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spirit_n	body_n	holy_a	soul_n	16,669	5	5.2335	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38960	Strange and wonderful visions being something concerning a child that lay fourteen days and nights in a trance, and spoke not a word for nine weeks together, and when she came to her speech, she spake wonderful things : as also, of a man in Germany, under the like circumstance, but exprest more fully, what he had seen of the joys of heaven, and the torments of hell.	R. E.	1693 (1693)	Wing E37; ESTC R3768	8,760	24

STRANGE AND Wonderful VISIONS Being something concerning a Child that lay fourteen Days and Nights in a Trance and Spoke not a Word for nine Weeks together and when she came to her Speech she spake Wonderful Things As also of a Man in Germany under the like Circumstance but Exprest more fully what he had seen of the Joys of Heaven and the Torments of Hell Published for a General Good But if one rise from the Dead some will not believe London Printed and Sold by Randol Taylor near Stationers-Hall 1693. To the Reader I Having been so lately with that Chil● that 's now living with h●r Mother in London that lay Fourteen Days and Nights i● a Trance and her Testimony concerning th● future state being the same with this following Treatise I had a very great desire to hav● it publisht and that it might be taken into dee● Consideration by all them that are now living for although my Sight be but small my Faith is great and though my Ability but small my Desire is great and my Soul is concerne● for the whole Creation but especially for those that are nearly related and dear to me and being one that have passed through great Anguish and Tribulations in this World cannot but take notice of the great Love of God manifested to the Creature by Crosses and Afflictions and therefore am not sorry for those that are under Afflictions but am sorry for those that want that Faith that evidenceth it self by Love without which none can see God This Child was Nine Years old and about an half when she lay in that Trance It is now two Months above a Year since and having heard both her and her Mother with my own Ears am fully satisfied as to the truth of what I had heard concerning her I had heard that she should declare most wonderful things both concerning Heaven that what she saw there was unutterable but she had declared according to her capacity what she her self did pertake of and of the unspeakable Horrour of Hell and that a Neighbour of theirs that she knew that dyed some time before she should see her there I asked her What that Woman was in her Life The Child answered me thus No good comes there and she has wicked Children This Child useth very few Words but makes an answer when she is spoke to and has an intire love for sober People I could say much concerning her but I desire the Reader to take great notice of the following Treatise in which this Child's Testimony is confirmed and that was written by himself being at man's estate as I must conclude which may give better satisfaction to some but for my own part I am satisfied concerning that Testimony though through a Babe or contemptible Instrument The Child's Name is Elizabeth Keen living now with her Mother in Hog-Lane in London R. E. The 28th of March 1693. A short Account of the wonderful Life and Visions of Hans Engelbrecht Cloath worker and Citizen of Brunswick taken out of a larger Treatise writ and publisht by himself in the German Tongue I Have been all my Life long a man of Sorrow and of a sad and afflicted Spirit from my Youth upward by reason of great Anguish and Distress of Soul which made me continually to pray and cry to God That he would be pleased to Comfort me with his Holy Spirit I was three Years with a Cloathier to learn his Craft but could never make use of it to my profit by reason of the great anguish of Soul and deep Sorrow wherewith I was continually overwhelmed Now what kind of Anguish this was I am no way able to describe or express to you neither can any one know it except he hath been tempted and tryed in like manner This made me often attempt to make away with my self yea I have often risen suddenly from my labour and run out of the House without being able to rest any where by reason of the extream anguish and horrour of mind that still followed me Sometimes I could run down into the Cellar and hide my self there not knowing for extream anguish where to bestow my self I daily frequented the Churches where any Preaching was hoping there to meet with some Comfort but all in vain for my Anguish still continued And as for converse with men and merry-meetings these I altogether refrained and had aversion for them which made me the object of the flouts and derision of all my Companions and fellow Apprentices In the Year 1634 the Friday before the second Sunday in Advent I went to the Church of St. Kathrines in Brunswick to hear a Sermon where I was surprised with unutterable Sorrow and Anguish of Mind by occasion of seeing so few Auditors there and reflecting how many for f●●r of losing any opertunity for outward profit did neglect the Eternal Good of their Souls this anguish still increased upon me till my return home where the extremity of it overcoming my bodily strength and health I was