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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    Because no harm he did at all receive, &o those tliat do obey shall surely live; FW nought to fear; 1 ^ there, i said from types and shadows I’d begin : * rom types and shadows I will make an end. ^ou sayest it was one single year before lhat was concluded the New England’s war; 1 hen now unto Old England thou art come; * or there tlie madness did at first begin: One on the other all have madly drove * Then where’s the heart that shewed its perfect love? *n America thou know’st the war began; Brethren against their brethren in this land ; ^or a.s one nation and one people sure Old England and the New began the war; Tet still their fighting surely was in vain; No victory in it th^ did there obtain. Soon after that the French began the same; Brethren against their brethren there did rise • Ye see the weather; but see not these days; * Then Scribes and Pharisees you sure must be. To see the weather, but these days can’t see. Or if you see them, will not them discern. To guard from danger, and the people warn. But now I hear the language of thy heart: How can they warn, if I do not impart ? Then now the mystery I’ll to thee reveal. And nothing from thee will I e’er conceal: Unto wl^t purpose, I have said before, Unto this people should I my mind reveal ? For if the truth I unto them 'did tell. They’d think I lied, as thou said’st of thyself. If earthly things thou tell, they’ll not believe; In heavenly things they’d think I do deceive.-— Bemember what thou’st written heretofore. And then, I say, I need not tell thee more: In heavenly things they never did believe; In earthly things they thought thou didst deceive From these Communications, I must beg tlie readers to observe what hath followed since they were given. I have already mentioned, in a for- mer book, what happened in Germany ; but now I shall draw their attention to some of the events that happened in Spain in 1804; and other events which took place in many other parts that year; as my writings go to the ends of the earth; and the neighbouring nations around are particularly noticed in my. writings in the beginning; but there are only a few who observe how my prophe-
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