A true picture of the world, and a looking-glass for all men / [Joanna Southcott].

  • Joanna Southcott
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[1809]
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Credit: A true picture of the world, and a looking-glass for all men / [Joanna Southcott]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    loi no more than they can prove the letter was. sent by Lin ter, filled up with lies, saying he was paid tor writing the seals, and that thou made a., gam of selling them : no more than they can i prove this came from him, can they prove thv writings came from the devil : both alike are the invention of men, that they cannot prove in the. end. But this is tlie true picture of the world . which hath been in all ages, the past, and the piesent, to forge lies, and place things another way that cannot be proved by truth ;for I now tell thee in the like manner were my miraclessj placed by the Jews, saying, they were worked., by the devil, a power he had never got,* neither i wa6 it in his power to cast out the Jews and keep, them as a standard to this dap to prove the truth ot my gospel ; and that, in this manner they* would stand till the end, when I come in power. to bring in the redemption of man. But now> discern from this letter, it was sent in the name of a believer, to say that that believer now con- demns thee and condemns Foley for believing:) in my visitation to thee; and so in the name of a. believer all this was forged. But now discern, he; was innocent of the charge; and as a believer he hath written, as being innocent, and ignorant of: what charge is laid against him, which proves he.: had no knowledge of the thing they had forged in his name; and his observations are just, to say it was worked on by the devil to forge his name as> being against thee. And now I tell thee in like manner are men forging my name to say that I am against thee; but know, if I am not against: thee, I must be for thee. For like the letter he hath sent to Foley all will find in the end that F shall reprove those that say I am thy enemy, but I shall prove myself thy friend. The type is but a shadow, the substance they will find is great, and, like his answer, they will find mine
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