will walk up and down in it-I will come in MAJESTY-I will come in POWER. But should I appear so now, you women would fear and tremble! But fear not, ye women, I AM with you-I will protect you-and I will destroy your enemy that came with lies against you. My Promises are sure, and I will fulfil them; for I said the gallows should be for the liar; and my lands should come to the heir with my Daughter that spoke the truth. Therefore tremble now, Oh Satan! thou shalt feel the weight of my fury-for as thou puttest thy garters across the fan, this day, and thoughtest to thyself it was like Woollands words, throwing villains one on the one side of the gallows and the other on the other; and so I said, I would throw Satan and his accomplices, that had tied and bound thy feet so long; for which reason, thou didst throw them so hastily on the floor, and desired Underwood to pick them up and put them into the fire, as thou wouldést never touch them more. And so the fire of my anger shall now destroy all the works of the Devil, and all the powers of the Devil. But here thou must stop, and tell the sense before thou goest further: the greatest part of the words before it came to thy garters, was delivered by me last night, but some words were spoken, that I have not repeated now." And now I shall speak from myself: After I was ordered to take up my bed and walk, I went immediately out of bed and walked up and down the room, for I knew the Lord did not mean me to take my bed at my back; so I went out with my pondering thoughts, of the Parable I had been writing in the day, and the abominable lies of the Devil. All of a sudden the Spirit entered in me with such power and fury, that my senses seemed lust; I felt as though I had power to shake the house down, and yet I felt as though I could walk in air, at the time the Spirit remained in me; but did not remember many words I said, as they were delivered with such fury that took my senses; but as soon as

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the Spirit had left me, I grew weak as before. Now what was spoke through me last night, I cannot recollect myself, but I was ordered to pen the words, as they were spoken to me now; so Miss Townley and Underwood can be better judges of the likeness of the words than I can; but I perfectly remember these words, "That if he came in his own PERSON, MIGHT, MAJESTY, and POWER, that we women should be afraid." To the best of our remembrance, say Townley and Underwood, they are the very words that were spoken last night, from eleven till twelve, and much more was spoken, as the words flowed much faster than any pen could write them; and the room shook so violently that we were obliged to take the things off the drawers. I laid upon the bed, as perfectly quiet and composed, listening to all she said; Underwood stood at the feet of the bed, looking at her and listening with the same attention; but neither of us felt any fear; and Joanna saith she felt nothing but joy and power.

But here she must introduce a Parable. It was of a Knight that was travelling and benighted; and hearing the mistress of the house, where he stopped, crying out, he asked, What was the matter? They said, she was in child-bed. He went out and looked at the planets, and the child that was that moment born, he believed must be his wife. He went in and asked the farmer, if she was brought to bed? The farmer said, yes. He asked, what it was? He said, a girl. He got lodgings for the gentleman hard by. He finding that child was born for him made him restless all the night. I shall pen the story as I heard it.

The Knight he did tumble and toss in his bed,
And many strange projects came into his head,
With a vexing heart, next morning be rose,
And so to the house of the Farmer he

goes,

And asked the man with a heart full of spite,

If the Child was alive, that was born the last night?

"Worthy Sir," says the Farmer," although I am poor,

I had one born last night, and six heretofore.

Four sons and three daughters I now have alive,
They are all in good health and are likely to thrive."

L

Eve

“Well, then,” said the Knight, "if seven you have
Give me the youngest, I'll keep her most brave,
For I am a Knight of a noble degree,

And if you will part with the child unto me,
Full three thousand pounds I'll unto thee give,
When I from your hand your daughter receive.
The Father and Mother with tears in their eyes,
l'attempt Did hear the kind offer, and both were surpris'd.
help They delivered unto him the sweet babe on that day,
And with her he rode on till he came to some sea.
He said if you live, you must be my wife,
But I am resolv'd to bereave you of life.

So he took the sweet Babe, and then threw her in-
But mind how good fortune for her did provide,
She was then driven back on the waves by the tide,
And a man that was a fishing as fortune would have-
When she was a floating along with the wave;
He then took her up but quite in a maze,
He kiss'd her, and press'd her, and on her did gaze;
And said, "he had never a child in his life,
"And now I will carry this home to my wife."
The wife was well pleased the child for to see,
And said "my dear husband, be ruled by me,
" or as we have no child, if you'll let me alone,
"We'll keep this dear infant, and call it our own."
The good man consented, as now we are told,
And spared for neither silver nor gold;
Until that she was eleven full years,

And then her sweet beauty began to appear,

The Fisherman was drinking one day at an inn,

And several gentlemen were there drinking with him,
The woman sent the girl her husband to call home,
And when she into the drinking room came,
The gentlemen there were amaz d for to see,
The Fisherman's Daughter so full of beauty;

They asked the Fisherman if the child was his own?
He replied, on the seas the infant was thrown.
The Knight in the company these words he did hear,
And said he would give him a thousand for her.

