to her in Clouds and bitter storms of Temptations in Manifestations of light and love in Visions and Revelations of things to come all this is presented to you in the following Narration taken from her own mouth I Am Anna Trapnel the daughter of William Trapnel Shipwright who lived in Poplar in Stepney Parish my father and mother living and dying in the profession of the Lord Jesus my mother died nine years ago the last words she uttered upon her death-bed were these to the Lord for her daughter Lord I Double thy spirit upon my child These words she uttered with much eagerness three times and spoke no more I was trained up to my book and writing I have walked in fellowship with the Church meeting as All-hallows whereof Mr. John Simpson is a Member for the space of about four years I am well known to him and that whole Society also to Mr. Greenhil Preacher at Stepney and most of that society to Mr. Henry Jesse and most of his society to Mr. Venning Preacher at Olaves in Southwark and most of his society to Mr. Knollis and most of his society who have knowledge of me and of my conversation If any desire to be satisfied of it they can give testimony of me and of my walking in times past Seven years ago I being visited with a feaver given over by all for dead the Lord then gave me faith to believe from that Scripture After two days I will revive thee the third day I will raise thee up and thou shale live in my sight which two days were two weeks that I should lye in that feaver and that very time that it took me that very hour it should leave me and I should rise and walk which was accordingly From this time for a whole year after the Lord made use of me for the refreshing of afflicted and tempted ones inwardly and outwardly And when that time was ended I being in my Chamber desired of the Lord to tell me whether I had done that which was of and from himself Reply was thou shalt approve thy heart to God and in that thou hast been faithfull in a little I will make thee an Instrument of much more for particular souls shall not only have benefit by thee but the universality of Saints shall have discoveries of God through thee So upon this I prayed that I might be led by the still waters and honor God secretly being conscious to my self of my own evil heart looking upon my self as the worst of all Gods flock the Lord upon it told me that he would out of the mouth of babes and sucklings perfect his praise then I remained silent waiting with prayer and fasting with many tears before the Lord for whole Sion And upon that day called Whitson-monday which was suddenly after I finding my heart in a very low dead frame much contention and crookedness working in my Spirit I asked of God what was the matter he answered me thus I let thee see what thou art in thy self to keep thee humble I am about to shew thee great things and visions which thou hast been Ignorant of I being thus drawn into my Chamber after this there was a day of thanks giving that I kept with the Church of All-hallows in Limestreet for the Army that was then drawing up towards the City in which I had a little discovery of the presence of the Lord with them in which day I had a glorious Vision of the New Jerusalem which melted me into rivers of tears that I shrunk down in the room and cryed out in my heart Lord what is this it was answered me A discovery of the glorious state of whole Sion in the raign of the Lord Jesus in the midst of them and of it thou shalt have more visions hereafter So then when the day was ended I retired to my Chamber at that time living in the Mineries in Aldgate Parish where I conversed with God by prayer and reading of the Scriptures which were excellently opened to me touching the Proceedings of the Army It was first said to me that they were drawing up toward the City I not knowing any thing of it before and that there was a great hubbub in the City the shops commanded to be shut up Upon this I went down and enquired of the maid of the house whether there was any stir in the City She answered me you confine your self to your Chamber and take no notice of what is done abroad We are commanded said she to shut up our shops and there are great fears amongst the Citizens what will be the issue they know not With that I answered blessed be the Lord that hath made it known to so low a servant as I Then repairing to my Chamber again I looked out at the window where I saw a flag at the end of the street this word I had presently upon it thou seest that flag the flag of defiance is with the Army the King of Salem is on their side he marcheth before them he is the Captain of their Salvation At the other end of the street I looking saw a hill it was Black-heath it was said to me thou seest that hill not one but many hills rising up against Hermon-hill They shall fall down and become Vallies before it It was then said unto me Go into the City and see what is done there where I saw various things from the Lord in Order to his appearance with the Army as I was going hearing of a Trumpeter say to a Citizen these words we have many Consultations about our coming up but nothing yet goes on presently it was said to me the Councels of men shall fall but the Councel of the Lord stands sure and his works shall prosper So repairing home I had many Visions that the Lord was doing great things for this Nation And having fasted nine days nothing coming within my lips I had upon the ninth day this Vision of horns first I saw in the Vision the Army coming in Southwark-way marching through the City with a great deal of silence and quietness and that there should be little or no bloud spilt this was some weeks before their coming in Then broke forth another Vision as to the horns I saw four horns which were four Powers the first was that of the Bishops that I saw was broken in two and thrown aside the second horn more white had joyned to it an head endeavouring to get up a Mount and suddenly it was pushed down and broken to pieces the third horn had many splinters joyned to it like to the scales upon the back of a fish and this was presented to be a Power or a Representative consisting of many Men having fair pretences of love to all under all forms this I saw broken and scattered that not as much as any bit of it was lest As to the fourth horn that was short but full of variety of Colours sparkling red and white it was said
