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PREFACE.

of this Character, in such a Dialogue as Horace represents between Ulysses and Tiresias, who pretended to reveal Things to come.

Num furis? an prudens ludis me obscura canendo? O Laertiade, quicquid dicam, aut erit, aut non: Divinare etenim magnus mihi donat Apollo. Quid tamen ista velit sibi Fabula, si licet, ede.

But as I am determined to give such Readers and all Men, so full, and fair, and convincing an Account of my self and that celestial Spirit I receiv'd these Papers from, and to answer all Objections so entirely, as to put Ignorance, and even Malice it self to Silence: I am confident, the ingenuous and candid part of the World, will soon throw off such mean narrow spirited Suspicions, as unjust and ungenerous. I am willing the important matters reveal'd to me, may stand as publick and severe a Trial, as those of St. Bridget did before the Council, and have the Truth fully examin'd and search'd into, even by the strict Rules Chancellour Gerson prescribes for hers and all such Examinations, in his Treatise de Probatione Spirituum, where he most gravely and judiciously advises, that all Persons (Layman, Nun, Monkor