"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 66 66 66 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 Yet these words of lamen"tation were audible: Woe unto us, who "have committed ourselves to the black cloud, to be withdrawn from the circle "coloured with the blood of divine grace, "in which the grace of God, in his wellbeloved Son, had inclosed us."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. 66 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 66 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." 66 "Of this he has himself given us a "notable example in the 42nd page of 66 his Tract, called an Echo from Heaven, " which, because it contains an uncom"mon fetch of wit, I shall describe. "There are two confessions," says he, "subscribed by my hand in the city of 66 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 66 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 writing, being compared, will make "it appear. I know the bench, and the people thought I recanted, but alas! they were deceived." 66 66 66 66 66 Well, but this very man has in the "77th and 78th pages of this Echo printed "for the author in 12°. and sold at his "house in Long Alley in Black Friars, "1653, second edition with additions, a prophecy which astonishes all who carefully consider it. It is in these words, A vision that I had presently after the king's death.—I thought that I was in "a great hall like the king's hall, or the "castle in Winchester, and there was "none there but a judge that sat upon "the bench and myself; and as I turned "to a window in the north-westward, "and looking into the palm of my 66 hand, there appeared to me a face, "head and shoulders like the Lord Fair"fax's, and presently it vanished. Again, "there arose the Lord Cromwell, and "he vanished likewise; then arose a 66 young face and he had a crown upon "his head, and he vanished also; and ❝ another young face arose with a crown |