Upon the 1655-01-07seventh day of the eleventh month,
called January. 1654. being the sixth day of
the week, Mr. Powel Preacher of the Gospel
in Wales, being according to Order from the
Council now sitting in Whitehall, come thither
to give an account before them of some things by him delivered
in his publique Exercises in London, among other
friends who came thither to see what would be done with
him, there came a maid, Mrs. Anna Trapnel by name, who
waiting in a little room near the Council, where was a fire,
for Mr. Powells coming forth, then with a purpose to return
home: She was beyond and besides her thoughts or intentions,
having much trouble in her heart, and being
seized upon by the Lord: She was carried forth in a spirit
of Prayer and Singing, from noon till night, and went
down into Mr. Roberts lodging, who keeps the Ordinary
in Whitehall; And finding her natural strength going from
her, she took her bed at eleven a clock in the night, where
she lay from that day, being the 1654-01-07seventh day of the month,
to the 1654-01-19nineteenth day of the same month, in all twelve
days together; The first five days neither eating nor
drinking any thing more or less, and the rest of the time
once in 24. hours, sometimes eat a very little toast in small
Bear, sometimes only chewed it, and took down the
moysture only, sometimes drank of the small Bear, and A sometimes A1v 2
sometimes only washt her mouth therewith, and cast it
out, lying in bed with her eyes shut, her hands fixed,
seldom seen to move, she delivered in that time many and
various things; speaking every day, sometimes two, three,
four and five hours together; and that sometimes once a
day, and sometimes oftner, sometimes in the day only,
and sometimes both in the day and night. She uttered all
in Prayer and Spiritual Songs for the most part, in the ears
of very many persons of all sorts and degrees, who hearing
the Report came where she lay; among others that
came, were Colonel Sidenham, a member of the Council,
Colonel West, Mr. Chittwood, Colonel Bennet, with his wife,
Colonel Bingham, Captain Langdon, Members of the late
Parliament; Mr. Courtney, Mr. Berconhead, and Captain
Bawtrey, Mr. Lee, Mr. Feak the Minister, Lady Darcy, and
Lady Vermuden, with many more who might be named:
The things she delivered during this time were many; of
the four first days no account can be given, there being
none that noted down what was spoken. For the rest of the
time, from the fifth day to the last, some taste is herein
presented of the things that were spoken, as they could be
taken by a slow and imperfect hand.

And to hold out all just and full satisfaction to those
Questions, Scruples or Demands, which a Relation of this
nature is apt to beget; touching the condition of the Party,
where? or what she is? to whom is she known? is she
under Ordinances? what hath been her conversation formerly?
&c. Before you come to the Relation it self; Here
is first offered to you an account of the Parties condition in
her Relations, her acquaintance, her conversation, the
dispensations of the Lord to her in Clouds and bitter
storms of Temptations, in Manifestations of light and love,
in Visions and Revelations of things to come; all this is
presented to you in the following Narration, taken from
her own mouth.

Iam Anna Trapnel, the daughter of William Trapnel,
Shipwright, who lived in Poplar, in Stepney Parish; my father and mother living and dying in
the profession of the Lord Jesus; my mother died
nine years ago, the last words she uttered upon
her death-bed, were these to the Lord for her
daughter. Lord! Double thy spirit upon my child; These words she
uttered with much eagerness three times, and spoke no more; I was
trained up to my book and writing, I have walked in fellowship with
the Church meeting as All-hallows, (whereof Mr. John Simpson is a
Member) for the space of about four years; I am well known to him
and that whole Society, also to Mr. Greenhil Preacher at Stepney, and
most of that society, to Mr. Henry Jesse, and most of his society, to
Mr. Venning Preacher at Olaves in Southwark, and most of his society,
to Mr. Knollis, and most of his society, who have knowledge of me,
and of my conversation; If any desire to be satisfied of it, they can
give testimony of me, and of my walking in times past.

Seven years ago I being visited with a feaver, given over by all for
dead, the Lord then gave me faith to believe from that Scripture.
After two days I will revive thee, the third day I will raise thee up,
and thou shalt live in my sight: which two days were two weeks
that I should lye in that feaver, and that very time that it took me,
that very hour it should leave me, and I should rise and walk, which
was accordingly: From this time, for a whole year after, the Lord
made use of me for the refreshing of afflicted and tempted ones, inwardly
and outwardly. And when that time was ended; I being in
my Chamber, desired of the Lord to tell me whether I had done that
which was of and from himself. Reply was, thou shalt approve thy
heart to God, and in that thou hast been faithfull in a little, I will
make thee an Instrument of much more; for particular souls shall not
only have benefit by thee, but the universality of Saints shall have
discoveries of God through thee: So upon this I prayed that I might
be led by the still waters, and honor God secretly, being conscious
to my self of my own evil heart, looking upon my self as the worst of
all Gods flock; the Lord upon it told me, that he would out of the
mouth of babes and sucklings perfect his praise; then I remained
silent, waiting with prayer and fasting, with many tears before the A2 Lord A2v 4
Lord for whole Sion: And upon that day called Whitson-monday,
which was suddenly after, I finding my heart in a very low dead
frame, much contention and crookedness working in my Spirit; I
asked of God what was the matter, he answered me thus; I let thee
see what thou art in thy self to keep thee humble, I am about to shew
thee great things and visions which thou hast been Ignorant of: I being
thus drawn into my Chamber: after this there was a day of
thanksgiving that I kept with the Church of All-hallows in Limestreet,
for the Army that was then drawing up towards the City, in which I
had a little discovery of the presence of the Lord with them, in which
day I had a glorious Vision of the New Jerusalem, which melted me
into rivers of tears, that I shrunk down in the room; and cryed out
in my heart, Lord, what is this? it was answered me, A discovery of
the glorious state of whole Sion, in the raign of the Lord Jesus, in the
midst of them, and of it thou shalt have more visions hereafter; So
then when the day was ended, I retired to my Chamber, at that time
living in the Mineries in Aldgate Parish, where I conversed with
God by prayer, and reading of the Scriptures, which were excellently
opened to me touching the Proceedings of the Army.

