When I the King do but appear,
And men's petition I do hear,
And all is laid before my throne,
And their petitions must be known
In their hand-writing to appear,
Or by their wish be enter'd there;
And then I will sum up the whole,
And be the Pilate for you all,
To give consent, I say, like him;
And so the Tempter falls, like ME,
I tell you, by the power of men;
By their desire I've laid my plan;
Then sure the Tempter can't complain,
If I resign'd my life to men;
Then now to them he shall resign-
And so I've told you all my mind.

The swords are drawn, the staves appear;

'Tis time for Satan to take care;

And you may judge how near the end,
As from my death 'twas my intent
To shew you all how this must burst;
And mark, Gethsemane was first,
Before I came to Calvary;
And so my foe shall fall like ME;
Because no respite I did gain;
For in one week the whole did end.
The seventh they'd not let me see-
They shorten'd then that week for ME;
And so I'll shorten now the whole;
And you may judge how near's the fall,
If you can judge from what is past.
I said the swords and staves were irst,
And now I say they do appear;
Against the Tempter they are here;
Then surely all will hasten on;
Two out of seven, then 'twas known,
Were nearly shorten'd then for мE;
And so the end of all you'll see ;
For these two centuries, that are here,
With the two days I will compare.

"So if you've wisdom to discern,
You all may judge how I do warn,
And how the tumult must come on,
To make a final end for man;
Because for man I will appear;
And all shall find me Pilate here;
As he did give it up to man,
I tell you, now I'll do the same.
So here this vision I shall end;
For deep are all the lines thou'st penn'ċ.”

NINTH VISION.

FRIDAY, June 3d. 1803, about eight o'clock, Joseph Prescott being engaged pounding allum, with other workmen, who were preparing size for paper, he saw the following vision; the whole of which was then in motion. He saw a Celestial Being in human form, with rays of glory issuing from his body, attended by a number of angels, the faces only visible. They were clustering together, and advancing towards the Celestial Being. Two angels were placed close to the Celestial Being, one on the right hand and the other on the left; each of which had one hand to a book, which they held open right before the Celestial Being. Underneath those, lay another angel, in a reclined posture, with a long roll in his hand, opened, with some reading apparently on it. They were surrounded by a great number of angels. Underneath this scene, at a distance, was a very confused appearance of the earth, on which he saw a number of tomb-stones; and out of the earth a great number of persons were arising. Some were walking, who apparently had risen. They looked like ghosts, as he had heard them described. There were two descriptions of persons thus rising, and they moved different ways-some, in a kind of light mantle, were going towards a hill, which was light and shining; made so from the rays of light, which issued from the Celestial Being, passing under or behind the clouds. Several of these persons in the mantles had ascended the hill, and mixed with a number who were gathered together in a body, upon the hill so illumined, which was on the right hand of the Celestial Being. The other description of persons looked like moving bodies formed of clay, ascending from amongst the tombs. Some had arisen and were walking, others in the act of rising they gathered together on the left hand

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of the Celestial Being. The place where they were assembled was dark and gloomy. By their side was a large body of fire, ascending from, or bursting out of the earth; by which was a very ugly figure, which Joseph supposed to be the Devil. Behind him was a pile of arrows, and in his hand a bow with an arrow applied to it; which he seemed to stretch against the string with great force, as if to shoot, pointing at the people in white. At a very great distance was a number of rough hills, with gloomy black clouds, from which issued flashes of lightning in different places. Some of the hills were on fire, apparently kindled by the lightning; some on fire, in other parts, where he saw no lightning. Another infernal figure was standing on a cloud, at a considerable distance from the one which had the bow in his hand. He was holding up a paper, with great earnestness, to one of the angels on the left hand side of the Celestial Being: which angel had his eye fixed on him with great composure. On the other side stood a wretched being in human form, in appearance miserable, ragged, and dirty. He also was holding a paper in his hand, with much apparent trouble in his countenance, to another angel on the right hand side of the Celestial Being; who looked at him, as the other did, with composure. The Celestial Being, whom Joseph supposed to be the Lord, had his hands and eyes uplifted, as if going to declare something. Near to the infernal figure on the cloud, was a person in human form, with an angelic countenance, clothed in a garment apparently of steel, having a chain with long links in his hand, one end of which was fastened round the body of the infernal person. A voice then uttered,

"Behold yonder, in a heavenly croud,

"With glory and splendor our God is ador❜d."

If desired to be drawn, it shall appear again.

TENTH VISION.

FRIDAY, June 10th, 1803. About half past four this afternoon, Joseph being engaged in parting paper, after sizing, had the following vision. There were presented to his view fields and trees, &c. in different parts. About the centre was a tent or marquee, with fringe, or some kind of ornament about it. The entrance of the tent was facing him; on each side of which was an angel holding back the curtain with one hand, and in the other each had a sword, composed of diamonds, with the point touching the ground. Behind them, without the tent, were two other angels with trumpets, which they blew in loud and shrill sounds. Behind one of those which had the trumpets, on the right hand side, stood a person with a spear in his hand, which he held straight up. Within the tent, which was very dark, was a very brilliant crown, raised some distance from the ground. On all parts that surrounded the tent, the sun shone with uncommon splendor. A voice said, "If desired to be drawn, it shall ap-. pear again" and further added, "I the Lord will be a light in a dark place."

"Now you shall see the Son of God,

"With millions of his sons, blood bought.

July 5th, 1803.

A communication concerning the visions, given to Joanna, in answer to her friends, who wished her not to spend so much time in shewing the visions, during her stay in Devonshire, to such numbers of people. She was answered by the Spirit, in the following manner.

"I ordered the visions to be drawn for thee, to be made public, and shewn to all who wished to see them; for I now tell thee and all mankind, the visions are the shadow of what is hastening on. And now call to thy remembrance, I said, when

the ten years were ended, that after I had shewn my visitation to thee, in the world, greater mysteries must appear to their view; and remember, I told thee in 1792, I would shew thee in dreams, and in visions, how it should come on. The first ten years were passed in dreams: but now, when those ten years were gone, that my visitation had appeared to the world; from wars, from dearth, from scarcity, and discord in the hearts of the people, I began to shew thee, from visions appearing to the youth, whom I visited in an early age, and permitted Satan to work on the minds of men to despise his visions, that all men might know he was visited by God, and not set up by man: but when my appointed time was come, that they had gone through thy writings, the visions were made known. But now I will make it plain to thee, and all mankind, there was no appearance in the world, that I the Lord had visited thee, till the wars broke out in 1793, and that it went on every year, to make it appear to the world, more and more, till the ten years were up. So, if men look deep, they will see the truth of thy writings has appeared visibly to the world, for ten years before the youth was made known, whom I had visited, but had concealed from thy knowledge; and at my appointed time, revealed it to thee, and them; and ordered it to be made public, that thy visitation appeared to the world in the beginning of 1793 and the visions were made known, and published in the beginning of 1803. Now weigh deeply the whole together: then in seeing ye may see, and in hearing ye may understand, that it is I the Lord who have brought all these strange things to pass: and remember the dream I shewed thee in 1792, that I arose from a bed, as one awoke out of sleep; and now he hath sent thee a vision of a bed with white furniture, and the curtains drawn back; and thon knowest I told thee