Confirmation and we cannot without the highest Affront to that Reason which we pretend so much to but give it to that side which has all the real Characters of Truth and Sincerity when the other has only Phansies and Suspicions to support its Credit But if besides all this God himself has been pleas'd by his Immediate Finger to set his Seal to the Truth of these Revelations and to confirm 'em in a Miraculous Manner as will in part appear by the Account of some Matters of Fact nakedly related in This Letter that are evidently above the Power of Nature then one would think there could be no longer any room for standing out against or even for not surrendring one self up to the Belief of their Divine Original And if all the Marks of True Inspiration be Applicable to These and no Objection has been made to 'em which has not been made to those of the Acknowledg'd Prophets in the Times wherein they liv'd as might be instanc'd at large I know not what more can be desir'd This is left to the Spirits of the Prophets and to the Consideration of all those who profess to believe that sure Word of Prophesie which is the Testimony of JESVS Many Testimonies relating to this Matter might easily be brought were it either Needful or Convenient under the present Circumstances so to do Whence it is thought fit to Publish only One that has been Communicated by an Eye and Ear-witness who made it his Business to be perfectly acquainted with this Matter By all which and by a mighty Cloud who daily bear Testimony hereto and especially by the Two Witnesses of the Old and New Testament there are some who for their own parts dare say that they are fully Convinc'd both as to the Revelations consider'd apart and as to the Blessed Lady whom God has chosen to be the Instrument of ' em Who is not in the decrease at all but still gloriously proceeds as is well known to many in the Increase of this Marvellous Illumination The Sun-beams of the Divine Light and Glory do every day more Throughly and more Intimately Enlighten the Bright Wounds of Jesus do daily more and more purifie Her and in short she is in such a manner prepar'd that if She be call'd out hereafter of the Solitude in which she is at present and be Crown'd with Glory Wisdom and Power it will be no more than what we may reasonably expect It is not to be doubted but that the Spirit will bear Witness that this is Truth to all that will listen to it in the pure stilness of Holy Silence And I am well assur'd that here in England in like manner as it has done in Germany and Holland it must work with great Power on the Souls of many and that God will do something in a little time to awaken the Slumbering Nations But granting there should be nothing at all Divine in this Matter I can't see any Hurt that the Publishing of it to this Nation would be For here is no Encouragement to any Frantick Zeal to set up it self in the Name of the Lord nothing to promote Seditions Strifes and Dissentions but the quite contrary nothing for the Establishing a Sect or Party but frequent and powerful Incitements to Peace Unity and Love of every one Nothing taught but what is highly Agreeable to the Doctrine of Christ and nothing Foretold which a Good Man may not wish for or which as to the Main is not publickly Pray'd for in Most or All the Congregations of Any that are call'd Christians In some of 'em Occasionally in others Constantly As the Conversion of the Jews the Fulness of the Gentiles the Destruction of all Idolatry Superstition Heresie and Schism the Settlement of Peace Truth and Righteousness over the whole Earth that so all that will may come to be Enlighten'd and those that will not but obstinately refuse the Light may be cast out into the outward Darkness the Kingdoms of this World being made the Kingdom of our God and of his Christ and there being One Fold under One Shepherd If then these things be in themselves desirable and to be Pray'd for and have been Pray'd for above these Sixteen Hundred Years we must needs allow that there can't be any Hurt in the Belief of 'em to be near at hand And consequently let this Matter of Fact be never so contestible it can have no Bad Influence either upon the Lives and Actions of Any or upon Publick Affairs But if this Matter be indeed of God God will go along with it Here and those that Fight against it will be found to Fight against God So that if it be of Him it shall stand and Triumph and if it be not of Him none can more Earnestly desire that it may come to Nothing than He who sends it Now abroad to the English Nation for this End that God alone may be Glorify'd and that Truth and Righteousnes