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April the 22d. 1677.
About the break of day there ap∣peared to me, as upon a Mountain, a stately building of great fortitude and strength; it was compacted so within it self, as nothing by many miles could come near to it. All the scituation of it was green, and pleasant, but the ascent to it was so high, as it seemed impossible for any to come up thereunto, who had not the Wings of a Dove. Neither could I discern any Road or Path-way thither. After the representation hereof was pas∣sed away, leaving much thoughtfulness in me, I had for that present time this word given to me. That this separated Building was called the City of strength. Some three nights after, as I was in a slumber, this high Mountain appeared again: and I saw two Persons beckoning out of that place to come up, then I at∣tempted to ascend or to walk up to them; but found my Corporeity so weighty upon me, as I could not by any means, at that present make up thither: which caused great anxiousness in me, for my