The long-wished-for revolution announced to be at hand in a book lately published, by L. Mayer ... explained / by Joanna Southcott; With letters to her, from the Author of that book, and her answers; to which are added observations upon his wrong application of the Scripture prophecies. In general, and his ignorance, particularly in wishing for a period of judgments, without explaining what will bring this happy deliverance in the end.

Joanna Southcott

Date:: 1806

Credit: The long-wished-for revolution announced to be at hand in a book lately published, by L. Mayer ... explained / by Joanna Southcott; With letters to her, from the Author of that book, and her answers; to which are added observations upon his wrong application of the Scripture prophecies. In general, and his ignorance, particularly in wishing for a period of judgments, without explaining what will bring this happy deliverance in the end. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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I ( 76 ) me acts with art or deceit, to uphold men in things that are wrong; so therefore Mr. Mayer’s assertions are entirely false. And as to Mr. Fisher ; had it been in his power to assist me in carrying on the work, I should now return his favours, in like man- ner as I have others; because the Lord will have faithful labourers in his vineyard, that they may enter into the joy of their Lord. But as to govern- ment’s looking into my writings, they have had every invitation to do it ; and have been applied to by me and my friends, from time to time, as it is for the good of the public that they were ordered to go out in the world. But as Mr. Mayer has taken it upon himself to write in this malicious manner against the Spirit that visits me, counting all the wisdom of the Spirit foolishness, I shall take notice of the folly of his wisdom ; though I confess he hath brought forward to the world what was the judgment of ancient writers and commen- tators on the Bible, as they explained from' their judgment in ages ])ast of what was done in former ages; but when he comes to explain from his own wisdom, he clearly discovers his own folly. In a book intitled. An Appeal to Reason, he says, in the 31st page, “The finishing of transgression and making an end of sin, or restraining the evil one, Ipre sume hath a particular allusion to the general rer formation produced by the preaching of the Gospel, in the days of Christ and his apostles ; for thereby the dominion of Satan was restrained, and the King- dom of Christ set up, agreeable to Daniel ii, 44. The Christian religion was, in a few years, spread over a considerable part of the then known world, in spite of every opposition ; and though the primi- tive Christians w'ere persecuted wherever they went, deprived of many of the comfortsof this life, obliged to hide themselves in caves and holes of the earth, and dwell among the wild beasts of the forest ; yet it hath

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