may Prevail to the Confusion of Errour and Impiety To which let all the Earth say Amen Hallelujah Come Holy Ghost our Souls inspire And lighten with Celestial Fire Thou the Anointing Spirit c. Form of Ordering of Priests 1 Thes v. 19 20 21. Quench not the Spirit Despise not Prophesyings Prove all things hold fast that which is Good Acts xxii 14 15. The God of our Fathers hath chosen Thee that thou shouldest know his Will and see that Just One and shouldest hear the Voice of his Mouth for thou shalt be his Witness unto all Men of what thou hast Seen and Heard John xiv 21. He that loveth me shall be loved of my Father and I will love him and will manifest my self to him 1 Cor. ii 10 11 12 13. God hath Revealed them to us by his Spirit for the Spirit searcheth all things yea the deep things of God For who knows the things of a Man save the Spirit of a Man even so the things of God knows none but the Spirit of God Now we have received not the Spirit of the World or of Man but the Spirit of God that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God Which also we speak not in the words which Man's wisdom teacheth but which the Holy Ghost teacheth comparing Spiritual things with Spiritual And afterward v. 14 15. But the Natural the Animal or Soulish Man receives not the things of the Spirit of God For they are foolishness to him neither can ye know them because they are spiritually discerned But he that is Spiritual discerneth all things yet he himself is discerned of no Man John i. 46. Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth Come and see The Testimony which is referr'd to in the Preface EST illa Virgo singularibus maxime supernaturalibus a Deo ornata donis Spiritus ita ut externus ipsius faciei habitus cum intima animae Spiritus qualitate suaviter respondeat Gaudet mirabili summe extraordinaria a
A LETTER To Some DIVINES Concerning the Question Whether GOD since Christ 's Ascension doth any more Reveal himself to Mankind by the means of Divine Apparitions With an Exact Account of what God hath bestowed upon a Noble Maid from her Seventh Year until Now MDCXCI Written Originally in High-Dutch and now set forth in English by the Editor of the LAWS of PARADISE newly Published 1 Cor. 2.16 Who hath known the Mind of the LORD that he may instruct him But we have the Mind of CHRIST LONDON Printed and Sold by John Whitlock in Stationers-Court near Ludgate 1695. TO THE English READER MAny and Vain have been the Pretensions to Inspiration in all Ages of the World even â—o many as to make one almost doubt of the Reality of Any Thing that would be thought to be of that kind If God has had his Prophets the Devil has always had his in much more abundance and he has learnt so well to transform himself into an Angel of Light that it requires perhaps something more than Man to trace out his Windings and pluck off his Vizard Hence it is that some Considering Persons and those as there is reason to believe of Good Intentions have at the end after long Search and Puzlings of their Brain on this Head been tempted to conclude that whatever goes beyond the Reach of the Ordinary Light of Reason or Claims to be deriv'd from an higher Source is Uncertain and altogether Unsatisfactory Whence they have thought it sufficient to observe the Laws of Natural and Moral Religion And for fear they should be Impos'd upon have cut the Knot at once and so without fairly weighing the Arguments on both sides have too hastily decided the Controversie in favour of Human Reason against Divine Revelation Others who are convinc'd of the Corruption and Degeneracy of our Nature the Vncertainty of Human Reasoning and the Imperfect Knowledge which we have at best of the Divine Being or of our own Spirits and Souls have thought it absolutely impossible without the assistance of a more than Ordinary Illumination from Him who is the Fountain of Lights to arrive at any True Discerning in the Concerns of Religion Hence they have determin'd it Necessary and Included in the very Notion of a God which supposes the Care of All that has proceeded from Him that God should send his Prophets Apostles Evangelists and other Inspir'd Teachers to inform us of our Present and Future State so far as is needful for us to know to admonish us of our Duty to keep up in us a Sense of his All-directing Providence and to Foretel and Prepare our Minds for the reception of the various Dispensations of his Love and Justice For the Perfecting of the Saints and for the Building up the Body of Christ that by the means of These we may grow up into Him who is the Head But all this say many among the Great the Wise and