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DISPUTE

Woman and the Powers of Darkness.

This book may appear strange to some of my readers, as it claims to be a dispute between me and the powers of darkness. Some people may wonder, as they have already done, because I said the Lord would give liberty to Satan to come and offer whatever arguments he had to plead against the justice of his sentence. He is restricted from tempting any who were sealed those who signed Southcott's petition for Christ's kingdom and received a protective certificate. I was ordered to write down his words, including any blasphemy he might speak against the Lord and the justice of his sentence. The Lord said I should not do as I did in 1792, when I refused to write his blasphemy out of a mistaken zeal for religion, because I thought his words were too shocking to record. But now I was commanded to banish these fears, because avoiding the task would make religion become sinful. Therefore, I was ordered to record every word perfectly which he uttered.

The Second Edition, printed by Marchant and Galabin, 1, Ingram-Court, London, in January, 1813, from the First Edition, printed in 1802.