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she said, That is Jerusalem new town.' I asked her a few more questions, to which she returned answers, and I awoke. I have thought much at times since of the old Jerusalem, that is in bondage with her children, and of a new Jerusalem, of which God speaks; For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create; for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy," Isai. lxv. 17, 18.

Sometime after this, I had been much engaged in my mind about this long, tedious, and destructive war, and of the revolutions that have taken place lately in Europe; and was wondering whereabouts in God's book the account of these things stand, not doubting but it is in the bible, because the mystery of God is to be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets, Rev. x. 7; and I thought we might say with David, "We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there amongst us any that knoweth how long," Psalm 1xxiv. 9. In the days of old it was not so; "Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets," Amos iii. 7; but as for us we were such a poor, blind, ignorant remnant, and so unworthy, that God would not divulge any of these matters to us, and I wept much: it was at going to bed. It is true we have had several things published upon the signs of these times, but the discoveries

they have made are little else than their own blindness and ignorance. I went to bed not a little distressed, and when I awoke in the morning these words sounded loudly in my heart and ears, 'This is the hour of temptation;' from that time to this I have not had one doubt but the whole account stands in the eleventh chapter of the book of the Revelations, by John, and principally in the thirteenth verse; but the hour there spoken of has no small difficulties attending it. A prophetic day being a year, according to many accounts in that book, the learned fix that hour to be about a fortnight; but we who have lived to see the earthquake there spoken of, and the long continuance of the war since the first revolution, see nothing as yet of that fortnight, to which space of time that hour is fixed by the learned. I have taken much pains to find out what the scriptures mean by an hour, but can come at no certainty. The hour that I allude to in the Revelations is three times mentioned, first, by way of threatening; "If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee," Rev. iii. 3. The Philadelphian church receives a promise of being preserved from this hour; "Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation," Rev. iii. 10.

But in Rev. xi. 13, it appears that it will take place during this war; "And the same hour there

was an earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell," &c. but to come to any exact time signified by this hour, is not an easy matter. I considered Luke xxii. 53, "This is your hour, and the power of darkness;" this was the time Christ was in the hands of his murderers, who crucified him and insulted him in his sufferings, and when in his tomb triumphed over him, which was but a few days at most, and yet much more than a common hour.

And in Rev. xvii. 12, "And the ten horns which thou sawest, are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast." The head of the Romish church, the pope, and these ten kings, receive power together; these kings receive power one hour with the beast, that is, these ten kings shall come to their kingdom and the pope to his grandeur in one hour. The learned allow that the beginning of the setting up of these kingdoms in the western empire, was in the year 356, and that all the ten kingdoms were not up till 450, and some write not until 486, which make this hour to be more than a hundred years.

The slaughter of the witnesses, and their lying three years and a half unburied, their resurrection, and the present earthquake, are all said to be 'the same hour,' Rev. xi. 13; whereas we see the earthquake still remains; the war has been carried on not much less than seventeen or eighteen years, and the witnesses are still alive; all which

convince me that it is a very difficult thing to fix any exact time to the Holy Spirit's meaning by 'an hour,' 'one hour,' and 'the same hour,' which per haps is to check our being over solicitous.

About three years ago I was at Grantham in Lincolnshire, and being in bed alone I dreamed that I was in company with many professing people. We were gathered together in a large open space of ground, and there was another company gathered together against us; they seemed to be very violent and malicious at us, and we were in very high dispute; but I do not remember that any body spoke on our side but myself. While I was disputing with this multitude among my friends, I looked on my right hand, and saw a large rock rise up out of the ground, very much resembling what I have seen in drawings and in print of Mount Sinai, in Arabia. I pointed our adversaries to look at that; they did so, and turned pale, and their scorning, sneering, and grinning, subsided. I awoke, and behold it was a dream.

I soon fell into a sleep again, and dreamed the same dream as before, and the same rock rose up at the same place as in my former dream, to which I pointed our opposers; they looked at it and their countenances fell. I said, 'Look there, and let that convince you that God is for us;' and I awoke with these words sounding both in my heart and ears, "Thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee," Isai. xliii. 4.

Since I have been settled in London, I have

made it a rule, once in the space of six or eight years, to visit those favorite spots in the country, where it pleased the Lord Jesus Christ at times to visit me. I went first with my Dame to Mortlake, in Surry, where the Lord first spake to me, bidding me to come out of the world, from all mine acquaintance, and to have no more to do with them; this was in a garden belonging to the Honourable Messieurs Clive, brethren to the late Lord Clive. We went to the house, and I rung at the bell, and the footman came. I asked if the Honourable Messrs. Clive lived there; he told me no. I told the servant that I had been acquainted formerly with that family, and had spent many days in that garden, without saying in the capacity of a gardener. The servant informed us the gentleman of the house was not at home, but that the lady was. I sent my respects, and begged the favour of a walk in the garden. She sent me word I was welcome to walk where I pleased, and as long as I liked. We went in, but the garden was so altered, that I should not have known it to be the same, if I had not been well acquainted with the place. I had more than once been by the house and garden, but never into it before nor since the time I left it. I pointed to one corner of the garden, and told my wife I had made a mount in that corner, when I worked here; we went round and saw the mount; it is still in being. I then went to that quarter of the garden, where I was at work when the voice