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And their temptations will be o'er,

The way I've laid MY PLAN.—
So I'll end here and say no more,
Until another day.

Thy pondering heart doth now appear,
And thoughts within thee lay-
"Oh, that to all it so did fall,
"From Adam at the first!"
Then how in justice could 1 call
To have the Serpent cast,
So far from Man as shall be done?
No: this could never be :

I know thy pondering heart do run
And wish the whole to free!

Here ends Wednesday night, October 3.

THE PROVERBS AND WISDOM OF SOLOMON.

Thursday, Oct. 4, 1804.

Thursday morning Joanna dreamt that she saw a house tumble down in the same manner as you might see a chest-of-drawers fall, without any part of it being broken, so that you might raise it up again, and place it as it was before; and perfectly so the house fell, and they raised it up, and placed it as before; and Joanna thought she went into the house afterwards, and went up into many of the rooms; and it stood upon a solid foundation; but she told the master, she was afraid it would tumble again; but he told her it would not.

Thursday evening. I Joanna have finished reading through all the works of Solomon;, and as I am commanded to draw my own judgment, before any answer is given me, I shall now draw it perfectly to the ponderings of my own heart, whether I draw it right or wrong; for I cannot deceive the Lord; therefore I shall not try to draw my judgment with man, in reading the Proverbs of Solomon. His advice is good; and by his wisdom,, in his advice, he foretelleth the end of his children; what their evils would bring upon them, for the punishment that

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he said would follow sin, followed the generation of Solomon's children; which is a type for all mankind; as it appeareth to me, that although Solomon was endowed with so much wisdom, I cannot say his heart was like David's, neither was his repentance like David's. So that from my judgment, wisdom alone will not do, without a sincere desire of the heart, to have the laws of the Lord written there. The wisdom of God is one thing, because he is infinite in goodness and mercy, as well as infinite in wisdom and truth. Now, from my observation of Solomon, the wisdom of GoD would not do for Man till his heart was renewed to the likeness of the Lord, in that state of innocence that he was at first created in; as from my judgment, David, without this abundance of wisdom that Solomon possessed, had a more humble and penitent heart, and deeply repented of the sins he had committed; but Solomon's complaining is, that all was evil and vanity, of the sins that he had committed; but he does not repent, like David, in his writings, whatever he did in his heart; and yet, by his wisdom, his counsel was noble; and by his wisdom his prophecies, to me, appear deep of the KINGDOM of CHRIST. And here I shall begin from the Wisdom of Solomon, viii. 8If a man desireth much experience, she knoweth things of old, and conjectureth aright what is to come; and can expound dark sentences; she foreseeth signs and wonders, and the events of seasons and times. Ver. 14-I shall set the people in order, and the nations shall be subject unto me. Chap. vi. 17-For the very true beginning of her is the desire of discipline; and the care of discipline is love; and love is the keeping of her laws; and giving heed unto her laws is the assurance of incorruption; and incorruption maketh us near unto God: therefore the desire of wisdom bringeth to a kingdom. In chap. v. 4-We fools accounted his life madness; and his end to be without honour: how is he numbered among the T

children of God, and his lot is among the saints! Ver. 17-He shall take to him his jealousy for complete armour, and nake the creature his weapon for the revenge of his enemies; he shall put on rightcousness as a breast-plate, and true judgment instead of a helmet. He shall take holiness for an invincible shield. Chap. iv. 13, 14, 15. 18, 19 He being made perfect in a short time, fulfilled a long time: for his soul pleased the Lord: therefore hasted he to take him away from among the wicked. This the people saw and understood it not; neither laid they up this in their minds, that his grace and mercy is with his saints, and that he hath respect unto his chosen. They shall see him and despise him; but God shall laugh them to scorn. For she shall rend them and cast them down headlong; they shall be speechless; and he shall shake them from the foundation. Chap. ii. 7, 8, 9. 13-In the time of their visitation, they shall shine, and run to and fro like sparks among the stubble. They shall judge the nations, and have dominion over the people; and the LORD shall REIGN for EVER; they that put their trust in him shall understand the truth. Blessed is the barren that is undefiled; she shall be fruitful in the visitation of souls. Chap. i. 2. 7-Fort he Lord will be found of them that teinpt him not: and sheweth himself unto such as do not distrust him. The SPIRIT of the Lord filleth the world and that which containeth all things hath the knowledge of the voice.-Now, as I am ordered to draw my own judgment, first from the Wisdom of Solomon for that wisdom, which Solomon speaks of, to have all power to reign and rule, and to subdue all things to himself, could never be in an earthly object, as to fallen man; it must allude to the knowledge and power of GoD, in and through his Son, in the verses here mentioned; for, in chap. vii. 25, 26, 27. he says-She is the BREATH of the POWER of GOD, and a pure influence flowing from the GLORY of the ALMIGHTY: therefore can no defiled thing

