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GIVEN TO JOANNA,

In Answer to MR. BROTHERS's last Book, published the End of this Year, 1802.

MY heart was deeply wounded to hear read the blasphemy of this last book; as he makes God to be the author of the temptations to Eve; speaking through the serpent with a lie; and then to pronounce a curse on the serpent for obeying his voice; and also a curse on the man for listening to what the LORD had said. This blasphemy filled me with horror. But I was answered in the following manner:"As the sun is too strong for thy eyes, so is the truth too strong for thy senses: for, when they brought thee strong proofs of the truth of thy writings, thou couldest not look into it, but withdrew thyself; pondering in thy heart, if all was not a delusion. As I said he was the prophet Jonah, for whom I ordered thee to write, that he might be freed: and thou sayest in thy heart, "will the Lord free such, a man as he, that hath so condemned his God, and screened the devil, and who is making

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the Lord worse than the devil, speaking in the serpent first to tempt the Woman,—and then, for obeying HIS voice, pronounced the greatest curse upon him, above every living creature; and after, pronounce a curse upon man for a sin that the Lord tempted him to commit! Here he hath made his God both the author and finisher of every evil, unholy, unjust; both the liar and the murderer! and all my bible made false; and judged his God as a knave and fool, as speaking after the manner of men. First, to draw the serpent into sin, by shewing myself in the serpent, speaking through him; that is full of deadly poison: then I must be of that nature! and as soon as I made man, whom I pronounced good, to come in the form of a serpent to make him evil! Then I must act like a man, to present you with a glass of wine, and put poison in it, saying, "I made it good, but put poison to make it bad;" then where must the death be alluded to, but to him who mixed the poison with his wine? In this manner he has set forth his God to the world,-what men call a complete knave. In the second place, he hath made ME a complete fool: to pass sentence of death on MY SON for the remedy, and all is followers to die with him, for crimes that I tempted him to! O ye mad men and fools! how do ye judge your God! confess the Woman true, or fatal now will it be for you all that deny her words. "I said I had left the man to shew you Satan, and his every plan:" He came to the Woman, and found nothing in her, he then went to the Man in the same disguise; and as he had tried to turn the scriptures, and deceive the woman, to cast all the blame on the Lord, but could not; so now he hath gone to the man, and worked on him to blind his eyes, to cast all on his Maker, making his God, as the fallen angels did, worse than the devil!

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Because 'twas I who made man at the first,
And like the serpent then you say I burst,
With nought but poison in my mouth appear;
Then now I tell you, you shall feel my spear.
If like the devils, now, you judge your God,
Then like the devils you shall feel my rod
With indignation on your heads to turn;
For like an oven shall my fury burn,
If you do not confess the Woman true.
I left the man the devil's words to shew,
How he by every art doth work in man.
Had I not gave the Woman to his hand,
Satan would sought out man, and found a way,
His innocence, like her's, he'd soon betray;
And then upon his God he'd cast the blame,
And said from Mɛ he knew the voice did come
And so the man could not be good alone.
And now I ask you how I could atone
For any crimes so artfully laid on ME?
And by such arts they nail'd ME to the tree.
Then for such arts I never could atone;
It is the Woman's innocence alone,
That cast her guilt upon the serpent's head,
And so I died, her innocence to plead,
That from the serpent I would set her free,
And he should bear his blame as well as ME.
But will men say, that I betray'd at first,
And like the serpent I to her did burst?
Then like the serpent I must now become,
And Satan claim this kingdom all his own;
And you, like fallen angels, must appear
Join'd with the devil now, I tell you here:
Because the serpent you have now made ME;
The second time you've nail'd ME to the tree!
And all my wounds you boldly open here.
You say I am the serpent and the spear,
So full of poison that did come to man!
And like the devil now you've laid your plan;
To have the kingdom, and call it your own,
And ME and all my heirs for to unthrone!
Because the serpent now you make of ME,
Where the great curse was then pronounc'd to be:
And so you bring it on my guiltless head!
For like the devil now is all your plead :
And so I see man is not good alone.
I'll save the woman, and I'll save my own,
That with the woman they do now agree,
To cast the serpent, and their Maker free;
And say, the poisonous serpent came from hell;

And now the woman's seed do strong appear,
To
prove the serpent was the devil there;
And now I see the enmity is plac'd ;

By Satan's arts the woman now is cast
And, by my wisdom-man is cast the same,
Το prove that wrong his Maker he does blame;
Because I let the devil speak in man,
To shew you Satan, and his every plan,
How with such arts he does mankind deceive;
And therefore madly do mankind believe';
Nor of their judgment they do not discern,
Nor in what manner I to thee do warn.
But now his mad believers do appear,
In words of madness they no way can clear;
Unless they now will turn the woman's friend,
Confess their folly,-to my sceptre bend;
And with the woman's seed they'll now agree.
No other way preserved man can be;

Because high treason they've pronounced here;
Made ME the serpent for to feel my spear!
Because the voice by which you were betray'd,
I tell thee now must fall upon his head :
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you must give the lie.
The woman's seed will bruise his head this way;
And with the woman's seed I now shall join.
I see old Adam now appear in man,
Upon your MAKER for to cast the blame;
And that's the way I'll put you all to shame;
And if that way the prophet do appear,
I tell you, soon he'll feel the furious bear:
For that's the way he never shall turn back ;
The bear shall meet him, and his bones shall break;
And he shall never see the promis'd land!

The woman's sced must every bliss command,
And 'tis by her that you must all be free:
She cast her blame on SATAN, not on ME:
And in the end she now hath done the same.
Here's EVE and ADAM, as at first they came:
And now I tell you to weigh deep the fall;
For now the woman's seed shall conquer all!
For now my HEEL they've surely bruis'd it here,
To say a serpent I at first appear'd:

Then now I tell them I shall bruise his head.
You say my prophet did so wrongly plead;
Then sure like Balaam he does now appear;
The simple ass reproves his madness here,
To tell you all, my sword is in the way,
I'll send my angels, and your prophet slay,

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