will be found to lie at nobody's Door but their own. Chrift the Lord will be without Blame at the laft Judgment.

XXXI. Therefore is it now high Time for you to enter upon the Praxis of Repentance. For Chrift the Lord is already in Motion and upon his March, before the Gates, with his laft Judgment. Yet am I not informed of the Day and Hour: But the Nearnefs thereof is to me intimated under a fine Similitude, whereby I know that it is juft before the Gates. It is this, for Inftance, When an earthly Prince, Lord, King, and Potentate, intends to make his Entry into the City, and to receive Homage from his Subjects; in this Cafe, he caufes his Prelates and Nobles to precede him, they are at the Head of the Proceffion at a great Distance before him; but a small Space before his own Person a Kettle-Drum is posted and preceeds, whom the Prince himself then follows immediately after. Thus alfo has the heavenly Prince, Jefus Chrift, the Lord of Lords and King of Kings, fent, a fufficiently long Time before his Face, his Prelates and Nobles; who are the Prophets and Apoftles, through whom he has been preaching a fufficiently long Time. But now, at this Day, he is fending his KettleDrum before him; concerning which Kettle-Drums the Lord Chrift himself has prophefied fixteen hundred Years ago; as every one may read at large in the Scripture, efpecially in the Gospel for the fecond Sunday in Advent, (Luke xxi. 25, 26.) "There shall be Signs in the Sun, "Moon, and Stars, and upon the Earth Diftress of "Nations, with Perplexity, and looking after those

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Things, which are coming." Now are not thefe, at this prefent Time, Signs fufficiently notorious and prevalent? No Man of Senfe but muft confefs it to be true. Let this Time be compared with the holy Scripture, and the holy Scripture with this Time; take ye the one under Examination and into Comparifon with the other; and then fee, whether Chrift's own Words do not certainly and precifely tally with Facts; for impoffible it is, that Chrift fhould lie."

XXXII. Now the Lord Chrift further fays, (Luke xxi. 29-31.) "So likewise ye, when ye fee thefe Things F 3

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"come to pass, know ye that the Kingdom of God is nigh at Hand. As we difcern the Approach of Sum

mer by the Trees, as foon as they begin to put forth "Buds; fo, by these Signs, do we alfo difcern, that the "eternal heavenly Summer is at Hand." And as he further fill remarks, (Ver. 28.) "And when thefe

Things begin to come to pafs, then look up, and lift "up your Heads (to Chrift, foar aloft to Chrift in your Minds; and be ye rejoiced, O ye Believers!) becaufe "your Redemption draweth nigh." And, O ye wicked Ones, repent ye! letting thefe Signs lead you to Chrift. I am under an Obligation to tell you this, it being impofed upon me on Pain of forfeiting my own Salvation; under this fevere Sanction I have a Charge to deliver it to you, and not to conceal it. For if I fhould refufe to deliver it, and were to keep it in, I was to come myself into the Place of Darkness: But if I in Faith delivered and published it, I was to come into that fplendorous Place of heavenly Joy and Glory: For Chrift the Lord will be found without all Blame at the last Judgment.

XXXIII. Now, if you wicked Ones will not mind this, and proceed to the Reformation of your Lives; then is this fpoken and written unto you, by Way of Teftimony againft you at the laft Judgment; fo that, at the laft Judgment, you will not have the leaft Pretext for an Excufe left you. This is the very End for which all has been revealed unto me.

XXXIV. Now thus much concerning the Charge I am entrufted with. Certainly many hundred thousand Times more has been revealed to me; but it is impoffible to couch it all in Writing. Yet is this written down, in fo round and plain a Manner, that every Man of common Senfe may thereby very well understand and perceive the Meaning of the Holy Ghoft, who teacheth you through me: And if fo be you are but willing to yield yourselves to be further taught in your own Hearts, you will have the Benefit of it; but if fo be you are unwilling to yield yourselves to be taught in Heart by the Holy Ghost, then will all your ratiocinative, fcientific Learning be of no Ufe to you: And although you were to be hearing and reading

reading God's Word, every Hour and Moment, without Ceffation; yet would it be of no Benefit at all to you, if fo be you do not read it in Spirit and in Faith alfo.

§ III.

A RELATION of the WONDERS, which followed upon this VISION.

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XXXV. UT to obviate effectually all farther Occafion of Scruple, whether GoD, by his holy Angel, did actually reveal this unto me, or not; I will now proceed further to give an Account of the SIGNS and WONDERS, which GOD wrought upon me after my Sickness; as many Perfons at Brunswic, who were with me in my dying Agonies, are privy to, and well acquainted with them: And immediately after my Sickness other People came alfo flocking by hundreds to me; and they know what Signs GOD wrought upon me. He that will pay no Credit to my own written Narrative, may enquire about it of the People who were along with me at that Time. They are the most competent Perfons to give Information to every Enquirer, provided only they have a Will to confefs the Truth to the Glory of GoD.

