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( 5 ) of the Goſpel, to make an Offer of Chriſt to this Generation, and to leave off Sin.—He had the Apparition of a Hand with a Gold-ring, meaning a Badge of Honour put upon God's own People.—He had alſo in the viſional Light a Repreſentation of an Earthquake, and in the Accomplishment of theſe Judgments great Confuions, ſuch as were not ſince the Year King Uzziah died

He had an Apparition upon Friday's Night, the 9th January 1730, being an Apparition of a great Light, and as I was looking on that great Light, there was an Appearance of a Perſon in white Clothing making ſome Moving through the Houſe; upon which, in the great Light, I faſtned mine Eyes, and obſerved a Writing, which was, I have a Remnant in this Church, for whole Sake I will be gracious; yet they ſhall not eſcape the Road, for I will whip them, as a Man whippeth his Son whom he loveth: Yet I will not deal with them as with other Churches, whom I left, not to return to them again; ſuch as the Iſles of Chittim and the ſeven Churches of Aſia, which I left, never to return again: Ye ſhall not find me a Parallel neither in the Old nor New Teſtament Churches, that I have dealt with, as I will deal with this Church, for I have a Remnant in this Church both of Men and Women, to which I have not the Parallel of any Church in the known World, who have taken ſuch Hold