COPIES OF LETTERS SENT TO THE CLERGY OF EXETER, From 1796 to 1800, WITH COMMUNICATIONS and PROPHECIES Put in the Newspapers in 1813. BY JOANNA SOUTHCOTT. LONDON: Printed by Marchant and Galibin, Ingram-Court; and sold by W. TOZER, 1813. ENTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL. I SHALL begin this Book with the Prophecies, which I was ordered to put into the newspapers, as they may otherwise be lost. The first advertisement, in the Times paper, Oct. 28, 1813: Joanna Southcott's Letter to the Nation. I, JOANNA SOUTHсотт, have been more than twelve years publicly warning the nation of what the Lord hath revealed unto me he will do upon the earth; and the events have been daily fulfilling abroad and at home, which causes some to believe the Visitation to be from the Lord; while others, with the most infamous abuse and falsehood, have publicly declared me to be an Impostor; and others, with the same ignorance and folly, say that my Writings are from the devil, full of blasphemy, and wondered that the Bishops should have suffered me to go on in this manner. I have borne the mockery and abuse of men ; but now let all their wonder cease; for I shall return to mock them, as they have mocked me, and prove it is the devil, in the form of men, from whence all this malice and persecution proceed. And now I shall say with David, "If I have been vile, I will still be viler:" and if I have been bold, I will be bolder.-To my other Prophecies I have added two Books, lately published, entitled, "Book of Wonders ;" and five more will appear hereafter, which I defy all the Bishops in England, the Members of Parliament, and all the Judges in the land, with all the judgment they can form together, to be able to prove these two books of Wonders, with the other Prophecies, were ever brought round by the wisdom and know ledge of the devil, or by the wisdom and knowledge of an Impostor. Let the Bishops come forward with the Rev. Mr. Pomeroy, and I will soon convince them that I could as soon make the world, as I could make my writings, and bring them round in the manner. they have been brought round to be fulfilled. I am not so wise as the world makes me; therefore, I shall give unto the Lord the honour and glory that is due unto his name: and those that say they are from the devil, I shall turn their blasphemy upon their own heads; because it is blasphemy to say, that such wisdom, knowledge, and power, can be in the devil. And I was answered this morning, that if men went on in this way, and the Bishops did not awaken, to prove the calling is from on high, to stop this blasphemy in men, that awful judgments should now come on, upon them and upon the nation: for these are the words said unto me: "I will laugh at their calamity; I will mock "when their fear cometh: when your fear cometh "as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a "whirlwind when distress and anguish come "upon you; then shall they call upon ME, but I "will not answer; they shall seek me early, but "they shall not find me: for I have looked and "there is none to help; and I wondered that there "was none to uphold; therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto ME; and my fury upheld me; and I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury; I will bring down their strength to the earth." This is the voice of the Lord unto me, from the scripture Prophecies." The watchmen are blind; "they are all ignorant; they are all dumb dogs "that cannot bark, sleeping, laying down to slumber."-But this is the answer of the Lord to me-" They shall be visited of the Lord of hosts |