ly exercised in the Spirit: How as he paffed by the way out of Hampshire, he told a "Gentleman in company (that was privy to his Enemies Complots) of a great Pra

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ctice intended against him, and to be done " in a Chamber, by certain Perfons, whom СС he then named aforehand: Infomuch as "the faid Gentleman (being made privy to "fuch purpose, and knowing that he faid true) affirmed, furely he could conjure, <6 or else it had not been poffible to tell fuch things as he did; where indeed (he faith) the Lord, in the midst of his former Af"flictions, revealed it unto him, and furcr ther fhewed him a Place which he had cc appointed for him, and how he would bring all his Enemies Practices to confufion: How in performance of that which was fo revealed; he was afterward in a "certain Place in Hartfordshire bound, firft in a Chamber, and then chained in a "Sink-hole of a Seller, and moft grievously many ways afflicted there for 20 days together: That in the greatest extremity thereof (which was greater than he could "exprefs) a Crofs came upon his Breaft as "he lay, and always when his Torments

were at the greateft, the Lord unloofed "his Feet and Hands from his Fetters, and "Bands; nevertheless he lay ftill till his "Tormentors came, and bound him again: "How the Lord then appeared to him, and "affured him, that he would eftablish the Gospel by him, and fhewed him all the

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"Whoredom of Rome, in the perfon of a great Perfonage (fince deceased) as it "were in Candle-light, with a great Bell *full of iniquity: That during that time, "the Lord Thewed him a terrible Famine "which he would bring upon a Land, but "whether this Land or not, was not declared: That Chrift then fhewed him his Wisdom "and Providence, in governing the Seas,

and all other Waters in their Courfes: "And further fhewed him the Man that "fhould fit on Chrift's Right hand, to judge "both the quick and the dead, whose ર Name he well knoweth : That then he made his Petition unto the Lord, who anfwered him by a Voice, thus, What be would, bow he would, and when he would i "How (by the extremity of his Torments) "his Eyes were fallen down, and his Tongue "thruft out of his Head, fo as he could not

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pull it in again one Barley-corn's breadth; but the Lord in that extremity fhewed him, that he would keep his Body from bursting, and that one hair of his Head "fhould not perish: That being loofed (by "his Wife's importunity) foon after, in a

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very Rainy-day, he, his Wife, one Richard "Dickens, and one Palmer, rid altogether "thence toward Oundell, thirty Miles that "day; and albeit it rained all the day very σε fore (fo that great floods came upon it)

yet never a one of them had any drop "thereof fall upon their Clothes: That be"ing at Oundell, and forefeeing he should

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"be exercifed again, he prayed his Wife ἐσ that no man might come at him, for he "would keep his Chamber: And then the "Lord appeared unto him, and fhewed him ἐσ in what danger the Land was, by reason "of foreign Enemies at the Sea; and com"manded him to go round about the Town, " and that should be a defence to the Land "round about: That after this he kept him"felf in his Barn about eight days, reafoning "with the Lord touching Predeftination and

Reprobation, continually begging of him, ἐσ that he would fave all thofe that fought "ignorantly against the Truth, or other "wife finned through want of knowledge: "How (after this) betaking himself to his "Chamber again, the Lord (he faith) for"ced him to cry out against two great Subσε jects and Counsellors in this Land: That he ઠંડ was again bound and tormented there "other twenty days, in eight whereof, he "neither did eat nor drink, and was conti"nually watched, for that they knew the "Lord would come and loofe him, if they "left him: That during this time Witches "ufed their Sorcery ftrongly upon him: "That the Lord then told him that he "would harden his own heart against "Hacket's Tormentors: How then alfo four

or five Angels night by night stood by him, σε and watched over him, like unto Doves, " and one night Spirits innumerable: And "that a white Hand came from the Almighty, and took him by the hand, whereby all

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Venome, Poison, Uncleannefs and Corruption departed from him for a time: whereupon the Lord fhewed him three "Heavens together, and all the dwelling 66 places contrived in one of them, but the higheft Heaven was fhewed to be without end, which glory he was not able to behold, but was made able to look upon the "Blood of the Saints, which was made ઃ round like a Wax Cake, in very great breadth, but the glory which therewith appeared, he could not look upon, so that "he was forced to turn his face upon the "Pillow: How the Lord alfo fhewed him "the murthering of the Wicked, even like "the flaying of Swine, the Father murther66 ing the Son, and the Mother the DaughCs ter, and every one another, all the day long, and no man took pity upon them : "That there was then revealed unto him a very ftrange fire from Heaven, the length whereof he did fee confuming all things "from the Heaven to Hell mouth, but he "did not fee the breadth thereof: Alfo that " he then did fee the breadth of the tor"menting place of the Damned, and what 66 was therein, but neither the bottom, nor "length of the place: That he also fuppo. "fed he faw his Liberty begged by two ho"nourable Perfonages: Notwithstanding "which deliverance (that he dreamed of) he telleth that he was carried afterward to "Northampton Gaol, where he remained 17 Weeks, as afore is remembred. Fur"thermore

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"thermore there is declared, That in his "Torments the Lord fhewed him how he "would confound all his Adverfaries that were guilty in any practice against him,

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and that one thing which they went "about, they fhould never bring to pafs; "for he let him fee, that they were all as "drunken men, men, and Fools without wit: "That in the end they fhould throw all "their Books away, and be at a great con"fufion one with another: That afterward "(viz. about the beginning of Eafter Term "laft) the Lord brought him to Londen, and how he was made acquainted with Coppinger at that time, as hath been afore de"clared: How after his departing out of "the City from Coppinger, he could not but

remember him in his Prayers; defiring "the Lord to reveal himfelf extraordinarily "to him, fo that be might be encouraged to go "forward in the Action: Whereupon (as "the faid Coppinger affirmed) be bad two ex"traordinary Seals in very short space after "Hacket's departure, and was wonderfully ftrengthened to proceed in the Caufe. Then "is told how the Lord commanded him to go from one place to another in and about "the City, for two days fpace; and how "he was commanded to rail against the "faid two great Counsellors, in divers places "where he came: How being (in that "time) commanded to fee the Lyons in "the Tower, he took the fierceft of them by "the Head, and had none harm: Then is

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