Joseph Smith & Others Ordained in Grand Council in Heaven to be Ministers in the Last Days — Thomas Bullock (May 12, 1844)
Thomas Bullock
the doctrine of eternal judgments belong to the 1st. principles of the Gospel in the last days . . . every man who has a calling to minister to the inhabitants of the world, was ordained to that very purpose in the grand Council of Heaven before this world was— I suppose that I was ordained to this very office in that grand Council — it is the testimony that I want, that I am God’s servant, and this people his people
Discourse, 12 May 1844, as Reported by Thomas Bullock, p.1, The Joseph Smith Papers.
History of the Church
The doctrine of eternal judgments belongs to the first principles of the gospel in the last days. . . . Every man who has a calling to minister to the inhabitants of the world, was ordained to that very purpose in the grand council of Heaven before this world was. I suppose that I was ordained to this very office in that grand council. It is the testimony that I want that I am God’s servant, and this people his people.
History, 1838–1856, volume F-1 [1 May 1844–8 August 1844], p. 18, The Joseph Smith Papers.
