"day of September, says he, both the youths returned to me, saying, be not "afraid, but observe the thing which will "be shewn to thee. And I suddenly be"held a circle, like the sun, red, and as it "were, bloody: in which were black and "white lines, or spots, so intermingled, “that sometimes there appeared a greater "number of blacks, sometimes of white; "and this sight continued for some space

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vicibus exigui temporis intervallis sibi succedentibus intonuit, tam horrendé et terribilé, ut totus obriges5. Circulus autem ille stabat porro coram me, maculæque albæ á nigris disjungebant sese: et circulus accessit tám propé mihi, ut manu tangere potuissém. 6. Fuit autem tám speciosus, ut toto vitæ tem→ pore amænioris rei speciem nullam viderim: et maculæ albæ adeò candidæ ác jucundæ, ut admirationis modum nón invenerim. 7. Sed aliæ illæ maculæ à nube quadam horribilitér caliginosâ ablatæ sunt: in quâ nube tristem audivi ejulatum, etsi viderem neminem, 8. Verba tamén ejulatús et lamentorum fuerant, bené perceptibilia, hæc; væ nobis qui nos caliginosa nubi permisimus abstrahi à rotundo Divinæ gratiæ sanguine rubente circulo, quô nos Dei gratia in Christo dilectissimo filio suo comprehensos concluserat.

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"of time. And when they had said to "me, Behold! Attend! Fear not! No evil "will befal thee! Lo, there were three "successive peals of thunder, at short intervals, so loud and dreadful, that I shud"dered all over. But the circle stood "before me, and the black and white spots were disunited, and the circle

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approached so near that I could have "touched it with my hand. And it was "so beautiful, that I had never in my life "seen any thing more agreeable: and the

white spots were so bright and pleasant, "that I could not contain my admiration. "But the black spots were carried away " in a cloud of horrible darkness, in which "I heard a dismal outcry, though I could "see no one. Yet these words of lamen"tation were audible: Woe unto us, who "have committed ourselves to the black "cloud, to be withdrawn from the circle "coloured with the blood of divine grace, "in which the grace of God, in his well"beloved Son, had inclosed us."

After several other piteous exclamations, he saw a procession of many thousand persons, bearing palms, and singing hymns, but of very small stature, enter the red circle, from the black cloud, chanting halleluiah.

A Polish Prophetess made her appearance, about the same time; but as there was nothing particularly interesting in her visions, they may be kept, like the madness of Mr. Sheridan's character in the Critic, in the back-ground.

The prophecy of Arise Evans respecting the Restoration of Charles II. is thus detailed by Dr. Warburton, in a letter to Dr. Jortin. Evans, as I have mentioned elsewhere, was a mere juggler in the dates of his title-pages. The vision itself resembles the royal shadows in Macbeth.

“You desired to have a more particular

"account of ------------ a certain prophecy "of one Arise Evans, which you have "heard some of your friends speak of in "terms of astonishment; as I have his "book which is scarce, I am able to give 6. you that satisfaction. But it may not be "amiss first to let you into the character "of the prophet. Arise Evans lived and

flourished in the last century, during "the time of our civil confusions. He "was a warm Welshman, and not disposed "to be an idle spectator in so busy a scene. "So he left his native country for London, "and finding on his arrival there that

Inspiration was all running one way, he

projected to make a division of it from "the Roundheads to the Cavaliers, and set up for a Prophet of the Royalists. He "did, and said many extraordinary things "to the grandees of both parties: and it "must be owned, he had a spice of what "we seldom find wanting in the ingre"dients of a modern prophet, I mean 'prevarication."

"Of this he has himself given us a "notable example in the 42nd page of "his Tract, called an Echo from Heaven,

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London, which if not now, will in "after ages be considered. The one was "made at the Spittle, and subscribed "with the right hand, in the aforesaid

vestry, before Sir Walter Earl; and "that is a confession made by the inner "man, or new man; the other confes"sion is a confession of the flesh, called "the outward man or old man; and "the confession made before Green (the Recorder), and subscribed with the "left hand, as the difference in the

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writing, being compared, will make "it appear. I know the bench, and the "people thought I recanted, but alas! "they were deceived."