The merchants ſhall in ſafety traffick to forcing nations to bring home their commodities to enrich this land. All trading will flouriſh, and there will be a general joy in the face of all, for the plenty of all things for the Lord will bleſs the land once more, and try if the people will remember the Lord their God who relieved them in the day of trouble, even when there was a ſcarcity of corn, all trading dead, and the bloody ſword drawn in the field, threatning ruin and deſtruction to all the princes in Europe. Let Britain never forget its calamities, and the mighty arm that delivered them: This ſaid the farmer, will be the joyfulleſt time that Britiain ever yet ſaw.
The Lord of heaven be praiſed for his marvellous doings, ſaid the farmer, but gentle youth, now thou haſt told me this, pray give me a ſign, that I may know who is the matter you ſerve and grant me one teſtimony more, to ſatisty my yet doubting ſpirits.
As for the maſter I ſerve, ſaid the youth he has many names, but if thou wilt then look in the glaſs when I am gone, thou wilt find a ſign in thy forehead, by which thou may know who he is And further to confirm, that all that I have ſaid is true, go up ſtairs to thy chamber, and thou ſhalt there find thy wife dead in her bed, of the ſwelling diſtemper in her throat.
Upon which the farmer in great ſurprizes running up ſtairs, found it true as the ſtranger had ſaid, and coming down ſtairs again found he was gone, then being more ſurprized then before, he went to the glaſs and to his great aſtoniſhment, found a croſs upon his forehead, which, when he beheld he cried out. Lord I believe, help thy ſervants unbelief. This made him think this fair ſtranger was an angel, who had told him all theſe wonders, upon which he praiſed the Lord and bleſſed his name for evermore. Then he call’d his