make them partakers of glorious Priviledges thou wilt bring them into thy Territories above into thy sweet Walks how wilt thou hang them about with Hony-Suckles not like the hony that is of the earth that is clogging but pure hony that is reviving thy Ezekiels that behold thee by the River Chebar Oh what sights what glories what rivers what springs do they enjoy and yet thy children are affraid to suffer Oh what a spirit of slavish feare hath seized upon thy own children though thou hast said the Lord will be with you in the fires and in the waters yet what pale faces are there amongst thine oh is this to professe Jesus Thou wilt make the whole earth to be thy children and wilt make them to be the honourable ones and yet they will not know nor confider it Oh this is a time not for man to reign but for the Lord Jesus and this voyce sounds out here and there by a Son or a Daughter Oh but when shall all the Sons and all the Children cry for King Jesus the Reason is Because of the infirmities of the flesh and because thine are of a stammering speech and of stuttering tongue but thou hast premised that the time shall come that there shall not be a people of a deeper speech then thy people and they shall not be of a stammering tongue Come O all you Disputants Monarchs Scribes and Rabbies of the world come forth now and let us see what Arguments you can bring forth against the Spirit the pourings forth of it the rising of the Sun of Righteousnesse upon the world against the influences of the heavenly Orion oh you shall be the men that shall be of a stammering lip and of a stuttering tongue Oh what a doubting is there now among thine what disputing what reasoning what they shall doe whether they shall cry up a Man or King Jesus let them take the engagements of Man and lay them under their feet and take the engagement of Jesus and lay that to their heart Let thy servants now be of a publique spirit let them now flie high above the Skies not into vaine conceits vaine speculations and high notions oh but thou callest to an exalting high through Jesus unto thee they that have kept to a crucified Jesus they are thine Oh here are good words great allegories and high expressions oh but they that honour thy Sonne thou wilt honour them they that honour the Son honor the Father Oh they that say they will honour the Father alone and live in the Father alone and lay aside the Son they are deceived thou wilt have them keep within thy bounds and not to stretch the Point beyond the Compasse Oh let thine take a thorow view and not rashly take up any thing Thou wilt have thine try the gold as well as the drosse thou wilt not have thine take up any thing while they know not the life of it Oh But who is he or she that admires the Lord Jesus through all in all and above all He is all in nothing-Creatures the Creature is nothing but thou hast said thou dost great things through nothing Oh that thine were taken with Truth for Truths sake that they would seek into the bottome and goe into the golden Mine and not onely gather up the shavings thereof let them not take up the sparks but the fire it selfe That a poor Creature should subsist without sustenance what a gazing is there at this poor thing while you forget the glory that is in it go into the Marrow what matters it for the bone let them have the Spirits it is no matter for any thing else Oh that thy poor servant should thus long converse with thee and so long sit at thy fire and feele the warmth thereof and so beare testimony against all false fires and all things that are against King Jesus Then she uttered forth this Song the greatest part whereof as much as the Relator could take runs as followeth OH it is that light that burneth bright a flame that is so clear The Soul and tongue yea every part unto thee shal draw near And praiseth his free grace for all and sets out Jesus too Who came forth from the Fathers seat to bring that love unto Which is a fire so hot and which its warmth gives forth most clear Oh it is a fire that is brought forth by him that paid full dear Oh when thy love sent out thy Son he sweetly did reply That he would hasten through the earth and on the Crosse would dye Oh when love did warm his bosome there was no stay at all But the Lord Jesus he did reach forth that which was royal And saith that love had sent him forth to dye for Rebels great That they might come that enemies were unto this Mercy-seat And be did fulfill his great work with courage that was bold That there might come forth unto his that pure and beaten gold Which was for to inrich them that before were poor and mean Who hath bestowed here on them a glory pure and bright Which none can purchase by their worth nor treasure that is here For Free Grace it is to them rich and bids them come full near Where they may have that which will make them rich for evermore And will be alwaies unto them a bright and golden