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the Bible. Not only a LIFE SPIRITUAL, but a LIFE TEMPORAL is promised in Holy Writ. Revelation xxi. 3-And I heard a great voice out of heaven, saying, Behold the tabernacle of God is with men, HE will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. Ter. 4-And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. Chap. xxii. 19-If any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the Holy City.

On reading the Bible I am lost in wonder at the madness of mankind; and am sorry to say, in this Christian land many professed Christians are like Herod because he saw it pleased the Jews that he had killed James, he proceeded further to take Peter also. This wretched principle is too prevalent in our days; or men would never go on in so blind and ignorant a manner, to persecute the Spirit of God; or be so presumptuous as to write against a Spirit, and call it the Devil, before they have clearly searched into every truth, that they might be able, with a good conscience, to justify the things they are doing; but I see mankind are more inclined to be men pleasers (like Herod) than to follow on to know the Lord. From a book that was written against me at Stourbridge, I was ordered first to draw my own judgment, and then the. Lord would answer me. My judgment is as follows: His book is entitled, "Plain Remarks, by B. H. a Mechanic ;' and I shall shew my remarks as a simple woman. O vain man, be wise, and hear the word of the Lord, not boast of wisdom without wisdom. If you hear lies do not affirm them; for in so doing you

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Acts xii. 2, 2

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make yourself the liar; which is to be seen in the fourth page of of your preface, wherein are lies that you cannot answer to. Let a man not boast of wisdom, before he can assert what he publishes. He should have read my Books first, and heard what the Lord hath said unto me, and what grounds I had for. my Prophecies, before he began to draw such wild judgment; then he would have known the truth of my Prophecies, that they were copied off, and put. into the hands of ministers, from 1796 to the year 1801, so as they could be able to read them, oretelling the events that would take place in those years. Besides he would have known I told my friends of what was hastening on, as well as what I had written in ninety-two; therefore a man should be clear in judging before he began to condemn, lest he bring his lies upon his own head; as the author of this book hath done. These are his own words" she makes a scribbling upon some papers,. "and delivers them to some of her followers, and "when any remarkable occurrence happens in the "world, she being possessed of a great degree of head "knowledge, with a retentive memory, goes to these

papers, and pretends to read what has happened, "in the same manner as if it had been previously in"serted in them; there is a person, writes down "what she pretends to read, and then it is publish"ed." Here the author must have judged me another such as himself; for I make no doubt but such would be the conduct of him, if he could by arts deceive the world, by making a wrong interpretation of the Scripture, as he is now trying to do, that men may wrest them to their own condemnation: for if his judgment be true in the 9th page, where he says that when our Redeemer finished the whole on Calvary, it gave the devil, the old serpent; at that time such a deadly blow on the head, that it destroyed him that hath the power of death, that is the devil." Then there can be no more condemna

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tion to the devil, for then all condemnation of sin must come upon man's own head, he having no devil to tempt him to evil; as the world has been as sinful since Satan was destroyed, as before, then of what use can- his destruction be to man? or what honour and glory hath it brought unto the Lord ? for how few believe in a crucified Saviour! how few give honour or glory to his name! Oh, ye simple and unwise! whose tongues go before your senses, without your taking a serious view, how soon the powers of hell worked in the hearts of men to destroy the disciples, in the same cruel manner that they put the Lord of life and glory to death. Then to what purpose is the destroying the power of the devil, if his power still remains the same in men? But this is as false and mistaken a notion, as it is for the man to say, "I only pretend to read prophecies"-Poor, lying, ignorant man! though my handwriting no man can read before me, yet when I shew them my letters and read the words to them, every man can then read them after me; for my handwriting is such, that it is impossible for me to deceive any man, when I so read it to them; so this man has asserted a falsity, that he can rever make good, and who can be proved a liar by more than forty or fifty witnesses, that have affirmed they can read every word after me; besides, I have learnt some to read my handwriting, and I have lent them my manuscript books, and they have taken out some of my communications. So this wise mechanic has erred as much in his judgment of my writings, as he has of the kingdom of Christ; for he blends all together with such ignorance, that no man upon earth can explain his meaning. He saith-" Christ's peaceable kingdom on

earth, certainly is to take place; but it is not a "literal or a temporal kingdom that is spoken of ; "but a spiritual kingdom." Now how can this man explain his meaning? Will he say that that spiritual kingdom took place when our Saviour was crucified?

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REMARKS ON TEXTS QUOTED BY B. H. 293 and that his blessed and holy Spirit was then poured out upon all flesh? What then does he make of HIS SPIRIT? But if that spiritual kingdom was to come upon earth, it must be temporal, as well as spiritual when the Lord claims the kingdoms of the earth to be the kingdoms of the LIVING GOD, when HE will dwell in every heart, and at whose Name every knee will bow. This wise man saith, that it is past," and quotes Revelation xx. "that it is to come, when Satan is bound and cast into the bottomless pit, and during that thousand years Christ will in a more particular manner reign in the hearts of his people on earth." Now if t is is not a temporal as well as a spiritual reien, I know not what he can mean, unless he supposes the earth to be super or in purity to the heavens, and that they could not have fulness of joy there; and that he will destroy all that are living on earth in a temporal body, and bring the saints down from the heavens for to reign in a particular manner in their hearts, when on this earth; but if these are the spirits of the saints that are to have the spiritual kingdom, without any thing temporal in it, I ask how Satan, when he is let loose, is to go out and deceive these spiritual saints again? Now before a man begins to take upon him to lay the Scriptures before the public, he should call reason to his assistance, to know whether it is consistent with common sense; or else, I think, as a mechanic, he had better follow his employment, than try to deceive weak minds like himself: for if the whole temporal reign of man is to be cut off, Satan can have no nations to deceive. He himself allows that Satan is to deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years are accomplished; yet if they are cut off, there are no nations left to deceive at all; then how can Satan ever go out to deceive? or why is he confined that he may not deceive them, if there be no more temporal reign in man? I must say of this man, as he hath said of me-he must himself know that he is

an impostor, unless he is quite out of his senses; but as to me, I can call heaven and earth to witness, I never was an impostor; neither did I ever try to deceive any man *. Now this wise man says, the ministers are the "spiritual prophets;" as St. Paul says" despise not prophecies;" and this man speaks largely of prophecies, that he might go on in his publication with treating on prophecies; now I must ask this wise man, if those who are called the ministers of the Gospel are influenced by the Spirit of God, and are called the spiritual prophets, why do the preachers differ so much in their preaching? and one preacher to write against another? There are some who erroneously say, that our Saviour was an impostor, which is blasphemy at the highest; and yet they preach repentance of sin! others wretchedly say he was not the Son of God; yet they believe him to have been a good man! Now these are as ignorant as the writer of the book: for how can any one vainly imagine that HE was a good man, if he told them what was not true, when he said to them he was the Son of God? and before Abraham was HE was? and that he came from God, and HE went to God? and that HE and HIS FATHER were one? Now if HE knew all this to be false, how could they call him a good man? For HE spoke as no other man ever spoke; and he wrought miracles that no other man ever wrought; and HE left all on record, for HIM to be worshipped as no other man was ever suffered to be worshipped. Then how can man vainly imagine the Lord God would give him power to work such miracles to be worshipped equal with HIMSELF, if he was not what is said of him in the Psalms-Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? Now if HE was not what he said, HIS Mother must be a liar, and his Father the same; the wise men that came from the East the same; and his Apostles the same a

* This was proved at my Trial, lately published.

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