A TRANCE: OR, news from Hell, Brought fresh to town BY Mercurius Acheronticus.  
LONDON, Printed, Ann: Dom. 1649.   

Paraenesis Angliae.  
O England, England If thou be'st not given quite over to a reprobate sense; If the least spark of Grace, the least ray of Reason, be yet remaining in Thee, be warned, be warned by this Trance, by the dreadful objects, the hideous and horrid apparitions thereof: If no temporal respects can win Thee, let the apprehensions of eternal ruin work upon Thee: If the hopes of Heaven cannot prevail with Thee, let the torments of Hell deter Thee, which are represented to the very life unto Thee in this ensuing Vision. Be not accessary to thy own destruction, to thy own damnation; Let not thy children be deluded any longer with chimaeras of more liberty, and advancement of common good. 'Tis true, To love one's country (which is the specious pretence of all these insurrections) is a commendable thing, yet it is but a Pagan precept; To fear God, to honour his Priests, to give Caesar his due, not to do evil that good may come of it, these are all Christian precepts, and Scripture principles.  
As the Author was in a Trance, so sure thou art in a fit of madness: Poor thing, thou want'st a physician to cure thee, rather than a Divine to confute thee: Return then, O return to thy wits, to thy old English temper again, else 'tis high time for Thee to make thy last Will, and that the Bell should ring out to invite thy Neighbours to the funeral of thy Liberty; And because I have already half promised, I will lay this Epitaph upon Thee:  {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman}.  

TO England's imperial Chamber, THE Renowned City of LONDON: To the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, the Right worshipful the Sheriffs, the Court of Aldermen, and common-council, the Noble Company of Merchant-Adventurers, and Home-Corporations; to all the hopeful Apprentices, and all other Inhabitants, Inmates, or Aliens, within the said spacious City and Suburbs, is addressed what followeth.  
Perditio tua ex Te, L:  

O London, understand thy woe,  
Thou art thy Self thy greatest Foe;  
Be warned, be wise, prevent the Fates,  
Destruction bounceth at thy gates,  
And know, There is no earthly thing  
Can make thee happy, but thy King.   

Think with what Honour the first dagger came  
Into thy Shield, the Times are now the same.    

A TRANCE.  
The proem.  
Such is the force of Fancy, so large is the reach, so boundless is the prerogative of human Imagination, that though the small concave of a scull some two or three spans compass be her ordinary and natural habitation, yet the whole Globe of the Earth, nor all the elementary world can totally confine her, but she will at pleasure climb up to the skies, and make a scale of the stars to conduct her to the Empyrean Heaven; Thence she can descend in a trice to the great abyss, and take a survey of the Kingdom of darkness; And though it be a maxim among Divines that ab Orconulla redemptio, there's no return out of Hell, and that the passage back thence is irremeable, yet the Imagination of man hath this privilege, that she can make egresses and regresses, she can enter, and come off clear thence when she list, and all this if need be in an instant; wherein she seems to partake of that admired quality which is inherent in that most comfortable creature the Light, who is held the sovereign of all sensible qualities among the Philosophers, and to come nearest to the nature of a Spirit, which creature requires but an instantaneous moment and point of time to perform his office of illumination, and dilate himself throughout the hemisphere▪ whence some infer that he is not corporeal, in regard it is an unquestioned principle in nature that all bodies require a succession of time in their motion: but there is this difference twixt the Imagination and Light, that there be some places whereinto Light cannot enter, but there is no part of the universe so impervious, where the Imagination may not make his accesses and recesses at pleasure; as will appear by the following example.  
