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Rh pon the earth, for the Lord hath ſaid, he will come down, and ſee if the ſins of the land be according to the cry thereof, if not he will know, for he is about to execute his wrath upon this land, for many ſins, particularly for breach of covenants between man and man, and between nation and nation, and perſonal covenants at his table: but eſpecially the ſolemn league and covenant, which was made in my name, for which I will pour out my wrath; but I have a remnant which ſhall escape, for theſe ends, leſt the enemy ſhould mock and ſay to them, is this the reward of your prayers and faſtings, and communions, and all the niceties you have obſerved, ſince it fares with you as with us? I have kept you ſo many years blind, that my remnant may underſtand, that it was not diſcovered by any other light, for it is gone abroad among my enemies, That an old blind man that hath lien ſo many years upon his bed, is made to diſcover all theſe ſecrets and deſigns: which makes them aſtoniſhed.

27. Feb. 1. About two in the afternoon, being ſurprized with a great light, it was ſaid to me, Muſt I be accountable of my delivery to thee, ſo thou for thy receiving from me, muſt ſtand before the judgement ſeat of Chriſt, and witneſs thy delivery to this generation. I know thou haſt omitted a great part, which thy memory could not contain, for which I do not quarrel thee. I take heavean and earth to witneſs, that I am laying before thee the fall of Babylon, and ruin of Romiſh Antichriſt. I was ſo taken with theſe words, that I made my appeal, that I would conceal nothing that he would keep upon my memory. Then I was anſwered, I am preparing a ſacrifice in Babylon, which will make the fowls of the air, and beaſts of the field to eat the fleſh and drink the blood of Antichriſt, according to that ſcripture, Rev. xvi. 2, &c. For I have a renmant that will take warning, and leave her ſins which ſhall eſcape her judgements, but there is an unaccountable multitude which I will ſweep away in her deſtruction: for thoſe whom the ſword ſhall leave, the famine and peſtileuce ſhall find out, and I will bring a nation, ſuch as was not in my land ſince the viſitation in Ireland. The ſun and moon ſhall be concerned, as they were at the time when Iſrael avenged themſelves