The full assurance that the Kingdom of Christ is at hand, from the signs of the times / [Joanna Southcott].

  • Joanna Southcott
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[1806]
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Credit: The full assurance that the Kingdom of Christ is at hand, from the signs of the times / [Joanna Southcott]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    it is coming soon and be disappointed, and begin to eat and drink with the drunkards, and say with- in themselves, .Where is the promise of his coming? while some, as thou didst dream thou got some water to the higher pump, so will some be believers, and humbly wait for the coming of their Lord, and be ready to enter in with the Bridegroom, when he comes to unite all nations together. Those of the lower pump, that the springs were broken and the water gushed out in an instant, are the people who are in ignorance and errors, that God will wink at, and on a sudden the fountains of living water shall flow upon; for the end of all things is at hand. Now remember thy Saviour’s words—“ If the days are not shortened no flesh shall be saved; but for the elect’s sake they shall. Iniquity doth now abound: the love of many doth now wax cold ; and was it to continue so, who would be saved ? and if men bite and devour one another they will be consumed one of another.” Here I have given some of the heads concerning Mr. Minifie’s house; and one particular more I shall mention, concerning the methodists : At that time that it was said to me, when the affairs of Minifie were over I should go again to the meeting, and they would cause me more sorrow than all I should suffer on account of Mrs. M. I was ordered to open my Bible, to shew me how it would go with me, when I went to them. I opened to the three first chapters in Ezekiel; and was ordered to mark the three; the third in particular. The seventh verse stmck deep upon me, that so I should find thcm—That the house of Israel will not hearken will not hearken unto me; and likewise the fifth verse of the second chapter. ^ow the truth of these chapters, and of the words spoken to me, I found perfectly true, after I went among tlie methodists again. There is not a peo- ple in the world who hath caused me so much sor-
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