It was first said to me that they were drawing up toward the City
(I not knowing any thing of it before) and that there was a great
hubbub in the City, the shops commanded to be shut up; Upon this
I went down, and enquired of the maid of the house, whether there
was any stir in the City; She answered me, you confine your self to
your Chamber, and take no notice of what is done abroad; We are
commanded, said she, to shut up our shops, and there are great fears
amongst the Citizens; what will be the issue, they know not; With
that I answered, blessed be the Lord that hath made it known to so
low a servant as I; Then repairing to my Chamber again, I looked out
at the window, where I saw a flag at the end of the street; this word
I had presently upon it, thou seest that flag, the flag of defiance is with
the Army, the King of Salem is on their side, he marcheth before
them, he is the Captain of their Salvation; At the other end of the
street, I looking, saw a hill (it was Black-heath) it was said to me,
thou seest that hill, not one but many hills rising up against Hermonhill,
They shall fall down and become Vallies before it: It was then
said unto me, Go into the City, and see what is done there: where
I saw various things from the Lord in Order to his appearance with
the Army; as I was going, hearing of a Trumpeter say to a Citizen these A3r 5
these words, we have many Consultations about our coming up,
but nothing yet goes on; presently it was said to me, the Councels of
men shall fall, but the Councel of the Lord stands sure, and his works shall prosper: So repairing home, I had many Visions, that
the Lord was doing great things for this Nation.

And having fasted nine days, nothing coming within my lips, I
had upon the ninth day this Vision of horns; first I saw in the
Vision the Army coming in Southwark-way, marching through the
City with a great deal of silence and quietness, and that there should
be little or no bloud spilt; this was some weeks before their coming
in.

Then broke forth another Vision as to the horns; I saw four
horns, which were four Powers, the first was that of the Bishops,
that I saw was broken in two and thrown aside; the second horn
more white had joyned to it an head, endeavouring to get up a
Mount, and suddenly it was pushed down and broken to pieces; the
third horn had many splinters joyned to it, like to the scales upon the
back of a fish, and this was presented to be a Power or a Representative,
consisting of many Men, having fair pretences of love to all under
all forms; this I saw broken and scattered, that not as much as any bit
of it was left. As to the fourth horn, that was short but full of variety
of Colours, sparkling, red and white; it was said to me, this is
different from the three other, because great swelling words and
great offers of kindness should go forth to all people from it; like
unto that of Absalom, speaking good words to the people in the
Gate to draw them from honest David.

I was judged by divers friends to be under a temptation, as H. I.
and Io. S. to be under a temptation for not eating; I took that Scripture,
“neglect not the body”, and went to the Lord and enquired whether
I had been so, or had any self-end in it to be singular beyond
what was meet; it was answered me, no, for thou shalt every way
be supplyed in body and spirit, and I found a continual fulness in my
stomack, and the taste of divers sweet meats and delicious food
therein, which satisfied me, that I waited to see the issue, which was
exceedingly to be admired; I remaining ever since in much health.

Some years after, when the Army was designing a war with Scotland,
I was dissatisfied, judging many that were godly in those parts
might be cut off ignorantly; and upon this I sought the Lord, and the
Lord after prayer directed me to the 9th of Zechariah verse 11. “The A3 eyes A3v 6
eyes of the Lord shall be seen over them, and his Arrow shall go forth as
the Lightning, the Lord God shall blow the trumpet, and shall go through
with the whirlewinds of the South”; The Lord said, that his eye, not
only his al-seeing eye, which runs to and fro through the Earth, but an
eye of Grace and Love to them as his peculiar treasure, was over
them of the Army, and not only so, but they should see it; and as
to his Arrow, it was that sharp dealing of his with the enemy; as to
the Lightning, it was those burning devourings of those several places
that should be ruinated by the Army in those Parts; and as to the
Trumpet, that the Lord would shew forth a mighty alarm to
his people, before whom many high and great ones of the Scots
should tumble down, and that he had raised up a Gideon, bringing
that of Judges 7. to me, to prove Oliver Cromwell, then Lord General,
was as that Gideon, going before Israel, blowing the trumpet
of courage and valour, the rest with him sounding forth their Courage
also; that as sure as the Enemy fell when Gideon and his Army blew
their trumpets, so surely should the Scots throughout Scotland be ruinated:
Upon this I praised for some hours together, that God had
provided a Gideon, and this I saw both by Vision, and Faith, and
Prayer and Praises, that God had appointed him for the work of
that present day to serve this Nation; and told me that great things
should be done, and that he should take his circuit through Scotland,
and the Enemy should draw neer to us, even to the gates of the City,
and there be defeated.

So I remained praying, keeping many fasting days in my Chamber,
till six weeks before Dunbar fight; and then I had Visions given me
concerning that first overthrow of the Scots, where I saw my self in
the fields, and beheld our Army, and their General, and hearing this
Voice, saying, Behold Gideon and the lapping ones with him! with
that I was much taken, that they were likened unto that old Gideon and
his Company; and then I saw them in a very ill posture for war, and
much dismayed, looking with pale countenances, as if affrighted at
the multitude of the Scots that were come out against them; whom I
saw at a little distance from them, the light of the sky being over
their heads, which prompted them the more to the Battail, seeing
our Army with darkness over them and much disheartned, and they
thinking that our Army was running away, they marched up with very
great fury against them, and suddenly as our Army turned, who
seemed but a little while to stand before them, the light of the Sky being A4r 7
being drawn from the Scots to our Army, they were encouraged,
and immediately I saw the Scots fall down before them, and a marvelous
voice of praise I heard in our Army: then was I taken weak
in my outward man, keeping my bed fourteen days, neither drinking
nor eating but a draught of small Beer, and a bit of toast once in
twenty four hours; and as soon as this Vision was over, I broke forth
to the singing of their deliverance in Scotland; in which time many
resorted to me of them that were for the Presbyterian Government,
viz. Dr. French’s Wife, Mrs. Bond, who was then Mrs. Kendal, Mrs.
Smith, who all lived in Hackney, and Mrs. Sansom of Tower-hill,
and they related this Vision to Mr. Ash the Minister, who waited
till they saw it accomplished, and then admired.