IT fortuned very lately that I was in a Trance, a strange kind of ecstasy surprised me on a sudden, which lasted a good while; during the time, me thought I was transported to the remotest place, and of the greatest distance that possibly could be from Heaven; me thought I was in Hell, in Hell, God bless us, among the Devils, and damned Spirits; I had neither that golden branch, nor the help of a Sibylla Cumana to conduct me up and down as the Trojan Prince had, but me thought a Spirit did lead me gently and softly all along till I came to Pluto's Palace, where a special counsel was held to take a strict examination what service the three Furies, Allecto, Tisiphone, and Megaera, with other inferior Fiends that were their Assistants, had done on Earth, towards the advancement of the Kingdom of darkness, since their last mission thither, which was presently upon the appearance of the last blazing Star in the year 1618. Pluto vouchsafed to be present and preside at this counsel, and to be Chaireman himself, to which purpose he had a strong Legion of Cacodaemons for his guard, but the business was prepared and facilitated for his hearing before hand by a Committee appointed of purpose for that end, whence I inferred that Committees were first hatched in Hell, especially some of those that we have now adays. The three ghastly daughters of Night appeared with dreadful fiery countenances before Puto, in lieu of air they evaporated huge flakes of fire, which they took in, and let out with the accents of their words, huge bunches of Snakes with their tails rooted in their sculls hung dangling and waving about their heads like dischevelld hair: A furious contestation fell between them who should be prolocutrix, but in regard that Allecto and Tisiphone had given an account of their former missions, the one of the League in France, the other of the revolt of the Hollander, it came now in due turn that Megaera should have the priority of speech, so the youngest of the Tartarian Girls began as follows;  
May your high Acherontic majesty vouchsafe to understand, that since the last happy Comet, which by the Parallax was found to be in the Heaven, appeared, we have for 30 years together been more active, and more eager in your majesty's service than ever we were; We have incited the affections of the foolish Inhabitants of the earth to war, and to worry one another like Wolves in most places; To effect which our practice hath been to bring the beggerliest and toughest people upon the richest and softest; We brought the Swead upon the German, the Catalan upon the castilian, the Tartar upon the Chinois, the Scot upon the English, and now lastly, the Turk upon the Venetian, and the Cosaque upon the Pole; We have continued a lingering bloody war in Germany for thirty years together, which entangled into it most of the neighbouring States; We have thrust divers Princes out of their ancient Inheritances, among others the Duke of Lorain, and the Palsgrave of the Rhin; We brought two Grand Turks to be strangled which never happened before; We have often puzzled Italy, we have made the Kings of Spain and France, though Brothers to bandy so fierce one against the other, as if the one had been an infidel, the other a Jew; But Sir, the most advantageous and signal services we have done to your infernal majesty have been in the isles of great Britain and Ireland: For whereas we divided ourselves before, and went singly among other people, we went jointly thither all three, because we might be sure to bring our ends home to our aim. The Nation fittest for us to work first upon was the Scot, who have been so obedient to their Kings, that of above a hundred they brag of, scarce two parts of three died in their beds; We did suscitate them first against their native King, and to appear in a daring hostile manner before him upon the borders; At which time it cost us a great deal of labour so to besot the English, to abase their courage, and entangle them with Factions (having sure confidents among them to that end) that they durst not present them battle, and this Sir was an important piece of service, for had they fought then, or had they been sensible afterwards of the national dishonour they received at that time, their King being in the field, and consequently had they stuck to him afterwards to have vindicated it, all those Wars we have fomented since might have been prevented: We shortly after transmitted the same Spirit of Insurrection into Ireland, who being encouraged by the good successes the Scot had (for he had what he list, yet could he not sit quiet) and the Irish Commissioners being but harshly entertained by this English parliament who intended to send over a Deputy that should pinch them more than they were before in their consciences, besides in that they revoked that leave which the King had granted under hand and seal to the Spanish Ambassadors to have some part of Straffords Army in Ireland (which were our prime instruments for the Rebellion) to go for Spain, with other incentives, we stirred the Irish also to rise in blood, which they did to some purpose. Then came we to work upon the English, whom we found as fit to receive our impression as Flax is to take fire, in regard of their long surfeit of peace and plenty. We broke up one parliament because most of the Members thereof were not for our turn; The first thing we did in this parliament was to endue them with a faculty to create fears and jealousies whereof we have made excellent use, and although all those fears and jealousies appear since to the common people, and City of London, more plain than their nose on their faces to be but forgeries, yet we have so infatuated their intellectuals that we make them still adore the juventors of them. And to give your Stygian majesty among divers