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AN 
 
 ABRIDGMENT 
 
 OF 
 
 JOHN WROE'S 
 
 REVELITIOP ON THE SCRIPTURES, 
 
 AND 
 
 DIVIIE COMJiraiCATIOM : 
 
 ALSO 
 
 SEVERAL PROPHECIES. 
 
 THIRD EDITION. 
 
 BOSTON: 
 
 PRINTED .iND PUBLISHED FOR THE TRUSTEES OF THE PEOPLE 
 CALLED ISRAELITES. 
 
 1849. 
 
BOSTON: 
 
 BAMRELL & MOOEE, PRINTERS, 16 DEVONSHIRE STREET. 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 Introductory Address, 
 
 John "Wroe's Birth — Education — Religious Con\-ictions, &c., 6 
 
 His Visions, with Explanations, 9 
 
 His Travels, 19 
 
 His Wanderings, 23 
 
 Divine Communications, chiefly Commands for his own Observance, 23 
 
 His Mission to the Jews, 25 
 
 Also to the Invisible Hebrews, or the Ten Tribes, 28 
 
 A Message to the Roman Catholics and Protestants, 33 
 
 A number of Prophecies, , 46-52 
 
 Instructions to Believers, 69 
 
 The Prayer, 80 
 
 Doctrinal Instructions, 95 
 
 1. The Difference between Immortality and Incorniption, 
 
 2. The Fii'st and Second Resurrections, 
 
 3. Whose Bodies are to be healed — not to see Death, 97 
 
 Satan cast from Heaven to Earth — His first Power here, &c., 100 
 
 Israel's future Glory, 116 
 
 N. B. For Chapter of Fulfilments, see second edition. 
 
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 ABRIDGEMENT, ETC. 
 
 INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS. 
 
 The ancient prophets suffered much, not merely from 
 the openly profane, but from the professed worshippers of 
 the God of Israel. Christ, his apostles, and primitive 
 followers, had more to contend with, and to suffer, than 
 generally falls to the lot of man. Some said of the Lord 
 Jesus Christ, '' He is a good man ; " but others repUed, 
 *' Nay, but he deceiveth the people." John, vii. 12. At 
 one time, '' All bare him witness, and wondered at the 
 gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth." Luke, 
 iv. 22. But by and by, " They rose up, and thrust him 
 out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill, 
 whereon their city was built, that they might cast him 
 down headlong." 29. By some he was declared to be 
 mad, and that he acted under satanic influence. " He 
 hath a devil and is mad ; why hear ye him ? " John, x. 
 2Ch and surely human nature continues the same, " The 
 carnal mind is enmity against God." Romans, viii. 7. 
 " And, as then, he that was born after the flesh perse- 
 cuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is 
 now." Galatians, iv. 29. The rulers, scribes, and phari- 
 sees were some of the bitterest enemies of Chrisj; and his 
 disciples ; and there has been lamentable proof that some 
 of J. Ws. greatest opposers and enemies have been found 
 among the more learned and moral portions of the com- 
 munity ; he and his doctrines, &c., are condemned by 
 
many who have never conversed with him on rehgious 
 subjects, nor read any of his books, or examined the 
 grounds of his visitation. You are requested to set aside 
 your prejudices and preconceived opinions ; and observing 
 Nicodemus' words, " Doth our law judge any man before 
 it hear him?" John, vii. 51, pass regularly through, at 
 least, the commencement of this work, and inquire, Would 
 you be willing to expose yourself to as much derision, per- 
 secution, inhuman treatment, and dangers by sea and 
 land, in support of your religion, as he and his friends 
 have done, in continuing to speak and act as they consider 
 themselves required by the Almighty to do ? Perhaps it 
 would be too great a trial for your faith and feelings to 
 contend with ! Did the outcry raised against Jesus, and 
 his rejection by his countrymen, the Jews, prove that he 
 was not the true Messiah ? When Judas betrayed him, and 
 Peter denied him, with imprecations, and all the disciples 
 forsook him and fled, was this a proof that he was an impos- 
 tor? When an uproar was raised against Stephen, (see Acts, 
 6th and 7th chapters,) did this prove him to be a blasphemer 
 or an impostor ? When the self-interested Ephesians per- 
 ceived that their craft was in danger, and raised an outcry 
 against Paul,' did this prove him to be a deceiver? No ; 
 nor could the self-righteous moralists, and the learned doc- 
 tors with all their weight of influence, crush or stop the 
 progress of that work, which God was pleased to carry on 
 by the instrumentality of a few humble and illiterate indi- 
 viduals ; not indeed educated in the great seminaries of 
 the day, but endued with power from on high : not skilled 
 in the logic or philosophy of the times, but declanng the 
 great truths they were commanded to publish, with plain- 
 ness and simplicity. Can any reader be offended with the 
 great and self-existent I AM, for selecting his own instru- 
 ments? or have you forgotten, that " God hath chosen the 
 foolish things of the world to confound the wise ; and God 
 hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the 
 things which are might}'-, and base things of the world, 
 and things which are despised, hath God chosen ; yea, 
 and things which are not, to bring to nought things that 
 are ; that no flesh should glory in his presence." 1 Corin- 
 
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 thians, i. 27-29. " For with stammering lips, and another 
 tongue will he speak to this people." Isaiah, xxviii. 11. 
 How solemn are the words of the apostle, " Beware, 
 therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in 
 the prophets : behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and 
 perish : for I work a work in your days, a work which ye 
 shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto 
 you." Acts, xiii. 40, 41. 
 
 It is a most glaring fact, that even in this thinking and 
 enhghtened age, any person professing to foretel future 
 events, or advance doctrines at variance with the current 
 opinions of the religious teachers of the day, will be cer- 
 tain of meeting with every species of calumny from the 
 religious world ; and of insult and persecution from the 
 ungodly : some concluding that such a person is deranged, 
 or a teacher of false doctrines ; others exclaiming, '-'-Away 
 with such a fellow from the earth; for it is not fit that he 
 should live.^^ Acts, xxii. 22. How strictly true are the 
 following words, "If they hear not Moses and the proph- 
 ets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from 
 the dead?" Luke, xvi. 31. 
 
 It may be inquired, can any unprejudiced reader assert, 
 after consulting the following passages of Scripture, that 
 the spirit of prophecy was, or was designed to be entirely 
 withheld after the death of the apostles ? " Surely the 
 Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto 
 his servants the prophets." Amos, iii. 7. " The secret 
 of the Lord is revealed to them that fear him, and his 
 covenant to give them understanding." Psalm xxv, 14. 
 " And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I 
 will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons 
 and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men 
 shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams : 
 and on my servants, and on my handmaidens I will pour 
 out in those days of my Spirit, and they shall prophesy." 
 Joel, ii. 28, 29. " Howbeit, when he, the Spirit of Truth 
 is come, he will guide you into all truth : for he shall not 
 speak of himself, but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall 
 ho speak : and he will shoiv you thinrfs to come.'*'' John, 
 
xvi. IB. "And there are diversities of operations, but it 
 is the same God which worketh all in all. But the mani- 
 festation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit 
 withal. For to one is given by the Spirit the word of 
 wisdom, &c. To another prophecy-" 1 Cor. xii. 5-12, 
 and 28, 29. " Knowing this first, that no prophecy of 
 the Scripture is of any private interpretation ; for the 
 prophecy come not in old time by the will of man ; but 
 holy men of God spake as the were moved by the Holy 
 Ghost." 2 Peter, i. 21. "Follow after charity and 
 desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy." 
 1 Corinthians, xiv. 1. "If any thing be revealed to 
 another that sitteth by, let the first hold his peace ; for 
 ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and 
 that all may be comforted." 30, 31. " Let us prophesy 
 according to the proportion of faith." Rom. xii. 6. If 
 there were to be no true prophets in the latter days, why 
 should we be warned to beware of such as are false ? 
 " Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's 
 clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall 
 know them by their fruits." Matthew, vii. 15, 16,^21, 22, 
 and xxiv. 1-13. " For false Christs and false prophets 
 shall rise, and shall show signs and wonders, to seduce, if 
 it were possible, even the elect. But take heed : behold 
 
 1 have foretold you all things." Mark, xiii. 22, 23: 
 
 2 Peter, ii. 1 : 1 John, iv. 1. " But tile prophet which 
 shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have 
 not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the 
 name of other gods, even that prophet shall die. And if 
 thou say in thine heart, IIoiv shall we Icnotv the word 
 which the Lord hath not spoken ? When a prophet 
 speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the tiling follow not^ 
 nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath 
 not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptu- 
 ously ; thou shalt not be afraid of him." Deuteronomy, 
 xviii. 20-22. It has been, and can be proved, that sev- 
 eral of J. W.'s predictions have been fulfilled, some of 
 which will probably be laid before you. Say not with the 
 king of Israel, " But I hate him, for he never prophesied 
 good unto me, but always evil." 2 Chronicles, xviii. 1-7. 
 
We read of two young men in the days of Moses, upon 
 ■whom the sjjirit of the Lord rested, and they prophesied ; 
 " And there ran a young man and told Moses, and said, 
 Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp. And Joshua 
 the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his young 
 men answered and said. My Lord Moses, forbid them. 
 And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake ? 
 Yv^ould God that all the Lord's people were prophets, and 
 that the Lord would put his Spirit upon them." Numbers, 
 xi. 27-29. May the children of men, instead of being 
 influenced by that spirit of sectarianism, self-confidence and 
 self-righteousness, so prevalent in the present day ; (which 
 leads them to oppose, with so much warmth every thing 
 at variance with their own views and opinions,) attend to 
 the words of their Bibles, '" Prove all things, hold fast that 
 which is good." 1 Thessalonians, v. 21. " Charity suf- 
 fereth long and is kind, charity envieth not, charity vaunt- 
 eth not itself, is not puffed up." " Thinketh no evil." 
 " Endureth all things." 1 Corinthians, xiii. 1-8. " With 
 what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again," 
 Matt. vii. 2, 3. 
 
 We must either entirely deny revelation, or acknowl- 
 edge, on the authority of the Scriptures, that God fre- 
 quently revealed his will to his servants in different ages 
 of the world, in the most plain and familiar manner, also 
 in trances or visions, and by the instrumentality of angels ; 
 this is so self-evident that it requires no proof, to any per- 
 son who believes the truth of the Sacred Volume, and is 
 even superficially acquainted with its contents ; for instance, 
 refer to Gen. iii. 9-19 : iv. 6-15 : vi. 13-22 : vii. 1-4 : 
 viii. 15-22 : ix. 1-17 : xii : xv : xvii : xviii. 1-33 : xix : 
 XX. 6 : xxii. 1-16 : xxviii. 13-15 : xxxi. 24 : xxxii : xxxv. 
 1-13 : Exodus, iii : vi. 1-13 : also, 1 Samuel, iii. 1 : 
 Proverbs, xxix. 18 : Isaiah, i. 1 : xxi. 2 : xxix. 11 : Lam- 
 entations, ii. 9 : Jeremiah, i. 2-4 : Daniel, ii. 19 : vii : 
 viii : ix : x : Micah, iii. 6 : Matt. xvii. 9 : Luke, i. 22 : 
 Acts, ix : X. 17 : xi. 5 : xii. 8-15 : xvi. 9 : xxiii. 8, 9 : 
 XX vi. 19 : XX vii. 23 : 2 Corinthians, xii. 1-9 : Numbers, 
 xii. 6 : 2 Chronicles, xxvi. 5 : Ezekiel, i. 1 : viii. 3 : 
 xiii. 16 : xl. 2. A much greater number of references 
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 could be introduced, to prove the truth of what is advanc- 
 ed: and if the Lord is pleased, according to promise, to 
 reveal himself in a similar manner to any individual in the 
 present day, will any presume to declare that person to 
 be mad, or an hypocrite, or a deceiver, and all this on the 
 assertions of others, and without convincing proofs of the 
 truth or fallacy of their statements ? " My thoughts are 
 not your thoughts, neither are my ways your ways, saith 
 the Lord." Isaiah, Iv. 8. Beware lest thou be found a 
 despiser of His word, who says, '•' Thou shalt not raise a 
 false report : put not thine hand with the wicked to be an 
 unrighteous witness. Thou shalt not follow a multitude to 
 do evil : neither shalt thou speak in a cause, to decline 
 after many to wrest judgment." Exodus, xxiii. 1, 2. 
 " Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor." 
 XX. 16. Read Acts, xxiii. 1-12, and see 9th verse, " We 
 find no evil in this man : but if an angel or spirit hath 
 spoken to him, let us not fight against God." 
 
 HIS BIRTH— EDUCATION— VISIONS. 
 
 Having so far cleared our way, we proceed to state 
 that John Wroe was born in a small village, called 
 Bowling, in the parish of Bradford, Yorkshire, Septem- 
 ber 19th, 1782, and was baptized in the church of that 
 town. 
 
 The time allowed for his education appears to have been 
 nearly lost, for on leaving school he could only read very 
 imperfectly ; and it was concluded, from his apparent 
 want of capacity, that he never would become a scholar ; 
 the truth of which conclusion has been fully verified. 
 
 He was brought up to the same employment followed 
 by his father, who was a master collier, farmer, and 
 worsted stufi" manufacturer. 
 
 John's grandfather declared that " The Lord would 
 raise up a minister from among his offspring." In conse- 
 
quence of this impression, Jolm's father named his 
 youngest son, '' Thomas," which was his grandfather's 
 name, and educated him for the ministry; but was pre- 
 vented from applying to the Archbishop of York for ordi- 
 nation, through the persuasion of the vicar of Bradford 
 and another person, by reason of an impediment in his 
 utterance. 
 
 In the year 1819, John was afflicted with a fever, and 
 his hfe considered to be in imminent danger ; he was 
 attended by Dr. Blake, of Bradford, and Dr. Field of 
 Tong Street : the former told John's wife, that there was 
 no probability of his recovery, and advised her to prevail 
 on him to settle his affiiirs. Concluding that his recovery 
 Avas very improbable, he became much concerned about 
 his spiritual uiterests, for all his deeds were introduced to 
 liis view ; he accordingly requested the Methodist preach- 
 ers to A'isit him and pray with him ; but they refused, 
 although his wife sent to four of them : she then 
 enquired of him whether she might send for the minister 
 of the Established Church at Bradford ; he replied, It is 
 noAv late, read one or two chapters for me, and I will see 
 what I can do for myself, but he found no comfort. Dr. 
 Blake attended him every day for three weeks, he was 
 reduced almost to a skeleton ; however, in the course of a 
 few weeks he recovered from his bodily illness ; but his 
 distress of mind continued. He Avrestled with God both 
 day and night, for several months, and sometimes walked 
 up and down his own fields, with his Bible, sitting under 
 the hedges, and reading easy passages, but continued des- 
 titute of comfort. 
 
 Soon after this, he was visited with what are called 
 trances or visions ; (see Numbers, xxiv. 4 : Acts, x. 10 : 
 xi. 5 : xxii. 17 :) at the commencement of most of which, 
 he was struck blind and dumb, his eyehds became as 
 firmly united as if they had naturally grown together : 
 and his tongue fastened in his mouth, in which stiite he 
 remained during the whole period of their continuance, 
 which was sometimes seven, twelve, twenty-four, or thirty- 
 six hours : after one of the trances, he continued blind 
 for six days, but not dumb. Many- remarkable events 
 
were revealed to him during their continuance, as well as 
 afterward, and which were accomplished, according to his 
 predictions. He then began to travel, and act as a public 
 speaker ; while thus engaged, he made known such parts 
 of the subjects communicated to him, during his trances, 
 as he considered himself directed to publish. 
 
 From the time of his being visited by the trances, 
 (which he afterward denominated visions,) he attended 
 the meetings of the societies believing in modern divine 
 revelation and prophecy, as preparatory to the introduc- 
 tion of that great event, known by ihe term " Millennium ; " 
 societies which had espoused the writings of Joanna 
 Southcott and George Turner, the latter being then alive, 
 and looked upon by them as the Loi-d's servant and mes- 
 senger, by whom he would, from time to time, make 
 known his will to them ; however, John Wroe did not 
 become a member of any of said societies at that time, 
 nor of any other, and which was occasioned by the 
 instructions given him in one of his visions, in which he 
 was informed that after he had travelled for three years 
 in England, he should be joined to the Lord's people : 
 and which people, he then concluded, were Jews, appear- 
 ing to him with long beards. Towards the latter end of 
 the year 1822, the three years alluded to being then 
 nearly expired, John Wroe was informed by an angel in 
 vision, that he was to be joined to the people with whom 
 he had been assembling for some time, and to occupy the 
 place of George Turner, then deceased : this information 
 he received when in one of their meetings at Bradford, on 
 a Sunday evening, and which he communicated to the 
 society ; but they received it at first with some degree of 
 opposition, which, however, soon disappeared, as far as 
 regarded the society at Bradford and many others : but 
 several continued to oppose, and consequently became 
 separated from the rest. The three years he considered 
 to have expired on the 14th of December, 1822, at whicli 
 time he accordingly became a full member of said soci- 
 ety. He then, by direction of the Spirit, relinquished his 
 worldly employment, became wholly engaged in the work 
 of the ministry ; and consequently left Bradford, to visit 
 
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 nil to whom he might bo sent, and warn tlieni of approach- 
 in,ii; events. 
 
 The most remarkable of liis travels and voyages in the 
 succeeding ten years, are those to Gibralter, Spain, 
 France, Germany, and Italy, in 1823, to Scotland, in 
 1827, and Wales, in 1828 ; and to America, in 1840, to 
 South Australia, in 1843, and again to America in 1846. 
 
 HIS VISIONS, WITH EXPLANATIONS. 
 
 Having stated that John Wroe had been visited with 
 visions, a fevf of which are herein inserted, (see Numbers, 
 xxiv. 4 : Acts, xxiii. 8, 9 : xxvii. 23.) 
 
 When in one of my fields, and wrestling with God in 
 prayer, I saw a vision, having my eyes open — A woman 
 came to me, and tossed me up and down in the field ; I 
 endeavored to lay hold of her but could not, I therefore 
 knew it was a spirit : after which, being laid in my bed, I 
 was struck blind and also dumb, (this was at about two 
 o'clock, on the morning of the 12tli of November, 1819,) 
 the sun and moon then appeared to me, after which there 
 was visible a very large piece of glass ; on looking through 
 it, I beheld a very beautiful place, vfhich I entered. I 
 saw a multitude of people, which no man could number. 
 There came an angel, who became my guide, and said to 
 me, '' Thy prayers have been heard, but not accepted ; 
 for thou wert not like Abraham when he offered his son 
 Isaac for a sacrifice, for thou hast withheld thine heart 
 from the Lord thy God, but now thou art cleansed, spirit 
 return unto thy rest." And as quick as lightning the fol- 
 lowing Avords struck forcibly upon me, " Tiiough I Avalk 
 through the valley of the shadovr of death, I fear no evil, 
 as long, as the rod of thy word, and the staff of thy 
 defence is with me." During the time I was in this situ- 
 ation, (being about twelve hours,) I knew what was pas- 
 sing in the room, and what every person said, and shor>k 
 
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 liands -with them, expecting that I was immediately to 
 leave the body. 
 
 On the 14th of November, 1819, at about ten in the 
 forenoon, I had a second vision, was struck blind as on 
 the first, and remained so for some hours : I was as if 
 travelling a long journey ; and passing through a lane that 
 I did not recollect, I beheld a multitude of beasts, and 
 horned cattle, that could not be numbered, one differing 
 from another in shape, size, or color ; looking downward, 
 and very harmless, they were all lying down : I turned 
 round and saw one of a very great size, having a gold 
 chain round its neck : its appearance terrified me much, 
 so that I thought I shed many tears. I thought 
 that I walked about a mile among these beasts, until 
 I retui'ned to my former place, wliere my guide 
 met me. He then took me into a large place, 
 where I saw a great number of books, placed on their 
 edges, having gilt letters. There also appeared large 
 altars full of such letters, but I could not read them: 
 I begged that I might be enabled to read and understand 
 w4iat I had seen ; and there appeared another, the letters 
 of which were black print Or old English, with the word 
 Jeremiah on the top of it, and the letter L. I wrote on 
 the wall with my finger at the time, as 1 lay in bed ; the 
 people who were present, observing me, concluded that I 
 wished to v/rite, (I was dumb, for my tongue w^as fastened 
 in my mouth as before,) they gave me a piece of board 
 and chalk, and I wrote Jeremiah, 50th chapter. I had 
 never read this chapter, or heard it read, or seen it 
 before, to my recollection ; but w4ien I came to myself, I 
 could, without looking at it, repeat nearly every word in 
 it, and which indeed I did. My guide turned to me 
 and said, " I will tell thee the meaning of this chapter. 
 Thou shalt set up a standard, conceal not my words, but 
 publish them in the streets ; this chapter shall fall upon 
 the land." He then took me through a large passage, 
 and I saw an innumerable company of soldiers, I also saw 
 kings in chariots and on horseback, with stars on their 
 breasts, and like men armed for battle ; and I beheld an- 
 other larare bodv of men on the contrarv side, but not in 
 
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 uniform ; they bad long beards and were in front of tlie 
 armed men, and a flash, as it were, issued from the clouds, 
 and cut oif all the men that were in uniform. I saw them 
 and the kings all weltering in their blood, which ran in 
 streams : and mj guide said to me, " This day is the battle 
 of the Lord." Then there appeared another altar, with 
 letters in black print, as before, and I saw Isaiah, 5oth 
 chapter, and wrote on the wall as formerly ; on being ob- 
 served, a piece of chalk and a board were handed to me, 
 and I wrote Isaiah, 55th chapter. The angel said, " I 
 will tell thee the meaning of this chapter. It is the time 
 when the thousand years shall be revealed on the earth, 
 and at that time, you shall want no king, every person will 
 think himself lower than another. He that shall rule 
 over you shall be King, and as he was seen going, so in 
 like manner shall he come unto you." There came a 
 gloom over the place, and I returned. In this vision I 
 could not hear as before. 
 
 On the 29th of Xovember, 1819, at ten o'clock in the 
 forenoon, I was struck blind as in the former visions, and 
 my tongue became quite fastened in my mouth as before. 
 I saw angels who seemed to be all moving from one place 
 to another ; they held books in their hands, and turned the 
 printed side to me, saying " Canst thou read and under- 
 stand them?" My guide showed me Moses and Aaron, 
 with the twelve patriarchs ; but Moses seemed to me to 
 be the highest. I saw numbers beside, which were in 
 companies, and in each company one shone brighter than 
 another. The angel then said, " Thou seest how far one 
 diifereth from another in glory ; it is according as they 
 have spent their lives on the earth." I saw the Throne 
 of God, and the glory thereof ; it appeared to me as a 
 place arched with precious stones, which shone with such 
 lustre that my eyes could scarcely behold it : there were 
 numbers of angels on each side of the throne : my guide 
 shewed me the Father and the Son in the midst of it : I 
 then heard the sweetest music I ever witnessed, aud 
 which continued for some time. The whole company that 
 surrounded the throne, sung as with one voice. Silence 
 was again resumed, and I sa^v a white horse stand before 
 
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 the throne ; and the Angel said, *' He that sitteth on the 
 white horse shall judge the great whore which corrupted 
 the world." Angels then appeared with golden sickles in 
 their hands, and my guide said to them, " Put forth the 
 sickles, and gather the weeds from the corn, for the corn 
 is nearly ripe." Then there appeared other angels, 
 having sickles in their hands which shone like silver, and 
 my guide said to them, " Search the corn, until there be 
 no weed left : " he then turned to me and said, " Spirit, 
 return unto thy body, and be not thou rebellious, like that 
 rebellious house ; but set up a standard in the open 
 streets : conceal not the things wdiich thou hast heard and 
 seen." There came a darkness over the place, and I 
 came to myself. I wrote the chapters which I have men- 
 tioned on a board as before ; but could not hear any thing 
 that was said by any person in the house, during the 
 period in which I heard and saw what is here related." 
 
 " On the 14th of December, 1819, I was again struck 
 blind, at about ten o'clock in the forenoon, and remained 
 more like a corpse than a living man for twenty-four hours, 
 when I came to myself by degrees, but continued blind 
 for five days. After many things, the angel said to me, 
 '' Thou shaltbe blind for six days, and on the seventh day, 
 thy father shall come to thee and many people with him ; 
 he shall lay his right thumb on thy right eye ; and his 
 fourth finger on thy left, as a token, that he may remem- 
 ber his former sins and wickedness ; and if not, it will be 
 a witness against him at the day of Judgment, and thou 
 shalt receive thy sight." He then conducted me to the 
 place in which he had been with me in the third vision, 
 and said, " I will now tell thee the meaning of the beasts 
 that thou sawest, they are emblems of two things : the 
 first refers to the government and the rich, that they shall 
 be brought low in mind : the second alludes to the thou- 
 sand years of rest, when satan shall be chained down, and 
 his power of tempting man taken away. I will also in- 
 form thee the meaning of the books Avhich thou sawest ; 
 they contain the works of the world. The angels which 
 thou beheldest moving to and fro, descending and ascen- 
 ding, arc the spirits of the righteous, which are striving 
 
with man, against the spirits of the devil. The soldiers 
 which thou hast seen, and the kings, &c., are nations that 
 will combine, one against another, to prevent any person 
 from buying or selling but from them. The angels which 
 thou hast seen with their sickles, gathering the weeds out 
 of the corn — The weeds are the wicked, which shall be 
 taken from the righteous ; but before that day arrives, 
 " Every one that calleth on the name of the Lord shall be 
 saved: " and those were they who stood opposite the great 
 army when the flash .which thou observedst came out of 
 heaven and destroyed that army ; but the 'others who had 
 called upon the name of the Lord were not injured, but 
 returned every one to his own land. And when the 
 wicked are all destroyed, then will that righteousness be 
 revealed, which thou sawest, and all the crooked places 
 shall be made straight, and the whole earth become more 
 glorious than what was shown thee at that time, and it will 
 exceed the garden of Eden ; and the angels shall ascend 
 and descend, as thou sawest them, and God himself will 
 reign over you." He then said to me, " Thou shalt re- 
 turn and publish what thou hast seen and heard, and be 
 not thou rebellious, like that rebellious house." 
 
 During the six days in which I was blind, my wife at 
 one time was reading a hymn for me. When she had read 
 it, I desired her to read it again ; but before she had 
 done so, I fainted, and saw the elements separated, and 
 there appeared before me a large open square. I saw our 
 Saviour nailed on the cross, and the tears trickling down 
 his face, and at that time I thought he was weeping for 
 the wicked people upon earth. An angel then,appeared, 
 holding a man by a single hair of his head, who had a 
 very large sword in his hand, which he waved backward 
 and forward : I then saw a pair of large scales let down 
 to the earth, and a great bundle was placed in one side of 
 it, which I thought was the sins of the people, and then 
 saw a great number of weights placed in the other, but 
 the bundle was so much heavier, that the weights bounced 
 out, and the scales were drawn up into heaven. Then 
 the man that was held by the hair of his head by the 
 angel, brandished his sword six or seven times as formerlv 
 
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 and disappeared. I afterward saw Moses and Aaron ac- 
 companied by a great number of people, attended by 
 angels, and I heard such delightful music as it would be 
 impossible to describe. There was darkness over the 
 place soon after, and I lost sight of all in a moment. 
 
 He continued blind for exactly six days, and on the 
 seventh his father came, according to what the angel told 
 him ; several persons were present in the house, when his 
 father placed his right thumb on his right eye, and his 
 fourth finger on his left, and to the astonishment of all 
 present, he immediately received his sight : the moment 
 his father placed his thumb and finger on his eyes, he 
 fainted, and beheld a very glorious scene. As soon as he 
 received his sight, the people who surrounded him in- 
 quired of him whether he really could then see ? He 
 found that with one eye he could see as distinctly as ever ; 
 but with the other, very imperfectly ; occasioned, he be- 
 lieves, by a person having endeavored three days before, 
 to force it open. 
 
 Samuel Muff, a spectator, sa3^s, " during the twenty- 
 four hours that John Wroe was in this trance, reports of 
 the circumstance frequently reached my house, " adding 
 that he was likely to die ; I accordingly weiit to see him, 
 and he came to himself when I was in the house, but was 
 entirely blind : on hearing my voice, he communicated 
 many things to me, which I cannot at present recollect, 
 but I remember his having said that he was blind, but 
 that he would yet see. He wrote me a fpw lines in the 
 course of his six days' blindness, desiring that I would 
 come to see him at the time his eyes w^ere to be opened, 
 and which he asserted was to be at the end of the six 
 days ; the letter was sent to me by one of my neighbors, 
 who declared he saw him write it ; and, stone blind as he 
 then was, it is the best piece of his writing I ever saw. 
 I complied with his desire, and actually saw his eyes open 
 in the manner already related. After his father had 
 placed his thumb and finger on his eyes, he appeared to 
 me, for some time, as if he w^ere dead : he afterward 
 came to himself, sat up in the chair, and his eyes instantly 
 opened. He and I were brought up within a quarter of 
 
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 a mile of each other, and were school-fellows, but the 
 master who instructed us, never could teach him to spell 
 or read, nor even to speak plainly." 
 
 Joseph Wroe, who is John's cousin, says, " The first 
 time I met with John Wroe, after the commencement of 
 his visions, which was in the street in Bradford, I said, 
 " I have been mformed that thou hast begun to preach." 
 He replied, " Well, I do not know much about preaching, 
 but I have begun talking, and people may call it what 
 they please." I said, in a contemptuous manner, " I have 
 also been informed that thou hast been visited with visions 
 or trances : what hast thou seen ? " He replied, " I have 
 seen a great deal too much to relate here." He appeared 
 reserved, and would say no more. Some time after this, 
 a person came to my house, and enquired of me whether 
 I had seen my cousin John, adding, " People say he is 
 bhnd, and has been so for these three or four days." I 
 went to see him on the following Sunday, with many 
 others : at his desire I led him to the door, and accompa- 
 nied him to the house of a neighbor, named Abraham 
 Holmes : it was this man who wrote his visions, a part of 
 which was done on that occasion ; we delayed there until it 
 was dark, and I led him back to his house. When I was 
 about to return home, he laid hold on my hand, and would 
 not suffer me to proceed, until I had promised him to re- 
 turn next day ; as he asserted that he was then to receive 
 his sight. I accordingly attended the next day, several 
 persons did the same, and one of them said to John, 
 " Art thou not afraid that thou wilt never see any more ? " 
 He replied, " No, I have not a doubt about it, I am as 
 firm as a rock in the belief that my sight Avill be restored 
 at the appointed time." A few minutes before the time, 
 he requested that some person would lead him to a pri- 
 vate place, in order that he might have an opportunity for 
 prayer ; I accordingly led him into the parlor and with- 
 drew ; he soon after returned, and ordered a chair to be 
 placed in the middle of the room, so that every person 
 present might observe Avhat was to be done ; he then 
 called his father, directing him to lay his thumb and fin- 
 ger on his eyes, and he did so. John said, " You have 
 
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 done enough, take away jour hand." He then stretched 
 hig legs and feet, his head and arms fell back, and he 
 fainted, and his countenance appeared like that of a per- 
 son who was dead ; he remained so for about a minute, 
 when his eyelids began to move, and suddenly opened ; 
 he came to himself, and said " I can see." I inquired of 
 him, " How wast thou before thy sight was restored ? " 
 He replied, ^'' I got a glance of that glorious place ; and 
 at that instant my sight returned." 
 
 One night after he had received his sight, he prayed to 
 the Lord, that he would make known to him, in either 
 visions or dreams, what religious sect he ought to join. At 
 about two o'clock in the morning, being awake, he saw on 
 the tester of his bedstead, a black board, on which ap- 
 peared, in large gold letters, " A. A. Rabbi, Rabbi, 
 Rabbi ; " he awoke his wife, and told her what he had 
 seen ; he thought at first, that Rabbi was the name of a 
 town, and that he was, perhaps, to go to that town to de- 
 clare what he had seen. 
 
