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with the sun of righteousness, that is now rising with healing in his wings, to heal the fall of the woman. Therefore I have given her the spirit of prophecy, that all men might know she is called of God, to avenge the injuries done to herself upon the head of him that betrayed her. For, as the blood of Abel cried for vengeance against Cain; so does the woman's fall cry for vengeance against the devil, that betrayed her. But now in her weakness I will be her strength, and her strong tower, and the rock of her defence. I never would have been born of a woman, if I had never intended to have redeemed the woman; for as I was born of her, so I was born for her, to make her sons joint-heirs with

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Here I shall leave the explanation of the Bible, for the present, and come to some of my Prophecies in 1792; as I was warned by day and by night of what was coming upon the whole earth, and at the same time I was told of many strange and wondrous things that none but a GoD could know, which happened then, to assure me my visitation was from the LORD, who had begun and would make an end. In 1792 I was warned of a war with France and Spain; the dearth and scarcity that would be in our land; the distresses and troubles that were coming upon us; that the visitation of the LORD would go from nation to nation; but in what manner I was warned, a small compass cannot contain; yet it was so powerful, and I had so many clear and convincing proofs set before me, that I judged the calling to be of God, and obeyed the summons to leave my work and go and write it; knowing, if I was deceived, I should injure no one but myself;

and if it was of God, I thought it would be fatal for me to disobey: as fatal were the threatenings pronounced against me if I did not obey. The war was the first I was told would take place; scarcity and dearth would follow; and discord would rise in the hearts of the people, from the burden that next would come upon our land. All hath come to pass I was warned of; yet I am told it is the shadows that are past; for the substance is to come. And now I must inform my readers that in March 1802, I was ordered to take my first books in hand, which were printed in January 1801, and I should be told what pages would be hastening on, from the First Book to the end of the First Book of Letters. The pages that I was ordered to put in print that were hastening on, were the 8th page, the 27, 29, 37, 46, 79, 87, 109, 120, 160, 172, 180,-In the 8th page are these words

"But O thrice happy is the man
That doth begin and will go on,
Till every curtain is drawn back,
To know and prove if I do speak;
For happy then shall be the man
That doth obey his call,
His talents five shall soon be ten,
My Spirit so shall fall.”

Here I shall give the explanation that is now given to me from that verse. What is said of man alludes to men; for one man can do nothing of himself; and this page hath since the printing of it been fulfilled by men; and the curtains have since been shewn that they are drawn back, from the vision shewn to Joseph Prescott,-" to shew

* This alludes to the Vision of the Tent, Crown, and Angels, in white, with Swords and Trumpets, &c. seen by him, June 10th, being the last vision drawn by him, till the twelve were explained by Joanna Southcott, in the month of September, 1803.

you from the dark mysteries of the fall, where the crown standeth for man's redemption; and now happy, yea thrice happy are all these that are flocking to JESUS, as doves to the windows, looking for and hastening to the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, for they will find their redemption is drawing near, who will enlist themselves under my banner, and thirsting for my kingdom of peace. They shall be the good servants, who shall enter into the joy of their Lord." Now I have given you the words spoken in verse in the 8th page, and the explanation to that.

I shall next come to the 27th page, that was said to be hastening on, and of what was spoken to me in 1792. "As I kept nothing from Abraham, so will I keep nothing from thee. Thou shalt prophesy in my name, and I will bear thee witness; what I put in thy mouth, that will I do upon the earth. The Lord is awaked as one out of sleep the voice of the Lord shall shake terribly the earth pestilence and famines shall go through the lands: men's hearts shall fail them for very troubles, because they have not known the visitation of the Lord." Here I have given you from the 27th page of what I was told was hastening on, in 1802, from the words spoken to me in 1792; and now I shall give the answer to the above words, that is now given to me.

"Give ear all ye inhabitants of the earth; for I the Lord have spoken it, and I also will do it. If ye will turn unto me, I will tum unto you; but if ye mock my voice, now I have made all so plain before you; these evils that are written in this book shall come upon you; and none shall deliver you, till judgments are swallowed up in victory: for I shall kindle a fire in mine anger, and wrath

in my fury, if men now mock the coming of their Lord, when I have made my Bible so plain before you, and made all these Prophecies, that are past, true before you by the shadows. But know, I told you it was the substance that was hastening on; for it was but the shadow of the war that was' past; and no more than the shadow that is already fulfilled. But as I bore thee witness in the shadow; so I will now in the substance; as I told thee it was hastening on." But here I shall call your attention to the 18th page of my first book, printed in 1801.

If this publication awakens the ministers to search out the truth of these writings, the three next harvests are promised to be plentiful. "Prove me now, saith the Lord, and try me, if I will not shower down blessings upon you; but if the many truths laid before you do not awaken them to search out the truth, the Lord will fulfil his words

"If by the wise-men I am mocked now,
Like Herod's fury, I'll fulfil my vow.
For who my anger shall appease

If all deny my will:

My thunder-bolts shall loudly roll,
And men's proud hearts I'll chill."

Here follows the answer given to me to that -page. "One part is fulfilled by ministers, and by a few who searched out the truth, and the three harvests have come as I promised; but know what is to follow-If all these truths that are now laid before you, do not awaken the ministers to search out the truth, to warn their flocks of what is hastening on, I will now fulfil the words spoken in verse. Therefore, be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: For I have heard from the Lord God a consumption, even a deter

mination upon the whole earth. Therefore weep, ye ministers, mourn, ye priests; for the day of the Lord is at hand."

Now I shall come to the 29th page, that I said was hastening on. This is the fulfilment of a dream, that I had in 1792, when I was informed I should be shewed in dreams how the things upon the nation should come on: For the night was far spent, and the day was at hand. I dreamed I was upon an high mountain, and saw the sky bright as noon day; two men came out of the clouds with long robes of purple and scarlet, with crowns of gold on their heads, and swords in their hands, standing in the sky. Two men came out with heavy horses and spoke to them who stood in the air. Soon after I saw the men on horseback. coming out of the clouds as fast as they could, till the whole sky was covered with men in armour, and spears glittering in the air. I looked down on the earth, and saw the world in a confusion of war; men in armour riding fast. This dream alarmed me; but I was answered, "Now shall be fulfilled the 2d Psalm

Ask and receive thy full demands;
Now shall the heathens be,
'The utmost limit of the land,
Shall be possessed by thee.
I'll crush them every where,
As massy bars of iron break
The potter's brittle ware."

And now I shall come to the 37th page,

"And when her writings you have all gone through,
Much greater mysteries will come to your view."

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