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INTELLIGENCE.
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sister died . The $ eeds of decline were sown . Disease gradually gained upon the constitution , until it terminated in an event , which she met , with the same fortitude and piety , of which her sister had get her so encouraging £ n exarap ! e . This took place on the 9 th of April in her
twentieth . year , tn that tranquil and happy state of mind , which is the general attendant " on religious virtue . Her course of reading had been similar to that of her sister ; and her leading sentiments and views % &e same . After the scriptures , the Unjtarian tracts had been
JOANNA SOUTHCOTT ,
The following curious advertisement is copied from the Leeds Mercury * The -conclusion of it is borrowed , with some alterations and errors , from a Fast Sermon published some few years ago , the author of which is not , we believe , a
follower of Joanna . This passage seems to be very popular with the sect . We have received , through another correspondent , an advertisement from the same Paper , dated Oct . 29 , Z 807 , and igned Gcorg * Turner , la which it is also contained .
TO THE PUBXIC . Nothing is fairer y or snore desirable than TRUTH **—and it is from this principle alone that 1 am induced to put'the following advertisement into this Paper , to vindicate and clear a Character that has been mpgt wantonly and wickedly traduced in the Public Prints , i mean the Character of JOANNA SOUTHC'OTT . She hasbeen accused of Th re je
Heavy Charges , and which if they could be substantiated against her , she ought to suffer every severity which the law of this land . could inflict upon her ; but happily , there is not * the least shadow of truth in any one of the Ac * cusations .
The first Charge made against her , Ls * that Mary Bat em an * s wicked and infamous conduct ( and who has lately suffered the just sentence of th <* law at York ) is to be ascribed to Joanna Southcott , because she happened to have one t > f her Seals *
Th <» second Charge brought against her is , her baying predicted the destruction of Ba % U on Good * Friday test .
Useful to her ; as also- Zolikoffer ^ s Exercises < & Piety , a book , in which she much delighted ; and a part of which she had been reading only a few hours before her death .- —let the young be warned by these repeated instances of early mortality ; and from such examples
receive instruction ; that thus they may b ^ equally prepared for future respectability and usefulness -in the world ; or to bow with submissive piety tothe will of that Being , who hath appointed death to be a law of our nature , and ordained it to be the gate to endless life *
The third Charge brought against her , is , her having sold Seals at Haif-a ^ crown each . To the First . —It is true Mary Bateman had a Seal , but her wicked and tliabolical conduct can no-more , in j us * -
TiCBy be ascribed t& Joanna Souths cott , than the wicked and diabolical conduct of Judas could , in justice , be ascribed to our blessed Lord , because he was one of his Disciples—^ and this the wise will understand , though the wicked and unbelieving will not understand .
To tbe Second . —This is a direct falsehood , and can be proved by many Witnesses ; for when it was told to Joanna South cott that some Woman had pre * dieted the destruction of Bath on Good-Friday last , she immediately answered , she would be found a false
Pro-J * hetjbss ; and so many of the people of the place discovered , when they experienced upon their return to the city , the mockery and ridicule of their neighbours . To the Third * - ** This is a 9 unfounde < d as the second Charge , viz . " that Joanna Southcott has sold hsr Seals for
Half-a-cfown each / ' Now it happens , there are more than Fifteen Thousand People who can prove she never sold a Seal in her JLife , or ever suffered one to be sold ; for her Seals were given" without wpn hey and without JV * c
All that had Faith to be ! ieve iu her J jt * spired Writings , as well to the Rich , as to the Poor , Having thus cleared up ths Charges against Joanoa &outbcott , I shall g ^ e a short sketch of her Pivitt ? Miisiou ?
INTELLIGENCE .
. tntelligende . —Joanna Southcott » 3 Si "
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