COMMUNICATIONS,

WRITTEN BY

JOANNA SOUTHCOTT;

ON THE

PRAYERS OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND;

THE CONDUCT OF THE CLERGY,

AND

CALVINISTIC METHODISTS,

WITH OTHER PARTICULARS.

The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit

John iii. 8.

LONDON

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Price Ten Pence.

1809,

INTRODUCTION.

"GOD created man to be immortal, and made him an image of his own eternity. Nevertheless through envy of the Devil, came death into the world: and they that do hold of his side do find it.” WISDOM II. 23, 24.

As it may be necessary to mention why the publisher of the following letter, upon the Prayers of the Church of England, and other particulars, should employ his time to publish them to the world: his answer is, that it being his firm belief that the various Communications are given according to what is mentioned in the New Testament of the coming of the Spirit, in the 3d chapter of St. John, 8th verse. And the reader may see they can only proceed from the Spirit of Wisdom, to lead men into the true knowledge of the Bible, which is now about to be fulfilled in the establishment of Christ's peaceable Kingdom on earth. It is necessary to observe, that when that Divine Being came upon earth, and dwelt amongst men, he was born of the Virgin Mary, of the Holy Ghost, without a human Father; he took on him the likeness of man in his fallen state; and bore the blame cast on him by man, agreeably to the 12th verse of the 3d chapter of Genesis, in order for man to be restored to the likeness of his Creator. All this must be accomplished in the end. The Church of England, which is called the Pro

testant Church, not only declares the miraculous birth of a Being without a human or natural father being true, but it is declared in the New Testament, and confirmed by prophecies in the Old. It is also evident to every man's understanding, that God must be a God of order; and cannot be manifested to man in his own essence, but through some medium according to human order, which was the man Christ Jesus, born of God his only Heavenly Father and no other. This is according to the belief of the Church of England, and of the Scriptures. Yet for all this, human nature is not redeemed, agreeably to the Lord's Prayer, on this earth, where it is mentioned his kingdom must come, and his will must be done; and which prophetic prayer was given and remains until the divine work is accomplished by the second. coming of Christ in the Spirit; this also the Church of England testifies. Man has continued in a wretched state of misery since Christ and his Apostles were upon earth, as well as before, altogether, for near 6000 years; as is proved by both antient and modern history, and by our daily experience. Since no person whatever can deny this lamentable truth, it is every man's business to inquire into the The Bible not only points out the cause, but the effects: that in the beginning man was created after the image and likeness of his Goda created Being of love and wisdom. He afterwards became so changed, as to be the image and likeness of the Devil-full of hatred and malice; a murderer, and guilty of every crime-dead to wis

cause.

dom, and a being of gross darkness; which is truly described in the 6th book of Joanna Southcott's Prophecies, published January 2, 1802, which cannot be read with too serious attention; for there the whole is explained, and the truth completely established; which none but a God could know; and none but a God could reveal. This important book, as well as all her other writings, proves, that at the second coming of Christ, it must be in Spirit, to bring in the whole creation to the knowledge of wisdom.

It is the fashion of the present age to deny every thing but outward nature: all spiritual wisdom and miracles are denied; but as all created things must have a beginning, man and woman must be created at first by a superior Being of divine Love, by his divine Wisdom; which man in his fallen state of nature cannot comprehend. Therefore the origin of man may be called a miracle, having no human father, as he could not create himself. Any persons who choose to deny this first cause, or miracle of human creation, have nothing more to do than to deny their own existence. Since the crimes of man convince us that he has lost his heavenly image and likeness; and experience proves, as he cannot restore himself, none but a Divine Power can. Therefore it is only his Creator who can be his Redeemer; which may be called a second miracle; and this. brings us to the birth of Christ, who is called the second Adam, having no human father, but born of the Holy Ghost.-Here the axe may be said to have been laid to the root of evil, to destroy it altogether, But we find evil still remains; for war, murder, and