the Learned has been sufficiently provided for already God has reveal'd his Holy Will to us in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament the Canon of which is now Seal'd up Christ having abundantly Instructed his Disciples in all that 's Necessary to make Mankind Happy whilst he Convers'd with 'em here Below is now Ascended up on High and speaks no more to us but in that Book which He has left behind for the Ordinary Guidance of his Church until he shall come again in like manner as he was seen to go up He has also forewarned us that in the Latter Days many False Prophets and False Christs should arise who would deceive if it were possible the very Elect. We have Moses and the Prophets yea we have Christ and the Apostles Therefore 't is just that we should cleave to these Alone without looking for any further Revelation or Manifestation from God lest we should come to be Deluded by Dreams and Legends or Tales of Women and to be carry'd about with every Wind or Spirit of Doctrine by the sleights of Men lying in wait to deceive Many instances are produced by them of such as have Knowingly or Ignorantly been the Instruments of Seduction and have drawn in many into a Belief not only of the greatest Extravagances but also of the highest Blasphemies And so many things are truly urg'd concerning the strength of Imagination and the Effects of Religious Melancholly that I do not much wonder at 'em for suspecting all that they hear of Extraordinary Illumination to be no better Notwithstanding which prejudices I have yet met with some few Persons both Abroad and at Home that are neither Fools nor Madmen of whom I do sincerely profess after much Doubting and long Examining that they seem to me assisted in a Special Manner by God for some Great and Glorious Ends which are as yet hid from the World These live in great Humility and Simplicity entire Resignation universal Love and an Heroical Faith that is without Doubting without Fear and as free from Credulity as from either In whom I have beheld the Princely Magnanimity of the Lion mix'd with the Meek Sweetness of the Lamb. With these they go forth Conquering and to Conquer in the Power of God being Dedicated to him and most assuredly Possess'd Enlighten'd and Actuated by Him not living their own Life but His neither speaking their own Words nor doing their own Deeds but letting Him Speak and Act all in them whose Right it is to be All in All of whose Nature they are made Partakers in the New Birth having in 'em the Mind of Christ and being truly the Temples of the Holy Ghost They have their Eyes constantly fix'd upon the Author and Finisher of this Warfare for the sake of whom they not only endure the Cross but what is more to a Brave Spirit despise the Shame They are especially given to the Reading of the Holy Scriptures and they believe the Lives of the Antient Worthies that are there Recorded to be set down for them to Copy and not to give 'em barely an Historical Knowledge of some strange Particulars that are not Now any longer Practicable They say that Moses and the Prophets Christ and the Apostles have all had respect to and prophesy'd of the Times that are approaching very swiftly They expect in these Latter Days to see many False Prophets and False Christs setting up themselves yea that the Great Antichrist shall be reveal'd in the Deceivableness of Lying Wonders But they are not at this at all solicitous or troubled they know on whom they relye they will not mistrust their Heavenly Father as if he would suffer them to be misled who have given up themselves without reserve to be led by Him Let Him do say they with us as he pleases we are no longer our Own but His We know our own Weakness and Inability to Guide our selves and that as we cannot but Err and go Astray whenever we follow the Devices and Desires of our own Hearts let 'em appear
be at all concerned at it but they will send out others who must in like manner be treated Notwithstanding which there shall many be made manifest who love me and keep my Word and I will pour out upon them the Streams of the Spirit and all things I will Praise-worthyly and Gloriously accomplish And no body shall hinder me for I am the LORD and will fulfil my Word which hath this long time been spoken Amen It shall come to pass as surely as I the Lord am the Lord. Amen 11. Next follows a Glorious Promise how God's Truth shall break forth like Light so that none shall be able to withstand it and that it shall fall like Fire into the Eyes of the Fools whence dread and trouble shall come upon them Should I not in this time cause my unfathomable Faithfulness and