 " On the 1st of February, 1820, I had another vision, 
 and vras struck blind and dumb, as formerly, and remained 
 so for seven hours ; the people say that during that time I 
 trembled and perspired very much. In this vision, the 
 same angel who was with me in former visions, appeared 
 to me and took me into another kingdom, which he told 
 me was Spain. I then saw thousands and tens of thou- 
 sands of people collected together, one against another, 
 both in uniform and otherwise ; and I saw great numbers 
 of the people falling by the sword and other weapons, I 
 saw a king in the midst of a large body of people, and 
 saw his head struck off: the cries and shouts I heard at 
 that time exceeded all I had ever witnessed. My guide 
 then took me into another kingdom, (the name of which 
 was not made known, to me,) v/here I saw three trees 
 grow up, which blossomed and came to perfection, bearing 
 all kinds of fruit, and which remained on them : after 
 these I saw three other trees spring up beside them : they 
 blossomed, but the blossoms withered, the bark peeled off, 
 and they were pulled up by the roots. My guide said to 
 me, ''I will inform thee the meaning of these six trees : 
 
they are a resemblance of four things, viz., the Avicked and 
 the righteous ; the -wicked shall be removed from the face 
 of the earth, and the other three trees, with the fruit re- 
 maining on them, are the righteous, who shall remain and 
 inherit the earth ; they likewise refer to three years of 
 plenty throughout the whole world ; and the three trees 
 which came not to perfection, are three kingdoms, which 
 shall not come to perfection : and as thou trembled, so 
 shall the people tremble, and as thou didst sweat, so shall 
 the people sweat with fervent heat this summer." [See 
 chapter on fulfilment of Prophecies.] 
 
 On the 20th of June, 1820, 1 intended to go to Hudders- 
 field, but it appearing likely to rain, and being in a deli- 
 cate state of health, through persuasion of my wife, I re- 
 mained at home, went into my bed-room and undressed 
 myself, on which I w^as struck bhnd, but my eyes remained 
 open : I cried out, ' Oh dear, oh dear ! ' which brought 
 my wife to my assistance, and she conducted me to the 
 bedside. I tried to put on my clothes but could not, and 
 presently I fainted away ; this was about nine o'clock in 
 the morning, and, as T was told, I lay as one dying, until 
 nine the next night, which was thirty-six hours ; wdien I 
 came to myself I was asked by the people in Jtlie house, 
 ' If I knew how long I had been in the state above des- 
 cribed.' I answered ' From morning to night : ' on wdiich, 
 I was informed by them that ' I had lost a day and a 
 night.' During this period, I was visited by numbers of 
 people, amongst whom were tw^o doctors, who examined 
 me ; but they were utterly unable to ascertain the nature 
 of my disorder, as they called it. 
 
 In this vision, I was taken to a place, which I was told 
 by my guide, was Spain. I w^as afterward taken to an- 
 other place, and was informed that it was Paris, in France, 
 where I savv^ great disturbances, and soldiers killing the 
 inhabitants ; indeed, the people of France appeared to be 
 all at variance, one with another. I was afterward carried 
 by the angel into England, where I saw large bodies of 
 clergymen collected ; they disputed about their Bibles, 
 until at length they threw them into each otfier's faces ; 
 this I saw in different parts of England, but particularly 
 
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 in London. The angel said to me, '' These are the times 
 spoken of by Daniel the prophet ; but this which I have 
 told thee of, shall be sealed up to some, for a short time, 
 until the Scriptures be fulfilled. Satan -vviil influence 
 kings and families that the Scriptures may be fulfilled. 
 And as thou hast seen fathers and sons against each other, 
 so will counties be divided, in sending their members to 
 Parliament ; and as they are against each other, so will 
 the city of London be divided on some subject of great 
 importance. I have something more to say, but will not 
 make it known at this time.' The first and last which I 
 savf in this vision, was Queen Caroline, who seemed to be 
 full of sorrow and trouble ; the angel said to me, " This 
 woman shall not come to any harm, for he that has 
 brought her here, will defend her from all her enemies ; 
 he has brought her here to work a good work for the end, 
 for the time of your redemption is at hand." [See chap- 
 ter on fulfilment of Prophecies.] 
 
 The foregoing visions were published to the world im- 
 mediately after he received them ; but having been, as he 
 asserts, commanded then to keep a part back, he now 
 gives it, as follows : — That * the time he was to set up a 
 standard in the streets was three years, wherein he should 
 travel in England ; and when he stood before the people, 
 he should have his hat on his head, and at the expiration 
 of which he should go unto the Lord's people Israel, and 
 sign with them, to the laws and statutes which the Lord 
 gave unto Moses upon Mount Horeb.' The angel de- 
 clared further to him, " Thou understandest very little to 
 what thou shalt understand. The Lord will send me to 
 prepare thy wa}^, in the hearts of the people ; for those 
 who are thine enemies, belong unto the vine. Thou shalt 
 go into many nations, kingdoms and states ; and declare 
 the last covenant that shall be made with man ; for thou 
 shalt be made an instrument in the hands of the God of 
 Israel ; gind thou shalt stand with a rod in thine hand be- 
 fore kings and princes. And the God of Israel shall graft 
 both houses together, and they shall become one rod, and 
 there shall be one king over them all. Now, spirit, return 
 to attract thv bodv, declare what thou hast heard and 
 seen and be not afraid of man." 
 
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 HIS TRAVELS, ETC. 
 
 Some time after John AYroe was first visited by 
 visions, it was revealed to him, that Joanna Southcott and 
 George Turner Avere the real characters which their 
 writings represented them to be, for he had her trans- 
 figured before him in the open firmament, in the daj-time, 
 with the child on her left arm ; this, he asserts, he discerned 
 as plainl}' as ever he saw any object, and jet he did not 
 join in society with them, thinking he was to join the 
 Jews. 
 
 On Sunday evening, the 25th of 8th month, 1822, as 
 John Wroe sat leanins; against the wall, at a meetinai; of 
 the aforesaid society, he was for some time, before and 
 after the conclusion, apparently dead ; but on recovering, 
 he said *•' he had received words which Avoukl go to the 
 ends of the earth ; he had seen the angel who had attended 
 him before, who said to him, ' God will put his Spirit upon 
 thee, to deliver his people, and will set thee as a stumbling 
 block before this people, where the serpent has sown his 
 seed, and will send thee to various places to try their 
 faith.'" Only two persons believed his visitation; and 
 the rest, in general, greatly opposed him ; he, conse- 
 quently, did not enjoy the liberty of speaking in their 
 meetings, till shortly after, when the greater part of the 
 committee became convinced of his mission. — Paper 
 from Willi am Muff. 
 
 About the same time, he visited the society at Idle, on 
 the subject of his mission, and met with opposition ; but 
 shortly after, by the direction of the Spirit, he sent a 
 person to them witli a message, Requiring that their com- 
 mittee should hold a private meeting, and conclude either 
 to receive or reject him as the Lord's standard to lead and 
 direct them. Samuel Walker, the bearer of tjie message, 
 also received from John a sealed letter, which was directed 
 not to be opened until they had formed their decision : it 
 
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 stated the conclusion to which thej would come ; which 
 was; that they would receive him. When the committee 
 had retired for consultation on the subject, the messenger, 
 in conformity with his instructions, called a person into a 
 separate apartment, to w4iom he committed the care of the 
 aforesaid letter, and at the same time made him acquainted 
 with its contents : on the committee returning from the 
 room to w4iich they had retired, and before the3'' gave 
 their answer to John's message, the sealed letter was 
 delivered to them, they read it, were highly satisfied, and 
 declared it to express their decision, which was to receive 
 John, and acknowledge his mission, — Samuel Walker. 
 
 About the same time, he visited the society of George 
 Turner, at Almondbury, near Huddersfield, where he also 
 preached to the public. 
 
 The societies at Stockport and Sheffield, in answer, 
 declined having any thing to do with the matter ; this 
 being made known to John, he declared, '* they knew not 
 what they had written, for the greater part of the society 
 would receive it, but not all the committee ; likewise some 
 of those at Stockport, but not so many as at Sheffield." 
 In the 6th month of the following year, n(^arly the whole 
 of the society at Sheffield came into the belief of his visit- 
 ation ; but two or three of the committee resisted ; a 
 number at Stockport also came in. 
 
 In the 11th month the society at Ashton appointed 
 Thomas Heap and Samuel Entwistle, (the latter being 
 their speaker,) to proceed to Bradford, where they arrived 
 on the 20th inst., and the same evening attended a meet- 
 ing in which John spoke ; they also had an interview Avith 
 him on the following day, at John Brunton's, and expressed 
 their satisfaction with ^vhat they had heard at the meet- 
 ing ; but the speaker said " he was placed in a particular 
 situation, having to stand between God and the people, 
 and therefore wished for some evidence in writing, on 
 which one of the committee transcribed for him a few of 
 the occurrences already related. 
 
 On Sunday, the 20th of the 12th month, 1823, John 
 Wroe, accompanied by William Lees, was at Chatham, on 
 their return from the continent ; John being very ill, William 
 
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 attended the meeting of the believers in the missions of 
 Joanna Southcott and George Turner, and declared to 
 them, that '• the Lord Avas continuing to visit his people by 
 the Spirit of prophecy ; " but the greatest part of them 
 seemed altogether opposed to it : however, on the follow- 
 ing morning, one of them visited John and William at 
 their lodgings, and invited them to his residence, and 
 John received a communication from the Spirit, which he 
 left with them. — Jo}irnal of Williain Lees. 
 
 At night they proceeded to Gravesend, and visited the 
 believers there, by whom they were kindly received, 
 and the greatest part of them as well as those at 
 Chatham, afterw^ard si2i;ned their names in acknowleds;- 
 ment of their belief, that the visitation of John was a 
 continuation of that to George Turner and Joanna, deceas- 
 ed. This was an additional proof that the prophecies of 
 John w^ere of God, as he had frequently declared to Wil- 
 liam in the course of their journey, that "a society would 
 be formed at Chatham and Gravesend," which led them 
 to call at those places on their return ; for John said, " he 
 knew the Lord would incline their hearts to receive and 
 acknowledge them." 
 
 On the 24th, they visited John ifisbet, in London, who 
 w'as one of the aforesaid believers, and also a member of 
 the committee for the execution of the commands com- 
 municated to George Turner : William was much surprised 
 at the manner in which John introduced himself to J. 
 Nisbet ; for he did not ask him fo examine his visitation, 
 but told him at once, that " the Lord had appointed him to 
 be a member of the committee estabhshed at Ashton, in 
 the room of a person who had broken the Lord's covenant 
 by adultery." This increased William's astonishment, as 
 he had not the least idea of such an occurrence, neither 
 had they received any intelligence from Ashton on the 
 subject, which appeared to be a direct proof that the Lord 
 must have revealed it to John. He also received a com- 
 munication from tlie Spirit, to leave with J. Nisbet, and 
 another for the committee of which he was a member, and 
 which communications Avere written previous to their hav- 
 ing seen him. — Ibid. 
 
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 In the latter part of the 8rd month, 1825, John Wroe, 
 agreeable to a command from the Spirit, on the 21st inst. , 
 selected from the Scriptures of the Old and New Testa- 
 ment, the different laws which he has commanded to enjoin 
 upon the friends ; in performing which, he had the ay hole 
 of the Scriptures read before him with the Apocrj^pha, at 
 three periods, during each of which he observed a fast. 
 
 On the 4th of the 9th month, in the morning, the j attend- 
 ed the meeting of the behevers in the visitations of Joanna 
 Southcott and G. Turner, in Dcvonport : John was so ill 
 that he was obliged to be conducted there between two 
 persons, and, on arriving, was nearly unable to stand ; but 
 after he began to speak, his affliction appeared to be 
 removed. He spoke of the instruments, (Joanna South- 
 cott, George Turner, and William Shaw), being taken 
 away, and the sheep scattered ; and said " Thus saith the' 
 Lord, My sheep shall never be scattered any more, they 
 shall be gathered under one shepherd." He said " all 
 who felt inclined, might stop after the service and sign," 
 which was done by about forty. 
 
 In the beginning of the 12th month, 1832, John Wroe, 
 by direction of the Spirit, had the Bible read over to him 
 by six men, from which he selected certain passages, in 
 order to form a book for the preachers, and which he was 
 informed should gather the Lord's children out of all 
 nations, where they were scattered ; of which selection, 
 the twelve baskets of fragments were a prefiguration ; 
 (see John vi. 12, 13, " When they were filled, he said 
 unto his disciples. Gather up the fragments that remain, 
 that nothing be lost. Therefore they gathered them to- 
 gether, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the 
 five barley loaves which remained, over and above, of them 
 that had eaten.") The names and residences of the six 
 men alluded to, are, Thomas Mort, of Huddersfield ; Wil- 
 liam Muff, Joseph Holgate, John Tillotson, Charles Rob- 
 ertson, all of Bradford, and David Brummitt, of Leeds. 
 
HIS WxVNDERINGS. 
 
 On the otli of the 1st month, 1826, John Wroe, in 
 obedience to a command from the Spirit, left Park Bridge, 
 again to wander in the fields for fourteen days : he asserts 
 that his wanderings were in various parts of Lancashire, 
 Cheshire, and Derbyshire ; and was frequently out all 
 night during this time, although the frost was very severe : 
 he procured his food by begging it, but was prohibited 
 from receiving it from those with whom he was joined in 
 society. This conduct, (as well as his wanderings in the 
 summer of 1824,) being to set a type of an approaching 
 scarcity of bread, in those places through which he wan- 
 dered. 
 
 DIVINE COMMUNICATIONS, CHIEFLY COM- 
 MANDS FOR HIS OWN OBSERVANCE. 
 
 Leeds, loth of 1st month, 1823 : — '' This morning I 
 dreamed that I was in a pew, in a large place of worship, 
 where Avas a large congregation, and many clergymen ; I 
 saw a young man of high stature, stand up before the 
 clergy, who said, ' he would destroy the earth ; ' and 
 I fled out of the pew into the aisle. The answer of the 
 Spirit; — ''The young man whom I showed thee, who 
 stood so boldly before the clergy, is the Branch of me, 
 Jesus, who shall be the life of Israel, and sweep away the 
 refuge of lies ; and cast Satan down into the bottomless 
 pit for a thousand years. Be thou valiant, and set up a 
 standard, and decUirc my words, until I bring ibrth this 
 
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 joung man ; and then thou shalt flee as thou fleddest out 
 of the pew." — Written from John Wroe's mouth by 
 Samuel Walker. 
 
 London, 11th of 4th month, 1823: — "I, Jesus, who 
 am the root an"^ oftsprmg of David, command thee to go 
 forth unto all those foreign countries which I shall tell thee 
 of; and tell them I am bringing forth vnj servant, the 
 Branch, who shall come in the name of Shiloh. Now 
 stand thou boldly before them, and tell them that the 
 Mightj God of Israel has sent thee unto them ; and if 
 they will hearken unto thee, and gather themselves to- 
 gether, and unite as w^ith one heart, and serve me Avith 
 one consent ; then I will brir.g them forth, and place thee 
 among them, till the time that I reveal my son Shiloh. 
 But if they refuse to hear my voice by thee, I will do as 
 I did unto the Egyptians, for death shall be among 
 them in every toAvn and city where they are, until they 
 acknowledge it. Therefore be not dismayed at their 
 looks, for I will give thee the line and the plummet, until 
 the time they acknowledge me, whom the Hebrews and 
 the Gentiles pierced." 
 
 Liverpool, 17th of 4tli month, 1823: — "Be thou 
 strong and valiant, and likewise him that shall be with 
 thee, for I will make your voices like the voices of roar- 
 ing lions ; and thy voice shall be heard from pole to pole. 
 For I have searched thee out from amongst mjj. people, in 
 a family of dry bones, wherein is no soundness, and they 
 shall be thy greatest foes, and thy two worldly brothers 
 will swell hard against thee : have not I, Jesus, given 
 thee these lines." — Written from John Wroe''s mouthy hj 
 Robert Harling. 
 
 Bay of Biscay, 1st of 5th month, 1823 : — ''I caused 
 the winds to obey thy voice, and I have caused him that 
 is with thee to be a witness of it ; for I have caused a 
 calm for two days and nights, that thou mightest cry unto 
 me, that thou mightest see that I was with thee, to per- 
 form all my words, which I spoke unto thee ; for I Avill 
 cause seven men to travel with thee, and these seven men 
 shall be witnesses against them, when I perform my work. 
 Now, I ^ell thee, these people to whom thou art going, 
 
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 win do great things unto thee ; therefore do thou notMng 
 in thy own strength, neither be guided by them ; for if 
 thou art, thy troubles will be great." — Written from 
 John Wroe's mouth, hy Robert Harling. 
 
 Gibraltar, 21st of 5th month, 1823:— "Now I tell 
 thee, the Hebrews will not receive thee yet ; for if they 
 received thee now, it would be no trial to my people who 
 have received my word before. Be thou of a contrite 
 heart, for I will make thee roar like a lion after the prey 
 of my Spirit ; for the clergy shall call thee a madman, 
 and the lawyers shall tell thee learning maketh thee fool- 
 ish : kings shall ask thee questions, and not be able to 
 answer thee : and the Hebrews shall gnash at their Rab- 
 bles, saying, ' Is this the doctrine you kept us so long 
 dark in ? We will not uphold your robes any longer ; for 
 God has given us a light, and we will follow it ; and we 
 will be no more either Hebrews or Gentiles ; but the true 
 Israel of God." — Written from John Wroe^s mouth, hy 
 Robert Harling. 
 
 St. Michael's Cave, Gibraltar, 29th of 5th month, 
 1823 : — "Ye shall yet go to Jerusalem, and declare my 
 words there, and thou shalt prophesy there, and I will 
 perform it against that people. And I will show thee the 
 place where I suffered, and where my temple shall be 
 built, and thou shalt see the foundation thereof ; for I laid 
 the corner stone in the Scriptures, as thou hast seen in 
 vision ; and as thou hast seen it spiritually, thou shalt see 
 it temporally, if thou watch my movings. Did I not tell 
 thee they should receive thee in this place ? I sent my 
 angels before thee to prepare the way. Did I not tell 
 thee at first, that Satan desired to have thee, that he 
 might sift thee as wheat ? But thou art not in his hand, 
 though he fights hard against thee. 
 
 Thou hast wept much in the ship, but thou shalt weep 
 more in Jerusalem, for they will do strange things unto 
 thee, but I will deliver thee from them ; fear thou not, for 
 I will prepare for thee. And thou shalt go into the syna- 
 gogue, (in the place where thou now art,) on Saturday, 
 the last day of the month, and stand boldly before them, 
 3 
 
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 and then I will tell thee what I will do unto them." — 
 
 Written from John Wroe^s 'mouth, hy William Cooke, 
 
 Speech of John Wroe, to the Hebrews, in their syna- 
 gogue, at Gibraltar, 31st of 5th month, 1823 : — " 1 am 
 commanded by the Spirit of the living God, to go unto 
 the House of Israel, to see if there be any Israelites ; 
 and if any of you are found to be so, you are to gather 
 yourselves together, as men of one heart, and keep the 
 Law of Moses, which you have not kept, and then he will 
 give you his laws which you have not believed. I have 
 to inform you also of your mistake, which you have made 
 in the words of the Prophet, where you are told, ' He must 
 come and suffer : and that if ye believed not, he would 
 give you up, till the fulness of the Gentiles.' For he 
 never told you that he was the Branch. Now he sets his 
 hand the second time, to recover the remnant of his 
 people. For you have it in your Scriptures, " Give 
 righteousness to the King's son." ISTow to you that 
 believe, and fear his name, "• The Sun of righteousness 
 shall arise, with healing in his wings, and shall destroy the 
 devourer fof your sakes." Search your Scriptures, and 
 see if you cannot find these words ; for this is Shiloh, the 
 Branch, who shall gather you, and deliver you from the 
 bonds of Satan. For your Deliverer shall descend from 
 the east, and " every eye shall see him." Now, friends, 
 I am sent to wa^rn you, and not to be afra,id of you." — 
 Written from Jolin Wroe^B moutli, hy William Cooke. 
 
 Gibraltar, 1st of Gth month, 1823 : — ''I have sent my 
 angels to testify to thee — I am the Root of the branches 
 of the six churches, and they that will not hear my call, I 
 will give the destroying angel power, and he shall destro}^ 
 with death, sword, pestilence, and famine. Have I not 
 spoken it? And I will perform it. _ And be thou not 
 afraid of them, nor dismayed at their looks, but declare 
 the things that I shall speak unto thee, for I Avill protect 
 thee. And thou shalt go into Spain, and declare my 
 words against that people. I see thou art desirous of 
 preaching, but I have not sent thee to preach unto them, 
 but to declare my w^ords, which I shall give thee, for I 
 have prepared , me a people in those nations, that shall 
 
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 receive thee, to preach mj everlasting Gospel unto them. 
 And thou shalt be brought before kings, judges, and rul- 
 ers, for my name's sake, and thou shalt prophesy against 
 them, and they shall put thee in prison, that I may con- 
 found their wisdom." — Written from John Wroe^s mouthy 
 hy William Cooke. 
 
 Gibraltar, 2nd of 7th month, 1823 : — " I, Jesus, from 
 heaven, command thee, John Wroe, to warn the kingdom 
 of Spain, that if they return not from their wicked ways, 
 of worshipping images, made with men's hands, and bow- 
 ing before them ; that I will draw my two-edged sword 
 against them, and it shall turn every way, till I have 
 destroyed them. But who is this that has caused them 
 to err ? They have hearkened unto their priests instead 
 of hearkening unto me. Now I will tell you what I will 
 do unto your priests : — I will chase them as hounds chase 
 a fox, till I utterly destroy them, and the remnant that is 
 left shall slay your king, and they shall know that I have 
 sent this unto them, by my servant. For I will let you 
 see that I am coming the second time, to recover the 
 remnant of my people, — those that will have me to reign 
 over them : and those that will not have me to reign over 
 them, my sword shall be against them, for I will be the 
 king of the whole earth, and there shall be no king but 
 me ; and I will reign over them, and they shall know that 
 I am. the Lord, who have spoken unto them by the mouth 
 of my servant, John Wroe." — Written from John Wroe's 
 mouthy hy Wdliam Cooke^ and translated into the Span- 
 ish language, hy John Qurell, a Hehrav ; and a numher 
 of copies uTitfen and distrihuted in Sp)ain, hy John Wroe 
 and William Cooke. 
 
 Strasburg in France, 23rd of 10th month, 1823 : — 
 " Son of man, arise, and stand up before the Jews ; and 
 tell them my decree is fixed, which I will not alter. And 
 tell their Rabbies that they will be confounded ; and that 
 they are not Hebrews ; but if they will ask of me, I will 
 make them true Israelites ; and go to the descendants of 
 Israel, which are hid among the Gentiles, aid tell them 
 they are not Gentiles ; but if they will ask of me, I will 
 make them of the true Israelites, for I will confound all 
 
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 that call themselves Gentiles, and are not. And peiform 
 this before thou leavest this place. And ye shall not 
 return the same way that ye came. And when thou 
 returnest, thou shalt go to Idlethorpe, and remain there 
 forty days ; (that each day may be counted for a year, 
 for the ingathering of the House of Israel.) Thou shalt 
 not preach during these forty days, but many will come 
 unto thee, and ask thee questions, which they think thou 
 canst not answer. But I will answer them by thee, and 
 confound them : thou shalt not travel during- these forty 
 days ; I will set thee for a sign for the people." — Writ- 
 ten from John Wroe's mouth, hy William Lees, 
 
 Copies of letters delivered to the visible and invisible 
 Hebrews : — '' I, John Wroe, am commanded by the voice 
 of the Living God, to go forth unto many nations, king- 
 doms, and states, to both the visible Hebrews, and those 
 who are invisible, being hid among the Gentiles, to de- 
 liver words which have been given to me, as follows : — 
 " I, the Lord, command thee to tell the visible Hebrews, 
 that my decree is fixed, which I caused to be recorded in 
 the scriptures, which I will not alter. That there shall be 
 time no longer ; for as I gathered my seed Abraham from 
 among the Gentiles, and made him Israel, so will I gather 
 his seed, whom I have mixed among the Gentiles, and dis- 
 persed into many nations ; which are two staffs of people, 
 which shall become one, and be my true Israelites. I, 
 the Lord, command thee to tell the Hebrews to circum- 
 cise their hearts unto me, and ask of me, and I will show 
 them my decree which I will not alter. For both Israel 
 and the aliens shall be circumcised both in heart and flesh ; 
 Israel before my kingdom is given, and the aliens after it 
 is given ; though they be servants to Israel, yet shall they 
 be circumcised. Now if you will fulfil this, you shall see 
 your king and your ark ; for it is not recorded in my 
 Scriptures that ye should be delivered at my first appear- 
 ance, but at my second ; he who had done the work, 
 should be delivered from death, hell, sin, and the grave ; 
 and that the light of life which is eternal should dwell in 
 his temple. Now tell them, that I speak to thee as I 
 spoke to my servant Moses, for I commanded thee to go 
 
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 forth with my voice, from the fire. And if they will ask 
 of me, in serious prayer, I will show them plainly of thee 
 Did I not tell them in my Scriptures that I would 
 " Speak to them with stammering lips, and vv^ith another 
 tongue ? " and now I am fulfilling it. Though thou 
 seomest foolish to them, yet will I confound them, for I 
 have chosen thee to deliver my decree, though man could 
 never teach thee. 
 
 I, the 'Lord, command thee to tell the invisible Hebrews, 
 which are hid among the Gentiles, and if they will seek 
 me, I will be found of them, and make them my true Isra- 
 elites ; if they will circumcise their hearts and fiesh unto 
 me, and take down their crucifixes ; for they boast of what 
 ibhey have done with me, not forsaking their evil, but mak- 
 ing their images their gods, instead of worshipping me. 
 If they hearken not unto this, I will destroy all their imar 
 ges, jftid burn their idols. For my decree is fixed which 
 I caused to be written in the scriptures, which I will not 
 alter. That there shall be time no longer. For I am send- 
 ing my Spirit a second time, to rest upon the house of 
 Israel ; and no other shall appear with me on Mount Zion, 
 in mine image." Written from John Wtve^s mouth, hif 
 
 Trieste, 18th of llth month, 1823 : " Thou shalt go 
 forth to the clergy of this place, and stand boldly before 
 them ; and tell them my decree is fixed, which I caused 
 to be written in my scriptures, That there shall be time 
 no longer : and if they hearken not unto my word, which 
 I give unto thee, I will destroy them from the face of the 
 earth, both them and their little ones. Now, son of man, 
 prophesy against those who call themselves Israel, that 
 they are not Israel ; if they were, they would hear my 
 voice. Go thou unto their houses, and speak the words 
 that I give thee at the time, for I wdll send my angel with 
 thee, and he shall give thee words. Now I tell thee, 
 when thy forty days are expired, I will cause thee to enter 
 into a river, within one mile of Idlethorpe, that the waters 
 overshadow thee, to wash off the filthiness that the world 
 has given thee, for that is not of me. This shall be done 
 3* 
 
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 every time thou returnest from distant lands." Written 
 from John Wroe^s mouth hy WiUicmi Lees. 
 
 Milan, in Italy, 29tli of 11th month, 1823 : This 
 morning, as I laid in bed, the word of the Lord came unto 
 me, saying, " What arfc thou meditating in thy mind con- 
 cerning the images of this land, seeing I will destroy both 
 them and their images ? These are the false gods, which 
 I told thee of before, which I showed thee in vision ; they 
 have fulfilled their forefather's iniquity : the day of judg- 
 ment is at hand ; I will destroy them, saith the Lord. 
 This place is as Sodom ; my number is small, yet will I 
 bring it out of other distant lands. Now see that thou be 
 bold before them, and cry aloud. Yet I know what they 
 will do, they will be against thee in all lands ; yet they are 
 not against thee, but me, as I have chosen thee one of my 
 instruments. And I will bring a people out of the nations 
 where you have been, which shall join you, and I have a 
 man in them vfho shall interpret many languages." — 
 Written from John Wroe^s mouth, hy William Lees. 
 
 In the coach between Chalons and Avallons, in France, 
 9th of 12th month, 1823: — About five o'clock in the 
 morning, the words of the Lord came unto me, saying : — 
 " I tell thee S. French shall come forth and do my work ; 
 I have also some true Israelites in Trieste, who shall come 
 forth and join this body. Now I tell thee, I will gather a 
 large number by thee in England, before thou go into dis- 
 tant lands, that will join my people, for my work will be 
 sharp and powerful." Written from John Wroe's mouth 
 hy William Lees. 
 
 Chatham, 22nd of 12th month, 1823: — '^ As I have 
 been travelling in Gibralter, Spain, France, Germany, 
 Italy, and various parts of England, and am drawn to this 
 place, — I am commanded by the Spirit of the Living God 
 to leave you these lines, that you may have no cloak for 
 your sins, that I may be clear, that I have warned you, 
 as the Lord has chosen me to be one of the instruments 
 in his hands, for I am commanded to go forth with these 
 words which were spoken from the fire, which are as fol- 
 low : — Go thou and stand boldly before Hebrew and Gen- 
 tile : tell them my decree which I caused to be written in 
 
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 my scriptures is fixed, which I will not alter : tell them, 
 If they will gather themselves together, and seek me, I 
 will be found of them, that I may give them one heart, 
 that they may serve me with one consent. And if the 
 Egyptians hearken not unto this, I have appointed them 
 to the sword. Thou son of man, I command thee to 
 stand vath one foot on the land and the other over the sea, 
 and swear by me that liveth for ever, that there shall be 
 time no longer, for my time is drawn to a full end, that 
 my Spirit shall strive no longer with you. Am I God, 
 and should you choose me a servant to Avork by ? If I 
 were to let you choose me a servant, I should become 
 Satan's servant. I will work by whom I will, for my 
 children are these, the gold seven times refined ; and this 
 is the hundred and forty-four thousand, that shall appear 
 with me on Mount Zion ; they are in all nations, kingdoms 
 and states ; (and are become all languages,) and I will 
 set a mark upon them. Then I w411 send forth my destroy- 
 ing angels into the four quarters of the world, that you 
 may judge between me, and my scriptures, whether I 
 have fulfilled them or not, for revenge shall be mine, saith 
 the Lord." Now if ye be friends in the work of the 
 Lord, search for the truth that it may deliver you. Do 
 not the scriptures direct you " to follow the Lamb wliither- 
 soever he goeth ? " Did Israel stop, when the Lord took 
 Moses ? Ye answer, No. But you are now going to ful- 
 fil what the Hebrews did, when Jesus was on the earth ; 
 for ye have been following strange gods, and: putting trust 
 in them who put trust in silver and gold ; but I will tell 
 you what the Lord has made known to me : — " He that 
 putteth trust in the sword of the world, shall perish with 
 the world, and he that putteth trust in silver and gold, it 
 shall not deliver him, for I see a great nakedness among 
 you, you are neither hot nor cold ; yet there shall a rem- 
 nant come out of you, though you have blind guides 
 among you, that will neither walk in the commands them- 
 selves, nor permit others. Now if you hearken to this, I 
 will tell you what you must sign to, that the Lord is send- 
 ing his Spirit into the world, to gather Israel, that he may 
 redeem their bodies, as he redeemed his own, from death, 
 
hell, sin, and the grave : (that ye may dwell in his Spirit 
 till he put it within your temples.) — Written from Jolm 
 Wroe's mouth by William Lees. 
 
