"Tis I've the power with my God,
Though first I felt an Esau's rod,

And with him they did place ME here-
See how the shadow doth appear,
And how the shadow stands in man:
You see how Jacob's sons went on,
And how their father they provok'd
To bring on them an awful stroke,
Which from his dying words you see,
How he did curse their cruelty.
So I may say the same of man:
The shadow you do not discern,
No more than David to appear,
In every thing for to compare,
The perfect likeness here of ME.
But thy weak head, I plain do see,
Cannot discern how 'tis brought round,
Though I have shew'd in every sound
The way I'm liken'd to the two-
Jacob and Esau, all do know,

But now I'll make the words more clear;
I know thy senses are drown'd here,
So I shall place it to the first,

When the creation it did burst:
Satan, thou know'st, did first appear,
When my command was given there;
Unto the Woman he did come,
Her happiness for to unthrone ;
Then I like Jacob, close behind,
And from her words, a way did find
To gain a blessing then for Man :
Then to his heel I close must come;
And from the Promise, all must see
The way like Jacob I must be:
And so like Jacob to appear,
An Esau's malice first to bear;
And so his malice did go on
Till to destroy my Life they came.
But I was plac'd as Esau there,
When I was cast, let man see clear:

And so like Jacob plac'd the same,

To those that lov'd, and fear'd my Name. So here's the shadow of the Fall:

When the creation I did call,

I gave the Promise great to Man,

And said, I'd made him in my form.

But see how Satan did appear,

For to destroy the happy pair,

Had not mine hand been close behind

To intercede for Man;

And by her words I was confin'd

Like Jacob for to come,

First to go through, you all do know,
Like Jacob to appear;

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Because my sons they then did come,
That I the grief should share:

On ME 'twas cast; see how 'twas plac'd,
And what I first went through;
But now discern, ye fallen race,
The way I have plac'd the two.
Then now I'll come to Abraham:
I made the Promise there-
In Isaac should the earth be bless'd
And all the families here;
From Isaac see the type to be,
That I plac'd of the first,
Jacob and Esau, you do see,

And now the end must burst,
Like Jacobs here for to appear
And intercede with God:
But it is I who dwell on high-

The power, it must be know'd,
Must be in ME, the end to see;
The strength is not in Man.
So from the Fall discern it all,
The way I've led you on.

But I'll end here and say no more;
Read back the line are penn'd ;
See how your judgment will appear,
And then I'll place the end.
For puzzling first thy mind did burst,
And so I led thee on:

It is to see what is in thee,

I brought this round to man
In such a form—you don't discern;
But draw your judgment here,
And now observe how I do warn,
Before I make it clear."-

"Now, Joanna, I shall answer thee. To try your judgment, I ordered you to draw it; as thou judgedst in thy heart I had brought it round by too long an explanation, that I might have brought round in a short compass; perfectly so are men by thy writings; for I tell thee, there are many who judge the sense can be brought round in a smaller compass. But now I shall come to reason as objections kept rising in thy heart, so I know they will arise in many, if every mystery is not worked round and cleared up, which cannot be in a small compass. Now I shall come to the verse that puzzled thee at first :-I will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to hs doings will I recompense him. Here are words thou dost not understand. I shall bring Jacob to the

spiritual sense, according as I have placed it in myself, and according to the ways that I laid my plan in the creation: I was punished for the transgression of man; according to my doings will my recompence be. Now recompence you may place two ways; for evil, or for good. If a man does evil, you may recompense that evil on his head; if he does good, you may recompense that good on his head. Now I shall make it more clear to thy understanding, by a reward-as it is written, I shall reward every man according to his works. Then there must be a reward of evil, as well as a reward of good so that according to a man's doings, his reward cometh the same, as a recompence. Then mark what followeth If a recompence followeth Jacob for good, he cannot be blamed in the following verses-for taking his brother by the heel; and by his strength having power with God. But where is the man by strength, as a mere man, can have power with God? I tell thee no man. He may have power to intercede with God, by a strong faith in prayer; and he may hold God to his promise, as Jacob held the angel: this by strength of faith and prayer may be done by man; yet still, like Jacob, he is but halt; and not receiving immediately what he hath been wrestling for, like Jacob goeth lame. So that, as a man, he hath not the power with God, as it is described by Jacob; therefore the power must be, as I have told thee, in the spiritual Jacob, to wrestle with God and prevail for man. Now as I have told thee I was punished for man's transgression; but know what my doings were, for the glory of God, and the good of mankind; I gave my Life for Men, that they might take hold of the PROMISE, as I took hold of the Woman's words. But do not ponder in thy heart, that as I took hold of her words to cast the blame on Satan's head, that I must call him a brother, as Jacob called Esau. I tell thee, No; these things only stand for types and shadows, to shew

