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But do not say, like him that day,
It shall be in despair

If they will all turn back to ME,
My hand and heart they'll share."

(Signed)

JANE TOWNLEY.

A Letter from Miss Townley (being a copy of
Joanna Southcott's) to the Rev. T. P. Foley.

Reverend Sir,

Joanna being weak and faint with the fatigue of the sixth day, laid down on the bed for some hours, while I was finishing your letter ; but she awoke with a most beautiful and heavenly dream, though she could not recollect it; but it seemed to be with the power of GOD breaking in strong upon her. "Here I will Rest from My Labor. All Old things shall be done away; and all things shall become New. No longer shall My Spirit strive with man, but I will destroy man whom I have created, that will not enter into the New Covenant with Me: for now My Delight shall be with the Sons of men, that enquire what the LORD hith said, and what HE hath spoken concerning them; and they shall be MINE. in the day that I make up. My Jewels; and I will spare them as a man spareth his own Son that serveth him. For now, I will wound, and I will heal; I will kill, and I will make alive; I will cast down, and I will raise up; for, a quick work will the LORD do upon the Earth. And my new covenant shall stand with man; and whosoever will enter into it, let him seek ME, and he shall find ME: let them call

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upon ME, and I AM ready to answer. I AM. HE that created all things; that filleth the Heavens with MY Majesty-that filleth the Earth with My Goodness-and that filleth hell with My terrors. And now the Heavens shall be filled with My Majesty the Earth shall be filled with My Goodness and hell shall be filled with My Terrors. For now, I will break out on the Right hand, and on the Left: I will kill and destroy at once: My Anger is kindled-My fury shall go forthand My Loving-kindness shall save to the utmost all them that now come unto ME. For I have placed the Chapter before You, and they shall know Thou art the Woman; a Widow in thy Youth and forsaken; grieved in spirit and rejected by man, and refused. But I call thee as a Woman forsaken, and his name (Noah) stands as a Type unto you all: for as the floods of Love where in you Two, so are the floods of My Love coming to Man: for in rest and peace, ye shall possess your souls, after I have brought My Mighty work to pass I know thy heart trembleth, and all thy bones shake you are serving the LORD with fear and trembling, but soon shalt thou come into My presence with thanksgiving, and enter into My Courts with Praise. Awake, awake, O Zion, put on thy beautiful Garments, O Jerusalem; for the day of the LORD is at hand, that HE hath visited and will.redeem his people. I have visited by My Spirit; and now will I redeem by My power. I will no longer bow down to man, but unto My Name shall all men bow; and unto Me shall all men swear, that they will be taught of Me, from the greatest to the leaft. Bring forth your arguments, Oye ftout-hearted; plead your cause ye that boast of Learning. Where is your God whom

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you have forsaken? Where are your Bibles which you have neglected? Have I not said it, and shall I not do it? Shall men set all my Councils at nought, and say they are wiser than their MAKER? Shall the Clay contend with the Potter? Shall he that is formed say unto him that formed him, what doeft Thou? I AM GOD, there is none besides ME: My Honor I will not give unto another; neither My Praise to the Sons of men. Their Wisdom shall not save them: and their Counsels I will bring to nought: for the Wisdom of the wise men shall perish: and the Understandings of the prudent shall be hid. But now will f gather him that halteth; for I have led them by a way they know not, and in by-paths they did not understand. But now will I make crooked paths ftraight before them; for now will I unveil the myflerics unto them: they are the Abrahams," and the feed of Abraham, and like Abraham they have gone on, inviting men to come forwardbinding the Cords upon the Altar: but now the Cords are broken; My. Ifaacs shall be unbound : no longer fhall they invite men: no longer thall they entreat them:-but they fhall stand valiantly in their faith and wait till men fhall invite them: wait till men fhall entreat them-to let them ftand the Trial, that they may see the NEW CREATED BEINGthat they may see the NEW COVENANT that is making with man, and know that the Mouth of the LORD hath spoken it, that they may enter into a NEW COVENANT with HIM, before they call upon the Rocks and Mountains to cover them--for they fhall find I will go forth with Fury, and None fhall flay My Hand. I will break down the pride of the Lofty, and I will exalt the Spirit of the Meck; for the

meck man is bowed down, and the humble man is despised in his humility, and for a moment I have hid My Face from them. For now will I reason together with man; though their sins are as scarlet, I'll make them as wool; though they are as Crimson, I'll make them as snow. For now will I create all things NEW. For now he that hath spoiled and was not spoiled: he that hath dealt treacherously, and no man dealt treacherously with him: but now his time is over of dealing treacherously; and they fhall not deal treacheroufly with him; (Isaiah the 33 chapter,) Hear, and hea ken, ye sons of men, who is the man that deals treacheroufly with him. Who is the man that hath spoiled, and no man sought to spoil him? Open Your eyes ye blind: unstop your ears ye deaf and discern My Words that I spake unto You, that Mr Wisdom was hid in the great deep, and My Paths paft man's finding out. Satan hath dealt treacherously, and no man hath dealt treacherously with him: satan hath spoiled; but no man hath spoiled him-but now he hath made an end of dealing treacherously, for his treachery can go no further. My Sons and Daughters have been bound with Cords of the Altar, as Isaac was bound-But now the Ram fhall be caught in the thicket, and all My Isaacs fhall be unbound; and now shall they deal treacherously with the devil; for now the LORD fhall be gracious unto them. They have waited for me every morning, and they shall see the salvation of their GOD. When they pass through the waters, I will be with them; and, in the floods, it fhall not drown them: for they are created NOW, and not from the beginning; even before the day when thou heardest them not, lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.

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Isaiah 48th chapter, 7th verse. O ye sons of men that boast of wisdom, and ye learned, that boast of learning, how do you understand my Bible? Have I not said, I should shew you NEW THINGS, and HIDDEN THINGS, that you did not know? Then now let Then now let your GOD be true. and every man a liar, that says, he can find out by learning, what are MY HIDDEN MYSTERIES in the Bible, when I have concealed them from Men and Angels-Angels could not look into the depth of My Decrees-Then where are ye vain boasting men, whose Breath is in your nostrils and whom I pronounced dead to knowledge? Shall I come and contend with men and devils, with the Bible I cannot clear? Let the wise men contend with the wise men-and let them contend with a Fool that is brayed in a Mortar, and see if he will not contain his Folly, till I can make my Bible as plain before him, that a Fool, though a way-faring man may not err therin. Where is the man that by searching. can find out his GOD? Who can find out the ALMIGHTY to perfection? Shall I come in power, and not come in honor? How did satan upbraid ME concerning Job? How did satan upbraid me in the flesh, when he said I should cast MYSELF down from the Temple; for "it is written I should give My Angels Charge concerning Him."? Then how shall I contend with satan? To be a God of Confusion, and not of order? Have not Kings order in their Wars? Do they not produce THEIR CAUSE before they break out in a War, that they may show a just cause for it? Or, how would the enemy upbraid them, and say, that they had dealt treacherously with them? They were not spoiling, but man

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