 Idlethorpe, 27th of 1st month, 1824 : — The word of 
 the Lord came unto me by the same angel which had be- 
 fore ministered unto me, saying, " Satan stands continu- 
 ally ready to destroy thee, and he will insinuate to the 
 hearts of the people, That thou hast destroyed thyself; 
 and they will say, " Thou art mad, and unfit to live." 
 And after the forty days are expired, thou wdlt have to 
 enter into the priest's houses, for three days ; and then 
 thou shalt go into the water ; at which time you shall see 
 how Satan will swell, for -he will gather a large number to 
 fight against you all. And thy measure which thou hast 
 in thine hand, is the Spirit's measure. And as thou wast 
 hungry, they shall hunger, a,nd as thou wast thirsty, so 
 shall the earth be ; for I vfill cause a drought to come 
 upon both man and beast, and all the earth shall know 
 that I have sent thee unto them. And as thou hast eaten 
 thy bread by vf eight, so shall the Gentiles ; and as thou hast 
 eaten with care and astonishment, so shall the world ; but it 
 shall not be so with my children, for then it shall be known 
 that I am separating them." — Written from John Wroe^s 
 mouth, by William TiUotso7i. 
 
 Ashton, 11th of 4th month, 1824 : — " Son of man, 
 cause these words which I give thee to be put to paper, 
 that the same may be sent to all the shepherds of the 
 earth, for this is a rebellious house ; and tell them they 
 have fulfilled my parable^ and their measure runs over. 
 And tell them the four beasts and the twenty-four elders 
 are on the earth, and they fall dovai and worship 
 me ; but the shepherds v/orship me not, but despise 
 my ways, and I will chase them ; for I will hunt them, 
 even as the hounds hunt the foxes into the holes of 
 the earth ; for they will be of the House of Esau, who 
 sought for death, and I hated his end. But in Jacob 
 will I be known ; for he sought life, and desired all right- 
 eousness. But the shepherds choose their own ways, for 
 they are a stiff-necked house, but I will break down their 
 w^alls, for I have an earthly king, who shall draw the 
 sword for my children, and go before them to prepare the 
 
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 way. And tell them I have put the same Spirit upon 
 thee which I did upon Noah, so the Ark shall be prepared 
 that fire cannot destroy. It is he that liveth, and was 
 dead, that has given thee this ; his name is Immanuel." — 
 Puhlislied in the Imperial Gazette Neivspaper^ btli of 6th 
 month, 1824. 
 
 Ashton, 13th of 4th month, 1824 : — I, the Lord, who 
 created the heavens and the earth, — who made all things, 
 and will prove myself all in all at the last, command thee, 
 my servant John, as I commanded my servant Moses, to 
 go forth amongst the Hebrews, that I fulfil that scripture, 
 (Isaiah xxviii. 11,) " For with stammering lips, and 
 another tongue, will he speak to this people." This law 
 shall they keep, they shall enter into the water, and be 
 baptized for the Redemption of Soul and Body ; and as a 
 young man marrieth a virgin, so will I marry them, saith 
 the Lord ; and I will be their nursing father and nursing 
 mother. And I will send thee forth into many nations, 
 kingdoms, and states, and those that are Israel I will call 
 forth ; but those that call themselves Israel and are not, I 
 will destroy, saith the Lord. Thou shalt be to me, as he 
 that carries the writer's inkhorn and crieth in the streets, 
 whether they will hear or whether they will forbear. — 
 Written from John Wroe^s month hy William Tillotson. 
 
 For the Roman Catholics: — " I, Jesus, the Root, com- 
 mand thee to send these lines unto the Roman Catholic 
 Doctors of Divinity, that Israel which are hid among them 
 mdij hear and search for the truth. But instead of 
 searching for the truth, they hang me up in" crucifixes, 
 therefore, if they do not pull them down, I will tell thee 
 what I will do unto them : — I will burn down their 
 houses, and their images with them ; for I will have no pity 
 on them." 
 
 For the Protestants : — "I, the Lord of heaven and 
 earth, now command thee my servant John, as I com- , 
 manded my servant Moses, with laws, statutes, and judg- 
 ments ; that the same may be handed unto all Protestant 
 Priests and their hearers, that I may be clear from the 
 blood of all men ; for thou shalt cry aloud till the forty 
 and two months be expired, which are forty and two 
 years ; for I said in my Gospel, I wrought to-day, and 
 
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 to-morrow, and on the third day I should be perfected. 
 For I wrought two thousand years under the antediluvian 
 dispensation, and then I destroyed them. Then I wrought 
 two thousand years under the law, and I sent my servant 
 John to tell them to repent and enter into the water, and to 
 be baptized for the preserving of the soul : wiiich is from 
 the second sentence. Depart ye cursed into everlasting 
 fire, it being prepared for Satan and his angels. And I 
 have wrought now nearly two thousand years, under the 
 Gospel dispensation, and now I send thee my servant 
 John to cry aloud, that they circumcise their hearts unto 
 me, and I will destroy death, hell, sin, and the grave for 
 their sakes, that they live in eternity. " — Wiitten from 
 JoJm Wroe's mouth hy Y/illiam Tillotson, 
 
 Ashton, 6th of 5th month, 1824; — " The word of the 
 Lord came unto me, saying, John, hearken unto my 
 voice : — Be not afraid of man nor dismayed at his looks, 
 for I have sent thee unto the two houses ; one house is 
 of a strange speech which thou canst not understand, 
 which is Manasseh ; but a part of the younger house 
 which is Ephraim, thou canst understand, they dwelling 
 among the Gentiles, and it grieveth thee ; and if thou 
 couldst understand the other house it w^ould grieve thee 
 worse. Therefore, as Jacob laid hold of the heel of Esau, 
 so will I cause thee to take hold of Esau's heel, that thou 
 mayest throw him down, and gather my seed. And by 
 the star of Jacob will I give thee light, until thej be 
 gathered ; and this light is my spirit, which shall be to 
 them as a flaming sword, wiiich turneth every way. Now, 
 son of man, if thou refuse, I will take a thrashing instru- 
 ment to thrash thee with : I will^ take thee into a ship, 
 and remove thee from quarter to quarter ; and my con- 
 trary winds shall toss thee to and fro, till thou submit to 
 do my work ; and when my children see this, they shall 
 know that it is my hand, saith the Lord. And they shall 
 mourn in the inward ma.n, that I may send thee unto thera 
 with my word, to declare unto tliem what they shall do ; 
 and thy wife shall mourn for thee ; and a cry of death 
 shall be heard in the land, that thou hast met with a 
 watery grave ; after this I will bring thee forth. And 
 
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 they shall say, they have no more hold of thee than they 
 had of Noah, for thou prophesiest nothing but lies ; and 
 they -will seek thee thinking to put thee to death." — 
 Written from John Wroe^s mouth hy William Tillotson. 
 
 '' And I will do that work by thee, the last year, that 
 shall make the ears of every king that heareth it to 
 tingle." — Written from John Wroe^s mouth hy William 
 Tillotson. 
 
 Ashton, 24th of 8th month, 1824 : — '' Thy father, 
 brothers, and sisters, shall be afraid of thee, for they shall 
 not be able to stand before thee ; for the words which I 
 give thee shall prick them to their hearts. When thou 
 arrivest in America thy work shall be great, for thy 
 voice shall be heard far and near ; and they shall petition 
 thee to stop at one place, and shall trj" to tempt thee, but 
 I will confound them ; for I will give thee a wandering 
 spirit, and there shall be no rest for the soles of thy feet. 
 I will cause sleep to depart from thee, and thou shalt cry 
 aloud and spare not. This shall be heard in many parts 
 of America, and when thou returnest I will send thee unto 
 Botany Bay, and a great gathering shall be there." — 
 Written from. John Wroe^s mouth hy Yiilliam Tillotson. 
 
 Ashton, 10th of 9th month, 1824 : — '• I heard a voice 
 this morning, saying. Awake, son of man, and go out into 
 the fields and highways, for fourteen days, and beg thy 
 bread like a hungry man, and drink water out of the 
 brooks ; for hunger and thirst shall be upon thee. And 
 as thou doest, shall tliey and their children do ; they shall 
 go put into the fields, seeking blackberries, nuts, and wheat 
 ears, for very hunger. And thou shalt tell them that 
 Uriel has commanded thee to travel fourteen whole days, 
 after the manner of man, and to cry out for clean meat ; 
 and each day shall stand for three, v^'hich makes forty-two, 
 Avhich shall stand for forty-two years ; for thou art com- 
 manded not to eat of their abominable meat. And if they 
 can serve thee with clean meat, and can prove that they 
 have clean meat, the Lt)rd will prolong their days, and not 
 burn up their earth. But if not, his voice will be heard 
 in every quarter, that death has happened unto them ; 
 a burning, a famine, and that they have to run into the 
 
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 woods to hide themselves from his presence ; for that their 
 earth will be destroyed within the forty and two months ; 
 and that their months are lengthened into years, to see if 
 they will seek the Lord their God ; for Jonah was com- 
 manded to cry, " Yet forty days," which were changed 
 into years ; so now, the Lord has commanded thee to say, 
 Yet within forty-two months from the time of the Law 
 and Gospel being joined, for man to keep ; each month 
 standing for a year, and the whole earth of wickedness 
 shall be destroyed. And let this be read on two of their 
 Sabbaths, which is Sunday." — Written from John Wroe's 
 mouth hy William Tillotson. 
 
 Ashton, 27th of 4th month, 1825:— ''Son of man, 
 prophesy, and say. Thus saith the Lord, ye house of 
 the Gentiles, awake, and tremble before your God, and 
 return unto him who created you, that you may have the 
 new name given you, that 3^our name may be changed 
 like Jacob's name ; for God will deliver Israel without 
 staff, sword, or any warlike instrument ; for the battle is 
 the Lord's. Then, ye house of the Gentiles, gather 
 yourselves together, and that God that answers. Let him 
 be God : — for if God be only yours, and you have the 
 light, show it unto your brethren. Is this dispute between 
 Esau and Jacob ? Thou, Esau, broke thy brother's yoke 
 from off thy neck, when thou destroyed him who was to 
 be king, and thou got a light, and thy light has been glo- 
 rious ; and why hast thou hid thy light under a bushel, 
 and not showed it to thy brother ? Thou criest thou hast 
 showed thy light, and thy pomp, and thy glory ; thou hast 
 sent missionaries into many nations ; and thou hast pre- 
 pared shipping to carry the gospel ; and thou hast told 
 them to repent, and prepare for the grave, and to meet 
 judgment. Does not Israel say unto Jacob, Hast thou 
 not life before thee ; but thou showest us death, and thy 
 works are all dead. I tell thee, Esau, though thou hast 
 made an agreement with death, it shall not stand ; for a 
 remnant shall come out of thee, .though thou refusest 
 my name Israel ; and I will take them for servants for 
 one thousand years. Are not these the aliens my Scrip- 
 tures speak of ? Read and understand, ye house of the 
 
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 Gentiles : ask of your God, that jou may understand the ' 
 ways of Israel, for ye have sold your birthright for noth- 
 ing, and I gave my life that I might purchase yours. 
 Then seek ye Abraham's faith, that ye may fulfil all 
 righteousness. Is there not a God, that is visiting this 
 land, England ? Will he not gather his elect from the 
 four corners of the earth, unto this land, England, and 
 redeem it the first ? Now, son of man, stand upon thy 
 feet, and prophesy against the house of the Gentiles, and 
 say, Hearken imto David thy brother ; did he not cry, 
 Absalom, Absalom ; would to God I had died for thee, 
 my son ! Then did not I give the life of the woman's 
 seed, the body of Jesus, to return back thy birth-right ? 
 and I was to^be king at that time, and thou killed me, 
 and thou hast been king near these two thousand years, 
 and yet thou hast refused thy birth-right, for want of 
 searching my Scriptures. Do they not say, " Seek and 
 ye shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you ? " 
 Thou son of man, prophesy again, and say. Thus saith the 
 Lord, If ye will not seek out for Israel and agree with 
 him, the Lord your God shall burn and destroy Esau's 
 house from the face of the earth, and it shall never be 
 remembered any more. Have not I ofi"ered you. the tree 
 of life before I offered you the place of an alien ? Proph- 
 esy thou again, son of man, and say. Thus saith the Lord, 
 "Who are they who have caused my people to go astray ? 
 The priests, the shepherds of the flock, they have caused 
 the kings of the nations to go astray, for they have served 
 Baal, and not the living God. Then, house of Baal, 
 forsake thy Avays, and hand the truth unto thy people. 
 Does not the law of Moses say, Ye shall not wear a mixed 
 garment? (as of linen and woollen together.) Then 
 why will ye adulterate, ye shepherds of the flock, the 
 Lord's word ? Do not the Scriptures say, that when the 
 spirit has left the body, the body becomes corrupt ? Do 
 not the Scriptures say, that when your Lord shall come, 
 the corruptible body shall put on incorruption ? And do 
 not your Scriptures say, that your living body is a mortal 
 body, and at your Lord's coming, your hearts of blood 
 shall become hearts of flesh, and shall put on immortality ? 
 4 
 
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 Why will ye mix the living with the dead ? Do you want 
 to do with me as you did before ? For je took my body 
 from me and put me among the dead, but I ever live and 
 am making intercession for the lost sheep of the house of 
 Israel. I have turned my hand a second time to recover 
 the remnant of my people. I have set watchmen upon 
 the walls of Jerusalem, who shall never hold their peace 
 day nor night, till Jerusalem be established," — Written 
 from John Wroe's mouthy by Robert Blackivell. 
 
 Ashton, 24th of 6th month, 1825 : — '* Prophesy against' 
 foreigTi nations : say. Thus saith the Lord, I have a seed 
 in America, and they shall come by fifties, hundreds, and 
 thousands. Prophesy concerning Botany Bay, I' have a 
 number there that shall come forth by fifties, hundreds, 
 and thousands ; and as soon as fifty are searched out in 
 America, they shall come, and the same a hundred, and 
 the same a thousand, to that place where my Spirit shall 
 rest. Prophesy and say, Many of the Babbies shall turn 
 unto the Protestants, and after they have joined they shall 
 join my work. Prophesy and say, I will cause one man 
 to go from this place, to many places, nations, and Parlia- 
 ment houses ; and thou shalt prophesy against them, and 
 the house of Manasseh shall follow thee, and be witnesses 
 to their brethren. And the houses of Ephraim and 
 Manasseh shall put on sadkcioth and ashes, and mourning 
 for thy being taken from them. Prophesy concerning the 
 iron rod that is in thine hand ; it shall go into many 
 nations." — W7'itten from John Wroe's mouth, by Henry 
 Lees. 
 
 Street House, 14th of 10th month, 1825:— ''When 
 thou shalt ride on the mule, the people shall upbraid thee 
 with it; saying that the animal thou ridest is not clean, 
 for the Law says, Thy cattle shall not gender with divers 
 kinds. Thou shalt answer. Do not the deeds of the 
 wicked testily against the workers thereof? The very 
 words out of your own mouths shall condemn you. The 
 Lord has brought me forth with this mule, contrary to the 
 Law, to testify against you, that you may come out from 
 your bondage ; for doth the Judge at the bar condemn 
 any one in a white garment ? Doth he not put on a black 
 
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 cap, according to their deeds of whom he judges, it being 
 set as an emblem of death. Does not the Minister read 
 the Lord's word in a white surplice ; and when he comes 
 to testify against the sins of the people, put on a black 
 gown ? So thou shalt ride on a mule, for three years, in 
 a mixed garment, to condemn the world ; and then power 
 shall be gi^en to the people of the saints of the Most 
 High, and thej shall be clothed in linen, and a mixed 
 garment shall not come upon them," — Written from 
 John Wroe^s mouth, hy William Muff. 
 
 Bradford, 9th of 5th month, 1827 : — " This is a year 
 of years ; it is the month of May, wherein men shall 
 flee into all nations for succor ; they shall depart by thou- 
 sands. Yv'oe unto England, it is a learned land, (with the 
 wisdom of men) : my church is surrounded with fire on 
 every side ; it is in the midst of hell, but I will pluck it 
 out. I vvill drive these people into other countries, and 
 the enemy shall spread my gospel and shall say, " There 
 is a people that have left off preaching the sufferings of 
 Christ, but they are preaching to bring him down to reign 
 with them." They shall spread the gospel of redemp- 
 tion far and near. Then I will cause them to seek for the 
 land of Joseph, where milk and honey shall flow, both 
 temporally and spiritually. Thousands shall die in the 
 way for hunger, before they arrive at it. They shall 
 come in ships, with their instruments in their hands, and 
 my name written in their foreheads. These shall all have 
 their beards on, their temples not being marred." — Writ- 
 ten from John Wroe^s mouth, hy William Tillotson. 
 
 Street House, 11th of 7th month, 1827: — "These 
 are the words in the letter ye shall drop : — •' This is the 
 Prophecy from heaven, that the judgments of God may 
 come upon earth, A man shall travel through towns and 
 cities, ragged and tattered : and as you see him, so shall 
 you see them. For the landlord shall be like Pharaoh, 
 his heart shall be hardened : the tenant shall cry in the 
 streets, begging bread for his family ; instead of a pound 
 in wages, shall be five shiUings ; the horrible state, the 
 cry of poor England." It shall be reported in many 
 
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 towns that thou shalt walk ragged and tattered, before I 
 bring thee into them." — Writte^i from John Wroe's 
 mouth hy William Tillotson. 
 
 Sunderland, 21st of 7th month, 1827 : — " The follow- 
 ing vision was shown unto me in the night. Many open 
 books were shown to me like large sheets of paper, and a^ 
 young man appeared by me, clothed in long raiment, with 
 a sword in his hand, who said unto me, " Go thou unto 
 the Methodist Priests and their hearers, and tell them that 
 the Lord will let them look into his fold and view his 
 work, and give them three years to consider on it ; and if 
 they refuse in the fourth year, he will destroy them. Tell 
 them they have had two thousand years with the Law, 
 and that the Lord is now gathering the Law and Gospel 
 into one fold, to make them one sheep, one bride in his 
 hand." This young man went with me unto the Priests 
 and their hearers, and he stood by me v/ith his drawn 
 sword until I uttered these words in their ears. The 
 priests refused, but I saw part of the hearers receive 
 them, and I saw war in their churches ; and I came to 
 myself, and the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 
 " As thou sawest the hearers receive it, go thou forth 
 among them, and be not afraid of them, and tell them, 
 There s an open vision from heaven, that declares the 
 mysteries of heaven." — Written from John Wroe's mouth 
 hy William Tillotson, 
 
 Edinburgh, 9th of 8th- month, 1827: — "A quick 
 work shall be done in the last watch of the sixth day, and 
 as it is said in the scriptures, I will cause my servant upon 
 w^hom I will put my Spirit, to drop his words here a little 
 and there a little ; they shall be like unto a shower of rain ; 
 though they have been hid in the meal or in the earth, 
 they shall now make their appearance, and cause the 
 whole lump of Israel, which are 07ie hundred forty and 
 four thousand^ to be leavened, by being regenerated. 
 With stammering lips and another tongue, will I speak to 
 the whole house of Israel, (Isaiah, xxviii. 11). And I 
 will shake the old world like a drunkard, and it shall reel 
 to and fro between the priest and the hearer. The 
 Established Church shall be against the Dissenting Church, 
 
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 and the Dissenting Church against the Established Church, 
 until they throw the Bible in one another's faces ; because 
 the J ask amiss, and want to inherit the kingdom of this 
 world, ^ith my Kingdom. And thou shalt be unto both 
 houses of Israel as though thou wert locked up in a prison 
 and brought out at certain times to them. And I will 
 bind thee with iron bands to both houses, and the Egypt- 
 ians shall carry thee where thou wouldst not go, and there 
 I will open thy mouth, and plead with all people to the 
 heathens. Thou shalt be a stumbling block and a laugh- 
 ing stock to both circumcised and uncircumcised. And 
 the towns into which thou shalt go, shail yet tremble at 
 the "words which I shall give thee ; and man shall bow to 
 thee, but thou shalt rebuke him. I will send thunder, 
 fire, and smoke of fire, in the thick and dark cloudy night,' 
 and vapors of fire shall be seen. And many families shall 
 go to bed at night, but when the sun rises in the morning, 
 behold, blood, their bodies are laid in ashes. Whole cities 
 shall be burnt up, like unto Sodom and Gomorrah, before 
 that day ; and within thirty years of the date of this, 
 cities shall be swallowed up in earthquakes, and thou shalt 
 not be far from it." — Writtenfrom John Wroe's mouth hy 
 William Tillotson. 
 
 Street House, 2d of 11th month, 1827 : — " The time 
 is now come that there shall be strange accidents in the 
 land ; for I will now destroy the earth with fire, water, 
 and earthquakes. And I will shov/ to this land that it is 
 the land of Joseph, both temporally and spiritually ; 
 though they are yet against thee, and my word ; for there 
 are three kingdoms in which shall be a total famine, and 
 all other kingdoms shall feel it. And by these plagues 
 which I will bring on their lands, they shall inquire after 
 my word by thee." — Writtenfrom John Wroe^s mouth 
 hy William Tillotson. 
 
 Park Bridge, 13th of 11th month, 1827:— "The 
 words of the Lord came unto me, saying: Prophesy, con- 
 cerning all sects and parties that believe there is a God : 
 these are all counted wheat. But those which believe not, 
 see thou prophesy not concerning them. Thou shalt say, 
 shepherds of both Hebrews and Gentiles, Think ye it a 
 4* 
 
4-2 
 
 small thing to tell your laborers to gather wheat into the 
 Lord's granary ? Does a woman take wheat, ground, and 
 put leaven in, for the sacrament, to bring to remembrance 
 the Lord's blood, which was shed for many ? Ye bring 
 wheat with all kinds of weed in and grind it with the bran, 
 and give it to the people to eat, in remembrance of me ; 
 and say, It is leavened with my Spirit." — Written from 
 John Wroe's mouth by William Lees. 
 
 Park Bridge, 14th of 1st month, 1828 : — " Oh Edin- 
 burgh ! I know thy pride ; thou art he that will kick 
 against me ; thou wilt call all thy learned men to thee ; 
 thou wilt try to stop my messengers on every side : but I 
 will send my law out of Zion, and it shall declare my 
 word to the ends of the earth. I will cause my messen- 
 gers to travel round my globe with my fiery law, which 
 shall consume both root and branch of wickedness. 
 London ! Have I none in thee ? Art thou as Sodom to 
 me ? Many prophets dwell in thee ; but I tell thee they 
 are as the prophets of Baal unto me ; they prophesy 
 when they have not heard of me, and declare my word 
 with deceit : they hatch mischief like eggs, and he that 
 eateth of their eggs shall die. But, as I live, saith the 
 Lord, I will destroy all her prophets, and rend the veil 
 from the rest of the flock, and will have my tithe. I now 
 declare unto the whole house of Israel, that the govern- 
 ment of England, Scotland, and Ireland, will hearken to 
 these false prophets, and want to bring forward my wri- 
 tings ; but as I live, I will confound them saith the Lord 
 God. For the learned shall now meditate and write one 
 to another ; but I will make them reel to and fro like 
 drunkards : for they will try to bring my Kingdom in in 
 another manner, contrary to^ my commands." — Written 
 from John Wroe^s mouth hy William Tillotson. 
 
 Ashton, 17th of 4th month, 1828 : — " I will take thee 
 round the globe, and show thee the earth, and all things 
 therein, the minerals and the stores that I have hid, and 
 I w^ill uncover them by my word. Solomon was called 
 the wisest, and w^as said to possess the most understanding 
 in arts and sciences, herbs, and medicines : but yet thou 
 shalt have greater than this shown, so that I will make one 
 
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 of the least of the flock chase a thousand, that the shep- 
 herds of the Hebrews and the Gentiles shall not be able 
 to stand before them." — Written from John Wroe's mouth 
 hy Samuel Lees. 
 
 I -svill vet show from whence the wind cometh, and 
 where it listeth ; and how the coal groweth, and what 
 feeds it, and the nature of it ; and the stone, and- the na- 
 ture of it ; and all kinds of metal ; and I will take thee 
 in spirit through the body of ihe earth, and show thee her 
 veins, and what feeds her ; and thou shalt show Israel 
 the things, and unfold the mysteries that are therein : this 
 I tell them before I bring it to pass, for I will do nothing 
 on tke earth but what I will make known before it comes 
 to pass." — Written from John TFroe's mouth hy Echcard 
 Lees. 
 
 Park Bridge, near Ashton, 5th of 6th month, 1828: — 
 " I demand of thee, John, to declare unto the people 
 what thou hast seen, and what thou hast heard. Thou 
 sayest. Thou hast seen a man holding the four winds in 
 the heavens, with a pressor in his right hand : and when 
 he pressed down the air. it being confined, it beat and 
 burned terribly on the earth : and the clouds gave their 
 rain mingled Avith fire, by the press of the mountains meet- 
 ing the clouds. Prophesy now and say. Thus saith the 
 Lord to the man who holds the four winds in his right 
 hand. Draw back thine hand, that the winds may have 
 their full space ; that the clouds may rise, that they give 
 not their rain : and say. Thus saith the Lord, There shall 
 be a dearth over the whole land, excepting the land where 
 thou now dwellest, and the place where my people shall 
 be gathered ; for I will destroy their crops with fire, rain, 
 wind, and drought ; but upon the land England, my bles- 
 sing shall flow, that the Gentiles in that land may boast, 
 that they may come out of all nations to receive both spir- 
 itual and temporal." — Written from John Wroe's mouth 
 hy Edward Lees. 
 
 Bristol, 18th of 6th month, 1828 : — '• I will destroy a 
 third part of the crops of many nations, for I will send 
 thunder, fire, and storms, and pestilence ; and England 
 shall receive the shadow this year, and the next, and the 
 
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 year following, for my elect's sake whom I have chosen 
 out. I will take thee into nations where thou shalt see 
 earthquakes, and feel them, for I w^ill do nothing but I will 
 show it unto Israel." — Written from John Wroe'S mouth 
 hy William Tillotson. 
 
 Swansea, South Wales, 3d of Tth month, 1828: two 
 o'clock in the morning : — " This morning I had a large 
 number of all sorts of four-footed animals transii2;ured be- 
 fore me ; and I saw them looking upwards, as if they 
 were hungry ; and I beheld a large city ; and there came 
 a person unto me and said, ' These cattle had got out of 
 the city, and had got into another man's cattle, and they 
 were all blended together ; ' this person also saidj% ' 'Ihe 
 cattle had been a long time out of the city, and had got 
 great acquaintance with the other cattle ; but,' said he 
 unto me, ' go thou and call unto the cattle w^hich belong 
 unto the city ; but the cattle which belong not unto the 
 city, call not unto them, neither touch them, nor go near 
 unto them ; but those which belong unto the city have the 
 city mark upon them ; and thou may know them, for they 
 do the work of the city ; ' and the man left me ; and I 
 called out unto the man, and wanted to know his name, 
 or who he were that had given me that com.mand ; and he 
 said, ' The master of the city has sent ma unto thee, that 
 thou may go and gather the cattle ; but if thou bring any 
 other in, thou wilt be accountable for them as stolen 
 goods.' I Y/ent out into the fields to gather the cattle, 
 and I called by the words which were given unto me, and 
 I saw a mark on them, different from the others ; and 
 when I called, they all lifted up their heads, and heard my 
 voice ; and they galloped round me like cattle that were 
 hungry for want of food ; so I began to feed them. 
 Other cattle came, and galloped round me, and pushed 
 me over, and trampled me under their feet ; and some 
 ran their horns into my side till the blood came out. And 
 there came other men and asked me what I was doing 
 w^ith the cattle ; and said their cattle were among them 
 also. I desired them to take their cattle out from 
 amongst my master's ; that, they said they would not do, 
 for the land was their own ; but I might take mine out if 
 
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 I could get them. I tried from the rising of the sun to 
 the setting of the same, and could not get them out : and 
 I found out that these men were shepherds, and they 
 laughed at me, and made game of me ; and said, ' Thy 
 cattle have been too long amongst ours for thee to take 
 them out.' At all times when I had gotten the cay;le of 
 the city assembled together, the other cattle came and 
 pushed among them, and would not let them go ; and the 
 longer I tarried, the fa.rther I got from the city ; but at 
 the rising of the sun the day following, I got them near to 
 a large wood ; and the shepherds saw me, and set their 
 dogs at me, and squandered the cattle among the others. 
 Then I became weary, laid me down, and fainted, so that 
 I could not follow them, and thought my sickness was un- 
 to death. I then saw the man who came to me at first, 
 and perceived he was an angel from heaven ; and he 
 poured something into me, and set me upon my feet, and 
 said to me, ' John, thou must not faint, but thou must go 
 and gather the cattle.' I said, How could I go, seeing 
 the shepherds kept letting their dogs out and squandering 
 them ? He said, ' Thou must go out a second time ; and 
 see that thou gather none of theirs.' I said, I could not 
 gather them, for the others would continually be among 
 them : therefore I refused to go. But he said, ' If thou 
 goest riot, thy body must die, and why wilt thou seek the 
 things of which thy body is made ? Now if thou wilt go, 
 I will give thee this sign, — Thou shalt meet a lion, and 
 then thou shalt call to the cattle, and they shall hear and 
 follow thee ; and the lion shall be so fierce that the cattle 
 which belong not to the city will not come near ; and by 
 this thou shalt gain the cattle of the city.' So I went 
 according to his word, and I saw a lion, as though it had 
 risen out of the earth, or come out of the wood ; and I 
 called to the cattle, and I saw that the shepherds were all 
 in a dead sleep ; and the lion went with me and the sheep 
 all came forth, and I got the cattle within the gates and 
 the lion shut them. Then the shepherds awoke and came 
 to the gates, and also the cattle ; and of all the roaring 
 and howling of oxen, sheep, and all kinds of cattle that I 
 ever heard, the roaring of these exceeded ; and they 
 
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 climbed up the gates and the walls, but the shepherds 
 drove them back. I then came to myself, but through the 
 sight I was very sickly all the day. At four o'clock in the 
 afternoon the words of the Lord came unto me, saying, 
 ' Novf , John, I will show thee the meaning of what thou 
 sawjihis morning. The cattle which had gone out of the 
 city wandered for hunger, and my shepherds that I had 
 set over them fed them not, but fed themselves ; and my 
 prophets which I sent among them were afraid of those 
 shepherds, so that they held back my word. So now I tell 
 thee my children are gone away out of the city, and are 
 squandered amongst the world, and have got acquaintance 
 with them. My cattle are my children, and the other 
 cattle which are at the outside of the city, are the people of 
 the world : the city is my commands, laws, statutes, and 
 judgments, which I will set in the midst of them : the 
 shei^herds are those that are set over Israel, which are 
 like the shepherds of the Hebrews and Gentiles : the dogs 
 are the drunken people that they shall set to stone, beat, 
 and tread thee under their feet : the lion is the angel that 
 shall stand up for my people, and assist thee to gather 
 them into the city ; aixd the ^roaring of the cattle when 
 thou saw the gates shut, is the clergy, petitioning the gov- 
 ernment, and gathering their army together to encamp 
 against my city ; then fire shall descend and destroy them, 
 and thou and iTly children shall see my city built. And 
 this is the interpretation of the vision which thou hast 
 seen this morning. Seven books, seven writers will I 
 have, seven virgins temporal and spiritual ; and until seven 
 be found I will not cease my work." — Written from Johi 
 Wroe's mouth hy William Tillotson. 
 
 Park Bridge, 16th of 10th month, 1828 : " From 
 one to three o'clock this morning, the word of the Lord 
 came unto me, saying, ' John, spealc thou to the house of 
 Israel, saying, Hear, house of Israel, and know the day 
 of thy visitation, for I will destroy thy foes out of thee, 
 and make an end of that which bruiseth the heel of man ; 
 for I have tasted of his affliction. Awake, Scotland ! 
 for thy visitor is come ; for thy shepherds which dwell in 
 thee will I make desolate, for thy wells shall no more water 
 
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 thee, for I will cause a drought to come upon thee. 
 Quake, Ireland ! for thj affliction is coming ; for thy 
 priests which dwell in thee are like thine images. Thy 
 likenesses and pictures will I break in pieces ; distress and 
 anguish of heart shall cover thee, thy learned men will I 
 confound by him who is unlearned,, and he shall pull thy 
 skirt from thee. Wales, have I not visited thee ? Let 
 him that is sent unto thee make bare the arm of my 
 strength ; for I will cause him to gather these little ones, 
 and he shall establish my word among my branches. 
 Turkish land ! thou art become fat, and boastest, and all 
 nations are watching thee. Thou hast squandered my 
 people, and showed no pity. Nov^ the days are come that 
 I will destroy thee ; and as thou hast hired nations, and 
 scattered my people over the earth, and had no pity, so 
 shall the nations now do unto thee ; for I will not visit thee, 
 nor heal up thy wounds ; for I will send a famine on thee, 
 and pestilence, and distress, as well as other nations. For 
 my servant John shall go through thy land ; and my word 
 shall make thy land desolate. France ! thy pictures, 
 images, and likenesses will I destroy. For thou thinkest 
 to go to war, but I will send one v/ho is not a king, and 
 yet a king, for' my servant John shall pour oil upon his 
 head, and he shall make thy land desolate. And thou 
 wilt seek unto England for thy bread ; but if it succor 
 thee it shall smart ; for it has once covered thee under its 
 wings, and thou hast not repented ; thy priests and king 
 will I destroy with fe^mine and sword. . Russia, thou 
 boastest, and art not like him that putteth off his armor ; 
 thou shalt seek unto the nations to assist thee : for I have 
 something a.gainst thee, and I will send men unto thee, 
 and sift thee ; and I will confound thy priests by another 
 tongue ; and famine shall cover the for three years, till 
 th}^ little ones die by it." — 
 
 Ashton, loth of 12th month, 1828 : — " Thou watch- 
 man of the house of Israel, These are the cattle that I 
 caused theq^^to travel amongst ; as thou hast seen them 
 lie down harmless, so shall it be ; these are mine. And 
 as thou sawest the kings of the earth looking downward 
 
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 with Satan and his beasts, so will I cause thee to travel 
 among the clean cattle and the unclean, and they shall 
 have no power till my word be executed." — WHttenfrom 
 John Wroe's mouth hy William Tillotson. 
 
 Ashton, 6th of 4th month, 1829 — ''The battle has 
 begun, and woe to my servant, it shall be with both priest 
 and prophet, buyer and seller, giver of usury and receiver 
 of usury ; for the word that I will give to my servant shall 
 be against every man, and every man against it, to destroy 
 him from the land of the living : the kings of the earth 
 shall rise up against him and seek to bind him, but I will 
 break the bands. He shall labor and another inhabit — 
 he shall plough the ground and another sow. And the 
 words that I will give shall draw out the tares, and bind 
 them in bundles, and the fire shall destroy them. For I 
 will dash them in pieces. And great shall be the fall 
 when the assembly shall meet: many of the rich shall 
 meet and fall with them : I will do this in this land 
 England. And I will cause the sea to overflow the land, 
 and destroy man, woman, child, beast, and cities ; I will 
 do it within the borders of England : and the wind will 
 roar and blow down churches, and unroof others ; and a 
 great roaring shall there be in London one against another ; 
 for I will make every religious sect find its own level ; I 
 will scatter their opinions as I scattered the builders of 
 Babel." — Written froiii John Wive^s mouth hy William 
 Tillotson. 
 
 Ashton, 25th of 4th month, 1829: — "All nations 
 shall gather themselves together against my word which 
 shall be given through thee ; and all the officers of the 
 king shall try to overcome thee ; they shall seek to entan- 
 gle and ensnare thee in thy discourse to break the laws of 
 the land ; and they shall say, " We pity these that call 
 themselves the house of Israel ; but this man we will burn 
 with fire.' They shall no more say, ' They are Joannas,' 
 but they shall say, ' They name themselves The house of 
 Israel ; but we call them. The deluded people, led away 
 by this man ; yet the laws of the land cannot get hold on 
 him.' The serpent will enter into all the world to destroy 
 thy body, that it may become a prey in the sight of all his 
 
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 followers. The trial of thee shall be greater than all that 
 has been before thee ; for upon thee will I lay the reproach 
 of the whole house of Israel. I will sort all religious 
 sects, and give them liberty to worship whom they will : 
 I will break the bands of all empires, so that every king's 
 subjects shall worship whom they please : so that no man 
 shall say, ' I have been tied by the laws of our land, that 
 I could not serve the Living God.' As I have broken the 
 tie that was on the Roman Catholics, so will I break the 
 tie that is on the Turks, and all other nations." — Written 
 from John Wroe's mouth hy William Lees. 
 
 Bradford, 10th of 10th month, 1829: — "They say, 
 ' There is peace,' but I say, There is yet war ; for I have 
 seen six men ready to enter into battle, which are six na- 
 tions ; — they fight until they dethrone one another. And 
 Turkey shall be divided as a man cuts a piece o^ bread." 
 — Written from John Wroe^s mouth hy Sarah Pile. 
 
 Ashton, 5th of 12th month, 1829: — "The whole 
 earth shall have a sabbath, wherein shall be no harvest ; 
 and the cattle shall roar on the mountains like stags with- 
 out an owner." — Written from John Wroe's mouth hy 
 Samuel Swire, jun. 
 
 Ashton, 28th of 3rd month, 1830 : — " Let no man 
 have a dead stock, for a great change of times and sear 
 sons is commencing — changes in Parliament Houses — 
 tumults in many nations — boils breaking out in both man 
 and beast, till man cry, ' I will go into that happy land, 
 England.' England, who is like thee ? Thou art like 
 Jerusalem ; thy law has protected thee — thou hast been 
 like a city inhabited without walls ; thou hast prepared 
 shipping to go abroad with the light of the Gospel, but 
 the Gospel of Redemption hast thou not known ; it has 
 been hid from thine eyes because of thy works, and thou 
 art cursed above all that has been before thee ; for if the 
 Gospel of the kingdom had been preached unto them 
 they had repented. Thou art more wicked than they who 
 rose against my word, or the people of Sodom and Go- 
 morrah, or Nineveh, or Jerusalem ; and now Jerusalem is 
 revealed from heaven, and thou refusest it." — Written 
 from John Wroe^s mouth hy William Tillotson. 
 
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 Ashton, 30th of 3rd month, 1830 : — " England ! 
 England ! awake, for the day of thy visitation is come, 
 and thj children shall know it : I have caused a deep 
 sleep to fall upon thee ; I have bound thee with iron 
 bands, bj establishing a law, till all the bones of the vir- 
 gin, the house of Israel, be gathered and joined. My 
 word shall go from nation to nation, both in newspapers 
 and books." — Written from John Wroe's mouth hy Wil- 
 liam TiUotso7i. 
 
 Ashton, 9th of 4th month, 1830 : — "I must draw thee 
 near Jerusalem, and there shall my spirit plead between 
 them and thee ; for I will put the two swords between the 
 enemy and thee in that land, that they may appear as 
 dead men before my word ; and the poor, the afflicted, the 
 halt, and the lame, of those who are called Hebrews, shall 
 know that it is my word. And of those who possess prop- 
 erty, it shall take one here and one there, as though it 
 took one in every quarter, so that my work is but just car- 
 ried on. And all nations shall have a desire to trade with 
 my people ; and those who are not my people, whom my 
 word has cast out, the world shall know ; liars, Avhore- 
 mongers, cheaters, defrauders, and thieves ; and they 
 will say, ' We see they will not have these amongst them ; 
 where can we find another such a people.' " — Written 
 from John Wroe^s mouth hy William Tillotson. 
 
 Bristol, 16th of 10th month, 1830 : — " I will yet print 
 a book, and send to every Hebrew ; and it shall have the 
 key, and unlock the Scriptures, and none shall shut. And 
 say, Thus saith the Lord, As thy hair grows in length thou 
 shalt increase in strength. And my key of the scriptures 
 shall be given to thee, and thou shalt lock from both He- 
 brew and Gentile, and neither men nor devils shall open ; 
 and thou shalt open and they shall not shut nor destroy. 
 And the canals shall become railwaj^s, and the new roads 
 grass ; and my people shall fly in chariots round the moun- 
 tains by the raihvays and they shall flourish at the trees of 
 Lebanon. As I drew back the clouds when I took thee 
 to thy journey, so when I return thee I Avill cause them to 
 give their rain." — Written from John W^'oe^s mouth hy 
 William Tillotson. 
 
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 Sandal, near Wakefield, 19th of 11th month, 1830 : — 
 " Thou faintest and mournest, seeing thou art not able to 
 separate the cattle ; I am now come to assist thee, and the 
 "words that I give thee shall be as a grinding stone, and 
 he that refuseth to be ground thereon shall be singled from 
 mj flock, he shall not partake of my vineyard. And as 
 the sun shineth from the east to the west, so shall Shiloh 
 come unto that man that has done the work that I com- 
 manded him ; and he that stands at that day shall be as a 
 prince. Many will call themselves Christ, and Shiloh, and 
 Israel , but he that goes after my word will I make an 
 Israelite in whom there shall be no guile : and those who 
 are led by false prophets, if their hearts be toward me, and 
 their works be accompanied with the view of obepng me, 
 I will rend'the veil from them. And they shall flock in by 
 hundreds, and sign hand and heart for circumcision, and 
 swear to me that a tool shall never more go upon them to 
 mar them, and that they will not be marred by the pre- 
 cepts of men. And this is the way in which Israel shall 
 be gathered." — Written from John Wroe^s mouth hy 
 William Tillotson. 
 
 Sheffield, 12th of 12th month, 1830:— "Wars and 
 tumults on every side — nations shall dethrone one another 
 — no hire for the beast — all nations flowing to England, yet 
 when the end comes all nations rising to condemn those 
 that dwell therein ; for the wrath of the Almighty is com- 
 ing upon them. Satan has been permitted to look into my 
 house, and make war ; and he shall go unto the nations to 
 break their alliance. They call it a holy alliance, but it 
 is a deceitful one." — Written from John Wroe^s mouth 
 hy John Sliaiu. 
 
 Wakefield, 25th of 4th month, 1831 : — " Before thou 
 art taken, every vein in the house of Israel shall be tried 
 and proved ; for hell, and the synagogue of them who say 
 They are Hebrews, and are not, 'I must overthrow with 
 Satan, as I overthrew Sodom. For one bone of the 
 house of Israel are they not able to break, nor one link to 
 destroy : in this manner will I be honored, that I may de- 
 stroy them." — Written from John Wroe^s mouth hy 
 James Shand. 
 
Sheffield, 1st of 5th month, 1831 : — " This year shall 
 be a year of great plenty ; — this shall be sent to all places, 
 that every one may be a witness. For it is the tenth 
 year — nine years have been failing in crops, and three 
 years of great plenty throughout the whole land. Thus 
 saith the Lord, The king will sweep both houses of par- 
 liament again, as a man sweeps his yard with a besom. 
 The parliament shall be one against another, and fight ; 
 they shall go well to bed, and in the morning their houses 
 shall be in ashes : this shall be in many nations." — Writ- 
 ten from John Wroe's mouth by John Shmv. 
 
 Sheffield, 13th of 5th month, 1831 : — " This year shall 
 be a year of great trouble, from the lowest subject to the 
 king on the earthly throne : one duke against another — 
 one lord against another, each raising their forces — magis- 
 trates standing in fear of what may be the consequence, 
 and not knowing how to act. And plentiful crops trodden 
 under the foot of man and animals — farms untenanted — 
 the fruit hanging for strangers to gather." — Written from 
 John WToe^s mouth by William Tillotson. 
 
 Sheffield, 7th of 8th month, 1831 : — " Why art thou 
 grieved and wounded in thy heart, for the house of Israel ? 
 am not I able to do the things of which I speak ? I tell 
 thee, flesh and blood cannot view my kingdom but as a 
 picture. Does not my word which has been shown to Is- 
 rael say. That if there was one with thee who was not of 
 the house of Israel, he should be as stolen goods ? my 
 Spirit has pursued after thee, and Satan is the bailiff who 
 has stopped thee, and thou shalt be bound, until those who 
 are not of Israel are departed. And many will go with 
 them who are of Israel ; then I will send thee with my 
 word, and thou shalt claim those with my mark, and bring 
 them back into my fold ; for my word by thee shall drive 
 them into the city, a city which is not of blood, but of 
 bone and flesh, lighted with the light of heaven. My word 
 shall meet the priest and the corpse, and it shall say to the 
 priest, Why will ye bury the living among the dead ? and 
 it shall say to the living; Rise out of thy sleep, and shame 
 thy priest, who is going to bury thee among the dead. 
 Then they shall awake out of their sleep, and say to the 
 
priest, ' Is this the way thou intendest to do mt\\ the 
 house of Israel ? priest ! cease from these ways.' He 
 shall shame, and look downwards, and steal away, as a 
 thief. He Avill then^ gather together all the learned, 
 against my word, for their hearts will be hardened, for they 
 will not believe that they may fall. Reproach and mock- 
 ery must come upon the house of Israel to keep back 
 those who are not of Israel. Then see that thou 
 fear none of these reproaches ; for they first mock, and 
 swell, and rage, and all must seem to the house of Israel 
 to fail, and it must appear as though there was not one 
 man standing by the word." — Written from John Wroe's 
 mouth hy Joseph Smith. 
 
 Extract of a letter from "Whitby : — " On Sunday, the 
 30th of the 10th month, 1831, at two o 'clock, John 
 Wroe preached to the public, in Boulby Bank Warehouse, 
 (Whitby), and was obliged to have a constable to keep 
 peace. John Wroe said in his preaching: — 'Ye think 
 that the Reform Bill will pass at this time, but I tell you, 
 in the name of God, it will not ; but afterwards it will. 
 But before it does, many will lose their lives. As I have 
 been obliged to travel in the night for fear of my life, so 
 shall the Parliament, for some of them shall narrowly 
 escape. And you will have a railway between York and 
 Vfhitby. And for that which they call the cholera in 
 other nations, it shall go through this land England, and 
 take every tenth, and will not stop till every town say to 
 another, ' Has it gone through thee ? ' Eor it shall go 
 from the north to the south, and from the east to the 
 west, till every nation be visited. And the sword of the 
 Lord is drawn out of its sheath, and shall never return 
 till the king of the Turks be dethroned out of Jerusalem. 
 For the sixth seal is broken open, which is written of in 
 the 12th verse of the 16th chapter of Revelation, which 
 is. That a way will be made in the great river Euphrates, 
 to prepare a way for the kings of the east, for all nations 
 shall go against it. And ye think ye have peace at home, 
 but I tell you nay : — one magistrate against another, and 
 one minister in Parliament against another ; for as it has 
 been between the master and the servant, so will it be with 
 
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 the heads of the nation. I could rise high but dare not 
 trust my wings/ These things we heard with our ears. 
 Another prophecy was given by John Wroe, at James 
 Johnson's, when the bellman was going out of the house, 
 John Wroe said to Margaret Johnson, ' Thou wilt see this 
 man change his clothes, and get another office.' (^Signed,') 
 William Fortune, John Fortune, and James Johnson." 
 
 ^ Whitby, 7th of 11th month, 1831:— "From two to 
 nine o 'clock this morning, I had many things shown unto 
 me ; and many towns, and many parts laid in ashes : and 
 the word of the Lord came unto me, and the Spirit of the 
 Lord is upon me, so that I may hear and understand. 
 Manchester shall quake as a goose that has lost all its 
 companions ; and many shall fly for hiding places ; and 
 as they hunt thee at Ashton, so shall they hunt one 
 another. Manchester ! If thou didst know thy visi- 
 tation, thou wouldst repent, but it shall be hid from thy 
 eyes, that thou mayest perish. And now to your Bish- 
 ops. Your land shall see her destiny, and outrage ; in 
 many counties shall it be. Ashton! now is thy 
 plague ; what thou didst unto my servant whom I sent 
 unto thee, the same shall they do one to another. It 
 shall come to pass that they shall be weary of burying 
 their dead in that place. And London, what have I to 
 say concerning thee? The traitor to the king is in 
 thee ; — a great man — a learned man — a man of high 
 renown. Thou shalt be smooth, thy tongue shall be as 
 oil, and full of flattery ; thy speech shall be fair, and 
 thy company that are hnked with thee shall be permit- 
 ted, that thou mayest do it quickly, seeing there is no 
 sword in the hand of the other. These thirty years have 
 I nourished thee, England ! I have sent my prophetess 
 and my prophets ; they have warned thee, even in the 
 newspapers, and thou hast refused to take it ; that ye may 
 destroy one another, and eat one another up, with sword, 
 fire, and^ pestilence. But yet, for all this, thou art the 
 land which I have chosen for mj granary, that I ma}^ 
 gather my children out of all nations, and put them within 
 thy borders ; then all nations shall know that I have cho- 
 sen thee, till the time that I take my people from thee, 
 
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 that thy land may then have rest. And as thou hast 
 travelled in the night, so shall the Parliament ; as the con- 
 stables of Bradford intended to put females' clothing upon 
 thee, that they might discover thee in the crowd, so shall 
 many in this land England. Neither shall they know the 
 time of their visitation, but Israel shall know it. See that 
 thou hearken not to the astrologers, for many of them 
 shall combine together ; for thou shalt yet stand before 
 many of them, and my w^ord shall confound them. But 
 for Raphael, who calls himself. The astrologer of the nine- 
 teenth century, and says. He is the ground-work of all 
 messengers ; and says, ' If you be a Christian minister, 
 my invitation will not be refused.' Though this be the 
 second invitation, thou shalt not go until mine appointed 
 time." — Written from John Wroe^s mouth hy William 
 Fortune. 
 
 Whitby, 8th of 11th month, 1831 : — " No foreign na- 
 tion shall be permited to enter thy borders. Oh England ! 
 I will aw^ake thee out of thy sleep by those things which I 
 will bring upon thee. And every fresh law which is made 
 in all Parliament Houses round the planet, shall be made 
 in behalf of the house of Israel, (though they know it 
 not ; ) for my people shall have protection even by the 
 laws of the land." — Written from John Wroe's mouth 
 by William Fortune. 
 
 AVakefield, 23rd of 11th month, 1831 : — " Now I will 
 bring my word to the former Hebrews, — a house that is 
 full of superstition, and would not have that to reign over 
 them which would have brought them to the end of the 
 law. If my spirit had not come upon the w^oman's seed, 
 and done the work, how could it have been the guide or 
 light of the world, which was to appear ? Noav the time 
 is come that I have set my hand a second time, and wdll 
 pour my Spirit upon the seed of man." — ■ Written from 
 John Wroe's mouth hy James Shand. 
 
 Trosley, 13th of 2nd month, 1832 : — " I will work 
 w^hen the hope of Israel is gone in the eyes of man, w'hcn 
 those wdio have condemned my Spirit shall weep, mourn, 
 and lament. For will the ploughman plough all day and 
 not sow ? I have set before thee an open door, Israel, 
 
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 n.Tid tlie gates of hell sliall not prevail against it ; neither 
 shall those who have condemned mj Spirit be able to shut 
 it." — Written from John Wroe^s mouth hi/ William Til- 
 lotson. 
 
 Troslej, 13th of 2nd month, 1832:— '^ took the 
 tribe of Dan from among mj children that he should judge 
 the Gentiles, until the seed of Jacob and Joseph, the 
 house of Ephraim and Manasseh, should be gathered ; and 
 that he should be as an adder in the way to them, that 
 biteth the horses' heels, that the rider falleth backward, 
 (Genesis xlix. 16, 17, 18,) and by this shall their learning 
 fall to the ground ; for if Dan had not been given to the 
 Gentiles how would Israel have been gathered ? Now the 
 riders of Jew and Gentile saj, ' We hgld the sceptre, we 
 ride on horses like mighty men, even the horses which John 
 foretold in Revelation ; for all things will continue as they 
 are, and we and our children will ride them for ever. 
 The tribe of Dan shall be as a serpent covered with grass 
 — he shall put out his head when they are not aware, 
 when they are riding like mighty men — men of rcnowm — 
 men of war, every man his sword glittering in hand ; even 
 the number of kings, having stars on their breasts and 
 crowns on their heads, being gathered together against 
 mine anointed ones also : the tribe of Dan shall leap from 
 Bashan, (Deut. xxxiii. 22) — he shall bite their horses' 
 heels — every man shall fall backward. This is the sacri- 
 fice that I will have upon the whole earth ; for I have 
 called all the birds of the air, and the wild beasts of the 
 earth to this sacrifice, that they may eat the flesh of kings, 
 and of mighty men, (Rev. xix., Ezek. xxxix.) For as 
 the tribe of Dan is given into the hands of the Gentiles, 
 so has the enemy been permitted to come into the house 
 of Israel ; but he shall not fall there but be cast out : but 
 with the Gentiles shall he fall, for the bodies of the right- 
 eous and the wicked shall perish together at that day. 
 Dan was the father of Sampson, (Judges xiii) ; and as 
 Sampson fell with his enemy, (xvi. 28, 29, 30), so shall 
 the tribe of Dan fall with the Gentiles, and the dust of the 
 earth shall be their meat ; but he is judge, and rules, and 
 has dominion in the house of the Gentiles, until the 
 
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 appointed time. And as Samson was to the Philistines, 
 so shall Dan be to the Gentiles ; for though the Philistines 
 put out Sampson's eyes, (Judges xvi. 21), because he dis- 
 obeyed the words of the Lord, yet he was as an adder 
 biting the horses' heels, that they fell backward. And I 
 came abiding on the woman's seed to heal up the breach, 
 but they refused ; so I have given them the tribe of Dan, 
 to judge them, till Israel should be gathered, and if they 
 still refused to join my people Israel, he should bite the 
 horses' heels, and fall with them. This is the true inter- 
 pretation of the parable of the tribe of Dan." — Written 
 from John W^'oe^s mouth by William TUlotson. 
 
 Trosley, 12th of 3d month, 1832 : — " They love flag- 
 ons of wine ; they are become gluttons, and all things are 
 become meat unto them, but my way ; they build high 
 places, make groves, eat swine's flesh in them ; and fill 
 their bowls with the blood of swine, and all unclean beasts ; 
 they bring forth their lawyers to plead against my word ; 
 the lawyer stands with the doctor w^ho has hired the 
 murderer to say. He found them dead, though he had 
 murdered them, that they may make merchandise of 
 them ; and they cut them up as the bodies of animals. 
 The tribe of Dan, which holds the sceptre of the Gentiles, 
 sends out his word, and brings them before him, and find- 
 ing them guilty, gives sentence against them, though the 
 lawyer pleads for the doctor, that they must have bodies : 
 the parson cries, ' They are but earth ; ' he -brings forth 
 the scriptures, clears the road, and makes the light to 
 shine bright before them, which pleases them. The law- 
 yer, doctor, and parson cry to the holder of the sceptre 
 for the tithe, and for amendment of the acts of parliament 
 relating thereto, or their subjects will refuse to pay them. 
 The tribe of Dan which leaped from Israel to the Gentiles, 
 will smile behind the veil, and the stone of Israel will give 
 him the lions whelp, and he shall bite their horses' heels, 
 and they shall all fall backward, and be slain." — Written 
 from J. Wroe's mouth by Martha Cambell. 
 
 Trosley, 22nd of 3rd month, 1832 :— " Now I call to 
 the whole house of Israel, that they may hear what the 
 Spirit and the bride say to the seventh church ; for my 
 
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 measuring line and plummet is gone forth, and shall mea- 
 sure the city of the whole house of Israel ; for my two- 
 edged sword shall prepare the way for it — it shall not re- 
 turn void. For as thou sawest the scales set to the balance, 
 and in the right end the righteousness of Jew and Gentile, 
 and their Avickedness in the left, and the beam put to the 
 balance, by the hajids of the holder of the measuring line 
 and the plummet, and the left overbalancing the right, 
 which is the fulness of the Gentiles ; so them in the right 
 hand scale, vv^ho were overbalanced, who are the six 
 churches, — their souls were preserved, but their bodies 
 saw corruption ; but those that were in the left, — their 
 souls remain under the sentence of the second death, till the 
 final resurrection. So my people were neither in the left 
 nor the right hand of the scale, but as Lot, in Sodom and 
 Gomorrah ; and as Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego, in 
 the fiery furnace ; not one haii* of their head being singed, 
 nor the smell of fire on their raiment, but their mortal lives 
 swallowed up by the life which is immortal, by their blood 
 being washed away, and their spirits with mine being put 
 within them. These were covered under the skirt of my 
 mantle ; for I have placed them on holy ground, until I 
 have destroyed the righteous and the Avicked from my 
 creation; " Say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the Lord, 
 Behold, I am against thee, and will draw my sword out of 
 his sheath, and cut off from thee both the righteous and the 
 wicked." Ezek. xxi. 3. " Behold, I will make them of 
 the synagogue of Satan, which call themselves Jews, and 
 are not, but do lie." Bev. iii. 9. " And that servant 
 that knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither 
 did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes : 
 for unto wiiomsoever much is given, of him shall be much 
 required ; and to whom men have committed much, of him 
 they will ask the more," Luke xii. 4T, 48. But the aliens, 
 or tenants to the redeemed, are those who never knew my 
 scriptures, and say, They are of no religion ; " As many as 
 have not this doctrine, and have not known the depths of 
 Satan as they speak, I will put upon you none other bur- 
 den. But that Avhich ye have already hold fast till I 
 come," Rev. ii. 24, 25. " But he that knew not, and did 
 
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 commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten -with few 
 stripes," Luke xii. 48. Satan has contended against thee, 
 and the whole of the legions of hell has been at work, to 
 snatch thee from the house of Israel, that thy spirit might 
 depart from the earthly tabernacle ; — I have sent forth my 
 angel, and he has withstood Satan, and overcome him ; 
 and the breach shall be healed, and the house of Israel 
 shall return ; and I will drive Satan out of them, and into 
 the people of the world ; I will then take a remnant of the 
 world, and hide them in the holes of the rocks and caves 
 of the earth, and he shall not be able to pluck them out of 
 my hands ; and him, with the bodies of the world, I will 
 bind in hell, and set a seal upon him ; and he shall not 
 touch even them who have been hid in the holes of the 
 rocks, neither their children, until the thousand years be 
 over." — Written from John Wroe's mouth hy 3Iartha 
 Camhell.- 
 
 Devonport, 22nd of 5th month, 1832 : — " My law shall 
 divide the people, it shall be found as a burning fiery moun- 
 tain to the wicked ; but Israel will not be burnt, nor the 
 smell of fire on their raiment, which shall appear brighter 
 than gold seven times purified. For the world shall be as 
 servants in assisting to build this building, but the fire shall 
 destroy them. And the vrorld shall even thrust Israel 
 out ; for the 4:3amp of them must be seen, as the clouds are 
 seen in the firmament. And I will bring clouds of fish, 
 even to the shores of the seas, to feed Israel with, and 
 they shall have a measure of Avheat for a penny — they 
 shall grind their own corn in the camp — fruit shall hang in 
 the hedges, and there will be no strangers to gather it ; — 
 and the whole earth shall stink with dead men's bodies, 
 because of the l)uriers not being able to bury them." — 
 Written from John Wroe's month hy Hohert Wallace. 
 
 Devonport, 10th of (3th month, 1732 : " As many in- 
 struments as I have had since my prophetess, so many 
 shall there be in one house against each other who call 
 themselves l)eliovcrs. Tliosc wlio call themselves believ- 
 ers, but arc not doers, are the scorpions, neither hot nor 
 cold ; for they are neither workers nor believers. The 
 five wise and the five foolish virgins must appear in the 
 
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 house of Israel ; for they once had lamps, but they are 
 now seeking to devour those that have oil. Let not my 
 children interfere with the concerns of the nations ; for the 
 land that I will gather Israel in is divided into three parts ; 
 and the manufacturers of all branches shall be against the 
 land-owners, and the land-owners against them ; and they 
 that are of Israel will not interfere with them. One nation 
 shall devour another, and those nations that never re- 
 ceived the gospel shall rise up and dethrone those that 
 knew the gospel and did not the work. For I will now 
 punish those that stand still, for have not I a right to bring 
 them to death in what manner I will ? Afterwards I will 
 destroy those who never received the gospel. Many shall 
 see visions and dream dreams, but they shall have no in- 
 terpretations because they refused my visitation. I will 
 gather many people in Scotland." — Written from John 
 Wroe^s mouth hy liohert Wallace. 
 
 Devonport, 7th of 7th month, 1832: — "Those upon 
 whom is the mark of Israel, the destroying angel shall not 
 touch, that the same death — that death which is not com- 
 mon amongst men, may take those away who have not my 
 mark, that refuse to walk in my law." — IVritten from 
 John W7^oe''s mouth hy liohert Wallace. 
 
 Devonport, 17th of 7th month, 1832 : " I will make 
 the world acknowledge that I am with Jsrael, by the 
 plague that I have sent amongst them, neither shalt thou 
 pray for them, nor ask for the plague to be stayed. For 
 nine parts of man shall be destroyed, and I will take 
 Israel out of the tenth part ; and the remnant of the 
 tenth part, which are over and above the house of Israel, 
 shall come out of the clefts of the rocks and serve them. 
 And when the world acknowledges that there is not a 
 town nor a city but what it <has visited I will stop the 
 destroying angel ; and they upon whom is not my mark 
 shall be subject to it, as man was subject to the fall after 
 he had touched the uncleanness of the woman ; so that 
 the world shall crave after my mark, and not be able to 
 obtain it." — Written from the mouth of Jolm Wroe hy 
 Joseph Churchward, 
 
 Devonport, 26th of 7th month, 1832 : — " Bradford is 
 
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 a stiff-necked rebellious house ; and I will plead with that 
 place with pestilence ; and in the same place where they 
 trod mj messenger under foot, shall they fall while the 
 sun is up ; and others shall be afraid of gathering them 
 up to bury them. And death shall take hold of those 
 that deny that they are thy temporal brothers ; others 
 shall seek thee that thou mayest cause them to be buried. 
 Awake ! awake ! sword of death, execute my wTath 
 before thOu return to thy sheath ; for upon these shalt 
 thou execute where they have persecuted my word, in this 
 land England ; and where they have smote my servant, 
 though they be the least, they shall be smitten the most. 
 And America I after I have smote thee, the remnant of 
 thee shall rejoice to receive my word. And Satan, 
 wilt thou refuse to slay those thy prophets ? See that 
 thou take nine out of ten, thfit my w^ord may prove the 
 tenth part ; for I will now make all nations quake and 
 fear before me. For the next year (1833), I will destroy 
 many by heat ; and I w^ill plead with many towns and 
 cities by fire ; and I will open the sea upon many places ; 
 and the doctor, the lawyer, and the priest, that have 
 agreed together, shall be destroyed by this pestilence. 
 And though the rich flee from one city to another, it shall 
 meet them by the wayside, till strangers pass by their 
 dead bodies : for now the time is come that I will chain 
 Satan down from Israel the first. And woe unto the far- 
 mer that is over the cattle ; for the earth shall bring forth 
 her increase, and his goods shall go to the lawyer and the 
 parson ; and the doctor shall make merchandise of his 
 body : and this shall come to pass that they may know" that 
 I have sent my servant among them. For those who are 
 neither hot nor cold, though they be in the covenant, and 
 though they approach the city gates, they shall see they 
 are unclothed ; and before they reach the rocks the 
 pestilence shall overtake them. England, awake ! 
 pestilence is within thee ; the sword is round thy borders, 
 ready to creep in ; and if thou still refuscst, other distant 
 powers shall take thy branches from thee ; and I will 
 shorten thy wings, and thy feathers shall moult within, 
 thee ; and thy great men who have led thee astray^ shall 
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 fall ; then tliou slialt know I visited tliee, and tliou didst 
 refuse." — Written from John Wroe's mouth hij Josej)h 
 Clmrchward. 
 
