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But when that I, who dwell on High,
PROVE every word I've spoke;
I ask them where they then will fly,
For to prevent the Stroke."-

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Mrs. Southcott's Writings are sold at E. I. FIELD'S, No. 2, High-Street, St. Giles's, near the Church, London: a Miss Eveleigh's St. Sidwell's, Exeter: and at Tho. Child's Rye-Market, Stourbridge, Worcestershire.

Entered at Stationer's Hall.

Stourbridge: Printed by J. Heming

THE BROTHER OF

JOANNA SOUTHCOTT,

WILL NOW COME FORWARD AS DINAH'S BRETHREN DID;

THAT THEY SHALL NOT DEAL WITH HIS SISTER,

AS THEY WOULD WITH A HARLOT;

FOR SO THEY ARE NOW DEALING WITH HER.

AND HE WILL PROVE TO THE WORLD WHERE THE ADULTERY IS COMMITTED, BY MEN WHO ARE

UNCIRCUMCISED IN HEART AND LIFE;

AND NOW HE WILL EXPÈND ALL THAT HE HAS IN THE WORLD, IF REQUIRED, IN THE HONEST DEFENCE OF HER CHARACTER-TILL HE HAS SLAIN

THE UNCIRCUMCISED PHILISTINES,

AND ENTIRELY FREED HIS SISTER FROM THE
REPROACHES OF THEIR ADULTERY.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY S. ROUSSEAU, WOOD STREET, SPA FIELDS;

AND SOLD BY E. J. FIELD, NO. 2, HIGH STREET, ST. GILES's,

TWO DOORS FROM THE ANGEL INN; AND

THE MISS EVELEIGH'S, ST. SIDWELL'S, EXETER.

Monday, July 2, 1804.

Now, Joanna, this is for thy Brother. I have drawn my sword every way, to stir up jealousy, like a man of war; and like warriors will I prepare my soldiers for the battle; and as I have already told thee, I now tell thee again, I should deal with men after the manner of men; and after the manner of men I will now deal. Therefore I told thee, when I sent thee to Bristol, that I had sent thy Brother before thee, and I should order thee to keep thy Brother in Bristol, before thy trial came on. And now to deal with men after the manner of men, when a Woman hath no Husband and no Father, but only a Brother, then that Brother, by the laws of your land, can support a Sister's injured honour, if he can prove her honour is injured falsely; and they that have injured her character must prove it by witnesses that she has done wrong, or they are liable to be punished for slander, if they murder a character, and that of an innocent woman. And thou hast affirmed to thy Brother, they are not only murdering thy character, but murdering the cha racter of a worthy Lady that supports thee; murdering the character of all thy friends; murdering the GLORY and HONOUR of thy LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST; setting at nought all HIS counsels, putting up man above HIS CREATOR; saying with Pharoah, Who is the Lord that we shall serve him? Who is the Most High that we shall pay homage unto him? This I will prove to the world, as a GOD that now speaketh, and adultery has been committed in Israel, by Pomeroy and thee; but I will say, as Pomeroy said, I will exculpate thee, if thou confessest the truth; and every Letter thou didst send, that thou sayest I commanded thee, that it was I the LORD that did command thee; the Letter thou sent to Symonds, Monday the 25th of June, it was I the Lord commanded thee to send it; and Jack Symonds drew his sword against ME, and

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sent back worse lies than Ananias and Sapphira spoke. Here the Devil with Symonds began their office and thy Brother is in the Custom Office; now in the Custom Office they are bound to act with justice, honesty, truth, and sincerity, to their king and to their country; now those laws thy Brother has a right to demand of the Clergy to deal with thee and with Townley, and let him say as Dinah's brethren did: "Shall they deal with my Sister as they deal with a harlot * ?"

He may say, "Shall they deal with a Lady as they deal with a harlot, one that is faithful to her God, faithful to her friends, and a sincere and faithful friend to my Sister, but that Lady's character I cannot clear till I have cleared my Sister's innocence, that hath lad the whole truth before me. Her Prophecies I had heard of from the beginning; but I waited for time to be a better judge, from whence they came. But as these things are now known to the world, and all her Books have been laid before me, I shall come to the purpose of what she hath laid before me now. Three causes are in hand. The first she lays before me, is her being condemned for adultery in prophaning the truth with the Rev. Mr. Pomeroy. She doth not condemn the man in any temporal adultery; she never heard of a spot in his character that way in her life. In the presence of Mrs. Taylor she had a particular interview with him, when he intreated her to sign the articles, which must fall upon her head, and be guilty with him, if she do not make the truth public, when he took her by the hand, with a shew of kindness, to persuade her to sign; which she was after told of, as far as Leeds in Yorkshire, that Joanna Southcott had signed her name in the public Newspaper with Mrs. Taylor and Mr Pomeroy, who had placed her writings to the devil, with truth and errors blended together,

* Gen. xxxiv. 31.

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so to adulterate the truth; for here Joanna says,
"At the time I put his name in print, and told
him, the LORD had commanded me to do it, he then
said, before Mrs. Taylor and Mrs. Jones, it was
the devil ordered me to do it, and from that single
word drew in Mrs. Taylor and me to sign, that he
had said, my Writings were from the devil, and
put it in so artful a manner, that she never dis-
covered the way it was put in till afterwards. And
now I shall come to the particulars of Mr. Pomeroy,
and how this happened.-I put Letters into his
hands of events from 1796 to the year 1800; I
asked him repeatedly, if he thought them from the
devil? He repeatedly answered, No; do not men-
tion the devil; there is not a word in your
Writings likely to come from the devil;
would often ask me, if they were not from myself?
I always told him, they were not. Sometimes he
would tell me, they were from the LORD, and
sometimes dispute, and tell me, that my knowledge
came from myself. When I assured him they were
not, he would ask me, why I did not publish them
to the world? for if he was called of God, as I said
I was, he would fear no man upon earth. When I
told him I wanted the clergy to come forward, and
they would not; he answered, "then how can you
think your calling is of God? for the Lord never
has a work to do that he could not find instruments
to work by." In this manner he would encourage me
and discourage me together, to go on and wait,
till the Lord did find instruments to work by.
Twice he asked me, in Mr. Taylor's house, why I
did not bring forward my Writings and have them
proved; for if I could not get twelve men, I should
get six or I should wait till I brought the sword,
the plague, and the famine, upon the land. I told
him I could not prove my Writings without twelve.
He said, if it must be twelve, let it be twelve; I
will meet with six or twelve. At the end of 1796,

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