OR 'TIE NATIONAL REGISTER. ti ~: defakariOn of the first woman ; and that by her suffering tia , ail for a lost world; and her union with Christ, her lord and head, she became the first-bmn of many sisters, and the true Mother of all Living in the new cieation of Faith. Joanna Southeott's superhumanqualifications, -as they ap pear to be stated by her, will in some re s pe cts be found to resemble the celestial a'tributes of Anne Lee, who, howevct , was content with being " the Second Eve," invisibly united to the S'econd Adam, and never ventured to assume the dan gerous dignity of the prophetic character. Ile that receiveth a prophet, in the name of a prophet, shall receive a prophet's reward.' Reckoning on the misap plication of this passage of holy writ, evidenced in the re, ception of false prophets, and having by this time worked herself up to the imagination that she was the woman from the first predestined to claim the promise of bruising the old serpent's head, Joanna Southeott at length Opened her Commission, du: ing the year Inn, trusting that the mule of preciie:ion would effect greater womlers than the, simplicity of pleachtitg! The whole purport of her numerous predic tions is, therefore, she says, " To wain the whole World, at large, that the Second Coining of Chriit is nigh at hand ; and to shew, from the Fall, that the Promise that was made to the Woman at first must be accomplished . at last," and and in her St 2 ton, " before Man's" complete " Redemp tion. can take place." Christ is himself brought to declare all this, by the Spirit who communicates with Joanna; as, for instance, where it is thus said, For man's transgreisions I did die, And for them did atone; But stil: the Woman's guilt doth lie, ill ,S'aton feels his, doom ! Then,, can you not the mystery see ? The Woman's Promise it must come, Who cast her guilt alone on he When I did make the Woman first, I said from r the good shall burst ; Fur Man could not he good alone, The woman must his helpmate come. And now his helpmate dot h a appear, With prophecies no man can clear: 4 W 0111) TO THE WISE.' " Joanna Southeott," declares one of her defenders, " is the Messenger forerunning and warning of ,that glorious event, the Coining of our Lord Jesus Christ ; who shall • appear a second time, as the hope of his people, to turn away ungodliness from Jacob ! .We see ',from the Revelation of Jesus Christ to fit...l , .tin) that there is a Church must arise in the last da‘s, before the Second Coming of Christ, whi , bis a wonder to manki7:d. The shadow' is to one, but the substance will be to all. A Woman is now visited by the Sun a Righteousness,. the Spirit. of Truth, to teach men to ctaim the promise of bruising Satan's head ; &tie Ly her peti ti_.n, Wren joining with her,, the Lord will destroy Satan and hts angels. The twelve stars are men, the earth is men, (I am a part •of that earth) who help the Woman, and oppote the floods of lies cast by men, the Devil influencing them !- Why should men Mat vel," demands this her champion, " to think that Scripture should allude to a Woman in the last divs. whom the Spirit of Truth should come to visit, to claim the momise flat_ was made in the Fall, and redeem men from the fail? Was not the promise made to the Woman, who cast tier blame on Sitan? Then, why should we wonder tit* the Spirit should. Visit the Woman to claim the promise of Lrais made to her ? But bow could without the Spirit coming to ViC; AUG. i visit her ?" Curious as the nature of this extract may ap pear, to most religious persons of the present day, it con tains the very sum and substance of Joanna Sonthcott's Ori ginal Commission to the world, together with the arguments by which it is endeavoured to be supported, and will on these accounts be found of some consequence in the course of this memoir. Our prophetess had now declared herself to be 44 the Bi ide, the Lamb's Wife, and the Woman clo'hed with the sun," and her. visiting spirit was at work day aid night. These tidings, were premulged at Exeter; where, however, s h e vainly importuned the diunitaries of the cathedral to countet [twice her mission, and where, in fatt, her friends concluded she was running mad! ONESIBIUS. an ,- a Sato •' held, ittliich God 4 1‘; ~.... 1.. .. ; . ...; • ise9 -1.: •ek ;.„,\ 7 ' .:41P , . 4 • . 1.1, , t' i ft' r•-• • N , . Ak' - r 1 VI: -Ir. (, 4 1,,,....- ... b. , :„....... x.;.:.,-, ,;-.:---, "• - • - . (T , be continued.) • * " Joanna has for some time resided at No. 17, Weston Place, near the Inoculation Hospital, Pancras Road, where the Cot for her predicted heir was sent home last Saturday. She recently has entered her sixty-fifth year. Joanna is portly, fat, and not uncotnely. JOANNA'S PREGNANCY. The Spirit calls upon Joanna, and after having quoted the words of St. John, There're doth my father love me, because I lay down my life that I might take it again,' pro ceeds as follows : 6 6 But how can I take it again without coming in spirit, as a father to take it in a son. know as a eon I came at first, but as a bridegroom I said I should come at last ; then, know. at a king brings is his heir to his crowd, by the bride, so shall . bring in ray heir to my kingdom that I died to re deem. And now let the Jews awake as men out of sleep. and let them see their prophets clear, and let them see their psalms clear, then they will see, I must first come to hare my enemies as spoken in the psalms, and after that to ascend on high to receive gifti for men ; yea, even for the rebelli. ouv Jews, that the Lord God might dwell among them. But how is the Lord God to dwell amongst them if I do not create a son by the same power I came amongst them. And to prove nay power that it is of God and not of man, it must be made known unto all men whomsoever that read this book of, thine that no man bath been in thy presence, or put a foot in the room where I have confined thee, since the time I ordered thy confinement, which time was October i 813. And thou must let it be knowq to the world that thou cans't say with Agur, 1 There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not.'" After recording this address of the Spirit, Mrs. Southcott proceeds " And this I can take my solemn oath to; I never had knowledge of man in my life. So that if the words of the spirit are fulfilled in me this year to have a son, it is by the power of the Lord and not of man; and this sign is set to prove the truth of the gospel, or to prove that the gospel is not true. For this lam answered, if the visitation of the Lord. to me now does not produce a son this year, then Jesus Christ was Nov the son of God born in the manner spoken by the Virgin Mary ; but if I have a son this year, then in like manner our Saviour was born."— , Let them look to thy age, and the manner I have confined thee from any man coming into thy presence, and to prevent men's saying a man might come in women's apparel, I have also foihidden all thy female friends to come into thy presenee likewise." ,On the 14th of OCtober y 1613, I was ordered to sit up all night in a room by myself, which I did. Many extraor•