mine Everlasting Love to break forth seeing that the Hour is come Yea my Light shall arise in the Darkness and my Truth shall Shine like the Sun in his full strength for my Statutes I will make to be acknowledged and my Truth will I not suffer to lye hid in obscurity I will do another thing in Israel yea a strange thing will I do which shall drop from the Spirit of Truth and like Fire fall into the Eyes of the Unwise And if they will not receive it Darkness shall seize upon them O slumber not now ye Wise Virgins but stand on your Watch for the Bridegroom cometh Go ye forth with a new noise Praise ye and Magnifie my Name O ye Nations and Armies For the New Jerusalem is about building Be ye then compacted every one to another in the Love taking no thought how it should be for I am with you 12. The following one is a precious Testimony of Christ towards a Person of great Quality being in the Fear of the Lord vvhom He lifts very Graciously up I the Substantial Truth the Everlasting Love do in the Spirit bear vvitness that I am CHRIST the Lord of Belief the Vanquisher of unbelief the Destroyer of doubt the Light of Men the Spring of Life one that is Holy and Righteous who destroyeth the Kingdom of Darkness taketh avvay the Power of Hell and pulleth out the Sting of Sin I am JESUS CHRIST the Lord who do reveal my self and for the Love which I bear to all Men do witness in the Spirit that tho' I do more clearly and more Familiarly reveal my self to some then I do to others as may be seen in Paul and Cephas yet my everlasting Love is the same unto all Men for I respect not the Person of any but whosoever doth well and keepeth my Commandments the same is well-pleasing unto me Wherefore I JESUS the Lord of Life do bear witness that I am revealed after an hidden Spiritual manner in their Spirits because in singleness and oneness I am delighted to Work I am the very same Spirit that bore witness in the Spirit of all the Apostles namely the Spirit of Christ by whose wounds you are healed I am the Eternal Love through whose Glory you stand in the Father's Presence Therefore Sing ye merrily O let Heaven and the Children of God give a shout for joy for my Hour is come in which I gather in my Vintage even them whom my Father hath given me for an everlasting Heritage whom I have purchased to my self through my Cross and Death In which blessed Way as many as are true believers do follow me under my easie Yoak I am the Way of Life whosoever believeth in me hath Life Everlasting and I will dwell in him and he in me to Everlasting Glory Behold here are the Wounds and the Marks of the Nails for a Testimony in the Spirit of this my so burning Love I spread forth my Arms to take in that which is gone astray to hold up that which is feeble to strengthen that which is fearful for I will take my Flock to my Self and feed them for my Heart melteth towards them Why should I not exalt my self in the Sanctuary And why should I not declare my Power in the Hearts of all the Faithful Yea why not in all Speeches and Languages Am not I your Shepherd How then can I any longer see the Confusion of my Flock Give thy Voice O Lord of Heaven my Father and regard the Desolation hereof and behold how all things are neglected and how my true Word which I uttered by my Prophets and my Apostles is looked on as nought For what they do is all Hypocrisy they forsake the Power of the Word and dig themselves out here and there their own Wells whose being is in the outward Work but the Powerful Principles of Faith whose being is in the Inward Ground they deny And therefore is my Wrath kindled and for this end am I come to Judge the Earth But who is there that hath known my meaning And who hath been of my Counsel Nevertheless the Spirit by whom ye are Sealed unto Holiness searcheth all things even the Spirit so richly poured out on you by the Father and by whose means you believe even by his strength for it is he himself who vvorketh Faith in you Be thou then through this Spirit stirred up in Faith my dear M y Dwell thou in me and I will dwell in thee that thou with memaist live everlastingly Believe and so art thou helped for in believing me thou findest all things Be joyful in Hope patient in Affliction take good heed to this I say and live up to it so shall I for ever remain thy faithful Friend and Brother Wrestle with me in the Faith so shalt thou know me for I will come with the Father and the Holy Ghost and we will dwell with thee for the Father loveth thee for my sake and the Comforter the Holy Ghost is with thee In singleness and lowliness of Heart Sing HALLELUJAH This is a Testimony in the Spirit