An answer to a sermon published and preached by Mr. Smith on Tuesday evening, March 15, 1808, at Beersheba Chapel, Prospect-Place, St. George's Fields / [Joanna Southcott].

  • Southcott, Joanna, 1750-1814.
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Credit: An answer to a sermon published and preached by Mr. Smith on Tuesday evening, March 15, 1808, at Beersheba Chapel, Prospect-Place, St. George's Fields / [Joanna Southcott]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    considers she is the woman spoken of by the Lord God to the serpent in the garden oj Eden—It shall bruise thy head; that is, the woman shall bruise the serpent’s head. This is her beliefs To his words I shall answer, it is a false, erro- neous assertion; a thought that never came into my head • neither is such a word in my writings, that I shall bruise the serpent’s head ; because it is positively said in my writings, that it is Christ himself that will fulfil the promise, that was made in the fall to the woman; for as he suffered his heel to be bruised for the transgression of man, who cast the blame on his Maker for giving him the woman; so will the Lord come again in might, majesty, and glory, to bruise the head of the serpent, that betrayed the woman. And this our Saviour spoke of in his Gospel: St. John, xii. —“Now is the judgment of this world; now shall the prince of this world be cast out: and I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.’’ The same sense and meaning is in the xvi chapter—“ Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.’■—Now these scrip- tures were spoken for a time to come, that if our Saviour was then lifted up, the time should come When the prince of this world should be cast out, and he should be judged, being the author of all evil. These are the mysteries that our Saviour told his disciples they could not bear them then : for had they known the sense and meaning of all his words at that time, they would have expected it immediately to be done. But many parts of the Scripture stand as a will made, that is not fulfilled. It is said in the Scriptures that our Sa- viour is the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world ; but he was not slain till he came into the world, and was crucified; then it cannot be said he was literally slain from the foundation of the world : yet the sentence vyas passed when