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Rh down a field of corn, who left ſome ſtalk ſtanding and ſome falling, and afterwards ſeeking for feed in theſe ſtalks, he found them all conſused and rotten in the heart. At the ſame tine a great light appeared unto me which made me much concerned, and it was ſaid to me, I have touched the lips for this end, that thou may accompliſh the commiſſion I have delivered unto thee; declare thou to this generation, that they ſhall look to the ſouth, and fee the Spaniſh army great and very cruel; for they ſhall do according to the ſcripture, Amos v. The city that goes out by a thousand shall leave a hundred, and the city that goes out by a hundred shall leave ten to the house of Israel, saith the Lord; yet not withſtanding I will cauſe my remnant in this land to bathe their ſwords in the blood of Antichriſt, I saw in a viſion that Chriſt's church muſt go into the furnace, and there be pursed, for he will have a pure church, or no church's at all, for he will have his church purged from all the defiling errors and ſuperſtious hereſies which ſhe hath been often brought under by Antichriſtian prelates, for he will have his church and ſpouſe a chaste bride unto him. Then I ſaw a man coming unto me with a crown in his hand, who ſaid, t'is is the crown which Chriſts church ſhould receive in the day of her of spousal unto him, because Antichriſt hath enlarged hell with the ſouls of thoſe whom he hath drawn away with his ſuperſtitious idolatry, I will take unto me my great power and reign, and throw him into the lake of fire, which burneth with fire and brimſtone.

35. March 21. I ſaw a man paſſing by me, who aſked!, What I saw in his hand. I said a crown. Immediately he returned the ſame way, and I saw ſomething in his other hand, but could not underſtand what it was, whereupon be anſwered, Ye have an old tradition in your native land. That the righteous heir to the crown is commonly known by the ſtar in ſis ſide, ſo this in my hand is the ſtar hereby I am known to be heir of my father's crown. There is an Antichriſtian party who deſign to rob my father of his kingdom in this land, and I am my father's only ſon, the ſon of his love, and who hath holden forth to the world, and who is more obliged to ſtand for the inherit than the heir? They have defamed my ſpouſe and