given from the Everlasting Christ Jesus the Conqueror of Death Devils and Hell 13. The Grafting in again of the Olive Branches which were broken off and the breaking off of the Evil Branches and Transplanting them into a wild place Peace be with you dear Children Speak ye now concerning the help out of Sion and rejoice over the Salvation of Israel For the hour is come in which I bring again the Branches of the Olive and regraft them into their Places for that I am the Lord excercising righteousness and stedfast in keeping my Word But as for the Evil and the Hardned them do I again lop off and send away into a wild Place Why speakest thou so loftily O thou profligate one My Justice I will make thee to see for thou hast nothing of thy self but all that thou hast is from meer Grace But be of good Comfort my Ephraim I will provide for thee my dear Daughter and will deliver thee from the Scorners I have said it to thee be joyful henceforward and fear not for I am
thy Refuge and thy strong Rock I say Amen! 15. A very lovely Consolation for Judah and Israel with a Comfortable word to the First-born of Joy in their Posterity Hope in the Lord O Israel shout for joy O Judah for the Lord hath looked upon thee in kindness He shall make thee to rejoyce O thou First-born in thy Posterity I am He that hath said it But to whom is my secret known and who is there that understandeth my meaning Nevertheless the Deep shall utter forth the praises of my Righteousness and the Clouds shall declare my Truth Dear Children be not afraid for I am the Truth Abide in my Truth and what is there that can disturb you Unto you I am All in All. He that loveth me hath Everlasting Life and is Justified in me through the power of Faith Cry aloud lift up your Voices for I am a wonderful God one who levelleth the Mountains and pulleth up Men from the Deep of the Earth Be at peace my dear Sion Waver not my Child Behold in thine hands I have signed thee I am a God of thy Name a Keeper of Israel a Friend of Sion a Benefactor of Ephraim Trouble not your selves dear Friends for no Evil shall be able to reach you and as for what you undertake it shall prosper for I will set your Feet in a large place XVIII All these Testimonies and many more were given by God to this Blessed Maid before I had any manner of Acquaintance with Her Upon the Evidence of which she is so Convinced of the Divinity of this matter that not withstanding all the Contradiction and Opposition of Men she doth without the least mixture of Doubt or Fear believe in pure Simplicity and Child-like Confidence that whatever the Lord hath told or shall according to the expectation of her Faith hereafter tell her shall be punctually fulfil'd both in Her and in others She knows in whom she Believes and understands to distinguish between the Spirit of Truth and the Spirit of Errour with a clear Eye She bears with those who are not as yet able to own in her the Lord's Work but withal she believes that if they be of upright Hearts they will not be swift to pass Sentance upon Her as also that as many as are Enlighten'd by the Divine Light will be capable to feel that to be from God which God has bestow'd upon her But in bearing thus with the weak she permits not her self to be made Weak And so far is she from being disturb'd at the Blasphemous Sentence of the Unbelievers that she prays for them that God would not therefore on a sudden bring them into Judgment as might justly be fear'd but that he would in mercy delay it who is a God using terribly to punish the Blasphemy of imputing that to the Devil which proceeds from the Holy Ghost She says and maintains No body can make me doubtful of that which I have seen and heard No body knows the New Name but he that receives it None but the Spirit of Man which is in him knows what is in Man even so the things of God are not known to any save to the Spirit of God Now we have received not the Spirit of the World but the Spirit of God that we might be able to know what is given us of God With this one Testimony of the Holy Spirit She overthrows all the Objections made against her from Without which for the most part come from those who cleave too much to the Flesh Notwithstanding all which she trusts that in the end God will manifest His Work so as all the World may own that it is even He himself who hath witnessed all these Words by Her XIX But that you may understand the Method in which these Revelations pass and how this B. Maid doth not see with her Gross and Corporeal Eyes or hear with her Corporeal Ears but doth see and hear the Lord in Spirit and how she doth from time to time write down from