The fifth book of wonders

abuse the prophecies. So, from him, you may judge the hearts of men—what their belief in the Scriptures is, and what their belief in God is. It is only fools who mock in this way, whose hearts are led astray by the influence of the devil. But no longer let these madmen deny the existence of a devil, because he has admitted that there is a devil.

But let him know that however idle the devil has been with you—finding all his temptations vain and fruitless because you have resisted him and he must fly from you—he might as well be idle as to tempt you in vain, for I have taken his power over you away. Yet I tell you now, he is not idle with the author of these pamphlets The original text uses "hand-bills," referring to printed advertisements or notices.; and that man will find this to his sorrow hereafter and to his everlasting disgrace. So this proves the truth of my words, what I said to you in the beginning: that you must first hear the mockery of fools. And now they have exposed their folly by their triviality, and their lies by their ignorance—being men void of understanding, brutish men, who I said would appear. But now I shall confound them all in the end by men of wisdom and understanding. By fulfilling my words according to my promise, you felt the LIFE A reference to Southcott’s physical sensations, which she believed were signs of her miraculous pregnancy. in May; and before the harvest is ended, the SON Shiloh, the promised spiritual child. will be born, to the joy of all your friends and to the shame and confusion of all such lying inventors, whom Satan leads captive at his will. This is because their hearts are wholly given up to him, and they have no desire to know the ways of the Lord. Now, regarding the lying inventions he has published to mock the truth, do not marvel in your heart if a man like him should say the time has passed for the little prince of darkness to be born, as he has infamously called it. But now I tell him and all such men, they have