Footnotes
Report, Times and Seasons, 1 June 1841, 2:429, 430.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
Thorp, “Religious Backgrounds of Mormon Converts in Britain,” 60. The seventeenth article of the Church of England asserted that “predestination to life is the everlasting purpose of God, whereby, before the foundations of the world were laid, he hath constantly decreed by his counsel, secret to us, to deliver from curse and damnation those whom he hath chosen in Christ out of mankind, and to bring them by Christ to everlasting salvation, as vessels made to honour.” (Wilson, XXXIX Articles of the Church of England, 119–125.)
Thorp, Malcom R. “The Religious Backgrounds of Mormon Converts in Britain, 1837–52.” Journal of Mormon History 4 (1977): 51–66.
Wilson, William. The XXXIX of the Church of England, Illustrated by Extracts from the Liturgy, Nowell’s Catechism, Jewell’s Apology, the Homilies, Bullinger’s Decades, &c. New, enlarged ed. Oxford: J. Abrams, 1840.
“Highly Important from the Far West,” New York Herald, 29 June 1841, [2].
New York Herald. New York City. 1835–1924.
“Highly Important from the Far West,” New York Herald, 29 June 1841, [2]; see also, “The Mormons,” Warsaw (IL) Signal, 19 May 1841, [2].
New York Herald. New York City. 1835–1924.
Warsaw Signal. Warsaw, IL. 1841–1853.
Two months earlier at a Nauvoo lyceum meeting, JS similarly taught that “satan cannot seduce us By his enticements unless we in our h[e]arts Consent & yeald— our organization such that we can Resist the Devil If we were Not organized so we would Not be free agents.” (Discourse, ca. 16 Mar. 1841.)