2 THË TRUE EXPLANATION OF THE BIBLE, REVEALED BY DIVÍNE COMMUNICATIONS TO JOANNA SOUTHCOTT. ...inson TO WHICH ARE ADDED TO AND FROM No Prophecy of the Scripture is of any private Interpretatiòn. . 2 Peter, i. 20. . " LONDON: PRINTED BY S. ROUSSEAU, WOOD STREET, SPA FIELDS; TWO DOORS FROM THE ANGEL INN; AND (Price Eighteen Pence.] PREFACE. JOANNA SOUTHCOTT now affirms to the World, that she has the full Consent of the Bishops to publish that her Calling is of GOD; but if the Bishops should say nay, this is her answer to them: The Lord commanded me to send printed Letters to all the Bishops, that if they would bring forward twenty-four of the Clergy, to prove that my Visitation was not from the Lord, I would give up to their judgment whenever the cause was fairly tried and examined by them; but as they have kept silence to this Letter, their consciences must tell them, that the Calling is of God. And now I shall ask them, if a man were printing a Book, that was blasphemy against the Bible, and the world condemned that Book ; suppose that man should appeal to the Bishops, and say, “ If the Bishops will come forward and examine my Book, and prove before my face it is blasphemy, I will give up to their judgment, and destroy the whole,”What must be their answer ? Conscience must tell them-"We should be unworthy the name of Christians, and much morc unworthy the name of Bishops, to be PREFACE. JOANNA SOUTHCOTT now affirms to the World, that she has the full Consent of the Bishops to publish that her Calling is of GOD; but if the Bishops should say nay, this is her answer to them: The Lord commanded me to send printed Letters to all the Bishops, that if they would bring forward twenty-four of the Ciece, to prove that my Visitation was not from the L 1 give up to their judgment vice was fairle tried and examiot by as they ept sicer to she cir consci of God |