Upon the 1652-11-05fifth of November last save one, 1652. The Lord brought
that Scripture to me, “Who is a God like unto thee, glorious in Holiness,
fearful in Praises, working Wonders?” from which the Lord shewed
me, that his Glory, and Praise, and Wonders he was bringing forth
as upon the Land, so now upon the Seas; and the Lord again shewed
me in a Vision, that many men of account should be taken away in
the first great Battail; and I lay in this Vision from the first day
of the week at night, untill the second day at night, and stirred not,
nor spoke, but sometimes sang of a great Victory that I saw upon the
Seas, Ships burning, bones and flesh sticking upon the sides of the Ships,
the Sails battered, and the Masts broken, and many such dreadful
things as to the Hollander; seeing many godly friends also dropping
into the Sea, and their bodies beaten in pieces, it remained a
long while to my view, but the Victory that I saw in the Conclusion,
produced many Songs, crying out, oh, Who is God like unto
thee? according as thou saidst thou wouldst be, so Lord I see thee:
At this time, I keeping of my bed seven whole days and eight nights in
Mark-lane, at widdow Smiths, Glasier, where were many Spectators
of account, both sea-Captains and others; Mr. Allen a Common-
Councel-man, Mr. Smith, Mr. Radcliffe, Captain Palmer, Mr.
Knollys, and several other men of account in the City; at this time
for seventeen days I eat nothing but two broyled Herrings, and drunk
Water and small Beer.

Two moneths after this, in the 1654-02twelfth moneth, called February,
1653. The Lord suffered Sathan to buffet me, yet I questioned not
the truth of any of my Visions and Revelations, but said, if I shall be
thrown into hell, yet they were the truths of the Lord God, and should A4v 8
should certainly come to pass: but I remained in grievous bitterness,
being hurried by Sathan, and he prevailing over me in a very high
nature, moving me to blaspheme; but the Lord kept me from uttering
any such thing, though I was tortured in my body, as if he had the full
possession thereof, and being perswaded that he had power over my
body, and natural life to make an end of it, though I believed from the
seal that I had had eight years before, that I should be saved through
the fire: This temptation remained with me from the 1654-02-01first of the
twelfth moneth, 1653. till the latter end of the 1654-04second moneth,
called April, lying in the Mineries seven days, in which time I had
two Godly men, and a Godly woman watched with me every night;
temptations of all sorts were so violent upon me: And at the end of
those seven days, my body was freed from that torture caused by Sathan,
and I repaired home to Hackney, to my Kinsmans house,
Mr. Wythe, and there I remained till the latter end of 1654-04April under very
bitter storms, being forced by Sathan to walk up and down the fields,
attempting to throw my self into a Well, saying, God shall not be
dishonored; For it shall be thought, said Sathan, some put thee in,
and so thou shalt be in happiness presently; For what can pluck thee
out of thy Fathers hand, he hath made an everlasting Covenant with
thee, Ordered in all things, and sure, and this is all thy desire, and all
thy Salvation, which thou hast made mention of to many; and I was
forced to lye in ditches frequently, till it was dark night, that some
found me, and led me home; And again frequently I took Knives
to bed with me, to destroy my self, and still they were snached out of
my hand, I know not how, not by any Creature: I durst not eat nor
drink for four days together, because it was said to me, If thou doest,
thou worshippest the Devil; For in every thing give thanks, whether
thou eatest or drinkest, do it all to the glory of God: but thou canst
do nothing to the glory of God, therefore thou gratifiest Sathan; And
do not add sin to sin by so doing; In this time still Sathan came as an
Angel of light, though I was so full of terror, he still affrighted me in
every thing; If I did so and so, I should sin, that I durst not speak to
any that feared the Lord, nor I durst not have any prayer, because he
said, I sinned if I prayed, or suffered any to pray for me; and I was
exceeding affraid to sin, though he drew me abundantly by his false
pretences to vow against coming ever among the Saints, or into institutions
more; and said to me also, That if I did, I were the most notorious
lyer that ever spake; and that made me affraid, because of that dreadful B1r 9
dreadful Scripture in the last of the Revelations, where “the fearful are
ranked with those that shall have their portion in the Lake”. Many other
dreadful assaults I had, and casting my self at length down on the
ground, said, Lord there is no recovery, I shall surely go out like a
snuff; presently there shone a light round about me, and this saying,
Arise, why lyest thou upon thy face, pray and eat, this day is Salvation
come to thy house, behold this is the day of Salvation, this is the acceptable
time; Ask now what thou wilt in the height or in the depth,
and see whether God will not give thee the desire of thy soul; I replyed
and said, I would not tempt the Lord; he answered me, it is
not a tempting of God, when he requires this of thee; I said, then
Lord, give me an humble, broken, melting frame of Spirit, pour upon
me a Spirit of prayer and supplication, which immediatly the Lord did
in abundant measure, and many singings concerning the excellent
nature of faith: And now having procured a very terrible ague and
feaver upon my body, in locking my self up in such bitter cold weather,
coming at no fire, nor among any, lest they should speak to me of my
former experiences, which I found did aggravate my sorrow very
much; But the Lord as he had cured me in my spirit, so by faith he
restored my body; and as to that Temptation mentioned, never to
come among the Saints again, which was that grand temptation that
drew in the other; It being first setled in my heart, I desired that the
Lord would give me a Scripture to enform me that this was slain, and
should no more have the least puttings forth in me: at which time,
opening my Bible, this was given to me in Job, “Thou hast been tied in
Fetters, and holden in Chains of Affliction, and it is that the Lord
might shew thee thy work, and thy transgression which hath exceeded in
this time of thy Assaults; Now he openeth thine ear to discipline, and
he commandeth that thou return from iniquity”; Lord said I! what is
my work? Reply was, to go forth to the tempted, and whatever their
temptations were, I should have to speak forth to them; And also he
having opened mine ear to Discipline, I should go among the Saints,
and that company that I walked in fellowship with, and there I should
manifest a departing from that iniquity that Sathan had led me into,
in drawing me from all institutions, making me believe that I should
find the presence of God in reading and praying, and in the book of
the Creature, and that should satisfie me; But I found him a lyer to
purpose; though he told me that God had delt all along singularly
with me; and though I were not to forsake the Assemblies of the B Saints, B1v 10
Saints, yet if God would deal in a singular way with me, it should
not go upon my account, but the Lord might do what he pleased;
And so he endeavoured to bring me into those Familistical ranting
Tenents, that I had almost spent my lungs in pleading against: the
Lord having thus freed me, he hath kept this upon my heart to begg
the life of faith, and self denyal, to hold forth these his dispensations
towards me, both in Gath and Ashkelon, whom he bid me tell them
unto.

