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12 it out of all ſhape, and while I looked upon it, it was ſaid unto me, I will ſhew thee the meaning: this is the king of France's armies, which ſhall be made that they ſhall neither cut nor fall in the time when he hath moſt ado with them. A little thereafter in the morning, in a ſurpriſing manner, it was ſaid to me, I have got more loſs in my church by the king of France that by any prince in Europe, for he hath brought my church in that land to a very mall remnant (if any) for which I will make hast in the top of a rock, that hath neither graſs nor earth.

24. Being aſleep, I apprehended I ſaw a man, as I was walking in the fields, coming to me, I aſked him, What he had in his hand?. He anſwered, it is a crown. I have often made offer of it to thee, and thou refuſed it; I ſaid, I do not deſire a crown, neither would take it; he replied, Go on in revealing what I have ſaid before thee, and thou ſhalt not want thy reward; but if thou refuſe to declare what I ſay before thee, I will make thee an example, ſuch as there never was the like laid on a bed before thee. Faſtening mine eyes on the man at a diſtance from me I ſaw a great ſtone fall on a ſudden, as from the very clouds, between him and me, and he ſaid, As thou haſt ſeen this ſtone fall on a ſudden, ſo I will bring the ſtroke upon this generation, but yet they will not believe it, till it come to their very door, and thou ſhalt not ſee it.

25. Jan 16. 1750. It was ſaid to me, I ſent thee one of the bailies of Campbleton, to whom thou diſcovered many things, which had been had before thee, and he coming home did not conceal the fame, which made the miniſters and ſome others come to thee, to whom thou alſo gave a large account of things laid before thee, which they have not diſcovered, except to ſome principal men of the city, and in ſo doing they have wronged this generation.

26. At another time I ſaw a creature, the likeneſs of a fowl, and as I wondered what it could be, I heard as if it had been the voice of one aſking what I looked upon? I ſaid, a fowl, but cannot underſtand what it is. I was anſwered, This is the red dragon ſpoken of in the Revelation, which fought with Michael and his angels, which was the occaſion of theſe bloody napkins on which thou ſaw the