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426 OPEN COUNCIL.
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LXOL—OPEN COUNCIL.
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To the Editor of the English Woman's. Jo...
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426 Open Council.
426 OPEN COUNCIL .
Lxol—Open Council.
LXOL—OPEN COUNCIL .
To The Editor Of The English Woman's. Jo...
To the Editor of the English Woman's . Journal .
Madam The , Eev . G-. B . has given so Imperfect a sketch of the Church founded insertion
by . Joanna Southcott , that I am inclined to ask the favour of your of Joanna a few particulars Southcott . born in 1750 and was baptized at Ottery Saint
for In Mary 1795 their , Devonshire , jud these gment writings . In was In 1792 were 1796 , she submitted the began writings , to prop Dissenting were hesy made in the Ministers kno name wn to of the the Exeter Lord Rev . . ,
Mr . uraged Pomeroy her , and to . other Church with , her dignitaries writin also and also of , Exeter to publish . Mr . them Pomerd . In y
encogo on gs clergy 1801 , she of the began Established to publish Church to the and world other , and friends at the met end of at that Exeter year for some the then ufficient number
present purpose public , the trial examining trial was was held put her at M off the . , S . S " , High but the there cause House not remo being P v addington ed to London a " s , and seven in 1803 days ,
a , ,, wher lation e fmany iven persons from tlie gave Most it as Hi their hand opinion ouht th t at the be circulated writings were In a re veg
truth another of her public declarations trial took and place the at necessity Bermondsey , of the which revelations further being confirmed published the . ,
In 1814 she announced to the world in her five books of wonders , that she was uni was t , t o be Jesus Shiloh Christ after , and the that manner this unio stated n would in Rev bring . xii fo . rth Her a son followers , whose name
new getting expec birth ted the as conditions visible Christ child m , of , ised to the remain to birth Nicodem , that and it u s w w as u to p unders in be the the t midst ood incomprehensible hereafter of them ,
for-T not that his des the disappointment troy Dragon the Church would pro was . rise a The dea to sixty destroy blow -five to this the pamp , w child o h m an ts as , and published soon paral as yzed it du was ring , bu , born t did . tthconditions
tha proving of lifetime men t nless , tha and t t J esus the Sat argument an king C had hris doms t defiled s rela , an d ive to all ra t the ur o ise the ches Creation pa foun st C h d , ur e from d ch the b b y Adam men a en w present om downwards for an 5 and 814 g years ive , and a ,
birth u to manno flesh could be saved up . y , new Joanna Southcott , in 1792 disputed with Satan for ten daysas signs
that the each con from test w 1800 ould , to 1900 e co , nt . inued In 1802 by h er b eliev e t rs ed for wit h n Sata peri n , o ds of seve te n n sp
years sealed days . those These , who disputes desired , with to be answers witnesses , are published to , the Faith . In th 1802 at was , and manifested in 1807 , she b 000 who to be the first redeemed from death at y
Christ her Through as ' s appearing part ut of her the to books 14 chain 4 , as Satan well . as are in the MSSthat are not yet published
Joanna Southcott o advocates no doctrines but th . at revealed to Mosesthe , Prophets , Jesus Christ , and the Apostles , pointing out the the fulfilled futuresi from if , the
that unfulfilled she was , to called distinguish by the the voice past from of an the invisible present sp and irit , to proclaim , gn to ying the nations that the time was come to " Blow the trumpet in Zionto-sound an
alarm in that God ' the s holy mountain of the Lord , to cometh make all that the it inhabitants niat of , hand the earth
also tremble Matt ; , xxiv . and day Rev . x . 7 . ; was gh . "—See
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1864, page 426, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081864/page/66/
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