others one more pregnant and undeniable demonstration what footing you have got you in that Island, we have within these few years raised more Pythonesses (which the vulgar call witches there) than ever were in that Island since your Majesty tempted Eve: And we enabled our Pythonesses to send their Imps abroad in pursuit of your service. We stood at the King's elbow when he passed that happy Act of continuance, and and a Scot was our chiefest engine to work that; The City of London stood us also in excellent stead to bring our designs about; We made the riff-raff of that City, as V. with his Myrmydons, and B. with his bandogs (for so they called the rakells they had raised) to rabble the King out of Town; We brought also into London the silly swains of the country in whole swarms upon they knew not what; we were in KInton field, and made the youthful general of the King's Cavalry de gayeté de coeur to pursue the parliaments Cavalry so far, as the day was lost by it, whereas if he had stuck gloze to the Infantry the business had been dispatched then on the King's side, and so your majesty's service since had been frustrated; we were at Marston Moor, and made the same general so impatient that he could not forbear fighting till the next day, else he had taken all the Roundhead Army in a pound; we took great pains at Leycester that the King should not march Northward, but fortify the place and go back to Naseby where we had our Imps that bestirred themselves notably; we so managed the business afterwards that we made the King, because he is a professed enemy to your Majesty, to go disguised in a servingman's habit to his countrymen the Scots, and we prevailed so far with them that they delivered him over as a Sacrifice, and betrayed him like Judas to the English who have crucified ever since like Jews, by tossing, and tumbling him up and down, and by compulsory means to work upon His conscience, and stretching it upon the tenter; we made Pembrock Castle, and Colchester, with other single (or rather simple) Counties to rise of purpose to betray themselves: In sum, we have reduced that Kingdom to a new conformity with this of your Majesties, to a sweet Chaos of all confusion, we have brought the sway solely into the common people's hands; And never did common people more truly act the part, and discover the genius of a common people more lively, whose nature is still thirsting after novelties and Utopian reformations, though they fool themselves thereby into a baser kind of slavery, finding when 'tis too late those sprecious ideas, and confused forms of Government they apprehended before, and hugged in their own conceits to be meet absurdities, when they come to the application and practice of them.  
And Sir, the most advantageous instruments we have used to bring all this about, have been the Pulpit and the press; by these we diffused those surmises and suppositious fears formerly spoken of, to intoxicate the brains of the people: In stead of Lights we put Firebrands into their Churches, who, as we did dictate unto them, did bawl out nothing but Sedition and blood, we have made some of them to bring divers to have as good an opinion of the Koran as of their liturgy; we have made secular Ordinances to batter down all ancient ecclesiastic Canons; we have made them to unsaint all those whom they call Apostles in heaven, and to rob their Churches on earth; we have made them put division twixt the Trinity itself; we have made their Pulpiteers to preach the Law and your kingdom in the Church, but the gospel and Heaven in the Chamber; we have brought them to keep their Fast day more solemnly than the Sabbath, upon which, we have made them not only to sit in counsel, but to put in execution all designs of blood. But the main, and most material thing we have made use of, was spiritual pride, your majesty's old acquaintance, which we have infused into the mind of every Mecanique and country swain, who will boldly now undertake to expound any Text of Scripture, New or old, dupon the warrant of their own brains, and by the light of their own fires; Insomuch that we have made that Book which they call the Bible, that was ordained first for their Salvation, to be the chiefest Instrument of their Damnation we have brought these Exotic words, Plundering and Storming, which were never known among them before, and that once abominable word, Excise, to be now familiar among them, they are made all three free denizens, and legitimated among them; we have raised an Army of the dregs of the people, though of precious stuff to your Majesty, and so puffed them with the pride of their good successes, and so fleshed them in blood, that they are no more tender of a man's or woman's life than they are of a dog or a cats; We have made those that came Petitioners for Peace to be murdered, and those that came for war to be thanked and hugged; we have reduced them to such slavery as to make the very countenances of men to be commented upon, and their very thoughts to be plundered; We have made the mother to betray her child, the child the father, the husband his wife, the servant his master; we have brought a perfect tyranny o'er their very souls and bodies; upon the one, by tedious and endless imprisonment, with the forfeiture of all their livelihoods before conviction or charge; upon the other, by forcing them to swallow contradictory Oaths. On that foolish superstitious day called Christmas, with other festivals, we have brought them to shut up their Churches, and open their shops, so that in time they will forget the very memory of their saviour's Incarnation; We have brought them to have as little reverence of their Temples as of their Tap-houses, and to hold the Church to be but a charnel-house of rotten bones; and though they cringe, and knee, and stand bare