his sweet Mouth the Words which she thus hears I will here import a Testimony which was given her on the Twelfth on November in the Year MDCLXXXVIII The LORD himself dictating the same as she wrote to the end that if any were desirous to be inform'd concerning the manner of the Revelation she might be able to answer them in His own Words Which are these Peace be with you the Friends of Our JESUS the Saints Blessed and Beloved I speak with you as one Friend Speaks with another I speak at this time with the Mouth of Truth that I may be heard yet not outwardly by the Bodily but inwardly by the Spiritual Ear which is a Thousand times more delicate then the Outward one I speak to you by my self as true God and true Man and cause my self to be seen not by the Eyes of the Body but by the Internal Eyes the Eyes of the Spirit of such a Spirit naturally as is united and betrothed most strictly to me And this manner of Sight is real tho' it be hidden and subtil This I know will seem strange to you who do not yet understand my Mysteries and my Wonders Yet I tell it you that you may be able to discourse of it properly according to my Inspiration For so and by this means have I spoken to you all those sweet Words which you have hitherto written I have this further in love to speak and say to you Rejoyce ye for your great Glory and Honour since you are rendred so bright through my Righteousness as to become white as the Snow to be cleansed and purged from all Sin yea to be one Heart with me and to be my Temple and Holy Habitation Keep now the House of your Heart clean and let it be mine neither suffer your corrupt sinful Will nor the Love of the Creatures to Lord it therein So will I sink down very deeply into you and then will arise up again in you and such a purifying will I make within you that you shall praise me both with Heart and Mouth My dear little Children rejoice ye for my sake and be of good Courage for I am with you Lay your selves now to rest in my Holy Will and pursue it that I may make you the Instruments of my Graces and Gifts XX. But as the Divinity of this Affair hath been witnessed particularly to some Friends so hath it been to my Wife and Me. For after that God had before this even while we were yet in Holstein made known to us not by such high and extraordinary Revelatiosn but by his Spirit in his Word the great Promise made to Israel in Scripture and the Mystery of his Kingdom and that we for the sake of this had suffered a great deal it pleased him to let us have for about a Year since the knowledge of this Gentle vvoman of whom we had not then heard any thing by the means of a devout Person with whom we
thus written against himself Q. III. Whether that passage Luke 16.29 They have Moses and the Prophets c. be an Argument to reject absolutely the Revelations of this Day And whether if this be a true Proof the Apostles themselves ought not to have been suspicious of their own Divine Revelations in as much as they were receiv'd after that Moses and the Prophets were already inserted in the H. Scripture Q. IV. Whence could Abraham Jacob Moses Elias the rest of the Prophets the Apostles and others whom we read of in the Scripture to have had Divine Revelations know infallibly and without danger of being deceiv'd their Revelations to be Divine Particularly how could Abraham who had these Revelations before even one written Word according to which he might examine them had been given Q. V. Whence is it then that you who say that you own for Divine the Word which was given to the aforesaid Holy Men can be assur'd that you are not Mistaken in them Q. VI. Whether if one receive the Holy Scripture for an Infallible Truth there be any reason to reject as Diabolical a Revelation which is in no part contrary to the said Scripture yea which corroborates it and gives Testimony to the same thing with it And whether it be probable that the Devil of whose casting down Destruction and Binding the Scripture bears Record should reveal any thing himself concerning the Approach of the Destruction of his Kingdom Or should do any thing to encourage a Faithful Soul to arm her self against him with the Power of God Q. VII Whether it be not dangerous to look on All Revelation simply as such to be Diabolical at this time And whether this be not an attributing greater Honour to the Devil than to God himself And what one ought to judge concerning those Preachers who being call'd Lutheran and of the Augustane Confession do nevertheless reject publickly in the Pulpit and even upon Common Fame without the least Examination of the Truth decry as Diabolical such as neither Luther