 Devonport, 27th of 7th month, 1832 : —" Scotland ! 
 Scotland ! behold thy borders, for they shall be too narrow 
 for thee, and thy bed shall be shorter than thou canst 
 stretch thyself; for those who are within thy borders, and 
 have my mark on, shall teach thee wisdom, and shall 
 instruct thee, till I have gathered my children out of thee. 
 Then will I pull thy skirt off, and thou shalt see thy 
 shame, till the mountains teach each other ; and thy hills 
 shall echo, till other nations hear thee mourn ; for a rem- 
 nant I must have out of thee, before I show thee thy 
 nakedness. And for Ashton, I will show it its nakedness ; 
 and those that have risen up against my word there — 
 that where they have tried to slay my messenger, may be 
 a place for their dead bodies to lay in ; for I will not own 
 them again until the resurrection, neither shall they be 
 called after my name, but after the name of the dead : 
 for my servant shall lodge no more within their borders." 
 Written from John Wroe's mouth hij Joseph Qhurchiuard. 
 
 Sunderland, 9th of 10th month, 1832 : — " I will permit 
 Satan to set all the congregations against their shepherds, 
 to see if they will search for the truth of my scriptures ; 
 and as the children lock their tutors out of the schools, 
 and burn and destroy their weapons, that they may have 
 their rest and play ; so will the congregations turn their 
 preachers out of their churches and chapels ; and I will 
 open the eyes of a part of their hearers, so that they 
 shall see the truth of my visitation. For the year of 
 Jubilee of my visitation is come, and Israel knows it. 
 ' The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense 
 are ; Israel shall know it : the prophet is a fool, the 
 spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, 
 and the great hatred. But the prophet is a snare of a 
 fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.' 
 Hosea ix. 7, 8. I will recompense the iniquity of both 
 Jew and Gentile upon their own heads ; for the prophet 
 shall appear as a fool unto them, and Israel as madmen, 
 
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 because they turn mj scriptures to tlieir own ways." 
 — Written from John Wroe^s mouth hy Robert Mattinson. 
 Wakefield, 6th of 12th month, 1882 : — " Thus saith 
 the Lord, ' Distress from this day of every kind — plague, 
 famine, earthquakes, storms, fires, people setting houses 
 and stacks on fire, lunatics breaking out of the asylums, 
 and going into many places and setting houses and stacks 
 on fire, and many will become lunatics." — Written from 
 John Wroe's mouth hy William Muff, 
 
 DIVINE COMMUNICATIONS. 
 
 Ashton, 5th of 12th month, 1824 : A dream of Thomas 
 Stone, 1st of 10th month : - — "I dreamed that I was look- 
 ing up at the moon, which shone very clear for a long 
 distance from the south to the east, from whence a woman 
 advanced wdth a rod in her hand, (apparently behind the 
 clouds), and touched the lower part of the moon, which 
 seemed to me as if it had been cut open, and when she 
 pointed her rod, the moon seemed to burst as though it 
 was boiling metal, and illuminated the whole world, and 
 the light was more glorious than I am able to describe with 
 my pen. After pondering a little about this great light, I 
 lifted my head upwards to see if I could see anytliing of 
 the woman, and she was just turning herself about in 
 order to return to the east ; she seemed to me as if behind 
 the clouds, which w^ere very thin woven ; but a glorious 
 light for her between the clouds and the sky, and she 
 turned back in a very majestic style while the world below 
 seemed to be in darkness ; and I was much delighted to 
 see her walk back in such composure from south to east." 
 " Now I will give thee the interpretation : — The moon is 
 the clergy, and their light shall seem to lighten the whole 
 earth ; and it will now spread more than ever, and strive 
 to put out the light of the sun. And the clouds being 
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 woman with the rod in her hand is the ministering spirit 
 of Satan, which shall put forth her rod, and touch the 
 moon, which is the priests, and tliej shall have a visitation, 
 and say. They are visited by the Holy Ghost, when my 
 children shall appear in darkness. And there shall be an 
 engagement between the sun and the moon ; but when the 
 true Israel are gathered, I am commanded to show thee 
 the difference. The moon gives its light by night : so does 
 Satan give light unto the world. When the sun rises, the 
 morning makes its appearance, and the night is past ; and 
 they will see that the moon has been there, and is there, 
 but has'no power. So as the moon has no power to give light 
 when the sun is up, so will it be when Michael stands up, 
 that the light of the world then shall appear no more, for 
 the sun is the new w^orld, and the moon is the old one. 
 And the moon bursting is the world — the evil that is in 
 it, for it shall boil in every nation and city ; and this is 
 the fire that is against the true Israel ; for the priests 
 shall prophesy and "roar like lions in the streets, and print 
 books, and translate them into other languages, and try to 
 stop the gathering of Israel. The woman again is the 
 world ; and she shall say that the millennium is taking 
 place, and that the whole race of man will receive it, who 
 will hearken to the priests, by the law of the Gospel." — 
 Written from John Wave's mouth hy William Tillotson. 
 
 Street House, 15th of 2nd month, 1825 :— ^'Thou hast 
 laid the inquiry of Hobert Wallace and Samuel Wyatt of 
 Devonport, before the Lord : That which the Lord made 
 known (to George Turner) in the 187 page of the Stan- 
 dard of Zion, that His warning was past, was during the 
 time that the spirit would rest on him. For warning shall 
 never cease, till the Lord has gathered his people. Has 
 not the Lord declared by his former prophets. That if the 
 wicked would not repent, He would destroy them ? Has 
 the Lord fulfilled what he spoke by George Turner in his 
 day ? Is George Turner to put on immortality, with a 
 natural body, or a spiritual incorruptible body ? I tell 
 thee He is a ministering spirit in the Lord's work — One 
 has passed the fiery furnace, and he cries, ^I know I shall 
 be saved.' Another has passed it twice ; another says, 'I 
 
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 have seen three visitations and I stand yet.' But, I tell 
 thee, Thej who come in at the eleventh hour, by the last 
 instrument the Lord works with, shall be far before them 
 that have seen six visitations, and departed from his laws. 
 For did not the Lord tell you to follow the Spirit whitherso- 
 ever it went ? So the Lord will take seven instruments to 
 work by ; which are the seven burning lights, and these 
 lights are set in the road to the tree of life ; and if ye lose 
 one of these lights,, ye shall not be able to travel without 
 returning back and seeking it. But, instead of seeking 
 the Lord, ye seek one weaker than yourselves. And for 
 thy visions, during George Turner's time, they were 
 neither to lead nor direct ; but for the unbelievers : for the 
 Lord charges all his children to reject all \dsitations but 
 those by which he leads. And how are they to prove it, but 
 by the standard, which is the scriptures. Then let them 
 all prove whether thou art the Lord's instrument or not. 
 Ask them if George Turner fulfilled the words to Isaiah, 
 (xxviii. 11,) Tor with stammering lips and another 
 tongue, will he speak to this peoi^le.' For the Lord will 
 now open the scriptures to your view, and he will prove 
 you." — Written from John Wroe^s mouth hj William 
 3Iiiff. 
 
 Ashton, 21th of 6th mouth, 1825:— ^'Thus saith the 
 Lord, I will cause no seer, no interpreter, no astrologer to 
 guide my children, during the time that thou art absent ; 
 my word, by my Spirit, taking counsel of me, shall pro- 
 tect them." — Written from John Wroe^s mouth hy Wil- 
 liam Tillotsoii. 
 
 Park Bridge, near Ashton, 18th of 9th month, 1825 : — 
 "Thou hast laid their dreams before me : Let them write 
 out their dreams, and send them, but when only one part 
 of a dream can be recollected, Satan has destroyed the 
 other. But Stephens' wife seeing thee come into her 
 house with a rod, was permitted that she might bear wit- 
 ness and record of the Lord's work to the rest of her breth- 
 ren." — Written from John Wroe^s mouth hy William 
 Tillotson. 
 
 Park Bridge, near Ashton, 19th of 9th month, 1825 : — 
 " Rise and hear the words that I now ";ive thee, that thev 
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 may be recorded in writing. Thou hast laid Richard 
 Stephens' visions before the Lord : I answer thee : Many 
 visions are given from the Lord ; but Satan has got this 
 jDormission, knowing that his time is not yet come. When 
 a man meets with his enemy, will he not fight as long as 
 life remains ? So Satan is permitted to fight until his 
 time is come, that the earth deliver up her children. 
 He is permitted with all tliat see visions, to come forth 
 amongst the angels, to try to turn them out of the way : 
 but is not the word of God the standard ? Does not the 
 word of God proceed from Mount Zion ? Is there above 
 one mount Zion ? Has not the Lord made the standard " 
 of his word to lead his people ? Then dreams and 
 visions are to be laid before the standard of his word, 
 that a true interpretation may be given of them, for 
 they are neither to lead nor direct, but are only for 
 those who receive them ; and seeing Satan is permitted, 
 that man that is weaned from the breast, and drawn from 
 the milk, will not trust in them, as he is liable to be led 
 astray by them, unless they are interpreted. But Satan 
 shall get weaker and weaker, so that every man's dream 
 or vision in Israel shall get stronger. The man who tells 
 his dreams or visions, and trusts in them, shall be ashamed 
 of himself, they shall not come to pass ; but he who keeps 
 them unto himself, or writes them out to be laid before the 
 Lord, shall find light in them. Then let Stephens cease 
 from handing forth his dreams or visions among the 
 people." — Written from John Wroe^s mouth hy William 
 TiUotson. 
 
 Bradford, 28th of 5th month, 1826 :—" Th'us saith 
 the Lord : Satan shall come forth with the same likeness 
 in a man, and all religions shall like it, and they shall have 
 many prophets that shall agree in one thing, and they 
 shall be snared and taken." — Written from John Wroe's 
 mouth hij William Miif^ Sen. 
 
 Islington, 9th of 4th month, 1829: — ^' Man bemg 
 made subject to vanity, not willingly, and Satan being 
 stronger than they, it was needful I should overshadow a 
 part of the people, and make them prophets ; and Satan, 
 by his power, has come forth with the same likeness as 
 
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 this, to deceive, that he may make all my work void, and 
 throw the truth to the ground." — Written fro7ii John 
 Wroe's mouth, hy William Lees. 
 
 Wakefield, 11th of 12th month, 1830 :— ''The son of 
 perdition is now revealed : and as my Spirit sat upon the 
 woman's seed, till he had fulfilled the law and gospel ; 
 so is the Spirit of the devil now sitting upon one man, 
 shewing himself that he is the very God, that giveth all 
 life, passing under the name of Shiloh. He will work and 
 gather many ; for Satan will gather his part for his king- 
 dom, and I will gather my part for my kingdom : he will 
 put his mark upon his, and 1 will put my mark upon mine : 
 his spirit will sit upon his till the cup of iniquity be full ; 
 and my Spirit will sit upon mine, till the law and gospel 
 be fulfilled, as I fulfilled it." — Written from John Wroe's 
 mouth hy William Tillotson. 
 
 Sandal, near Wakefield, 14th of 12th month, 1830 :— 
 "The devil is come down from on high, upon your planet, 
 and his works will now appear, even the substance, and 
 his agents with him, and they will be as though they were 
 going to take possession of the planet. The deists and 
 Atheists will be at the head of them, shewing there is no 
 God but themselves. And James Smith of Edinburgh, 
 has been to inquire at their hands, and not at mine ; for I 
 shewed thee at Edinburdi how he would roar like a lion 
 in the street for madness, that he could not obtain his end. 
 But they shall have their time, and I will then have my 
 time of sacrifice upon them." — Writteiifrom John Wroe'^s 
 mouth hy William Tillotson. 
 
 Wakefield, 25th of 4th month, 1831 : — " As I was 
 honored upon Pharaoh, so will I be honored upon this 
 Antichrist, and his followers. And every one that has 
 Peter's spirit shall return to eat my word again. For the 
 fire will yet be heated hotter than ever, and the house 
 of Israel walk through it, and not one of them be singed, 
 nor fall to the ground." — Written from John Wroe^s 
 mouth hy James Shand. 
 
 Wakefield, 23rd of 11th month, 1831: — ''And thee 
 my servant, my elect, whom I have elected out of thy 
 father's family amongst the prophets, have I appointed as 
 
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 a standard to nU'lDRdc planet : unto thee tlie keys are 
 given, for by thyM&outli will I open the Avoman's writings. 
 Slany prophej:^ are pn the earth, all holding bunches of 
 keys, and they say. They have the knowledge of good and 
 evil — 5^they o|%n, and the wicked one cannot shut." — ■ 
 \Written froTh Mm Wroe^s mouth hy James Slimid. 
 
 Wal^eld, 5th of 12th month, 1831 : — " Many proph- 
 ets will explain the scriptures their way, taldng a part out 
 of my word which I revealed unto my former servants, 
 but I will make thee go and stand before them, and will 
 put my spirit upon thee, and pull their explanations in 
 pieces by thee before their faces, because they call them- 
 selves sons of God ; but they marry with the sons of men. 
 Wilt thou go after them ? My spirit which sitteth upon 
 thee liveth, and shall slay them." — Written from John 
 Wroe's mouth hy William Tillotson. 
 
 Devonport, 27th of 6th month, 1831 : — " All visions 
 are but as shadows, and without an interpreter trouble 
 the hearts of men. I will but have one standard, and I 
 wall have only one at once on the earth, and he shall stand 
 before ten thousand, for he shall be the choicest of ten 
 thousand ; but if he should break my covenant, his body 
 then shall see corruption." — Written from John Wroe's 
 mouthy hy Rohei^t Wallace. 
 
 Devonport, 1st of 8th month, 1832 : — " Though Satan 
 will come forth with his mark, yet can he not do the 
 work, the w^ork shall prove whether they be mine or Sa- 
 tan's ; for if the body die they are not for the kingdom on 
 this planet, and still has come short of the glory of me." 
 — Written from John Wroe's m&uth^ hy Joseph Church- 
 tvard. 
 
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 DIYINE COMMUNICATIONS, CHIELY.^SigTRUC- 
 TIONS TO THE BELIEVERS^ ;J 
 
 14th of 12tli month, 1822 : — "I, Jesus, commtind th'ee,. 
 John Wroe, to write unto all mj children to inform them 
 what I am going to do, to remove every doubt from their 
 hearts, and to give them the hearts of lions for boldness, 
 that they may fight boldly for me ; for my true vines shall 
 appear in a short time ; and I will bring all the mockery 
 of the mockers upon their own heads, and throw them down 
 into the deep, as I threw down Pharaoh and all his host. 
 Now I ask thee if this people can discern my w^ays ? and 
 thou repliest, 'No, Lord.' No more can Satan, for I will 
 throw him into the deep. Now have my children dis- 
 cerned my* ways, that I am with thee, to direct thee ? 
 For had they w'itnessed thy boldness, they would have 
 seen that thou wouldst give thy body for a sacifice if I re- 
 quired it of thee." — Written from John Wroe's mouth hy 
 WilUcrm Miiff. 
 
 Leeds, 15th of 1st month, 1823 : — ''I, Jesus, from 
 heaven, command thee, John Wroe, to deliver this manna 
 unto all my children that believe my word, which shall be 
 meat for them for forty days, from the 16 of January : it 
 shall be bitter to the mouth, and sweet to the belly, and 
 those that will eat it, shall come forth, for I will deliver 
 them. And the IGth day is the 30th day, each day for 
 a year. My children are to keep these days holy unto me, 
 and not keep their hearts back from me, that I may pour a 
 blessing upon them. Now I will tell thee the meaning of 
 the days : they are the days that I begin to work the sec- 
 ond time on earth, for within forty days, (each day stand- 
 ing for a year,) I will have subdued all kingdoms unto 
 me" — Written from John Wroe's mouth by Samuel 
 Walker. 
 
 Gibralter, 29th of 5th month, 1823 :— "Therefore tell 
 all my children to be strong and valiant, for the time is 
 short ; as I am going to reveal the days of Jacob, and the 
 
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 new world shall appear. Seek ye life while ye yet live, for 
 the time will come when it will be too late." — Written from 
 JoJinWroe' s mouthy hy Williayn Cooke. 
 
 Gibraltar, 22nd of 6th month, 1823 :— "Now tell my 
 children to look into the last chapter of Daniel, and try 
 their wisdom, for that secret has not been revealed, but I 
 will reveal it unto thee, and thou shalt unfold it unto my 
 children^" — Written frotn John W7ve^s mouth hy William 
 Cooke, ^ 
 
 Strasburg, 23rd of 10th month, 1823 :— "I will see 
 what my children will eat during these forty days, for I 
 will try them as I did Gideon's army, ["He that eateth 
 any manner of blood, I will cut him off from his people. 
 For the life of the flesh is in the blood ; and I have given 
 it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your 
 souls : for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the 
 soul." Lev. xvii. 10, 11]. And this is for thee as well as 
 them ; this is the tree of life set before them, to see wheth- 
 er they will eat it or not ; though Satan, stands behind it, 
 those that ask of me I will protect with my two swords, 
 and these are my true Israelites. Now search my scrip- 
 tures for this, and then you will see what the tree of life 
 is ; for all things which I have created are become meat 
 for my children ; this is what I will prove you by. And let 
 them ask me for protection, that they be not guilty of the 
 blood of their forefathers ; for the Hebrews cried for my 
 blood to be on them and their children ; — now if they will 
 ask forgiveness of me I will bring them to this people which 
 shall become one staff, which are my true Israelites." — 
 Written. from John Wroe's mouth hy William Lees. 
 
 Milan, 29th of 11th month, 1823 : — " Now let not my 
 children say, I have not prospered their ways ; for I tell 
 thee some of them will say, ' Is this his work ? are we to 
 give our money for men to go a-pleasuring with ? ' My 
 work is a pleasure to me, but their evil hearts are an 
 abomination to me. Now, son of man, I tell thee, these 
 forty days shall sort them, ?tnd cause the wolves to go out 
 from amongst my sheep, that I may bring others out of 
 distant lands in their room ; for I tell thee they are a stiff- 
 necked people, and they cause the rest of my children to 
 
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 go astray from my work. Now tell my children if they 
 will seek me I will be found of them ; and let them not 
 follow the same ways that they did in the last forty days, 
 for it was a rebellious house. And let them keep these 
 forty days holy ; not cease from labor, but they may hold 
 meetings as often as they think proper during the time." 
 — Written from John Wroe^s raouth hij William Lees. 
 
 Between Chalon and Avalon, in France, 9th of 12th 
 month, 1823 : — " Thou shalt utter parables before them, 
 which testify of their ways ; for he that trusts in the 
 sword of the world, shall perish by the sword, and he that 
 puts trust in the silver and gold of the earth, shall perish 
 with the earth, for it shall not deliver him ; but he that 
 trusts in my word, which is the sword, shall live in life 
 eternal." — Wnttenfrom John Wroe's mouth hy William 
 Lees. 
 
 Idlethorpe, 20th of second month, 1824 : — " Now, as 
 I proved myself to be the Lamb, I command you also to 
 act like lambs, and follow me into the sheepfold, for I am 
 the door thereof, and if any man enter in at any other 
 door, the same will be found wrong ; and if any man 
 build on any other groundwork than that which I left him, 
 his building shall fall. For I sent my prophets to dig the 
 groundwork, and I took a stone out of a mountain on 
 which a tool had never been laid, neither had any man 
 handled it, but I gave my prophets a faint view of it, the 
 same as I show thee the likeness of many things which 
 shall come to pass. I fashioned the stone, I laid it in the 
 four corners of the earth, and I ordered my laborers to 
 build thereon ; and if any man stumble at this fourth cor- 
 ner stone, the same shall grind him to powder, for he was 
 taken out of the dust, and unto dust shall he return. Now 
 I tell you, ye that wish to seek life while ye yet live, my 
 ])rophets have dug the groundwork, I have laid the foun- 
 dation, my son Shiloh shall set up the gates, that you may 
 enter and live eternally. Now ye inquire, How j^ou are 
 to build. The laborer cries to his master, ' Which way 
 wilt thou have this building built ? show me.' I tell you, 
 The groundwork is dug ; the four corners are laid ; build 
 on this groundwork and it shall stand. Now search my 
 
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 scriptures ; this is spiritual, and ask of me, and prepare 
 your hearts ; and be not like the liar or the whoremonger ; 
 be not coveteous nor adulterous ; for into these gates such 
 cannot enter. My building is first spiritual, and when 
 that is built, then I will show you the temporal ; and ye 
 shall enter, and no man shall shut the gates ; neither shall 
 the sun, which is the life of me, go down upon them, and 
 my glory shall overspread them, and ye shall see the 
 w^orks of my hands without death." — Written from John 
 Wroe's 7nouth, hy William Tillotson. 
 
 Street House, 15th of 2nd month, 1825:— "The 
 road becomes narrower every day for the world ; and 
 when the forty and two months are expired, neither male 
 nor female shall be able to find it, for a thick cloud of 
 darkness shall rest over the door. And this is the sign 
 which the Lord will give the world. " — Written from 
 John Wroe's 7nouth hy William Muff^ Jun. 
 
 Park Bridge, near Ashton, 27th of 12th month, 1825 : 
 " Now let all Israel enlarge their tents, and draw out their 
 cords, that their pastures may be seen, and their works 
 before them : and when the Lord has gathered Israel he 
 shall then draw the veil from all eyes, and from all your 
 enemies, and they shall then see you, for they shall not 
 see you as men, but as gods knowing good and evil, 
 (which is not in blood), then God shall remove the fear 
 from you, and put it upon them. Then hear, Israel ! 
 and be not fearful and unbelieving like a man without 
 hope. Is a man doubtful and careless of his father's 
 estate, or he stands valiant for it ? The enemy comes to 
 sue him out of it, but if he be not fearful, does he not sue 
 as long as he has life ? Then hear, Israel ! Is this not 
 your father's inheritance ? — claim your rights ; for the 
 Son of God left the earth that he might give it unto those 
 that were worthy ; these are the heirs. Then obey your 
 father's command that ye may become as one man ; though 
 ye are the youngest of the flock, yet shall ye be the great- 
 est. Then let every man fight valiantly under his banner, 
 and every man in his office. Noay hear, Israel ! I give 
 thee the word that thou may est learn righteousness. Is 
 thy tent too little for thee, Jacob ? Is not Zion built in 
 
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 the heavens ? Will ye not also build it on the earth ? Has 
 Zion sent not forth her children ? Will ye not nourish 
 them, house of Israel ? then if ye nourish one of them, 
 ye nourish my little ones : if ye love one another, ye love 
 my church : but if man and wife love not each other, ye 
 have not drunken of the waters which flow from under the 
 threshold of my house. The first command is to love 
 your husband which is in heaven : the secoyid is for a man 
 to love his wife as God loves Zion : the third is, for every 
 man to love his brother, that God may visit you : the 
 fourth is, for every man to pray for those who spitefully 
 use him, that God may open his eyes, that he may become 
 a branch of the vine, and come out from amonsr them : the 
 fifth is, that he may petition his God that he may have 
 strength given him to receive nothing back which is stolen ; 
 but freely deliver it up, that God may give him all things 
 he has need of for both soul and body. The sixth is, that 
 he may have no malice in his heart against those who cry 
 after him ; but that he may cry out to have power given 
 him to rebuke Satan ; for it is written, Satan shall be sub- 
 ject unto those whom God endows with his Spirit. Did 
 not I, Jesus, promise you this power when I rested on 
 your life ? And I will send my Spirit, (the life of me), 
 in my name, and it shall rest on you, not begotten of 
 either man or w^oman ; but the seed of God, nourished up 
 in the womb of a woman in the time of ten months, taken 
 from the side of the woman in substance ; it being the 
 Spirit of God to redeem one hundred and forty-four thou- 
 sand, to make them like unto the last Adam, one bride, 
 that the seed of the last Adam might be an issue without 
 blood, that corruption might be swallowed up ; for the last 
 Adam has a new heart, the seed being changed from the 
 seed of man to the seed of God, that all men may become 
 God and woman. 
 
 Then, thou virgin of Israel ! anoint thyself with all 
 kinds of precious ointment : beautify thy garments. Are 
 not thy streets paved with gold ? Then let the daughters 
 of Israel put on their bracelets, their ear-rings, and their 
 chains of gold. For I will beautify thee with all kinds of 
 precious gannents : for when the eyes of the world arc 
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 opened, thej shall tremble before thee ; then shall be bitter 
 weeping and lamenting throughout the old world ; and 
 they shall run into the clefts of the rocks, and shall be 
 afraid of thee ; then it shall he seen that God is the life 
 of Israel, for all nations shall bow down and worship them, 
 for I am in them, and they in me, for they shall be perfect 
 woman, and be of God ; then the Son shall worship the 
 Father, and the Father the Son. At that day it shall be 
 seen that there shall be unity both in the third heavens 
 and on the earth, it being made heavenly. 
 
 Then hear, virgin ! if thou hast faith to pass into the 
 city, there shall be a fire to thee on the right hand, and a 
 deep water on the left, and a horrible tempest before and 
 behind thee : if thy faith sustains thee to pass this narrow 
 part, thou art a virgin unto thy God ; thou hast not been 
 defiled with the first Adam's works. Then hear, thou 
 virgin of Israel ! Am not I thy first lover ? Did I not 
 lay down my life, to redeem thine from manhood ? Then, 
 daughter of Israel, hast thou not lost thy virginity ? 
 Turn thou also unto me, that I may give it thee, for I gave 
 my blood to put away corruption in thee, daughter of 
 Israel ; I gave my body unto the burial, that thou mightest 
 be enabled to preserve thine at my coming. Then, 
 virgin of Israel ! gird thy loins, and wash thee and be 
 clean, and take my rod in thine hand, and go forth, and 
 tell the daughters of Isarel that they have lost their virgin- 
 ity ; but if they will turn back to their first lover, their 
 blood shall be washed away, (Ezekiel xvi. 8, 9). Then, 
 daughter of Israel, if thou wilt take the rod of my word, 
 (the rod is faith, faith is the rod ; hope is immortality ;) 
 charity shall obtain all things. Then, hearken, daughter 
 of Israel, If thou wilt drink of the waters of life eternal, 
 thou shalt eat at the table of Zion, and thou shalt prophesy 
 in the midst of Zion, and thy prophecy shall be as marrow 
 to thyself, and as oil to thy bones. Art thou a virgin then, 
 Israel ? If thou be a daughter and a virgin, and not lost 
 thy virginity, I will give thee unto my son ; my son shall 
 marry-thee ; he shall put a ring on thy finger so that he will 
 never forsake thee, if thou play not the harlot ; and brace- 
 lets on thy wrists ; and a threefold chain of gold about thy 
 
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 neck ; and ear-rings in thy ears ; and put a crown of 
 diamnods upon thine head, and beautify thy raiment with 
 all kinds of broidered work, and clothe them with apparel 
 higher than the saints in heaven, for they shall serve thee. 
 And he shall receive thee into his arms, and embrace thee ; 
 and cry. Thou art my dove, my fair one ; I have begotten 
 thee of my father ; he shall no more wrap thee up in swad- 
 dling clothes, but receive thee as one begotten of his God ; 
 thy breathing shall be as the wings of an eagle ; thou shalt 
 be where thou listeth ; for he shall give thee possession of 
 the whole earth for thine inheritance, and the life of the 
 third heavens for thy throne. Thou shalt exceed, thou 
 daughter of Israel ! all that have been before thee, and all 
 that shall come after thee. Thou shalt be continually a 
 virgin unto me, the wife of my youth. Then hearken, 
 Israel, and obey my commands, and this thing shall be 
 given unto thee, thou house of Israel." — Written from 
 John Wroe''s mouth hy William Tillotson. 
 
 Bradford, 28th of 5th month, 1826, at two o'clock in 
 the morning: — "The words of the Lord came unto me, 
 saying, Hear, Israel, the words that I now^ give thee, 
 Thou shalt hear my words once every month ; and under- 
 stand them ; for twelve trees shall now make their appear- 
 ance ; for my word shall go out twelve times every year ; 
 it shall be strong and powerful, for my two swords shall 
 prepare the way. Then hear, house of the twelve 
 tribes ! the words that I now give thee. There is among 
 you that which shall make their bellies bitter, until the 
 dross be purged from them. For I tell thee, that neither 
 life nor death can separate those that my Spirit abideth on. 
 For the world shall heat the furnace seven times hotter 
 than it has been before, and that soul which is not able to 
 endure it, shall be removed from the roll. For the king of 
 this present world is come out to fight the king of heaven ; 
 and there is nothing before but what shall be made strong- 
 er. Now, Son of man, say. Thus saith the Lord, Those 
 who have signed my covenant, and left it, shall tremble ; 
 their leaves shall now fall, their nakedness shall be seen. 
 Though my words seem to die for a little moment, it shall 
 now burn in every city to which thou art taken ; the wheat 
 
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 shall be seen ; the granaries shall be prepared ; every man 
 to his tent, house of Jacob !" 
 
 Park Bridge, 30th of 9th month, 1826 : " Son of 
 man, what art thou sighing and mourning at ? Is my 
 word too great for thee ? Am not I at the head of my 
 work ? Say unto the learned. Let them gather themselves 
 together ; for I will yet place thee in the midst of them, and 
 put words into thy mouth which shall confound them. The 
 words of my flock have come to my hearing ; they say, I 
 delay in my promises ; thou wast to be cast into prison, 
 and brought before kings and rulers : what has my flock 
 to do with my work ? will they teach me, or lead me ? let 
 them also gather themselves together, and see if they can 
 contend with me ; they are worse than when I gathered 
 them before ; forty years was I in gathering them, but 
 was I no more in scattering them ?" — Written from John 
 Wroe^s mouthy hy William Tillotson, 
 
 Street House, 12th of 10th month, 1826 : — " I formed 
 man and woman at first, and they departed from my ways, 
 and my law was not found in them : so I will now cause a 
 total separation between the husband and wife, the father 
 and son, the mother and daughter ; for he that separates not 
 from both father and mother, wife and children, is not of 
 my fold ; I am your father, and when ye transgressed my 
 commands I left you to your father ; so now the father 
 shall leave the son to his own will, as I left him ; but he 
 shall hold forth my blessed hope before him ; the son shall 
 leave his father, and shall hate his ways ; the daughter 
 shall not cleave unto the sins of her mother, nor the mother 
 to the sins of her daughter, but hate her ways ; but she 
 shall hold forth my kingdom ; so that it shall cause a total 
 separation in every house ; if there be an Hebrew and a 
 Gentile they shall not agree. For I set the type in Esau 
 and Jacob ; and this world shall be like Esau ; when the 
 final end is come they shall say. They have had enough of 
 it, but it shall be too late. So now I will prove who is 
 Esau and who Jacob ; for I hate this world, for I have 
 already cursed it ; and he who does not the same is not 
 my son, but is against me. By this shall be knoAvn the 
 difference between a Gentile and an Israelite : He that is 
 
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 of the seed of Israel will hearken unto my commands, but 
 he that is a Gentile will stand and fight the battle ; and 
 he that stands still, and is neither hot nor cold, Satan shall 
 call him a coward, and say. Where I am, there must thou 
 be also. This is the man that has his eyes opened, by sign- 
 ing to my work, and by standing still, has become the 
 worker of Satan." — Written from John Wroe^s mouth, 
 hy William Tillotson. 
 
