Divine authenticity of the book of Mormon

by Orson Pratt

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 edition. ...years. One of their writers speaks "The whole church through the whole world was governed by tradition Only, for the first two thousand years."f This is evidently false; for the whole church governed herself from Adam to Moses, by both tradition and new revelation. Each age, during that period, furnished the church with revelators who delivered the word of the Lord to her, and she was governed by that word, and also by the traditions of former ages as far as they were applicable. 28.--The church was not only governed from Adam to Moses by new revelation, but from Moses to the close of the first century of the Christian era. The Word of God given in past ages, whether written or unwritten, was never considered by the true church a sufficient rule of faith in any dispensation since the creation of man. tholics that first originated the idea, and by them the fatal delusion has been handed down from generation to generation; and all the children that she has brought forth, or that have left her communion, have, more or less, imbibed the same great features of the apostacy. Well might the revelator John, speaking by the spirit of prophecy, call her THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OP THE EARTH I" It is her true name, for all the "HARLOTS" which she has brought forth have walked in the footsteps of their "Mother" in declaring against new revelation, and in pretending that ancient revelation was a sufficient rule of faith. It is to be expected that as is the Mother, so will be her Harlot Daughters. The daughters in some respects are morg corrupt than the mother; for they have limited their rule of faith much more than the mother. Pope Innocent the First, (as we have already quoted), in the...

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First published September 12, 2013

About the author

American mathematician and religious leader who was an original member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.