CONCERNING DAVID, No: he did fall, I tell you all; Then David here you soon would clear, So tainted by the Fall; And worse and worse they still went on, So Adam see, the Fall of he, Because that Cain-call to your mind→→ A murderer did appear; And so from David you do find What murdering sons were there. So all in sin they did begin; The parents first did fall, When I the Promise made to them; Like men of war he will appear; And now I say, in every land It strongly doth appear. So marvel on as thou'st begun, To think of David's Fall: You see the Tempter still is strong, Where Promise great to them I make ; To gain the PROMIS'D LAND. "A David's Reign doth now begin "In happiness to burst; "We see the curse remov'd from mens Upon the Serpent cast." Then children free all men will see, Like Solomon appear; That is in WISDOM great to be, But not in SIN to err: No, no; I say to thee, that day When I destroy the Root, And every evil take away, Then Satan must stand mute. 11 "I've had my time I now do find, He would not let them stand: While Satan here do strong appear.- The land of Canaan there, That I my children then would free; But how did they appear? Sin did abound in every sound, And Satan did pursue, Like Adam's Fall, I tell you all, I tell you, no: it was not so, My Promise first must stand: But men did not, judge every lot: Though Abraham here I mean to clear, But Isaac he was bound; And know the Promise I made there, And see how soon was found Then Esau strong from him to come-And Esaus all may see; While Satan's reign I do prolong, Your murderer he will be: The Promise stands for all : CONCERNING DAVID: When you see plain, ye sons of men, Then like the Woman now contend, A DAVID here I'll then appear And bring MY CROWN to Man: Then Satan shall receive his curse, And like his words do cry; Though he did ne'er receive the spear, "O Absalom! my son! my son ! That all their vice they may pursue, Where they must go, as he did do→ Bring every thing before thy view, My KINGDOM they would sure unthrone By mocking of their LORD. Then now see clear, I tell thee here, My children are like he The Absaloms are every where, That soon cut down will be. Yet still I grieve that men will live For reason here they will not bear, 13 Now I'll begin from what thou'st seen, After part of this Communication was given, that the ponderings of Joanna's heart were answered, Joanna said that the Light of the Lord broke in so strong and clear upon her, that she said she saw the Foundation was laid clear in the Fall; and if men took away that Foundation, it was like taking the foundation of a house: that if you go and dig round a house, and dig away all the foundation that it stands upon, where would your house be? must it not fall to the ground? And is it not likely to fall upon those that digged away the first foundation? Just so, Joanna saith, is the Bible. If you take away the Foundation the Lord laid in the Beginning, and the Promises he made in the Fall, you destroy your Bibles, like the house "Now, Joanna, thee I'll answer: Thou dost say the Wisdom's thine; For I'll appear to answer here, The Parable thou hast made, If they will say another way— Nor the Foundation so don't lay."- I tell you plain, you sons of men, And perfect true, you all shall know; For so the end shall break. Upon you all the house would fall, THE OLD PROPHET'S DECEIT. And the Foundation I have laid, To free the sons of men. The guilt of Man I cannot clear, So I'll end here and say no more, Till all the mysteries I shall clear, 15 Here ends Sunday night, September 23, 1804.Taken from Joanna Southcott's mouth, by me, JANE TOWNLEY, Monday, September 24, 1804. JOANNA has been reading, since the morning, through the first Book of Kings, and began the second; but could by no means help her feelings being provoked with the perverseness of men, after the great promises the Lord had made them, and the extreme grandeur the Lord had filled the kings with, and the promise he had made them, if they continued in his statutes; and the threatenings pronounced against them, if they departed from them. But with what perverse hearts they did depart, one king after the other, though they were warned by the prophets, what judgments should follow them, if they did depart from them; and yet they continued worse and worse. The more Joanna reads her Bible, the more she is convinced, that nothing will free men from sin and sorrow, and bring them to happiness and union with God, till the Power of the Devil is destroyed, which is the root of all evil. But one thing Joanna was afraid for herself, whether she did not commit sin in her heart, concerning the old prophet's deceiving the young prophet. 1 Kings, xiii. For Joanna could not |