ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents an overview of the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book illustrates the ways in which prophecy was much the language and culture of seventeenth-century Britain as individuals addressed a variety of subjects that affected their conscience and public life. It highlights the best part of prophecy as a literary exercise of engagement with a tradition of scriptural reading and interpretation while the inspired prophetic narrative center gradually detached from divine revelation and impregnated the genres of prose, poetry, and the novel. The book shows that by adopting a prophetic narrative voice women were in a position to construct their own version of revealed truth, thus promoting, defending, or modifying the views of their own congregations before an external agent. It focuses the elements that distinguish prophecy as a discourse and a culture across belief and interest groups.