The Fisherman then sold her to the Knight for the money; the Knight told the child he would send her to London in a coach to a brother of his, where she should be brought up like a lady; but he wrote a letter and put it in the portmanteau and said to his brother

"With sword or with poison destroy her this night,
"And not let her live 'till the next morning light."
But a thief in the night, with an evil intent,
To rob the portmanteau immediately went;
The thief was amazed when he then could not find
No gold nor no silver, nor nought to his mind,
But only a letter the which he did read.→

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And soon put an end to this treacherous deed:
The thief read the letter, and had so much grace,
To tear it and write in the very same place:
"Dear Brother, receive this Maid now from me,
"And bring her up well, as a Maiden should be;
"Let her have good learning, dear Brother, I pray,
"Let servants wait on her by night and by day,
"And when that I come, I'll sufficiently pay."
The Maid was attended most nobly indeed,

She'd men and maid servants to wait on her with speed.
Before a twelvemonth this cruel Knight came about→→→
And as the Knight and his Brother together did talk,
He saw the fair Damsel in the garden to walk.
She look'd then most beautiful, pleasant, and gay,
Like to the sweet Iris, the Goddess of May:
He was in a passion when he did her spy,
And said most angry, "Why, brother, why,
"Did you not do as in my letter I writ?"
His brother reply'd, "it is done every bit."
He shew'd him the letter that very same day,
The Knight was amaz'd, but nothing did say.
He said then the Girl shall now go with me;
And with her he rode, 'till he came to some sea;
He then look d upon her with anger and spite,
And spoke to the Damsel and bid her alight-
Then down from her horse she immediately went,
And trembled to think what was his intent-
"Ne'er tremble," said he, " for this hour is your last

So pull off your cloathes, I command you in haste."
The Virgin with tears on her knees did reply,

Saying, "What have I done, Sir, that now I must die.
"Oh! pray let me know wherein I did offend,

"I'll stand on the sand cach hour to make you amend.?
He pull'd off his RING from his finger, and said-
Pray look on it well, for the posey is plain,

"That you, when you see it, might know it again;
"I charge you for your life ne er appear in my sight,
"For if you do I shall owe you a spite,
"Unless you do bring the same unto me,"
With that, he let the Ring drop in the sea.
Which when he had done, away he did go,
And left her to wander in sorrow and woe.
She rambl'd all night, at last did espy
A homely poor cottage, and to it did hie;
Being hungry and cold, and her heart full of grief,
She went to this cottage to ask for relief.
The people reliev'd her, and the next day
They got her a service as they do now say,
At a nobleman's house not far from the place,
Where she did behave with a most noble grace.

One day she was opening a fish, and saw the gold ring, which she perceived with raptures of joy. Some Some years after, the Knight came to the

house where she lived to dine; he perceived the damsel in the gentleman's house, and asked her to take a walk with him, which she complied with; but as soon as he came out of sight of the people, he said, You strumpet, did I not charge you for your life, never to appear in my sight?" She hastily answered him, "Not till I did bring the same ring that remember you dropped in the sea," which she returned to him. He received the ring and fell en his knees, and said, "Pardon, fair creature, I humbly pray, for thou hast a million of charms; and then he married her, with raptures of joy and love.

THE ANSWER OF THE SPIRIT.

"Now mark the man. The thing was in the Womb of Providence, which he with all his might tried to prevent'; but all his schemes would not do. The art of man, or the power of man is as nothing, to fight against the determined decrees of Jehovah. Pride tempted the man to withstand his happy fate, receiving a bride that was beautiful, young, and innocent. To see an infant born of mean parents, he could not bear to think that child should be the partner of his soul to complete his happiness; yet that child perfectly completed it after he had seeked so many ways to destroy it. The ring made him fall at her feet, when she brought him the ring that he had cast away. This child I will place first to my birth, when the star appeared in the East, and the news was brought to the Wise Men, that I was born the PRINCE and SAVIOUR of MANKIND; they sought the young child's life to destroy it, but my flight into Egypt, like the child's being thrown into the sea, preserved my life: but here I know thy heart is puzzled, thy mind is confused-how can I bring the likeness of that child to myself, when I was destroyed and the child was preserved? No, I tell thee, there stands but the shadow, for I must come again in the Woman to fulfil the substance. So I shall go again to the shadow, of the fisherman who