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accompanied with flashings of fire and brimstone, while the damned were repeating their endless torments, without the least hopes of deliverance.
Having seen and heard ten times more than is convenient to be uttered, I was conducted through a spacious palace which let down to a great pair of stairs, by a glorious Person in white raiment; who as soon as we had got to the bottom, told me, that I must return from whence I came, and declare to the world what I had seen : withal adding, that after that after three days, I should leave my earthly habitation, and return to him who made me, and live with him to all eternity.
He also bid me tell you, that the kingdoms of Great Britain, France and Ireland, were to undergo many difficulties ere it be long. This the glorious Person told me, would as surely come to pass, as that of my own death three days hence; so that I have but three days more to live, according to the just decree of heavenly power, which I patiently submit to.
And as soon as this heavenly Person had done telling what should happen to these parts, relating to these kingdoms; as he was going away, he turned himself suddenly backwards to me, as if he had forgot something remarkable, Pray, says he, give your friends this caution, if they do not mend their lives, and repent their sins, which they too much abound in, what I have said of their enemies shall fall upon their heads, when they think