Oare Where no drosse shall at all it reach nor cover it from sight To those that Christ do bring it for who tels them 't is their right And therefore saith receive of him who purchased hath for thee Redemption out of all thy filth and from thy slavery Rather then all Crownes or Palaces wherein you do delight Oh covet more the brightnesse of him which doth make us white Oh 't was indeed great love that such which are so black below Full of the spots of filthinesse that thou shouldst them love so He that was God-man understood the love was in the Father Whom none can see nor can shew forth but he that was his Lustre O thou most deare and only Lord that lookest down below Who in thy love thy Spirit brings forth and it doth on us blow Oh it is it which doth maintaine all vitals that are within Oh it repairs all parts throughout and filleth to the brim Then raising her note she proceeds as followes O King Jesus King Jesus thou in apparrel art rich A Diadem about thy neck and forth it thou dost reach Of thy rich Diademt to thine and of thy Crowns of Pearl And thou sayest unto thy poor Flock Oh I will make you Earls Oh I will make you Potentates and then beleeve my word For it is true sayes Jesus Christ looke into my record And see whether I have not declar'd what you are unto me Also what I am for your sakes and that you shall me see And look into the written Word and there you shall behold How I have beautified and have made you as bright as gold O look
Freedome let them know that the time is drawing on that your staffe of beauty and bonds that have been broken the Lord will bring them together againe and they shall be stronger than they were before Lord thou wilt suddenly come to thy Temple the foolish Virgins shall then cry but saies the Lord I have an open gate onely for mine that have oyle in their Lampes You great Professors you who are but lamp ones you shall not enter in when he comes he will not come as a torn battered crusht Jesus but as a lovely king as one full of favour though many say Io here is Christ and there but these are deceivers but oh the children shall by thy spirit know the countenance of the true Christ his true breath his looks from all painted looks that are upon the earth Jesus Christ will not come flashily but with such a light as shall endure such a light as you shall see that all other lights are counterfeit to him though never so many languages utter their voices but when thou commest thy language shall be discerned Many are come forth into the world but thou sayest try the spirits my Saints it is not they can try the spirits that have read many volumnes University men have great knowledge but they cannot try the spirit can those that have the form without the power that have great arguments No they onely can try the spirits that are children indeed the other by virtue of their literall knowledge their own understanding their own apprehensions their own light oh such are taken with flesh and say this is Christ and that is Christ but thy people will not onely try Ranters for they are known in the face of the Sun but they will try whether men be for a crucified Christ that suffered upon the Crosse or a Christ within thine indeed are for Christ within them and they doe love Christ as he suffered at Ierusalem and manifest within them Oh but thine are too apt to run away from the simplicity of the Gospel though things be high yet if they have not a footing in a crucified Christ in God manifest in the flesh then let not thine embrace them Having with these uttered many other things she sung of the glory of the new Ierusalem which escaped the Relators pen by reason of the lownesse of her voice and the noise of the people onely some pieces were taken here and there but too broken and imperfect here to relate After her song she proceeded again to prayer wherein she uttered the words following It is now much that great Ones do not tremble that they have such greedy mindes after things here below if they did take things into their understanding least they should not be entertained at thy Table How do they think that are in high places to manage their proceedings aright if they have not the presence of God with them if they have Prayer and Faith against them O saies Ioshua I will rather have all the Armies of the world against me than want the presence of God! oh if they were jealous that they had many enemies within then they would doe as Ioshua did they would set themselves to seek the Lord they would say come souldiers let us seek the Lord thou hast now put them to the trial now let them examine whether their former prayers promises and declarations came from a legal and slavish or a Gospel-fear a fear that they should be smitten down to the earth or a filial fear a feare that the name of the Lord would fall upon the ground O what will become of thy great Name had you had the name of God in your eyes then you would have it still if the true fear of God wrought in you such effects before why does it not so now why are you now so little for the name of the Lord and so much for your own name If you had acknowledged my supremacy then in truth you would acknowledge it now O the Lord cannot endure hypocrites Rational men themselves abhorre that which is flattery and dissembling and what is not from an ingenious frame of spirit and will not God much more Now that you come to have fine houses warm beds sweet meats doe you now pay your Vowes unto the Lord Oh let them not side with the crookednesse of this Generation let them draw nigh to meet their God Oh come come when you were trembling Ones praying Ones then Israel exalted you and delighted