their ſleep, and poſſibly ſee nothing but their neighbours' houſes all in a flame, if not their own. This I have laid before you in the name of the Lord.
49. in 1736 in the viſion of light, I thought I was in a pleaſant field, and there appeared unto me a man in white ſhining raiment, ſaying unto me, What seeſt thou? I anſwered, A buſh both full of branches and bloſſoms. Then. he made me draw near, and lo! in a moment it all withered and decayed, except the heart of the buſh: I ſtood ſtill till the buſh was cut down by the root as with a ſcythe, at which I wept ſore. But, in a little time I beheld a buſh ſpring up out of the heart of the stock, far more beautiful and glorious than the firſt, then I aſked him the meaning he anſwered, the firſt buſh thou ſaweſt is the preſent de generated apoſtalized church of Scotland, which I will ſweep away in mine anger, and whereas thou ſaw a buſh ſpring up from the root of the former buſh, this is the remnant that I have reſerved to myſelf in the deſolating ſtroke which ſhall be the feed of my church, whoſe purity, beauty, and glory ſhall be ſo great, that the very hills and mountains ſhall ring with the report thereof. Amen.
The request of John Porter, to all who shall have occasion to hear or read the foregoing Discoveries and Warnings.
I earnestly desire all who shall either hear of, or shall have occasion to read what has been discovered to me, and I, hope obedience to the command given me, have communicated to others from first to last, according as it is revealed in these few pages. That they receive them not as the product of my own contrivance, or invention from lightness of brain or melancholy, as some have taken the liberty to forge; for I declare that notwithstanding of my blindness for so long a time, am ripe in my memory and judgement, and I am fully assured of the way they were delivered unto me. I attest that I received them with such power as I cannot express; and that do not offer to impose upon the present generation, I dare appeal with confidence unto God, to whom I must shortly give an account of my receivings and discoveries, and not to any man.
FINIS.
J. Neilson, printer.
