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defakariOn of the first woman ; and that by her suffering
tia,ail for a lost world; and her union with Christ, her
lord and head, she became the first-bmn of many sisters,
and the true Mother of all Living in the new cieation of

Faith.
Joanna Southeott's superhumanqualifications, -as they ap-
pear to be stated by her, will in some respects be found to
resemble the celestial a'tributes of Anne Lee, who, howevct,
was content with being " the Second Eve," invisibly united
to the S'econd Adam, and never ventured to assume the dan-
gerous dignity of the prophetic character.
Ile that receiveth a prophet, in the name of a prophet,
shall receive a prophet's reward.' Reckoning on the misap-
plication of this passage of holy writ, evidenced in the re,
ception of false prophets, and having by this time worked
herself up to the imagination that she was the woman from
the first predestined to claim the promise of bruising the old
serpent's head, Joanna Southeott at length Opened her
Commission, du: ing the year Inn, trusting that the mule
of preciie:ion would effect greater womlers than the, simplicity
of pleachtitg! The whole purport of her numerous predic-
tions is, therefore, she says, " To wain the whole World, at
large, that the Second Coining of Chriit is nigh at hand ;
and to shew, from the Fall, that the Promise that was made
to the Woman at first must be accomplished
.at last," and
and in her St 2 ton, " before Man's" complete " Redemp-
tion. can take place." Christ is himself brought to declare
all this, by the Spirit who communicates with Joanna; as,
for instance, where it is thus said,

For man's transgreisions I did die,
And for them did atone;
But stil: the Woman's guilt doth lie,
ill ,S'aton feels his, doom !
Then,, can you not the mystery see?
The Woman's Promise it must come,
Who cast her guilt alone on he
When I did make the Woman first,
I said from r the good shall burst ;
Fur Man could not he good alone,
The woman must his helpmate come.
And now his helpmate doth
a appear,
With prophecies no man can clear:
4 W 0111) TO THE WISE.'

" Joanna Southeott," declares one of her defenders, " is
the Messenger forerunning and warning of
,that glorious
event, the Coining of our Lord Jesus Christ ; who shall
• appear a second time, as the hope of his people, to turn
away ungodliness from Jacob ! .We see ',from the Revelation
of Jesus Christ to fit...l,.tin) that there is a Church must
arise in the last da‘s, before the Second Coming of Christ,
whi, bis a wonder to manki7:d. The shadow' is to one, but
the substance will be to all. A Woman is now visited by the
Sun a Righteousness,. the Spirit. of Truth, to teach men to
ctaim the promise of bruising Satan's head ; &tie Ly her peti-
ti_.n, Wren joining with her,, the Lord will destroy Satan and
hts angels. The twelve stars are men, the earth is men, (I
am a part •of that earth) who help the Woman, and oppote
the floods of lies cast by men, the Devil influencing them !-
Why should men Mat vel," demands this her champion, " to
think that Scripture should allude to a Woman in the last
divs. whom the Spirit of Truth should come to visit, to claim
the momise flat_ was made in the Fall, and redeem men from
the fail? Was not the promise made to the Woman, who cast
tier blame on Sitan? Then, why should we wonder tit* the
Spirit should. Visit the Woman to claim the promise of Lrais-
made to her ? But bow could
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visit her ?" Curious as the nature of this extract may ap-
pear, to most religious persons of the present day, it con-
tains the very sum and substance of Joanna Sonthcott's Ori-
ginal Commission to the world, together with the arguments
by which it is endeavoured to be supported, and will on
these accounts be found of some consequence in the course
of this memoir.
Our prophetess had now declared herself to be 44 the Bi ide,
the Lamb's Wife, and the Woman clo'hed with the sun,"
and her. visiting spirit was at work day aid night. These
tidings, were premulged at Exeter; where, however, she
vainly importuned the diunitaries of the cathedral to countet
[twice her mission, and where, in fatt, her friends concluded
she was running mad!

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