THE SECOND BOOK of VISIONS. TH HE Continuation of Joseph Prescott's Visions, and the Explanation of them, given by the Spirit to Joanna Southcott; to shew you all that the night is far spent, and the day is at hand, that all the Prophet Joel's words shall be fulfilled. "For I now warn the whole world, by thee, and by him, that my Bible is near to the end, and all shall be as the Prophet Joel tells you :-the end will come by visions seen by young men, and prophecies given by my handmaids. Now they are both before you; and all I said in my Gospel is now like the green leaves in the spring; then know that your redemption is, like your summer, nigh at hand and like your husbandmen are my disciples, preparing for the summer fruit, to bring forth the increase, and to try the ground of every heart. "For every heart I know: In him that's little in his own eyes And as 'tis drawing to the night, A The Second Edition printed in Nov. 1813, by W. Marchant, from the First Edition, printed in August, 1803,. Entered at Stationers' Hall. I've shewn you plain, from every sign, I've shewn the branches and the vine, April 4th, 1803. The following was given to Joanna, in answer to people's saying that Joseph Prescott's visions, and her explanations of them, were "witty inventions;" and Joanna was answered by the Spirit from the 8th chapter of Proverbs. "Now I'll appear to answer here, As dead to knowledge man appears, And dead in sin do all begin To moulder into dust; His wisdom must in all appear And from the Proverbs I shall clear, For there's no man on earth can come The wise and learned I'll condemn, To say from man this wit did come; Then wit's invention, it must be known, Is in that youth and thee. And 'tis not your divinity Can all her wit confound. Wiser than man the woman's come, And in one likeness all agree; You must confess no fool For every way 'tis plac'd by you, Then how can you contend That you are right, when to your sight You one the other blame, And like the sand your wisdom stands, But here are two, before your view, For to condemn the sons of men- The woman, I have given to you, The woman, see, is given by ME, If men with Satan now agree, Then both alike shall burst. To call you to a strict account; The shepherds I will never clear The letters all must see, That in my name to them were sent, To tell them 'twas thy full intent That in my name the writings came, Their silence gave consent; And they shall know my every name→→ And now my mind is bent For to condemn the sons of men, If they do now agree To say thy writings came from hell- And seek to know if it was so- For all to justice men would bring, But for your God no love you've shew'd, By silence he compell'a My shepherds their not to appear; Till it was all in vain |