"If the Jews are convinced from this book, if a Child is born, as mentioned in the book, that they receive him as their Prince; then they will have further directions from the friends who send them the book; and when the Child is born, it is those friends that will make it known to them. So they must not trust to any one, but the persons that send the book, and they will let them see thy likeness." The contents of this book taken from Joanna Southcott's mouth by me, Bed Fuma si sunt bol Printed by W. MARCHANT, No. 1, Ingram-Court, London. FOURTH BOOK OF WONDERS, BEING THE ANSWER OF THE LORD TO THE HEBREWS. "Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel; and answer for thyself to the Laws of Moses." Deuteronomy xxviii, "Now let them be strict to observe all the Laws which I gave to Moses, if they expect deliverance from them; and let them look to the sixteen verses, and see all the curses which Moses pronounced against them, if they departed from his commandments. "So if they will be judged by the Laws of Moses, then by his Laws they shall be judged. For, if they had their houses full of gold and silver, they shall never be restored to the promised land, without they keep every command of Moses perfectly. OR, Come to their other Prophets. Isaiah liii. 16. "The Lord hath laid on him the iniquities of us all." "They shall look upon мE whom they have pierced." "Thus are TWO THINGS set before the HEBREWS; let them choose which they will; either to keep the COMMANDMENTS of Moses perfectly; or TO ACKNOwledge their TKANSGRESSIONS, as spoken by the Prophets. LONDON: Printed by W. MARCHANT. Ingram-Court; and sold by M. JONES, No. 5, Newgate-Street; J. HUNTLEY, Duke-Street, Grosvenor-Square; W. Tozza, Chapel-Place, Duke-Street, Westminster-Road, Southwark; also by the Miss EVELEIGHS, St. Sidwell's, Exeter; S. HIRST, Leeds; W.WADMAN, York; JAMES LIGHT, Coventry-Street, Stourbridge; EDMUND BAKER, Ilminster; C. BRADLEY, Digbeth, Birmingham; JOHN NESBIT, Gravesend; and T. TURPIN, Greenwich. ENTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL, I SHALL begin this Book with the following, which was inserted in the Observer Newspaper of April 3, 1814. Questions put to the professors of religion, who have condemned Joanna Southcott's last Book. I am informed, from my last publication, announcing the coming of SHILOH, to gather the Jews and restore them to the promised land, by a SECOND SON being born, by the power of the MOST HIGH, that it is by some called blasphemy; that others say, it makes JESUS CHRIST an insufficient SAVIOUR, and that they want no morë Saviours; and that others say, the doctrine of the Millennium is doubtful. As to these people I am answered, that it is for want of understanding the true meaning of the Scriptures, that such wrong judgment is drawn by them; therefore they are referred to the following passages in the Gospel : John, ii. 19-21. "Jesus answered and said unto them, destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. He spake of the temple of his body." - John, x. 17-18. "I lay down my life, that I might take it again. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again." "Now let those who reprove answer, from the words of the Jews, Matthew, xxvii. 4047, HOW I can come down from the cross, to do away the shame that was cast upon ME, being condemned as a guilty malefactor. Can I prove the power, which I said, in the days of the flesh, I had got, as being the SON of GOD, before I have shewed that power, in raising up a Body in the likeness that I laid down? "Let this be answered by the sons of men, and I shall answer thee again. Let them prove my Gospel true; or let them acknowledge that they do not believe it, until I have fulfilled my words, in raising the TEMPLE which the Jews destroyed, by my own power, and not by the power of man. Let them answer, how they make ME a sufficient SAVIOUR, if I have not power, in the end, to fulfil my words? And, let them prove when SHILOH came to gather together the outcasts of Israel, and fulfilled Jacob's dying words. This I never promised to accomplish, till my second coming, that the SON of MAN should be revealed, whom I should raise up in the last days. And let them answer, who is the COMFORTER, whom I said I should send, that when HE came HE should reprove the world of sin? And who is the COMFORTER who I said should come, if they deny a SECOND SON? Because then they deny my second coming. "I shall contend with men that contend with thee, until I have shamed all that shame thee, and confounded all that confound thee; unless it be those who are void of understanding, whom nothing can shame: for now the wisdom of Solomon will be proved, in all the proverbs he spake to men. "This is the answer of the Lord to thy accusers, and not thine, and which must go into the paper for, in condemning thee, they must condemn me likewise." JOANNA SOUTHCOTT, Saturday, April 2, 1814. The following is the answer of the Jews, at Birmingham, to the Book sent to them. "She has began with a wrong set of people; for, according to what Moses said to the children of Israel, Beware of false prophets; for they will give you signs and tokens, which shall absolutely |