in you and went to God for your sakes and now you have offended in Baal you are dead your spirits are dead will you not be told of it You shall be told of it Come O you that are in any Authority in any Office study what you are to doe for the Lord wherein you might redeem the time wherein you might serve the Lord though you have given up your members to serve sin and vanitie let the day suffice that you have recreated sported filled feasted your selves Now say Lord we will be for thee and he will receive you If they now set to Temple-work thou wilt say to them thou though test to have taken them away in the Wildernesse because they have done thus and have gone back in the wildernesse Yet the Lord will say to them as to David I accept of it at thy hand of the thoughts of thy heart yet thou shalt not build my house Pray for your children that they may not be taken with crowns nor with the summers increase as their Fathers have been O let them not die without a repenting frame of spirit Oh thou lovest them that confesse their sinnes true confession of sin will go with an endeavour against it Or as David said I have made the hearts of the righteous sad and to mourn and grieve Oh that they might say so Lord I have been a back-slider but I will yet return Let them not harden themselves and become accusers against thine let them not think much to be accounted Revolters when you are so you shall be called Revolters when you are so when you act like Demas doe you think you shall go untold of it the Lord will make you to know it by a witnesse within you Doe thou recall them they have been a pleasant voice to thy people but now they have a confused language and chill and cold spirits thou wilt make them to know it Lord If they sin openly then reprove them openly Let not thy people feare to reprove them to their face Let them do that which is just Father Shall they run into fiery Temptations and shall we not tell them They cast out thy people but thy people will not cast them out thy people pray that they might see thy kingdome and partake of the breath of his nostrils and of the brightnesse of his comming Is it not pure Gospel for thine to tell them that they are grosse finners against free Grace against the Lord Jesus the Sorr Oh the
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
glorious Person in the midst of them speaking these words these will I honour with my raigning presence in the midst of them others shall dye in the Wilderness which Wilderness I will shew thee by and by So that departed A third vision followed wherein I saw great darkness in the Earth and a marvellous dust like a thick smoak ascending upward from the Earth and I beheld at a little distance a great company of Cattel some like Buls and others like Oxen and so lesser their faces and heads like men having each of them a horn on either side their heads For the foremost his Countenance was perfectly like unto Oliver Cromwels and on a suddain there was a great shout of those that followed him he being singled out alone and the foremost and he looking back they bowed unto him and suddenly gave a shout and leaped up from the Earth with a great kind of joy that he was their Supreme and immediately they prompting him and fawning upon him he run at me and as he was neer with his horn to my breast an arm and an hand clasped me round a Voyce said I will be thy safety he run at many precious Saints that stood in the way of him that looked boldly in his face he gave them many pushes scratching them with his horn and driving them into several houses he ran still along till at length there was a great silence and suddenly there broke forth in the Earth great fury coming from the Clouds and they presently were scattered and their horns broken and they tumbled into Graves with that I broke forth and sang praise and the Lord said mark that Scripture Three horns shall arise a fourth shall come out different from the former which shall be more Terror to the Saints then the others that went before though like a Lamb as is spoken of in the Revelation in appearance a Lamb but pushing like a beast being not only one but many and much strength joyned together Thus far it was conceived meet and requisie to represent the spirit and condition of the party Not from thence to borrow the more esteem or belief to the Relation following let that adventure forth upon its own score and stand or fall in that spirit that gave it being But that the truth may shine forth as to the particular state and condition of the Party through that cloud of unchristian condemnings odious censures and black defamations of unsatisfied interested envious and unbelieving persons which are gone forth whereby that in this dispensation which to many that were witnesses of it seems to be the Glory and Beauty of it may be confounded and darkned and the eyes of them that would see be blinded in judgement Now concerning her speaking in Whitehall this account we have to Offer of the state and condition of her spirit in that work which was received from her own lips in the hearing of some then present in answer to the Questions which the Relator moved unto her One Question was asked her some weeks after she left Whitehal and was this What frame of spirit was upon you in uttering those things in Whitehall was it only a spirit of faith that was upon you or was it Vision wrapping up your outward senses in trances so that you had not your senses free to see nor hear nor take notice of the People present She answered I neither saw nor heard nor perceived the noise and distractions of the people but was as one that heard only the voice of God sounding