A continuation of the controversy

will find that I shall come to bring in the substance; then they will find my will to be accomplished in power and great glory, to the comfort and consolation of all true believers who are longing for my coming.

But now I ask you and all mankind: to what purpose would my revealing my coming be to man, if I meant to come and bring in my kingdom of righteousness and peace—cutting off all those who would not want me to come and rule over them—only five years after the warning was given? How could the hearts of men be tried and proven? How could it come to the knowledge of men in so short a time as five years? How could the nations be warned so that I would be "the desire of nations"? Or how could men prove the visitation was from me in so short a period after I sent out to warn this nation?

This could not be done at home; then what knowledge could be given to the nations abroad? Thus, my warning could have been of no use to mankind if I meant to come in power to destroy your adversary Satan and bring in my kingdom within five years after the warning was given. This was never my design.

Instead, what would happen in a five-year period to come was all made known and revealed; and my will was signed and sealed in the five years that I mentioned at that time. But, when the time comes that I shall proceed in the same manner you proceeded during those five years, and bring in the glory of my kingdom at the end—this, I tell you, will never be made known before I come suddenly and unaware.

But let all men discern and keep in remembrance your dispute with the powers of darkness, which I ordered you to write down; then the Sealing, which went out with your petition for men to sign, and the manner in which it was sealed; then let them discern what you went through at Bristol, and the fury I worked in you when breaking the earthenware Joanna Southcott performed a symbolic act of breaking plates/pottery to represent the breaking of the nations; then let 43 L