After my storms, I went down into the Countrey, to Hillington,
near to Uxbridge, and so soon as I came thither, at one Mr. William Atcrofts
house, the Lord filled me with many spiritual Hymns, as to my
temptations, promising me that my joy should abundantly outpass my
sorrow: And while I was thus singing and triumphing over Sathan,
challenging now a battel, and seeing the Lord so glorious before me;
I was drawn into my Visions, as the calling in of the Jews, the overthrowing
and shaking all Nations; And a Vision I had concerning
the Dissolution of the Parliament about four days before it was, not
knowing any thing of that nature was intended, which I sung; the
manner of it, that suddenly Gideon (as I called him) and M. G. Harrison
came into the Parliament-house and desired removal of them;
desiring Mr. Speaker to deliver up his Commission, and so I saw suddainly
a departure of them, though they were very loath thereunto;
And this many in the Country can witness: the Minister of Hillington,
Mr. Taverner by name, whose wife sent me word of it within
four days after I had the Vision of it: In these Visions I lay seven
days, and then arose, having strength as formerly.

Nine weeks after this, coming up to London, Mr. Smith a Linnendraper
in Newgate-Market, at the golden Anchor, asked me what
I thought of this New Representative that was then in choice? I answered,
that I had faith to believe that little good should be done to
the Nation by their sitting.

So after this I had divers Visions at times; wherein I saw their
breaking up; I lying frequently, sometimes ten days together, sometimes
seven, sometimes eight days or thereabouts; The time I lay
ten days was at Hackney, at my Kinsmans habitation, where the Lord
gave me Visions of their breaking up, and of the deadness of Gideons
spirit towards the work of the Lord shewing me that he was laid aside,
as to any great matters, the Lord having finished the greatest business
that he would employ him in; And I singing forth their breaking up, Colonel B2r 11
Colonel Bingham, which was one of them, being present, hearing
what I spake, as to Gideon, and to the rest of the Representative,
he was pleased (as I was told) to call it a Prophesie; saying, that
he was glad of that Prophesie of their breaking up, for he thought
little good would be done by them; This Vision I had the 1653-09-03third of
the seventh moneth, called September, at Hackney, 16531653.

Then again, within one moneth after I had at Mr. Barrats house at
Dowgate, more visions concerning the breaking of the same Representative,
and many other Visions I had concerning the Nation.

And then again, about fourteen days before the breaking up of them,
I had clear discoveries of the departure of those from the house,
whom I had called the Linsey-wolsey-Party, which the Lord said, he
would not have in his Tabernacle-work; But if those whose hearts
were upright sat for Temple-work, and for the building of that latter
house; which Christ saith, shall be more glorious then that of the
former, if they come from among them, the Lord will make them
glorious instruments for himself in those great concernments that he
had spoken forth in his word; And upon it I saw their coming from
them, and I sung the Passing-bell between them: singing forth another
Passing-bell to those that are in present power now; Nominating
him that was the Chair-man, Mr. Rowse, the Lord shewing me
that his heart was very hypocritical, and that he was not for the work
of the Lord; So that I had many songs and discoveries from the
Scripture against him, not hearing the least word, but that he was a
very Godly man, as Creatures said; But what I had against him, it
was from the Lord, which I spake then in the hearing of many; saying,
though he and the rest of them (which are now a Councel)
said, let us separate from that factious Part, casting them out with
the prayers of Christs poor flock; Reporting that God thereby
should be glorified, according to that Scripture in the last Chapter of
Isa. But I said, “God will appear to your comfort, and they shall be
ashamed”; This Vision I had at Mr. Marsh’s house at Dowgate.

After this I went home to Hackney, and the first week I came home,
not knowing any thing of the dissolution which was then drawing
near, I had these Visions: First I saw a great Tower, and the rooms
thereof were like to the Counsel-rooms at Whitehall, which I saw
strawed thick with Gun-powder; And at a little distance I saw a
white Tower, for whiteness and sparkling glory, I never saw any B2 thing B2v 12
thing to parallel with it; and looking into it, I beheld many very
precious Saints with their eyes fixed toward Heaven, their countenances
shining as the Sun; and neer to them, between that white
Tower and the other Tower, were a great many of the Colonels and
Chief of the Army, with their Pistols cock’d, and lighted Match in
their hands, beating the fire upon the gunpowder, endeavouring to
drive it up toward the white Tower, but they could not, for the fire
would not take; presently upon this, it was said to me, whereas
thou seest this high Tower whereon the gunpowder is, it is a great
many of men of the wise and politick, grave and judicious so called,
that are drawing up together, and their Wisdom, Power and policy
is that gunpowder that thou seest, and the match and Army-men, or
the chiefest part of the Army that shall assent and joyn with that Tower,
and gunpwder against the white Tower, saying, it was not to
destroy the white Tower that they were come forth, but the factious
ones that sat therein; Presently this Scripture likened them to
those of the Old World, that said, let us build a Babel that may
reach to heaven, and God came down and confounded their language;
so he will do by these that were rising up against the white Tower,
as it is written in the Proverbs, “The Name of the Lord is a strong
Tower”, wherein those factious ones, as they called them, sat in safety,
and shall be preserved all their days.

Another Vision I had at the same time, of many Oaks, with spreading
branches full of leaves, very great limmed; I looking to the
root, which lay but very little in the ground, & look’t dry, as if it were
crumbling to dust, and above the ground was only a little dry bark,
on which limmed and spreading Oaks were set; a few shrubs which being
by, were very lovely and green, these great Oaks fell suddenly
down, and cover’d the other; presently I saw a very lovely tree for stature
& compleatness every way not to be paralleld by any thing that
ever I saw, and before which the great Oaks crumbled to dust, and
the little shrubs were raised up, growing and thriving exceedingly;
then I desired Scripture to this Vision; Reply was, in the first of Isaiah
it is said, “They shall be confounded in the Oaks that they have desired”:
And as to that lovely Tree, it was declared to me to be the Lord Jesus,
which I had sometimes seen in the new Jerusalem, which is spoken of
in the Rev. ult. That that Tree was the very same that is there mentioned
whose fruit should be very many and beautiful, held forth to
the Shrubs, which they feeding upon, should immediately grow up B3r 13
up to a lovely Stature; which said the Lord to me, thou here seest,
that no sooner doth this Tree appear, which represents my Son, but
immediately those despised Shrubs that the great Oaks endeavored
to scatter and hide in their holes, they shall come forth, and all the
Oaks shall crumble into dust; this is not by Might, nor by Power,
or Arms, but brought in through the pourings out of my Spirit.

