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4. thou do for me, or rather, what ſhall I do for thee. Then it came upon my heart with ſuch power, that! caſt an open door, to plead both for myſelf and his rempnant, (in which I found great liberty.) that he would ſpare a remnant and not make a full end in the day of anger, at the fame time I ſaw four lines drawn before me which ye will find in Pfal. 22d. A feed ſhall ſervice do him, unto the Lord it ſhall be for a generation reckoned ages all.

5. Another time. I was awakened out of my ſleep, with a great voice, which ſaid unto me, this year ſhall be year of great confuſion, ſuch as was not ſince they king Uzziah died; for the mother ſhall forget her ſuckled child, and the father the ſon of his old age, for their be a cry made, to go forth and meet the Spaniſh army, and he that goes forth to meet that army, ſhall not find a man to take him by the hand to aſk how he doth; and he will not leave houſe and family, and go to the field Chriſt and his intereſt: for I will bring a ſtroke upon land, and none ſhall eſcape from the king to the beggar and that for the many ſins, particularly theſe three, Broken and burnt covenants, and the blood-ſhed of these that teſtifed againſt the ſame, and a deſpiſed and slighted goſpel.

6 At another time, being overpowered with a great light, a conſiderable writing was ſaid beſore me, which I cannot underſtand, but at length I perceived an expreſſion. Come here, all ye that fear the Lord, and I will you what I am to bring upon this generation; I have taken you my goſpel in purity and plenty, for more than twenty years, in which I ſaid before them, all the bleſſings anounced in the book of Deuteronomy, and all the events pronounced of mount Ebal against the diſobedient, yet the goſpel lacked some things among them. There was several things laid before me, which I cannot remember: as I was turning from looking upon it, was ſaid, was one thing that was lacking, viz. The light of countenance. I will raise this generation, as a man raise a piece of ground to provide his turf, I will run upon generation as a man treading mortar, ruining back