forth unto me besides her own word the effects of a spirit caught up in the Visions of God did abundantly appear in the fixedness and immoveableness of her speech in prayer but more especially in her songs notwithstanding the distractions among the people occasioned by rude spirits that unawares crept in which was observed by many who heard her who seemed to us to be as one whose ears and eyes were locked up that all was to her as a perfect silence Another Question was what moved you to silence at any time when you ceased from speaking was it with you as with other good men Ministers c. who cease at discretion either having no more to say or having spent their strength of body or having wearied the people She answered in these words It was as if the Clouds did open and receive me into them and I was as swallowed up of the Glory of the Lord and could speak no more To give you the Relators observation for the further perswading him of the truth of this He took notice twice in her ceasing from speaking Once she ended with prayer wherein being sweetly and highly raised in her admirings of the glory that she saw she uttered these or like words Oh what brightness what glory what sweetness what splendor which last word she hardly expressed in a full sound and said no more Another time ending with a Song in three or four of the last words in the last verse her voice sunk into her breast that they could not be understood like the words of a man falling asleep Now follows the Relation of so much of her Prayers and Songs as by a very slow hand could be taken for eight days VPon the Tenth day of the Eleventh Moneth 1653. The Relator coming into the Chamber where she lay heard her first making Melody with a spiritual Song which he could not take but in part and that too with such imperfection as he cannot present any account of it to the understanding of others After her Song she without intermission uttered forth her Spirit in prayer wherein among many other she expressed the passages following What is marvellous or can be in the eys of the Lord the resurrection of Jesus was marvellous in our eyes but not with the Lord for nothing could keep down a Jesus thy people could never have come out of their graves had it not been for the Resurrection of Jesus as thou risedst so should they as thou dyedst so should they thou wilt make all things death before them what endeavourings were there to have kept thee in the Grave oh but what fastness what locks what bolts that could keep in a Jesus oh but they thought that the Lord Jesus was but a man they understood not that the Divine Nature was wrapt up in him in the Humane Nature when thy time came the Sepulchre was open and the Lord Jesus came forth with great Power and Majesty oh blessed be the Lord that brought forth the Son the Heir him that was victorious over his enemies so shall there be a Declaration against all things that would keep thine down faith is that Victory how so because faith brings into the bosom and it draws forth the Death and Resurrection of Jesus upon us thou art a bringing forth a great Resurrection Jesus Christ is upon his appearing there are some do think so but they say it is not yet begun God will bring it
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
glory in heaven That they might not like muckworms be and like such creatures which Have no sense for to reach to him which is their king and liege O he is a rest that requires all his to draw him neer And they shal have ful sights of things which in Creation are For he will shew that Sabbath and first day he will bring out Vnto his Saints and he onely shall draw the quintesence out Of all things they shall draw the sap that runneth from the root And get up into the high tree where none shall go and pluck No none shall be above to see thine when th' are in thy nest For they are closed in so round they lodge within that breast That none can scar nor them afflict no musquet shot can come There is not any can draw their spears or at all shoot their Canon Though nests in trees may shaken be yet thine shall e'r remaine They rest and nest in Jesus Christ his hand shall them sustain Here closing her song she proceeded without any pause to prayer therein uttering here and there as the Relatour could take them the things following The poore carcasse shall moulder before thy being through a fight of thy bosom thine are dazled in thy nest they see none of their own feathers but a new nest of thy own making the very victualls dye before thee that eternall life that is sweeter than naturall life than all strength all naturall parts what are these to it Father when thou withdrawest thy glory from thy handmaid thou shalt leave so much heat as shall refresh the body and her health shall return again from thee to her thou wilt give her strength to persevere to the end Oh when shall men speak forth from the demonstration of thy Spirit when shall they go forth in thy garments not their garments not with their Surplices and Tippets Oh no they say these they have abhorred and put off Oh but they speak their University language their head-piece language their own sense Oh but where is the voice of the new Covenant-teaching are not they hid and concealed the Beast hath got in his foot and hath mudded the waters men are mudded they speak a little of the new Covenant a little of thee and a great deal of themselves but thine have hope in thee they have confidence that way shall be made that shall be brought to light which is thine indeed men shall not alwayes be content with the outward relation of the word without the whisperings of thy spirit Oh saith Christ when I come forth with my power and spirit and Majesty then there shall be more converted now they think they have done a great matter if they have spoken twice a day Oh but have they had spirituall appetites is there quicknesse in them is the Lord Jesus more drawn and set forth by them let them wait that the Lord will come forth more than he did upon the Primitive Saints that there were longing and panting after thy coming Here she closed for that day upon the 16 day the Relatour came in and found her in prayer wherein she uttered among other things these which follow the chamber being as at other times full of hearers If he were not speaking of the Lord Cromwell backsliden he would be ashamed of his great pomp and revenue whiles the poore are ready to starve and art thou providing great Palaces Oh this was not Gideon of old oh why dost thou come to rear up the pillars the stones which are laid aside tell him Lord thou art come down to have a controversie with him Oh sin will lay thee flat to the earth Oh sin will bring down a dark smoke into thy judgement oh sin will hinder that judgement thou intendest to bring forth in the earth oh Gideon is it thy Statesmen shall carry on the work of the Lord when they are together in brain-work What is an head-piece to an heart-piece O dost thou think to joyn hand in hand with head-pieces Oh thou thinkest because I cry out for heart-pieces for thee thou thinkest hardly jealously of me Oh but thou art deceived I am for the Lord Jesus alone it is neither advantage nor disadvantage to me who is set up or who is thrown down here below for thy servant O Lord is for that pure interest of Jesus Who would care a rush or a straw for the interest of man What are they that are of his chief Councell they are the chief men in the places of Judicature but saith the Lord I have said that the Righteous who are choice who are dead to all outward things they shall be my Judges but they will say oh but they are godly too but saith the Lord they are such godly as I will none of for they are ready to joyn with any corrupt party that comes forth they will own any thing and say unto any you are my King so they may have their fat and Fleeces and all bow down to them Oh but know the Lord is the great Redeemer in Israell and he is risen now and will break all yokes as fast as they can put them on Because the Pastors of Churches some of them do own thee will the Lord therefore own thee Oh no the Lord will own such only who are true in heart and in his sight some of these have made as great an Alarum as others and have appeared as much as others but now if they must suffer a little they will flie oh this is a base frame of spirit sayes Christ where is a spirit for me thou art going up and down the earth to seek where is a spirit for thee that will cast down the Jezabels there are but a few such but they are beautifull ones Oh thy servant hardly knows a volunteere that will go forth though they be slashed in the first going on but thou knowest where such are oh fetch them out of their Cottages and holes where they lie in obscurity they have kept their garments clean Israel would have a King if you will have a King saies God you shall have him in my wrath so it is now people are of such a mad frame of spirit when the Lord sayes do not do thus they say they will do so like old Israel who were murmuring upon every occasion because thou hast declared concerning the coming of the Lord Jesus and wilst give them Judges as at the first therefore because thou doest not give them presently therefore they will not stay but will have their own first when the Resurrection did appeare presently the very Disciples were doubting and begun to scruple so it is now thine have hardly faith to believe the second coming of the Lord Jesus Oh say they we thought it had been by this time but now we see it is not yet but for a longer time Lord let it be sounded in their ears and let them mark it there will be as great superfluity as great
Sun discovers all things that which is thrown up against the Sun that appears most clearly the sun will make you known what you are in secret can you stand it out against the Lord himself let not them that have given up their names to thee be found flighters against thee Shall thine oh Lord be swallowed up Oâ— no thou wilt but hisse and Armies shall comeeven from heaven for thine and then those that do task and seek to lay on the burthens what shall they doe Having uttered these with some other things concerning the new Jerusalem she sung forth the further enlargements of her heart in the song following He that did wait these things to know that penned was within That book concerning thy coming as Potentate and King Oh he did mourn till that the Lamb did come with chearing there And said he would open that book and those seals he would tear Aud lay it wide open before that he might read therein Concerning songs of Hallelu jah which shall fill to the brimme And that he should read there also the downfall of the Whore Of Babylon which sure shall fall and sink within her gore And that he also there should read the downfall of the great God Gog and Magog how they shall go and by Christ down be pluckt And he must read also how thou wouldst search all Nations wide And gather in thy remnant there and others wash with Tide With floods that should rise upon them and make them sink for ever That so thy Sion might thee praise who art that High one rather Then that they should exalt the praise of men and things on earth For they know what thou dost deelare and what thou dost discover And John he read long since thereof concerning the great