Two nights before the Protector was established, I had a glorious
sight of a Throne, Angels winged flying before the Throne, crying,
Holy, holy, holy unto the Lord; The great One is coming
down with terrour to the Enemies, and Glory and Deliverance to
the sincere, and them that walk uprightly; hearing of this, I broke
forth with much Melody, singing also Halleluiah, Praise and Honour
unto thee O Lord, will I render with them that thus cry holy.

Then another Vision followed, A great company of Children
walking on the Earth, a Light shining round about them, a glorious
Person in the midst of them, speaking these words; these
will I honour with my raigning presence in the midst of them;
others shall dye in the Wilderness, which Wilderness I will shew thee
by and by; So that departed.

A third vision followed, wherein I saw great darkness in the
Earth, and a marvellous dust, like a thick smoak ascending upward
from the Earth; and I beheld at a little distance a great company of
Cattel, some like Buls, and others like Oxen, and so lesser, their faces
and heads like men, having each of them a horn on either side their
heads; For the foremost, his Countenance was perfectly like unto
Oliver Cromwels; and on a suddain there was a great shout of those
that followed him, he being singled out alone, and the foremost;
and he looking back, they bowed unto him, and suddenly gave a shout,
and leaped up from the Earth, with a great kind of joy, that he was
their Supreme; and immediately they prompting him and fawning
upon him, he run at me, and as he was neer with his horn to my
breast, an arm and an hand clasped me round, a Voyce said, I will be
thy safety; he run at many precious Saints that stood in the way of
him, that looked boldly in his face; he gave them many pushes,
scratching them with his horn, and driving them into several houses,
he ran still along, till at length there was a great silence, and suddenly
there broke forth in the Earth great fury coming from the Clouds,
and they presently were scattered, and their horns broken, and they
tumbled into Graves; with that I broke forth, and sang praise, and B3 the B3v 14
the Lord said, mark that Scripture, “Three horns shall arise, a fourth
shall come out different from the former, which shall be more Terror to
the Saints then the others that went before; though like a Lamb”, as is
spoken of in the Revelation, “in appearance a Lamb, but pushing like a
beast”, being not only one, but many and much strength joyned together.

Thus far it was conceived meet and requisie to represent the spirit
and condition of the party; Not from thence to borrow the more
esteem, or belief to the Relation following, let that adventure forth
upon its own score, and stand or fall in that spirit that gave it being;
But that the truth may shine forth, as to the particular state and condition
of the Party, through that cloud of unchristian condemnings,
odious censures, and black defamations of unsatisfied, interested, envious,
and unbelieving persons which are gone forth; whereby, that in
this dispensation, which to many that were witnesses of it seems to be
the Glory and Beauty of it, may be confounded and darkned, and the
eyes of them that would see, be blinded in judgement.

Now concerning her speaking in Whitehall, this account we have to
Offer of the state and condition of her spirit in that work; which
was received from her own lips in the hearing of some then present, in
answer to the Questions which the Relator moved unto her; One
Question was asked her some weeks after she left Whitehal, and was
this. What frame of spirit was upon you in uttering those things in
Whitehall, was it only a spirit of faith that was upon you, or was it
Vision wrapping up your outward senses in trances, so that you had
not your senses free to see, nor hear, nor take notice of the People
present? She answered, I neither saw, nor heard, nor perceived the
noise and distractions of the people, but was as one that heard only
the voice of God sounding forth unto me; besides her own word, the
effects of a spirit caught up in the Visions of God, did abundantly appear
in the fixedness, and immoveableness of her speech in prayer, but
more especially in her songs: notwithstanding the distractions among
the people occasioned by rude spirits, that unawares crept in, which
was observed by many who heard her, who seemed to us to be as one
whose ears and eyes were locked up, that all was to her as a perfect
silence.

Another Question was, what moved you to silence at any time
when you ceased from speaking? was it with you as with other
good men, Ministers, &c. who cease at discretion, either having no more B4r 15
more to say, or having spent their strength of body, or having wearied
the people? She answered in these words, It was as if the Clouds
did open and receive me into them: and I was as swallowed up of the
Glory of the Lord, and could speak no more. To give you the Relators
observation for the further perswading him of the truth of
this; He took notice twice in her ceasing from speaking; Once she
ended with prayer, wherein being sweetly and highly raised in her
admirings of the glory that she saw, she uttered these, or like words:
Oh what brightness! what glory! what sweetness! what splendor!
which last word she hardly expressed in a full sound, and said no more;
Another time ending with a Song, in three or four of the last words,
in the last verse, her voice sunk into her breast, that they could not be
understood, like the words of a man falling asleep.

Now follows the Relation of so much of her Prayers and Songs, as
by a very slow hand could be taken for eight days.

Up on the 1654-01-10Tenth day of the Eleventh Moneth, 1653. The Relator
coming into the Chamber where she lay, heard her first
making Melody with a spiritual Song, which he could not take but in
part, and that too with such imperfection, as he cannot present any
account of it to the understanding of others: After her Song, she
without intermission uttered forth her Spirit in prayer, wherein
among many other, she expressed the passages following.