before any wrangling Bench of Common Pleas, yet we have so stiffened their joints, and made their heads so tender in that which they call God's House, that they can neither bow the one there, nor scarce uncover the other; We have filled lately the Tribunals in Westminster Hall with Favourers of your Cause, which makes some of them look rather like jugglers than judges; We have made the Fundamentals of Law to be termed but Formalities; We have caused Magna Charta to be torn to a thousand flitters, and stretched the privilege of the Commons so wide, that it hath swallowed up all other; We have grubed up and cast away those hopeful Plants that grew in their two Seminaries of Learning, and set in their room grafts of our own choice. And Sir, your precious children, and our dear brethren, the Angels of the Army, have comported themselves notably for the improvement of your majesty's service in all these things, into whom we have infused such principles that Machiavelli himself were he alive there, would be accounted a Baby in comparison of them. Among divers other wholesome maxims, we have instilled this into their brains, that villainies must be supported by villains, and mischief cannot be safe but by attempting greater; We have made the wealth of Town and country, of poor and rich, to glitter in Plunder upon their backs; We make them to command freequarter of those who who were fitter to ask them alms; We have made them to rifle the Monuments of the Dead, to rob the Lazaretto, to strip the orphan and Widow, to violate and pillage all things that were dedicated to God; We have made them wreek their revenge upon the very vegetables, to make socks of Surplices, to water their beasts at the Font, to feed them on the Communion Table, and to term the thing they call a Sacrament, a Two penny Banquet: Sir, we have turned supposed Superstition to absolute profaneness, Government to Confusion, and freedom to pure Slavery; We have brought their King to live in a manner upon Charity, and His Queen to beg of the French friars, and His Children to be a kind of runagates up and down the world; We have so intoxicated that dear Daughter of yours the City of London, that she knows not which way to turn herself; And whereas her Apprentices did rise up like Tigers against their King, they are now become as so many silly sheep against our Army; We have puzzled them with such vertiginous fancies and fears among themselves, that one neighbour dare not trust the other. To conclude Sir, we have eclipsed the glory of the English Nation, we have made them by all people far and near that ever had knowledge of them, to be pitied by some, to be derided by others, to be scorned of all, and to become the very tail of all Nations; In fine Sir, we have brought that Kingdom to such a pass of confusion, that it is a fit place only for your Imperial Phlegetontic Majesty to inhabit; And Sir, there's never a cross now there fright you, unless it be upon their coins of Gold and Silver, whereon they leave Crosses to be still in honour of your Plutonian highness, as you are Dis, and God of riches.  
Megaera having thus given up her account in behalf of herself and her two Sisters, they all bowed their snaky heads down to their feet, which were toed with Scorpions, before the black Throne of Pluto, who giving a hum that made all Hell to tremble, answered thus:  
MY precious and most trusty Tartarean Daughters, we highly approve of the supererogatory service you have done us for the propagation of the Stygian Empire upon earth, and specially in great Brittany: we have sued a long time to have a Lease of that island (touching Scotland we have no mind to go thither ourselves) and we hope to obtain it; therefore when you have visited those of that Nation whom you have sent hither already to people this P●t, I would have you return thither, and prepare that place for one of my principal habitations: The properest instrument you are to employ, is the Army, and you must continue to infuse such principles into their heads, that they never desist till they have quite thrust out Religionem ex solo, Regem ex solio, and Dominium ex salo. 
Nec sic recedant odia, vivaces agate  
Violentus iras animus, & saevus furor  
Eterna bella pace sublata gerat.   
Make rebel to fight against rebel, independent against Presbyterian, London against the Army, and all against the Cavalier, till that Nation be wholly extinguished, that one may not be left to piss against a wall; Let them never rest till they have made an end of the King who is our greatest enemy; Let those Idolatrous Bishops which in that idle legend their gospel are called angels, be utterly extirpated, and the very name of them banished for ever, as the Tarquins were once at Rome; Let not a Church or chapel, or any consecrated place stand in the whole Isle, I intend to have a new almanac of Saints made at my coming, for I have some stargazers there already fit for my purpose; make haste, for fear a peace be shuffled up on a sudden, and acquit yourselves of your duties, and I may chance get you Scotland for your reward.  
The three Furies with a most profound reverence replied, May it please your majesty, your ferryman Charon is hourly so pestered with such multitudes of English and Scots roundheads, that we were forced to stay a long time ere we could get a passage hither, and we fear we shall be so hindered again; therefore we most humbly desire for our expedition, that your highness would vouchsafe to give us a special warrant to be served first with a non obstante when we come to the banks of Styx. You shall dear Daughters, saith Pluto, and my warrant shall be addressed to a new journeyman, an English Tarpaling that came thither lately to serve Charon, upon whom I will lay my commands of purpose to attend you upon all occasions.  
