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Rh Then I apprehended a man walking by me with a foal in his hand, and he food ſtill, and lifted up his right hand, and ſwore by him that liveth for ever and ever, That he had often foretold, but they would not believe, but mocked at all the warnings, neither wilt thou believe thyſelf: but these that will not believe, I will tread as mire in the ſtreets, which ſhall be accompliſhed in a few years. I had alſo in clear letters ſaid before me, fight and overcome, three times repeated. And another ſaid, What ſhall we do? To whom it was replied, he that will not fight ſhall not overcome.

31. Feb. 17. Near ſun-ſetting, I was ſurpriſed with a great light, and while I ſat beholding it, one appeared to me, ſaying, I will tell thee the meaning of the lighs, it is to let the world ſee, it is not by natural light, all theſe things are revealed to thee; for I have taken away the leſſer light, and given thee the greater inſtead thereof: I have found thee faithful in proclaiming my commiſſions, which hath been withſtood by ſome in the place; but be they great or ſmall that withſtand thee, go thou on in fulfilling the name of a commiſſioner, leaſt I call thee by a more dreadful name, and as thou halt diſcovered great things, I will ſhow thee greater things, which thou ſhalt deliver alſo. That ſame night I was awakened from my ſleep with a great light, I ſaw, as if the clouds had been open, and in a bright loud, I heard a voice, ſaying, Glory be to our God, that is our God upon the throne, and to the Lamb which hath taken into thee thy great power, and hath reigned, who had judged the great whore that ſiteth on nany waters, which hath made the kings of the earth drunk, with the ine of her fornication, as far hath made them drunk with the cup ſo I will make all the kingdoms of the world with the blood of her deſtruction. And I heard another ſay, thou haſt rightly judged her, for ſhe delighted in the blood of thy ſervants, and thou haſt given her blood to drink. Then heard a great lamentation, mourning, and crying, to which, while I liſtened, it was ſaid, I will tell thee what that great cry meaneth, it is the deſtruction of thoſe who received the mark of the beaſt on their right hand and forehead. Then there appeared to me a vaſt