What is marvellous or can be in the eys of the Lord? the resurrection
of Jesus was marvellous in our eyes, but not with the Lord, for nothing
could keep down a Jesus; thy people could never have come out
of their graves, had it not been for the Resurrection of Jesus; as thou
risedst, so should they, as thou dyedst, so should they, thou wilt make
all things death before them; what endeavourings were there to
have kept thee in the Grave? oh, but what fastness, what locks, what
bolts that could keep in a Jesus? oh, but they thought that the Lord
Jesus was but a man, they understood not that the Divine Nature
was wrapt up in him in the Humane Nature; when thy time came the
Sepulchre was open, and the Lord Jesus came forth with great Power
and Majesty; oh blessed be the Lord that brought forth the Son, the
Heir, him that was victorious over his enemies; so shall there be a
Declaration against all things that would keep thine down; faith is
that Victory; how so? because faith brings into the bosom, and it
draws forth the Death and Resurrection of Jesus upon us: thou art
a bringing forth a great Resurrection: Jesus Christ is upon his appearing;
there are some do think so, but they say it is not yet begun,
God will bring it about another way, and another time; but
the Lord says, he will cut short his work in Righteousness; thou
knowest who are the Babylonians that are now about thine; as thou
didst to thy people of Old, thou wilt come forth speedily,――thy
thoughts are so exceeding high and glorious that none is able to reach
them; Man cannot bring forth his own thoughts, they are so
tumultuous, and run unto the ends of the Earth; oh then what are
thy thoughts O Lord,――though the Enemy begin to jeer them concerning
those blessed songs; well says God, are my people jeered
concerning their Excellencies, their Songs, their Hallelujahs that are
of my own making, that are before my Throne? the Lord cannot
endure that these Excellencies of his Saints should be trampled upon,
which are so perfect, so pure; how pleasant are the songs of thine, when C1r 17
when they are brought forth out of the Churches of thine Enemies:
――Tis not all the force in the world that can strike one stroak against
thine, but thou sufferest them to come forth to try thine; oh that
thine could believe thee for thy breakings of them, as well as for thy
bindings up; all things under the Sun, all things before you, in you,
shall work for your good; when they come to understand more of
the Mysterie, and of the entrals of Scripture, how will they praise
thy Highness? The Enemies are strong, Satan is strong, Instruments
are strong, Temptations they are strong, what Strengths are against
thy flock! They cannot be without the Lyon, and Lyon-like creatures:
Oh if thy Servants suffer, let them not suffer for passion or rash words,
but as Lambs; there is a zeal which is but from Nature, a mans own
spirit may prompt him to, but the zeal of God is accompanied with
meekness, humility, grief for Christ.――Since thy Handmaid is taken
up to walk with thee, thy Handmaid always desired that she might
be swift to hear, slow to speak; but now that thou hast taken her up
into thy Mount, who can keep in the rushing wind? who can bind
the influences of the Heavenly Orion, who can stop thy Spirit? It is
good to be in the Territories, in the Regions, where thou walkest before
thy Servant; oh how glittering, and how glorious are they, what
Sparklings are there!――Thou hast a great gust to come upon the
Earth, a great wind that shall shake the trees that now appear upon
the Earth, that are full of leaves of Profession; but they have nothing
but outward beauty, an outward flourish; but thy trees O
Lord, they are full of Sap: A great number of people said, oh let
our Oaks stand, let them not be cut down: oh but says the Lord, I
will make you ashamed in the Oaks that you have chosen; and because
you will have these Oaks, I will now give you other Oaks, and what
are they? A first, a second and a* third Power, and thou breakest them
one after another; oh thine own have had a great hand in these
things; thine have said, we will have Oaks and Gardens, how have
they run too and fro! says the Lord now, I will give you Gardens,
but they shall have no springs in them, they shall be as dry chapt
ground, they shall be as the falllow ground: what loveliness is there
to walk upon fallow ground? you shall have stumbling walkings
upon them, you shall have no green grass in these Gardens; what
have all the Gardens of the Earth been? they have been to thine
places of stumbling: O thou wilt by these thy strange ways, draw
up thine into thy upper and nether springs: thou hast deceived thy C Saints C1v 18
Saints once again about these Gardens: let them now run after them
no more, but be ashamed and abashed: we have hankered from
mountain to hill, we have said salvation is in this hill and in that,
but let us say so no longer: when we shall thus be drawn up to thee,
then we shall prosper, and thou wilt give us Vineyards, and Gardens,
and Trees of thine own, which shall abide.――Thou calledst thy servant
to come sometimes neer this place, to witness against some, who
said that the Kingdom was already given up to the Father, and contemned
the Man Christ: but now hast thou sent thy Servant again
to witness for thee, for the Kingdom of thy Son.

Having uttered much more in Prayer, which the
Relator, because of the press of people in the Chamber,
could not take; She delivered the further enlargements
of her heart in a Song, so much whereof as could
be taken, is presented to you as follows.

After she had breathed forth this Song with more enlargement
then could be noted by the Relator; She proceeded in Prayer, which
for the press of people crowding and darkning the Chamber, could
not be taken; She continued that day in prayer and singing four or
five hours together, and was then silent.

The next day, being the eleventh day of the moneth, the Relator
came in and heard her in prayer, wherein she delivered many things:
some whereof being of publique nature were taken: And are presented
in the account following.

Must thy Servant that now is upon the Throne, must he now die
and go out like a candel? Oh that thy servant could mourn day
and night for him! Oh that he might be recovered out of that vain
glorious Counsel, out of their Traps and Gins! Oh his soul is in bondage,
he will not hear New Jerusalems Sermons if thou convince him
not! Oh that he might be laid in thy bosome, that he might not refuse
to come among thy people! Oh that he might hearken to a praying
people, rather then to a wicked Counsel, rather then to a Politique
crue about him! Father, that he might Lord God come out of
those Fetters and Chains; And then do thou shew him his work, and
his transgression wherein he hath exceeded, and open his eyes to receive
instruction; He is in Chains by reason of that outward glory
and pomp that is round about him: Oh he thinks he is taught by thee
thus to go and to act! Oh, but blessed Lord, let thy handmaid intreat
thee to perswade him; For thy perswasions are more then the perswasions
of all the great Doctors and Rabbies that are about him!
Oh that they also might consider what they do, they have been Preachers
of free Grace to thy people: Let them not now come forth with
the voice of Haman, but with the voice of Mordecai; let them be
faithful, and say unto him, thou art but a man that doth thus; let them
not joyn with that that thou art breaking in pieces; Thou wilt not
have thine to sit upon thrones now, till all thine shall sit together upon
those twelve Thrones; Is it not better that he shall pry into the Laws
of King Jesus, then of those that are about him? he little thinks that
they would bring him into jeopardie; Let him not entertain any upon
the account that they are grave, wise, judicious men; But let him look
whether Godliness be in them: Oh, but he will say, they are Godly
too! Oh, but let him look at actions, whether these actions do
speak them Godly! Oh, this is a day of Jacobs trouble, thine looked for
refreshment, and behold greater trouble, they looked for a birth, and
behold it is yet in travel; Many of thy children are put to a stand, and
know not what to do; though he doth repulse them, yet let them tell
him of his sins, and tell him with humility, and with tears; not as
those deluded spirits, that go running about the streets, and say, we
have such Visions and Revelations, who come out with their great
speeches of vengeance, and judgement, and plagues: Oh, but thine
that come from thee, thou givest them Humility, Meekness, Bowels
and Tears. Pluck out those of the Counsel that are thy Children, tell them C4r 23
them that thou dost not love linsey wolsey garments, linnen and wollen
mixed together, neither in the thrones, nor in any building, or
Temple, or Concernment of thine. It is true, Authorities and
Powers are by the permission of the most high; He gave Commission
to the Assyrian to be a rod to Israel, till he had accomplished his work
upon Mount Sion; But here is the difference, that was an enemy,
whom God would destroy with eternal fire, and perpetual burning;
But these come forth as brethren, as thy children; and therefore thine
do not know how to bear it from them: Oh, it is a grief to the heart
that they should smite and grieve thy Saints; Besides, the Kingdom
of the Lord Jesus is at hand, all the Monarchies of this world are going
down the hill: Now is a time that thine should look off from these
things, and lift up their head, for their Redemption draws near;
Now thou requirest a greater going forth of the Spirit; What manner
of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation? we are not to be for
our selves but for Christ; Now the treasury is open, and every one is
to cast into it; now all is spread open, for all to come, to cast in
something: Oh come forth thou great Builder in thy glory! Oh what
sheddings of blood have there been in order to this work! Let there
be days of Glory; Hear the voice of thine, yea, thou dost hear them,
though thou wouldest have them to wait, they shall not be ashamed;
they that tarry and rest upon thee, thou wilt come and lead them with
thy sweet spices: Oh that the souldiery might now come forth out of
their bravery, and say, shall there be some that shall come up to that
glorious building, shall they reign in that day, and shall we that have
gone forth for the Lord thus far come short thereof, and be laid aside!
Oh help them to entreat thee that thou wouldst not spue them out of
thy mouth as luke-warm ones, nor let them not be cast out of thy
Temple; Now is a measuring time that thou art measuring thy own
Temple, not the world, but thine own Saints, there is a little silence
from Trumpet and Battels, and now is a time of silence: Oh but
there is a time of the shooting of bullets, and they will come forth
again! Oh that thy Temple might not fall to pieces, the stones that
are joyned to the Corner stone, that they may not have the hammer
come upon them; no, nor any Iron tool come into thy work.

