TO A SERMON PUBLISHED AND PREACHED BY MR. SMITH, ON TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 15, 1808, AT BEERSHEBA CHAPEL, PROSPECT-PLACE, ST. GEORGE'S FIELDS. THE Title of this Book begins with saying, "The Lying Prophetess Detected." But in the Sermon he hath not proved one word of my Prophecies to be false; neither is it in the power of man to prove them false; because the truth of them stands before us in every nation; and before they sprang forth I told men of them; so that I shall now take him upon his own grounds. In the 7th page of his book he says, "Joanna Southcott shall be the plaintiff, Truth the defendant, the Apostles and Prophets the grand jury, God shall be the judge, and I will be the solicitor and God give you the hearing ear!" Now I answer, he that hath ears to hear, let B W. Marchant, Printer, 3, Greville street, Holborn. him hear; and he that hath a heart to understand, let him understand what the Lord hath said by his prophets, and what our Saviour said in his Gospel Matthew v. 17-"Think not that I am come to destroy the Law or the Prophets; I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil; for verily I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle shall in no ways pass from the Law till all be fulfilled." Then what saith the Prophet? Amos, iii. 7"Surely the Lord God will do nothing but he revealeth his secrets unto his servants the prophets." And what saith our Saviour? St. John, xvi. 11 "The prince of this world is judged. I have yet many things to say unto you; but ye cannot bear them now; howbeit, when the Spirit of Truth is come, he will guide you into all truths; for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak; and he shall shew you things to come: he shall glorify ME; for he shall receive of mine and shew it unto you." xiv. 16-" The Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance." Revelation, xix. 10-" The testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy." The Apostle Paul to the Thessalonians, 1 Epistle, v. 18" For this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you, Quench not the Spirit, despise not Prophecies; prove all things; hold fast that which is good." 1 Peter, i. 5-"Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto Salvation, ready to be 'revealed in the last times. 13-Be sober and hope to the end, for the Grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ." I might quote as many more scriptures, from the Prophets, from the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, and from his Apostles, to prove that a greater revelation would be given in the last times, than was revealed to them at that time; because our Saviour told them they could not bear it then; and the Apostle Paul telleth us, "We know in part; and we prophesy in part; but when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away: for now we see through a glass darkly; but then face to face. Here I have brought forward the Apostles as the jury; and from their sentence I am justified in believing the visitation of the Lord, according to his promises in holy writ; and now I will call forward the words of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, to be my judge and prove the truth of his words. St. John, iii. 8-"The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound. thereof, but cannot tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth; so is every one that is born of the Spirit." 12.-" If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not; how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?" Here, from the word of God, is my standard fixed; and in the perfect manner that our Saviour spoke came the Spirit of Prophecy to me in ninetytwɔ, warning me what was coming upon the whole earth, and what would go on from nation to nation before they sprang forth I was warned of them; and I can now prove to the world that all events of great consequence, which have happened in all nations, were foretold by the Spirit to me, before any of them appeared; and in the time of peace I published to the world that the war would break out again; and how dreadful the war would be in all nations; how Bonaparte would go on to conquer them. So that I now can prove in my writings that it is the Spirit of Truth that hath visited me; because I can show, from the Books |