Having all this while listened unto what passed twixt Pluto and his Furies, my Spirit lead me up and down Hell to see the various sorts of torments that are there, which indeed are innumerable: the first I beheld was Ixion, tied with vipers to a wheel, and whirled about perpetually, I might perceive a multitude of lesser wheels newly made thereabouts, whereunto great numbers of English, and divers of my acquaintance were bound; hard by I might discern a huge company of windmills, and bodies tied with ugly Snakes at every wing, turning round perpetually; a little further there were a great many broken by millstones, who were whirled with them perpetually about; in another place I might perceive black whirlpools full of tormented souls turning incessantly about: I asked what might be the reason of so many whirling tortures, my good Spirit answered, all these except Ixion's wheel are new torments appointed for english Roundheads, who have destroyed from foundation to top, all Government both of Church and State; and as their brains turned round there, after every wind of doctrine, so their souls turn here in perpetual pains of rotation: A little further I spied Prometheus removed thither from Caucasis, with a ravenous Vulture tearing and feeding upon his Liver, which as one part was eaten, renewed presently after, and abundance of new comers were tormented in the same manner, these I was told were English men also that are punished like Prometheus, because as he is tortured so for stealing fire from heaven, so those fiery zealots of England would presumptuously pry into the secret, and Cabinet Counsels of God Almighty, and dive into those high points of Predestination, Election, and Reprobation, being not contented sapere ad sobrietatem, but expect ever and anon to have new lights and flashes of illuminations. Then came I to the bottomless tub which Danaus' Daughters were a filling, a numberless company of other such tubs were there, and English women and men were incessantly labouring to fill them up with the stenchy black waters of Acheron: Those I was told were those overcurious people in England which would be never satisfied with Christian Knowledge, and had no other devotion then to be always learning and never coming to the Truth, as these restless fillers never come to the bottom; Then I beheld the most horrid tortures of those Giants that would have thust jove out of heaven, and a world of English among them, who partaked of the same punishments, because they had conspired upon earth to dethrone their lawful King; Not far further I might espy glowing fiery tubs made Pulpit like, and I was told they were prepared for those profane and presumptuous mechanics and other Lay men, who use to preach in London, and abuse the Sacred Oracles of God; and Uzza was not far off tormented there for being so bold with the ark; A little thereabouts I saw hoops of Iron were made Garter-like, of hot glowing steel, these I was told were designed for those perjured Knights of St George in England, to wear upon their legs, when they come thither for breaking in the late war that solemn Oath they had taken at their instalement, to defend the honour and quarrels, the rights and dignities of their sovereign; A little distant I might see divers brass hoops glowing with fire, and they were scarfe-like, I was told they were ordained for those Knights of the Bath to wear for ribbons next their skins when they came thither, for infringing that Sacred Oath they made at their Election, which was, To love their sovereign above all Earthly creatures, and for his right and dignity to live and die; A little beyond I saw a Copper Table, with chairs of the same, all candent hot, I was told those were for perjured English privy Concellors, who had bro●k their Oath to the King, which they took to be true and faithful servants unto Him, and if they knew or understood any manner of thing to be attempted, done, or spoken against His majesty's Person, Honour, Crown, or Dignity, they swore to let and withstand the same to the uttermost of their power, and cause it to be revealed, either to himself, or any other of his Privy council; Some few paces off I might descry a little round place like a Porters Lodgeat Court with a Fane on the top of it, where was a new kind of exquisite torment provided, but I could not discern it by reason of the smoke; for once a Secretary of State and his Son in England, who though they were of differing opinions in every thing else, yet jumped in this, to destroy their King and country; Hard by, I saw a little furnace so candent glowing hot that it looked of the colour of a ruby or Carbuncle, I was told that was to clap in the Master of the King's jewel-house when he comes thither, for being so perfidious and so perjurious to his Master; I asked whether there were any other infernal tortures besides fire, yes I was answered, for to speak of fire to a people habituated to a cold clime, were not only to make them to slight Hell, but to invite them to come to it; So my Spirit brought me Northward a little, and showed me a huge lough, where there were frosted mountains up and down, and I might discover among them a world of Blewcaps lying in beds of Ice with their noses and toes nipped, the icesicles stuck to their finger's ends like horns, and a bleak hispid wind blew incessantly upon them, they made the most piteous noise that me thought I heard in all Hell; for they wawld, screechd, and howld out ever and anon this note, Weae is me, wea is me, that ever I betrayed my gid King.  
