The Continuation of the Prophecies of
Joanna Southcott.

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Sinking Kingdom.

NCE more I am ordered to address the public. The day of the Lord is at hand, and he hath warned by his Spirit, and by visions, as he promised by the prophet Joel, ii. ch. 28 v. that, in the latter days, when" He cometh to pour out his Spirit upon all flesh, that your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions." Now call to your remembrance the words of our dear Redeemer"Think not that I am come to destroy the Law of God, or the Prophets; I come not to destroy them, but to fulfil them; and this generation shall not pass away till all is fulfilled" that meaneth, the generation under the fall-but when the Lord cometh to pour out his Spirit upon all flesh, he must destroy the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour of light, that we may be made children of the light. He gave us a parable from the fig-tree putting forth its green leaves, knowing that summer was nigh at hand. So when you see the fulfilment of the Prophets and the Gospel together, know, that your redemption draweth nigh. But as this Book will treat mostly of the explanations of Visions, I shall beg my readers to weigh deeply the 2d chapter of Joel, and compare it with the present times. The visions, which I shall now treat of,

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The third Edition, printed in August, 1810, by Galabin and Marchant, IngramCourt, London; the second Edition, printed in June, 1807; and the first Edi tion, printed in June, 1803.

are those of Joseph Prescott, of Bermondsey, who hath been in the habit of seeing visions from 1793 to the present day; but unknown to me, and I to him, till February 28, 1803, after my Writings had been proved in January, by fifty-eight persons then present, and who all signed their names of approbation. Soon after, the above youth was taken into the house of a friend, where the visions were shewn to him, in the manner, and according to the dates, which will be hereafter mentioned. The visions were brought to me, and explained as you will see in this book. Now, judge for yourselves, my brethren, that ye be not judged of the Lord; and trace his footsteps backward: for no man living can trace them forward, as the wisdom of the Lord is hid in the great deep, and his paths past man's finding out. Here I might enter into a field large enough for a volume, was I to explain the strange dealings of the Lord with Joseph in Egypt, Moses, and Pharaoh; with Noah, Daniel, and with Job in all his afflictions. None could trace the wisdom of the Lord till they saw the end: and so it is at this moment; none can trace the wisdom of God forward, in all his directions to me, till they see the end.

High-House, Paddington,
May 4, 1803.

JOANNA SOUTHCOTT.

As I am ordered to put in print Joseph Prescott's visions, that were shewn to him since the beginning of March, 1803, which confirm the Bible and my prophecies, I must call my readers to mark the dates in my books-how many years ago the promises were made to me, that the Lord would cut off the

powers of darkness from the face of the earth. But man must raise my hand; which you will see in a letter sent to a dignitary, in my sixth book, and which is now fulfilled. Now I must observe, that I was ordered to publish in 1801; and, at the end of that year, three ministers came from different parts of the kingdom, with four other gentlemen, to search out the truth of my writings. The ministers waited upon the bishop of Exeter, and I wrote him a letter, which was delivered to him, offering to give up to his judgment, or any other ministers he should appoint, if they would only examine my writings, and prove they were not from the Lord; but I said, if they declined this offer, I should resign to the judgment of those gentlemen who came to search out the truth. The bishop declined, as did all the other ministers, in and near Exeter, to whom I had written. I was then ordered to give my writings, sealed up, into the hands of the gentlemen whom the Lord had chosen to search out the truth, and to have them proved in London, as the ministers in Exeter had refused to examine them. So I delivered my writings, sealed up, to the gentlemen, on Tuesday morning, the 5th of January, 1802. The May following I was ordered to go to London, and was told I should never return till my writings were proved. The latter end of July, I was informed by the Spirit, that Satan had complained against my sealing the people that wished for his destruction, and that the Lord would give him liberty to come to me, and I should contend with him (but he was not permitted to appear visible) and if I stood out with strong faith in Christ, and overcame him with arguments, and did not suffer him to speak without my answer, I should overcome the devil at last, as he did the woman at first; and that the Lord, in his rich mercy, would cast the woman's guilt on Satan's head, and he should fall by See the Book of Disputes with the Powers of Darkness.