The fifth book of wonders

the great prince of darkness to fear, whom I shall cast out with all his branches that join so closely to the root. Therefore I said in my Gospel, "If you die in your sins, where I am you cannot come." For such blasphemers existed while I dwelt with men in the flesh, and so they continue to persecute in the Spirit. Then let them now judge for themselves how such men would appear before the Lord, whom they have blasphemed; their own conscience must condemn them and justify my Gospel’s command to separate them, like tares from the wheat. Here I shall leave you concerning these men.

"And now, consider the minister who preached a sermon against the visitation of my Spirit. The Rev. James Hearn, curate of Brixham, Devon.

"I shall begin with his text: Colossians 2:10. 'You are complete in him.'

"From his own text I shall condemn him and ask him this: In whom is he made complete? Or which of his hearers is he striving to make complete? Will he answer, 'In the Gospel of Christ, for in him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily'? But what fullness of my Gospel, or what fullness of the words of the Apostles, can be made complete in Christ before the fulfillment has taken place? From his own doctrine, I shall condemn the man as one of the 'blind leading the blind' until both fall into the ditch together, as I said in the Gospel. Therefore I said, 'Woe to you, blind guides!' Should the day of the Lord come unexpectedly, how must such pastors appear who have been deceiving their flock and leading them astray—denying my second coming, which I told them to look for, and denying the Spirit of Truth, which I said would come? And therefore I said before that these teachers and pastors would no more convince