Then tell ME where the heirs do come;
Is it from woman or from man?
Let all the learned men appear,

And tell ME if they bring the heirs,
From any law that they have got:
The mystery's deep, beyond your thought.
I plac'd my Bible all like MAN,

That heaven and earth alike might come:
And now like MAN I do appear,

To prove the WOMAN brings the HEIRS,
That must possess my every crown;
And so the end shall now be found.
For if I ever join with man,

I said like him I'd laid my plan:
And so my plan I've shew'd it plain-
Look deep ye learned sons of men."

"Now let them weigh these things together, in what manner, like my Gospel, I have spoken to thee; though not understood by thee, nor any of the believers, before my visitation came to thee in a manner that astonished thee, that in the like manner I was born of the Virgin Mary, as she was visited from on high, so thy visitation is now the same, to bring in the COMFORTER, that I said should proceed from the FATHER, that the FATHER Would send him in my name:

And now in my name all this is done.
Awake ye simple sons of men ;
And now my Gospel you see clear,
The way that I must first appear,
To prove my Gospel all is true:

I call both Gentiles and the Jews

-To answer now to my Gospel-a little while and ye shall not see ME; and again, a little while and ye shall see ME; because I go to the Father. Do ye inquire among yourselves of what I said, a little while and ye shall not see ME; and again, a little while and ye shall see ME? Verily, verily, I say unto you, that ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice; but your sorrows

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shall be turned into joy: a woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come; but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the auguish, for joy that a man is born into the world and ve now therefore have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your hearts shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you. But did no one take the joy from the Disciples? was their sorrow turned into joy, when they saw ME expire on the cross, when they were persecuted, and put to death? Read the life of my Disciples, and what they went through; did the COMFORTER then come? or did they see the MAN-CHILD born, that they should see my likeness again, in raising a body by my own power, in a likeness of the body I laid down for man? This was not seen by my Disciples; neither did any COMFORTER come to them: they had the COMFORT of the HOLY GHOST to strengthen and support them; and they felt the power of my SPIRIT to enable them to go through the persecution they had to go through; but the COMFORTER I mentioned, whom I should send unto you, is not yet come; but know, from the woman's travailing to be delivered of the CHILD, forgetting the anguish for joy that a man is born, is to shew mankind that this CoMFORTER and SPIRIT of TRUTH must be born of a woMAN, as I was born. And I do not tell thee that thy anguish will not be great in labour, before the Child is born: and now I shall shew thee the folly of the believers, who judge, because thy visitation is from the Lord, that thou wilt not suffer according to nature, as other women do, in child-bearing: because they judge that all pain will be taken from thee. And now I shall shew thee their folly: know what I said in this chapter, of forgetting

the anguish of her pain; know what I said destroying the temple, and raising it in thr days; then let no one marvel to see thee in gre agonies of pain, till the third day appearet Know what I have said to thee already, that the must suffer like thy MASTER, for the stubbor sons of men; and know I have told thee that th

sufferings will paint mine to the life, when the A Child is struggling in the womb to get life. Th I have told thee already, that as I suffered fo the transgression of MAN, in child-bearing tho wilt suffer for the transgression of the WOMAN and therefore it is written, She shall be save through child-bearing; and then the next enemy that shall be destroyed is death.

So here let man discern my plan,
The way I'll bring all round.

And now I ask thee, where's the man
My wisdom shall confound?

For, in the end, 'tis my intent

To make it out so clear,

That there's no man on earth can stand

To prove thou'rt guilty here

Of arts, or lies, or strange disguise,

As they do now condemn.

But they will find theirselves unwise;

For I shall make it plain,

That every truth is found in thee,
My Gospel to fulfil:.

But Satan is thy enemy;

And men's hearts I shall chill,
Who now go on by Satan strong,
And fill their tongues with lies.
I know the venom that is come,
And how the fools chastise:
With every art that hell hath got,
He now will work in man,
To say that thou wilt act that way,
That their deceit is known,

To place on thee, I now do see;

But I'll confound the whole;

For like theirselves they all judge thee,
Where Satan's rage doth fall.

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And therefore marvel not in thy heart, t I have told thee thy sufferings must be great; thy danger of life will appear great and is the sorrow that thy friends and believers feel, as I told thee, till the third day; for e is the TRANCE mentioned in thy writings; t the Trance of thy mind, from my visitation thee at first, but the next comes when LIFE is ught into the world. And know what I have in thy writings: Strange Effects of Faith, ge 280.

"Then now 'tis LIFE brings on the strife

Behold an INFANT cry,

The MOTHER's pain doth all remain,

When it is brought so nigh."

"Now I shall answer thee from these words. Hadst thou understood them, thou wouldest have known that it was from a CHILD being made mention of to be born of thee, which would bring on strife and contention amongst mankind and now thou wilt find, that strife and contention to rise high. See on the one hand what raptures of joy that the believers are filled with, to hear the glad tidings, that the PRINCE OF PEACE will now be born, to fulfil the words of the Prophets, to be the COMFORTER I said in my Gospel; and to come according to the words of Paul."

1 Corinthians, iv. 5-6.-" Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts; and then shall every man have praise of God. And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself, and to Apollos, for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men, above that which is written, that

no one of you be puffed up for one against another."

"Here Paul plainly saw that the Lord would come to bring to light the hidden things of darkness for all my Gospel seemed hid in darkness to all my disciples; because none clearly understood in what manner I spoke of my Second Coming; nor in what manner I should fulfil the words of the Prophets; and therefore John the Baptist sent out his disciples to know if I was the CHRIST, or whether they should look for another. But know my answer to his inquiry Tell John what ye yourselves have seen and heard. But I did not tell him whether they should look for another, or not, that should come after ME, and be preferred before ME. For know, when I became flesh and dwelt with men, I was not preferred as a PRINCE, or a SAVIOUR, but was condemned to death as a guilty malefactor; but now the CoмFORTER, whom I shall send in my name, will be preferred as a PRINCE and a SAVIOUR: and then the FATHER will be honoured for the SON's sake; because they will see the truth of my Gospel.

"And now I shall answer the thoughts of thy heart. Thou sayest, it was John the Baptist that said, HE it is who cometh after me is preferred before me, whose shoe-latchet I am not worthy to unloose. Here I do not marvel that the words stumbled thee, of my placing his words to a likeness of myself; for then I must make the SON greater than the FATHER, and could not be the LAMB of GOD to take away the sin of the world. But I shall explain the sense and meaning thereof. Know that John and I came into the world nearly together, not long one after the other; and know what is written of John the Baptist in my Gospel."

Matthew, iii. 1.-"In those days came John