or the Augustane Confession have simply rejected As may appear from several Writings of Luther and from the Apology of the Augustane Confession which expresly cites the Visions of one Hiltenius Q. VIII Whether it ought not to be believ'd that when a Soul hath a true Divine Revelation it shall receive also from God an Infallible Token that this Revelation comes from him since St. Paul says We may know the things which are given to us of God 1 Cor. 2.12 And St. John We know that we are of God 1 John 5.19 And likewise We are of God and he that knoweth God heareth us but he that is not of God heareth not us Hereby know we the Spirit of Truth and the Spirit of Errour 1 John 4.6 Q. IX Whether to say That God will not give to the Soul to whom he Reveals himself some Certain Token of Trial whereby the said Person as some have written may be able to distinguish whether the Inspiration or the Voice which he either in the Spirit or by the Outward Ear doth hear be from God or from the Devil be any ways reconcileable with God's Love for Mankind And whether he would ever have had any Reason to command us to beware of Seducers and False Prophets when according to this Supposition we could not be capable to discern whether the Apparitions were from God or the Devil And how I pray you shall the Two Witnesses whom God according to Rev. 11. will send come one day to be acknowledg'd since the very False Prophets shall do so great Miracles and with so near a resemblance of the Truth Mat. 24.2 Thes 2.9 Rev. 13.13 14 15 c. Q. X. If there be no more any Divine Revelation it may be demanded Why doth God therefore say by Amos That he will do nothing but he revealeth his Secrets unto his Servants the Prophets If it be said That this has been already done I desire to know where are to be found in the Scripture all the Particulars of the Great Acts of God in â—he Last Time Or if they are found is it not certain at least that there are in the same Prophetical Word which is acknowledged for Divine a great many things yet Reserv'd and Seal'd up See Dan. 12.4 Rev. 10.4 so as the Prophets themselves sometimes have not understood what was given to them Dan. 12.8 Since therefore according to the Plain Promise of God Dan. 12.4 Knowledge in the Prophesies shall in the Time of the End be open'd to many I desire to know Whether God shall not according as the time of their Accomplishment draws near give a Revelation to several even of this obscure Word of Prophesie either by a Resolution from the Word it self or from other Extraordinary Testimonies And to this that which is said Rev. 22.10 hath an express Relation Q. XI Whether God who hath always chosen that which is Weak before the World 1 Cor. 1.27 may not also in these Days bestow his Revelations even upon the Weaker Sex And whether all that comes from a Woman should on that account be rejected Since that God Reveal'd himself to Hannah Mary the Daughters of Philip and many others and since that he hath also by Joel expresly promis'd the Particular Gifts of the Spirit to the Handmaidens and to the Daughters which Prophesie has not hitherto in its full extent been Accomplish'd as was prov'd Section XXXVI Q. XII Whether as many as Cavil with these Extraordinary Gifts in the Female Sex do not indeed condemn King Josiah and the High-Priest Hilkiah for having pray'd the Prophetess Huldah to enquire of the Lord concerning the Matter which was then before them And if on the contrary these Great and Holy Men did well where then is the good of speaking so disadvantageously of them at this Day when it is indisputable that God hath to some of this Sex communicated such like Extraordinary Gifts See 2 Chron. 34.20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28. XLI In the Third place the Question is concerning this Matter of Fact in Particular Q. 1. Whether it be possible for the Love and Faithfulness of God ever to permit that a Person so Innocent as this Young Lady who never either out of Spiritual Pride or Curiosity desir'd such Graces as these but to whom without desiring they were freely given by God from her very Childhood and who in the whole Course of her Life demonstrates the Sense which she hath of Christ hates the Works of the Devil and every thing that is Wicked and loves God with all her Heart whether I say it be possible for him to suffer that such a Person should be deluded by the Devil by a false Revelation for the space of Twelve Years and should still continue to be deluded Q. II. Since that this Person by the means of this very Grace bestow'd upon her is come to receive Christ Jesus according to Truth and to walk in him how