A caution and instruction to the Sealed, that they may know for what they are sealed. February 3d, 1807 / [Joanna Southcott].

  • Joanna Southcott
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[1807]
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Credit: A caution and instruction to the Sealed, that they may know for what they are sealed. February 3d, 1807 / [Joanna Southcott]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    IS from my Gospel, how they are fulfilling my words: and know it is those who endure to the end that are the good to be preserved ; and those are my sheep that come in by faith: but the others are thieves and robbers, who have no ri»:ht to the tree of life: for they are not all of Israel that profess to be in Israel; but they must try to make their calling and election sure, if they wish to be the elect members, for whose sake the days will be shortened of sin and sorrow: and these are the elect that I shall avenge of tlieir adver- sary, whose faith is strong in me, that 1 shall fulfil the words I spoke in my Gospel, to dwell in you, and you in me, who clearly discern from the bread and wine, that is kept in memory of mj’- death, that the words are not perfectly fulfilled in them; any more than the sealed people have al- ready learnt the new song of their redemption, to be redeemed from the power of death, hell, and sin. This they have not already learnt: and there are thousands sealed, that know not for what they are sealed ; but those that are sealed in faith I shall open the eyes of their understanding, to discern for what they are sealed—with the Blood of the New Covenant, to bring in man's redemp- tion. This is what the vSealing is—for to fulfil my promise, and bring in the tree of life, that was pre- served for man in the beginning, as a type and sha- dowto man; whichtypeandshadowaredoneaway; but the promise stands sure; for the promise stands to the end, though the tree is not standing to this day : and so I tell thee, the sword is standing in my death, to bring in a newness of life to man, and cut oft' your adversary that betrayed. Ihis is the promise that is standing; but how can the promise that stands on the records of heaven be a standard to man, if the type and shadow had never appeared to man ? And though the ty])e is clone a\vay, the promise stands sure to the end.