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not ſatisfy us, if thou return not to thyſelf again, He anſwered, I will certainly return; for I will be brought back by the wreſtlings and prayers of the saints.
37. March 24. It was ſaid to me, I have ⟨laid⟩ before thee many ſimilies which was thought ſtrange. I will tell thee another ſtrange simile concerning the men who depend upon the world for their ſhelter in the enſuing ſtroke: I compare the world to an old rent mantle which a man taketh about him, in a ſtormy day he draws it up to cover his head, and his feet are all bare, and when he wraps his hands in it to cover himſelf before, it is riven all behind, and his back is all bare, is is ſo narrow, let him do what he will, there is more bare than covered.
38. March 37. About the midle of the day, I ſaw a man in a viſion, a man of a very high ſtature and angry countenance, ſaying, That this land and people had wronged him of his name and title which pertained to him as ſupreme head of the church, in that they had nicknamed him by the name of the curſed prelate, and hath given me another name, which they call, Fanatic. Then there appeared to me another man of a very comely geſture, who enquired, Who it was that ſpoke with me? I anſwered, I cannot tell. He ſaid, I will tell thee, It is Antichrist who is diſpleaſed for wronging his name, and then ſpake thus, Praiſe be to him that rides in heaven, by his name J A H, his name for ever and ever ſhall endure; and repeated many names which the Lord takes to himſelf: he was ſuch a ſhining geſture as I cannot venture to expreſs. This I ſaw under the viſion of a great light.
39. That ſame night about ten o'clock, I was awakened out of ſleep with a ſurpriſing light, as if there had been no houſe above me, but the clouds all in light; and while I was admiring it, I heard one ſaying to me, Look about thee, which when I did, I ſaw a great cloud coming from the ſouth, very black and great, it neither touched the clouds above, nor the earth beneath: then he ſaid, That cloud is a combination of France, Spain, Italy and Rome, for ruining of Britain and Ireland, I anſwered, What ſhall we do in ſuch a dark time of ſuch a great cloud, which we are not able to reſiſt? he ſaid, Ye muſt do as a man doth that hath a great ſwarm of bees which he cannot get commanded: he taketh a veſſel and caſteth water amongſt them
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