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fall into her. For she is the brightness of everlasting light, the unspotted mirror of the power of GOD, and the image of his goodness; and being but one, she can do all things: and remaining in herself, she maketh all things new. Now this was the wisdom of SOLOMON, that the LORD had given him, to know and understand what the LORD would do, by HIS WISDOM in the end. Now from my judgment, no man can understand, or believe, that all this wisdom, knowledge, power, goodness, and truth, was in SOLOMON, or in any man, to accom➜ plish these things; for SOLOMON saith of himselfI myself an a mortal man, like to all, and the offspring of him, that was first made of the earth. Then he cannot say that he is entering into holy souls, to make them friends of God, and prophets; and that vice shall not prevail against wisdom. This could never be alluded to Man: it can be none, but the POWER of GOD in the WISDOM of his SON, who was without sin unto salvation; and in him was wisdom, goodness, and truth; whom it is clear that the Jews counted his life madness, and his end to be without honour; but how must they appear, when he cometh again in MIGHT, MAJESTY, and GLORY, to put on righteousness as a breast-plate, and true judgment instead of a helmet, and his severe wrath shall he sharpen for a sword, and the world shall fight with him, against the unwise? Then may they cry out, when they begin to see his power bringing in his GLORIOUS KINGDOM of peace-"How is he numbered among the children of Gon, and his lot among the saints! Therefore we erred from the way of truth; and the light of righteousn ss has not shined unto us; and the SUN of righteousness rose, not upon us. We wearied ourselves in the ways of wickedness; but the ways of the LORD we have not known. What hath pride profited us? Or what good have riches, with our vaunting, brought us?" Now this appeareth to me, that the wisdom of SOLOMON WAS

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given to him to discern the LAST DAYS; though none of the commentators ever placed it so; neither is the name of Christ even mentioned in the contents of the chapter. So it appeareth to me that the wisdom of Solomon, was the WISDOM GOD gave him, concealed from the world; a LIGHT shining in darkness to mankind; that now appeareth breaking out; and the TRUE BELIEVERS, that rely wholly on the fulfilment of the BIBLE, of Christ's glorious and peaceable kingdom to be established, as promised, have already began to fight with HIM, against the unwise, that judge all things will remain as they are. But if no change is ever to take place, how can men believe changes ever did take place? For the world to be once drowned; the wonders that were done in Egypt; Sodom and Gomorrah burnt; the Jews, that were so long a standing people, cut off and scattered throughout the face of the earth; the holy temple and Jerusalem destroyed; and the Gospel of Christ brought in. Now as all these changes have taken place, why not the change take place for the KINGDOM OF CHRIST to be brought in to fulfil the LAW and the GOSPEL? This is the pondering of my heart; and are my thoughts on the Wisdom of Solo mon; if I am wrong, the LORD reprove me, and shew me the error of my judgment and now I am waiting for his answer,

THE ANSWER OF THE LORD,

"And now, Joanna, I shall answer thee. The preparation of thy heart, and the answer of thy tongue, are both from the Lord; and no more than men have discerned the wisdom of Solomon, no more have they discerned the wisdom of MY BIBLE. So, if they cannot understand the widom of a Man, they cannot understand the wisdom of a GOD; 'or that wisdom, which SOLOMON speaks of, was not in him to be pure and undefiled.

Now from thy dream I shall explain :
For there the house did fall-

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