The fifth book of wonders

It is the mockery that I have been informed of, from different places, that I am ordered to bring forward in this book.

In a letter received from a friend, he says, “Great is the mockery in Yorkshire. At Horbury A village in West Yorkshire. they carried an effigy of Joanna through the village; then they shot seventeen shots at it; then placed it head downwards and burned it in a large fire, saying she ought to be burned. The next day they carried another effigy with two children, and repeated it the third day.”

The same kind of mockery, I am informed, has been carried on in different places in Somersetshire.

THE ANSWER OF THE SPIRIT.

“This kind of mockery shows what I said before of Deists and Atheists. Whether they acknowledge their unbelief in the Gospel or not, it is in mockery of the Gospel that this was done, to mock my first and second coming. And this displays the hearts of mankind, to show how the rage and malice of the devil is still at work in them against the Scriptures, as well as against my visitation to you. For here men have a plea to argue for themselves: in coming forth against the Gospel, they make a pretense that it is against my visitation to you. So now I ask the professors of religion: to what purpose was my coming into the world to make myself known among mankind, if I do not come again in power to fulfill my Gospel, according to my