name, I must come against them, as thou must go against Pomeroy: though I do it with reluctance, as thou dost by Pomeroy; therefore I shewed thee the Vision in thy bed. They were wounding ME, as Pomeroy is wounding thee; there is not that man upon earth that hath wounded thy hear like Pomeroy; and now I tell thee, there is no man upon earth grieves my Spirit so much as these that profess a great love for my Name, as dying for them: their words and prayers were as well pleasing to ME, as Pomeroy's preaching was to thee; but now they are turned as spiteful against ME, coming in the Spirit, as Pomeroy is turned against thee. But let thy sorrow cease: this thing of Pomeroy I permitted, to bring it out to the whole nation at large; and therefore I shewed thee the Vision of the Perspiration thou sawest ME in. Remember my cold sweats A TYPE OF DIVINE LOVE and anger. 243 in the garden of Gethsemane, what I suffered for the unbelief of the Jews, by sweating as it were drops of blood and now I shewed thee, from the unbelief of the Gentiles, my sweats the same, and my hair wet with the dews of the night; because they would not open their doors to let me in; I shewed thee my leg, like thine, the wounds I daily receive from men through unbelief. This I shewed thee, before I had worked in thy heart the like feeling for Pomeroy; for thou canst have that feeling for no man but he, who began in the Spirit and now seems to end in the Flesh; but thy feeling could not be so great for him, if I had not softened thy heart to shew thee what I feel for Man. So now within thou dost begin To ask how this can be, That I can suffer so for Man, As thou dost grieve for he? My Burden here doth strong appear, My Bible I have made so clear If men will come to be my friends, As friends they must appear, The Woman this must clear. When first he saw thy written hand, But now the truth to all I tell, Then mark how Pomeroy he did fall. Because that he himself did see Cast out from being first, As other men with thee did join So thousands here like him appear, My Bible true before their view My Bible here I'll now make clear, Because my heel no man doth feel And 'tis the Woman's claim must come But men appear like Pomeroy here→→ "To see the call, how men do fall And in their hearts they've burnt the whole The PROMISE of their GOD! They see the first like Pomeroy burst, Laid all before thy view; But I am come the truth to claim, But when my Bible forth I call Will they appear like Pomeroy here, And say the Fall they'll never clear, The way that I allude? "No; it shall burn, our hearts we'll turn Against our SAVIOUR there; "We'll never own the truth shall come "To have it so appear; "The Woman's Fall is cast on all, "And there it now may stand; "We'll burn the word that's on record "And so condemn her hand." Now I'll appear to answer here, Like Pomeroy men must do: Ere they can come for to condemn TYPE OF THE PROMISE KEPT BACK BY MAN. 245 Of every word that's on record, I Her Promise must appear. But men, like Pomeroy, now do lay, The sorrows all must fall on ME, And Satan never taste The blame on him, that did begin But I do tell you, in the end The flames on all will fall. So Pomeroy here doth strong appear And different passions do appear In thee I well do know; Thou lov'dst him first when he did burst In HONOUR to MY NAME; But when thou seest he all doth cast, Just so my WORD that's on record, So ME they grieve, theirselves deceive→ No; this they burn, the words they turn, I say, to all; because the Fall Shall ne'er come back on he, And so like Pomeroy I see all, The Truth they will not see "No: it we'll burn, and CHRIST may mourn "That he his Life laid down; Unto him now we will not turn"— Like Pomeroy men are found! But thou dost say another way--- Which now doth work my jealousy, So thou'st complain'd the ways of men One of the two I bid men da- Or lay the truth before their view, And just like Pomeroy men have done, "We'll not appear to shew it clear Like Pomeroy's word upon record, He promis'd first the truth should burst, But when it came as in his hand, He would not see it plain; Neither the Truth would he let stand, But hide it all from Man; Just so your Land it now doth stand; To burn my WORD that's on Record, But here within thou dost begin To say my Bible stands, As on record is every word, It is not burnt by men That do appear MY SHEPHERDS here And this I know is true; Yet know from hell the flames do swell, And burning hearts I know He works in men, not to discern The Truth before them lies; So they do go, as he did do, |