Southcott’s promised marriage to Pomeroy

Monday morning, September 27th.—I was awaked as usual between three and four o’clock, and after various things being revealed to me, that I cannot recollect, I was answered:— Thou must be perfect in obedience to all my commands; and therefore I told thee that I should work on Pomeroy’s heart, to come in my Spirit, though not in my person, to propose a Marriage Union with thee; and know what I said in my Gospel, when I ordered John to baptise me; know his answer, (Matt. xiii.) “But John forbade him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee; and comest thou to me? And Jesus answered, saying unto him, suffer it to be so now; for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness; then he suffered him. And Jesus when he was baptised, went up straightway out of the water, and lo! the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending, like a dove, lighting upon him; and lo! a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. I shall not at present explain to thee all the meaning of these verses. But in the perfect manner I came in the body, my second coming must be in the Spirit; and know what I said of Baptism, so I say of the Marriage: thus it behoveth thee to fulfil all righteousness. And let them discern from my Gospel, it was after I had gone through the office of men to be baptised, that this vision was seen from heaven. And so I tell thee thou must go through the office of Marriage, as a Bride, to fulfil all righteousness here upon earth, before the heavens are opened for thou to enter in to know my Spirit and the mysteries that will be revealed, therefore, they can never know what are the glories that lye behind, till the shadow is begun upon earth. Know what I said in thy Writings:—“Heaven and earth alike must join; and what I bind on earth, I will bind in heaven; and what is joined on earth, I will join in heaven.”