the place which he hath prepared for them, which is the bottomleſs pit; there they ſhall fling his people no more For the Lord will do with this great army as a man cutteth down his harveſt; when a ſtorm ariſes he gathereth neither bigneſs nor ſoulneſs, ſo that he cutteth down more in one hour that he did in a whole day before. Thou ſaid , Lord, what will I do in ſuch a dejected condition, for I promiſed that I will conceal nothing, and I know they will not believe me. And he ſaid, ye have an old proverb, Seeing is believing all the world over; I will let them ſee it, and if ſeeing will not make them believe, I will make them feel it, for that which toucheth a man he believeth it. Then I ſaid, How can I diſcover it when my memory cannot contain it by a great part he anſwered, I create the earto hear, and will give thee memory that thou mayeſt deliver to this generation as much as will leave them without excuse, or to ſay, that I brought a ſtroke upon them, without giving them warning: I know many will mock till they be infatuate that they ſhall not know their enemies from their friends: therefore, go thou on in warning, and I will make good my word to thee. Then I ſaid, I have found more of thy word in former discoveries than I can find in this; upon which these words were said before me. God my salvation is become, &c. And further, he said. This may be among the laſt l'll trouble the with, though it be not the leaſt. I am fully assured, I was not aſleep at this time, but receive the commiſſion, and so the viſion with ſunk deep impreſſions under that light, which I forbear to expreſs to the world.
40. April 2. About ten of the clock at night, a great light ſhining about me, it was laid before me, that he was bringing a great army of French, Spaniards, Romiſh, and a part of every nation about them, to bring a ſtroke on this land for broken covenants, or ſlighted goſpel, and the abounding ſins of the land, and the blood of thoſe who teſtified to the covenants, for, faith be, I will make the earth full of the blood of my enemies in this land! But I know a great many of this land will join with them, but ſuch ſhall fall with them, ſo as to have neither name nor remembrance in it afterward. But I have reſerved 7000
