--- title: Times and Seasons description: Issues of 1842 to 1843. authors: - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints editors: - Ebenezer Robinson - Don Carlos Smith - Smith, Joseph, Jr. - Taylor, John collections: - periodicals tags: - newspaper - times-and-seasons - nauvoo - nineteenth-century periodical: Times and Seasons volume: 4 number: 12 published: 1843-05-01 publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois language: en type: article reference: "“The Three Witnesses,” *Times and Seasons* 4, no. 12 (May 1, 1843): 192." printed_title: The Three Witnesses. source: url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1843-05-01_4_12 transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v4n12.htm), with its page breaks; this Internet Archive scan is the reference copy (its OCR was used only as a witness for OCR repair) identifier: per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1843-05-01_4_12 start_page: 192 end_page: 192 curator_note: A Mormon newspaper published by the church in Nauvoo; included for historical study. Inclusion does not imply endorsement. rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1843 (Nauvoo, Illinois); published before 1931, so public domain in the United States source: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1843-05-01_4_12 publication_year: 1843 --- # The Three Witnesses The glorious plan which God has given, Buried beneath the liquid grave, To bring a ruined world to heaven, To know the Spirit's power to save, Was framed in Christ by the new birth, And feel the virtue of his blood, Was seal'd in heaven, was seal'd on earth. Are witnesses ordained of God. As in the heavens they all agree, In heaven they all agree in one, The record's given there by Three, The Father, Spirit, and the Son. On earth three witnesses are given, On earth these witnesses agree, To lead the sons of earth to heaven. The water, blood, and Spirit, three. Jehovah, God the Father, 'sone; One great connecting link is given Another, God's eternal Son; Between the sons of earth and heaven The Spirit does with them agree- The Spirit seals us here on earth, The witnesses in heaven are three. In heaven records our second birth. Nor are we, in the second birth, If we, on earth, possess those three, Left without witnesses one earth, Mysterious saving unity, To grope, as in eternal night, The Book of Life will record bear, About the way to endless light. Our names are surely written there. T. The Times and Seasons, is edited by John Taylor. Printed and published about the first and fifteenth of every month, on the corner of Water and Bain Streets, Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois.