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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94793	The cry of a stone. Or A relation of something spoken in Whitehall, by Anna Trapnel, being in the visions of God. Relating to the governors, Army, churches, ministry, universities: and the whole nation. Uttered in prayers and spiritual songs, by an inspiration extraordinary, and full of wonder. In the eleventh moneth, called January. 1653.	Trapnel, Anna.	1654 (1654)	Wing T2031; Thomason E730_3; ESTC R203788	62,587	80

Anchor asked me what I thought of this New Representative that was then in choice I answered that I had faith to believe that little good should be done to the Nation by their sitting So after this I had divers Visions at times wherein I saw their breaking up I lying frequently sometimes ten days together sometimes seven sometimes eight days or thereabouts The time I lay ten days was at Hackney at my Kinsmans habitation where the Lord gave me Visions of their breaking up and of the deadness of Gideons spirit towards the work of the Lord shewing me that he was laid aside as to any great matters the Lord having finished the greatest business that he would employ him in And I singing forth their breaking up Colonel Bingham which was one of them being present hearing what I spake as to Gideon and to the rest of the Representative he was pleased as I was told to call it a Prophesie saying that he was glad of that Prophesie of their breaking up for he thought little good would be done by them This Vision I had the third of the seventh moneth called September at Hackney 1653. Then again within one moneth after I had at Mr. Barrats house at Dowgate more visions concerning the breaking of the same Representative and many other Visions I had concerning the Nation And then again about fourteen days before the breaking up of them I had clear discoveries of the departure of those from the house whom I had called the Linsey-wolsey-Party which the Lord said he would not have in his Tabernacle-work But if those whose hearts were upright sat for Temple-work and for the building of that latter house which Christ saith shall be more glorious then that of the former if they come from among them the Lord will make them glorious instruments for himself in those great concernments that he had spoken forth in his word And upon it I saw their coming from them and I sung the Passing-bell between them singing forth another Passing-bell to those that are in present power now Nominating him that was the Chair-man Mr. Rowse the Lord shewing me that his heart was very hypocritical and that he was not for the work of the Lord So that I had many songs and discoveries from the Scripture against him not hearing the least word but that he was a very Godly man as Creatures said But what I had against him it was from the Lord which I spake then in the hearing of many saying though he and the rest of them which are now a Councel said let us separate from that factious Part casting them out with the prayers of Christs poor flock Reporting that God thereby should be glorified according to that Scripture in the last Chapter of Isa But I said God will appear to your comfort and they shall be ashamed This Vision I had at Mr. Marsh's house at Dowgate After this I went home to Hackney and the first week I came home not knowing any thing of the dissolution which was then drawing near I had these Visions First I saw a great Tower and the rooms thereof were like to the Counsel-rooms at Whitehall which I saw strawed thick with Gun-powder And at a little distance I saw a white Tower for whiteness and sparkling glory I never saw any thing to parallel with it and looking into it I beheld many very precious Saints with their eyes fixed toward Heaven their countenances shining as the Sun and neer to them between that white Tower and the other Tower were a great many of the Colonels and Chief of the Army with their Pistols cock'd and lighted Match in their hands beating the fire upon the gunpowder endeavouring to drive it up toward the white Tower but they could not for the fire would not take presently upon this it was said to me whereas thou seest this high Tower whereon the gunpowder is it is a great many of men of the wise and politick grave and judicious so called that are drawing up together and their Wisdom Power and policy is that gunpowder that thou seest and the match and Army-men or the chifest part of the Army that shall assent and joyn with that Tower and gunpowder against the white Tower saying it was not to destroy the white Tower that they were come forth but the factious ones that sat therein Presently this Scripture likened them to those of the Old World that said let us build a Babel that may reach to heaven and God came down and confounded their language so he will do by these that were rising up against the white Tower as it is written in the Proverbs The Name of the Lord is a strong Tower wherein those factious ones as they called them sat in safety and shall be preserved all their days Another Vision I had at the same time of many Oaks with spreading branches full of leaves very great limmed I looking to the root which lay but very little in the ground look't dry as if it were crumbling to dust and above the ground was only a little dry bark on which limmed and spreading Oaks were set a few shrubs which being by were very lovely and green these great Oaks fell suddenly down and cover'd the other presently I saw a very lovely tree for stature compleatness every way not to be paralleld by any thing that ever I saw and before which the great Oaks crumbled to dust and the little shrubs were raised up growing and thriving exceedingly then I desired Scripture to this Vision Reply was in the first of Isaiah it is said They shall be confounded in the Oaks that they have desired And as to that lovely Tree it was declared to me to be the Lord Jesus which I had sometimes seen in the new Ierusalem which is spoken of in the Rev. ult That that Tree was the very same that is there mentioned whose fruit should be very many and beautiful held forth to the Shrubs which they feeding upon should immediately grow up to a lovely Stature which said the Lord to me thou here feest that no sooner doth this Tree appear which represents my Son but immediately those despised Shrubs that the great Oaks endeavored to scatter and hide in their holes they shall come forth and all the Oaks shall crumble into dust this is not by Might nor by Power or Arms but brought in through the pourings out of my Spirit Two nights before the Protector was established I had a glorious sight of a Throne Angels winged flying before the Throne crying Holy holy holy unto the Lord The great One is coming down with terrour to the Enemies and Glory and Deliverance to the sincere and them that walk uprightly hearing of this I broke forth with much Melody singing also Halleluiah Praise and Honour unto thee O Lord will I render with them that thus cry holy Then another Vision followed A great company of Children walking on the Earth a Light shining round about them a

to me this is different from the three other because great swelling words and great offers of kindness should go forth to all people from it like unto that of Abfalom speaking good words to the people in the Gate to draw them from honest David I was judged by divers friends to be under a temptation as H. I. and Io. S. to be under a temptation for not eating I took that Scripture neglect not the body and went to the Lord and enquired whether I had been so or had any self end in it to be singular beyond what was meet it was answered me no for thou shalt every way be supplyed in body and spirit and I found a continual fulness in my stomack and the taste of divers sweet meats and delicious food therein which satisfied me that I waited to see the issue which was exceedingly to be admired I remaining ever since in much health Some years after when the Army was designing a war with Scotland I was dissatisfied judging many that were godly in those parts might be cut off ignorantly and upon this I sought the Lord and the Lord after prayer directed me to the 9th of Zecharich verse 11. The eyes of the Lord shall be seen over them and his Arrow shall go forth as the Lightning the Lord God shall blow the trumpet and shall go through with the whirlewinds of the South The Lord said that his eye not only his al-seeing eye which runs to and fro through the Earth but an eye of Gráce and Love to them as his peculiar treasure was over them of the Army and not only so but they should see it and as to his Arrow it was that sharp dealing of his with the enemy as to the Lightning it was those burning devourings of those several places that should be ruinated by the Army in those Parts and as to the Trumpet that the Lord would shew forth a mighty alarm to his people before whom many high and great ones of the Scots should tumble down and that he had raised up a Gideon bringing that of Iudges 7. to me to prove Oliver Cromwell then Lord General was as that Gideon going before Israel blowing the trumpet of courage and valour the rest with him sounding forth their Courage also that as sure as the Enemy fell when Gideon and his Army blew their trumpets so surely should the Scots throughout Scotland be ruinated Upon this I praised for some hours together that God had provided a Gideon and this I saw both by Vision and Faith and Prayer and Praises that God had appointed him for the work of that present day to serve this Nation and told me that great things should be done and that he should take his circuit through Scotland and the Enemy should draw neer to us even to the gates of the City and there be defeated So I remained praying keeping many fasting days in my Chamber till six weeks before Dunbar fight and then I had Visions given me concerning that first overthrow of the Scots where I saw my self in the fields and beheld our Army and their General and hearing this Voice saying Behold Gideon and the lapping ones with him with that I was much taken that they were likened unto that old Gideon and his Company and then I saw them in a very ill posture for war and much dismayed looking with pale countenances as if affrighted at the multitude of the Scots that were come out against them whom I saw at a little distance from them the light of the sky being over their heads which prompted them the more to the Battail seeing our Army with darkness over them and much disheartned and they thinking that our Army was running away they marched up with very great fury against them and suddenly as our Army turned who seemed but a little while to stand before them the light of the Sky being drawn from the Scots to our Army they were encouraged and immediately I saw the Scots fall down before them and a marvelous voice of praise I heard in our Army then was I taken weak in my outward man keeping my bed fourteen days neither drinking nor eating but a draught of small Beer and a bit of toast once in twenty four hours and as soon as this Vision was over I broke forth to the singing of their deliverance in Scotland in which time many resorted to me of them that were for the Presbyterian Government viz. Dr. French's Wife Mrs. Bond who was then Mrs. Kendal Mrs. Smith who all lived in Hackney and Mrs. Sansom of Tower-hill and they related this Vision to Mr. Ash the Minister who waited till they saw it accomplished and then admired Upon the fifth of November last save one 1652. The Lord brought that Scripture to me Who is a God like unto thee glorious in Holiness fearful in Praises working Wonders from which the Lord shewed me that his Glory and Praise and Wonders he was bringing forth as upon the Land so now upon the Seas and the Lord again shewed me in a Vision that many men of account should be taken away in the first great Battail and I lay in this Vision from the first day of the week at night untill the second day at night and stirred not nor spoke but sometimes sang of a great Victory that I saw upon the Seas Ships burning bones and flesh sticking upon the sides of the Ships the Sails battered and the Masts broken and many such dreadful things as to the Hollander seeing many godly friends also dropping into the Sea and their bodies beaten in pieces it remained a long while to my view but the Victory that I saw in the Conclusion produced many Songs crying out oh Who is a God like unto thee according as thou saidst thou wouldst be so Lord I see thee At this time I keeping of my bed seven whole days and eight nights in Mark-lane at widdow Smiths Glasier where were many Spectators of account both sea-Captains and others Mr. Allen a Common-Councel-man Mr. Smith Mr. Radcliffe Captain Palmer Mr. Knollys and several other men of account in the City at this time for seventeen days I eat nothing but two broyled Herrings and drunk Water and small Beer Two moneths after this in the twelfth moneth called February 1653. The Lord suffered Sathan to buffet me yet I questioned not the truth of any of my Visions and Revelations but said if I shall be thrown into hell yet they were the truths of the Lord God and should certainly come to pass but I remained in grievous bitterness being hurried by Sathan and he prevailing over me in a very high nature moving me to blaspheme but the Lord kept me from uttering any such thing though I was tortured in my body as if he had the full possession thereof and being perswaded that he had power over my body and natural life to make an end of it though I believed from the seal that I had had eight years before

greatnesse you have here For every one that 's high wil Christ he 'l put into great feare She proceeded againe unto Prayer and among many other expressed these following passages They that are thy true Seers shal stand when they that are false Seers shal fall and wither and dye the true Seers they shal goe on and prosper thou wilt provide for them sufficient maintenance Oh let not men thinke that thine doe cry downe the Ministry of them that are full of the Ministerial Office and of thy Spirit and doe speake from thee but there are that are called Ministers that doe deny Jesus Christ his coming to set up his Kingdome O thine would have them throwne downe before thee the Lord wil not let there be a famishing of the Word in the Land and he wil take care of them let there not be a cry among them that if maintenance goe downe the Ministery wil downe let them know that thy servants are not enemies to them that are truly taught of thy Spirit let them looke into the Scripture and there see what is the true Ministry and what is their pay let them see what those were who were thy true Ministers were they such as did pamper their bellies and their backs were not thine willing to feed upon any thing to goe in Skins to bee any thing for the Gospel of Jesus Christ Has not their fulnesse brought blindnesse upon them Oh where has been that marrow and fatnesse flowing forth from them Oh let there be more