Oh let him be willing to part with such things as may hinder the
prosperity of his soul; make him out of love with the wine and feasts
below, and bring him in love with thy liquors and flagons from heaven!
Oh but their vains are so full of blood before, that they have no room, C4v 24
room, but do thou cast the overflowing blood, and then what can
hinder thy work! Oh but can these dry bones live? give thy handmaid
leave to tell thee that thy children are like dead bones now in
the Valley; But thine say Lord, thou canst make them live, thou canst
bring nerves and bones, and knit them together again; Let thy servant
never be silent till they be brought out of the Valley, out of
the slimy pit! Oh do thou fill their pools, thou causest rain to come
and fill the pools! Oh fill all places, all things with water from above,
that thine may drink thereof; bring forth that water, that may make
them Warriours for thee, and not any longer for themselves, and let
them know that thy servant doth abundantly tender them! Oh let all
that thy servant hath go for Sion; First, Second and last breath; Were
it not for thine, thou wouldest send the Nations into this Nation; thou
hast a people in this Nation, who have thy name upon them, therefore
thou wilt not let out the boars, and the wild beasts against them,
for they would spare none; Thou hast a few names that are cloathed
in white, whom thou dost abundantly delight in, and they delight in
thee; they commit their way unto thee, and thou wilt not destroy
them, though they live in Sodom; thou hast many precious lights in this
Nation, in this City, or it would be suddainly burnt with fire: Oh
how beholding is this tumultuous City to thine inheritance!

Therefore Father teach him, let him know that he may reign as
one of thine: Oh, is it not a sweet thing to be crowned by thee?
and that is sweeter then to be crowned by man: Oh says Gideon! I will
not be your King, the Lord shall reign over you: Oh it is enough for
him to be one of thy Kings! Oh let him now deny, and cast it down,
and say; Without these Dignities, and great Titles, I will serve the
People and Commonalty; and then wilt thou say to him, thou art
my Gideon; Let him consider that thine shall rule over all Nations;
and let him say, why may not this be the time that it does draw near?
Let not him say as they said of old, who put the day far from them,
that the Vision was for many days; for a time yet afar off; But let
them accept of the day and time that thou hast put into their hand;
The Lord is building his Temple, it is no time now for them to build
Tabernacles; Now thou art upon thy Temple-work, shall they be
building great Palaces for themselves? The Souldiers slight thy handmaid,
but she matters not, they shall and must consider in time; they
say these are Convulsion-fits, and Sickness, and diseases that make thy
handmaid to be in weakness; But oh they know not the pouring
forth of thy Spirit, for that makes the body to crumble, and weakens
nature; In these extraordinary workings thou intendest to shew what
is coming forth hereafter; something is a coming forth, there is so
Lord; and oh how does thy handmaid bless thee!

Having Prayed for, and made much mention of the
Merchants, she Sings the following Hymn to them.

These were uttered and sung the 1654-01-12twelfth day of this eleventh month.
Upon the 1654-01-13thirteenth day she uttered many precious things in Prayer
and Songs, which the Relator could not for the press of people write down.

Here followes some short account of some things she uttered the 1654-01-1414th.
day, as the Relator could take them in some scattered
expressions.

