be alone, I would make a helpmate for him. Now you say that helpmate caused the Fall; but by whose arts did she cause it? Thou sayest by the Devil. Then on his head she cast it; and on his head I placed it : But know, in the garden the TREE of LIFE was preserved for MAN.-Now I shall go back to thy pondering thoughts of the CREATION. For as I hardened Pharoah's heart, to shew my visible judgments in this world, so I put ponderings in thy heart to answer the world at large thereby; for thy thoughts are the thoughts of thousands why did I create Man to be miserable? I answer: I created Man to be perfect in happiness; and perfect in happiness are millions, which will be till time is no more; then their happiness and heavenly joys will be visibly seen. Then why should I keep back that happiness from Man? Or why should I not create a race to be happy, because all would not accept that happiness? Now I shall come to the FLOOD. When the whole world was hardened in sin, and their hearts were bent to do evil, would my prolonging their lives have been a blessing to them, that they might add sin to sin, and make their punishment the greater? Thou sayest no: then where was the difference of my putting a stop to their sin in a day, that they might encrease no more in it, or letting them live a little longer in this world, and so cut them off one by one, without any visible sign? Would their punishment have been the less? I tell thee, No; but now as I cut off the race of Man in a day, that had none of MY SPIRIT within them, so will I cut off all the powers of darkness, whose spirit is opposite to MINE and as I saved NoAn in the ARK, wherein MY SPIRIT dwelled, so will I preserve men who long for MY SPIRIT to be within them; and as I told NOAH how to make the ARK, so I have told thee every particular, how to make the ARK of the NEW COVENANT that is between GoD and Man; and how I shall destroy all the works of the Devil. END OF THE DIVINE VISITATION TO MAN. 203 Know what I said to NOAH after the flood, I do set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between ME and the earth. Now mark my next visitation to Man-Let us godown and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speeches. Then followeth my visitation to ABRAHAM, and the great Promise I made to him, for his Obedience. Then followeth my visitation to JACOB, and to JOSEPH. All were blessed through the obedience of ABRAHAM, till it came to MOSES. Then a king rose that knew not GOD; then came on their afflictions; and then came their deliverance. And now I tell thee, the Type of Pharoah is already began in Satan: my commands have been obeyed as they were by NOAH, when I destroyed the world of sin; and now I will destroy the Man of Sin, which is the Devil, with all his host, and all his power; as I destroyed Pharoah, and all his host, for pursuing after the children of Israel, so will I overthrow Satan for pursuing those whom I forbid. For the perfect obedience of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, has been here; and in this perfect and true obedience all the families of the earth SHALL BE BLESSED, that will join with thee; let them be as the HEART of ONE MAN united together in faith; and I will free them, as I freed the children of Israel; for I told thee, that was a Type of the LAST DAYS; and know how Pharoah was destroyed, that pursued after them, and how I destroyed their enemies, that were before them, who had no knowledge of a GOD. So here the Type stands deep for Man When all those nations thou didst see And so their kings I brought to nought, And all their people I did slay; In nought but sin they did appear, And if their lives I had prolong'd, I ask what good to them 'twould done? As Pharoah did at first; Because that ME, he well doth know, I tell you 'tis my strong intend I tell thee, now my every mind Then I'll go through, they all shall know, For every nation now shall know Their end is drawing near. The Promise great, without deceit, Then Isaacs see, and Jacobs be And in obedience I do see How they believe their Lord. They'll find my Promises are strong, And so the lands they now do stand TYPES OF PHAROAH AND THE ISRAELITES. 205 That I'll redeem from Satan's hand, And from the Type my Bible stands- I tell you Men, for shadows strong How I destroy'd their enemy, That was before their view. These shadows here I now shall clear- But their destruction they may fear; My lands to claim, they shall be mine, And overy Foe, they now shall know, Now perfect as the Jews of old Mankind do now appear; For though the truth to them was told, Their unbelief they strong did shew, No wonders made them bend, -The end to see in faith to ME, And so to Man appear; Because the End they do not see Fulfilled in one year; Then they turn back, and they do droop, Thinking that I to Man must stoop, As I my mind have told, To tell them plain I shall redeem So now I'll clear like Israel here Thou now seest Men like them become, They think deliverance must be come, If 't be not so they back will go, Ne'er wait to see the end: And from these shadows you must know, As their deliverance don't appear, Though all the nations they do see Then I'll go through, they all shall know, That Abrahams here in faith appear, So he the same, and Jacob came, Till Jacobs here do strong appear, I visit there, let Man see clear, Till all my Foes destroyed are, And so their pleasures did not last; They sinn'd in every sound. But now I'm come to make an end, For to destroy their Foe, And I'll bring in a happy reign, My chosen friends shall know That from the first the whole must burst, As it did then appear; It was to bring it to the last, My Bible stands so there. |