fall Of those that stood out against him who is the chief of all Oh he read here thou wouldst dry up Euphrates that river And make dry Land for thine to go and thither to appear Before thy Throne where they should be and abide for evermore Therefore John read how that thou the earth again restore None shall hinder them from those wouldst w ch John there did declare Oh a Sea of glasse there chrystal was thrones which none could it compare But oh your standing on the earth on glasse that brittle is Which shall crumble under your seet when that there comeâ— forth this This Sea of glasse which is indeed that where thine thee behold Oh they may look up unto thee and thorow it extoll Thy love that did a book write sweet and many things there in store Of Royalties which should come out and be given more and more Vnto those that deny thy foes and Antichrist also They that go forth to strike at him thou wilt upon them blow Thy spirit upon them shall come forth and Antichrist shall fall Both in person and also too in his coming principall Oh it is Lord then sweet surely to read of such things here And John he mourn'd abundantly that th' mystery might draw near That new Jerusalem above might come down here below And that they might see their High when that forth he doth go Here she ceased and lay silent for the space of some two or three hours untill about eight of the clock in the evening the company being all departed excepting about four or five persons she coughed and being asked by a friend or two with the Relatour how she did with two or three such like questions she answered in a very few words this being the first time the â—elatour had speech with her and suddenly was carried out in singing and after wards in prayer wherein the Relatour left her about ten a clock in the night speaking to God The day following being the 17th day of the Monethand the last day she spake in White Hall she begun with prayer wherein she was very large and amongst many other she uttered the things following Though they speaking of the Souldiers may build Tabernacles and may strengthen their cords yet thou art risen O poore creatures that they should have no heart to hear O Lord they are given up to blindnesse they will refuse to hear they will turn a-and go away Blessed father wilt not thou follow them and shake them Though they may shake off faith and prayer yet they shall not shake off thee oh when the hand-writing is come up in their veins will not their knees smite together They shall see that an evill heart is in them and that godlinesse is another thing than they thought on though they speak of light yet they shall know that they are darknesse for they act nothing but darknesse discover nothing but vilenesse and evill that such creatures should live in a time of so much Mercy and trample them under seet wilt not thou reckon with them Dost not thou reckon with the Nations throughout the whole earth and wilt thou suffer them to go unreckoned with it is not every one that hath a tongue to speak great things of thee that are thy friends for if it were so this Nation would be full of excellent ones oh but their heart is deceitfull When Ananias and Saphira did ly against the Holy Ghost they were struck dead oh but how often have they lyed against the Holy Ghost and yet thou forbearest oh thy servane will not let thee alone till thou risest Up in thy glory and thy Majesty thou wilt make some to rise that are feeble poore low creatures to utter forth against the wise ones of the world oh they have not thy sap thy spirit what ever they pretend Wilt not thou come forth and confound their language Oh! thou wilt say what have you to do to take the name of God in your mouths when you act for your bellies If all thine should hold their peace thou wilt come thy self and appear against them Oh they shall be called the Jeroboams of the earth they have made I srael to sin oh they would not be called Jeroboam but the Israel of God and therefore poore Israel is bowed under them and drawn under their skirts when Ephraim offended in Baal then he died in spirit in the affections of thine oh then they will come off with a great deal of dammage and rust oh that they might now be ashamed now whiles they are peeping in at the crevice let them see their abominations oh take them aside and tell them they ought not to do so let them not go and assume that to them which belongs to God tell them thou wilt make them to mart and seel thy rod for it if they had stooped to the powers before the sin would not have been so great but to stoop to those Powers that have appeared against the Lord Jesus Oh who can be filent and hold their peace at this Thou wilt poure out thy spirit upon sons and daughters and they shall witnesse for thee against them Thine may be Lambes and Sheep meek and lowly yet