Let thy Servant beg high springs for Saints; come in with full springs
in such a time as this, when that the waters are brought so high,
that thy poor children are ready to be overwhelmed by them, in their
snares and entanglements; they say these waters are very clear and sweet
that come from men, but at length they make the Soule very muddy;
Why is thy Handmaid so long with thee upon the Mount, seeing thy
sparkling glory, and those reviving springs, but that thy Handmaid may
plead with thee concerning thy Saints, thine Inheritance, and that her
heart may take in the things concerning thy Saints. There is now a
great deale of provision for a poore man, and yet hee will wither
and come to nothing; certainly folly will be writ upon his labour,
Thou wilt not commend it as a peece of wisdome, Thou wilt not give
it a badge of honour, Thou wilt rather put a blot upon it, Thou F2 wilt F2v 36
wilt never write faire concerning it; Thou art coming to write faire
concerning the Palace of the Lord Jesus, and the Glory of that
Kingdome; oh, but they have a veil over their eyes that they cannot
see it; Oh, but saies God I have a Jacob, a dew, a Lyon, and
they shall know it: I have but a few names among you, in whom
my Name is found, though I have a great many soules; Thou wilt
find, Lord, but a few that have kept themselves undefiled from the
world, that are pure Religious ones; there are may fleshly, nationall,
formall religious ones, but the poore, fatherlesse and widow are the
companions of the pure religious ones. They think it scorne if one
should tell them they are not Religious, they will say you are censoririous,
Oh, but thou wilt tell them, that they doe not doe that which is
pure Religion, that is so before God; who is such a burning and
shining light as John was, who gives forth such a Testimony of Jesus as
John did? Is it not said, that they who faint in adversity, it is an argument
that their strength is small? When they are in prosperity then
they can speake large and high things of Jesus Christ, but then to hold
out in time of temptation, that hath a good report with God; God
saith, “I will judge righteous Judgement”, I will not judge what you
doe, when you meet, and speake and pray together, but I will follow
you into your secret places, your Houses, your Callings, your Offices,
&c. those that breath after thee Lord, they are searching after their
secret sins, for thou commest into the heart; they cannot prosper that cover
their secret sins; there is such a covering of secret sins, that prosperity
flyes from us, and takes wings and flies away.――

It is not a time now to raise States, and Names, and great
things, for thou art now pulling downe, they will set up their Beacons
upon their owne hills, when thou sayest thou wilt have thy Beacon
upon thine own hill, and thy Standard set up there; oh how do men set
up their posts by thy posts?――

When thou dost make Bars and iron gates they will endeavor to
break them open, and beat them down, that the enemie may come in
among us; they think if they have armied men about them, it is well with
them; O, but to have thy armed men which are Chariots of fire about them
that were safe indeed: When thou commest with thy hand, what are
all these before thee? they are crushed on a sudden. Take away Lord all
that sowre leaven that is upon the earth, it favors all the meal, that it
has a brackish taste; though many of thy children in their affections
and judgements may bee sowred by this leaven, yet thou hast some into F3r 37
into whom this sowre leaven cannot enter: Take it out of thy Children
that are in the midst of the earth, and keep thy lump that it may not
be infected; many are infected, their language is infected, it was sweet
before, but now it is confused, it had an harmony, but now it hath no
rellish.――

Thou hast declared the comming of the Lord Jesus, that he shall
come suddenly, so the transactings of things here below do come suddenly,
and poore man, how is he confounded, he is in a smoother in his
own judgement, he is in the smoak, and cannot find the door! Let not
thy Children be blinded and blood shed, oh take them out, and let them
take heed that they do not return into such smoaky houses againe; oh,
let thine blesse thy Name, that thou hast proved a cleare flame for their
eyes, a burning flame, that shall burn up all smoaking things, as crackling
thorns under their feet

Oh, that thy Children should drink up inflaming Wine, not like
thy inflaming wine, for that’s a beautifull inflaming, but an inflaming to
rednesse and burning.――

Thine that thou keepest from such things, they shall walk with
thee, thou wilt make them partakers of glorious Priviledges, thou
wilt bring them into thy Territories above, into thy sweet Walks,
how wilt thou hang them about with Hony Suckles? not like the hony
that is of the earth, that is clogging, but pure hony that is reviving; thy
Ezekiels that behold thee by the River Chebar, Oh what sights,
what glories, what rivers, what springs do they enjoy! and yet thy children
are affraid to suffer; Oh what a spirit of slavish feare hath seized
upon thy own children! though thou hast said the Lord will be with you
in the fires and in the waters, yet what pale faces are there amongst thine,
oh, is this to professe Jesus!――

Thou wilt make the whole earth to be thy children, and wilt
make them to be the honourable ones, and yet they will not know,
nor consider it; Oh this is a time not for man to reign, but for the Lord
Jesus, and this voyce sounds out here and there by a Son or a Daughter;
Oh, but when shall all the Sons, and all the Children cry for King Jesus?
the Reason is, Because of the infirmities of the flesh, and because
thine are of a stammering speech, and of stuttering tongue, but
thou hast promised that the time shall come that there shall not be a
people of a deeper speech then thy people, and they shall not be of a
stammering tongue. Come O all you Disputants, Monarchs, Scribes F3 and F3v 38
and Rabbies of the world, come forth now, and let us see what Arguments
you can bring forth against the Spirit, the pourings forth of it,
the rising of the Sun of Righteousnesse upon the world, against the influences
of the heavenly Orion; oh, you shall be the men that shall be of a
stammering lip and of a stuttering tongue.――

Oh what a doubting is there now among thine, what disputing,
what reasoning, what they shall doe, whether they shall cry up a Man
or King Jesus! let them take the engagements of Man, and lay them
under their feet, and take the engagement of Jesus, and lay that to their
heart; Let thy servants now be of a publique spirit, let them now flie
high above the Skies, not into vaine conceits, vaine speculations, and
high notions; oh but thou callest to an exalting high through Jesus
unto thee; they that have kept to a crucified Jesus, they are thine:
Oh, here are good words, great allegories, and high expressions, oh,
but they that honour thy Sonne, thou wilt honour them; they that
honour the Son honor the Father; Oh, they that say they will honour
the Father alone, and live in the Father alone, and lay aside the Son,
they are deceived, thou wilt have them keep within thy bounds, and
not to stretch the Point beyond the Compasse. Oh, let thine take a
thorow view, and not rashly take up any thing: Thou wilt have
thine try the gold as well as the drosse; thou wilt not have thine take
up any thing, while thy know not the life of it.

Oh, But who is he or she that admires the Lord Jesus through all,
in all, and above all; He is all in nothing-Creatures, the Creature is
nothing, but thou hast said, thou dost great things through nothing:
Oh, that thine were taken with Truth for Truths sake, that they would
seek into the bottome, and goe into the golden Mine, and not onely
gather up the shavings thereof, let them not take up the sparks but
the fire it selfe.

That a poor Creature should subsist without sustenance, what a gazing
is there at this poor thing, while you forget the glory that is in it, go
into the Marrow, what matters it for the bone, let them have the Spirits, it
is no matter for any thing else,――

Oh that thy poor servant should thus long converse with thee, and
so long sit at thy fire, and feele the warmth thereof, and so beare testimony
against all false fires, and all things that are against King Jesus.

Then she uttered forth this Song, the greatest part whereof, as
much as the Relator could take, runs as followeth.

Then raising her note she proceeds
as followes.