CONCERNING THE BRIDE. The curse pronounc'd upon him there So now to Man I bold shall come I say, from Man MY MOTHER came, I rais'd her up, then Man must hope And if MY SONS you now will come, My BRETHREN so must burst, "We see the Promise clear: "The Woman's Promise must be known, "She is our Mother here! "Her Promise see the whole must free- "How dare we proudly go To swell so high, and her deny, "When God did so submit? "We say, from HEAVEN the SON was givon, And she did sure bear it Ma 91 t "Then GoD above did shew his love, "To call her so at first." So now let Men the Trial stand,' Then now MY BRETHREN, you see all, So now 'tis come to GOD and MAN, A MOTHER now for both become, And I should surely act unwise But still support the FOE, And now his Guilt he sure shall bear, So ponder on as thou'st began, CONCERNING THE BRIDE. That now must join the whole; Then see the CHAIN that must remain, A MOTHER here she must appear, Then at the first as she was plac'd To be a MOTHER first to ME; To say " the BRIDE must be applied "A MOTHER for us all ; "For she is ready, as 'tis said, "To claim it from the Fall; "Her PROMISE there, that did appear, "Her dying LORD to free, "To bring HIM in the PERFECT HEIR."- Is bruised for the Fall; Then MEN I'll free from misery The MARRIAGE stands for all, 93 That now WILL COME with HER to join- That thought the PROMISE e'er to claim, It is in SPIRIT I AM here, That every soul shall know. Then judge the Two before your view- But now, to thee I say, In SPIRIT Strong I'm surely come And from the BRIDE, it must be known, CONCERNING THE BRIDE. The same as MARY was to ME, Though flesh from her did come; MY KINGDOM for to see; And made JOINT HEIRS with ME. 95 And now I shall tell thee in plain words. If I, that was the son of God, who came down from Heaven, did not take upon me the form of Angels, like as I had sent them to warn Lot, and who they judged were men; in that manner I might have come to men, and died for them the same but as I did not come that way, but was born of the wo MAN, that was condemned by the MAN, for the trangression of the Fall, when I condescended to raise her up, by making her the MOTHER of the SON of GOD, Men must now raise her up likewise, by joining with her in the PROMISE that was made in the Fall; then know, that she is the SPIRITUAL MOTHER for all men, as Mary was a TEMPORAL MOTHER for ME: yet know, she had a SPIRITUAL SON, by whose SPIRIT and POWER, the redemption of Man must be brought in. So now the TEMPORAL MOTHER is become the SPIRITUAL MOTHER, by the visitation of the LORD unto her, and must bring in her SPIRITUAL CHILDREN. And they that will not acknowledge her as a TRUE MOTHER for MAN, by claiming her PROMISE, to fulfil one part, as MARY was MY MOTHER, to fulfil the other part; those that will not thus acknowledge her, have no share nor lot in MY KINGDOM; for by MY BIRTH, being born of her, to take from her the Guilt that Man cast upon her, know that she must take from ME the guilt that was cast upon ME, by claiming the Promise. Now I have shewed thee, how by the SPIRIT I made the WOMAN the MOTHER at first, by the POWER of |