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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

if I had been taken up with my Body and carried much swifter than an Arrow out of a Bow till I came before the Gates of Hell where I could perceive nothing but thick Darkness Smoke and a most abominable Stink and loathsom bitter Savour which I cannot compare with any Stink in this World it was so intollerable Here I heard many gashly terrible Voices crying Mountains fall upon us Hills cover us that we be not placed before the face of God Wo O Wo to us damned to all Eternity And after a while I found my self surrounded with many thousand Devils who tempted me to dispair but I defended my self with the Shield of Faith trusting in the Mercy of God through Christ in this Prayer of Faith my Spirit cryed earnestly to God and presently thereupon this dark and loathsome Scene disappeared Then the Holy Ghost appeared to me in the Figure of a man cloathed all in White and having placed me in a Golden Charriot he carried me into the clear heavenly Light whence God is called the Father of Lights from whom all good and perfect Gifts do proceed and indeed this was such a Gift when the Holy Ghost carried me in the Golden Charriot Christ out of the hellish Darkness into the splendor of the Divine Glory for Christ alone is the Way the Truth and the life neither can any one come to the Father of Glory but by him And when I was thus placed in the Light of the divine Glory I saw the Quires of the holy Angels Prophets and Apostles singing and making melody round God's Throne with Heavenly Voices and divine Musick but not in Bodily Shapes The holy Angels appeared in the likeness of innumerable Flames of Fire and the Saints like bright shining Lights the Throne of God appeared like a Glorious shining Brightness which no human Reason can conceive neither can I in the least describe what it was Here I heard the Heavenly Harmony and smelled such sweet Odours to which all Earthly delights compared are trifles and meer shadows all which as was afterwards told me was therefore manifested unto me that I might comfort the Afflicted and Sorrowful of Heart who are under great crosses and anguish in this World and was charged to assure them that one Ounce of Cross and Sorrow here shall be rewarded with a thousand Pound of Heavenly Joy and all this of meer Grace During my abode here the Holy Ghost by the ministry of an Angel opened unto me the understanding or meaning of the whole Pible and that in a moment And by the Angelical Revelation it was shewed me That I was to tell all those who desire to enter into this Kingdom of Glory that they must have a Living Faith in Jesus Christ and give proof of this Faith by their Love and repent from their whole Hearts and be converted Because the Lord will no longer indure that Hypocrisie and shew of Holiness which is so common in the World because it is determined in the council of the Holy Trinity that no man shall see Christ face to face to all Eternity but he who hath ●eheld here in this time in Faith and in Spirit in his own Heart Many have a knowledge of Christ according to the Flesh and the comprehension of their own carnal Reason but few know Christ by Faith and in Spirit which their Evil Fruits are an undoubted evidence and to en of and especially this that there is scarcely any true Love left in the World for all the Friendship of the world is meer Dissembling and Flattery no man intending the good of his Neighbou● from the bottom of his Heart by 〈◊〉 which they make it appear that they have no Faith for as little as Light can be without shining the Sun without Beams a good Tree without good fruit so little can Faith be without Love and good Works So far Hans his own Words The following was writ of him concerning how it was with him after he came into the Body again The Lord was pleased to ratifie and confirm the Revelation He had given to him after his return to Life again by these following Miracles The ●●rst was That immediately upon his return to Life he found himself in more perfect Health and Vigor then ever he had enjoyed before and that without the use of any Medicine or any human help whatsoever It was observed that as his Hearing was the last Sence he lost so it was the first Sence he recovered upon his return to the Body for he heard the Voice of those that were in the Room before he and the use of his other Sences 2. Another Wonder was that the Light which had been communicated to his Soul whilst he was in Heaven continued with him after his return to Life and gave him the knowledge of the Mysteries contained in the Scriptures tho' he had never read them 3. Another mir●●ulous thing observed was that he could and did Discourse whole Lays and Night together without either exhausting the treasure of his Mind or the strength of his Body in which thing he challenged those Ministers that slandered him to do the like 4. Moreover his Life and Health was preserved for many Weeks together without any outward bodily Meat or Drink He also experienced after he began to eat that the most exquilit Dainties of this world could not overcome the relish of those inconceiveable Sweets which he had tasted in the other World and which ever after continued uppermost with him 5. Another Wonder was That he never Slept for many Weeks together and when his Step-mother after much ado had perswaded him to eat something in hopes that it might procure Sleep to him yet for all that his watchfulness continued with him nine Months together 6. The last Wonder was that for one and forty Nights after his return to the Body he continued to hear the Musick of Angels as he had heard it in the other World and himself was wont to Sing with them whole Nights together During this time of his hearing the Angelical melody it happened that a certain Woman having continued with him one Night till all the rest of the company was gone and hearing him say ever and anon Don't you hear how sweetly the Angels sing She became thereby inflamed with a strong desire to pertake of that Caelestial Harmony whereupon he bid her lay her Ear to his Ear which she had no sooner done but she heard it likewise and in a strange transport of Joy broke forth into the high Praises of God Some time after his return to Life he had the following Visions of the New Heaven and Earth which he expresseth as followeth Hans Englbrecht's Vision of the New Heaven and Earth BEing in an Extacy I saw my self placed on a transparent Earth the Heavens that surrounded were as bright as the Sun and in the same I beheld a Sun infinitly brighter and more glorious than that in the outward Firmament I saw

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

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