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There were at Newberry some She An∣nabaptists, that took upon them to have Revelations, and therein to see such glo∣rious things as could not be related nor
Cambridge jests, or, Witty alarums for melancholy spirits by a lover of ha, ha, he.
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- Cambridge jests, or, Witty alarums for melancholy spirits by a lover of ha, ha, he.
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- Lover of ha, ha, he.
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- London :: Printed for Samuel Lowndes, and are to be sold at his shop ...,
- 1674.
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imagined by others; drawing by such means many poor simple people to be of their Religion, in hopes of seeing the like glorious Visions. One amongst the rest told the holy Brotherhood, that she had a Revelation to be taken up into Heaven on such a night, the rest resolving to take their solemn leave of her, at the time ap∣pointed, all went out with her into the Fields, to see her glorious Ascension; the night happen'd to be a Moon-shiny night, and as they expected, when some Angel should come to fetch her in a Fiery Cha∣riot, a Cloud covers the face of the Moon, whereupon they began to cry, Behold he comes in the clouds; but immediately their hopes vanished with the Cloud.