51 "Now I shall answer thee. No more than thou understoodest the meaning of the words, in my answer to thy inquiry, if the Lord of Life would stoop so low, as to visit thee by prophecies, no more do men understand the Scriptures; for if thou hadst understood the meaning of the words; then thou wouldest have known that I meant to visit thee further than prophecies; and that it was a SON unborn that I should exalt high: and if men honoured him, or made petitions to him; then his petitions I should answer; because, in honouring the SoN, they honour the FATHER; and therefore I worked in thee to plead in a way thou didst not understand in what manner were thy petitions; nor in what manner were my answers. But here men may clearly see, from my sayings, what I had suffered for mankind, near upon two thousand years, their blasphemy against ME and my Gospel; but now if they receive the SON in my name; then all the past I shall forgive; and therefore, if they receive him as the Prince of Peace, a Prince of Peace I will make him. And let them see the promises, if they receive him; and let them see that this was a prophecy given in 1794, speaking of my SoN, that I should exalt high amongst mankind; but the meaning was concealed from thy knowledge, before my visitation came, as I told thee, like the Virgin Mary's. And now I shall answer those who may say it is blasphemy for thee to believe that thou shalt have a SON like her, by being visited from on High; then, in like manner, they must say my Gospel is blasphemy; and so join with the Arians and the Jews; for they cannot condemn the one without the other; nor can they prove the one without the other; because I told them that at my second coming there was a Son to be revealed. "And now come to Psalm lxxii. 1, 2, 3, 13, 14. "Give the King thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the King's Son. He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment. The mountains shall bring peace to the people.--He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy. He shall redeem their souls from deceit and violence; and precious shall their blood be in his sight," "Now let men answer, if this Psalm was fulfilled by Solomon. Did not the people complain to Solomon's son, saying, "thy father, made our yoke grievous; now therefore make thou the grievous service of the father, and his heavy yoke, which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee?" 1. Kings xii. 4. "Then how will men place this to Solomon, to say that his name shall endure for ever, his name shall be continued as long as the sun, and men shall be blessed in him, all nations shall call him blessed? Now let men answer, when this Psalm was ever fulfilled by any king's son that reigned upon the earth. In thy heart thou answerest, it is impossible for man to prove it. "And now I shall come to thy ponderings and petitions, which thou didst not understand, in what manner were thy pleadings, nor in what manner were my answers and perfectly so are the words of David, in his petition, which is placed to Solomon, shewing the happiness, justice, and glory of his reign, and of Christ's kingdom ander that type. Now I ask mankind, whether this was fulfilled, when the angels rejoiced at my birth, saying, "Peace on earth, and good will towards men? Did this happiness then take place? were these blessings throughout the earth? Then all mankind must answer, no: yet, for that end 53. was I born, and for that end came I into the world, in good will towards men, to establish peace in the end. And let them look to Pilate's question, and my answer." John xviii. 33, 36, 37. "Then Pilate entered. into the judgment-hall again, and called Jesus, and said unto him, Art thou the King of the Jews? Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence. Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a King then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a King To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth." "Here let them inquire, as Pilate did, what is truth? And look to the words of David "Give the King thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the King's Son." "Then let them look to the Revelation xxii, v. 12, 13. “Behold, I come quickly, and my reward is with ME, to give every man according as his works shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and theending, the first and the last." "Let them weigh that chapter with the Psalm; and then they will find the KING'S SON mentioned by David, that such blessings are to follow upon earth from his reign, is the Sox that I have revealed to thee. I took man's nature upon ME at first, for all the reasons I have explained to thee; but now they will find ME to be the last, to bring in a Son, to establish the earth in righteous ness. "Here come to thy First Book of Wonders.* Page 68. "And so my faithful shepherds now give up, And then the curtains you may all draw back, And see the blaze of day begin to break, "Then now let them see what blaze of day I have brought before them. Can men simply suppose I shall establish a kingdom in righteousness and peace, and bring down every heavenly blessings to man, and have no heavenly Heir to sit upon the Throne? Then all my Bible is null and void. "And now come to thy Second Book of Wonders." Page 86. "For like that Trial now the end shall come; Because I tell thee now I'll bring the SoN." "And know I have told thee, that thou shalt not be called forward in a public Trial, before the Son is born, that thou canst produce the SON, that is spoken of through thy writings, if men had understood what they read." Page 106. "Know of my coming I said so 'twould be ; As thou didst hear the sudden death of he: "And thou knowest what sudden surprise came to thee by my visitation. Now let the Jews weigh deeply the History of thy Father's Family; because it is for their sakes, to shew them that the entail is not cut off, that I ordered thee to publish all the history through, what thy parents had told thee, and what thou hadst known thyself, and I called every thing quick to thy remembrance: and let them see what I have com pared my likeness to in the history." Page 108. "Weigh deep the Parable, ye sons of men, 55 "And now I have ordered thee to bring out these wonders to men. This is the CHILD, and this is the HEIR, they will find spoken of through thy writings, and through the scriptures; and yet it was concealed from the knowledge and understanding of all, before it was now revealed by ME: and they will find that this is the GLORY of the LORD, that is to be revealed, spoken of by the prophets, that all flesh shall see it together; for all shall see the glory of HIS reign." After I thought I had written enough to finish my book, there was more wanted to fill up the four sheets, and I was answered thus By obeying my commands thou hast put a two-edged sword in the hands of thy friends and my friends for now I ask them, where are the impostors that would commit theirselves, as thou hast done, to prove to the world that it is by thy own Master thou must stand or fall? For thou hast now put it out of thy power to act with art or deceit. Canst thou now get another to personate thee in thy likeness, to personate thee in thy age, and to prove the will is thine? Will Townley or Underwood agree to that? and will the witnesses join with it? will Sharp tell an impostor that he drew her likeness, if a woman, in any likeness of thee, should come forward? Then now let them see that thou hast put it out of thy power to act with deceit. If thou art deceived in whom thou has believed, then it is the Spirit they must blame: but no man can blame thee; because thy upright dealings all must see; that thou dost not wish to be deceived, nor deceive others, but to have the truth appear. And now call to thy remembrance that on the sofa thou sawest the candle, when it came to the hour of twelve, with a large flame, and the appearance of a ring round it, and the appearance of a large |