of that thou wilt delight in such as delight in thee they that delight to serve Tables more then thee and thy flocke thou wilt not serve them what ever judgement or opinion they are of Is not the Narrative come from Heaven concerning what thou art a doing Oh let all thine know it in time they that are such as are true Students doe thou fill them more and more let them come forth as Trumpeters with a ful sound for if they give forth an imperfect sound how shal the Horse prepare to the Battel let them not goe forth with the sound of their owne mindes and their owne carnal studies but with the sound of thy Spirit and that is a right sound and such wil follow thee with Timbrels and with Musick O let such rejoyce evermore and let them pray continually oh they love alwayes to be praying they can never be weary not that Prayer that is called a Gift or an Habit but it is a spirit it is the out-goings of thy Spirit it is an Harmony that they that have only a Gift cannot understand and it is but like a beating of brasse true Prayer is an excellent talking to the most High it kindles up the affections and sokes into the judgement for thy people are accounted by the world a people of much affections but of little judgement but by this thou dost try thy People for they that have little affections doe soone change their note but they that have sound judgements soaking judgements and then the affections right set they Center then in thee alone every way the Soule is raised that is indeed wrapt up in thee there are raptures in the Tongue and in the Braine but the raptures of the Heart no flouds can drowne no fire can quench the Tongue and the Fancy and the Natural life may be taken away but the Spiritual sense that returnes into the Sun oh what is the Carcasse the Vessel they are nothing but when these are gone then where am I but there where I am made perfect in thy selfe thou wilt bring thine into the Grave before thou raisest them up to live til thou commest and puttest a sentence of death upon all things here below they wil not look upon that which is glorious Here she passed off from Prayer to Singing some or most of the Song was taken and was as followes O That they may say unto Death O Death where is thy sting O Grave where is thy victory over them thine shall sing When they doe thorow death up mount unto eternall life O then their hearts and speeches too shal run to thee most rife O till they see grim Death before and its most gastly lookes They would not mount up unto thee to see thy pleasant lookes Till they doe feele his biting teeth their tongues will not sing to thee O therefore let them it behold Pale-faced death let them see They wil then pray to thy rich grace thereto they then wil fly They wil to the most high then mount and that with open eye They shal look on the Sun so bright and on its beames of grace Which doth appeare and cometh forth and on them casts its rayes The foure last words of the last Verse are added by the Relator who could not take the Maids owne words her voyce as it were dying and sinking into her breast with which the closed for that time The fifteenth day being the first day of the Weeke she began with Prayer the principall things whereof are noted in the following account in the Language they were delivered by her though much more largely then the Relator did or could take them from her He that is entred into rest hath ceased from his owne workes as God did from his Where Lord dost thou take up thy rest O Lord doest thou take up thy rest in man thou art the Center of rest yet the out-goings of thy rest were upon man man must have thy Breath breathed into him other Created pieces must have thy Name but he must have thy Breath O how great is his Fall and thou hast showne kindnesse to him yet he doth not consider he doth not take notice what he fell from and what thou hast restored to him Oh thy Servant loves to travel with thee in these created Pieces to see thee the Alpha and Omega the great beginning and the end O what sights of the world what fashioning of curious Wits can compare with that infinite Wisdome O that thy Breath should be life to Man that thou shouldest come and breath upon him that thou shouldest give forth substance about a poor shadow and take counsel about a poor shadow Oh Father what disputes there are about the Souls mortality and immortality Oh it is because they do not thorowly search into things they do see no more then the breath Oh who can set it out who can give a definition of mans soul which is the breath of God Thou Lord alone knowest what it is Thine that have conversed with thee in it do see it is a most excellent out-going of God into a poor carkass It is a most excellent breath of God into a poor creature Mans life as confidered as the breath of God and the work of the Counsel of God Oh how watchful should they be over their breath that they do not breathe against their Eternal Breath against the Work and Language of God When thou hadst made Man then thou saidst thou