fain to betake my self to my Bed my Stomach being altogether taken from me so that I could not get down the least bit of Bread or drop of Drink The next day finding by the great increase of my Weakness that my departure was near I received the Holy Communion at the hand of Mr. Jorden and to the amaze ment of all that were present I received the Bread and Wine without the leas reluctancy of my Stomach whereas som● time before I had like to have been choaked by endeavouring at the pressing importunity of my Master to swallow on little bit of boyled Fish Having taken this Heavenly Provision I was all on a sudden so overset with unutterable horrour and anguish of So●● which made me cry and roar out most h●deously insomuch that our affright Neighbours came running in to see w●●● was the matter who finding me in su●● an Agony they all fell down upon th●●● Knees recommending me to God a●● praying that he would deliver me out my extream Distress and Horrour cause whereof was Satan abjecting Sins to me tempting me to dispair and strangely tormenting me by shuteing his fiery Darts into me wherewith I was as sensibly pained as if so many Daggers or Knives had been stabbed in my Heart Soon after this Death began to sease me manifesting it self in the extream coldness of my Feet which increased upward till all feeling was taken from me neither could I so much as open my Mouth my Flesh was grown so stiff and cold Not long after perfectly perceived my Eye-strings to break yet my Hearing continued for I could distinctly hear them Pray for me I also heard them say one to another Eccl his Legs and Feet how cold they be he will not continue long now All which I heard with my Ears but was not sensible when they touched me I heard the Watch-man cry past Eleven a Clock and about Twelve my Hearing was taken away likewise and then it seemed to me as

told me That hence I should take occasion to tell Christians That they must look one upon another in and through Christ with the Eyes of Love and Charity as also that Christ must dwell in us and we in ●im And whereas it was a Young man whom I saw the Angel bid me to signisie to Men from thence That in this Eternal Life we shall continually grow more Young and Beautiful whereas here we still grow Older and more Deformed Also whereas I found that I could do whatsoever I desired or wished for the Angel bid me tell Men That when they come hither nothing shall be impossible for them and whatsoever they desire shall as soon as desired be effected Moreover I knew for certain that there we shall find a Glorious New Heaven and Earth and that Paradise shall be in the midst of the Eternal Space and the New Heavens shall surround the New Earth upon which shall live all manner of Beasts and the Air shall be full of Birds though these shall never come into Eternity no more then the Sun Moon and Stars because in Eternity nothing of this outward Creation is to be found but the Beasts shall abide upon the New Earth and the Birds in the Air and upon the Trees where they shall sing most Melodiously to the Praise of God for upon the New Earth shall be all sorts of most pleasant and beautiful Trees Plants and Flowers And when we are here we may as oft as we please ascend up into Eternity and descend again to the New Earth and sport with Beasts and Birds ven with the Sun Moon and Stars Here we shall as oft as we please begin a Divine Musical Consort and shall rejoyce in God after an infinite variety of ways now altogether unknown to us we shall be able to pass through and through the New Earth with the same ease as Fishes glide through the Water or Birds through the Air. The Earth it self will be a thousand times more transparent then the most clear Looking-glass and consequently shall continually receive by reflection the luster of the New Heavens with its Sun Moon and Stars which will make the New Earth surpassing bright and Glorious We shall likewise be able to see quite through the Earth though the thickness of it be of some thousand of Miles But Eternity will be our Mansion-house as being the Palace of the great King and Paradise shall be as a Garden of Pleasure belonging to the same Palace where the Saints those heavenly Kings shall go to recreat themselves whose Bodies shall shine brighter then the Sun in the Firmamament for the Glory of God shall pierce them through and through Now how great think we will that Glory be when many hundred thousands of such Bodies are met together But besides there we shall see also Christ our Saviour whose Body shall be more bright and Glorious than many hundred thousands of the Bodies of the Saints together and indeed it will be an inconceiveable Joy to us to behold his more then Aimable and Friendly Aspect for we shall see the Father in him and him in the Father and the Holy Spirit going forth from them both Here we shall see truly what God is which in this World cannot be exprest fully or understood As for my part I can never call to remembrance the Revelation of the Father Son and Holy Ghost as was shewed to me in Paradise but my Heart is filled with such ravishing Joys as I can compare to nothing in this World yea if it were told me that I was King over the whole World it could not give me a Joy comparable to what I feel in my self upon calling to mind what I there saw FINIS