 Park Bridge, 18th of 10th month, 1826:— "I will 
 show thee some of my sons' and daughter's hearts : thou 
 shalt stand with the iron rod in thy hand, and utter the 
 words that I give thee before my people : thou shalt say, 
 The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, to say unto the 
 sons and daughters of Israel, Thus saith the Lord, Work, 
 and I will reward you ; your wages shall be sure ; for 
 what more can I do unto my sons than to give them all 
 my possessions ? So my Father, who was in heaven, and 
 is not, and yet is, has given me the place of Satan's king- 
 dom, to become the kingdom of the living God. So I will 
 prove before Satan that I am your Father that begat you 
 and your mother : I came among you with a veil over me, 
 to view you, to see if ye would receive me as my Father's 
 Son, to try your works : I choose twelve for myself, ac- 
 cording to the twelve tribes ; so when I saw that all their 
 ways were evil, I rebuked their father, Satan, the devil ; 
 for they despised me, and set me at nought, and chose 
 me not to be their father ; so I told them they had 
 become a habitation of devils. Satan also stood before 
 me, and said, ' Didst not thou require their blood at their 
 hand ? how is it that thou rcquirest it of both man and 
 me ? Then I must take thy blood also ; for thou sayest, 
 Thou wilt give thy life for the lives of these people ; so 
 now I will prove thee; for thou sayest that blood is the 
 life of the world, — ^this hast thou given unto me, — this 
 I will fight for. I am Satan ; my O'svn is my own ; and 
 when thou hast done all thou can I will cheat thee ; though 
 thou put a chain round my neck, and chain me in hell, 
 and seal me up there with twelve seals, I will yet be 
 avenged on thee. For when thou drove me out of heaven, 
 tliou said, ' Besjone unto the earth : ' also, if I could con- 
 
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 quer man, man I should have ; for thoii said. There should 
 be a war between man and me, and that in the seed of 
 the woman thou wouldst bruise my head ; but thou hast 
 not yet bruised it, for I will take care that my head shall 
 not be bruised by man ; although thou hast driven me out 
 of heaven, yet will I have a possession here on earth, for 
 blood is the gift unto me, and I will have it, and it is life, 
 for my people shall live as well as thine : and wherever 
 there is blood I will have a possession, for all the animals 
 are mine. And thou say est, Thou wilt put thy Spirit 
 within man. The difference shall be seen between my 
 heaven and thy heaven ; thou callest my habitation hell ; 
 and thy throne thou callest heaven : and thou bade me 
 get as many as I could on my side. So I will fight, though 
 thou sayest. Thou wilt chain me in my kingdom ; but when 
 I am let loose I will go unto my own. So, I tell thee, the 
 life of the aliens and of all the cattle is mine, and I will 
 have them at my command, for the battle shall be mine in 
 the end ; for I am set to make war and destroy, that the 
 world be not overrun. Thou sayest. Thou wilt cleanse the 
 world ; I will cleanse it also ; I have deceived as many of 
 thy prophets as thou hast kept right, and my number is 
 greater than thine ; so man for man I am a match for thee. 
 Thy servant whom thou art sending to and fro in the 
 earth, tells people that thou wilt put thy Spirit within 
 them ; thou may give them thy Spirit, but mine shall be 
 there also ; for I will try to deceive all thy messengers, 
 and if I cannot deceive him I will have my own, I will 
 have the life of this world from him ; and as to his soul, 
 thou may take it, and do what thou wilt with it ; but all 
 his contracts which he hath made with me, to serve me, I 
 will make him fulfil ; I will make him do my work, at 
 least for a thousand years, and he shall be my servant, 
 and I will pay him for all. These things I have heard 
 between Satan and our God, this morning, or the angel 
 who has shown me these things ; and I see there is a war 
 between the spirit of man and the Spirit of God ; but 
 while the Spirit of God rests on me I prophesy, and stand 
 before Satan. So now let me recommend all my brethren 
 to ask for the fulness of the Spirit, that God may acknow- 
 
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 ledge them to be his sons at the first resurrection, for if 
 they are illegitimate children, they are the servants of 
 Satan ; and as Satan says. He is .the life of this world, 
 let us, while we dwell in this life, testify against him, and 
 seek for the other life, and value not Satan nor his life, 
 but be ready to give it for the other ; for the other is the 
 possession of both heaven and earth. My tongue cannot 
 describe the glorious sights I have seen this morning, 
 neither can I declare the words that I have heard, they 
 are too great for me ; so I recommend all those who have 
 enlisted under our Father which is in heaven, not to desert 
 from his train ; for it is death to do so, even the second 
 death, which will reign over the soul until the final resur- 
 rection. Though I heard Satan say that God has no right 
 to come to enlist among his soldiers, and he has threatened 
 to take my life, even the life of the world to come, 
 over which he has no power. The Spirit of the Lord fell 
 on me again, and bade me prophesy, and said unto me, 
 Son of man, be not thou afraid ; if thou hearken unto my 
 commands, and stand stedfast for my word before my 
 people, Satan shall not be able to pluck thee away, for I 
 will draw thee unto myself, as an anchor is drawn out of 
 the sea. And upon the word that I give thee have I 
 placed twelve seals, and neither men nor devils shall 
 destroy it ; it shall be recorded in the day of my rest ; 
 it shall be engraved with an iron pen, and he that re- 
 lieth on it shall not stumble ; for it is a sieve, a mighty 
 sieve, which shall sift all nations ; the wheat will I cause 
 to pass my sieve, and go through it, for it is a flaming 
 fire, and he that is not able to pass the sieve and the fire, 
 it shall destroy his body. And those whom Satan calls 
 his own (the aliens), I will cleanse their blood, his spirit 
 shall not be found in them, for I will chain him from 
 them also." — Taken from John Wroe's mouth hy Wil- 
 liam Tillotson. 
 
 Park Bridge, 27th of 1st month, 1827 : " Let all Israel 
 know that I have made thee a watchman of both houses ; 
 and he that petitions me for thee to be removed, I will 
 liken to a foolish virgin : I the Lord will confound this 
 spirit, for it is in the midst of Israel ; but not in the midst 
 of an Israelite : for where is the man amongst the sons of 
 
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 Jacob to direct me ? Where is the man amongst the Gen 
 tiles to choose me an instrument ? Let all the sons of 
 Jacob know, it is the house of Esau, and his end is death. 
 Let all men know that I have no honor in death, and I 
 will destroy it, saith the Lord. I will now prove the four 
 Trustees ; — I will try their work and search their ground- 
 work ; — I will see if they will search mj writings and 
 prove my work : have I anointed them for a prej for the 
 Gentiles ? As I live, saith the Lord, I will make the 
 Gentiles a prey unto them, if they will seek me. But I 
 tell thee they watch thee. Will they try to correct thee ? 
 Will they try to turn thee from my word ? If they will 
 receive the prayer that I will cause thee to utter into their 
 hearts, they shall be able to pick out the beam from their 
 own QjQ^.'^^— Written froyn John Wroe^s mouth hij Wil- 
 liam Lees. 
 
 The Prayer : " thou mighty God of Israel, who 
 knowest the heart of man whom thou hast created : look 
 down upon the race of man who is fallen by the influence 
 of Satan. Turn thou unto me, thou God of Israel, that 
 I may be found an instrument in thy hands. Remember 
 me that I was a little time since but clay, and thou breathed 
 in me the breath of life. Hast thou chosen me an instru- 
 ment in thine hand to go to the sons of men with a mes- 
 sage ? How can I go then, seeing I am like unto one of 
 these men ? evil compasseth me on every side. God, 
 wilt not thou then hear my prayer, that my supplications 
 may be granted this night ? What will this people say 
 unto me whom thou hast sent unto them ? Art thou come 
 to turn us out of the way, art thou come to direct us, 
 seeing thou also art like unto us ? Remember me, then, 
 God, and cleanse me, that I may go amongst them, that 
 thy word may take deep root, that they may be cleansed 
 by thy word : thy word is life to those on whom it may 
 fall ; thy word is a spirit which thou wilt cause to become 
 immortal. Then, God, remember me this night, that I 
 am among ravening wolves which seek to tear me in pieces. 
 Is not all power in thine hands ? Then send forth thy 
 word unto me, that all thy decrees may be made known, 
 that I may be found an instrument in thine hand. Hast 
 
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 thou not promised that in flesh we should tread on the 
 works of evil ? enable me to tread it under my feet this 
 night. And hast not thou sent me forth into all the 
 earth ? cleanse me then, God of Israel, I beseech 
 thee." — Written from John Wroe^s mouth hy Henry Lees. 
 
 Wakefield, 21st of 4th month, 1827 : " I see many of 
 my sons and daughters praying that all evil temptations 
 may be taken away from them. Do they not want to go 
 to battle with me ? Do they refuse being my soldiers ? 
 I see them throw down the sword : I see them refuse my 
 arms. If a man be tempted ought he to put it in 
 execution ? And if one man say to another. Go and mur- 
 der such a man, ought he to do it ; or to say, ' Satan, 
 the Lord rebuke thee V I now give a command to all 
 that are joined in the covenant, that they ^jrrt^ to reign over 
 sin, that they may be made instruments in my hands, of 
 bruising the head of Satan, like unto a plough which turn- 
 eth the earth ; then I will cause my Spirit to draw forth 
 the plough, and it shall turn the earth, so that he shall be 
 subdued from your earthly temples, that they may be made 
 like mine, which possesses both heaven and earth. When 
 a man is proud, and rich in his own eye, he is on a large 
 mountain, and he says in his heart, ' Who shall come up 
 to me.' But I will yet bring him down, and plead with 
 him in a good pasture ; it shall yield honey, balm, and the 
 choice spice. And he that will not come down I will 
 destroy." — Written from John Wroe^s mouth hy William 
 Tillotson. 
 
 Street House, 7th of 5th month, 1827 : — - " I will re- 
 move the enmity between the man and wife. When the 
 man was overcome, he cried. It was the woman, and since 
 that day has the man laid the blame on the woman. Let 
 no man rail on his wife ; but if a man will seek me, and 
 serve me, I will give him power to reign over sin, and he 
 shall reign over it, as I reign over them ; and the evil that 
 is in the wife shall be subject to the husband, and be seen 
 coming out of the man. Let no man rail against Satan, 
 but ask of me for strength to overcome him. Will Israel 
 provoke me all the day by laying the blame on them that 
 I have given to dwell with them ? They provoke me 
 
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 bj the deeds of Adam their forefather ; but he that de- 
 parts not from it shall become like Adam his forefather, 
 his body shall go to the ground ; for he that knows my will, 
 and does it not, I will destroy. Was not Satan in the 
 heavens with the angels ? Did he not rise in rebellion 
 against me ? He cried in the heavens, that.he was the head ; 
 but when the angels looked unto me, and rebuked him 
 in my name, then I gave them power, and they overcame 
 him. I drove him out, and took that power to me, yet 
 does he rail, and present himself day by day before me, 
 and accuses my creation. When I descended and rested 
 on the woman's seed, and commanded Satan to come forth, 
 did he not obey ? Is he not a being like unto you ? Has 
 lie not his portion also ? So now I tell thee, man shall 
 seek me as the angels did in heaven, and shall rebuke 
 Satan in my name, and shall reign over him : and as I 
 reign over the angels in heaven, so shall the husband 
 reign over his wife : and as I overcame the works of 
 Satan, so shall they. Three years shall they be_ able to 
 do this in righteousness and truth before Satan is cast out. 
 I tell thee now what Satan will sa}^ ' Have I only wo- 
 man to possess ? Am I driven out from the man ? ' I 
 tell thee, my seed shall then return unto the woman, and 
 bruise Satan's head. For the wife shall honor the husband 
 as the ano;els honor me in heaven ; for I made man for 
 myself, and the woman for the man ; and the husband 
 shall honor me, for I am the Father of them both. And 
 if the wife honor the husband, will not the angels honor 
 them ? for the redeemed shall be as gods before the aliens. 
 I will now show thee temporal things : If an earthly lord 
 sends his steward to view his estate, and the tenants treat 
 that steward with words of aggravation, or wound or strike 
 him, and he returns not unto his master, will not that Lord 
 send forth other stewards to see what is done unto that 
 steward ? And when he finds what is done, will he not 
 remove those tenants, and provide others ? I tell thee, 
 yea. Then, ye sons of Jacob, hear what the unjust lord 
 has done for the sake of his steward. Then again. Ye 
 have gone astray ; ye have taken strange wives, that 
 belong not to you. Then remember what I did ^ to you 
 
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 when you were in strange lands ; I commanded you to 
 bring forth all your wives, and slay them, but I will now 
 do greater things for you ; I will not permit you to slay 
 them, but I will give you power to reign over them. Now, 
 John, this is the truth of my spirit, neither shall Satan 
 tear one of these words in pieces, for it shall yet bring 
 tears unto many, that they may return unto me, that I may 
 heal them. Some of those that are joined among you are 
 like the world, for when they have become rich, by the 
 riches of the world, they then know me not ; but when I 
 afflict them, and permit Satan to bring d^ath before them, 
 they would give all that I would restore them ; for they 
 will not cry unto me till I afflict them : the gains of the 
 world blind their eyes, and harden their hearts, so they 
 know me not. Let all my flock compare this that I have 
 given thee with the scriptures and my writings." — Writ- 
 ten f7vm Mm Wroe^s mouth hy William Tillotson. 
 
 Park Bridge, 17th of 1st month, 1828 : — " Unto him 
 that knocks I will open, and give him bread that shall not 
 perish, and water that is life eternal. " And Jesus said 
 unto them, I am the bread of life : he that cometh to me 
 shall never hunger ; and he that belie veth on me shall 
 never thirst." John vi. 35. " In the last day, that great 
 day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any 
 man thirst, let him come unto me and drink. He that 
 believeth on me as the scripture hath said, out of his belly 
 shall flow rivers of living water," John vii. 37, 38. The 
 bread will be the flesh of his body, and the water life eter- 
 nal ; these are the two things that I gave my body and 
 my blood for. " Whoso eateth my flesh and drinketh my 
 blood, hath eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last 
 day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink 
 indeed. He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood, 
 dwelleth in mc, and I in him," John vi. 54-56. For the 
 day is now come that my people shall no more live by the 
 produce of the land alone ; but by my word : for he that 
 labors for it shall eat it, for I will show to the whole world 
 that the measure of iniquity is full ; and Zion shall be 
 delivered. But tell the whole house of Israel, Though 
 the gates of the city are open, and though the city shall 
 
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 be inhabited as towns without walls ; yet it shall not be 
 inhabited by those who have broken my law with their 
 eyes open,; for there are five things which I told thee of, 
 that those who do them shall not inherit with my people : 
 
 — The sorcerer, the whoremonger, the murderer, the 
 idolater, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie, (E-ev. 
 xxii. 15). I will make the law as fire, and I will engrave 
 it, on their hearts. How often did I tell you, when I was 
 with you, to keep your garments unspotted, lest I should 
 come in an hour w^hen ye are not aware : he or she that 
 is unclean when I come, I will not know them. For there 
 shall be many that will say, Lord, open unto me : but this 
 is my covenant to the whole house of Israel ; I will know 
 none but those who have kept their garments unspotted ; 
 for they are those that shall walk in my house, and have a 
 possession in my temple." — Written fro7n Jolm Wive^s 
 mouth hy Samuel Lees. 
 
 Park Bridge, 2nd of 2nd month, 1828 : — " Write thou 
 the vision w^hich I showed thee this morning, and make it 
 known to the people ; for all earthly commands I will have 
 obeyed, before I give the spiritual life. And write down 
 the verse which I transfigured before thee : — " The ser- 
 vant abideth not in the house for ever, but the Son abideth 
 ever," John viii. 85. I have given a command that ye 
 shall cleanse your houses in which ye dwell, and if ye 
 cleanse not your temporal houses by not obeying my com- 
 mands, how can ye receive the spiritual ? for ye are ser- 
 vants of sin, and sin reigneth over you. But he who is 
 willing to be led by the Son, which shall gather them into 
 my granary, shall abide in my house for ever, that house 
 which I have given him to dwelL in, not made with hands." 
 
 — Written from John Wroe^s mouth hy William Tillotson. 
 Stainforth, 27th of 3rd month, 1828 : — " Now, son of 
 
 man, go and cut off a twig from an apple-tree, that bears 
 good apples, and graft it in a thorn, and ask the house of 
 Israel whether it will bear apples or haws : — but man is 
 worse than this ; for man seeketh unto that which is a 
 worse graft than himself, which is the devil. Now, son of 
 man, phophesy in the midst of the house of Israel, and 
 say. Thus saith the Lord, If my people will marry with 
 the unclean, they shall die with them ; for why will a man 
 
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 graft a thorn into an apple-tree ? My people are as the 
 apple, but the unclean are as the thorn. 
 
 John, prophesy agam ; tell the house of Israel to go* 
 and get the graft of a thorn, and put it into an apple-tree, 
 and see if it will bear apples ; and if it does, then those 
 who have signed my covenant may marry with the world ; 
 this is the sign that I have given them. My Spirit is as the 
 apple of mine eye, and he that seeks unto the thorn, to be 
 grafted unto my Spirit, it shall destroy him ; but he 
 that seeks for the apple to be grafted to the thorn, shall 
 live. I will now come and view my garden, and all the 
 apple-trees, and my Spirit shall dwell in the midst of them., 
 and my fair one shall no more come away from them ; all 
 the apple-tr.ees that have false grafts shall die. The apple 
 that has received the graft of thorns, and become haws, 
 his body shall die ; this is my covenant with all the earth. 
 Did I not plant them all apple-trees at first ? I have given 
 a command to the cherubims, that the swords should turn 
 every way, to k~eep the tree of life for the three genera- 
 tions. Now I will tell thee what I will do unto the apple- 
 trees ; — I will cut off the top, and put the branch of the 
 vine thereui ; and Satan, with all his hosts, shall not re- 
 move it ; for I am the Lord, that hath given thee this. 
 These are my branches, the planting of my hands, with 
 their building finished, and the work ended. Now, I will 
 unfold the apple-tree to thee ; my body was the apple-tree, 
 my Spirit that lifted me up was the vine ; and at the 
 appointed time it came and dwelt a second time in the 
 woman's seed : and at the appointed time I took it from 
 the side of the woman, as the woman was taken from the 
 side of the man, that I might complete the happiness of 
 man by the seed of the last Adam. Now, the woman has 
 brought forth the last Branch, so every man must now be 
 born of theljranch, which is my Spirit. This is the tiling 
 that I said the woman should complete the happiness of 
 man. What will magi now say ? She handed the evil 
 fruit, and now I have caused her to hand forth the good, 
 that Satan's head may be bruised. lie that receives not 
 the seed of the Brancli, at the hands of the woman, shall 
 be accursed, and his body shall return to the dust from 
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 whence it came." — Written from John Wroe's mouth hy 
 William Tillotson. 
 
 Park Bridge, 3rd of 6tli month, 1828 : — "I will now 
 show thee who shall be the greatest in my kingdom on 
 earth ; — he that can bear the riches of the world ; he 
 that can endure being made the head of my church ; he 
 that can bear the crown of the whole house of Israel. 
 Now, if they can endure all this, and be the most humble 
 in the house of Israel, they shall be the greatest in my 
 kingdom. These will not use rash words one to another ; 
 they will not condemn anyone by hearing another's voice, 
 until it be proved ; but they will pray to their Father who 
 is in heaven, that he may give them the Spirit of the last 
 Adam, that they may exercise true judgment. They will 
 have a just weight, and a just measure ; though they hear 
 a lie, yet they will not condemn it, until they have proved 
 it ; but they will seek to be fed with that inward Spirit, 
 that they may have an inward sight, and not an outward 
 one. Whosoever seeks for this, shall possess eternity with- 
 out measure. It sees invisible things, and proves all things ; 
 it shines in dark places, and breaks the flinty rocks ; it un- 
 foldeth secrets ; lies and wickedness are not able to stand 
 before it ; it treadeth on mountains, and dethroneth kings ; 
 it establishes righteousness where it listeth. 
 
 that Israel would know me ! and return at my reproof, 
 that I might preserve them. If Israel would but bear 
 with one another, as I bear with you. that Israel would 
 seek me with their whole hearts, to rend the veil of their 
 own deeds, that they might see them. For I now call mir^ 
 to all my chosen people that they may seek me with all 
 their hearts, that they may see their own wickedness, rath- 
 er than the wickedness of their brethren. I give com- 
 mands to those who have signed my covenant, but who 
 obey ? I speak, but who hears ? I send, but who runs ? 
 He that signs and obeys not, I will destroy. The Spirit 
 is the Bridegroom, and he that receives it is the bride." 
 — Written from John Wroe' s mouth by William Lees. 
 
 " For my sheep will eat my Ineat with a smiling counte- 
 nance, and a heavenly appearance will I put upon them, 
 and I will clothe them with change of raiment, neither 
 
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 shall the smell of earthly things come upon them any more. 
 And I will put pure stones in their ears, and chains of pure 
 gold on their necks, and rings on their fingers, and they 
 shall stand for a memorial between them and me in eter- 
 nity. For unto those that serve me, I will give carriages, 
 plated with silver, and paved with yellow gold. 
 
 And as for thee, wilt thou doubt in thy mind ? If thou 
 doest well, wilt thou not be accepted, and thy work be 
 glorious ? For I tell thee. In the Kingdom you shall all 
 difier, even as the stars in the firmament, and there shall 
 be many mansions for you. Will not the true preacher 
 who has executed his duty faithfully unto me, receive his 
 reward ? I tell thee, he will shine ; he will not lose his 
 reward, and this gift is to all that will seek it. But my 
 Kingdom and the kingdoms of the world are at war, and 
 they shall fight : for the people of the w^orld shall seek 
 hire one from another ; but those of my Kingdom shall 
 not receive hire one of another ; but I will give them my 
 reward when I come. The hireling careth not for the 
 sheep, but he suffers the wolf, by his gains, to devour the 
 sheep. If he be a shepherd of my Kingdom, he will seek 
 for no reward of man, and I w411 appear to his glory ; no 
 more will I be invisible, but I will be openly with him, and 
 show him my ways and unfold my mysteries to him." — 
 Written fro7n John Wroe^s mouth hy William Tillotson. 
 
 Ashton, 25th of 1st month, 1880 : — " The words of 
 the Lord came unto me this morning, saying, The words 
 that I give unto thee, to send to the house of Israel, shall 
 be like seed sown in the earth, it shall seem to disappear, 
 it shall seem to fail, even to those to whom it is sent, 
 (through the rebellion of their hearts,) for evil will rise as 
 the weed in the field that wants fallowing ; when the mas- 
 ter of the field appears, will he not say to the reapers. Go 
 out into the field, for it wants fallowing ? Though it 
 brought forth souls during six days to be for the seventh, 
 yet it wants fallowing. My word shall send forth reapers 
 to go into the field, like going into a wood that is full of 
 trees and boughs, so that every branch be connected, that 
 he may cut off one branch, though there be a thousand 
 trees there ; and that corn on the top of that tree, even 
 
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 that corn sown in fresh ground, shall bring fortli livhig 
 trees of immortality. I will liken my word to this ; I will 
 say to the reaper, Go into the field that has borne six crops 
 and requires to be fallowed, and put forth thy sickle, and 
 take one ear, though there be many grains of corn in it, I 
 tell thee it is but one bone. I will compare my word to 
 another thing : — I say to the reaper, Bring me with thy 
 sickle, one hundred and forty-four thousand choice ears ; 
 for out of these I will cover the face of the whole earth. 
 'I will take that field, with the weeds that grow therein, 
 with the stubble, (which is man's body,) and burn it up 
 with fire that none can extinguish : there shall -not be one 
 evil branch left, nor a weed that is not consumed ; nor a 
 ravenous bird left, nor a beast that devours ; but that 
 which remains shall minister to that seed which shall be 
 seen in it. I tell thee, those that are gathered, even to 
 officers, say. It is useless to go any farther, I may as well 
 stand still at first, for the things are contrary to nature, 
 and are not like the former word. Now, let that man pro- 
 cure clothing according to his own ways, though he says 
 he believes in the God of the living, and that he will not 
 act contrary to nature ; but will provide for his children 
 according as nature has formed them. Now I tell thee 
 what that man is like ; he is like an ear of wheat, which 
 the stalk would not bear, so the weight of the ear brake 
 the stalk ; and when the reaper came he cut off the ear, 
 (which was the soul of man,) and the ears were laid up, 
 some for the first resurrection, and some for the second : 
 and the stalk which should have borne the ear that was 
 broken down was the man's body, which returned to dust ; 
 and which is like the stubble that the ploughman turns into 
 the earth ; so has it been with the bodies of men for six 
 days. But the ear that receives my word, and in which it 
 abides, the stalk is gathered up with it ; and the roots 
 which were in the earth, (that is the evil branches) are 
 cut off, and burned with the earth ; so that the straw is 
 preserved in the granary with the ear. So, when the ear 
 is sown, with the straw, where are the evil roots ? Are 
 they not cut off ? So is my word with him that believe th 
 and letteth it rest in him. This is the battle. The more 
 
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 I show to liim that lets my word abide in him, the more 
 misery shall he be in, until he is delivered. AYhen a wo- 
 man knows that her pains are come to be delivered, does 
 she not cry out for deliverance ? If she become a dry 
 tree and her pains have left her, how is she to be deliver- 
 ed ? Though she be pregnant with two or three chil- 
 dren, their bodies must perish together, but their souls will 
 be preserved. Well might Solomon say. The more knowl- 
 edge he got, the more misery he was in, seeing the time of 
 his deliverance was not come. Much study brought forth 
 heaviness. Then, although deliverance is come, how can 
 they rest until they are delivered ? Tell the house of Is- 
 rael that the earth cannot hold them. 
 
 I will compare my word to another thing : — As earth 
 nourishes the things that are sown therein, until they be- 
 come ripe, then they fade and return to it again, so it is 
 with the blood that nourishes the human body. I com- 
 manded the angel to preserve the seed, by the flaming 
 sword which turned every way, that the body and the life 
 which should quicken the flesh and the bone, should be 
 preserved ; so that when the field was fallowed, and the 
 weeds burned up, and he that gave increase to the weeds 
 should be taken away, then should the seed of immortality 
 be sown. I will now liken my word to another thing, 
 which is an ear of corn. If an ear of com become ripe, so 
 that it loses some of its grains, which fall to the ground, 
 and take root and grow, and the ear from which they fell 
 be preserved with the stalk, ask the house of Israel, wheth- 
 er the grains of corn which fell from the ear, belong not 
 unto it from which they fell : if the corn be under the age 
 of fourteen and has not taken hold of the knowledge, the 
 ear shall claim it ; but if the corn that fell from the ear be 
 above age and has not taken hold of the knowledge of the 
 graft, it shall perish with the earth. The ear is the woman, 
 and if she has lost some of the fruit of her body, and she 
 is preserved, all the seed that she has shall be preserved 
 with her. I will compare my word to another thing ; — 
 If an ear of corn be cut off without the straw, which is the 
 body ; all the fruit of the body will die with the stalk, 
 because the body was not preserved. I will liken mv 
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 ■word to another thing : — Showing mercy to thousands 
 and tens of thousands of them that hated me, so that if 
 they would come, even the third generation, I would pre- 
 serve soul and body to myself, and make them in my im- 
 age. I will compare my word to another thing : — The 
 ear that contains the corn, is the man and the woman, 
 the seed which is within them, is the corn that is contained- 
 in the ear ; the one hundred and forty-four thousarrd ears 
 are one bride, which is one woman ; then how can this 
 woman bring forth fruit of herself, without a husband ? 
 Learn ye righteous judgment, house of Israel, and be 
 not always unbelieving. Hoay long must my word be with 
 you and ye refuse me, your husband ? I will compare my 
 word to another thing : — Do not a man and a woman 
 marry before they bring forth their own image ? Will ye 
 always play the harlot ? You can no more bring forth 
 my image, than a woman can bring forth her own likeness 
 without a man. The spirit of the last Eve is brought 
 forth, and the last Adam has married her, and is seekmg 
 whom he may dwell in. The marriage in heaven is cele- 
 brated, and the angels in heaven were bidden to it ; 
 and they have mmistered,. and they have received a com- 
 mand from the husband to go forth and to set the mark on 
 the bones that are to be grafted to her. I have taken 
 thee from thy wife, she has become a widow, to prove the 
 house of Israel, and to confound the world ; and Satan is 
 permitted for a time, but his chain is limited, so that he 
 has but one length to go ; and when I have shown the 
 thing plain, all that have risen against her shall be ashamed, 
 and Satan shall be permitted upon them ; so that boasting 
 may cease, and charity be found, for I will cause it to rest 
 upon my people Israel ; and I will cause her to sing for 
 gladness of heart, and all her bones shall flourish. Now 
 the Spirit that overshadows thee says. Sign thou the Lord's 
 name, I AM that I AM, hath sent thee to the house of Is- 
 rael, and by this name will I be known to the whole house 
 of Israel ; for he that loveth my word shall love him that 
 I send with my word, and remember all my commands ; for 
 the workman shall be worthy of his hire." — Written fro-m 
 John Wroe^s mouth hy William Tillotson. 
 
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 Ashton, SOtli of 1st month, 1830 : — " I have overcome 
 for yoa, I have fought the battle, and gained the victory ; 
 and he that walks in the ways that I command him, shall 
 resist the fallen nature, and he shall say, ' Father, my 
 God, my husband, thou knowest I seek not to do mine own 
 will ; but give me strength to do thy will, abolish boasting 
 from me, for if thou givest it not me where is my strength ? 
 and if I boast, the boasting beareth me up, and not thy 
 word, and it will grmd the temple thou hast given me to 
 powder.' I ask you, house of Joseph, will you rob 
 God ? The boaster robbeth me ; he is like Moses, when 
 he said, ' Hear now, ye rebels : must we fetch you water 
 out of this rock ? ' The boaster pleadeth for himself, and 
 calleth himself a god, and my children rebels, and despis- 
 eth them ; he saith unto the poor, ' Stand there, and I will 
 show you my power, and what I can do.' " — Written 
 from John Wroe's mouth by William Tillotson. 
 
 A Communication given to John Wroe, Ashton, 31st of 
 1st month, 1830: — 
 
 I now unto my soldiers call, 
 
 Prepare for battle, one and all ; 
 
 Take in your hand my Spirit's sword, . 
 
 The word reveal'd by me, your Lord. 
 
 But if a soldier fail in heart, ^ 
 
 Then let him from the field depart ; 
 Let him who has espous'd a wife, 
 Depart, lest he should lose his life. 
 
 The woman who is given to man, 
 And is afraid of being slain. 
 Back from the battle let her go ; 
 She is not fit to face the foe. 
 
 If one has purchas'd land or house. 
 And fears lest he his life should lose. 
 And to his wealth his lioart doth cleave, 
 Let liim the field of battle leave. 
 
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 For all who their relations love, 
 More than their Lord who dwells above, 
 Are never fit to fight with me, 
 jSfor of my army for to he. 
 
 And all who love their house or land 
 Above the things which I command, 
 They, like the devil, cowards be, 
 For he 's a coward, all may see. 
 
 For though he says * he '11 fight,' he '11 run, 
 When I descend to claim my own, 
 And change their hearts of blood to flesh, 
 And build their earthly house afresh. 
 
 And all of Adam's race I claim, 
 Who rest upon my holy name. 
 And seek to do my holy will, 
 I with my Spirit them will fill. 
 
 'T is such whom I surname my slieep, 
 Who in my pasture eat and sleep ; 
 'T is he who shall my mark possess, 
 Who walketh in my perfect ways. 
 
