the power of Christ, who would now fulfil the promise he made me. I obeyed, as I was ordered, knowing, if the promise was from the Lord, he would protect me; if not, I had rather die than live, to be deceiving, and being deceived. So I ran the hazard of my life to contend with the powers of darkness; but the Lord protected me according to his promise, and then gave me an answer to Satan's words, which may be seen in a late publication, entitled "The Lord's Answer to the Powers of Darkness." In November I was ordered to advertise in the different newspapers, that my sealed writings would be brought forward, and proved, on the 12th of January, 1805. The Clergy were invited thus publicly, and also many of them privately by letters, to attend and investigate the truth; but every invitation was disregarded. During the seven days of the trial, there was open house for any to come and pass his judgment; and none who applied AT THE HOUSE were refused admittance. On the last day there were fifty-eight people present, who joined with me for Satan's destruction, believing the calling to be of God; and who, with one heart and mind, joined with me in the following declaration and petition.

"I, Joanna Southcott, am clearly convinced that my calling is of God, and my writings are indited by his Spirit as it is impossible for any spirit but an alwise God, that is wondrous in working, wondrous in wisdom, wondrous in power, and wondrous in truth, could have brought round such mysteries so full of truth, as is in my writings; so I am clear in whom I have believed, that all my writings came from the Spirit of the most high God.

JOANNA SOUTHCOTT.

"After I had written my own faith, as I was ordered, I was asked by the Spirit, what was my claim? or what was my petition to the Lord?-O my God,

thou knowest-To cut off all the power of Satan from the face of the earth, as the head of John the Baptist was cut off, and bury him down, as John was buried down." This I read to the fifty-eight persons who were present, and they signed their names with me in faith and prayer, for the fulfilment of the above petition. After the trial was finished, on the 18th of January, in the evening, these words of the xviiith Psalm were sung by the company-it having been explained in my sealed writings.

"The Lord descended from above,
And bow'd the heavens most high,
And underneath his feet he cast
The darkness of the sky :

On cherubs and on cherubims

< Full royally he rode,

And on the wings of mighty winds

Came flying all abroad, &c. &c. &c."

Then was sung by the company the civ. th Psalm, a few verses of which I shall give.

"O Lord our great God, how dost thou appear!
So passing in glory, that great is thy fame,
Honour and majesty in thee shine most clear.
Thou makest thy spirits as heralds to go,
And lightnings to serve we see also prest;
Thy will to accomplish they run to and fro,

To save or consume things, as seemeth thee best, &c," Thus ended the seventh day of proving my writings, and the casting of Satan. On the fourth of March, I had the following vision of Joseph Prescott read to me, by a friend who that day had received an account of it, from the gentleman with whom the youth now lives; and on the sixth I had a communication concerning the vision of the crowns, now given to the public; but I must inform my readers, before I proceed, that in July, 1802, I was at the house of the gentleman, near London, where I saw a furnace perfectly like one that I saw in my dream, in 1794; where I saw a pig cast alive into the furnace; which I was told was a type of the

devil, because he entered into the herd of swine, and they ran violently down the steep and were choaked; and so shall the devil. The latter end of February, 1803, the same gentleman took into his house this youth, who had been in the habit of seeing visions from 1793 to the present day, and had drawn many hundreds of them, and had sent some to ministers, who judged his visions came from the devil. Some ministers prayed in his father's house, that the Spirit might leave him. Their prayers did not prevail; for the visions still followed him. On March the 4th the youth had the following vision, at the house where he now lives.

JOSEPH PRESCOTT'S VISION, March 4, 1803.

An Angel appeared, in size like a grown person, in a loose blue robe, with a star on her head, like a cap, a square box under her arm, about a foot each way, apparently of gold. She opened the box, in which was a crown. To look at it all together, it looked like a star of diamonds. Four large arches came from the ball in the centre, at the top. Between each of the four arches there was a small crown like the large one. Underneath the ball was another small crown, hanging to the ball. At the top of the ball was another crown. The angel said, the four arches signified the four quarters of the world, and the crowns between the four arches, CROWNS of WISDOM, that the people of the world are to be crowned with, and the crown under the ball, the CROWN of LIGHT, that was to be in the hearts of the people. The BALL was the World-the crown at the top, the CROWN of GLORY and HAPPINESS, given them at their going out of the world. The reason that the box first appeared shut, was, because it is not yet *******. And if any one that was a

believer in God, desired a picture, it should appear again; but not without. The reason the angel appeared in blue, was, because he came with TRUTH." The vision lasted about two or three minutes; and was seen soon after two o'clock this afternoon.

A VISION seen at Medina, in Arabia, on September 20th, 1620, from Knowles's History of the Turks.

Mr. Knowles, in his Turkish History, relates, that in 1620, there was a strange apparition, or vision, seen by the Turks at Medina, where their prophet lies buried, which continued three weeks, and terrified the whole country. For on September 20, 1620, was a great tempest about midnight, attended with dreadful thunder: but when the clouds were dispersed, and the sky clear, the people might read, in Arabic characters, these words in the firmament, "O WHY WILL YE BELIEVE IN LIES?" And be tween two and three in the morning appeared a woman in white, encompassed with the sun, of a cheerful countenance, and a book in her hand. Over against her were armies of Turks, Persians, Arabians, and other Mahometans, in battle array, ready to fight with her; but she keeping her station, only opened the book; at the sight whereof the armies fled, and presently all the lamps about Mahomet's tomb were put out for when the vision vanished, which was commonly an hour before sun-rising, a murmuring wind was heard, unto which they imputed the extinguishing of the lamps. The ancient pilgrims of Mahomet's race (who after they visit this place never cut their hair) were much amazed to conceive the meaning of this vision; only one of the dervises, or priests (which is a strict order among the Turks, like the capuchins among the papists, and live in contemplation) stepped up boldly, and made the following speech to the company:

"That the world never had but three true religions, every one of which had a prophet. First, God chose the Jews, and did wonders for them in Egypt, and brought them forth by their prophet Moses, who prescribed them a law, wherein he would have maintained them, if they had not been obstinate and rebellious, and fallen to idolatry; whereupon he gave them over, and scattered them upon the face of the earth. Then presently after, God raised a new prophet, who taught the Christian religion. This good Man the Jews condemned, and crucified for a seducer of the people, being not moved with the piety of his life, his great miracles, nor his doctrines; yet, after his death, the preaching of a few fishermen did so move the hearts of men, that the great monarchs of the world bowed to his very title, and yielded to the commands of his ministers. But it seems, they in process of time grew as corrupt as the Jews: their church being disjointed with the title of Eastern and Western, committing idolatry again, by setting up images, with many other idle ceremonies, besides the corruption of their lives; so that God was weary of them too, and not only sent divisions among them, but forsook them and dispossessed them of their chiefest cities, Jerusalem and Constantinople. Yet, God is still governor of the world, and to himself hath raised up another prophet and people, even our great Mahomet, giving him to our nation, so as no doubt we shall be happy for ever, if we can serve this God aright, and take warning by the fall of others. But, alas! I tremble to speak it, we have erred in every point, and wilfully broke our first institutions; so that God hath manifested his wrath by evident signs and tokens, keeping our prophet from us, who prefixed a time to return with all happiness to his people, so as there are now forty years past by our account. This strange and fearful vision is a prediction of some great troubles and alterations. For, either the open,