Excerpt from A Guide to the People Surnamed Israelites, to Preach the Everlasting Gospel: In a Number of Sermons, Selected From the Scriptures IN explaining this text it will be seen that it contains three points to be roved: First, What is the Garden of Eden; Secondly, hat is the keeping of it; Thirdly, What is the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, upon the eating of which death was to take place. First - Man is composed of Spirit, soul, and body. (1 Thess. V. 23 Heb. Iv. The Lord having created the male and female spirit, called their name Adam in the day they were created, (gen. V. And placed them in one body, calling it a garden, it then being an im mortal body: but seeing that man did not fulfill the com mand which was given unto him, to be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it, (gen. I. Which had he fulfilled in obedience, and not eaten of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, it would have been the keeping of the garden which was his body, the second point in the text; but the Lord, seeing it was not good that the man Should be alone, (gen. Ii. And having created another body, took the female spirit and placed it to work the members of that body, and man called her, Woman, (gen. Ii. And she is the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and for the proof of which we shall now draw your attention. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A feverish expectation of the end of the world seems an unlikely accompaniment to middle-class respectability. But it was precisely her interest in millennial thinking that led Jane Shaw to a group of genteel terraced townhouses in the English county town of Bedford. Inside their unassuming grey-brick exteriors Shaw found something extraordinary. For here, within the 'Ark', lived two members of the Panacea Society, last survivors of the remaining Southcottian prophetic communities in Britain. And these individuals were the heirs to a rich archive charting not just their own apocalyptic sect, but also the histories of the many groups and their leaders who from the early nineteenth century onwards had followed the beliefs of the self-styled prophetess and prospective mother of the Messiah ('Shiloh'), Joanna Southcott, who died in 1814. Placing its subjects in a global context, this is the first book to explore the religious thinking of all the Southcottians. It reveals a transnational movement with striking and innovative ideas: not just about prophecy and the coming apocalypse, but also about politics, gender, class and authority. The volume will sell to scholars and students of religion and cultural studies as well as social history.