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thou do for me, or rather, What ſhall I do for thee? Then it came upon my heart with ſuch power, that he cast an open door to plead both for myſelf and his remnant, (in which I found great liberty,) that he would ſpare a remnant, and not make a full end in the day of his anger. At the fame time I ſaw four lines drawn before me, which ye will find in Pſalm 22. A ſeed shall ſervice do to me, unto the Lord it shall be for a generation reckoned in ages all.
5. Another time I was awakened out of my ſleep, with a great voice, which ſaid unto me, This year ſhall be a year of great confuſion, ſuch as was not ſince the year king Uzziah died; for the mother ſhall forget her ſucking child, and the father the ſon of his old age, for there ſhall be a cry made to go forth and ⟨meet⟩ the Spaniſh army, and he that goes forth to meet that army, ſhall not find a man to take him by the hand to aſk how he doeth: and he that will not leave houſe and family, and go to the field for Chriſt and his intereſt: for I will bring a ſtroke upon this land, and none ſhall eſcape from the king to the beggar, and that for their many ſins, particularly theſe three, viz. Broken and burnt covenants, and the blood ſhed of thoſe that teſtified againſt the ſame, and a deſpiſed and ſlighted goſpel.
6. At another time being overpoured with a great light, a conſiderable writing was laid before me, which I could not underſtand, but at length I perceived an expreſſion, viz. Come, hear all ye that fear the Lord, and I will tell you what I am to bring upon this generation; I have given you my goſpel in purity and plenty, for more than forty years, in which I laid before them, all the bleſſings pronounced in the book of Deuteronomy, and all the curſes pronounced on mount Ebal againſt the diſobedient, yet my goſpel laked ſome things among them. There were ſeveral things laid before me, which I cannot remember: and as I was turning from looking upon it, it was ſaid, Here was thing that was lacking, viz. The light of my countenance; I will raze this generation, as a man razeth a piece of ground to provide his turf, I will run upon this generation, as a man treading mortar, running backward and forward, treading upon the higheſt placos: And as I live, ſaith the Lord, The houſe of Eli shall not eſcape. i.e. The great ones ſhall not be paſt by for their greatneſs, nor the poor for his poverty; and that for the following rea-ſons