 If I were not to mark my own, 
 Their enemy would cut them down. 
 As the first-born in Egypt's land. 
 Did perish by the angel's hand. 
 
 Though I on him in anger break. 
 
 And seventy-seven-fold vengeance take ; 
 
 Yet is he suffered to prevail. 
 
 On those who 've not my mark and seal. 
 
 My soldiers to the world appear. 
 As soldiers overcome with fear ; 
 A cowardly and heartless crew. 
 They seem unto the human view. 
 
 But when I come in open sight, 
 They shall perform a great exploit. 
 They o'er the devil shall prevail. 
 And tread upon both death and hell. 
 
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 My bcav'nly word they all sliall hear, 
 Possess tlie prize, when I appear ; 
 The pearl is sure to those that fight ; 
 They shall possess the stone that 's white. 
 
 They all shall hear my heavenly word, 
 Keceive the prize from me, their Lord ; 
 Though they appear a cowardly crew, 
 By them I will hell's hosts gubdue. 
 
 For in the end it will be seen, 
 
 That Paul and all such like have been 
 
 A set of cowards, fearful men ; 
 
 But those who fight, the prize shall gain. 
 
 Those who are willing for to fight, 
 Shall all be clothed in armor bright ; 
 And shall be lifted up on high, 
 And shall my standard-bearers be. 
 
 They in my offices shall stand, 
 They shall my chosen men command ; 
 Array'd in clothes of scarlet, bright, 
 Array'd in robes of snowy white. 
 
 They, then, in songs of grace shall break, 
 And in sweet heav'nly raptures speak ; 
 My heav'nly rapturous joys divine. 
 Shall in their eyes and faces shine. 
 
 The heav'nly songs which I will send 
 They all shall sing till time shall end ; 
 Their charms can ne'er be known or told. 
 Till all eternity unfold. 
 
 The rights of those of heav'nly birth. 
 Are more than men who 're born of earth ; 
 Turn back and see the shadows clear. 
 The end of shadows now is here. 
 
 The heav'nly substance shining bright, 
 Appears in raiment clean and white ; 
 The types and shadows first appear ; 
 But sinf^, the substance now is near. 
 
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 For I, the virgin clothed in white, 
 Must bring unto her perfect sight, 
 Her heav'nly husband for to view, 
 Array 'd in white and scarlet hue. 
 
 The saints her beaut'ous form behold. 
 And all their rapturous joys unfold ; 
 The nature of her bones admire, 
 Her flesh, which doth her bones attire. 
 
 Her flesh appears a glitt'ring white, 
 Resembling the celestial light ; 
 And as on pinions of a dove, 
 She flies on wings of heav'nly love. 
 
 Asliton, 1st of 2nd month, 1830 : — " Why does a sow- 
 er sow seed, if he has no faith that it will grow ? If he 
 sows it, having no faith, it is given to strangers at the 
 reaping thereof. But when the stranger comes to reap it, 
 the children rise up and say, ' It is our father's inher- 
 itance, and we will possess it.' And I the Lord answer 
 the children, the strangers shall not inherit it, for the spirit 
 which the fathers refused shall live within the children, 
 and they shall inherit it. These are the bones of the vir- 
 gin, who were dead in the eyes of the world, but now 
 live." — Written from John Wroe^s mouth hy William 
 Tillotson. 
 
 Ashton, 2nd of 9th month, 1830 : — " My children are 
 like those who were in the days of old : the time is come 
 that they shall stone thee, and say my word delayeth ; there 
 is no matter in it. They say, They believe, but they wait 
 not for that which they believe, and my words are dried 
 up in them, and blindness has fallen upon them, because 
 they said, They saw, when they saw not. and heard, when 
 they heard not. The hearts of the w^orld shall now be 
 against them for a time, because of their nakedness which 
 I have discovered in my secret chamber. My Spirit shall 
 now fight with those that have fought against me, because 
 of my word being dead to their understanding. But will 
 my word fight with the dead ? Nay, but because they say, 
 They live, and are not dead. So now it shall be proved 
 
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 whether it is mj word or they that Hves ; their weapons 
 will I burn and destroy." — Written from Jolin Wroe's 
 mouth hy William Tillotson. 
 
 DOCTRINAL INSTRUCTIONS. 
 
 ASHTON, 30th of 1st month, 1825 :— " As the Lord 
 has explained the scriptures in the communications, so 
 must the preachers hold it forth. Let no preacher say 
 as the preachers of the Gentiles, that the 'corruptible body 
 shall put on immortality,' for the Lord declares they mix 
 it : it is the mortal body that is to put on immortality, 
 mortality not having executed its power on that body ; 
 but it being still alive. How can a living body be said to 
 put on incorruption ? It is the dead body which is gone 
 to corruption, which islo put on incorruption. The Lord 
 created all your bodies mortal, that they might be made 
 immortal ; and he said to Adam that, The same day he 
 ate of the forbidden tree, he should surely die ; but if he 
 put forth his hand and took of the tree of life, and ate, he 
 should live for ever. And every mortal body that tastes 
 of the tree of life shall live eternally — they shall put on 
 immortality. But the mortal body that refuses the tree 
 of life shall become a corruptible body. And the Lord 
 has given you three things : — They that choose the tree 
 of life, shall have it, which is immortality : — they that 
 seek the heavens, and not heaven to come on earth, but 
 that they may die and go to the grave, their bodies shall 
 see corruption ; and at the first resurrection which is at 
 the coming of their Lord, their corruptible bodies shall 
 put on incorruption : this is the second thing that I have 
 showed thee, and I am ordered to give thee the third : — 
 They that believe there is no hell, — no devil ; but that all 
 are equal, and their bodies die the death of the wicked ; 
 their corruptible bodies shall not put on incorruption till 
 the final resurrection, which will be when the thousand 
 
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 years are over ; when tlie God will judge between them 
 and Satan ; for none after the corruptible bodies have 
 put on incorruption, shall be under the power of Satan. 
 Then will those sayings in scripture be proved, "Christ 
 died for all," and God "is the Saviour of all men, especi- 
 ally of them that believe," that they shall put on immor- 
 tality." — Written from John Wroe^s mouth hy Henry 
 Lees. 
 
 Sandbeds, 21st of 2nd month, 1825 :—" Now I tell 
 thee who I am ; I am the first man who after giving my 
 body to the earth took it again, which proved me to be 
 the Word of the living God. Now the first is last, and 
 the last first. The first man is earthly, which became 
 corruption, and shall put on incorruption : the second man 
 is the liOrd from heaven, whose mortal body put on im- 
 mortality ; he is the God of the living, but not of the dead ; 
 but Satan is the God of the dead ; and wdien Satan is 
 bound, the righteous who believed in Christ, and whose 
 bodies are dead and gone to corruption shall rise, and put 
 on incorruption. And who can count the number that 
 believed in me before I rested on the woman's seed, the 
 body of Jesus ; they shall all rise, and come with me ; but 
 the others who believed not in me, shall not rise at that 
 time. Did I not say to the Hebrews, " Whither I go, you 
 cannot come f which is the life immortal. But after the 
 thousand years I will judge between them and Satan." — 
 Written from John Wroe^s mouth hy William 3Iuff. 
 
 Ashton, 27th of 6th month, 1826 :— "There shall be a 
 hundred and forty-four thousand whose bodies are dead, 
 and their souls preserved in faith, under the altar, to 
 prove Satan false ; for Satan wtis to have permission that 
 he also might be proved ; for his Avord shall be found false. 
 He shall have power to overcome at the first, in all things, 
 he shall slay prophet and prophetess, but their souls do I 
 require at his hands." — Written from John Wroe's mouth 
 hy Henry Lees. 
 
 Ashton, 5th of 1st month, 1827 : — "Now son of man, 
 cry aloud to both Hebrew and Gentile, and to the whole 
 creation : I vail cure all that groan and cry for me, that 
 take up my cross, and bear the persecution of the world, 
 
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 and trust in me, their bodies will I heal saith the Lord to 
 fulfd the Avords of the psalmist, — 'Return, we beseech 
 thee, Lord of hosts : look down from heaven, and be- 
 hold, and visit this vine,' Psalm Ixxx. 14.- 'Let the 
 sighing of the prisoner come before thee ; according to 
 the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are ap- 
 pointed to die,' Ixxix. 11. And those who seek for the sal- 
 vation of their souls, but despise dieir bodies, the second 
 death shall have no jDOwer over them. And the rest I 
 will cast into prison till the final resurrection, seeing they 
 have refused both body and soul. When the seventh 
 thousand years are expired, I will open the prison doors, 
 and judge between them and Satan. I will then heal all 
 but one ; and he who is found to be the author, I will cast 
 into a bed of affliction. I will destroy the life of blood, 
 they shall put on incorruption : I will destroy the evil 
 power from under heaven : I have one church wherein is 
 no death ; one throne which I will dwell in ; one temple, 
 yet three ; one Spirit, and I will cause it to fill the whole 
 earth. My temple is the man and the woman ; it is the 
 workmanship of mine hands, and I will make them one 
 bride to me, and I their Bridegroom. For we will pos- 
 sess all space." — Written from John Wroe^s mouth, hj 
 William Tillotson. 
 
 Wakefield, 21st of 4th month, 1827 : — "Then I will 
 cause the queen to cry to the rocks, clefts, caves, pits, 
 wells, and all hiding-places, ' Give up thy sons and daugh- 
 ters, which are earth, and let them come forth before the 
 king,' and they shall come forth and fall down before him ; 
 and he shall say, ' Ye shall live, my bride, take them to 
 you for servants.' Then they shall bring forth abundance 
 of children during their mortal lives, which is the blood 
 through the attraction of their spirits, that the streets may 
 be full of boys and girls ; for then there shall not be an 
 old man which hath not filled his days. And from the 
 days of Adam, he that dies the death of repentance, there 
 are mine angels and my sword to protect him ; but he that 
 dies the death of the wicked, there are Satan and his 
 agents to protect him in wickedness : for as he dehghted 
 himself in wickedness, so shall it be to him till the final 
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 resurrection ; and he that dehghteth himself in righteous- 
 ness, so shall it be to him till the first* resurrection." — 
 Written from John Wroe^s mouth, hy William Tillotson. 
 
 Sunderland, 21st of 7th month, 1827 : — " Twice have 
 I been amongst my people : but no man saw my face, but 
 in vision. The first time : — ' And the angel of the Lord 
 appeared unto him in a flame of fire, out of the midst of 
 a bush ; and he looked and beheld the bush burned with 
 fire, and the bush was not consumed. And when the Lord 
 saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out 
 of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses : and he 
 said. Here am I. And he said. Draw not nigh hither ; 
 put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon 
 thou standest is holy ground.' Exodus iii. 3 — 5. ' And 
 it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there 
 were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the 
 mount, and the voice of a trumpet exceeding loud, so that 
 all the people that were in the camp trembled. And Mo- 
 ses brought the people out of the camp to meet with God. 
 And Mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, and the 
 whole mount quaked. And the voice of the trumpet 
 sounded long, and waxed louder and louder. And the 
 Lord came down upon Mount Sinai, on the top of the 
 mount,' xix. 16 — 20. ' And when the people saw it, they 
 removed and stood afar off. And they said unto Moses, 
 Speak thou with us, and we will hear ; but let not God 
 speak with us lest we die,' xx. 18, 19. 
 
 The second time : — " Then I overshadowed the woman 
 and caused her seed to become flesh, blood and bone, and 
 caused blood to be the life of it through the attraction of 
 the Spirit of Jesus ; and at the age of thirty years, I 
 rested on it, that each ten years should stand typical of 
 one generation, that at the expiration of three genera- 
 tions, I would turn my hand a second time, and cause my 
 Spirit to rest upon those who inquired to be made true 
 Israelites, that they might be free from guile, by them 
 dwelling in my Spirit, keeping them from the evil, that 
 they obey the law and gospel, that it be then put within 
 them. They saw me, but they believed me.not, before I 
 had risen, and it was then as the waters of Noah unto 
 
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 them, it was too late : so their bodies have all died, down 
 unto this day. So when I come again, they that knew my 
 word and did it not, shall be brought before me, that 
 they be slain. So now declare these words in the ears of 
 the world, that they shall not see my face, nor know of 
 me, till they see me come in my glory ; then they shall be 
 afraid, as they were in the days of Moses. And those 
 that knew not my decree, shall flee into the rocks and 
 holes of the earth, and shall be sheltered from the fire, 
 that the scriptures be fulfilled." — Wntte7i from John 
 W7'oe^s mouth hy IfVilliam Tillotson. 
 
 Sunderland, 23rd of 7th month, 1827 :— " ^Yhen man 
 fell by disobedience, I swore in my wrath, that that body 
 which had become as the animal's body, should not enter 
 into my rest. I fixed a flaming sword, to keep the way 
 of the tree of life, till the appointed time, lest they should 
 eat of it before that time. But di\dded the race of man 
 into time and times, three days, which are three genera- 
 tions, two thousand years in each generation ; and I set 
 three open doors before the first Adam's seed, one in each 
 generation ; that one should enter in to show them the 
 way of the tree of life ; one for Enoch, one for Ehas, and 
 one for Jesus, the woman's seed. The first door was 
 before the flood : ' And God said unto Cain, If thou 
 doest well, shalt thou not be accepted ? And if thou 
 doest not well, sin lieth at the door.' ' Then began men 
 to call on the name of the Lord,' Gen. iv. 7, 26. And 
 they offered sacrifices ; and Enoch entered in and put on 
 immortality, by his spirit which had attracted his blood to 
 be his life being put within him, making him a perfect 
 man ; then the door was shut till the end of that dispensa- 
 tion ; but he that repented and showed obedience by 
 sacrifices, his soul was preserved under the altar, till the 
 first resurrection, that he might then receive an incor- 
 ruptible body and be as the angels. The second door was 
 that which was given unto Moses, and Elijah entered in, 
 and put on immortality, and then the door was shut ; but 
 he that repented, and showed obedience by sacrifices, his 
 soul should be preserved under the altar, till the first 
 resurrection, that he then might receive a body as the 
 
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 angels. Thei:hird door — The Gospel. And Michael with 
 the Spirit of God, entered into the temple which the 
 angel named Jesus, and then the door was shut ; but he 
 that repented and showed his obedience by baptism of 
 water, and eating bread and drinking wane, in remem- 
 brance of the woman's seed, whose blood was shed for 
 the remission of the sins of all men, though his body 
 died, his soul should be preserved alive under the altar, 
 till the first resurrection, and then he should receive a 
 body as the angels. 'Go ye, therefore, and teach all 
 nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and 
 of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost,' Matt, xxviii. 19. 
 And whosoever observes and obeys this, the door shall 
 be thrown open to him, and he shall put on immor- 
 tality." — Written fro7n John Wroe's mouth hy William 
 Tillotson, 
 
 Leith, 8th of 8th month, 1827 : — " There was an angel 
 in heaven who presented himself before me, whose delight 
 was to make war ; and when he was condemned in heaven 
 to go unto the earth, he said, ' I will be king of the 
 earth.' I placed man the head of my creation, I saw 
 Adam was alone, and I took a rib out of that which was 
 earthly, and made him a help-mate ; I granted him 
 (whose delight was to make w^ar,) to be king of the 
 earth for six thousand years, if he prevailed ; and those 
 whom I had made of the earth he should have power to 
 return their bodies to the earth ; but those who were 
 made heavenly, the blood of their hearts being washed 
 away, which should cause them to have a new heart, 
 should overcome him ; ' A new heart also will I give 
 you, and a new Spirit will I put within you, and I will 
 take away the stony heaift out of your flesh, and I will 
 give you a heart of flesh,' Ezek. xxxvi. 26. But if Satan 
 prevailed not, he for whom I created the earth should 
 possess it. Satan tempted^ the woman with the desire to 
 be wise, and prevailed over her and man. I then went 
 unto Adam, and asked him what he had done ; he said, 
 ' The w^oman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave 
 me of the tree, and I did eat.' I then went unto the 
 woman, and asked her what she had done ; she said, 
 
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 * The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.' [And I said, 
 I will now see the ^YOttks of man, that my' soul may be 
 satisfied, and I will try and prove him, and I will rest on 
 the seed of the woman, and become like unto them, and 
 show them my ways, and lead them into the truth of my 
 holiness : and when Satan has destroyed that which is 
 earthly, which is the life of the world, I will take the tree 
 of hfe, and show it in the sight of all the heathen.] I 
 returned unto Adam, and said, ' Adam ! hear thy sen- 
 tence : because thou hast not hearkened unto my voice, 
 but unto thy wife, cursed is the ground for thy sake ; 
 thorns, briers, weeds, and insects shall it bring forth, to 
 destroy the works of thine hands ; for it is cursed for the 
 sake of thy soul ; that it may be preserved. Oh woman ! 
 hear thy sentence : If thou hadst hearkened unto my 
 command, and not given unto man the fruit of the womb 
 of thy garden, till the sixth day, that he might have then 
 put on immortality, Satan had had no part in thee ; but 
 because thou hast laid the charge on Satan, I will show 
 all thy children their ways, and teach them my laws, 
 statutes, and judgments, that they shall observe and do. 
 And after that shall Satan rise and bruise the heel of thy 
 seed, and I will dwell within thy seed, and make it my 
 temple, and be tlie hfe of it. And I will yet also return 
 to thee again, and put my seed within thee a second time, 
 and it shall dwell in thy seed, and I will make a new- 
 creature in thee, and take it from thy side, as I took it 
 from man, and we will receive it unto us until thou hast 
 given up the rest of thy seed, to make the new earth.' 
 [This did I promise thee' at first, and it was recorded in 
 your scriptures; but when I baptized the world with 
 water, I also withdrew it from your presence, that I 
 might see what would become of man, but I have now 
 revealed it.] I then turned unto Satan, and said, ' What 
 is this that thou hast done ? Because thou hast done this 
 thing, I will put enmity between thee and the woman, 
 whom thou hast deceived ; thou shalt bfuise the heel of 
 the woman's seed, yet will I put a double enmity between 
 thee and her seed, In whom I will dwell. Though thou 
 art more subtle than any beast of the field, and hast 
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 power to take all the beasts of tlie field to work in, yet I 
 will overcome thee by the seed of the woman, for all that 
 has part in thee, their bodies shall return to dust, but 
 those that have part in me their bodies shall live. And 
 the instrument that thou hast wTOught in, the serpent, I 
 will also show a temporal resemblance of enmity between 
 them also, for it shall always pursue the woman and her 
 seed, and the name of that bite is death. But as man 
 has power to slay that animal, so shall he that looks unto 
 me have power to overcome thee also, Satan. Then 
 cursed art thou, serpent, vvdio went with Satan's 
 words : upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou 
 eat all the daj^s of thy life.' I then turned unto the tree 
 of life, and said, ' We will now preserve the tree of life, 
 till this w^oman and her branches have given up the seed 
 of the womb, of that which she fell subject to.' So I 
 fixed a flaming sword round the tree of life, which turned 
 every way, to preserve it till the sixth day. I gave them 
 three generations, that Satan might try them to prove 
 their w^orks ; and in each generation I have healed one ; 
 the fourth generation I reserve for myself, wherein I will 
 prepare a new Eve ; she being ttie bones of the whole 
 house of Israel, which shall ever remain before me. The 
 life of the first, second, and third worlds is blood, through 
 the attraction of the spirit of man dwelling in his body, 
 with my Spirit, and I took it with me from the earth, 
 fulfilling Col. iii. 3, ^ For ye are dead, and your life is 
 hid with Christ in God,' that when I should return with 
 the tree of life, I might give them life. So though this 
 is the sentence of man, that in the day he ate, his body 
 should die ; yet if he was able to take of the tree of life, 
 and eat, his body should' live eternally. And I have shoAved 
 the tree of life, that those that kept my laAv and gospel, I have 
 preserved their bodies that they have not seen corruption. 
 Then, at the last day, Satan shall be judged. I will then 
 sit as judge, by the earthly made heavenly, which are 
 terrestrial and celestial, whom I have formed for myself 
 to dwell in ; and I will bring forth a jury, which are the 
 angels that kept their first estate ; and when it is proved 
 by two witnesses, which are those whose bodies are re- 
 
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 deemed, and the aliens that have kept all the laws and 
 commands of the redeemed, during the seventh thousand 
 years while Satan was bound, it being proved bj these 
 two witnesses, that the redeemed kept mj laws while 
 Satan reigned, and the aliens kept them during the time 
 that he was bound, the angels which kept their first estate 
 shall give a verdict against him, and I will take his name 
 out of the book of life, and death and him shall be cast. 
 Then the gates of hell shall be unlocked, and death and 
 hell shall deliver up the dead which are in them, which 
 are those whom Satan has robbed of their souls as well as 
 their bodies, and the secret which hath long been hid 
 shall be proclaimed. For did not I permit the blood of 
 the woman's seed which I rested on to be shed for man 
 and woman, seeing that Satan had blinded them." — W7it- 
 ten from John V/roe's mouth hy William Tillotson. 
 
 Stockport, 17th of 9th month,'l827 : — " On Sunday 
 thou shalt preach to the world the preaching that I order 
 thee : thou shalt read the words that I give thee in their 
 hearing. Thou shalt take thy Bible, and open it, and say, 
 ' Cursed is the ground, soul ! for thy sake : woman ! 
 enmity is put between thy seed and the seed of evil, and it 
 shall never cease till it has destroyed it.' Thou shalt shut 
 the Bible, and open it again, and read them my words con- 
 cerning the ' leaven ' which was ' hid in three measures 
 of meal, till the whole was leavened.' Matt. xiii. 33. 
 The leaven which was hid in the first measure was Enoch, 
 with my word : they hearkened not unto it, neither did it 
 touch them, so it was hid from their understanding, and 
 I drew it up. ' And Enoch walked with God, and he was 
 not, for God took him.' Gen. v. 24. And then I de- 
 stroyed them. 'And every living substance was destroyed, 
 which was upon the face of the ground, both man and 
 cattle, and the fowls of the air : -and Noah only remained 
 alive, and they that were with him in the ark.' Gen. vii. 
 23. I then let down my leaven to them again, that it 
 might touch them, that they might be leavened : I gave 
 them the law, but they kept it not, neither hearkened un- 
 to my commands ; and as a witness of my leaven, I called 
 Elijah to turn the hearts of the fathers t-o the children, 
 
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 lest I should destroy the earth. ' And it came to pass at 
 the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Eli- 
 jah the prophet came near and said, Lord God of Abra- 
 ham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day, that 
 thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and 
 that I have done all these things at thy word. Hear me, 
 Lord, hear me, that this people may know that thou art 
 the Lord God, and that thou hast turned their hearts back 
 again. Then the fire of the Lord fell, and consumed the 
 burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the 
 dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. 
 And when all the people saw it they fell on their faces : 
 and they said. The Lord, he is the God, the Lord, he is 
 the God.' 1 Kings, xviii. 36 - 39. I showed them the 
 leaven, but they hearkened not unto it, neither received 
 thereof, so it was hid from their understandings, and I 
 drew it up ; and it was made known to them before he was 
 taken up. ' The sons of the prophets said unto Elisha, 
 Knowest thou that the Lord will take away thy master 
 from thy head to-day ? And he said. Yea, I know it, hold 
 ye your peace. And it came to pass as they still went 
 on, and talked, that there appeared a chariot of fire, and 
 horses of fire, and parted them both asunder ; and Elijah 
 went up by a whirlwind into heaven.' (2 Kings, ii. 3, 5, 
 10.) I then let down the leaven again, by causing it to 
 overshadow the seed of the woman, that it might bruise 
 the serpent's head. ' And the angel said unto her. Thou 
 shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and 
 shalt call his name Jesus. The Holy Ghost shall come 
 upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow 
 thee ; therefore also that holy thing which shall be born 
 of thee, shall be called the Son of God.' (Luke i. 30, 
 31, 35.) ' This is the heir : come, let us kill him, that 
 the inheritance may be ours.' (xx. 14.) ' If we let him 
 thus alone, all men will believe on him ; and the Romans 
 shall come, and take away both our place and nation.' 
 (John xi. 48.) And they destroyed the mortal part of 
 it, which was the blood, by bruising its heel ; but I then 
 took it again to myself, (which is the third measure), and 
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 of the meal might be leavened by it ; and I gave them my 
 spirit, by measure, that they might seek for the preserv- 
 ing of their souls, till the fulness of times. Thou shalt 
 shut the book again in the sight of the people, and say : 
 — The three measures of meal are three generations — 
 The three days spoken of by the Lord, in Luke xiii. 32, 
 are three generations — The three days spoken of by the 
 prophet Hosea, (vi. 2,) are three generations. And 
 these are the three times spoken of by Daniel, (xii. 7) ; 
 the first time, — before the flood ©f I*\ oah ; the second 
 time, — from the flood to the time that the Spirit over- 
 shadowed the "woman to bring forth her seed, which be- 
 came a temple, and the Spirit abode in it, and afterwards 
 dwelt in it. The third, time, — the time since the Spirit 
 overshadowed the woman, which we are yet in." — Writ- 
 ten from John Wroe's onoutli hy William Tillotson. 
 
 Park Bridge, 2nd of 2nd month, 1828 : — '' This is the 
 house which I will sanctify with the life of myself, wliich 
 is not only earthly, but is also heavenly ; he is both 
 terrestrial, (earthkf,) and celestial, (heavenly), which is 
 the perfect image of me, the mortal which has put on 
 immortality, but never became corruptible. But if a 
 man's body see corruption, though he die the death of 
 the righteous, his mortal does not ]out on immortality, nei- 
 ther is he terrestrial ; but his corruptible put on incorrup- 
 tion, he is celestial, which is heavenly, as the angels. 
 But they who are both earthly and heavenly, all that see 
 them shall acknowledge them, that they are as gods. 
 * And saviours shall come upon mount Zion, and judge the 
 mount of Esau, and the kingdom shall, be the Lord's,' 
 Obadiah 21. And the mounrof Esau, which still lives by 
 their mortal life, which is the blood, through the attraction 
 of their spirits, shall be their subjects. For I Avill be in 
 three tabernacles not made with hands, the man and the 
 woman being complete in me. And it shall be written in 
 a book, and preserved, and not burned nor destroyed, that 
 the sons may see what the fathers have suffered by the 
 enemy of the first Adam." — V/'ritten from John Wroes 
 mouth by William Tillotson. 
 
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 Street House, 24tli of 2nd month, 1828 : — " Will any 
 say, That man or woman was finished at the first ? When 
 a man makes an article of any kind, he first makes it in 
 the shape required for its intended purpose ; he then leaves 
 it for a while, and returns again to finish it, but while he 
 is absent, another goes and mars it, and when the owner 
 returns, he sees it is good for nothing but the dunghill. 
 So is it with man. I formed man in mine own ima^e in 
 my likeness, a little lower than the angels, but when I 
 returned, Satan had- marred him, and made him unfit for 
 my word to abide in ; so then I pronounced my law 
 against him. But that was the first covenant I made with 
 man. In the day that he should eat of that which I had 
 commanded him not to eat, his bo.dy should die, that day 
 beino;; a thousand vears. But the seed of man should 
 remain upon the earth for six days, meaning six thousand 
 years, and he that ate of the tree of life should never die. 
 To prove my words true, I divided the six thousand years 
 into three periods of two thousand each, calling them three 
 generations. In the first of these generations, I took 
 Enoch, though he was born under the fall ; a vessel of 
 dishonor in sin — shapen in iniquity, yet he put forth his 
 hand, and took of the tree of life, to live eternally. In 
 the second generation, Elijah, though he was born of a 
 vessel of dishonor in sin — shapen in iniquity, he put forth 
 his hand and took of the tr^ee of life to live eternally. In 
 the third generation, John the divine, though he was born 
 of a vessel of dishonor — in sin — shapen in iniquity, he 
 put forth his hand, and took of the tree of life, to live 
 eternally. Now these are the three measures of meal, 
 and the three generations, and the three days in which 
 I said I would work. And now behold the fourth genera- 
 tion, for it is I. I brought forth the seed of the woman 
 in the likeness of man ; and man said. It was to dishonor ; 
 and they bruised his heel ; but I will shoAV to the whole 
 world that I am a vessel of honor, for I said I would work 
 six days, which are six thousand years, and on the seventh 
 I would rest. I will finish the temple of man on the sixth 
 day and pronounce it good. When the sun riseth, the 
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 accomplislied, the sixth begins. But there are three 
 watches in the day, so are there in a thousand years, and 
 the world shall not know in which of these watches I will 
 come ; but my children shall know the liour. Though 
 this is a parable to them, for within the third watch will 
 I come and give life to Israel. Divide a thousand years 
 into twelve parts as a day is divided into hours and watch- 
 es. And let them see in what part I began to visit the 
 woman, and took the life of the last Eve from her side, 
 and if they will find out that, I will then expound more 
 unto them, for by Httle and little, I will show them the 
 minute that I will make my appearance unto them : for 
 they that believe shall not be taken as a thief in the night. 
 And he that abideth in the law and the gosioel^ the same 
 is in the vine, and shall not walk in the night, neither shall 
 the sun withdraw its shining from him. To show man the 
 mystery, I rested on the seed of the woman, that seed not 
 being begotten of man, that I might clear her from that 
 with which man charged me, and I condemned sin in the 
 flesh, and signed the writing of the covenant which I had 
 made with man, with the blood of her seed, and then took 
 it for a temple, and dwelt in it, and left them, and ascend- 
 ed into the heavens to my throne till the time that I should 
 set my hand a second time (Isaiah xi. 11,) to redeem 
 man, that their mortal bodies should put on immortality, 
 that they might be perfect in mine image. And then I 
 would reprieve the life of the nations that should escape 
 for a thousand years. So as the first Adam dishonored 
 me, I will make the last Adam a quickening spirit, to 
 quicken the vessels which I have prepared for honor to 
 dwell in. This is the Comforter, whom I told you should 
 come in my name, and bring all things to j^our remem- 
 brance which I had told you, and show you things to come. 
 And this is the sixth day, and I will now rest and be glori- 
 fied in the work of my hand. 
 
 " Now, I will show thee three classes of people that 
 shall stand before me when the life of me is revealed on 
 the earth to Israel, at the first resurrection. The first 
 class : — The number of them I have given thee — one 
 hundred and forty-four tltousand, who have sought me for 
 
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 soul and body : they shall both • marry and be given in 
 marriage ; they shall generate and bring forth my like- 
 ness, not in blood. The second class have renewed their 
 souls, that they should put on incorruptible bodies ; these 
 shall have bodies as the angels ; they shall ascend and de- 
 scend as thou sawest them ; they shall minister to me, 
 during the vrhole day of my rest, and to my bride. The 
 third class : — The people who have not known the depths 
 of Satan, and will flee into the holes of the earth, (Isaiah 
 ii. 19). ^ As many as have not this doctrine, and which 
 have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak : I will 
 put on you no other burden, but that which ye have already 
 hold fast till I come,' Revelation ii. 24. And they shall 
 come out, and cry to be called after the virgin of Israel, 
 that their lives may be reprieved, (Isaiah iv. 1) : and 
 they shall request to be servants, and it shall be granted 
 them, and they shall live with the life of the blood, one 
 day, which is a thousand years ; and obey all the laws and 
 commands : these are the fig tree. ' These three years I 
 came seeking fruit on this fig tree and found none ; cut it 
 down, why cumbereth it the ground. And the dresser 
 answering, said unto him. Lord, let it alone this year 
 also, till I shall dig about it and dung it. And if it 
 bear fruit, well : and if not, then after that thou shalt 
 cut it down,' Luke xiii. 7 — 9. These three years are 
 the three generations, during which man in blood has 
 borne no immortal fruit ; and the dresser petitioning 
 his master to let it alone the fourth year also, is the 
 half-time spoken of by Daniel, (xii. 7) ; and the seventh 
 thousand years, (Rev. xx. 3). But the murderers and 
 other workers of evil, who have died in their sins, and 
 not renewed their souls unto me, and are shut up in 
 prison, and are hid from me, these shall not put on in- 
 corruption, until the sabbath for the ahens be over. 
 Then Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, and try 
 to reign over them who five by the fife of the blood, 
 which is the old world ; that time which he was cut 
 short of the six thousand years; and gather them to battle, 
 and compass the city of the saints. Can he touch that 
 which is finished ? I say he must serve it. I will then 
 
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 destroy the last enemy, and cause him that has the power 
 of death to deliver up the dead, and judge between him 
 and them, and make a final trial of him ; he shall no more 
 reign over that which I have made, for I will ransom it 
 out of his hands, and remove his power. So now I have 
 showed to my children, vessels of honor, and vessels of 
 dishonor, during the day of rest, and I will show to man 
 that I labor with the vessels of dishonor, as well as with the 
 vessels of honor. Does not a man take his best clothing 
 to pretend to worship before me, and the six days that he 
 labors, the clothing of dishonor ?■ So six thousand years 
 will I labor, and the seventh I will rest." — Written from 
 John Wroe^s 7iioutli hy William Tillotson. 
 
