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THE CHURCH OP THE WOMAN. 265
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About Sidered Themselves Half A Century ...
to special meet jury them was in London to be sworn . The , and trial Mr , . fixed Pomeroy for November was summoned , 1804 ,
was to be held for seven days . * As this was advertised in the princi She had pal pap also ers so of far the organized country , her it created believers much as to sensation appoint .
the seal twenty s A to pocal -four be ypse possessed elders . In , in further by imitation those apocal who of yp the had tic number im faith itation in mentioned her she mission issued in .
These seals bore the inscription , " The Sealed of the Lord : the and to Elect be were — made precious si heirs gned : man of with Grod 's her redemption and name joint . to heirs It inherit also with becam the Jesus tree e generall Christ of life— ; y "
who public was that to she rule expected all nations to be with the a mother rod of of iron the ; man and - as chil it d
, was known she was unmarried and professed the strictest virginitythe of imposture and blasphemy spread around .
, cry and The the period was at once treated a superstitious the matter with and ming a licentious led ribaldry one ,
and invective newspapers . was with side Meanwhile . fo Remarkable Her llowe first d the by publication printing upwards Prophecies press of , , _" " s The had even appeared not Strange ty been other in Effects in 1 publications 792 activ ; e of and upon Faith this her by ,
herself and her followers . She wrote and published Addresses to Societies the Bishops , upon , to the the Temporal Jews , to and the the Methodists Spiritual , Sword to the , Satan Bible upon
upon Baptism the , Two upon Witnesses Fallen Angels , upon , the upon word " Law Everlasting Against , " upon , Ordination , upon u The Infant of Days oth . " She Five dedicated " Books her of
wood publications Wonders . They , " at to are interval Mrs strange . Townley s followed , rambling and each her , lad illiterate y er ' s . maid pro , Jan ductions e and Under then , in
which she now spiritualizes the events of her own life , mission interprets A the large Scri portion ptures in of them consonance are composed with her in supposed doggrel
. verse aunt . ; a The taste notable for which point she in the appears m is , to that hav the e inherited theology is from purel her y
fury the feminine . earth God ; would there was become is love no admixture and a blissfu mercy l , in heaven Christ it of . mas was As culine a Christ Hedeemer wrath had come , and and
throug second h time a woman Women first , mi so ht would not talk He come nor babble throug in h the a woman church a
but they mi . ght speak , and g preach , and prophesy . Joanna , and knew declared the true that scriptural Satan signification should be bound of the — word the eC Shiloh everlasting come— , "
the New Jerusalem , descend—and through God ' s compassion all would be ultimately saved .
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The Church Op The Woman. 265
THE CHURCH OP THE WOMAN . 265
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1864, page 265, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061864/page/49/
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