The full assurance that the Kingdom of Christ is at hand, from the signs of the times / [Joanna Southcott].
- Joanna Southcott
- Date:
- [1806]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![tliat every serious mind will lay it to lieart, and fear from the shadows what substance may follow. When we come to reflect on the the Scriptures, and the people’s asking of our Saviour what signs he would give them, when these things should come to pass, Luke xxi. 7. mark our Saviour’s an- swer—Take heed that ye be not deceived. He then tells them of the war that should follow Jerusalem, and the signs they should see from heaven, which is affirmed by antient writers : the sword of heaven, was seen to hang over Jerusalem a twelvemonth before it was destroyed ; and Jerusalem was com- passed round with armies, and the disciples were destroyed, as our Saviour told them; and the Jews were led away captive into all nations, and Jeru- salem was trodden down. Here were the first signs he gave them of the truth of his words to assure them of his coming again, which they were not to expect unti] the times of theGentilesxoerefulfilled. Then he tells them of the very things that are no^ before us upon the earth—distresses of nations, nien s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after these things, which are coming on the earth. So here our Saviour gave the sign to his disciples, what should follow in their days, to assure man- kind of the truth of his words, and what should be at his SECOND coming; for he tells them, in the 9th verse^ what must first come to pass, but that the end was not yet; for nation should rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, great earthquakes should be in divers places, famines, and pestilence; and yet he tells them, that before all these things, their destruction should come, anc Jerusalem be destroyed. So the signs were put ai such manner that many have taken them as one sign, of the destruction of Jerusalem; and others lave taken them as one sign, of the second coinino- of our Lord, when he cometh in a cloud, with Sreat\glory. Here men do not discern Xdifference of the signs; how they w ere ine^nt;](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22042064_0033.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