 Stainforth, 27th of 3rd month, 1828 : — " I spoke, and 
 the earth was formed in its place, and by my word, I 
 brouo;ht forth the thinors which are thereon. On the sixth 
 day I brought forth man in my likeness, and gave him the 
 spirit of man, that within the sixth thousand years he 
 might become my son. The garden in which Adam dwelt 
 before his fall, was his body ; and the trees were in the 
 womb of the woman ; and that which was in the midst, 
 whereof he was not to eat, was the one which cast its 
 flowers monthly ; I told the man and the woman that the 
 tree was both good and evil ; and if he ate thereof when 
 out of its flowers, it should be knowledge to him, and they 
 should bring forth their likeness, without death, till the six 
 thousand years should be ended, and then I would finish 
 the building in which they dwelt. But, if they ate there- 
 of while in its flowers, it should be evil, and their bodies 
 should die, and he should not come to his fullness of three 
 generations, and I would hide myself from him, and place 
 a veil between mvself and him, and blood should be his 
 life through the attraction of his spirit, and the fruit which 
 proceeded from the tree by their eating of it should turn to 
 corruption, and remain apart from me until the resurrec- 
 tion, when it should put on incorruption. Now the prince 
 of this world had also a charge that in the event of man 
 breaking my command, he should be king over him, but 
 not otherwise. So I left man by my invisible Spirit, and 
 Satan went forth by the serpent, to persuade them to eat 
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 of the tree which I had forbidden them ; assuring them 
 that instead of dying thereby, their eyes would be opened, 
 and they would be as gods knowing good and evil. Now 
 the man and the woman, having a desire (by the influence 
 of Satan,) to be wise before the time of the six days, 
 which are six thousand years, touched the tree in its flow- 
 ers, and also ate thereof, and brought forth their own like- 
 ness, which were infected with diseases, and became mur- 
 derers ; they then saw in themselves and their posterity, 
 that the tree was both good and evil. And Eve brought 
 forth two sons, the one conceived in her flowers, but the 
 other in her purity ; unto whom I declared, that if their 
 offerings were good, I would accept them, but their bodies 
 should die. And they brought their offerings before me, 
 and him who was conceived in purity I accepted, but the 
 other I did not. And Satan wrought envy in him, and 
 he destroyed the body of his brother, whom I accepted ; 
 and I said unto him, What hast thou done ? thy brother's 
 blood crieth unto me from the ground, and now thou art 
 cursed. Then Satan presenting himself before him, told 
 him he must die, and that he had power to kill him imme- 
 diately ; but I said to him, I will set a mark on thee, lest 
 any- of the legions, meeting thee, kill thee, as thou hast killed 
 thy brother, that thou mayest have thy appointed time, 
 and that the end of thy body may be death. I then gave 
 Adam another son, and I accepted him and his offering. 
 Here are the clean under the sentence of Adam for the 
 preserving of the soul ; I said to the clean that they should 
 not marry with the unclean, nor partake of them, nor 
 touch them : and if they obeyed, though their bodies 
 should die, their souls should live, and at the end of the 
 six days, which were six thousand years, I would give 
 them bodies as the angels, instead of those that I had 
 cursed. And to their seed I w^ould give the tree of life, 
 and their mortal bodies should put on immortality, but 
 they did not hearken to me; but Satan working by his 
 wicked craft, the clean married with the unclean, instead 
 of waiting my appointed time. And this is the controver- 
 sy between the people and me, by the influence of the 
 prince of this world, who said his power was to destroy. 
 
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 Did not I plant them all apple-trees at first, and I have 
 given a command to the cherubim that the sword should 
 turn every way to keep the tree of life for the three genera- 
 tions. Now, I will tell thee what I will do unto the apple- 
 trees, I will cut off their tops, and put a graft of the vine 
 within them, and Satan and all his hosts shall not remove 
 it. These are my branches, the planting of mine hands, 
 with their buildings finished, and the work ended. My 
 body was the apple-tree ; my Spirit that lifted it up was 
 the vine, and at the appointed time it came and dwelt 
 again in the woman's seed, and I took it from her side, as 
 the woman was taken from .the side of the man, that I 
 might give it to the man, that I might complete the happi- 
 ness of man by the seed of the last Adam. Now the 
 woman has brought forth the last branch. So every man 
 must now be born of the branch, which is the Spirit. 
 This is the thing that I said — the woman should complete 
 the happiness of the man. What will man now say ? she 
 handed the evil fruit, now I have caused her to hand forth 
 the good fruit, that Satan's head may be bruised. He 
 that receives not the seed of the branch, at the hands of 
 the woman, shall be accursed, and his body shall go to the 
 dust from whence it came." — Written from John Wroe's 
 mouth by William Tillotson. 
 
 Park Bridge, near Ashton, 23rd of 5th month, 1828 : 
 " I appear before thee in a bodily shape, and thou doubt- - 
 est whether I am a spirit or not. And thou inquirest of 
 me concerning Nunn, the Church minister, and concern- 
 ing the resurrection. He tells thee, that. When I arose, 
 many were seen at Jerusalem, walking and talking ; but 
 I tell thee. No one of Adam's seed has put on incorrup- 
 tion, but are waiting till the times are up. For, I tell 
 thee that hundreds of the house of Israel shall see many 
 spirits walking, and they shall be seen round the bounda- 
 ries of Jerusalem, and shall go and tell it to the elders of 
 Israel, and the heads ; and some of the heads shall con- 
 demn them, and say, they are deranged. But, I tell thee, 
 for all this, they have not put on incorruption. They turn 
 my scriptures into another meaning, but I will now make my 
 scriptures meat for Israel. They say, The bread that I 
 
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 am giving to my children is without salt. But I will show 
 to both Hebrew and Gentile that my word has not lost its 
 savor, for I will cause thee to open thy mouth and utter 
 words that they cannot understand. I will now work, and 
 no man shall hinder me ; for it is the sixth day, and I 
 see all my servants waiting for their wages, and the day is 
 far spent, and in the third watch. Eut who are they that 
 shall receive the reward ? Who are they that I shall 
 make stewards over all my affairs ? Are they those who 
 have stopped at the law, and not obeyed it ? Are they 
 those who have stopped at the gospel, and not done as the 
 gospel has said ? No, their bodies shall return to dust. 
 But he that has my Spirit, will do as the Spirit declared 
 to the prophets ; if not, my kingdom would be divided." 
 — Written from John Wroe's mouth hy William Lees. 
 
 Park Bridge, near Ashton, 5th of 6th month, 1828 : — 
 " I will show to the sons of men that I will put my Spirit 
 within them ; but down to this day it has but overshadow- 
 ed them : it shall first rest on them, and overcome the 
 world, and cast unbelief to the ground ; and the Spirit 
 shall feed them as the water feedeth the lily, and the wil- 
 lows by the waterside : afterward it shall be put within 
 them and rule and reign in them, and take away the stony 
 heart, which is the heart of blood, out of their body, and 
 give them a new heart, a heart of flesh, (Ezek. xxxvi. 26.) 
 For blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God." — Written 
 from John Wroe^s mouth hy JEdward Lees. 
 
 Park Bridge, 6th of 6th month, 1828 : — "I will show 
 them the mysteries of their own hearts, which have not been 
 unfolded since the day that Adam hid himself among the 
 trees ; for I will take skins and cover man's nakedness ; 
 not the skins of animals, for I will put man and woman in 
 one ; — one spirit — one likeness — one skin will I cover 
 them with ; immortality will I crown them with. The 
 kingdom of heaven will I put within the heart of man, and 
 I will put the dread of the man and the woman upon all 
 animals, they shall not be able to hurt nor devour in all my 
 holy mountain." — Written from John Wroe's mouth hy 
 William Lees. 
 
 Ilfracomb, 29th of 6th month, 1828 : — " I gave a com- 
 
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 mand to the twelve that they should bring forth a resem- 
 blance of mj body and blood, by eating of bread and 
 drinking of wine, till I turned my hand a second time, to 
 gather together the dispersed of Judah ; this was to be 
 done as a remembrancer, till I began to visit : but now, 
 when I visit, the word is that bread of the sacrifice, and 
 he that eateth the word eateth my body : and he that 
 obeyeth my commands is washed by that blood which I 
 shed upon the cross, and happy shall he be that obeys it ; 
 his kingdom shall be to all eternity ; the fruits of his body 
 shall possess the heaven and the earth. The scriptures 
 have I fulfilled in myself, and will fulfil them in my peo- 
 ple Israel : they shall do greater works than I did, they 
 shall cast out devils and tread serpents under their feet. 
 I performed all my works to show that Israel should do 
 the same." — Written fro7n John Wroes mouth hy William 
 Tillotson. 
 
 Swansea, 2nd of Tth month, 1828 :— " Within forty and 
 two years of the branch proceeding from me, will I per- 
 form all things that I have declared : and within three 
 years of this shall they keep my laws and statutes ; there 
 shall not one jot or tittle of the scriptures fail of them. — 
 And within seven years of the forty and two, shall they 
 encamp seven years round the city of Jerusalem, and the 
 temporal buildings shall they see with then' eyes, built in 
 their sight ; and I am the builder of their temporal build- 
 ing, that is their bodies, and there will I put the life of the 
 last Adam, and it shall possess all my glory." — Written 
 from John Wroc's mouth by William Tillotson. 
 
 Dean Cottage, near Ashton, 19th of Tth month, 1828 : 
 — "Before the woman was taken out of the man, he was 
 holy, just, and good ; so now I have taken the branch of the 
 man from the woman, and it shall dwell in the man and the 
 woman ; for in the first Adam the woman dwelt in the man, 
 and not man in the woman ; and before man can be redeem- 
 ed, he must dwell in the woman, for it is the seed of immor- 
 tality, and the woman in me, for she is become my bride, 
 the wife of my youth." — Written from John Wroe^s 
 onouth by William Tillotson. 
 
 Park Bridge, near Ashton, 23rd of Tth month, 1828 : — ■ 
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 " I will take away every tenth of both male and female, 
 and they shall say, This is for the house of Israel : it is a 
 horn eunuch. Two of each sort will I take, and after that, 
 I will have every seventh, male and female, these are born 
 in flesh and blood, as the temple on which I rested was ; 
 and as I was a servant to the twelve tribes of Israel, so 
 shall these be to my chosen. They shall nourish my chil- 
 dren, and feed their little ones, and their desire shall be to 
 serve them ; for my people shall be to them as gods, and 
 they as sons unto them." — Written from JoJm Wroe^s 
 mouth hy William Tillotson. 
 
 Ashton,-lst of 1st month, 1829 : — " As the tree of the 
 woman purified itself, so will I purify the blood for a 
 thousand years, for the sake of the servants, that the en- 
 emy may be tried when he is chained from the life of the 
 blood, that the people say not. Had we not had blood, we 
 had not sinned ; but this shall prove Satan and the first 
 Adam, that he was not willing to wait till it was purified ; 
 so the life of the blood shall go for the offering of sin, that 
 all flesh may live unto me, for flesh and the blood within it 
 cannot inherit the kingdom, but be made to serve it. So 
 stand thou boldly before the world, and tell them that flesh 
 and bone, and the life of the branch shall live unto their 
 God, in the kingdom. So the whole house of Israel shall 
 possess the li'fe of the last Eve, married unto the last 
 Adam, which is the Father of all ; and all that live shall 
 know her ; and the fish of the sea, and the beasts of the 
 earth, and the fowls of the air, shall know : and the un- 
 clean shall be destroyed." — Written from John Wroe's 
 mouth hy William Tillotson. 
 
 Ashton, 1st of 2nd month, 1829: — " Discern between the 
 clean and the unclean beasts : as they went into the ark, 
 by two and two of the unclean, and by seven of the clean, 
 so shall it be to man who dwelleth on the earth ; and as it 
 was in the days of Noah, so shall the end of all flesh be. 
 For two who put on immortality their flesh living, fourteen 
 who dwell in blood shall be preserved from the holes of the 
 earth." — Written from John Wroe's mouth hy William 
 Tillotson. 
 
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 Park Bridge, near Ashton, 10th of 3d month, 1829 : — 
 *'He that puts on incorruption is as the angels, but he that 
 puts on immortality is of God. Tbey shall see their off- 
 spring round their table, "vvhi^h can never die, nor change, 
 to eternity shall it be established." — Wntte7i from John 
 Wroe's mouth hij WiUiam Tillotson. 
 
 Islington, near London, 9th of 4th month, 1829 : — 
 "When I cast Satan out of Heaven I promised to finish 
 man within six thousand years, that he might show his 
 power during that time, with all the planets that fell with 
 him. Then shall the angels that shall minister on these 
 planets, see my justice, and behold my power ; for I de- 
 signed every ball which I fixed in the midst of the heavens, 
 for the angels. And I said, I will make man within six 
 thousand years on the ball ; but first, within six days, I 
 will bring the form of man, on these balls which fell with 
 Satan from heaven, that he should be permitted to mar 
 man in the making, on those which fell, to prove my cre- 
 ation. So it was not man that fell wilfully, but being made 
 subject to the fall, that I might show my power. So I tell 
 thee and the w^hole house of Israel, that he has power on 
 all the planets which he took for instruments with which 
 to make war in heaven ; so the planets that fell not are 
 for the whole creation, with the angels. I tell thee, 
 with the house of Israel, these are my heavens, and the 
 thrones of mine inheritance. In every distinct genera- 
 tion have I drawn up one to heaven, for a sign to them 
 that were left, that man should live with a natural body, 
 as well as those by a spiritual body, and that they should 
 be three distinct persons, yet one. The man and the 
 woman two, yet one : my Spirit being put within them 
 they should see my Spirit, which is I ; yet have I a body. 
 I am God, and beside me there is none. For the people 
 that dwell on the planets of Satan are influenced by the 
 power of Satan, and he is stronger than they, so he causeth 
 their fall : but now the time is come that I will ransom the 
 planets out of his hand, so that ever}^ one. that heareth my 
 voice and my word, and abideth in them, shall be my peo- 
 ple, and I will be their God. And the planets shall be- 
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 now the time is come that I will open the tabernacles of 
 heaven, and show the works of man." — Written from 
 John Wroe^s mouth, hy William Lees. 
 
 Park Bridge, near Ashton, 25th of 4th month, 1829 : 
 " As Adam the first was brought forth lower than the an- 
 gels, the seed of the latter shall be higher than the angels, 
 that overcame Satan and his hosts : they shall appear like 
 unto me in all glory." — Written from John Wroe^s mouth 
 hy William Lees. 
 
 Park Bridge, near Ashton, 6th of 5th month, 1829 : — 
 " I will command the hosts of heaven to draw forth their 
 swords ; and they shall serve my sons and daughters. I 
 have given the incorruptible to be servants to the immor- 
 tal ; and not the immortal to be servants to the incor- 
 ruptible." — Written from John Wroe^s mouth hy William 
 Tillotson. 
 
 Edinburgh, 3rd of 8th month, 1829: — "I am the 
 Bridegroom, undefiled ; my bride is one, she is a virgin, 
 and wickedness will not dwell in her. Her breasts are 
 comely, they are like the tower of Lebanon ; all her bones 
 shall suck of her and be satisfied. I will make all the six 
 churches tremble before the seventh, and she shall over- 
 come ; they shall come and worship at her feet, and ac- 
 knowledge that I have loved her, and that she is mine and 
 I am hers. She is of me, and the bones of the whole 
 house of Israel are contained in her body, and I dwell in 
 her, and my graft shall be in her temple. She needeth 
 not the light of the sun, (which resembles them who say 
 they are born of me, but do lie : their sun shall be dark- 
 ened), neither of the moon, which is the resemblance of 
 the earthly bodies. The sun being darkened is those who 
 say they die the death of the righteous and go to heaven : 
 they shall bow and acknowledge that the bride is mine 
 and I am hers. For every tree shall bear fruit of me : 
 there shall not be one bone of her cast off, for every bone 
 of her is a king and a queen unto me, and a priest upon 
 my throne, and my name written upon her thigh, and in 
 her forehead : and her breasts will I uncover, that all her 
 little ones may suck. She shall dandle the fruit of her 
 body, and dandle them on her knees, and her wings shall 
 
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 cover her fruit as the hen covereth her hrood." — Written 
 from John Wi'oe^s mouth by Robert Steivart, 
 
 Ashton, 80th of 1st month. 1830:— ''I said unto 
 Isaiah, (xxxvii. 80,) ' This shall be a sign unto thee, Ye 
 shall eat this year such as groweth of itself ; and the sec- 
 ond year that which springeth from the same : and in the 
 third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat 
 the fruit thereof. And the remnant that is escaped of 
 the house of Judah, shall again take root downward, and 
 bear fruit upward : for out of Jerusalem shall go forth a 
 remnant, and they that escape out of Zion : the zeal of the 
 Lord of Hosts shall do this.' The three years are three 
 generations : man ate the first year of such as he fell in, 
 he earned his bread by the sweat of his brow ; his sons 
 became murderers, and this was of that w^hich grew of it- 
 self. I overthew that generation, but preserved Noah and 
 his sons in the ark, and began the second year, and that 
 which sprang of the same, did they eat ; though I came 
 as it was written of me, and would have married them, 
 but they refused, and took the life of the fallen nature, 
 that dwelt in the blood. And the Branch which was tak- 
 en from me shall take root downward, and by the law and 
 the gospel bear fruit upward in them. These are the 
 remnant of the house of Zion who have escaped." — 
 Written from John Wroe's mouth by William Tillotson. 
 
 Devonport, 20th of 6th month, 1831.— "I took a 
 temple and became a husband on the fifth day, and I was 
 as though I was asleep till the graft was taken out of me ; 
 and by the graft will I gather the bones ; and I will then 
 arise like a man out of sleep ; and show the fallen angels 
 and devils that I am the husband of these bones, and will 
 prove unto them that I made man in mine image." — 
 Written from John Wroe's mouth by*llobert Wallace. 
 
 Sheffield, 13th of 8th month, 1831 : — '' When the first 
 resurrection shall take place, and the corruptible shall put 
 on incorruption, the book of records shall be brought out 
 for them, and every man shall be placed in his office in 
 heaven, as he is recorded ; and they who at that time re- 
 ceive not bodies as the angels, their rising shall be to ever- 
 lasting contempt, which is, till the final resurrection ; 
 
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 when God shall judge between them and Satan, for they 
 shall be free of him at that day ; for as I raise the righteous 
 from corruption to incorruption, at the first resurrection, 
 so will I at the final resurrection raise the wicked from 
 Satan's power, so that they shall no more be servants unto 
 dead things, but to living ; they shall be servants to all 
 the angels, and to every creature in heaven and on earth 
 shall they be subject. 
 
 " Isaiah liii. 12 : — "He hath poured out his soul unto 
 death. I caused the seed of the woman to become a 
 living soul within her — the soul of the woman wrapt in 
 blood — that it might become a living sacrifice with the life 
 of the woman, which was taken from man, which caused 
 his fall, that out of that which caused his fall I might show 
 him his glory, the good part of that from which he was 
 made. So the woman's seed has become the tabernacle of 
 the living God, that out of it a rib should be taken, where- 
 of an Eve should be made, like the Son. So that which 
 man said became his fall, has become the top-stone, which 
 shall be brouo;ht forth with a shout of a kino;. The man 
 and the woman could not be finished unless the soul of the 
 woman's seed had been offered for a sacrifice, for if only 
 the blood of animals had been offered, man would not be 
 finished, neither would there be an Adam or an Eve, but 
 under the transgression. But by the blood of the wo- 
 man's seed being poured out unto death, death shall be 
 destroyed, and the flesh quickened, and the flesh and the' 
 bone the complete image of God." — Written from John 
 Wroe^s mouth hy William Tillotson. 
 
 Wakefield, 28th of 9th month, 1831: — Isa. xxvi. 
 21 : — " The earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall 
 no more cover her slain. Of the earth I formed a vessel, 
 and it became a livmg soul ; I poured out the soul even 
 unto death, and paid the ransom with the life of the wo- 
 man, that at my return the earth might disclose her blood, 
 (that it might be washed away,) and the flesh made meet 
 for a tabernacle for the life of the virgin' to dwell in. 
 man, hast thou beholden the bi^e or the sting of a serpent, 
 how it afl'ects the whole body ? Hast thou beholden the 
 bite of a dog when he is mad, how it afiects the whole body ? 
 
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 Hast thou beholden the air in the room of him that Heth 
 in a fever, how it affects the whole of their bodies ? Hast 
 thou beholden the pox, if it touch the blood, that the 
 smallest part of it bringeth forth the likeness ?" — Written 
 from John Wroe's mouth hj William Tillotson, 
 
 Wakefield, 23d of 11th month, 1831 :— " Now the time 
 is come that I have set mj hand a second time, and will 
 pour.mj Spirit upon the seed of man, as upon the seed of 
 the woman. When it abode on the woman's seed, it was 
 the fall of the builders of the Hebrews, and scattered them, 
 "and when - the Gentiles saw this, and their opinions not 
 agree, they then began to seek unto the light, and became 
 builders of the common salvation — the remission of their 
 sins. And in their fulness they will be foiled in their 
 judgment as the Hebrews were, for their learning refuseth 
 my Spirit, that it should reign over them ; and the house 
 of Israel shall see their opinions agree not with the Scrip- 
 tures. 
 
 " Now I will bring my word to the former Hebrews — a 
 house full of superstition, and would not have that to reign 
 over them, which would have brought them to the end of 
 the law. The Spirit shall bring back the inheritance to 
 the ten tribes of the house of Israel. They who seek only 
 for the preserving of the sovd, lest the second death should 
 reign over it, only seek for the key of the six churches, 
 the life of which is the kingdom of heaven, to receive in- 
 corruptible bodies as the angels, at the first resurrection. 
 But they who seek for the preserving of their souls and 
 bodies, seek for the key of the seventh church, the life of 
 which is the kingdom of God, to have immortal bodies, in 
 the image of my own eternit3\ I said unto Martha, (John 
 xi. 40. 23, 21,) ' Said I not unto thee, that if thou wouldest 
 beheve, thou shouldest see the glory of God ? Thy bro- 
 ther shall rise again. JMartha saith, I know that he shall 
 rise in the resurrection, at the last day.' My Spirit that 
 sat on the woman's seed is the resurrection, and shall 
 change the corruptible bodies of those that have died the 
 death of the righteous in the three dispensations, to the 
 likeness of the glorious bodies of the angels, which is the 
 glory of heaven. But did I not say, (verse 26,) ' He that 
 
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 belie veth on me, the works that I do shall he do also ? 
 and greater works than these shall he do ?' Their bodies 
 shall never die ; the law and the gospel be joined together 
 in them ; the gospel shall be a light to the law, and the 
 law shall bind the light upon their bodies, which shall never 
 set nor withdraw its shining." — Written from John TFroe's 
 mouth by James Shand. 
 
 Troslej, 13th of 2nd month, 1832 :— ''I sent the proph- 
 ets with the law, and it was preached to them, that their 
 souls might be preserved bj offering sacrifices in obedience 
 thereto, until John the Baptist preached that they should 
 all repent, for mj kingdom was prepared for them, if they 
 would receive it, and that they should be baptized, that 
 they might receive the baptism of fire, which is by the 
 Spirit, (Matthew iii. 2 — 11,) not of blood, nor of the will 
 of man, but of him who should give them my kingdom, 
 which is the eternal life of their bodies, which has no be- 
 ginning nor ending. And I commanded that no man 
 should go in the way of the Gentiles, (Matthew x. 5, 6). 
 This was till Israel had been proved, that my kingdom 
 should be preached to them the first ; that their bread 
 should not be given to the dogs, (Matthew vii. 6 ; xv. 24 
 — 26) ; and if they refused still, and took the life of the 
 woman's seed, the law with the ordinances should be nailed 
 to the cross, (Col. ii. 14) ; and then it should be a fight 
 to enlighten the Gentiles, (Luke ii. 83 ; llomans xi. 11) ; 
 and the gospel of the saving of the soul should be preached 
 unto them, (Mark xvi. 15, 16). Ask either Joav or Gen- 
 tile if the common salvation was preached from the days of 
 John the Baptist to the sufferings of the cross, but the king- 
 dom of God, till they refused ; and now the common salva- 
 tion has been preached till the gathering of Israel, which is 
 the fulness of the Gentiles." — Written from John Wroe''8 
 7nouth hy WiUioim Tillotson. 
 
 Devonport, 26th of 4th month, 1832 : — "I am straitened 
 till my children have received the baptism of fire. And 
 in that baptism the blood, which corrupteth the temple, 
 shall be washed away : then my son Shiloh, who is spirit 
 and life, shall dwell in their temple." — Written from John 
 Wroe's mouth hy Robert Wallace. 
 
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 Devonport, 25th of 4th month, 1832 : — "As the -wo- 
 man handed the evil to the man, and he refused it not, but 
 took it, so now by the hands of the woman will I drive 
 away that evil. For at my first coming, I freed the wo- 
 man by giving her blood as a sacrifice for her ; so now I 
 have sent a second time the branch of the woman's seed, 
 that she should hand it unto the man, that it should drive 
 the evil from him, and cleanse his temple of all the evil 
 which was handed by the woman. For the graft of me is 
 stronger than the graft of Satan which she handed to the 
 man." — Written from John Wroe's mouth hy Robert 
 Wallace. 
 
 Devonport, 27th of 4th month, 1832 : — " Ezekiel 
 xlvii. 22 : — ' And it shall come to pass, that ye shall 
 divide it by lot, for an inheritance unto you, and to the 
 strangers that sojourn among you, which shall beget chil- 
 dren among you : and they shall be unto you as born in 
 the country, among the children of Israel : they shall 
 have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.' 
 The strangers are the ten tribes, they being counted as 
 strangers to the two tribes, being scattered among the 
 Gentiles, and knew not their brethren, (Deut. xxxiii. 
 9—12.) 
 
 " Ezekiel xhdi. 23 : — ' And it shall come to pass, that 
 in what tribe the stranger sojoumeth, there shall ye give 
 him his inheritance, saith the Lord.' This is the explana- 
 tion : — In what nation soever that stranger shall be, he 
 shall be appointed to his tribe. For thou Benjamin wast 
 brought forth when the womb was weak, (Gen. xxxv. 
 16 — 19,) yet in the beginning he shall be stronger than 
 all the ten tribes ; his ending of the old world little, but 
 the beginning of the new world much. Therefore in the 
 morning he shall rise as a wolf; and in the evening he 
 shall divide the spoil with the ten tribes, (Gen. xlix. 27). 
 So let the house of Israel know that Rachel and Leah's 
 bond-servants, their children which shared a temporal 
 inheritance with the children of Rachel and Leah, are the 
 type of those who are taking hold of the visitation, out of 
 ten languages : (Zechariah viii. 23 : — ' Thus saith the 
 Lord of hosts : In those davs it shall come to pass, that 
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 ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the na- 
 tions, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a 
 Jew, saying, we will go with you ; for we have heard that 
 God is with you : ') which are the ten tribes, being mixed 
 by marriage, and being carried captive into many nations. 
 So were the seed of Jacob mixed with the bond." — Writ- 
 ten from John Wroe^s moutli hy Mohert Wallace. 
 
 Devonport, 22nd of 5th month, 1832 : — "I will show 
 the Trinity in many forms : — The Father of Israel is 
 God : the man and the woman who has done the work is as 
 the Son, which is as the bride : the spirit is the life of 
 them. These three are one, which are as the Trinity, and 
 the children that are born of them are the children of the 
 Trinity, who never saw nor knew evil." — Writte^i from 
 John Wroe^s mouth hy Robert Wallace, 
 
 Exeter, 31st of 5th month, 1832 : — " I will be glori- 
 fied in all the planets ; for I will drive Satan to the place 
 I appoint him, which is hell. On every planet are the 
 bones of Israel, who are my brides, each of which con- 
 tains a hundred forty and four thousand bones. 
 
 " Isaiah xxvi. 18 : — ' Thy dead shall hve, together with 
 my dead body shall they arise.' Now the tree of life 
 shall open the eyes of the blind, who acknowledge they 
 have been dead to knowledge, and they shall live with the 
 dead bodies of those who confessed before their bodies 
 died ; they shall live together ; and the dead bodies which 
 are mouldering in the dust, shall appear with bodies as the 
 angels. But the dead men who have confessed they were 
 dead to knowledge shall appear with flesh and bone, and 
 the tree of life within them, it being the life of their tem- 
 ples, in my image." — Written from John Wroe's mouth 
 hy Henry Brown. 
 
 Devonport, 36th of 7th month, 1832 : — " I gave the 
 man and the woman a sign, that they should not eat of 
 the tree, which should be every month, which sign was 
 the blood, with which it should be sprinkled, that he might 
 know it. The man being asleep ate of it, and then cast 
 the blame upon me, that the woman had given it to him. 
 I then looked down upon the w^oman, and said to her, I 
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 have given to man, and that which thou didst give : and 
 that seed which thou gavest, shall bruise the head of that 
 which thou shouldest have given; and that seed which 
 thou shouldest have given, shall bruise the head of that 
 which thou didst give unto man. I^ow the good part that 
 I will give thee shall overcome the evil -part; and within 
 the six days thou shalt be the glory of the man, and the 
 man the glory of me, ' I in you and you in me,' (John 
 xiv. 20, xvii. 21,) being three persons yet one." — Writ- 
 ten from John Wroe's mouth by Joseph Churchivard. 
 
 Devonport, 2nd of 8th month, 1832 : — " Luke xxiii. 
 42, 43 : — ' The thief said unto Jesus, Lord remember 
 me when thou comest into thy kingdom. And Jesus said 
 unto him, Yerily I say unto thee. To-day shalt thou be 
 with me in paradise.' Now I answer : — He has not yet 
 entered into paradise, neither am I yet glorified ; parables 
 and mysteries are for the world, but Israel an open door. 
 There are but three days and a half in the whole race of 
 man, which is the life of the blood ; and there are two 
 thousand years in each day, which is one generation ; then 
 it is not two thousand years since I rose from the sepulchre; 
 then within this day, which is two thousand years, those 
 that believed in the saving of the soul, whose bodies are 
 dead, shall have bodies as the angels. But those who live 
 and believe, and do the work, shall have the life of eternity 
 within this day, and in the half-day they shall generate, and 
 bring forth my image, without blood, and glorify me, being 
 one with me. And within the fourth day I will rest ; which 
 is yet the seventh." — Written from John Wroe's mouth 
 by Joseph Churchivard. 
 
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