own magical powers, if the spirits had "come when they did call for them." There was a time when our saints dealt largely in prophecy, . . but there is a valuable story upon record, of one whose prediction happened to be accomplished, and the effect which it produced upon him was immediately to make him mad. This striking fact is thus related by the faithful historian of the Quakers, William Sewel.
"Thomas Ibbitt of Huntingtonshire, came to London a few days before the burning of that city, and, (as hath been related by the eye-witnesses) did upon his coming thither, alight from his horse, and unbutton his clothes in so loose a manner, as if they had been put on in haste just out of bed.
"In this manner he went about the city on the sixth, being the day he came thither, and also on the seventh day of the week, pronouncing a judgment by fire, which should lay waste the city.
