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

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

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

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