XXXVI. Was not that, in the firft Place, a great Miracle and Work of Wonder in the Eyes and Ears of Men, to fee and to hear that which I have given an Account of above? That, whereas for eight Days together I had neither eaten or drank any Thing, and my Body was become quite ftiff and cold; this Body of mine should, within the Space of twelve Hours after, not only revive again; but, without Eating and Drinking, be endowed with fuch a Vigour and Sprightlinefs, as I never, in all the former Part of my Life, had enjoyed before? Infomuch that, within the Space of twelve Hours, I fhould be dying from my lower Parts upwards; and, within the fame Space of Time, fhould be reviving and recovering again? But how long my Soul was abfent from it's Body, GoD only knows, and no Man elfe. Had my Soul remained in that Blifs and Glory, my Body would,

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long fince, have been lying in the Church-Yard. But towards Midnight, when the Watchman cried Eleven o'Clock, the Extafy, or Trance, had not yet fully taken Place; but then I was, however, stiff and cold, and had no Feeling in my Body; neither could I fee and fpeak any more, my corporal Hearing being all that yet remained with me. The By-Standers, who were with and tended me, were certainly in no Capacity for obferving and afcertaining the Time precifely, during which my Soul was before Hell and in Heaven. But, when the Watchman cried Twelve o'Clock, the extatic Rapture had fully paffed upon me. And remarkable it is, that as I died from beneath upwards, fo I revived again the contrary Way, from above to beneath, or from Top to Toe.

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XXXVII. Being now conveyed back again out of the fplendorous Glory, it seemed to me, as if I had been replaced with my whole Body upon the fame Spot; and then I first began to hear again corporally fomething of what they were praying in the fame Room with me. was my Hearing the first of all the Senfes I recovered again. After this I began to have a Perception of my Eyes, fo that by little and little my whole Body became gradually ftrong and fprightly. And no fooner did I get a Feeling of my Legs and Feet again, but I arofe and ftood up upon them with a Strength and Firmness I never had enjoyed before, through the whole Course of my Life. The heavenly Joy invigorated me to fuch a Degree, that the People were greatly terrified at it; feeing that, in so rapid and almott inftantaneous a Manner, I had recovered my Strength again to fuch great Advantage; and that now nothing could ferve me, but out I must go, and thus make a Beginning, with fhewing unto the PRIESTS, what had been revealed unto me.

XXXVIII. But they would not let me go out, being utterly at a Lofs what to think and make of me. Whereupon I fent for the Prieft, telling him immediately what had befallen me before Hell, and alfo in Heaven. But the Priest was aftonished beyond Measure at my having recovered my Strength again with fuch Speed, and without any Sort of Eating and Drinking, or even Doctoring.

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And yet it was but two Days before, that, when adminiftering the Lord's Supper to me, I was fo weak and feeble, that they were forced to hold up my Head for me; and they prayed a little with me immediately before my Death's Agonies came on; which is a Matter of Fact well known to the many Women who were with and tended me.

XXXIX. Then I told the Priest again, how wicked the Priefts were; that they did not preach the Word of God out of a pure Heart, their Hearts being full of Pride and Arrogance, Ambition, and Covetoufnefs; that they did not practise themselves that which they preached to other People; and of Confequence, if they did not repent, GOD would punish them. To this Mr. Joachim Jordan, Minifter of St. Catharine's, replied, Yes, I hearken to to you; this is a Work of GOD, and no Man's Work; the Words and the Signs atteft it. We should by rights be fo, but we are weak Flesh and Blood; it is not in our Power to believe and practife all we teach other People. I faid, "Very well, true it is, that it is not in your T "Power to do it; neither are you to do it, neither does "GOD want any of your own Doings. You are only

"to fubmit to the Rule and Governance of Chrift within you, He will do it; you are only to furrender and refign yourselves up wholly and entirely to Him: And you are to ftand still, and bring your Reafon into Captivity to the Obedience of Chrift, that the Holy Ghost may be able to bear the Sway in you, and do that, which is good through you. All that is incumbent upon you only is, that you be the Inftruments of the "Holy Spirit, fuffering the Holy Spirit to bear the Sway " in you, and not the Aftral Spirit of Reafon. But this "is the very Caufe alfo why you do no Good to your "Hearers, You give your ownfelves up to the Guidance "of the Reafoning, Aftral Spirit, and not to the Holy Spirit.*

XL. Then the Priest faid, Yes, my dear HANS, (JOHN) I thank you for this good, Chriftian, and brotherly

That all the Degeneracy of Christendom originates from this is moft certain: GoD grant us a Reformation from this radical Evil !---Tra

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