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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
world_n	knowledge_n	light_n	shine_v	2,465	5	9.1921	5	false

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

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

also the Moon and Stars but unutterably surpassing those we see here in splendor and beauty The Heaven Sun Moon and Stars reflected their Glory upon the Christaline Earth and were seen in it far more clearly then any opposit Objects are discerned in the best Looking-glasses I beheld also the Earth adorned with most beautiful Flowers of all sorts which were splendorous and shining and their Colour far more lively then these here below I saw no Man upon this Earth save only the Lord Jesus in his glorified Body resembling a transcendently beautiful Young Man his Body was transparent so that I could see his Heart in the midst of it his sacred Wounds shined like so many glorious Stars and his whole Body shew'd a lustre far beyond that of the New Heavens in his Face I descerned my own Face more clearly then ever I had seen it in a Looking-glass But what shall I say more of the Glory and Beauty of his all Glorious Face the remembrance whereof doth to this day fill my Heart with such exalting Joy as I cannot compare with any of the pleasures or delights of this world As I was beholding the unutterable Beauty of Christ I said unto him Dearest Lord Jesus shew unto me thy Father Which I had no sooner said but I saw a wonderful Flame streaming forth from his Heart which immediately filled the New Heavens and Earth and gave them a thousand fold greater Glory then they had before I said unto him also Lord shew me the Holy Ghost and as soon as I had so said I saw many thousands of Beams darted from all parts of his Body in like manner as Rays proceed from the Sun Thus I saw the Holy Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Son and I saw the Father in Christ and Christ in the Father for the whole Body of Christ was filled with the fiery flaming Glory of the Father and I saw the Holy Ghost in the likeness of infinit Rays proceeding from the Father through Christ even through all the parts and members of his Body Then I desired to behold the Souls of Saints whereupon he led further into the Father and shewed me the Souls of Believers in God's Hand where no pain could touch them they appeared to me in the likeness of many great Sparks of Light very swiftly moving one through another Then I desired to see my Mother in her bodily Figure for she dyed when I was yet a Child which at the first was denyed me but afterwards upon continuing instant in my request I was commanded to return to the World and to call all the Dead in Christ and to bid them arise for Christ commanded it Upon this I saw many Graves open out of which Bodies arose and they came with me into the New world and stood about the Lord Jesus I could discern them all in his Body as it were by reflection and he again did shine and was seen in every one of their Bodies in like manner as when a Cristial Globe being hung up in the midst of a Room with many lesser Globes round about it all the lesser are seen in the great Globe and the great Globe appears in every one of the lesser I needed not to ask any Questions what this or that was for whatsoever I saw I knew also I saw moreover a great number of Birds with Golden Feathers flying under the Heavens and praising God I saw also the Beasts of the Field which were most beautiful the Hair of their Skin shining like Gold with these the Saints delighted themselves blessing and praising God who had created such a vast number of beautiful Creatures for his Praise and Glory Whilst I was surprised with these Wonderful Sights and transported with Songs and Melody of the Saints and Angels the Lord said unto me Now return again unto the Earth and declare unto the Children of Men what thou hast seen and heard and tell them That if they would come hither to enjoy whatsoever their Hearts can desire and have their Bodies made like my Glorious Body they must heartily Repent and not res●st the Holy Ghost by any known Sin and thereby hinder him from working Faith in them which evidenceth it self by Love without which none can be saved or have their Souls purified and clarified for none shall have their Bodies glorified in Eternity whose Souls have not been purified here in time And when I was instant with the Lord that I might remain in Paradise aleadging that if I should return to the Earth men would not believe my Report The Lord comforted me and said Do thou bear it patiently when thou hearest men Blaspheam my Works for the more thou shalt suffer for my sake in the World the more hereafter shalt thou rejoyce with me in Soul and Body Return thou therefore again into the World and tell them the things that I command thee Run apace gird up thy self l●t not the long Garments of this World intangle thy Feet let no man stop or stay thee haste thee away I say and I will follow thee at thy Heels and will come quickly to make an end of this Wicked World and take my Saints to me in my Kingdom where they shall enjoy Eternal Happiness and will send the Wicked to the Bottomless Pit of Hell Then I desired that before my departure out of Paradise I might fly up into the Air which was granted me where I saw David and Solomon delighting themselves with Birds that perched on their Fingers and sung most Melodiously And from thence at my desire I mounted up to the Stars and from thence was carried up into the infinite space of Eternity where I beheld the unutterable and inconceiveable Glory of God which I can no way in the least declare what it was Then the Lord Jesus put a Golden Tankard into my Left hand and a Golden Cup into my Right hand and said Go now and return to the World and fill out to every one a Taster of this Heavenly Wine of my Kingdom and to every one that doth relish it and desire to pertake of this my Banquet and to have their fill thereof to all Eternity Do thou declare that I will come quickly and take them along with me to my Heavenly Banquet And those that indure great Crosses and Troubles do thou charge from me that they bare it patiently till that blessed Hour shall come when I shall take them to my self to live with me in fulness of Joy to all Eternity wherefore let them rather in Submission to my Will chuse to suffer Anguish and Affliction then in their own Wills to be freed therefrom for in my Will all true Happiness is to be found here in this time with Cr●sses and Tribulation but hereafter in Endless Joys for ever And whereas I had seen a Young man through the Body of Christ and he also saw me through the same Body so that we beheld one another through the Body of Christ the Angel