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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    | at first with false pretences to get a seal, in the^ $ manner our Saviour described, that is, like a wolf in sheeps clothing, which the believers were not 1 aware of, before they saw the evil fruit appear in • her ; and this is the way our Saviour said we should know them, — by their fruits. And those ;i that look to the Gospel, will discern in what manner our Saviour made the distinction, and I'how the enemy would sow the tares amongst the I wheat. All this was shewn me in the beginning, | how the evil fruit would appear with the good; e how some would come in as thieves and robbers, i And now it has plainly appeared, which the un- ! believing world can see, and have pointed out : I BUT THE OTHER TRUTHS THEY WILL NOT | SEE. Now, I wish to know what they mean by the I wretched sect ? do they call those wretched, ! whose earnest desire is, that the author of all evil may be destroyed, and that he may not have power to tempt men to do evil ? Do they call these ! a wretched sect? for do they not say it is by the ^ instigation of the devil these horrid crimes are I committed? Then how can they ever blame us C for wishing to have that evil power taken away | from off all the earth ; that peace and righteous- i ness may be established upon the earth? But if they call Mary Bateman and the man that suffer- ) ed death with her, both for the same crime of ’ murder, it' they call them a wretched sect, for | being guilty of such horrid crimes’ I join with | them. But, if they condemn the innocent with i the guilty, the just with the unjust, and call the believers a wretched sect, because this wo- I man came in as a deceiver amongst them, who !' could so rob both Clod and man, then we may condemn every sect of religion upon earth ; for there is no class of people of any religion but some one or other has come in as a deceiver c
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