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( 10 ) that there agitations did never make any impreſſion upon my mind or imagination, ſuch as to promote an imitation of them, or even an inclination to it For the ſpace of at leaſt eighteen days before mine came upon me, I had ſeen none of them; and mine were ſo entirely different from any of theirs, that it is altogether unlikely that the force of imngination (as ſome without due confideration have fancied) could produce them.

The firſt ſymptom of the emotions on my body, ſurprized me in the inſtant of awaking, on the firſt day of March, which was the ſame morning on which I delivered to the printer, the cry from the deſart; thoſe agitations, in a very various manner, and hardly to be deſcribed, continued more or leſs upon me unto the 12th day of June, before word was put into my mouth, I can ſay poſitively, that I never once expected or deſired to have them, before I was actually feized with them; but as they came not of my wall or deſire, ſo I know they came in conſequence and anſwer of my frequent prayers, that God would guide me aright in my opinion and judgement of that awful ſubject of inſpiration among the Covennois, whereof I had been then and for two months before, preparing the aboveſaid printed relation or account.

The bodily impreſſions were gradually encreaſing upon me, till the effect or rather