A true picture of the world, and a looking-glass for all men / [Joanna Southcott].

  • Southcott, Joanna, 1750-1814
Date:
[1809]
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Credit: A true picture of the world, and a looking-glass for all men / [Joanna Southcott]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SJ shciH be revealed, ye may be glad also with ex- ceeding joy. If ye be reproached lor the name of Christ, happy are ye, for the spirit of glory, and of god, resteth upon you. If we search the'Gospel through from the words ol our Saviour and his Apostles, we shall find that great persecution would arise in the last days, concerning the coming oj the lord jesus christ. Now, if the wisdom of man was clear in the knowledge of the Scriptures, none of this perse- cution would arise ; but it is for want of know- ing how all things went from types and shadows, in the beginning; and how from types and sha- dows, it will go to the ending, that this persecu- tion will so much arise amongst the professors, as well as the prophane. The Jews did not under- stand from the paschal lamb being slain, the blood sprinkled on the door-posts, and the lamb being offered up as a sacrifice, was a type and shadow of the lamb of god being slain, to take away the sin of the world. For, as the blood of bulls and goats wa? offered up, likewise these were types and shadows of the beast being destroy- ed in the end, to which the devil is compared. And, as man began to seal our Saviour’s tomb, so the shadozv of the sealing is a type of the lord’s coming in power to make an end of sin and seal our adversary, which is the devil, that he may have no more power over us; that death and hell may be swallowed up in victory, according to the promise made in the Gospel. As, therefore, from types and shadows all have begun, so, from types and shadows, all will end. As to the unbelieving world that mock the Scriptures, I shall not enter into a controversy with, but leave them to their own deceiving but, as many professors of the Gospel have so greatly abused our petitions to the lord, for the fulfill- ment of his worth, — to have his kingdom esta- D