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