The woman in the wilderness ... An answer to the blasphemous assertions of Joanna Southcott, respecting her pretended visitation of God ... Containing the author's last letter to Joanna / [Lewis Mayer].

  • Mayer, Lewis
Date:
1806
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Credit: The woman in the wilderness ... An answer to the blasphemous assertions of Joanna Southcott, respecting her pretended visitation of God ... Containing the author's last letter to Joanna / [Lewis Mayer]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    verse, and therefore is most fitly described by the apostle as a great wonder in Heaven, the Heavens being the emblems of civil and eccle¬ siastical power. The church of Christ may be said to be cloathed with the Sun, to have on her head a crown of twelve stars, and to have the moon under her feet in the reign of Constantine the Great, as the twelve stars represent the twelves apostles who had been her spiritual pastors, suffered martyrdom in her cause, and by whose writings as a means she was adorned and built up in their most holy faith, which is represented by her being cloathed with the Sun: having the moon under her feet, indicates that the sublun¬ ary powers were then engaged in her support and protection, and subservient to her welfare*. 4 * Joanna’s attendant spirit asserts, that the moon repre¬ sents Satan, who is under Joanna’s feet. See page S4, of il Divine and Spiritual Letters of Prophecies.” lt The devil’s in the moon, “ Or how could Satan so appear, “ For to be trodden down “ Beneath your feet; the mystery’s great? “ The moon is under there. In page 92, Joanna declares, that When the Lord begins with power to take the woman’s cause in hand whom Satan’s arts first betrayed, then will the moon be under her feet.” In page 2, of Joanna’s u Dispute with the Powers of Dark¬ ness,” Satan seems to be an overmatch for Jesus Christ, therefore Joanna is called to his assistance, in order to accom¬ plish the redemption of man from the power and dominion of the devil: she expresses some doubts about trusting herself alone with Satan lest he should defile her. “ However,” says she, “ Should I be too holy to contend with the devil for my maker seven days, (if so, what would be the consequences Joanna?) WE MUST ALL PERISH. Again, if my words stood fast and I held out with argu¬ ments in stedfast faith against the devil, then the woman would be freed, and Satan should fall; but if I gave up to the Devil, and Satan conquered in the seven days, then Sa¬ tan’s kingdom must stand.
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