What Parable I first did name, , .

And now the end you'll find;
So let the Parable be penn'd >

That thou hast penn'd before,
And all shall find it in the end,

That say 1 shall appear,
As they judge wrong what thou hast done,

I'll prove that love they've none;
So let the Parable be penn'd, 0

I'll answer thee again.

The following is the parable, that was penned in Joanna's writings years ago : " Supposing a nobleman of great family and fortune gone abroad into a foreign country; and an harlot, as an impostor, was to forge his name and title, that she was his wife; his friends not believing she was his wife, but that she had done it by arts in his absence, thinking if he did never return she might lay some claim to his estate. Now what must that nobleman's friends be,, if they believed the woman to be an impostor, and •they would not call her forward and make her prove in what manner she was honourably married, and by whom, before she dared to make that public assertion to disgrace a gentleman and his noble family I Would not this be done by men of the world J Would they give it up to be proved by her own friends, and from them claim her right and title, without his friends examining into the truth? What would the nobleman say on his return? that he had not a frieud to search into the truth. Would he not blame them? would he not condemn them? But if, on the contrary, her report was true, and his friends had enquired into the truth, saying they could not believe such a gentleman as him would have been united with one so much his inferior; therefore they tried her to prove her marriage with him, before they would own her, that they might have some evidence of the truth; could he then blame them? He could only say, their judgment and his own were not alike : it was his choice, if not theirs."

Birt here the mystery it lieth great:

You could not overthrow
The words of she; now answer ME,

[f absence aught can clear?
But now to man I bold shall come,

They'd not keep silence here;
To try the thing they'd soon begin,

What is of man, I know;
But what's of God? (fear ye my rod !)

This love you will not shew!
So now, vain man, 1 must condemn.

You'd act so for a friend—
What not for me! I now do see
Your hearts will never bend!
For to the man 1 now shall come

To place a different way:
Had he been bouud in wedlock's bands.

And children gain'd that way;
And absent gone, to all unknown.

And she the truth could clear,
His every friend he must disown,

That had denied her here,
If they'd not come and see her hand.

To know if it was so;
But let her children bastards stand.
And shea begging go,
. To seek relief, and full of grief,
While I had gold in store,
And you her heart fill'd full of grief,

To say she was a whore,
And her oppress'd, and wound her breasf,
While she did offer free
. Her marriage here she'd make it clear,
And prove it true to be;
For every hand she could command

Was witness to the deedj
That though she was too mean for he,

Yet with her he did wed. "Then, where's the friend that can pretend

"Jn love for to appear, "To see my wife, and children go

"In grief and deep despair?" Because that they would all deny,

Refuse to see her hand;
To search the truth they'd not comply,

Then her own friends must stand
The whole to clear, I tell you here—

But when he did return,
Against his friends he'd then appear

In anger for to burn—
- She offer'd free," the man would ssy,

To prove to you the whole; ',' Unjustly you turn'd her away > "Must she a begging fall J

* When rais'd by me to such decree

"And justice you ferbid,
*• To fill her heart with misery

"A wife that I had wed;
« And offipriugs here from me appear*
'"You all fill'd with distress.

Then how your presence can I beax
*' When you refus'd redress,
'. '* Her cause to see, and her to free, ,,

»!(>•- "Tf innocent she's found?

;.,, "This thing you ought to Ve done for me,

"That justice might abound; •|<J •' * For if abroad, it must be kuow'd,;

«.>' '.' "j" I'd died and never come,

. i . ."^lywife and children you'd disown,
"The truth might not be known."
•t . So from such men, I tell you plain,

•• No justice can appear j
You see the laws of God and man

Together I compart—•
And .from the law I now shall go: ., i .• •-

Thousands have lost their right, , That bad not friends the truth to Shew P. - •>' A»d bring-the truth to light. ,. , || So TIL end here,- and say no more—>But few friends I do see, ».. ". • i:. That wish the Truth in all to clear, i i , ,• And shew their Love to Me." - ;J

Mr. Sharp waited on another clergyman of great literary talents, who declared her to be a foolish, ignorant woman; and by what he had read from her books, he could not understand them; and had no opinion of a Holy Spirit that could not write grammar. But he further said, if he was a younger man he might come forward; and he added, that this world would always go on as it was; and by the Death of Christ we should be made happy hereafter.

HIS REMARKS WERE THUS ANSWERED TO JOANNA.

n Now I shall answer thee of his sayings a foolish ignorant Woman: if Adam had refused listening to a foolish, ignorant Woman at first, then Man might refuse listening to a foolish, ignorant Woman at last; but as Man did not refuse at fifst, but as soon as he had listened, cast the blame on Me for giving him the Woman, because he had listened to her; and now I shall cast the blame on Man for not listening to you. Know, Pilate refused to listen to his foolish -wife, and so by Man my Death came ; the Jews refused t* lislcn to the words of my Mother, and so I was judged an Impostor. But know, Ahasuerns did not refuse to listen to the words of Esther; and by a foolish woman her people was saved; then where is your wisdom, ye foolish men? and where is your wisdom in my Bible? Is it not written, with the simple I shall deal simply? Then how could my Gospel be true if I should deal any other than simply with a simple Woman? Should I sptak in language unknown to her, how could she understand? Was you to bring Latin and tell a child unlearned to read it, and pick it out, and explain the sense, would not men laugh, at your folly, to expect a child to understand what he had never learnt? Then how shall a simple woman, unlearned, yea, even in her own tongue, learn things she never understood? Is this your boasted wisdom, vain man, to teach people things they do not understand,? Yet, this folly I see in the church, teaching people fine speeches, and learning, that the poor do not understand; but the plain truth of the Gospel is thrown aside by men's learning; the visitation of My Spirit is mockery; the influence of My Seirit is thought nothing of; the Power of the Holy Ghost is despised; the Revelatio» of My Spirit is set at nought; my Spirit is quench^ ed; Prophecies are despised; and despite is done to the Spirit of God! Then where is your boasted grammar? where is your boasted learning, to teach men the wisdom of this world, that I have said should perish and come to nothing? Is my wisdom counted foolisness unto you? then be assured it is my wisdom; for know that it is written by my Apostles, the wisdom of God is foolishness with' men; and so my wisdom appeareth foolish to the worldly wise; but now tell Me, O vain men, if your wisdom is not foolishness to Me, when you say a thing is not of God, and your friends are imposed upon, forwantofjudgnient, and you boast of your;