Among all these damned souls, I desired to see what punishment an Atheist had: my Spirit answered me, there were no atheists in Hell at all, they were so on earth before they came hither, and here they sensibly find and acknowledge there is a God by his justice and judgement: For there is here paena sensus, and paena damni; the outward torments you behold is not so grievous as the inferior regrets and agonies the souls have to have lost Heaven, whereof they were once capable, and to be eternally forsaken by their Creator; add hereunto that they know these torments to be endless, easeless, and remediless: Besides these qualities that are incident to the damned souls, they have neither patience towards themselves in their own sufferances, nor pity towards others, but their nature is so accursed, that they wish their neighbour's torments to be greater than their own: Besides, their torments never lessen either by tract of time or degree of sense, but they persever always the same; they are still fresh, and the soul able to bear them. I saw that everlasting villain who committed the first Sacrilege we read of, by burning Diana's Temple, and his torments were as fresh and violent upon him as they were the first day he was thrown in thither; Judas was in the same degree and strength of torture as the first moment he fell thither; Jack Cade, Wat Tyler, Jack Straw Kit the Tanner did fry there as fresh as they did that instant they were cast thither: Amongst whom it made my heart to melt within me to see some of their new-comed countrymen amongst them, whereof I knew divers: And though Society useth to be some solace to men in misery, yet they conceived no comfort at all by these fresh companions.  
It is high time for us now said my good guiding angel to be gone to the other world, so we directed our course towards the Ferry upon Styx; Lord, what varieties of lurid, and ugly squalid countenances did I behold as I passed! There was one sort of torment I had not seen before, there were divers that hung by their tongues upon posts up and down; I asked what they were, answer was made, that they were English Divines, and Lawyers, who against their Knowledge, as well as their Consciences, did seduce the ignorant people of England in the late civil war. A little further I might see abundance of Committee-men and others, slopping up drops of molten lead in lieu of French-barley broth, with a rabble of Apprentices sweeping the gutters of Hell, with brooms tufted with adders and Snakes, because they resorting to the Wars, had thereby broke their Indentures with their Masters, and their Oaths of Supremacy to their Prince.  
Passing then along towards the Ferry, a world of hideous shapes presented themselves unto me; there I saw Corroding cares, panic fears, pining grief, lethargy, sleep, ugly rebellion, revengeful malice, snaky discord, and spiritual pride, the sin that first peopled Hell: Couches of Toads, Adders, and Scorpions in a corner hard by, I asked for whom they were prepared, I was answered, for some English Evangelizing, anabaptistical, and Legislative Ladies, which make writing of Notes at Sermons, and Religion a mere veil to cover their hypocrisy; So having me thought by a miraculous providence charmed Cerberus by pointing at him with the sign of the cross upon the fingers, we passed quietly by him, and being come to the Ferry, I found true what Pluto had said before, that there was a new English Tarpaulin entertained by Charon, but he was in a most cruel torture, for his body was covered thick all over with Pitch and tar, which burned and flamed round about him: And here the Trance left me.  
Having thus come out of this sad swound, I began by a serious recollection of myself to recall to my thoughts those dismal and dreadful objects that had appeared unto me; for though I was in Hell I did not taste of Lethe all the while, so that I did not forget any thing that I had seen; all things seemed to appear unto me so really, that if I had been of that opinion (Whereof many have been) that devils are nothing else but the ill affections, the exorbitant passions, and perturbances of the mind, it had been able to have convinced me. The Reader may easily imagine what apprehensions of horror these apparitions left in my brain: For as a River being by an inundation swelled out of her wonted channel leaves along the neighbouring meadows seggs and sands, and much riff-raff stuff behind her upon her return to her former bed; So did this Extasis, with that deluge of objects wherewith it overwhelmed my brain, leave behind it black suds, and ghastly thoughts with in me, which have done me no hurt I thank God for it, it being a true rule that Malum cognitum facilius evitatur: And I wish they may produce the same effects in the Reader as they did in the Author. We find in the Sacred Oracles that Dives in his discourse from Hell with Abraham, wished that some body might be sent from the dead to inform and reclaim his Brothers upon earth, because the words of a dead man would gain more credit with them than any others. Let the Readers of this Trance make account that the Author was such a one; for he hath been buried many years, and so let it work within him accordingly.  
FINIS.