JACOB RECOMPENSED AFTER HIS DOINGS. 421 from Jacob and Esau, what the end must be to those Jacobs that have my Spirit; for though man is persecuted by the devil, as Jacob was by Esau; yet know the blessing rested upon Jacob, and that blessing must rest upon Jacob in the end; but as I was punished for the transgression of man, so is man punished for his own transgression; and the very men that were like Jacob, felt their persecution, and punishment, from those that were like Esau. And how can I free the punishment of man in this world, as long as they lay their blame upon ME? For I tell thee, the blame of the Fall is laid upon ME to this day. And now I tell thee by my Gopel, though they allow that the Lord laid on ME the burden of all; yet the condemnation of the Fall they do not allow is to be removed by my Death. Though I have so clearly explained it to them, and my Bible stands plain before them; yet I tell thee, there are many who judge they are wrestling Jacobs by prayer, and think they shall be prevailing Israels; but I now tell them all, as I was punished for the transgression of man, so will they be punished now for their unbelief, as the Jews of old were; for though the Jews had POWER with GOD, and many of them as great as Jacob; (look to Daniel, and those in the fiery furnace) yet those Jacobs did not continue after, though they were of Jacob's seed; yet as men they departed from Jacob, as his sons departed from him; therefore the seed of Jacob are punished on the one hand for though their voice is like Jacob's, by a profession of words, yet their conduct is like Esau; and so they go on to cheat their father with words, as Jacob did. But thou sayest in thine heart-then herein is Jacob condemned: I tell thee, No; comparing the likeness is not condemning the substance. But I knew thy thoughts: thou sayest, when I condemned the grain of wheat, that I compared to man, I condemned man also; to this I answer, I compared myself to the serpent; and so I have compared myself to Esau, as men have compared мE to them

both; but does this argue from the comparison, that I have compared myself so, as suffering all these reproaches of men (by the unbounded love I had for men, to come down and die for their transgressions) that I am like the serpent, tainted with all his vices, with all his evils and cruelty? If so, I would never have shewed my love to bear this reproach, to be so likened by man; and yet, by my love, I stand on record in this perfect likeness, by the Jews, and by thousands of professed christians; and like Esau am I judged by man, whom the Lord hates: this I have told thee, is what I am likened to by man; and by my submission the likeness appeareth; but shall I rest here? I tell thee, No: My voice is like Jacob's; and my fury shall be like Esau's, to destroy those that now go on to rob MB of MY HONOUR, that is now due to my NAME. Satan's malice pursued ME like Esau's with much fury, to seek my life: and now I say, with much more fury will I go on to seek his destruction. Therefore the type stands deep in Jacob-Thy voice is like Jacob's; and thy feeling like Esau's and so my voice shall be like the voice of a God; and my fury shall be like the fury of Satan, who entered Judas to betray ME, and worked strong in the people to crucify ME, and preferred the murderer before MR. But now let the murderer fear; for my anger and indignation shall arise like Herod's, who destroyed the children when he was mocked by the wise men. Now all these things will I recompense back on his head; for as I and my followers have been mocked like Jacob, and persecuted like Jacob; now my voice shall be like Jacob's; and they shall feel that my power is like Esau's. For know, Jacob after he had put on the form of Esau, he felt the wrath of Esau: so when I put on the FORM OF MAN, I felt the wrath of man; I felt the persecution of man, I felt the persecution of devils, while I had that form with ME to appear to man, in the likeness of fallen man. Thus I suffered like Jacob, and was compared to Esau; but

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