The Woman's free, you all shall see;
Will you like Satan come

To foil her here, when she is clear,
And lead her back again?
Though this by man cannot be done-
Her STANDING I've made SURE;
And deeply I have foiled man,
To prove that I am here;
That they may see the mystery,
And judge themselves but men:
Their wisdom cannot equal mine,
And all their power is gone.
For could you lead a simple maid
In by-paths so unknown?
Would you not see her jealousy,
And then turn back again?"

The following communication was given to Joanna, on the 12th of March, 1803, in answer to men's saying, there were Spirits invisible, neither of God or of the Devil, that couversed with mankind; which persons have said in Swedenborg's name, and which Joanna does not believe to be true.

The Answer of the Spirit to the above Words.

"As your faith is, it shall happen unto you; as my words are left on record; and the truth of my Words and Gospel I am Gospel I am now fulfilling. Thy faith is, that the gates of hell cannot prevail against a true believer in me; and my honour is engaged to save all that believe in me, according to my promises. Thou inquirest to know what Spirits there are invisible. I answer, but Two-the good and bad. The good are under my power and directions; the bad are under the Power of Darkness. And now I will tell thee why all must come to the standard of the Church because your prayers are-"to be kept from all false doctrine, heresy, and schism, and all contempt of my words and commandments." And now I tell

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thee, they are bringing in heresy and schism, and a full contempt of my words and commands. My command is, to believe in ME, as the THREE-ONEGOD GOD the FATHER, who created you; GOD the Son, who died to redeem you; and GOD the HOLY GHOST, who shall sanctify and preserve you from all the Powers of Darkness. This is my promise left on record; and this command is given to man to rely wholly on his GOD. But how can he rely on his GoD, if I do not keep you, as I have promised, as the apple of my eye, as in the hollow of my hand, and to carry the lambs in my bosom, and gently to lead those that are with young? And I have promised they shall have the Witness of GOD, to bear witness with their spirits, that they are the children of GOD, whereby ye cry, Abba, Father, my LORD, and my GOD." But here they are making a contempt of all my words and promises made to man; and they are now going into all false doctrine, and putting aside all true belief in me. How can I be the True SHEPHERD, if I do not take care of my Sheep, but suffer an enemy to destroy them? How can my Sheep know my voice and follow me wheresoever I go, if there are worlds of spirits to deceive you? O foolish people, and unwise! Who hath bewitched you to depart from the True and Living GOD? Do I not fill heaven with my majesty, earth with my goodness, and hell with my terrors? Who then shall dare to come and deceive you, while you rely upon your GOD? But I said in my gospel, that I should scarce find faith upon the earth at my second coming, and that they would build their houses upon the sand, and great would be the fall. thereof. But how could these scriptures be fulfilled, if Satan had not found a way to draw men's hearts and minds from the True and Living

GOD, hewing out to themselves broken cisterns, that yield no living water?

For every stream is now dried up by man:
They've plac'd my Bible by their every plan;
And if my Spirit did not visit here,

To shew my BIBLE, and to prove it clear,
I see that all would build upon the sand--
The grossest darkness now is in
your land;
And by this darkness you would perish all,
The day of vengeance on your heads must fall,
And by my anger I the world should burn.
Blind leaders of the blind, I see, are come ;
And every soul will find the ditch is near.
To meet your God, O Israel, now prepare,
And tell me where your third Spirit must be.
I told you there was Satan; now judge ye.
I said, my FATHER and Myself were ONE;
I said, the HOLY GHOST from both did come;
And those that with us now would not appear,
I said that of the devil sure they were.
But now my BIBLE I of all demand;
Where any other power I said did stand,
To gain an influence o'er the human mind?
Now, like the Jews, I see, you're equally blind;
And like the Roman powers you all
appear--
Like Popes to pardon, you a world plac'd there,
That hath a power equal with a GOD,
For to direct and guide your every word;
And so my BIBLE all have thrown aside.
Once more, I tell you, let the cause be tried;
And to my Bible I do bid all come ;
Or else, I tell you, I'll destroy your land,
The plague and famine, and the sword appear:
I say, my anger, it shall kindle here,
If in this manner ENGLAND does go on.
I see my BIBLE every one does burn;
And in my anger I shall burn the whole;
Like Sodom and Gomorrah is your fall.
For where's the man who can believe in ME,
If that a world of Popes are made by ye?
That is a world which hath power to assume
That they are Gods above, and now come down,
But this my Apostles warn'd you of before;
Such hellish doctrine would from man appear;
And so my GOSPEL it would be denied.
And now I'll speak concerning of the Bride.

is nothing but they writings he which will There

You know the SPIRIT with the BRIDE must come,
To warn all nations what is hastening on :
And if the Church can now the Bride appear,
Then every one must prove my SPIRIT's there,
To warn them all that I am at the door :
For he that's born of GOD must now appear
For to affirm he knows the things of GOD;
And by my Spirit must these things be know'd.
So now in print let all these words appear:
This is the reason I have linger'd here,
The madness of men's folly for to stop ;
If they repent, I tell thee, all may hope;
Because in Love to Man I did come down ;
For Satan's art in every age was found
To work with power on the sons of men;
And new inventions always did begin
To wrest my BIBLE, as I said before;
And by his arts he made the Jews to err;
And now the Gentiles he would make the same,
Had not my SPIRIT strong unto thee come,
To prove my Bible and my Gospel true:

There's but ONE GOD, that every soul shall know,
"That is in power, in the TRINITY—

The FATHER, SON, and HOLY GHOST, these thres:
There is a Devil, I did say before;

And like a lion he doth daily roar,

For to destroy where he can power gain-
But now the other power let man explain.”

The following communication was given to Joanna, on the 13th day of March, 1803, in answer to people's saying her writings were blasphemy, and came from the devil; and they would put a stop to them. I was

I was answered by the Spirit in the following

manner:

"The land is come into such a situation, that I now tell thee and all mankind, there is nothing but thy writings which will save the nation from utter ruin. Not that they are thy words; but because they are my WORDS; and the word is gone out of my mouth-I will preserve to myself all that will obey my commands.

And now I tell thee, was it in the power of men to stop thy hand, or thy writings from going abroad in the world, as they stopped my life on the Cross, saying, My blood be on them and their children; now should this be the presumptuous conduct of this nation; I tell thee and all men, they should perish in their presumption, as the Jews did in theirs; and your houses should be left unto you desolate, and your land utterly destroyed. For, if I spared not the Natural Branches, but cut them off, because of their unbelief, and of their presumptuous conduct; I will not spare the Wild Olive, that is grafted in, if they act with the same presumption, because of their unbelief. All flesh shall know the sin was not so great, to say, I worked miracles through Beelzebub, the prince of the devils, as it is to say thy prophecies came from the devil. For then they make him the perfect God of heaven and earth. Here thou art lost in wonder, how they make him the God of Heaven as well as the Earth. I answer: the sun and the rain, the fruits of the earth, and the fruits of the spirit, are in the hands of GOD alone. Now, if they say the devil told thee, in 1796, what the harvest should be in 1797, to make the grain as soft as men; if they believe thou hast this foreknowledge of thyself, and when the harvest was near approaching, to tell thee on the 22d of July, 1797, that he (meaning the devil) would be as silent to their prayers, as the ministers were to thy letters, and Satan had the power to command the rain to fulfil his words; they make him the God of all power in heaven and earth. Will they say the devil told thee, in August, 1798, what the harvest should be in 1799, if unbelief should abound? and that unbelief did abound, and the weather came perfectly as thou didst foretel. And again, when the corn was ripe unto har