Oh souldiers can you stand against the sword of the Lord that great shield can you pierce the Breastplate that is from on high Oh the Saints are able to fight with you not with material weapons but with the sword of faith and the Spirit oh where is the sword of Goliab that can come and fight against that oh poor Souldiers the Lord hath sent his servant to tell you of your wickedness and to tell you what hath been done in Scotland Ireland and elsewhere if you keep not Chronicles others do the Lord hath written them down and he will bring them forth Thou hast a controversie with all languages and they only that have the language of Canaan shall be taken into thy Canaan and shall have the honey drops there They cannot believe such great things are coming out as the raign of Jesus Christ that thou art staining the pride of all Glory and that thou wilt have no more Monarchies till the Monarchy of Christ come forth it is because they are so much seeking one from another they are so taken up and wrapt up in their own mantles that they have no eyes to look up for Elias his Mantle They have the spirit of Man and the courage of Man but what is all that courage says Elihu I have seen that for all that Ages should teach wisdom and Years give understanding yet you could not bring forth an answer in wisdom to the condition of Iob so I waited for others and was afraid my self to speak untill the Spirit came upon me then I was carried forth to speak beyond my own courage Oh thy Spirit is above the spirit of man thy Spirit informs and teacheth and brings forth new things and declares old things thy Spirit brings forth what the ways of men are it doth declare the great overturnings and disappointments that men shall meet with when thou openest who can shut it is not all their jealousies and surmisings concerning designings and this and the other thing it is not all these things that can stop the pipes of Christ that are golden can you hinder the oyl that runs so sweet Blessed be thy Name for that glorious Priviledge that thine have they are made partakers of thine Annointing and he calls them fellows oh they are poor Mortals that he should call them fellows oh some poor creatures call themselves Christ because of this oneness with Christ they will have no distinguishing thou wilt make them to know that there is a difference between Head and Members there is a wicked Generation that are risen up about this place that do say so that do pretend many spiritual things who are enemies to Jesus others come out more openly others more secretly how are they ready to joyn their evil spirit with the Spirit of the Lord Jesus thy Servant sometimes contended against them neer this place and now she is come to bear a greater testimony against them when thy sweet wine comes forth and thy Spirit is poured out then they being in their false wine oh but it shall never enter into thy treasury where thine are they say they speaking of some rude spirits which came to hear her are one spirit with thy servant but thy servant abhors it through the Spirit of that crucified Jesus This that thou hast now done upon thy servant they will not understand that it is an intimation to them of the pouring out of thy Spirit upon thine own wherein they shall go forth against the world thy servant was one that was simple an Ideot and did not study in such things as these and must thy servant now float upon the mighty and broad waters meaning of the Spirit thou saidst indeed that thy servant should declare in Gath and publish in Askelon They will say the spirit of madness and distraction is upon her and that it is immodesty but thou knowest Lord that it is thy Spirit for thou hast cast thy servant where she would not and hast taken her contrary to all her thoughts surely thou shalt be glorified and advanced by it it is the Lord that comes and enlarges and fils with his Spirit and lays his foundation with precious stones and sparkling colours thy servant would not have any take it in without tryal let them try whether it is from thy Spirit or from what it is Oh thy servant knows it is from thy Spirit let them know that it is so too by the language of it by the Rule through which it comes how is the written Word carried forth in it thy Spirit takes the Scripture all along and sets the soul a swimming therein oh those things that are concealed are made manifest when thy Spirit comes forth oh that they might know what is the true sountain and what is pudled water wilt thou dip them Father in the spiritual Baptism this Baptism of Fire cleanseth Zeal is another thing then a passionate humour where true Zeal is there the flame of the Lord is there is much in nature that may deceive A fine curious nature may seem to be Grace which is not an amiable carriage and good words these are all nature Tell the sons of Issachar that go forth to the work of the Lord what qualifications what manner of conversations should be in them and in the World sutable to such a day as this this is a day wherein thou callest up thine to glorifie thee in the fires or that the names Courtier and King should never come up again and though there be now a finer name yet there is the same thing the same superfluity and vanity as was among the Kings of old they come forth in sheeps clothing you Councel you think you have done well in this but surely the passing-Bell shall ring for you this is the saddest day that ever poor England had formerly their Children had their black patches and naked necks and powdered locks and so it is now Kings must then sit alone and so they do now What David thou whom I have raised up from the lowest of men from the dust wilt thou do this these are crying things that are come up in thine ears oh Lord how can they be fit to Rule and Judge a Nation to reprove sin in a Nation when they cannot Rule and Judge and reprove their own Families they that will not hear of their sins they shall feel of the smart thereof That is the sins they are galled within their Conscience but it was not so with David For when Nathan told him of his sin he struck upon his brest and mourned Though the name of Gideon was upon him speaking of the Supream Magistrate in the field yet now it is taken off from him thou shalt no more be called Valiant because thou canst not be contented with the name of thy righteous ones therefore thy name shall not be long As to the name General thou hast Lord been with him and hast shewed him thy presence But in thy other name